When your body is out of whack, beverages can be your best bandmate, or charming backstabbers. In my experience, their power is potent, so I try to stick to some rules.

No Alcohol – Really!! All that sugar is like cryptonite. Lyme sufferers are always low on magnesium. Alcohol depletes magnesium, and messes with your whole body. Double whammy! Take a sip or two and pass your glass to your dinner companion!

If I drink even a glass, I feel like shit the next day or two. The sugary content in wine hurts me, but I really think it is the magnesium depleting aspect that does the most damage. Even nice tequila, just one shot, can backfire some days. I still test it every few months ;-).

No Diet soda – Why? It is the devil. Full of fake sweetener and no benefits. Stay away from fake sweeteners in general.

No Soda – Too much sugar. Plain sparkling water can be your best dinner friend.

Kiefer – Plain is the best. Others can have more sugar.  A swig or two a day of this probiotic helps fight gut imbalance and yeast.

Green tea – A cup a day really helps fight candida, inflammation, allergies and makes you feel better. Post IV treatment, the green tea feels even more critical to me.

Kombucha – Expensive per bottle, but I don’t guzzle a bottle at a time. I drink like a few gulps a day. A bottle lasts a week or more for me.

When everyone around me is drinking wine or beer, I pour a little kombucha in a wine glass and drink a WHOLE glass and I feel like I am being decadent. Also good to take a sip when you have a soda craving. Theirs practically no sugar in it and it naturally fights candida/yeast.

Cayenne pepper – I think this helps my brain perfusion issues. I put it in my eggs and on my gluten free pizza and pasta dishes. I have even added it to coffee.

George’s Aloe – this is a colorless, tasteless aloe, that has natural irritants refined out. I take a swig every day or so. You don’t have to drink glasses of it or anything. It sooths my gastro linings. Very important to help your stomach tolerate oral supplements and meds.

I even add this stuff to my cat’s water dish to ease her digestive issues. A vet turned me on to the stuff. Available at Whole Foods, Walmart, and Amazon.