Re:Re: threelac

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Pam

Have

you read over the information in our Group Files on dealing with candida/yeast

while on SCD? Similar information can be found at www.pecanbread.com/f/how/yeast.html

If you are dealing with high levels of candida, then it is

advisable to make food choices to limit (or avoid for a while) the foods that

yeast love, so you can kill them off faster. Honey and dried fruits are

two of the foods that should be limited, or perhaps avoided, during a drastic

yeast elimination phase. Some people need to be careful with all yeast “trigger”

foods for a few months to a year, others find that they can continue to eat the

trigger foods but just have to limit how often they consume them. There

is much individual variation.

Yeast

will die off when their food sources are removed. Probiotics do help in

stabilizing the gut ecology and bolstering the immune system so the body will

more effectively fight off high levels of candida. Antifungals can help,

of course, but aren’t required – and many times the antifungals

cause side-effects and stress and damage.

To

get rid of high levels of candida/yeast, you need to deal with cutting off

their food supply, improving the gut ecology so that digestion improves (again,

cutting off the yeast food supply), and reducing the stress on the immune

system so it can take over the task of keeping yeast in check. SCD helps

with all of these issues, over time, but some of us find it helps to adjust our

food choices to speed up the process [grin].

As

to the illegal ingredients in Threelac. They would still have to be dealt

with by the digestion even if the ingredients are supposed to target

yeast. It isn’t helpful to continue to ingest ingredients that have

an impact on the intestinal tract. That would just prolong the healing

journey and might cause worsening damage. And there is no need to

take a supplement with illegal ingredients when there are other choices that do

less damage to the digestive system.

There

are plenty of antifungals that are OK to use while on SCD, if you feel they

help (optional, though). S. Boulardii is a probiotic supplement that can

be helpful in killing off candida (optional, though). You can adjust your food

choices appropriately to limit the yeast triggers; you will be increasing your

probiotics; and even more helpful, stabilizing and restoring the gut ecology,

which helps reduce candida levels.

Kim M.

SCD 6 years

Sphincter of Oddi dysfunction 6+ years

neurological & spinal deterioration 3+ years

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thanks,

Kim and Marilyn, for your responses about threelac. I do have another question,

though. If a person has mainly a candida issue, would he/she necessarily have

to worry about " illegal " ingredients, given that the yeast is a

fungus and needs to be targeted in a different way than other types of rogue

bacteria? In other words, bacteria and fungus are two different things; would

they not have to be treated differently with different probiotics? Another

example would be that people following the SCD diet cannot have sugar, but they

can eat honey. People with candida are not supposed to eat either because it

feeds the yeast.

Believe me, I am not going to embark on taking something which might cause harm

to my system, but I don't think I have heard this addressed here. Thanks again

for your helpful responses.

Pam