How important is diet?

I don't believe you will feel a difference in symptoms but your liver and kidneys are already working over time filtering out the toxin from lyme and co, so don't over work those organs even more by making it kick out the sugar and alcohol too.

Also, the body is going to use ingredients that you give it to build cells (the trillion cells that make up your existence). If you eat birthday cake and drink jack daniels everyday then you will have birthday cake and JD quality cells.

I know the above was an extreme example, but LLMDs advise this diet because ideally you want to give your body the best ingredients possible to create new cells.

I can't say I've felt any difference in general. I've always eaten very healthily but I do like having dessert and a few drinks on occasion. Does anyone else follow a strict diet? Do you have cheat days?

I was on oral antibiotics for about 6 months (doxy, omnicef, zithro....) I had to stop due to them causing severe GI problems. I've been on bicillin injections for the last 5 weeks and was noticing improvements until about a week ago when things started to hurt again. The oral antibiotics helped for a 2 months and them things went downhill.

Yeah i thought about it. I thought I'd try the bicillin injections first. If that doesn't help i'll move on to herbals.

S.S256- if it is worth anything, my LLND once told me that you can have bread and wine every four days, but not everyday while you are battling Lyme and Co's. I love bread - I even have a pair of socks that has the words "I LOVE BREAD" on them. I eat it and I feel fine, but if I have that gluten-free bread stuff, I feel horrible and bloatey. I also don't like the thought of ingesting xanthum gum....ewwwwww.

I'm more of a beer guy. Is having a beer maybe 3x a month ok? I know wine is better for you, but alcohol is alcohol.

Does anyone know if bicillin injections are safer as far as yeast infections go? It's not going directly into my GI system so I don;t know if it has the same effect as orals. My doc isn't very helpful

I got a prescription for vgl#3 900 billion probiotic so i'm hoping that helps. It's not cheap

diet is very important-Dr Rau treats this with dental-detox and diet.
No antibiotics-no herbs to got after bacteria-just strengthen ur body

Girlie said...
Don't both wine and beer have some yeast in them?

Yes. All fermented things have yeast in them, even kefir.

Beer = gluten and yeast. Caveat is there are some gluten free beers, but in my experience they are hard to find. But, then again, I am in the Midwest and have noticed that both the east and west coasts gluten free beers are far more prevalent, at least in the larger cities.

Wine = high in sugar

Whiskey= The jury is still out on the gluten factor for distilled hard alcohol made from barley and rye. Some argue the distillation process removes the gluten while others say it is best to avoid it altogether and instead stick with the rums, tequila, and vodka made from potatoes.

As for your general question on how important is diet in general - I would say it depends on each individual's situation. Some of us already have gut issues, in which case diet is crucial. Almost all of us have yeast/candida and parasite issues. Yeast can be really tough to eradicate and to make things more complicated, yeast symptoms overlap with low thyroid and lyme & co symptoms. And although you are on the right track with low sugar diet -it will keep from feeding the yeast- it will not kill it or eliminate it. There are certain herbs and foods that can help eliminate it, and even some pharma drugs to help.

You may have not felt better because you still have yeast, parasites, and or lyme & co left to eliminate.

A strict diet is just one of the tools in the toolbox to tackle all the issues we face, but there is not one single silver bullet.

Thats the thing, I dont feel any worse after eating or drinking bad food. Before I quit drinking 6 months ago I felt fine after having a few beers or eating ice cream. I just quit because I heard how bad it is. I also don't have any yeast problems yet. I had an endoscopy and other test and had some antritis and early ulceration which they said was caused from the antibiotics. Since going off the orals my reflux has improved.