Some complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) practitioners blame common symptoms such as fatigue, headache and poor memory on intestinal overgrowth of the fungus-like organism Candida albicans, or yeast syndrome. To cure the syndrome, they recommend a candida cleanse diet, which includes no sugar, white flour, yeast and cheese, on the theory that these foods promote candida overgrowth.
To understand why a Candida Cleanse can be helpful, you should first understand how the food we eat interacts with our body. Although it seems obvious, most people don’t realize the dramatic effect that eating the wrong foods can have on all aspects of our physical health. Essentially, foods that pollute the body can cause toxins to build up and can have an effect on your muscles, skin, digestion, brain, and more. Because the overgrowth of yeast in the body can reach toxic levels, the purpose of cleanses like the Candida Cleanse is to rid your body of toxins or rebalance the naturally occurring elements like yeast that are already present in the body.