Re: yeast flare and when to intro yogurt?/GSE

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You may want to look for an alternative to GSE, as a few investigations have

shown it is the chemicals it is contaminated with that kill the yeast, not the

GSE. There could be side-effects to the chemicals. You can find this info in

more than one place, but here is one website to check...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grapefruit_seed_extract

From that site: GSE usage has been popularized by many companies within the

scope of the health food industry. There are books exclusively dedicated to

GSE.[8][36][37] This extract is promoted by marketers on the internet. Some

health food stores continue to recommend it. Some consumers believe this extract

is an effective natural preservative despite the findings of multiple scientific

studies have concluded the universal antimicrobial activity is merely from

contamination with synthetic antimicrobials.[7][9][13][14][16][38]

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egreenevolution <no_reply > wrote:

hi, we are about 6 weeks in, my daughter has a leaky gut and yeast

overgrowth. she was on nystatin beginning in march, and we

continued it during the intro because i was afraid not to. anyway,

i think she has a yeast problem again as i know it can happen at the

beginning of the diet and i googled the symptoms and she has quite a

few of them: laughing inappropriately, bloated, craving sweets, acts

spacy at times, etc. we are on a very basic diet, we pulled eggs

although i'm not sure if they were causing anything bad or not, also

chicken. she generally eats various meats either in ground form and

broiled or steamed and then pureed. the only fruit she has is

thickly peeled pears made into diluted pearsauce (maybe 1/2 cup per

day) and then the juice from the pears cooking diluted as gelatin.

we probably go through about 5 pears per week total. she has no

honey. we do a few veggies, all peeled, deseeded, cooked until very

tender and then pureed - white asparagus, butternut squash, yellow

zucchini (double peeled, she has phenol issues) i pulled green beans

and avocado. all of her supplements are legal. her stools are

firm, she strains a bit but goes 2 x per day. so my guess is yeast

because i can't see what else it could be? i think that maybe when

we switched over from illegal (but abbout 100 billion per day) to

legal (9 billion per day) probiotics that maybe the yeast took over

that space? i talk to her dr tomorrow but in the meantime i added

gse and a tiny bit of virgin coconut oil. my question is, should i

introduce the yogurt now or should i wait until some of this yeast

dies off, which it hopefully will. sorry this post is so long, i

just wanted to give you all possilble relevant info. thanks for

reading this!!!

emma

zoe 4

ava 5 mos

all 6 weeks scd

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