I’ve taken very high doses of praziquantel for weeks at a time and while it produced die off, it didn’t come close to curing me. MRIs stool tests colonoscopy capsule endoscopy etc have also all come back negative. So there is something much more bizarre going in. That’s why I suspect it’s a form of proliferative sparganosis that modern medicine can’t even diagnose yet. Based on my symptoms and their morphology I don’t believe they are schistosomes. An image search for schistosomes doesn’t show anything resembling what I have. I’ve had this problem for years and if they were schistosome ...
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I have these same things. They have come out of my bowels countless times and they even came out of my muscles during a wet cupping (hijama) session. I feel them twitching in my muscles daily They have essentially rendered me disabled. I am 41 years old and used to be a bit strong guy before this problem. I believe they are some form of proliferative sparganosis, caused by a fish tapeworm larvae which multiplies out of control. I used to be a big sushi eater so I believe that’s how I got it. I’ve tried every worm drug and herb and none got rid of them. The only things I’ve tried so f ...
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About a year ago I searched online intensively to try to figure out what the “cotton balls with legs” are (I’ve also passed many of them) and nobody really knows. I also have a documented, chronic, worm infection, so the two things could be related.   [End]
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I have been feeling what I was fairly sure were worms in my muscles for a few years now. Today during an intense cupping session this was pulled out. The cotton pad is standard size. It appears to be some sort of roundworm?? //www.curezone.org/upload/Parasites/5FD358AA_3D3A_4D26_A95F_F1EA36431D92.jpeg //www.curezone.org/upload/Parasites/6B06B037_A845_4FB5_9566_C495D4FFA2CF.jpeg   [End]
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Richard Tester , the “alternative medicine practitioner” in Fort Lee NJ, is a con artist. He gave me a few ‘therapies’ that last a few minutes each, made fun of my appearance (yeah real tough guy making fun of a sick person’s physical appearance), then ripped me off for $235 for it all. Also when I got home I looked up the “oxygen supplements” he sold me and they were MLM scam products. Finally, he does his ‘treatments’ in a filthy moldy garage that caused me to have a cold sore attack later that day. Avoid this guy like the plague. Any questions PM me and I will be glad to go into fur ...
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The “cotton balls with legs” are most certainly NOT “bananas”. I have passed the same exact things and I have not eaten bananas for years. It is for sure some sort of parasite.   [End]
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Good timing, I just started DEC myself (400mg/day). I am around 77 kg. I also have tried just about every parasite drug you can name, but I feel that DEC was able to ’hammer them’ much harder than any of the others. It may have helped that I also coincidentally began taking large doses of astragalus root at the same time (4-5g/day) which gave my immune system a turbo boost. That herb is amazing. As for what my parasite issue is: I have no idea, but I suspect it is some sort of threadworm or strongyloides from my time in China, or else visceral larva migrans (caused by the dog hookwo ...
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I tried this herb after seeing the study on it. It did absolutely jack nothing for me. I’m of the opinion now that if your case is too far gone, herbs won’t be able to touch it. Having much better results right now from diet, enemas, and large doses of Florastor and Standard Process Lactic Acid Yeast.   [End]
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”Also nystatin is not water soluble, and will clump together in particles.” Nonsense. When you mix nystatin powder up in water it dissolves completely and turns into a water-thin solution. Also, if what you claim were true then why would there be water-based nystatin solution in every pharmacy in america.   [End]
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I also had (have) a pretty bad invasion of candida in one of my kidneys as well. The kidney is enlarged as per an ultrasound, and swollen and painful (although much less nowadays). It came after a severe candida gut infection for over a year. One thing that has helped ease the kidney pain is d mannose. It’s a sugar that carries planktonic Candida out of the bladder. Also Nature’s Way kidney bladder formula helped me greatly as well.   [End]
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I got something very similar out with an enema after I first started taking Interfase. It looked like a long whitish, clearish piece of mucous shaped like a worm. When I tried to pick it up it just broke in half. So it was firm enough to retain its shape, but not firm enough to be picked up. It definitely seemed firmer than any mucous I’ve ever seen. My feeling is that it was some sort of biofilm, since I felt better after that enema than I had after others. I should add, I had been taking nattokinase and bromelain every day for a long time, but only got that stuff out after I switched ...
