Why is adding fiber such a big deal if you want to boost your Candida treatment?

Once you have managed to get your Candida under control, adding fiber to your diet is one of the best ways to help your microbiome recover. 

Fiber is a “pre-biotic,” that means it feeds the good “probiotics” in your gut. Thus, it can even help your ThreeLac™ to work more effectively!

And what IS fiber, exactly?

Perhaps you heard your grandmother or great grandmother encourage you to eat “roughage”. Roughage, or fiber, is the part of a plant or grain that cannot be digested. But ironically, it actually aids digestion. It is found in vegetables, fruits, nuts and seeds and the bran in whole grains.

And what is NOT fiber? 

Meat, dairy products (although eating some meat and dairy is fine), and “processed” foods: white bread as opposed to whole-grain, white rice instead of brown, apple juice as opposed to an apple, refined sugar as opposed to a beet. 

Add it in gradually: too much may lead to gas and bloating and cause you to give up before you reap the benefits. To start, try adding one more serving of whole fruit or vegetables a day for a week. 

Vibrant Nutraceuticals’ Clarifiber™ is a gentle, daily product, especially formulated to enhance probiotic regimens.

This may be the most important to our microbiome.

The “microbiome”  is the community of gut microbes that, in a healthy person, protects us against “bad bacteria”, breaks down and digests food to make nutrients available and release energy, and produces vitamins.

When the microbiome is compromised—as is the case with Candida overgrowth—it creates gut dysbiosis or imbalance. This makes us more susceptible to disease, gastrointestinal disorders, and can even lead to autoimmune disorders like inflammatory bowel disease and chronic fatigue syndrome.

 “When you alter your diet, such as switching to a high-fiber/low-fat diet, changes in the microbiome can be detected within three days.

We are losing gut microbiome diversity by consuming a low-fiber/high simple-sugar diet, which will eventually impact longevity and ability to fight disease.

That’s scary, but the remedy is simple: treat your Candida yeast overgrowth and go eat an apple! You’ll be glad you did.