Detox been going well, have felt mostly good. Tonight a work meeting and didn’t have detox pills and had to eat buckwheat bread and beans in vinegar. The bread had yeast and tapioca, the beans had vinegar.

Got a slight headache, running nose, sore back and tired/lethargic/didn’t care feelings. The old ‘normal’.

I need to avoid foods that candida likes to live on.

Otherwise, detox good.

am: BP shake, 1 drop grapefruit nasal rinse, some die-off feelings all morning

pm: garlic/ginger/olive oil smoothie, feeling good
oil pulling

Avoided heavy oils all day, no chocolate after work, mussel fritters OK-ish. Trying to help liver.

am: nasal rinse with 1 drop of grapefruit extract, left nostril more sensitive

mid morning: 1 x Fluconazole for Thrush, some die-off – quiet, vague, tired till after lunch

pm: sore stomach from chocolate, liver flush smoothie (garlic, olive oil, ginger), felt better
oil pulling

Need to support my liver more in this

am: 1Tbsp Bentonite liquid with 1 tsp psyllium
2 x Pau d’Arco with breakfast

effect: sick one hour after Pau d’Arco, lasting 2 hours, not as severe as last night

pm: no medication, energy OK, tired around 8.30

bed: P&B shake as am

Read online about liver & kidney damage from die-off, a bit worried, need Molybdenum apparently.

This morning I had no medication because I still felt ill from yesterday’s dosings. Ended mid afternoon.

Bought a brand new food processor, hopefully to make lots of raw food smoothies etc.

Did oil pulling after dinner, sinuses cleared a little, felt OK.

Had 2 Nature’s Way Pau d’Arco with dinner and now, 3 hours later, am starting to feel pretty sick.

Jerky movements, feeling unsure, sore back, sore stomach. Bed now, Pau d’Arco works…

Caprylic acid continued to give me a very good die-off. On Sat (29th) I did a gentle Gym class and then came home.

The die-off symptoms were fairly consistent, I would feel bad mid-morning till late afternoon and then would start to come well again.

On the afternoon of the 30th I tried a nasal rinse with 2 drops of ‘Triguard Plus’ (Grapefruit, Tea Tree and Gold) in 120ml water.

I felt like I’d blown the top of my head off, it was shocking. I felt my sinuses filling each side of my forehead, burning.

The die-off was substantial, and different to a gut die-off. I used oil pulling again.

When I went to the toilet, I passed a couple of heavy white strands, about 2 cm long, pretty sure these are fungous filaments.

With dinner I then had two more Capryllic Acid tablets, this was probably a mistake, I had only just recovered from my sinus cleansing toxicity.

The die-off was unpleasant, it lasted into the night, I had difficulty getting to sleep, my stomach was very sore and my back.

More oil pulling and PB shake at nighht.

The next morning I didn’t take anything, I was still feeling sick from the day before, I continued to feel ill until after I had eaten lunch.

For this colonic I prepared:

The day prior I started with a Psyllium and Bentonite shake then had my normal breakfast of Natto and brown rice. I had more Psyllium through the day with my food.

No egg (blocking) and no Pea Protein shake (wind). For dinner I had rice salad and beetroot.

The next morning (day of colonic) I didn’t have the Wormwood mixture.

I fasted in the morning apart from Psyllium and a little beetroot. At lunchtime I ate well but no greasy food.

The colonic went very well, Annette was really pleased with me. Some mucous left and I saw some strands of white moving past. I felt spacey again at the end. I then had a massage.

At home I had dinner of vege soup and then my first two Caprylic Acid tablets (Ecological Formulas Caprystatin). I went to an early movie with my sister, by the end of it I was feeling quite sick – sore throat , sore head, flu like symptoms. I weaved a little as I walked home. It was a very good die-off.

At home I did 15 mins of oil pulling to make me feel a bit better, it did help, I went to bed.

For this colonic I was not constipated however I seemed to have enormous amounts of wind, it is very difficult for the water to get past bubbles of wind in the colon, so the session was not as good as I had hoped. I vowed to make my last session exceptionally good.
Annette said that what she was looking for was a good flow, with no hard faeces.

Later on I passed a large blob of yellowish mucous – so that was good…

I decided to try ridding myself of any possible parasites, I started taking Malcolm Harker’s ‘Verm-ez’ from HealthPost. It contains Wormwood and Green Walnut, I actually thought it contained Black Walnut.

For two days I took a half dose (10ml) 3 times/day, my stomach was a bit sore. I then increased it to 20ml 3 times/day. I got the sore stomach and mid back pain back again. I don’t think I really had any specific die-off symptoms.

The course is two weeks for parasites but I stopped after 1 week, I don’t think I have parasites.

Horopito is a New Zealand shrub that has been shown to be more effective against candida than many other fungicides, it contains a compound called polygodial. I took the recommended dose of 1 tablet after food twice a day. The brand is HealtPost’s own BioBalance ‘Yeast Balance’.

I found that my main reaction to it was my stomach became sore and the pain across my back returned. It is possible that this back pain is due to a leaky gut. There is a caution on the website that people who are sensitive to peppers may not be able to tolerate it, I perhaps needed to increase the dose to get another die-off, but I wasn’t keen to. I am still having to work fulltime while I am doing these treatments, so I do need to fit them into my life.

I was not feeling at all well, I probably was having die-off but at a lower level than previously. I felt very agitated.
The constipation was much reduced.

My HealthPost order arrived, I started taking Bentonite with the Psyllium to try and drag toxins out of me. Bentonite is a clay that can absorb toxins in the digestive tract, Psyllium behaves like an internal broom, they work well together. I mix up 1 tsp Psyllium into a large glass of warm water, I then stir in 1 Dsp of Bentonite liquid and swallow it down. It is not difficult to eat, it is important to have it an hour away from food, I have one first thing am and last thing pm. I try to have another during the day.

I also started taking a Milk Wood liver tonic to help support my liver during these difficult times.

I wasn’t convinced by the Horopito cure.

Well firstly, the weirdest part about having a colonic is only the first 10 seconds or so when everything is put in place. I went and saw Annette at Body Systems in Thorndon and she was lovely. I paid for three sessions in advance, they cost about $100/session.

The process involves flushing warm water into the colon to wash out faeces and mucous build up. It is very rehydrating, you feel great afterwards. As the water goes in, the pressure guage on the machine will rise as it meets an obstruction – this could be stools, a bend in the colon, or as in my case, wind.
The pressure buildup can be disconcerting at first, Annette was very careful and listened to me if I wanted to release pressure.
We did some cleaning out and some mucous was flushed away as well as the constipation. Candida lives in mucous and creates a mucous shield around itself, it is very good to get rid of mucous out of the colon.
We talked about diet and she suggested eating sauercraut and wizzed up green smoothies. She said that she could see that my diet was good

That first session was close to 2 hours long. At the end of it I felt very ‘spacey’, she gave me a probiotic and I booked in for the following Friday.

That afternoon I was very spacey again – the ‘sense of unreality’ and then I crashed, very very tired. My eyes were hardly open.

Candida makes 78 fdifferent toxins that it releases into your system, it also behaves like a mini distillery, taking the sugar and converting it into alcohol – inside your body. This is why you feel so vague and cannot concentrate when you have candida. The spaciness is a definite candida symptom. Meanwhile, your poor liver has to constantly process all of this alcohol and these toxins. I decided that my liver needed support.

The next morning, I woke up feeling very well, transformed, I felt better than I had felt in months, I was very impressed.