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The first symptoms I ever had of a fungus problem was urinary and sinus infections. That started back in 2008. D-mannose got rid of the urinary infections. I had been in so much pain, and spent so much money on doctors trying to figure out the problem just so they could tell me that ”men don’t get urinary infections,” I couldn’t believe that this little $8 bottle of pills from Vitamin Shoppe got rid of them. But it did. If I were you I would try a combination of candibactin ar (thyme and oregano), candibactin br (berberine), and d-mannose. I bet you will see improvement.   [End]
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I read in one of the fluconazole-synergy papers where they found the mechanism by which fluconazole becomes synergistic with other antifungals. Since fluconazole interferes with the candida cell membrane, it allows the other substance to slip into the candida cell (where it wouldn’t have a chance before). So the killer combination seems to be the combination of the membrane-disruptor (fluconazole) combined with the straight antifungal.   [End]
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I have also been looking into substances that have synergy with fluconazole, since I am on fluconazole right now (400mg/day) and it didn’t seem to be doing much by itself. I found this: Red thyme oil (active ingredient = thymol) has extremely strong action against all species of candida, including mature candida biofilms, and also has a synergistic effect when combined with fluconazole, even against fluconazole-resistant strains: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/24416942/ ”Thus, the study demonstrated synergistic effect of terpenes with fluconazole on C. albicans biofilm, ...
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Nystatin by itself (oral and enemas) worked for about a week, but then I had a relapse with a different, stronger type of yeast. The one I had before the Nystatin, that the Nystatin killed off, on my tongue was white. The yeast that took over after that was dark brown. After a little research online I believe it was a very strong strain of Candida glabrata (glabrata varies from white to dark brown depending on how virulent it is). Once I added lactulose and resumed with probiotics I broke through the dead end I had reached with the Nystatin.   [End]
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I am having very good results right now combining Nystatin together with high doses of lactulose (prebiotic laxative that selectively feeds the good flora). Too soon to say whether I am on the road to being cured, but given my results of the last week I encourage anyone to try lactulose together with antifungals.   [End]
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You can find the plain powder for sale online if you search a little.   [End]
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That is not the Nystatin you want to be using. The ideal Nystatin to use for candida infections is the plain, unflavored powder, which you work your way up to 2.5 teaspoons a day (in divided doses).   [End]
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On my last flush I got quite a few ”rolled up tomato skins” out. They began coming out with Epsom salt alone, even before I drank the olive oil mixture. I examined these tomato skins very closely to see whether they may have been flukes as so many posters online claim. Since they looked basically exactly like tomato skins, and came out with a lot of large seeds (I eat lots of lemons so I assume they were lemon seeds), I came to the conclusion that it was all undigested plant matter that was clogging up ducts somewhere and released with the Epsom. Well today my wife made stewed toma ...
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I got a couple of medium stones out the very first time I did a coffee enema. While releasing the enema, my abdomen made a gurgling sound and when I looked into the toilet I saw the green stones floating among the debris. They looked exactly like the stones that come out with a liver flush. I have also passed stones from Epsom salt alone, before I drank the olive oil mixture. This is how I know Stephen ”Quackwatch” Barrett and other big pharma snakes like him are 100% wrong.   [End]
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Well apparently I’ve broken the rules, since I’ve been taking Lugol’s for a long time, sometimes as high as 30 drops a day, and it did absolutely nothing for my candida. If iodine had benefited me as much as nystatin has then I would be raving about iodine. But it hasn’t.   [End]
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I have worked my way up to 2.5 tsp a day of nystatin powder according to Walt Stoll and Dr Myhill’s recommendations. Sometimes I put a half a tsp in an enema (2 cups water) a few times a week. On the days with no enema I take it all orally. I have been mixing the nystatin together with a half tsp of turmeric as this has a synergistic effect as Jorge has posted.   [End]
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The beginning of my problems traces back to when I received heavy doses of antibiotics intravenously for a skin infection over a decade ago. That’s when the digestion problems generally began, but they didn’t become severe to the point where they compromised my quality of life until 2010 (nine years after the antibiotics). It had nothing to do with iodine. For the fifth time now, while I do think iodine is valuable, and everyone should be supplementing it, iodine is nowhere near a cure for candida overgrowth. If it were then half this forum wouldn’t be here. I think you would be ...
