PKD DIET

Yeast

Avoid Nutritive Yeast

This is to be avoided as it may increase symptoms from PLD. It does this by allowing the yeast within the intestines to build up.

Avoid Intestinal Yeast Overgrowth or Generalized Candida Albicans

Generalized candida albicans can be present with PLD Polycystic Liver Disease. Sometimes with a cystic liver we may get a insatiable craving for sweets. This comes about from liver difficulties and by eating certain foods. Avoid:

The resulting increased population of yeast requires sugar for its growth. Oftentimes an overgrowth of yeast demands sugars. These sugars are converted into alcohols as the waste products of the yeast. This is partly how wine and alcoholic beverages are made. It is a conversion by yeast of sugar to alcohol. A similar thing happens with yeasted baked goods. In order to diminish a sweet tooth before the yeast overgrowth becomes a symptom, many have tried increasing alkalinity. Yeast will not survive in an alkaline environment. Below are some helpful remedies for suppressing a yeast overgrowth and candida albicans.

  • Hibiscus flower made into a tea has been used by the French to squelch candida overgrowth. Hisbicus UTIRose extract use achieved a 77% reduction in Candida Albicans.
  • Garlic contains anti-yeast compounds among them is a sulphur compound called allicin. Increase allicin by allowing crushed garlic to sit for 5-10 minutes before using it.
  • Oregano oil bested nystatin for immunosuppressed children who had thrush at Johns Hopkins. Researchers tried the usual prescription medications to alleviate thrush vs. oregano oil. Oregano oil won hands down. It burns a little in the mouth so try a dried cherry to counteract the taste. Within three days my sweet tooth was gone.
    Oregano oil contains 60% phenylpropanoids. Phenylpropanoids create unfriendly conditions to overgrowths of bacteria, viruses, and fungi. More importantly, phenylpropanoids clean the receptor sites on our cells so cellular communication remains clear. Our hormonal system depends entirely upon clear communication throughout the body.
    Hammer and colleagues investigated 52 plant oils for activity against nine bacteria and the yeast Candida using the agar diffusion method. Oregano oil was one of only three oils that inhibited the growth of Pseudomonas aeruginosa, a hard-to-kill bacterium that causes human wound infections. Overall, oregano oil was better at inhibiting germ growth than all oils tested except lemon grass oil. Oregano oil was effective at concentrations as low as 0.12 percent.
  • Potassium citrate prescribed by a urologist is a potent alkalizer, this also eliminates yeast. If this is not possible another solution would be to eat a plant based whole foods alkaline diet.
  • Probiotics or acidophilus is one solution. If you have severe liver cysts it is good to try another treatment or perhaps increase prebiotic vegetables.
  • Olive leaf research is underway showing the antibacterial, anti-fungal and antioxidant activity of olive leaf.
  • Gentian violet is an old time remedy for yeast.
  • Nystatin is a remedy for yeast. As a liquid its taste is very sweet.
  • Diflucan (fluconazole) is very toxic to the liver.

    Avoid Bread Yeast

    Avoid eating Yeasted Bread or Baked Goods which Elevate Uric Acid.

    Uric acid is elevated in PKD Polycystic Kidney Disease.

    In PKD it is said the urine uric acid is elevated long before the appearance of cysts. Clinical gout was identified in 24% of ADPKD patients. Yeast, baker's yeast, nutritional yeast are both high purine foods.

    If you have gout and hyperuricemia, your body doesn't eliminate enough uric acid. Avoid all yeast. The liver metabolizes uric acid, and the kidneys get rid of it through the urine.

    Is there anything to diminish a sweet tooth?

    Sugar has as its waste product, yeast. This then multiplies.

