Re: My theory on candida epidemic

>"This I really have to disagree with. A few strains have been shown to be transient. But there are literally thousands of beneficial strains that inhabit the gut."

You seem to be confusing resident bacteria with orally ingested probiotics. Of course resident bacteria inhabit the gut, and these respond to prebiotics. But oral probiotics are not resident bacteria, and they are transient. Do you have any evidence that shows otherwise?

>You are never going to kill off all of the benefical bacteria with Antibiotics . There will always be survivors, which is again why prebiotics can be used to get the numbers back up.

You seem to have missed the key point of my argument. It is not that ALL bacteria are killed off by Antibiotics . It is that certain strains of bacteria that provide the most protection to the body from candida infection are totally killed off. Once a STRAIN of bacteria is totally killed off, no amount of prebiotics will bring them back to life. And if the mother doesn't have the protective strains, how is the baby going to get them? Not from colostrum or nipple sucking, and certainly not from prebiotics.

If you think about it, the first bacteria in the gut to be killed off by Antibiotics are likely to be the most beneficial ones, the ones that are residing in direct contact with the mucous membranes (and physically protecting the lining from candida), because these will have more contact with the Antibiotic than free bowel bacteria. So after a round of antibiotics, any prebiotics you ingest are feeding comparatively less beneficial bacteria.

BTW, I'm not knocking prebiotics per se, just your logic. Tweet