I've just started taking CS (30 ml in the morning). I also drink three small glasses of non dairy kefir every day which is very easy to make at home from a starter. It stands to reason that anyone taking CS regularly should drink kefir or reintroduce bacteria into the gut in some way (eating fermented foods is one way) as the CS is bound to kill other bacteria in the body along with the pathogens. This could explain abnormal candida growth. A number of websites have information on the benefits of eating fermented food. One is www.mercola.com, another is www.westonaprice.org.
So I'm wondering about the effect of CS on my health in the long term. For instance, concerning CS and avian flu, would CS be more effective in warding off this flu if it were taken only at onset of symptoms and not every day as a preventive measure? Carlene I have wondered about that too. Time kill studies shown on www.silvermedicine.org show CS killing candida in about the same time period as it kills bacteria, and with similar efficiency. And I never had any trouble myself until I upped my daily intake to around a quart. Then I did start to have some yeast overgrowth symptoms. Makes you wonder if in a living body CS tends to be able to kill bacteria faster than it kills the candida, thus leading to some overgrowth, maybe if only temporarily? CS applied directly to the area experiencing the yeast symptoms stopped them nearly immediately, for me, so I do believe CS can and does kill the yeast just fine. Or maybe my own symptoms were from something else. Not totally certain. sol Betsy Coffey wrote: About the cs causing yeast infections, isnt CS supposed to kill yeast?