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It’s interesting because a few months ago I tried large amounts of raw garlic--over 10 cloves a day CHEWED. I ate so much that people on the train gave me dirty looks. It had absolutely no effect on my yeast.. zero! Didn’t even make a dent in the thrush on my tongue. The yeast just continued like nothing had changed. Raw ginger chewed actually had a slightly better effect (but still weak). How there could exist a strain of yeast/fungus that could withstand direct contact with raw garlic and not suffer any damage, I don’t know, but I am living proof it exists.   [End]
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Here is the study showing what Jorge mentioned in a prior post about the synergistic anticandidal effect of combining nystatin and curcumin (turmeric extract). I just took a half tsp of nystatin powder together with a tsp of turmeric powder and WOW an hour later I feel like I’ve been hit by a truck. Also mind racing out of control (my classic die off symptom). Synergistic anticandidal activity of pure polyphenol curcumin I in combination with azoles and polyenes generates reactive oxygen species leading to apoptosis (programmed cell death) http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10. ...
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Nystatin is better. I proved it on myself by putting straight Lugol’s iodine on my tongue many times. Did nothing to eliminate the thrush. Nystatin got rid of it in one week.   [End]
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I don’t know, because there’s nothing wrong with my immune system normally. It’s only when I drink coffee regularly that I crash. Maybe something to do with caffeine crashing my adrenals, which then pulls down immunity? I crashed with candida once in 2010, pretty much healed myself after about a year, felt so much better that I started drinking coffee every morning again, then crashed much worse than even the first time. So in my case I know for sure that coffee is my trigger.   [End]
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Try swedish bitters and gentian bitters. Those work well to get your stomach fired up if you drink 1 or 2 tsp 20 mins before big meals. They definitely helped me out. The theory is something about bitters stimulating the vagus nerve, which then stimulates the liver and stomach to get firing. Better than hcl because it uses your own body instead of an outside source. For those of us with sluggish digestion we need all the help we can get.   [End]
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Just found this link that backs up what Jorge is saying perfectly. Resistance to nystatin is very rare, but the problem is that nystatin must come into direct contact with the yeast to be effective. By the time the nystatin gets to your colon from the mouth who knows its effectiveness. Need to deliver it directly where the candida lives from both ends of the body. ”Resistance to nystatin is rare, although the drug’s contact killing makes it somewhat more difficult to use because it must be applied to all of the affected mucosal surfaces to be effective (unlike systemic therapies). ...
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I took 5k iu of vitamin d for months and had my blood serum levels tested. They were at the upper part of the recommended range (i.e. they were perfect). Mind you this was when I was feeling terrible because of the yeast. So as I said, while sufficient vitamin D is necessary--absolutely necessary--to get better, it will not produce any miracles in and of itself.   [End]
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I do flush my liver (just started again after one year). I believe that liver flushing is 100% necessary to getting back to good health. Otherwise the poisons from the fungus just keep getting recycled into the bile and the cycle continues forever.   [End]
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Vitamin D3 was very helpful for me but did nothing as far as eliminating candida. My personal feeling is that if you already have a candida overgrowth, having sufficient vitamin d level is necessary to get better, but by itself it will do nothing to eliminate candida. I urge everyone to try high dose nystatin oral and enema at least for a month to see if you benefit.   [End]
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Been there done that. I have a quart of Lugol’s sitting in my kitchen cabinet. Used it for many months. While I can’t say that iodine was completely useless, it did not produce any benefit for my fungus overgrowth that I could tell. Nystatin has been 100x more effective in less than one week than iodine was in a year. As for my immune system, I know the cause. For some reason caffeine in general, and coffee in particular, had a devastating effect on my immune system. If I drink a large cup of coffee every morning for a few months I will have a full blown candida overgrowth guarante ...
