Comparing Candida Products
The History of Candida Remedies
Maybe you’ve known for a long time you have Candida but haven’t found a real solution. Maybe you’ve only just discovered there IS such a beast as Candida Yeast Overgrowth. Either way you’ve come to the right place. Allow us to give you a brief history of Candida overgrowth!
It started in 1986 with the printing of “The Yeast Connection” by Dr. William Crook. Dr. Crook was the first to identify Candida yeast overgrowth as a problem. I shudder to think where we’d be today without his groundbreaking work.
His book detailed the condition of Candida yeast overgrowth in the body and the various conditions that promoted yeast overgrowth. Dr. Crook showed a way to fight and limit it’s symptoms by “starving” the yeast with a special and severe method of eating called the Candida diet. For people affected by Candida, going on the Candida diet was like being given a new life: yeast infections went away, energy returned, thought processes became clear again. It was a miracle. Life became normal again.
Until those faithful “dieters” had . . . a cookie! Or a piece of bread. A glass of wine. Well, you know . . .
As amazing as the Candida diet was it had a huge vulnerability. If you ate anything at all to feed the yeast you found all your symptoms returning and you were at square one again -starting all over.
There are still people today that will counsel you to go on this impossible diet to fight your Candida.
Skip Ahead -the 90’s
A decade later, many antifungal remedies, both synthetic and herbal had been introduced to help battle this condition. These arrived in the form of both pharmaceutical drugs like Nystatin, Diflucan and mitroconazole and the natural antifungals like garlic, pau d’arco, oregano oil, coconut oil, olive leaf, HSOs (Homeostatic Soil Organisms), colloidal silver and caprylic acid to name only a few.
The only problem is that the tricky fungus is able to “morph” or evolve to resist each and every antifungal, making them less and less effective over time. A person ended up where she/he started and the fight against Candida went on but with these temporary and ineffective products. The diet is still the best option around if you can stay on it.
The year 2002
Global Health Trax (GHT) brings the first effective and now famous Candida treatment to the western shores with a revolutionary new product from Japan called Threelac!
July 2002, I and my family were fortunate enough to be some of the early guinea pigs for testing Threelac. Within days we felt wonderfully different and within weeks we saw problems falling away that we had been fighting for years. After seeing the effects on ourselves we created this website in September of 2002. This website was begun by Marti and Jim White and is supported by us and our friends, Betsy and John Hausig. We are not medical doctors or scientists, but the four of us have a similar history of years of interest and research in natural health and healing. We all fought Candida overgrowth in our own way until we found Threelac.
Since finding Threelac we’ve not only become healthy human beings again but have combined our experience of fighting Candida over the years to share our knowledge with You through this website!
The text you’re about to read sums up what we’ve learned over the 20 some years we’ve fought Candida overgrowth.
Comparing Candida Treatments
How do Candida fighting products work?
Candida Treaments fall into 3 main categories
Category 1: Antifungal Products
This group of products relies mostly on antifungal agents in its ingredient base. You will know them by specific label ingredients like caprylic acid, oregano oil, grapefruit seed extract, Pau D’Arco, olive leaf, coconut oil, garlic, black walnut, etc. These antifungals will send you into a spiral of “die-off” (so it seems like they are working!). This would actually be a good thing if the yeast were truly being eliminated for good! The problem with antifungals is they don’t finish the job.
The Candida organism eventually builds an immunity to antifungal ingredients. (This happens in much the same way insects becomes immune to insecticides.) There are even clinics that use a complex system where practitioners rotate antifungals every few days so that the yeast overgrowth can’t adjust. The problem with these clinics is that you can easily spend $10,000 to get started on one of their programs.
There are also products where antifungals are mixed with beneficial herbs like aloe vera and mushrooms as though it’s a whole candida remedy in a cap. These ingredients are based on immune strengtheners and antifungals. Antifungals, the better ones, the not so good ones, all go the same way because the fungus in your gut will adjust to them. This is true whether they are natural or synthetic.
