Natural Antifungals and Good Bacteria

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http://www.all4naturalhealth.com/health-benefits-of-garlic.html"Another great advantage garlic has over drugs is that it only selectively destroys harmful microorganisms in the body, leaving the good and friendly bacteria untouched, and even allowing them to thrive. This is extremely important because prescribed drug antibiotics often wipe out the good bacteria in a person’s body, leaving him or her susceptible to problems such as digestive ailments, infections,candida yeast overgrowth, etc." I did some research on whether VCO also kills good bacteria a while back, and my conclusion was that natural antifungals/bacterials are selective in what they kill, and only kill the harmful ones. This makes sense to me anyways, since us, and our bacteria, and our foods are probably all meant to live in harmony. I doubt the very first people to eat probiotic rich foods worried about if they ate garlic or VCO with them. So since I mainly focused on VCO last time, I looked for some garlic info, and found this link. It looks like you should be fine eating NATURAL antifungals along with good bacteria.Peace =)Alyssa 15 yoUC April 2008, dx Sept 2008SCD June 2009 (restarted)Azathioprine 50 mg 1x per day

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Hmm. That's a slightly different issue. The article is statingthat garlic doesn't harm helpful bacterial colonies that are pre-existentin your intestinal tract, not whether it effects the probiotic effect ofyogurt which it definitely is in immediate contact with. Good point, I hadn't thought about that.And even on that issue, it's just reporting, but it is not sourced withany links or footnotes. And it doesn't say who it is written by orgive his/her qualifications as a researcher. It makes me a bit wary of simply accepting the conclusions. You're right. I guess I was more ready to accept it just because it sort of resonates with me. Because it SEEMS like it should be true. Peace =)Alyssa 15 yoUC April 2008, dx Sept 2008SCD June 2009 (restarted)Azathioprine 50 mg 1x per day

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Good point. Maybe one should take the probiotics and the garlic spaced

fairly far apart, then, just in case? Still, if garlic is kind to good

bacteria, I would think it would leave alone good ones even if you are

adding them to the mix. But, maybe not!

Hmm. That's a slightly different issue. The article is stating

that garlic doesn't harm helpful bacterial colonies that are

pre-existent

in your intestinal tract, not whether it effects the probiotic effect

of

yogurt which it definitely is in immediate contact with.

And even on that issue, it's just reporting, but it is not sourced

with

any links or footnotes. And it doesn't say who it is written by or

give his/her qualifications as a researcher.

It makes me a bit wary of simply accepting the conclusions.