Qwer,

Probiotics are very good for improving the intestinal tract to help gain control of dysbiosis. However, digestive enzymes can do sooo much more. And having leaky gut while using digestive enzymes can prove to be quite a boon in the case of systemic candida. You do realize that systemic candida got to be systemic by making its way into the bloodstream and spreading to other areas of the body outside of the digestive tract, often via the 'Leaky Gut Highway'. In fact, most of the symptoms associated with leaky gut are due to undigested food particles, candida, and other microbes being able to cross the intestinal lining undigested.

Anyway, from what I have read the proteolytic enzymes that digest proteins are helpful in many areas of health and healing, especially candida. Because the enzymes can digest protein, they help to breakdown the cell wall of the candida, essentially killing it. And since the enzymes can enter the blood stream via the 'Leaky Gut Highway' just like the candida, they can track down the candida(well, bump into the candida) throughout the body helping to break down the cell wall and reaching them where some anti-fungals can't go. I found a wonderful article on enzymes that I read ever so often just to remind myself, but I didn't save it on my computer. I will find the link to that article and post it so that you can read it too. It is quite enlightening and based on a good bit of research.

I'll admit that I tended to megadose both my probiotics and my enzymes, but I believe it worked.

I found the article link. It is a site with an advertisement, but the information is still interesting.

http://home.bluegrass.net/~jclark/enzyme_purpose.htm

Qwer,

I was diagnosed with a "Live blood cell analysis" and could clearly see all the fungus in the blood so it absolutely can go systemic and Yes, for several months after diagnosis I truly did think I was going to die I was so sick. My husband has said several times how terrified he was to leave me and go to work because he was so sure he was going to come home one day and find me dead.

Once it hits the blood it goes everywhere the blood does so the progression of it becomes horrible and debilating. It went to my joints and I felt as if I had rhumatoid arthritis, it went to my muscles and they would all burn as though on fire so much that times I had to knock myself out with xanax because the pain was so horrific. There was not a pain pill that would stop the horrific burning so when I could not stand it anymore would have to go the xanax route. My hubby had come home many a time and found me rolling around on the floor in so much pain from the toxins that the yeast releases.

Thank God, through much hard work and much much research I am doing much better, still have candida but am working really hard to rid my body of the overgrowth.

I don't know your symptoms and for how long you have had it but for most of the people on this forum it has went systemic for them. It DOES get in the blood.

Deb

Biological Engineer, maybe Science needs to do more to help people on this forum and start finding answers instead of dismissing the thousands of people that have come to this forum because Science has let them down.

Maybe there are missing puzzle pieces to be found yet, Science is forever changing and finding out new stuff everyday. Never say never. Science should be open to all doors and find out what is wrong with the people on this forum when the health establishment can't treat them because science is not advanced enough in their conditions to do so.

Science can't treat my son yet, the health establishment admit that they can't treat him and sometimes science gets it wrong. Even wonder meds can cause problems that the health establishment can't treat.

I have tried a few other less notable probiotics, but since discovering that dairy was a part of my problem, I have been using the Jarro-dophilus. I don't doubt that there are better probiotics on the market, but I get 60 caps for $12 dollars and only need to take 1-2 a day(but I usually take more), so I feel it is also a great bargain. Plus with potentially 4 billion micros in each cap and enteric coating, I believe my bases are covered. I wasn't using them with as much regularity when they had to be refrigerated. I keep the box in the fridge and just take out a strip at a time.

My third thing was pau d'arco tablets. They made a world of difference. My daughter only used them, and completely cleared her skin rash that nystatin and prescription hydrocortisone cream failed to clear.