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It’s interesting, I have done so many enemas over this past year--probably a hundred total--and every time the same thing happened: an hour or so after the enema I would expel two or three candida cotton balls. No matter how many or how much herbal antifungals I took, the candida just kept growing. And I took a lot (see list below). It wasn’t until I started with the nystatin that the candida cotton balls finally stopped coming out after the enemas. So in my case I believe that nystatin was the only thing that effectively prevented the fungus from growing. The list of antifung ...
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I also have started taking high dose nystatin together with nystatin enemas (1/2 tsp in 2 cups water) this week. The thrush on my tongue is finally decreasing and for the first time in a year I feel as though I am returning to being alive (as opposed to walking dead). This is after I tried everything--EVERYTHING--else including a strict candida diet for almost six months now. The problem was that I couldn’t get my hands on large amounts of nystatin before, but I finally found a source for real nystatin powder.   [End]
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I’m in the US so brands are US brands. There is a great site called iherb which sends cheaply to many countries; you should see if they ship to Turkey. See brands below. Bee Propolis YS Bee Coconut oil any brand Musta (Ayurvedic herb) I got this from a company called Banyan here in the US Raw Ginger Raw Garlic Triphala Planetary Herbals Chlorophyll Now Foods Milk thistle Now Foods or Natures Way   [End]
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For detoxifiers, I have had good luck with the below. Increasingly I’m coming to believe that recovering from this sickness depends on keeping your digestion moving briskly to deprive the fungus of food and remove the toxic environment from the colon that the fungus loves. Bee Propolis Coconut oil Musta (Ayurvedic herb) Raw Ginger Raw Garlic Triphala Liquid Chlorophyll (very good!) Milk thistle   [End]
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The constant throat clearing was probably the first symptom that hit me years ago along with urinary/prostate problems. I had luck clearing up the post nasal drip with apple cider vinegar and mega doses of ascorbic acid. Basically you need healthy acids to cut all that mucous in your throat up so it can drain out. Eating raw ginger should also help too. Also try garlic, turmeric, cayenne, and other such herbs.   [End]
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It is the exact same stuff that people use for laundry (see link below). It is a general deodorizer, good for getting odors out. We always have it in the house because my wife uses it to wash our sheets and towels. It is also well known for killing mold and fungus. http://www.20muleteamlaundry.com/   [End]
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Yeah just using the 20 Mule Team brand you buy in the supermarket. According to the manufacturers information it has no additives.   [End]
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Definitely will. I may be one of the best ”test cases” on here, since I beat candida once (as in reduced my symptoms to almost nothing), then had a full relapse, stronger than the first time and resistant to all antifungals.   [End]
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SF722 did absolutely nothing for me, even the first time I tried it years ago.. Which I thought was strange since so many knowledgeable people swear by it. Lufenuron, not sure. I think it gave me die off. Definitely not a wonder cure. Will probably not bother with it again. This yeast is incredible. When I first realized my problem was yeast three years ago, and started taking antifungals, it used to hit the candida like a truck. I would have die off so strong I would be barely be able to function at work. I remember the first time I put oil of oregano under my tongue, it put me in ...
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It may not work for your case. I ate up to 8 cloves a day for a while and while it did give me die off, it didn’t do much in the way of making me feel better. Borax and niacinamide have produced a much stronger effect.   [End]
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Raw garlic for sure goes throughout the entire body. I know this because if my gums bleed when I brush my teeth on a day when I’ve eaten a lot of raw garlic, I can actually taste the garlic in the blood. It also comes out through your sweat.   [End]
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I just remembered, have you looked into dmso (topical and drinking it)? If I’m not mistaken, even the FDA has admitted that dmso is beneficial for intersticial cystitis.   [End]
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That was back in the days before I even knew I had a full body candida problem, and before the candida had really gotten completely out of control. At that time it was pretty much limited to my sinuses and my prostate. It didn’t make anything worse in those days. It just eliminated the Prostatitis. I’m not sure that it’s a form of sugar that candida can use; if I recall correctly it binds to yeast in the bladder and carries it out with the urine.   [End]
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Not sure if that’s a smart a** remark, but, Chitosan was working in that it was giving me die off, but my overall feeling wasn’t improving. My overall feeling had been getting progressively worse since last summer, even after taking up to 100 billion count probiotics a day and running through about two dozen different antifungals, including but not limited to: Gse Olive leaf Propolis Peppermint oil Oregano oil Neem Coconut oil Candex Pau Darco Garlic Propolis Florastor Baking soda Lufenuron Lactoferrin Edta Shark liver oil SF-722   [End]
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I don’t believe that borax is poison. It’s a mineral found naturally in the ground in places like the California desert; you can dig it right out of the dirt. I know about Niacinamide and the liver, although I saw a few doctors posting online saying anything less than 3g/day for a grown man should be fine. I plan on rotating it for a while. I feel so much better the last few days that I must be doing something right. Really night and day difference. I was on a ton of antifungals, including lufenuron, and doing enemas every day, passing yeast every day with no improvement. In fac ...
