Meat was something that in the past I've tried to avoid. During my college years, I decided to cut meat from my diet and only eat pesco-lacto-ovo-vegetarian (or what I called pesco-tarian) foods. I remember how my energy skyrocketed. Because of that, I stayed a pesco-tarian for years. It was during this time, however, that I started having problems with candida overgrowth. It was during this time that I needed to go on my first yeast free diet. Immediately after I was done with the diet, my body had a craving. It was the most dreadfully beastly craving for a steak. Four years I was on this pesco-tarian diet (four years at LEAST)! Yet immediately after my doctor said the yeast free diet was over, a big juicy steak was all that I could think about. I actually even dreamed about steak, for crying out loud! It never left my mind until a girlfriend (another vegetarian and another candida sufferer) had a conversation about food before we sped to the nearest steakhouse and devoured a steak together. Other than that, and occasional homemade hamburgers (that hamburger was the work of my dear old dad whenever I visited my parents), I otherwise stuck with my pesco-tarian diet. There came the day when the rash came back again. I spoke with a friend (who was also a naturopathic doctor) and before she gave me a yeast killer and a probiotic, she curiously commented, "It's always the low-meat eaters and the no-meat eaters who have this problem." This was the first time that I ever took probiotics. Both the yeast killer and probiotic worked beautifully together. Really dreading the yeast free diet, whenever I had a rash (a physical sign that the candida was out of control again), I would take probiotics and the rash would go away.
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