The synthetic, chemical antifungals like Diflucan, sporanox and Nystatin sometimes give temporary relief but these drugs also don’t “finish off” the Candida — they’re not designed to do what is really needed, which is to restore the natural balance in the body which keeps yeast under control. Chemical antifungals also are very hard on the liver and are being made in ever-stronger doses. Diflucan, at it’s inception, came out in 50mg tablets. It now comes in 200mg tablets! You can hear your liver run for cover! The 150mg tablets of Diflucan are 3 for $125.00!
Vagisil and other topical “antifungal” creams will sometimes give temporary relief for vaginal discomfort but you are not addressing the root of the problem so the discomfort will return soon after you stop using the product.
One other type of antifungal is colloidal silver. This is a solution in which silver is suspended in water. Colloidal silver is an interesting product that has many uses. Topically it can help with nail fungus if you have enough of it to soak your nails every day. Internally we don’t think it lives up to its claims. We own a “micro generator” and make our own micro particle colloidal silver for testing against Candida and other uses. We had a customer who got to the point where he could drink this stuff in large quantities but it would not control his Candida. That was our experience with it too.
Antifungals work only if the Candida infestation is relatively new and weak. By the time most people’s symptoms would have gotten bad enough that they go searching on the internet… it’s too late.
With a name like anti-fungal you’d think this would be the just the thing to fight Candida yeast overgrowth, but we find them to be quite innefective at controlling Candida symptoms.
Category 2: Enzymatic Products
Enzymes work on the cell wall of Candida and can attack it most anywhere in the body. It’s another good idea in theory. Certain enzymes do dissolve the type of cell wall common to these fungi. We’ve heard fairly positive things about some of these products. Some of our customers have reported that at least some of their symptoms were controlled by them.
The problem is, again, they are not strong enough to do the full job. (I know we keep saying this but so many things are “anti-candida”, yet to find one that is effective at fully controlling difficult Candida symptoms is the key.)
Candida is much too vigorous to be defeated by enzymes alone. The problem is that the “fungal factory” deep in the intestines keeps churning out new fungal yeast cells. Enzymes by themselves can’t effectively curtail this activity. This group is probably the second most effective group in fighting Candida.
“I think your website is fantastic - it is such a relief to read - especially the pages about other suggested remedies for candida that don’t work - I have been through them all, and was in despair. Keep up the great work.
Regards -Ailsa”
Our own enzyme product, Active Digestive Enzymes, was created to partner with Threelac and is specifically designed to dissolve the wall of the Candida cell. Once Threelac tears into the fungal factory in the gut it disrupts the reproduction of new fungi. With Threelac doing this important job, Active Digestive Enzymes help complete the whole “systemic” picture of removing yeast cells where they hide in the rest of the body.
Category 3: Probiotic (acidophilus) Products
These are the closest to ThreeLac of all types of Candida products. Close, yet still not close enough. It’s important to understand, Threelac is an extremely unique product. It contains probiotics that are not available in other products. Its mastery is destroying fungus, which no other probiotic is eqipped to do in the same way. It also employs a unique delivery system to get it through the stomach acid without being digested. Both the right probiotics and the right delivery system are essential.
Some probiotic products offer huge numbers of bacteria or are blended with herbs, enzymes or antifungals to make them “candida fighters”.
We have a refrigerator full of the best probiotics we could find for our ongoing experimentation. We have not seen any form of acidophilus by itself or even in “broad spectrum” groups being effective enough to rout the Candida from the colon, though in some less severe Candida cases this may be effective.
Many probiotics are poorly designed.
With any probiotic you need to be sure of two things;
# 1. The friendly bacteria in them must be alive and kicking
There have been many studies of late regarding acidophilus-type flora — perhaps you’ve read some of them. These studies find that most acidophilus you buy is dead or largely dead.
From a ConsumerReports study on probiotics: “• All products contained the major groups, or genera, of probiotic bacteria labeled, but seven supplements–four pills and three liquids–had far less than the amount claimed at the time of manufacture.”
# 2. The bacteria must have some sort of guaranteed delivery system that gets them through the stomach without being digested and into the colon where they are needed. Always check the labels, most do not have any delivery system at all. Though, over time we have seen that the general quality of probiotics has been increasing, along with better delivery systems.