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I had been feeling so bad lately, actually getting worse despite taking so many different antifungals, that I decided to take drastic measures. I was having trouble functioning at work, my whole body hurt, and I kept passing large chunks of white yeast after my nightly enema. I had avoided using borax again since I was a little afraid of it. I had tried it three years ago during my first candida crash and wasn’t sure if it worked then. This time I figured I had nothing to lose, as I was close to quitting my job, so I went back to the borax. 1/8 tsp in 1 liter of water to drink, and the ...
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Prostatitis, along with sinusitis, was one of the first problems I had back in the day. I had chronic urinary infections and prostate pain and swelling. After a year of suffering with severe pain in my private parts, d-mannose cleared it all up in a matter of days. I had received all sorts of antibiotics, ultrasounds, the finger up the butt, you name it, and a $10 supplement from the Vitamin Shoppe fixed it in a matter of days. My view of mainstream medicine changed permanently on that day, that’s for sure.   [End]
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I was wondering why, after doing enemas, the slimy candida-related stuff that comes out at the very end has such a DISGUSTING smell to it, I mean just indescribable. It is like some sort of chemical sewage smell that makes me gag; far worse than normal fecal odor. Well, here’s the answer. Candida produces and releases AMMONIA to adjust the pH of its environment (our bodies) to its liking. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/21586647/ ”We report here that C. albicans can actively alter the pH of its environment and induce its switch to the hyphal form. The change in pH is caused ...
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I would say the problem will be 1) avoiding carbs, which are everywhere in Japan; and 2) the price of meat. Japanese diets tend to be very carb heavy and very light on meat. They also like their sugar in many if their sauces, which you wouldn’t even expect (e.g. Okonomiyaki). Very difficult country to do a paleo/candida diet tbh.   [End]
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I like iFlora because it’s got a very wide range of bacteria, including some that are naturally found in the colon (where the enema will be going). Not sure what you feel to be expensive, but iFlora runs about $21 or so for a bottle of 60 caps on iHerb dot com. If that’s too much for you I would say anything from Now Foods that includes both lacto and bifidum should be good. Believe it or not enemas are actually refreshing once you get used to them. I really wish I’d been doing them years ago; I probably never would have gotten sick in the first place. Going to try an enema with bo ...
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Not gross at all, I have read of people doing it. I’ve been doing enemas with a capsule of iFlora added for months now. Can’t say it’s made a huge difference but the enemas in general definitely help. Right about 90 minutes after every enema I wind up passing a few clumps of candida, like clockwork.   [End]
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I have been thinking about this a lot lately, specifically the relationship between candida, lactic acid bacteria, and the pH of our digestive tracts. Like many others, I have gone long periods taking massive amounts of expensive probiotics, as well as fresh kefir and fermented vegetables, and while I do feel that these things had some positive effect, they were by no means a game changer in and of themselves. When I started dabbling with things to make my digestive tract more acidic, on the other hand, I felt an immediate and enormous effect. A few weeks ago I took around 30g of p ...
