lot of conflicting information online

If you make it yourself, it is good.
If you use raw milk, it is excellent.

BUT

If you purchase ready made product , pasteurized , homogenized , with preservatives , with antioxidants, fortified with vitamins , stored in a package that leaks bisphenol-A (BPA) and phthalates, the story might of course be very different.

It may even cause more harm in some people, depending on the product used, and depending on the person.

Natural raw cow, goat, sheep, horse, donkey or zebra milk contains natural probiotics.

If you leave it on the room temperature, or higher temperature, it becomes natural yogurt or natural cheese.
You don't even need yogurt maker.


Once the natural milk is pasteurized & homogenized, it is more or less dead.

If you leave it on the room temperature without adding live bacteria, it turns bad, and if you drink it, you may suffer food poisoning, depending on what bacteria took over.




It all depends on what you do with raw ingredients.

The same goes for naturally fermented cabbage, carrots, peppers etc.


Natural, home made equals good, processed equals bad

WS

I strongly suggest only the probiotic foods that are made without any dairy. I stopped drinking kefir and made amazing progress in my fight against candida. Also, if you are going to take probiotics you should also eat foods high in prebiotics. I would suggest you do this only after you have gotten the yeast load on your system way down via antifungals. This will be after months of protocol. Then, by taking high dose probiotics (food and capsules) the prebiotics feed the probiotics increasing their numbers from billions to trillions. Probiotics impact candida mainly by changing the environment in the gut making it unfavorable to yeast growth. This is done by acidifying (mildly acidic) the gut through lactic acid production by the probiotics. Don't let anyone tell you that yeast favors an acidic environment. My favorite prebiotic foods are oat bran cereal (NOT OATMEAL) and almond butter that contains no Sugar (most brands have sugar). Trader Joe's almond butter is Sugar free as well as a brand carried by Amazon that I've never tried but I did see one time. There are other prebiotic foods. Onions are high in prebiotics especially raw onion. I eat sweet onion raw. Don't let that fool you, they are not really sweet but compared to a regular onion they could be considered so. I find them delicious and I only eat a couple of slices with meals a day. I don't sit down and eat a whole raw onion. Below is a link describing other prebiotic foods but I want to repeat the caution that prebiotics should only be taken after you have gotten your fungal load way down by following protocol and antifungal therapy for months. This is not something that is done at the beginning of treatment of candida.

http://www.prebiotin.com/foods-containing-prebiotics/

Forget about eating the last three foods on that list. Wheat and banana are off-limits for candida sufferers. Also, I've come to be cautious about taking too much garlic. A little garlic is fine but a whole lot will kill good bacteria. Garlic is sometimes referred to as "Russian Penicillin". Think about it.

Cow and goat's milk are actually skin irritants. Itching and skin inflammation usually occurs after one to two hours after eating trigger foods. So, Cow and goat's milk are not good if you have candida.

I tried probiotics and they vastly improved myt rosacea, but they started to give me a terrible itching all over my body. A lot of investigation led me to the conclusion that because i have leaky gut (as 99% of the XXI century people), certain Lactobacillus cause an allergic reaction because they leak trough the intestinal lining. Try probiotics, if you dont have this allergic reactions, use them as much as you like, they are one of the most healing practices you can find