The Candida Connection

There are both good and bad bacteria throughout your digestive system.
The balance btween these systems is important to our health.   When the balance
is tilted toward the bad bacteria, health suffers. Candida is one of these bad bacteria
when it is out of balance.  Candida is a tiny yeast that inhabits our intestinal tract. Because of anti-biotics and an over-abundance of sugar in the standard American diet, Candida overgrowth has become a common malady, often unrecognized and undiagnosed.

“Candia itself produces toxins that some people seem extremely sensitive to. Imbalances in our digestive flora are tied to all sorts of diseases, from heart disease, arthritis, autoimmune diseases and more.”
-quoted from one of my favorite health blogs on the net: Read the rest of Dr. Scott Olson’s informative article on candida at http://olsonnd.com/sugar-and-candida

About me

Greetings and thank you for coming. My name is Stefanie Naifeh and I am a professional singer and Trapeze artist. I am also now 42 years old. These two professions require very good health. A voice shows any unhealthful lifestyle choices transparently. I started training as a trapeze artist at the age of 27 and began working a year and a half later. I simply can’t live a careless lifestyle and at the same time stay fit and healthy and glowing. I have to take care of myself, and I think I do a pretty good job of it.

Throughout my life I have had difficulties with allergies, digestion, health. I didn’t even notice I had these problems for years because my unhealth just seemed “normal.”

I remember at the age of 20, before I really realized I had any chronic health problems, that I became interested in herbal remedies. This was at a time when big grocery stores had never heard of Echinecea and Goldenseal supplements. I read and read and experimented contstantly, making my own tinctures and even little pills from herbs I would get from the funky old health food store in Santa Monica, California.

Over the years I would try many kinds of cures and approaches to health and healing. (Probably, at times, much to the exasperation of friends and loved ones, whom I encouraged to try everything I was “into.”)

Nowadays I am much more shy about giving advice, but friends and family encourage me to speak of my experiences, my ideas, my ways. I seek and settle on simpler approaches and practices.

The biggest challenge I faced occurred when, at the age of 25, I found out I was allergic to wheat and gluten. This meant no bread, no pasta, no muffins, donuts…you get the picture. Later I also discovered difficulty digesting corn (tortillas, tomales, etc). How can someone live without those things! Then I found out I had a bad case of Candida (the digestive tract kind).

Except for Dr. Gruenn in Santa Monica, I never really got useful help from the medical profession. I had to figure it all out for the most part. It is an ongoing process. Some dietary changes did seem to cure me, but I could not sustain them. I am still seeking.

The purpose of my website it to share what I have found to be important basic information and practices with regard to health, well being, eating, digestion, energy, beauty, living. I try to sift through the barrage of conflicting confusing information that is out there, and pass on some common sense and my own experience trying things in creating simple codified bits of helpful hints.
If you like, you can comment on my thoughts and tell me of your experiences.