As stated above, we don’t find any probiotics outside of Threelac and Fivelac that can control Candida symptoms. Probiotics are the most effective group in general to help restore the needed balance and conquer Candida symptoms.
Polysaccharides
Various companies marketing polysaccharide products
In the last year 2 companies have brought out fancy advertising campaigns claiming their polysaccharide products will cure almost anything.
The first was MicroNutra also known as Techmedica selling a product called Candidol. The second company is an European company advertising in the U.S. and England called Nutra Formulations selling a product called CandiPro.
Both have a Candida formula which is primarily based on polysaccharides (aka glyconutrients, phytonutrients, essential sugars) in combination with various antifungal agents.
Polysaccharides are constituents of certain types of plants and fungi. They are mostly derived from aloe vera but also from some of the healing mushrooms from Chinese medicine (maitake, shiitake, reishi, etc.). The breaking down or digesting of the nutrients inside these plants was pioneered by a company called Mannatech. It’s an MLM company that sells products using these essential sugars as their base. See the Wikipedia description for more on this. It is filed under the category “pseudoscience”.
Companies using this same formula have created whole industries selling it as a cure for just about everything. A Google search of Micronutra or Nutra Formulations will uncover that many products intended for a wide variety of diseases use very similar formulations. I don’t want to post their links here but the research is easy to do. The website ads are beautiful and slick and effective if you don’t know what you’re really buying.
MicroNutra Health (Techmedica) in fraud trouble
The first of these products advertised as being a remedy for Candida was called Candidol. We studied Candidol for about 4 months in late 2007. The parent company’s (Micronutra, Techmedica, Candidol.net) websites were extremely positive and enthusiastic and it sounded like Candidol was the magic pill for Candida. But we were suspicious of the ingredients list.
Over a little more than a 4 month period we spent over $2,000 buying Candidol for Candida sufferers who came to us with their early questions about health. Before they bought any Threelac we made them an offer of free Candidol if they would participate in our study and keep a chart for us over a 3 month period.
In all we worked with 12 different people using at least 3 bottles each of Candidol (following label directions). We received the following reports: One woman gave a positive report and thought it had done some good, 2 people gave ‘iffy’ reports that said maybe it helped a bit and 9 people thought it didn’t make any difference at all in their symptoms.
Ongoing research on this product uncovered a lot of smoke and mirrors. Micronutra created multiple websites going by various names to “blog” and to “review” Candidol (candidolreview.org -humorously transparent!). They were all made to look like independent blogs or review sites. If you tried to post anything on one of these sites you got an error message or your opinion simply never got posted. The same basic product formula was used in various combinations and sold under many product names for just about every disease we’d ever heard of. This seemed illegal to us. Apparently it was.
In February 2008 while continuing our research we saw on the net that the owners were arrested by federal agents for fraud. The arrest was for fraudulent advertising about what their products cure.
Google Candidol Fraud or Techmedica fraud and you find:
On February 28, 2008 the owners were all arrested by the Federal Government for Fraud -http://www.ky3.com/news/local/16085487.html
Newspaper http://www.mlive.com/business/index.ssf/2008/03/drug_firm_called_shell_game.html
The Techmedica (parent co.) website has been shut down by the DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND HUMAN SERVICES. PDF document -http://www.fda.gov/Cder/warn/cyber/2005/CL178e.pdf
West Michigan Better Business Bureau (BBB) as of today Shows Unsatisfactory Rating -http://westernmichigan.bbb.org/WWWRoot/Report.aspx?site=53&bbb=0372&firm=24006027
CandiPro
The new product on the market from Nutra Formulations (CandiPro) appears to be the same general thing. A look into its ingredient base shows an aloe vera product (broken into it’s essential sugars) combined with antifungal herbs and sold as a Candida fighter. “One pill does it all”.
CandiPro’s website makes some strong claims:
“Doctor Approved” (without ever saying just who the doctor is who approves it or why)
“CandiPro™ is a SCIENTIFICALLY APPROVED formula ” (what exactly does that mean???)
