Re: New member & questions...

Patty ...seriously, get a copy of The Body Ecology Diet. There is a good reason for this diet that uses specific grains and vegetables. There are no mucous and acid forming foods on this diet. An acidic cellular environment is just what candida and parasites love to exist in. Alkalinity on the other hand will chase it away eventually, even without candida killers. Why? Becouse candida is not the problem. Let me repeat that for everyone. CANDIDA IS NOT THE PROBLEM. It is just a symptom of the problem and needs to be dealt with at a deeper level. The term is dysbiosis which includes candida as one of its manifestations. Even Billy Crook has changed his philosophy on protein diets to treat candida. It seems he has joined the alkaline over acid camp and agrees that slightly alkaline is the way to get your biological terrain in a proper state. So meat, dairy , nuts, etc are a no no with this philosophy.

Your allergies/sensitivities are another tennant of dysbiosis.
Leaky gut, stagnated lymph/liver(meat does this) and impaired detox pathways (just to name an important few) are at the core of this situation along with your immune system being "confused". Your "wiring" is now making false pattern recognition to safe items such as food, etc and treating them like offenders. This sets up an immune cascade which creates antibodies, and histamine response, all added to the improperly broken down xenobiotics and other toxins that the congested liver is not adequately dealing with...and on and on...and on... *SNAP* How to break the vicious pattern?

Biological terrain through proper nutrition and detox...no magic bullets (use them (supplements, etc) as adjunct if you like but they are not the main show)will bring you back. You may have to detox heavy metals as part of your contributing load and there can be other issues, but you get the point. You need to work from a realistic, healthy core. Remeber, it's not the candida's fault. So many people get hung up on the notion of candida causing their problems. Again, it's a symptom of a larger problem.

NAET is for when your immune system is hung and can't reset, meaning it continues making false judgements even when it no longer should. It comes out of the modality of accupunture by the way but it is way more potent for sensitivities and allergies.

So to your question about vegan diet...continue but you may need some tweaking. The B.E.D. should get you on a good track that is working for many people. You'll even get to eat kefir eventually and saurkraut. Mmmmmmmm.