989 - Top 8 Candida Treatment Myths (& What Actually Works)

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Dr. Michael Ruscio, DC

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🗓️ 20 October 2025

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

Candida treatment does not have to be as restrictive as many believe. From diet to herbal supplements, testing and more, I have compiled the top 8 myths that most get wrong about candida, and what to do instead. You CAN heal candida overgrowth. Listen to learn more.

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📌Timestamps

00:00 Intro

00:15 "Candida is always bad"

01:08" A white tongue is the main symptom"

03:20 "Stool testing is best"

09:31 " You can't have carbs"

14:18 "Meds are better than herbs"

16:51 "Probiotics aren't helpful"

19:40 "Can't have the Elemental Diet"

22:21 "Diet-off symptoms are bad"

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0:00.0	at least based upon this one data point, it's safe to say that depending on how you were brushing
0:04.0	your teeth at the time of a test, you could see a 10 to 100 full difference in your candida.
0:09.9	You may be positive or negative solely based upon that.
0:16.7	Welcome to Dr. Rucho Radio, providing practical and science-based solutions to feeling your best.
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0:39.4	Candida is a normal part, a commensal member of the microbiome, of various cavities,
0:45.9	oral, vaginal, digestive. So it's held in check by this ecosystem. When, for whatever reason,
0:53.5	the ecosystem goes out of balance, that's when
0:56.6	the candida go from commensal to what's known as opportunistic, meaning, ah, they see an opportunity
1:02.1	to exploit more niches, and they literally dig in or anchor themselves with these hyphy, and that's
1:10.1	what you're seeing in this schematic here,
1:12.3	where essentially they drop these little anchors or they form technically what's known as
1:16.0	filaments that connect them into tissue. And this does two things. It makes them harder to clear,
1:22.4	but also those burrowing filaments trigger the immune response or more of an immune response, so hence
1:29.4	more inflammatory symptoms. It wouldn't be any one of these alone, but the more of these that
1:35.7	you see or feel or experience, then the more suspicious regarding kidney to eye would be.
1:41.0	Bloading, fatigue, brain fog, or mental fatigue. Brain fog is more of a, I can't think
1:49.3	straight, and mental fatigue is more so. It's just kind of hard for me to think my brain feels
1:55.3	tired. It's a subtle difference, but there it is in case it's helpful. Cravings for carbohydrates.
2:00.2	Now, there's a really important distinction here, which is sometimes when people think cravings,
2:06.6	they picture, oh, the person is trying to quit smoking and I got to have a cigarette. But if
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