“The Natural Candida Solution All of Europe is Talking About.”
CandiPro comes from Europe and is sold from England and the US. We thought we’d do some research into this last claim. Here’s what we did:
We went to Google (on 13 AUG 08)
typed in Google.uk
clicked on the Google.uk link and were then using Google’s UK search engine.
We put in the word candida and clicked on search.
The first 3 pages of Google.uk showed various Candida sites (many of them about Threelac) but no CandiPro sites.
We looked for the CandiPro ad in England’s Google site.
The first page had 8 ads, of which 3 were for Threelac, 2 for Candidol and 1 for Candigest.
The second Google page we found the CandiPro ad. 12 ads down from the first ad on page one.
Doesn’t seem all of Europe is talking about CandiPro.
Their claim seems like more smoke and mirrors. Caveat emptor! (let the buyer beware!)
We think these two companies may even be linked. At the least they are both selling the same basic ingredients with the very same sales techniques.
We’ve seen this type of thing more and more in the natural health world. Candida is a big need that doctors don’t do a good job of addressing so many companies try to position themselves to take advantage of that fact.
Category 1: Other Variations
There are other minor programs for Candida that we don’t find compelling. One is “Colon Cleansing” programs. These may be fine for cleansing your colon and getting things moving again but they are not nearly specific or powerful enough to eradicate your Candida overgrowth and re-balance your body. They sound great, “Candida begins in the colon so why not cleanse it out of there?” Candida is way too entrenched in your body in too many ways to be “flushed out” of your colon. These programs come cheap and sound good but are completely ineffective against your Candida.
Want a little research on why colon cleanses for Candida can never work?:
Mechanism For Fungal Adherence Found, Possible Key To Disease
Another is Oxygen Flushing your gut with hydrogen peroxide. Hydrogen Peroxide can flood your intestines with oxygen but it is quickly dissipated and gone. The proponents of this system actually recommend you drink ounces of this stuff all day long.
Fighting Candida Yeast Today
The more you study, the more you see that Threelac is the one clear leader in this field. You can spend a lot of time and money studying this for yourself, but for us discovering Threelac was a miracle, and I don’t use that word lightly. So many years we spent trying so many different things and then having Threelac affect us like it did was truly a miracle. We poured this sweet tasting powder in our mouths, drank a little water and over days and weeks our symptoms just washed away.
You can read our whole story and see a complete Candida Symptoms List on our home page.
Wrapping up
Being in this business gives us great access to learning what is working in real time -in the real world. Every single day we receive emails from people who are very frustrated. Often they have searched in vain for a doctor to understand what is wrong with them. When they finally set out to research on their own and find our site and see that we’ve also been through what they’re going through they want to tell us their whole long Candida story — how long they’ve had Candida, what it has done to them, and all the things they’ve taken to try to beat it. This gives us daily access to what people are trying and how it is working for them. This then becomes part of the feedback we give you.
Many websites are beautifully slick with a beautiful, smiling model at every click.
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Give Yourself Time to make a Decision!
How do you navigate through all the possible products? At first, don’t do anything but study!
Our best suggestion for you to keep yourself away from fraud is to use your own intuition. When you go to the internet to study a condition like Candida and the possibility of it being related to your health problems spend some real time doing your study. Over a few days and nights your mind and gut will get a better feel for what you have found and what is true and what is not.
Threelac is so dominant in this field you will even notice competitors writing their own negative “blogs” about Threelac -and then of course offering you their own products! This has actually gone on for some years. And we are happy to be the ones taking all the shots. It shows we’ve got something real.
That’s why it’s better to study a bit. It can’t hurt to sleep on a decision that can have such an affect on the rest of your life. You’ve spent all this time searching for answers, a few more days won’t make any real difference. Whether you find it’s our own Threelac or something else it will be the right decision for You! Just save our website right now. If things end up not going your way remember to come back and read some more at Candida Support.
The More you Know about Candida
Knowledge is Power! We at Candida Support continue to study products as they emerge. On our site we share with you our years of knowledge of what works and what doesn’t! We encourage you to spend some of your precious time with our website.
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