What You Need to Know About Probiotics for Yeast That Will Restore Your Health and Immune System to Normal

Probiotics for yeast are very necessary for yeast infection treatment and the restoration of immune and digestive system health. It is the destruction of good bacteria within the digestive tract that allowed the yeast to mutate and spread through out the body in the first place. So replacing these bacteria is very necessary for the healing, long-term prevention of a relapse, and for immune system health.

I have had people tell me that their lab tests results have shown no good bacterial species in their stool. Their doctors are performing every test in the world trying to find out what is wrong with them and they can't find anything! What? I don't want to knock doctors even if I don't trust them, but if you have no bacteria left in your intestine, that is the obvious problem!

The average healthy adult human, has about 70 to 100 trillion good bacteria, 3 to 5 pounds, present in the digestive system that live in a colony of many different species. These bacteria help one another to survive and they all do different jobs in this environment. Some clean up protein waste, others carbohydrate waste, others dairy, others raise or lower ph levels so others can survive, some eat yeast, and others help us digest our food so we can get the nutritional benefits from it, etc. Some bacteria's only job is to help other bacteria perform their job whatever that may be. They are a colony, they live together much like people live together in a city, each performing a separate task or job so that community can survive and flourish.

In order to get yeast infections and candida, most of these bacteria are gone. They have been killed from toxins, prescription and over the counter drugs, and extremely unhealthy diets. But the question is, how many bacteria are gone? No one knows exactly what is the normal yeast to bacteria ratio, and at what level of depleted bacteria does yeast shape shift and become candida? We just don't know? But if you are following the Standard American Diet and have ever taken an antibiotic, your intestinal immune system has been altered and weakened...period!

This lack of good bacteria is an obvious problem and is what needs to be addressed for effective yeast infection treatment. But how do you do that? Most people will tell you to take acidophilus and that should solve the problem. Or take this probiotic because it has 4 or so different species in it so it must be good right? I am willing to bet you might have even tried it and it didn't work did it? And why would it?

Most probiotics for yeast infection treatment have anywhere from 500 million to 10 billion live cells at the time of manufacture. By the time you take them some of course have died. But what is ludicrous is the fact that you are taking such a small amount when you need to replace trillions. It’s like going to a fire with a squirt gun. The fire quickly bounces back after you spray it with water much the same way candida does when you take weak or low dose bacterial products because the bacteria is quickly killed.

In addition to that, these bacteria you are introducing are not part of a colony and were not grown together in a colony that supports itself. The result of this unsupported introduction, they do not survive more than 2 or 3 weeks, they do not become part of your colony, and they do not get rid of your yeast infection and candida.

The most prevalent bacterial species in the human body are acidophilus that mostly inhabit the small intestine, and Bifidobacteria, which inhabits the large intestine and small intestine. Bifidobacteria far out number acidophilus but when is the last time you saw a probiotic with large amounts of this species and its subspecies? I looked for 5 years before I finally found one.

Most probiotics are loaded with acidophilus but not bifidobacteria and you do need both in large amounts. I'm talking 100 to 500 billion a day or more to get well again and back to normal. It does depend upon the individual on how high it needs to be. But the minimum daily dose should be 30 billion.

Since yeast and candida cannot build resistance to bacteria like they do with herbs and modern medicines, the right bacteria and in high amounts are absolutely necessary for yeast infection treatment. I cannot stress this enough!

There are bacteria whose only job is to eat yeast. There are also enzymes whose only job is to eat cellulose and hemicellulose, which is part of the cell wall of candida. If you combine the two, letting the enzymes eat thru the cell wall, the bacteria then eat the inner lipoprotein membranes and the candida dies. Take an additional probiotic for yeast infection treatment that was grown together in their own mutually exclusive colony, or a probiotic that provides large amounts, and your candida is history.

Providing of course you clean up the waste in the colon so it no longer has a food supply.

Several years ago, Bernard Jensen, D.C., world-renowned author, lecturer and teacher of natural health, said, "It is an indisputable fact that illness, old age, and even death itself are due to the accumulation of waste products (within the body) ... to the inability of the body to replenish its cellular structures and organs with fresh, vital nutrients."

Probiotics for yeast are absolutely necessary for the absorption of minerals, vitamins, proteins, and fats within the body. They also displace and kill bad bacteria, yeasts, and fungi. The specific species that inhabit the small and large intestine also create the right acidic or alkaline state for that area in the intestine. They truly are our first line of defense against foreign organisms within the body.