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Fighting candida is a cumulative thing. If I were to stop all supplements/antifungals/probiotics I take every time I tried a new one, it would take a lifetime for me to make any progress. I have a steady routine of vitamins and supplements that I use. When I add a new one, I give it a bit of time and see how it makes me feel. If it seems to be working I keep it and incorporate it into my rotation; if it doesn’t I don’t buy it again. I think that makes a lot more sense than stopping 25 supplements every time you try a new one.   [End]
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Honestly I haven’t found a very good way to soften die off. Molybdenum helps, saunas definitely help, but when the die off hits me it hits me hard, and the only thing I can really do to get rid of it is write that day off, go to sleep early and it’s usually somewhat better when I wake up the next day.   [End]
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The other supps aren’t new though. I take those every day and have been for months so I know how I feel when I’m on them. The large amounts of gas started when I added the chitosan.   [End]
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I’ve definitely noticed an effect from it. Getting much more yeast out in my plain water enemas than I was before. Before I was getting out fluffy cotton balls of yeast; now I’m getting out dense chunks of it. I think the combination of raw garlic and chitosan is really giving it a beating (consuming orally, not directly in the enemas). I’ve also started drinking two bottles of Bio K Plus a day. As a weird aside, I’ve even having really vivid dreams lately (a common die off effect for me), and in one of the dreams some disgusting troll-like creature told me very angrily to ”leave u ...
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According to the weight loss information, you’re supposed to take it two hours away from any fat soluble vitamins, so it doesn’t carry those out of your body. I also take serra/bromelain/lumbro/EDTA/etc. first thing in the morning on an empty stomach. I’d probably take the Chitosan away from those, by itself between meals, just to be sure that you’re getting the full effect of both the enzymes and the Chitosan by themselves and not wasting your money. As far as the weight loss, candida has messed with my muscle composition and physical fitness so much that I can’t imagine anything t ...
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Fascinating stuff!! I KNEW the cottony stuff had to be yeast. The fact that it grows so fast under the right conditions makes it clear why it’s so hard to eradicate. You kill it and kill it and one wrong move and it comes right back in 24 hours. Check out my post below about Chitosan fiber and raw garlic: http://curezone.org/forums/am.asp?i=2164016   [End]
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I am interested in this video. I had the same exact question/doubts you did about the ”cotton balls” that come out in my enemas. They always come out 30-90 minutes after I evacuate the enema. What made me decide that it was yeast and not mucous was that it STINKS--and not a feces type of stink, but a major funky moldy sewage stink, like something that’s almost too nasty to describe. In my experience no mucous/skin/human membrane has any stink like that, or even any smell at all, whereas yeast is well know as being very odorous.   [End]
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Yesterday was the first day I had off work in a couple of weeks, so I ate normally (still on a strict candida diet) and took the following: -About 7 crushed raw garlic cloves spread throughout the day (usually take 3 on work days without much die off) -Three or four caps of bromelain/serrapeptase/nattokinase spread out -a little hydrochloric acid before dinner (first time trying it) -about 20g of ascorbic acid (take every day with no effect) -three caps of Chitosan opened and mixed with a glass of water, 3x on an empty stomach By last night I started to feel very, very woozy and ...
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Chitosan is a fiber made from the crushed chitin of shellfish shells. It is generally used as a weight loss supplement, to be eaten with meals, because it binds fat and carries it out of the body before it is absorbed. However, a large amount of evidence shows that it has a strong antifungal effect, piercing yeast cells and most importantly damaging and breaking up candida’s BIOFILMS in addition to preventing new ones from forming. I have been using Chitosan (Now Foods brand) for about a week on an empty stomach and it has been producing definite die off symptoms (large amounts of hot ...
