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Candida is very common in people, like myself, who have taken a long course of antibiotics. I have done the "spit test" to determine if I have candida, although I do question the science of this test, the results did suggest I have candida.
Has anyone had any success in treating candida via the diet and candida killing supplements like Candiclear and Now Foods Candida Clear?
Most people have candida, because it's a commensal fungus. Problems sometimes arise when the fungus overgrows, which is almost always a function of poor diet. No, you don't need to eat zero sugar for 6 months straight, but minimizing sugar consumption overall would help with such an overgrowth - although everyone should try to minimize sugar intake regardless of whether or not they think they have a candida overgrowth.
Of note, a candida overgrowth is very easy to confuse with general dysbiosis (the overgrowth of a different organism). In these cases, eating sugars might actually help, depending on what the organism in question is. Equilibrium can generally be found by eating a well balanced whole-foods diet for a long period of time (a year, or more). I would recommend a pseudo-paleo diet (paleo plus some dairy and minimally antigenic grain starches, such as rice) for this.