    Some have had success with remaining alkaline, eating roasted garlic, oregano oil under the tongue, a trial of prescribed potassium citrate, taking B vitamins, getting a daily shot of wheat grass juice or spelt grass juice or barley grass juice. All seem to diminish the craving for sweets. I found that if we can first wean ourselves from caffeine, this goes a long way toward alleviating a sweet tooth. A garlic roaster helps. Garlic roasters can bake about three heads of garlic at once. The entire process is finished within 27 minutes. Roasting garlic seems to remove the pungency from garlic and one is left with a sweet spreadable nuttiness. Some have tried daily carrot juice with added parsley, to diminish the craving for caffeine. With a handle on caffeine addiction, soon to follow is relief from a sweet tooth.

    Avoid the Following on a Yeast Free Diet

    Baker's yeast  is added to most commercial baked goods, including breads, biscuits, buns, rolls, bagels, English muffins,  pretzels, crackers, and pastries. Baking soda and/or aluminum free baking powder (without CORNstarch) may be substituted in moderation.
    Fermented liquids  contain yeast: avoid  alcoholic beverages, kombucha and kefir, root and birch beers, ginger ale, vanilla and almond extracts. Malt added to dry cereals, and  drinks is to be avoided.
    Fruit juices Commercially-produced (canned, bottled or frozen), canned tomatoes and tomato juice, all can contain yeast or molds. Get a juicer; make it fresh; drink juices within 20 minutes of making them.
    Cheeses of all kinds contain yeast molds and hormones are contained in animal milks. These are to be avoided.
    Vinegar should be avoided. Soy sauce, tamari, miso, fish sauce, tempeh, sauerkraut, olives and pickles, as well as ketchup, mayonnaise, salad dressings, barbecue sauce, prepared mustard and horseradish fall into this category. Homemade, vinegar-free mayonnaise and salad dressing may be substituted.
    Black teas are derived from Camellia sinensis (not herbal teas). Black teas undergo enzymatic fermentation in processing, which itself does not involve yeast or mold organisms. Tea may easily become contaminated with mold, however, and some varieties, such as Pu-er tea, are purposely aged with natural molds and yeast.
    Fruits and vegetables wash to eliminate any surface yeast and mold. Avoid produce that has traveled a distance such as cantaloupe with obvious mold growing on the skin. A knife can easily transfer this mold to you.

    Maintaining a Yeast Free Diet If You Are Highly Allergic to Yeast

    Continue with all of the above do not even touch:
    Mold or fungi
    Cockroach
    Kiawe (mesquite)
    Eucalyptus
    Dust mites

    If strictly maintaining a yeast free diet due to allergies, also avoid:
    Certain antibiotics penicillin, mycin, chloromycetin, tetracyclines, vitamin B capsules or tablets with yeast.
    Fungi mushrooms and truffles; all relatives of yeasts.
    Tinctures, extracts vanilla, almond, lemon.
    Dried fruits   Avoid figs, raisins, dates, prunes, and any other dried fruits.
  • Cheeses  of all kinds contain yeast molds, including cottage cheese, as well as buttermilk, and sour cream, containing yeast, cultures or fungi. Skim milk, plain yogurt and kefir, butter and ghee avoid while following a yeast-free diet.
    Food diary track any changes. Writ down adverse reactions remove it from your diet. It can take up to 72 hours for adverse food reactions to appear.
    Process of elimination over time you‘ll identify the foods you‘re sensitive to.
      I tried this diet for about a month prior to my liver resection. Additionally I took prescribed yeast eliminating medications. Following my liver resection, the craving for sweets left. I no longer wanted sweet foods but rather craved sour, crisp and fresh raw fruits and vegetables. Sweet became a distant memory.

    Red rice yeast

    Some take this for elevated cholesterol. This has to be balanced against symptoms from PLD, Polycystic Liver Disease. Prescribing information says to avoid this if one has liver disease. It seems to be very effective for lowering cholesterol, but generally with PLD one has a clinically lower cholesterol. If you must take red rice yeast, get liver function tests before beginning it and repeat again in 6 weeks.

    We are  sharing our experiences with PKD/PLD Diet, an adjunct diet envisioning it complementing a physician's prescribed medical therapy. Consider testing this with your doctor's prior knowledge, who can  adjust it according to your own uniqueness by adding it to your current  treatment.

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