Re: When to take probiotics

Establishing friendly bacteria in the intestinal tract stimulates the immune response in the intestines that fight Candida and harmful organisms. As you mention it thought to also crowds the candida out, but more accurately it prevents its initial overgrowth.. Probiotics are not used until the end of our Candida elimnation program because we have proved that Candida will prevent friendly acidophilus and bifidus bacteria from growing. The Candida must be eliminated first before the friendly bacteria will grow. An analogy would be trying to plant flowers in a garden of weeds.

In the early 90's I helped the then great smokies labs develope the now famous CDSA stool test. I had the opportunity to test 30 patients every week for 9-12 weeks. I got to see first hand how their bifidus and acidophillus levels responded to taking probiotics vs antifungals. After 9-12 weeks on very expensive probiotics 90% of the patients exhibited negative growth if the probiotics. I repeated the trial after giving the patients a 3 month rotation of intestinal antifungals.The CDSA test then showed a return of the probiotics in 80% of the patients.
Interestingly while on the antifungals the probiotics the acidophilus and bifidus began to return despite not taking the probiotics.

My conclusion was then simple, 2 items cannot occupy the same space at the same time.
Remove yeast and probiotics can return, do not remove yeast and probiotics cannot.

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