Anti Fungus Diet Info-Doug Kaufmann-Phase One

This is the other diet I'm following now. Thought some of you might be interested.

The Doug Kaufmann Phase One Diet calls for eliminating sugar, grains, bread, pistachios and peanuts from your eating plan. Kaufmann's theory is that these foods feed fungus living in your body. Eliminating them will starve the fungus because the fungus needs sugars derived from carbohydrates to thrive. In the human-fungal relationship, according to the theory, people always lose out, and a person infected with fungus actually craves foods that satisfy the fungus rather than the person.
Who is Doug Kaufmann?

Doug Kaufmann is the star of the show "Know the Cause," shown on DirecTV and DISH channels. His theories are purported to be based on both science and religion.
Don't Feed the Fungus

The Phase One Diet focuses on foods that will not feed the fungus in your body. These include eggs, nuts minus pistachios and peanuts, green apples, grapefruit, berries, lemons, limes, avocados, vegetables except for mushrooms, corn and potatoes, plain yogurt, butter, carrot juice, water and herbal teas. Stevia is allowed as a sweetener.
Organic Meat

In the diet, people eat meat that is not contaminated with antibiotics. Dieters avoid farm-raised fish in favor of wild-caught fish, eat free-range chicken and choose grass-fed beef.
What to Avoid

Dieters will also avoid simple sugars including white sugar, sucrose, glucose, fructose, honey, molasses, maltose, corn syrup and most especially high-fructose corn syrup. Dieters also eliminate all grains, all yeast, mushrooms, legumes, potatoes, trans fat, and corn and peanut oils. Coffee, non-herbal teas and diet soda are banned.
Lasts Two Weeks

Kaufmann recommends following this phase-one diet for two weeks to starve any fungus in the body. People can then opt to move on to a more relaxed second phase diet, but people who have the willpower to remain on a strict, low-carb eating plan can stick with phase one indefinitely.
Low Carb Diets

This diet is similar to other low-carb eating plans. Cornerstones of such diets include focusing on good fats and low-glycemic index fruits and vegetables. Good fats include canola and olive oils as well as flax seeds, fish, macadamias, sesames, pumpkin seeds, avocados walnuts and their oils. Buy oils with labels that read "organic" and "100 percent expeller-pressed." Low glycemic fruits include apples, cherries and grapefruit. Most vegetables have a low glycemic index, but potatoes are on the higher end.


Why a Phase One Diet?

It is very well documented that fungi are parasites of man. They should not be inside the human body, but they have several portals of entry, including the skin, the lungs and even the food we eat! Certain fungi make a poisonous substance known as a “mycotoxin.” Mycotoxins are involved in human diseases, including but not limited to liver cancer. Avoidance is imperative, but once mycotoxin producing fungi are inside the human body, your doctor may offer a two fold approach to eliminating them; killing them with prescriptive or natural antifungals and starving them, but cutting off their primary food supply. Fungi, like many people, crave carbohydrates! That may be why so many people manifest with so many symptoms and diseases, yet doctors cannot accurately diagnose them. A fungal disease may be diagnosed as chronic sinusitis or high cholesterol, yet few physicians understand the fungus link to those health problems. Prescriptive medications control them, but never address the cause. Know that fungi must have carbohydrates in order to thrive inside your body, makes the Phase One Diet much easier to understand. Perhaps starving fungus would reverse the symptoms that contribute to so many health problems we Americans suffer from!

What foods are allowed on the Phase One Diet?

I vividly recall my early days on the then nameless, “horrible, rotten, restrictive diet.” Even though expert nutritionists cautioned me about eating the “too fattening” avocado and “cholesterol raising” eggs, I had learned that fungus disliked these foods and at the time, I just wanted to control this overgrowth of fungus that I thought I had. If these experts were correct, heck I could always run off my avocado induced weight and find an antidote for high cholesterol! Of course, 35 years later, we know that avocados and eggs are absolutely fine to eat in most instances. Many people on this diet find that their health elevates to a level where both they and their doctors are amazed at how good they feel! This can either be chalked up to food hypersensitivity or starving of the fungus that was responsible for the symptoms in the first place. Either way, many are living better because of this breakthrough approach to eating. In 2005, I wrote a recipe book entitled Eating Your Way to Good Health, that included recipes developed through the years that made this diet easier to follow. The book has been yet another hit because it enabled those who chose to make this diet more permanent a feast instead of a chore! I have learned that some people simply cannot afford the books with the diet in them and for this reason I have decided to simply publish the foods that are OK to eat on this diet in an effort to help everyone coming to our website:

EGGS
FRUIT, berries, grapefruit, lemon, lime, green apples, avocado, fresh coconut
MEATS, virtually all meat including fish, poultry and beef
VEGETABLES, Most fresh, unblemished vegetables and freshly made vegetable juice
BEVERAGES, bottled or filtered water, non-fruity herbal teas, stevia sweetened fresh lemonade or limeade, freshly squeezed carrot juice (see below)
VINEGAR, apple cider vinegar
OILS, olive, grape, flax seed, cold pressed virgin coconut oil
NUTS, raw nuts, including pecans, almonds, walnuts, cashews, and pumpkin seeds. Stored nuts tend to gather mold, so be careful!
SWEETENERS, Stevia, Stevia Plus, birch tree extracted Xylitol
DAIRY, Organic Butter, Organic Yogurt, (use the following very sparingly) cream cheese, unsweetened whipping cream, real sour cream.

Will I be on this diet forever?

It’s frightening when you look at the Phase One Diet at first. One consolation is that I lived this myself for years! I wouldn’t recommend it if I haven’t done it and experienced that amazing results myself! The answer to the question regarding “forever” is “no…unless you want or need to.” Usually, after the first two weeks, and depending on your progress and how closely you follow the program, we will begin adding foods back to your diet- i.e. a “Phase II” diet.

Remember, though, that to truly alter disease and improve your life permanently, it will take a lifestyle change, not just a 2-week program. Some people continue to follow a variation of the Phase One Diet indefinitely simply because they feel best eating that way. True health is not just a diet, a commitment to quit smoking or taking a pill. Rather lifestyle changes including diet and exercise may fulfill your quest for true health.

Won’t eating eggs, nuts and meat raise my cholesterol?

It’s a good question and one that I asked myself 35 years ago. As you have read, dietary rules have softened as common sense hardens. As a matter of fact, in my experience, cholesterol and triglycerides actually improve on this sort of diet. Over and over I have seen this, and, recently, studies have come out showing that eggs do not necessarily raise cholesterol after all, and eating nuts (not peanuts) can even decrease your risk of heart disease by up to 50%. Everybody is unique, but overall this diet is has repeatedly been shown to improve not only blood levels of cholesterol and triglycerides, but also disease symptoms in general. The public has been scared away from fats, and too often remove the beneficial fats from our diets. The only people that should be concerned with excessive cholesterol are those that have a genetic condition where the body cannot handle excessive cholesterol-probably less than 1% of the population.