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:
concentrated sugars
yeasted baked goods
alcohol
vinegars
ferments (i.e., tamari, soy sauce, Bragg's aminos)
high oxalate foods ↑ uric acid
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.
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.
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.
Purine foods cause an elevation
in uric acid either when:
Not enough uric acid is eliminated
Too much uric acid is produced
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.
alkalinity
replace commercial yeast
yeast free spelt bread
yeast free rye in a bread machine
yeast free rye bread
yeast free walnut bread
cereal grass juice
garlic
hibiscus tea (also lowers BP
oregano oil (caution burns)
parsley carrot juice
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
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.
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.