I’ve always been healthy in my 51 years, and 15 lbs underweight for my height. I moved to Japan (from the USA) about a year ago and after three months of living here, I noticed a sore tongue (and occasionally achy knees), especially when eating acidic foods (a piece of pineapple put me on the roof!) or after drinking alcoholic beverages.

-Joe

In September 09 , I fell ill suddenly and was brought to hospital. I experienced a severe blotchy, raised rash on my arms, legs and stomach. I had an extremely high temperature, low blood pressure, a urinary tract infection, severe joint pain to the point I couldn’t move my arms or legs at some stages, swelling of my joints, strep-throat, complete loss of appetite and abdominal pain.

I spent 3 weeks in hospital where the doctors couldn’t figure out what was wrong with me and carried out test after test, giving me all sorts of medication that only made the condition worse. As I was let home, the sickness persisted and I was housebound for a month afterwards . Eventually when I was sick and tired of getting no results from doctors treatment, I went to the integrated center of medicine in Naas, Dublin. There having undergone some tests , the doctor was able to tell me I had leaky gut syndrome and a very bad candida infection in my blood.

I was given a candida diet plan that wasn’t easy to follow