Re: Acid or Alkaline? Which pH inhibits Candida overgrowth?

in a "healthy" person that's true, and most studies assume an otherwise healthy person with ONE thing wrong (amazing to me how doctors know the word "comorbitiy" but never imagine it applies to the person they're looking at). But candida is not always ALBICANS. There are many strains and not everyone has albicans. If you have attempted Diflucan repeatedly, you may in fact have GLABRATA. Glabrata in NEVER normal in the body and has many risk factors--the biggest one is DIFLUCAN use or Antibiotic use (we all know about ABX being the devil). But you can get GLABRATA even in an operating room!! Researchers have swabbed newly built and "aseptic" ORs and found huge colonies of C.glabrata. If a person has Interstitial Cystitis and the cause is NOT bacteria, then it is often C.glabrata (that's why so many of us are using Boric Acid vaginally--it's one of the few things besides Nystatin which will kill C.glabrata!! And my IC specialist tells me that the best weapon against it is to raise you urine pH to at least 7.5+ by any means possible. I add 1 1/2 tsp of baking soda and 1 1/2 tsp. of liquid minerals to every gallon of spring water(after checking the pH of the spring water!). But the urine goes acid the closer to morning you get. I check my saliva pH and the doc does a Blood Gas every two months to check my serum pH. It's called chronic non-acute metabolic acidosis. and it can make you very suseptible to candida glabrata. It is AWFUL to be this sick....