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Alcohol, Candida and Enzymes

Sabrina Vallis
7 min readJan 10, 2025

A New Approach to Addiction and Cravings

There is a clear and documented relationship between a prolific Candida infection and Alcohol Use Disorder. Some people argue that the Candida infection comes first; I would argue that Candida comes first, then sugar or carb cravings, which in later years can be satisfied, unhealthily, by alcohol. This would evidenced by the fact I did not start drinking until I was 18, and not seriously until my early thirties but I suffered from extreme endometriosis in my teens.

This is certainly my experience as whenever I have sober for any length of time I have addressed the candida issue which has plagued me since I was a child experiencing UTIs, Strep Throat and being treated with numerous antibiotics which would have decimated my microbiome at a young age.

What is surprising is that I did not develop a serious alcohol problem until 2008 after an eight week course of antibiotics (Tetraxycline followed by Doxycycline) and Co-Codamol for Pneumonia.

This compounded with whiskey kindly supplied, initially, by my mother, led to a dalliance with an alcohol problem turning into a real threat and landed me in rehab later that year.

Once I was out of bed I ditched the whiskey pronto but returned to the tipple of my choice — wine — and my general health declined from there.

Whilst in bed with Pneumonia I gained two stone, despite no food, so presumably through inflammation. (I have experienced the same with Covid…

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Sabrina Vallis
Sabrina Vallis

Written by Sabrina Vallis

Sobriety writer. NLP Master Practitioner and Nutritionist. Current research: Addiction and the Brain: Ways to Heal. Neuroscience helps us quit.

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