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Maison give us an idea of your current daily habits to rebalance your body? What kind of vitamins/supplements are you taking? And are you eating fermented/cultured foods on a daily basis?   [End]
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I used to take sodium ascorbate and buffered C (from Thorne), but found that straight ascorbic acid provides much more of a ’kick’ for me. It seems to be better for acidifying my gut, which is way too alkaline and filled with candida. After looking online it was interesting to see that the late Dr. Cathcart stated the same thing--said that straight ascorbic acid is the main one he recommends for bowel tolerance C.   [End]
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If you’re a male and you had real candida overgrowth then I’m sorry to say but in my experience you probably won’t see any real significant regrowth of hair. You may regain some fullness, yes, but if you developed male pattern baldness during the candida period, as I did, then basically your body went into shock and aged rapidly during that period. This is what happened to me. I basically aged a decade in a few years. After I beat the candida the first time, my hairline improved, but it never came back to what it was and I still have the rear bald spot that I didn’t pre-candida.   [End]
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I’ve been vitamin c flushing (straight ascorbic acid) for the last few days. My bowel movements, which have been loose, have been green, and I’ve got tons of green bile coming out with them. My gall bladder (or stomach?) has been rumbling and gurgling like crazy the entire time. I’ve been averaging around 30g of C a day. Anyone have any idea what the relationship is between C and bile production? I’ve found stuff online about C deficiency having some relation to gallstones, but nothing on the general topic of bile. It would seem to me based on my experience the past few days that t ...
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Thanks for the tip. Been doing bone broth and gelatin for a while as well. It didn’t seem to do much for my gut since I was (am?) so full of yeast. I look forward to trying it again once I clear as much out as I can using ascorbic acid. I saw candida overgrowth referred to online as ”the decomposition disease,” and that’s definitely what it is. When candida is out of control my body literally starts falling apart from the inside out. All I do is pull muscles, strain joints, break blood vessels, veins bulging and turning varicose. I’ve had a varicocele (varicose vein in the testicl ...
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Here is a research study that states what I believe: ”Vitamin C also provides an acidic meliu for Candida-fighting lactobacillus, which grows in an acid environment.” http://www.researchgate.net/profile/Nikhat_Manzoor2/publication/47355848_Ascorbic_acid_modulates_pathogenecity_markers_of_Candida_albicans/file/79e4150596bb8ee851.pdf   [End]
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Today I am taking a 1000mg cap of Vitamin Shoppe ascorbic acid every 30 mins, and adding 1/4 tsp of ascorbic acid on top of that every 2-3 hours. I’m up to about 15g today so far and still no sign of flushing/diarrhea.   [End]
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Thanks, it’s amazing how coffee wrecked my gut. It’s the weirdest thing, and when I tell people about it they look at me like I’m nuts. My only theory for it is that 1) the candida overgrowth made my gut too alkaline; 2) what little good bacteria I did have in my good was tailored to an alkaline environment; 3) drinking coffee, which is super acidic in a bad way, killed off what little good bacteria I had, leaving a wide open path for the candida to take over. I also wasn’t taking much probiotics during the coffee period, so there was no good bacteria being supplemented to replace the o ...
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I am an old poster who is currently dealing with candida for a second time after being essentially cured the first time around, because I drank a 16oz coffee every morning for six months. For some reason, coffee wipes out my good flora and sets me up for a candida invasion. This second time around, I tried every antifungal that worked the first time around, including: SF-722 Gse Olive leaf Propolis Peppermint oil Oil of Oregano Neem Coconut oil Candex Pau D’arco Kefir Primal Defense Bromelain To no avail. With the exception of Candex, which brought very modest results ...
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Thanks Dr., I will check out the book. Been enjoying your YouTube videos as well. Cheers.   [End]
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Hi Dr. Bakker, I came across some of your posts on another candida blog. I am curious, given your long experience treating patients with this condition, have you noticed any strains of probiotic that are particularly useful in people with candida overgrowth? (e.g., B. Lactis, l. Casei, etc.) My candida traces back to large doses of IV antibiotics I received years ago. I have found that L. Acidophilus (most popular probiotic bacteria here in the US) doesn’t seem to help, and Bifido strains seem to be much more effective. Thanks!   [End]
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Check out these remedies http://www.earthclinic.com/CURES/bladder_infection.html   [End]
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If you do in fact have a UTI caused by fungus/yeast, d-mannose is excellent for clearing up any such UTIs. Back when my candida problems first started, D-mannose cleared up the chronic UTI and prostatitis I had at the time when everything doctors tried had failed. That was what woke me up to ’alternative remedies.’   [End]
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Here is the article link. Libyan doctors show how they cured drug-resistant thrush caused by Candida Albicans in two children using activated baker’s yeast. Very interesting.   [End]
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