Candida is not curable in 1 month, that's just a lie. I've been eating 95% raw paleo for the last 4 months and have seen decent amount of progress, though I am not near being cured after these months.
The terrible thing about candida is that as you kill the overgrowth, you will get the same symptoms that you have been suffering from, although often to a lesser extent. For this reason it can seem like you are making next to no progress. However, I found that when I quit the diet and ate 'normally' again (a SAD, that is) the toxicity in my body caused by the die-off would go away. Resulting in me feeling the results of my anti-candida lifestyle for the first time. I gotta say, I hadn't felt so good since I was a child, making me exciting that it's only gonna be better in the future.
I found that a zero-carb or low-carb diet, including lots of raw animal foods + seafood is the best to deal with candida. Eating high meat would definitely increase the healing speed, considering candida affects the gut as well and you need to feed your own gut biome to get it back up to normal healthy flora. My guess still is, though, that candida is beatable within a year in serious cases, and even faster in less serious cases.
Question to Sabretooth: at what time did you gain weight again? how far into the diet? I've just went from 70 to 76 kg in a couple of days but it could also just be due to the fact I've been with my parents eating shit here and there.
Well I think it depends on how much overgrowth you have. If you don´t have much then why should it not be curable within short amounts of time? And when you say zero carb, do you really mean zero carb? Eggs and dairy still have carbs. When I look at Jordan Peterson´s interview he said that he stopped seeing floaters after 1 month, after eating only steak, salt and soda club sparkling water. The floaters gone within a short time was also reported by other people on the carnivore facebook forum. As far as I understand floaters are parasites, and candida overgrowth to my understanding are possibly parasites gotten out of hand. After all, if you have had a closer look at floaters in your eyes, then they look exactly like worms, so parasites. Should they be there naturally? I don´t think so, they impair your vision and bother. I can´t see them to be beneficial, so to me they should not be there in the first place. Invaders which I would call parasites.
You also mentioned that you felt better on a SAD or "normal diet". That makes sense, since the candida, or parasites as I would say will be in harmony again with you. I see them as pets that got accustomed to your body. If you piss them off and cause them to die or starve they will fight back causing you all kinds of problems. Then when you feed them things like carbs and sugar, of course they are happy and leave you (mostly) alone. I am 2 weeks into the partly cooked carnivore diet now to a) kill the parasites and b) lower the candida overgrowth. After many experiments I cut it down to cooked beef, lamb and turkey, because these are the fattiest meats (except pork but that can be an issue) and high in calories which make me gain weight. With that I have water and sparkling water plus salt (pepper I cut out). Up until yesterday I had a big glass of raw goat kefir with every meal (2-3 daily) to get my gut environment back in shape, and i eat raw goat ricotta with every meal. Sometimes cooked eggs. I noticed I am craving the fats, especially the ricotta. But I also noticed that my tartar in my teeth grew and are not shrinking like before. The reason for that is for sure the dairy. I also noticed that in the morning or evening, whenever I force vomit cuz i feel shitty, up come the parasites with food matter around them. And that food matter is dairy or eggs. So I am constantly feeding them. Therefore I don´t think my candida overgrowth can go down as fast as I want. So yesterday I decided to cut out dairy and only stick to meats and fats and I will see how it goes at the end of the day.
I also noticed something very strange which I kinda noticed since years but never really took much care of that until now. Whenever I am in the kitchen area next to the stove I get a bad feeling in the stomach that manifests in bloating and that results in becoming agressive. I have a feeling that certain environments awaken the parasites, candida or however you want to call them. They crawl up to the stomach where they cause much discomfort. I know that they are in the stomach because when I then force vomit they come out. With food matter around them. Funnily enough, sparkling water somehow triggers them to come out more and massaging the gut by leaning forward, makes them come out more. So they are mainly located in the gut area coming up to the stomach.
Reason being the kitchen area made me think of 3 things 1) mildew behind the walls (which there still might be), mold behind the kitchen furniture, bacteria surrounding the cooking area or the electromagnetic field of the cooking area. Or maybe, just maybe, but that sounds crazy, they get triggered because they (through the receptors of the body), can sense that there is food and they are waiting for it, hence they come up to the stomach (that´s why I can puke them out once they are situated there). I mean if they live with you for years or decades and they can become immune to certain herbs that can kill them, I guess they have some kind of intelligence no? But, or in the end, what parasite overgrowth or candida overgrowth might all boil down to is environment. If you live in a unhealthy environment it will be very hard or nearly impossible to sort out your health issues. Regardless if you eat the most healing raw foods. And that reminds me of the of Stamatis Moraitis, a greek guy living in the states where he got lung cancer who was supposed to die of lung cancer, but when moving back to his village on the Island of Ikaria Greece he healed and died at a good age not by cancer.
http://www.pappaspost.com/remembering-stamatis-moraitis-man-almost-forgot-die/ And their diet also consists cooked foods including shitty beans and gluten whole grains. So all that someone might need to heal from any disease is by changing the environment...food might just be secondary after all.