jake, three lac isnt a cure. you do not take 3 lac to cure your self of candida. no matter what they say, if it migh cure
it or not.

its meant to HELP over whelm the existing bacteria. (bad bactreria)

you have to eat right.

and if you have bad seveire bacteria (candida) you need to fast on vegtables juice and cut out all mold all together.

It is interesting to read these problems that some readers seem to have with Candida . Threelac has been banded by some as a cure all . In some ways it may well be . You have to understand a number of basic points about ones body to be able to see why that may be so . You also have to realise that your body is quite finely tuned and that eating the way we do today does pose problems for our digestive tracts. Modern medicines, although excellent in many ways cannot foresee some of damage that they do to our Intestinal Bacterial cultures. The result of Antibiotics , long term poor food or just a straightforward stomach bug can damage the beneficial bacterial colonies in our intestines. This is what we call Dysbiosis or a state of imbalance of intestinal bacterial flora.

A healthy human intestine has some 300+ specie of bacteria. These are predominantly beneficial in a healthy person and responsible for a range of essential duties. The intestines are also home to a small number of harmful bacteria, usually kept in check by the abundance of beneficial bacteria. The balance is the important element. While the friendly ones predominate all is healthy, but imbalance allows the pathogenic (harmful) organisms to grow out of control.

Beneficial bacteria actively manufacture nutrients and chemicals( Vit B12 and K) that are an essential part of our metabolism and play a role in a whole range of the body’s needs, including immune function and hormone regulation. Minerals Magnesium, Calcium, Zinc and Iron are only absorbed with the help of bacteria. When bacteria are damaged, not only do we suffer from the deficiencies of these nutrients and chemical reactions but the pathogenic bacteria are able to infect and create toxins which the body ( liver and intestines )cannot detoxify. The beneficial bacteria are essential for detoxification. These toxins damage body tissues and some are known carcinogens. Other bacteria have been directly implicated in immune disorders that lead to disease.

But I have digressed into the complexity of the problem, so back to the issue.

Once you have accepted that this be true you need to undestand that the principle of re-colonising the intestines with beneficial bacteria is important. This will redress the balance and knock out any harmful pathogens. You also need to understand a little about Candida , and its life. Simply put it is a fungus, living agressively in situations where the immune system has been compromised ( remembering that the intestines are fundamental to the immune function). Candida is a parasite , one that is more prevalent today than ever ( not to be alarmist - but just to be considered seriously). Its method of colonisation is not to kill its host but to colonise where it can. So the first place is the gut. But it does outgrow its surrounding and then becomes invasive, growing finger like projections. This allows it to puncture the gut wall ( and all the problems that entails ). ...But the typical Candida symtoms are not a result of the puncture but of the waste products and the breakdown of these waste products. This is what gives the symptoms of Candida ( and that is while it is living normally- un tackled) so after you accept that concept you arrive at the product that helps fight a fungal infection. Antifungals whether drug derived or probiotic will kill Candida . Accept that concept and then you get to the need to deal with the waste products of that dead material. The liver function ( that of detoxifying chemicals ) has been overloaded for a long time ( Candida symptoms appear only as a result of the liver being overloaded - it can probably manage for many years in the background without you even feeling the effects of having Candida). So now its overloaded. It has a new wave of toxins form the effects of you killing off the Candida . It cannot manage it at the same speed as you are continuing to kill off the Candida . This is what makes so many feel so unwell. This is where the problems of " Threelac is a scam" originate . One of the writers is precise in his advice , "modulate your dose , even stop for a couple of days" to let the liver play catch up. Naturally , no one person will have an equal liver function / Candida kill off ratio , so it is very difficult to say how much "antifungal" one should take and how long the process of eradication will be . But that means we all have to become responsible for ourselves. That is not soemthing we are good at anymore . We can easily find someone to take the rap for something not being exactly as it says on the tin!.

Digressing again . So if you accept the principle of the Liver function, and the need to modulate your own dose accordingly you should hsve the principle for getting yourself better .

It is vastly more complex than that . It does include diet changes .It requires an understabding of the gut bacterial flora, and what they need to feed on ( fibre) and it may well be that you need to find the source of the original "dysbiosis". There is ample chat on this forum for parasite problems . That does need to be considered as a reason for the return of Candida. The other main reason for the return is that although you may have beaten the Candida fungus , the balance of bacteria has not been adressed. The re-colonising of beneficial bacteria is important - and then offering them the right foodstuffs ( in your diet - not as a supplement !). This allows your body to do eaht it has been "designed" to do. Once you allow it to absorb all those essential minerals vitamins and balance its pH ( acidity) then you have the secrets of a healthy life .

It does sound simple in the end - perhaps preventing a dysbiosis in the first place would be preferable , but we ask for so much today by way of quick this that and the other , that we are not listening to what our bodies actually need. - that sounds a little facile - apologies.

In sum . Those that take too much Threelac do have problems . This is widely written about . It is the waste material of Candida ( but very often mis-represented as the healing crisis).

I have worked with Candida and Threelac as www.candidafree.co.uk. If anyone reading this would like to take up the argument please do - for all to see - but please don't put people off from trying something that has improved the life of hundreds of thousands of people- .

I think all that stuff is great, but for me, I know it didn't work and only made things so much worse. Before I used this stuff, I was only very mild, just a slight white tongue and exhaustion. Once I started using things pretty heavily, my conditions worsened dramatically. I sware, I thought I was dying. I got tested for everything. Then I finally realized that the stuff that was killing me was all the anti-fungals and regimens I was on. Literally, about two days after I got off this stuff, everything got so much better. I know people say "Oh, it's just die off." But for me, I don't buy it anymore. If anything, this stuff was making me very, very ill. I don't know, maybe some people out there can handle this stuff, but my own physical tests, emotional tests and the doctors kidneys tests clearly showed me I couldn't. That's why I urge people, if it makes you feel worse, stop!
Ryan

I am not saying I am totally cure either, but I sware, I am almost there. I may never again be normal, but some things that have totally helped me are not buying into the idea that feeling bad is making me feel better. I work on my diet extensively and cut out all simple sugars and try to eat as much pure yoghurt and pure cultured foods as possible for healthy acidolphilous or however you spell it! I have stopped all major anti-fungals and I feel like a million bucks, and I have saved tons of money too!! Also, alot of things on this site that people tell you not to do, I do, and they work great for me. I use warm spring lemon water to acidify my stomach, and I sware, it has done wonders for me. I go through two lemons everyday now, but I feel like a million bucks. Also, I take HCL tablets and digestive enzymes with every meal. No specific amounts, just depends on what I eat. I have worked on my digestion by eating good, healthy oils like virgin olive oil and coconut oil. Also, I've been reading that I need energy to burn this crap off and out of me, so the only two off-the-wall supplemants I take are for energy. I take NADH and pure L-carnitine liquid. That's pretty much it, and in just less than a month, my symptoms have decreased dramatically, and I look and feel 100 times better. That's about it. For me, feeling worse was no way to get better!