Re: questions on your program
Thanks for your intelligent post.
Colloidal silver has a very long track record indeed, I have know some docs who have used it personally in their clinics for over 50 years. I couldn't care for "research" to be perfectly honest, I care for the results I get with my patients but naturally take into account the safety of any therapeutics I recommend. Silver colloid has an impressively safe track record, and as I have stated, NY tap water has been analyzed to contain over 100 pharma drugs, and yet no body ever points the finger at tap water, but colloidal silver is under the spotlight for safety concerns, very interesting. We are living in very interesting times my friend, and are ALL subjected to this massive 60, 000+ chemical and unavoidable EMF experiment on this rock we call Earth. Let's concern ourselves with the totality of the stresses on our immediate lives, and place this into context when it comes to therapeutics.
Re: stool testing. Yes, it is clever to first establish a baseline early on with treatment, then treat, then re-test. Common sense, but sadly lacking these days. I do believe that many strains can live in the gut, plant strains included. Bacterium are not fussy, they do have requirements but these are easily met in the gut. With CDSA you are not just looking at the microbiology remember - you are looking at the whole box and dice - inflammatory markers, digestive markers, SCFA markers, immune markers, etc. This is great, because with an intelligent approach you can gain a lot of useful information about not only the milieu of the gut, but the immune system in particular.
Re: Garlic. I agree entirely, garlic is tough on the gut, but so is a yeast infection and the metabolites it produces. Gliotoxin and mannan are more of a concern to me than the effects of garlic on the mucosa. If it aggravates, then reduce the dosage, simple, and the same goes with anything you take. I have seen some patients violently react to various forms of magnesium even, and others to different lactobacillus sp. The point is, each one of us has his or her own unique gene pool and set of polymorphic variances, and so one size certainly never fits all. I take a strong dislike therefore to a "paint-by-numbers" candida approach.You may have reacted violently to garlic in high dosages, but I have seen hundreds of patients who haven't. Similarly, you may hypothetically be a catholic and take a strong disliking to the Muslin faith, but millions around the world swear by the stuff. Each to their own, whether it be polymorphism or by faith.
The interesting thing with candida is that it can grow in many different medium, acid AND alkaline, and it is due to the adaptability of this little plant. Bacterium are the same, look at H.pylori's ability to thrive in a hostile low pH environment of the stomach, I suspect that certain yeast strains happily reside and co-habitat with this spiral shaped bacterium there as well.