Paul Saladino· MD
candida but it's specifically a type of tropical candida i guess you would pronounce this oris aureus i don't know candida oris is what i'm going to call it and this is supposedly a rare yeast this rare candida problem but what's happened is as you mentioned antifungals so i'll talk about that for a second because women have been programmed that since their teenage years when they first became sexually active or maybe it was not related to sexual intercourse maybe it just spontaneously happened they got a vaginal yeast infection or some sort of issue with their vaginal microbiome as you may have talked about before you have a skin microbiome you have a nasal microbiome you have an oral microbiome you have a gut microbiome you have a vaginal microbiome and all of these are balanced hopefully if you're doing these animal-based primal principles but because of whether it's synthetic underwear or whether it's antibiotics during childhood for ear infections or maybe there's something else with the diet affecting the ph or sexual partners we've seen women that get vaginal yeast infections after being with a certain partner leading me to believe that the male has some sort of issue with his i guess we'll call it a penile biome is that a thing that that general microbiome yeah that he's you know injected her essentially with this maybe a fungal metabolite and then she develops a yeast infection and i don't know if there's i haven't looked into the literature on this i'll just tell you clinically i have hundreds of women over the last eight years of working clinically that have said hey every time i have sex with this particular male my fiance husband whatever i get a yeast infection so we switch to condoms and that fixes it but who wants to use condoms and i say i hear you so let's look at the mail and every time we look at the mail via urine he shows up with candida and then if we get him on herbals like olive leaf and paldiarco and some of these medicinal anti-fungal herbs and fix him she no longer gets candida infections from sex so that's the interesting thing between male female intercourse and candida but the cdc has said that this is a superbug candida is becoming a superbug because we've used an overused anti-fungal medication and it doesn't work as well as it used to and so you were talking about diet and and i actually i love reading the comments on your your page because i saw that when you post about it people say oh well paul what about candida am i going to get that you're telling me to eat honey is that going to create a problem and then i saw a guy on your post the other day that said well what about the cravings how do i deal with the cravings like i want to do your diet but i have all these cravings and i will tell you you have cravings for two reasons number one you have a candida problem number two well i could do more but we'll go to you have issues with your neurotransmitter specifically low serotonin and low dopamine are going to cause massive cravings so people that are self-medicating with dark chocolate wine sugar starches sweets those people have low neurotransmitters now that may be linked to the gut so if you've got candida you've got bacterial problems you've got mold that's going to reduce the brain chemistry low bank brain chemistry is when you're worried you're anxious you're depressed you have no focus you have no drive so you may go and eat that gluten-free doughnut and you get a temporary boost of pleasure chemicals like dopamine and serotonin but then you quickly revert back to your low levels which is hence this cycle of addiction and craving addiction and craving you eat the donut you feel good then you feel like crap and you feel stupid that you ate it but underneath all of that could be a candida problem which can come from your pet so if your dog has a candida problem because they're eating garbage dog food that has mycotoxins you would not believe this but you can do a swab test of your dog and you can send your sample of your dog's we'll just call it the the fur microbiome and many dogs show extremely high levels of candida that's coming out of their fur so this is why it's important for you to get your pet healthy and get your pet on an animal-based diet because if they're off gas and candida these spores are floating around in your bedroom so if you're cute little dogs in your bed at night they're off-gassing candida spores into the air you breathe those candida spores in this can colonize your sinuses and then it can drip down the back of your throat and colonize your gut and so this is like a whole other rabbit hole and you know i know eventually people's brains will get tired so i'll just leave it at this sugar is not your friend but fruit sugar is not gonna trigger a candida overgrowth and i think this idea of a quote candida diet where they're eliminating honey and eliminating fruit i think it's bs and i don't think you need to do it i ate fruit the entire time when i was recovering from mold and candida problems and i won and i no longer have candida overgrowth so please don't be afraid don't be paranoid of fruit now if you have histamine intolerance due to mold toxicity something like a pineapple is probably not your friend because that may irritate your histamine problem so you may want to go lower glycemic you may want to go with some organic berries instead so avocado and pineapple those may irritate you those are going to be higher histamine but the actual sugar content of a pineapple i don't think it's a big deal there's some argument about you need to eat where you live latitude wise so if you're in new york city maybe that pineapple is not congruent with your eyes and the amount of sunlight you're getting doesn't match the fruit in this whole thing but i don't know i i don't know how