A study in Ireland came to this conclussion:

"The intestinal microflora is a positive health asset that crucially influences the normal structural and functional development of the mucosal immune system. The flora has a collective metabolic activity equal to a virtual organ within an organ … It follows that manipulation of the flora to enhance the beneficial components represents a promising therapeutic strategy." (O'Hara AM, Shanahan F 2006)

Researchers in the Mucosal Immunology Laboratory of Massachusetts General Hospital for Children had this to say:

"Changed lifestyles and the increased use of antibiotics are significant factors that affect the preservation of a healthy intestinal microflora. The concept of probiotics is to restore and maintain a microflora advantageous to the human body." (Broekaert IJ, Walker WA 2006).

There are many probiotics for yeast and health on the market today all claiming to be the most powerful and beneficial for your health. Unfortunately that is not the case.

In a study done by the University of Washington in 1990 they found that "Most of the lactobacillus containing products currently available either do not contain the Lactobacillus species and/or contain other bacteria of questionable benefit". Here it is 15 years later and I am afraid not much has changed.

They also have been found to grow mold in the body since they are blended together like making a cake, instead of grown together in their own complimentary environment. They also have to be refrigerated which suggests they will spoil. Think about it, why do we put food in the refrigerator? To keep it from spoiling so we can extend the shelf life. What happens when the food spoils? It grows mold of course, and molds, kill good bacteria just like antibiotics, which are made from molds.

You have probably read somewhere that probiotics require a supporting cast of other probiotics so they can attach to the intestinal wall to re-colonize and proliferate, which is true to a point. You may have also read that the probiotic should have FOS to feed these bacteria so they survive. Well, I have news for you, all conventionally manufactured probiotics for yeast do not have the ability to re-colonize the human intestine. It is stripped from them during the manufacturing process. So when you stop taking them, the benefits are lost after 2 weeks because they all die. If someone tells you different, they are lying to you! Below is a chart that shows this phenomenon.

There are a few ways to re-colonize the intestine if you have been found to have no good bacteria left in your intestine. One is by a fecal matter transplant from a healthy human donor with an intact bacterial profile, this is the quickest way. Or the same way good bacteria is introduced to a baby, human breast milk or vaginal fluids that are swallowed during birth from a healthy woman.

Below I have outlined what I believe to be some of the best probiotics on the market for treating yeast and supplementing good bacteria.

Acidophilus

There are over 100 species of lactobacillus acidophilus that are presently known to man. All have some benefits in the human digestive tract but the problem has always been, are they species that normally belong there, and do they provide any benefits. Just because the probiotic is L. acidophilus, doesn't mean it is a type that is normally found in the intestine.

One of the probiotics for yeast outlined below is Lactobasillis GG, a species that is normally found in the intestine! LGG is a well researched bacteria and is extremely beneficial for anyone that takes it. I invite you to click over to the page and check the scientific references and its benefits.

Bifidobacteriums

The large intestine where candida yeast lives is predominately inhabited by Bifidobacterium and its subspecies. They help create a slightly alkaline environment, and help clean up the wastes in our intestines from the digestive process. So you should be taking a probiotic that contains a large amount of the bifidobacteriums.

CP-1, which is short for Custom Probiotic 1 is a 5 strain probiotic that will not grow molds in the body and is very heat stable. It contains a very large amount of beneficial bifidobacteriums and acidophilus that are the best for treating yeast issues or any other digestive issue. One capsule contains a guaranteed 50 billion bacteria at the time of expiration, which is one year. It is very good probiotic for candida yeast because it is so strong and includes the most dominate species of bacteria that are found in the human intestine.

Best All Around Probiotic

One of the best probiotics for yeast is Total Immune Booster or TIB for short. TIB is not a conventionally manufactured probiotic but is grown on a grain then packaged. It contains a little over 100 strains of bacteria in a mutually exclusive colony. This process creates a probiotic that possibly has the ability to establish new colonies in the intestine because all these species support each others existance while forcing out microforms that are harmful or don't belong to the colony.

This is called competitive exclusion in microbiology and happens when life forms have the ability to grow and multiply within their own colony. I truly believe this could be your best shot at re-establishing bacterial colonies from a probiotic.

TIB also contains beta 1/3D glucan, which studies have proven is one of the most potent immune system stimulators known to man. It also contains Allicin, which is the active ingredient in garlic that provides antifungal, antibacterial, and antiviral benefits.

I have been taking 3 TIB a day for 4 years or so and have suffered no candida relapses or any intestinal problems what-so-ever in all that time. People taking this as a candida yeast preventative measure out number CP-1 users by 6 to 1.

Important Note: The bacterial formulation of TIB was recently changed. It is now more of a conventionally grown probiotic than mutually exclusive. I am still taking it and it seems to work as good as always for me. It still contains the beta glucans for the immune system so it is still very beneficial for fighting yeast infections.

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