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Candida Question #39 Nothing Has Helped Me Treat My Yeast Infection What Should I Do?

How much is all this going to cost me? If I need to buy your dietary supplements, I’ve spent a small fortune already on supplements and a lot of money on practitioners and various pills and potions over the years, and it has gotten me nowhere.

Well, I think you need to take a good long hard look at what you’re doing if you’re not getting results. It’s easy to blame people when, in fact, you may not really be doing things properly yourself. Supplements do work, but they’ll only aid and assist you, in particular, when you’re on the right track with your diet and lifestyle. So if you’re doing everything right and, particularly, if you follow a lot of my advice in my book, Candida Crusher, and you’re still not getting the results, there’s something you’re doing that’s not right or there’s a block. There’s an impediment to your cure and you can read about that in my book as well in Chapter 7, right at the end I explain a bit about obstacles to cure.

Supplements shouldn’t have to cost you a great deal of money, but expect to pay anywhere between $2 up to $5 or $6 dollars per day for the first several months. That’s not a lot of money when you think about it, you’re probably already now buying beer, wine, ice cream, take-out food, going to the movies or football or whatever it is that you like to do, and a lot of money will go into these habits. So sometimes just by cutting back on these habits and investing a little bit of money into a high-quality product can turn you right around.

I’ve often found also that discontinuation of these habits can also help to prevent many chronic diseases down the track. And a fact is many people spend a lot of money and more money on their health in the last three months of their life then they do all their life. And often then it’s too late to turn things around. So preventative medicine is the best medicine. So a small amount of supplement taken for a prolonged period of time to aid in your recovery along with a correction in dietary and lifestyle habits will get you back on track. It’s not a matter of looking at how much things cost, it’s really looking at the effects and result you’re going to get from what you do. So there’s a big difference between what something costs and the benefit you derive from it. That’s an important thing that I’d like you to look at.

So it shouldn’t cost you a lot of money when you think about it. And cutting back on a lot of those habits I mentioned is going to save you money anyway. In fact, you could probably argue that, in fact, it’s not going to cost you anything. It’s going to save you money, particularly, long term with your health, and that’s a very important consideration for you to make.

Candida Question #38 How Long Will It Take For Supplements To Treat Yeast Infection?

Note: This is FAQ 38 and not 39 I made a mistake in the video.

To answer that question, my question to you would be how severe is your yeast infection and how long have you had it for? And also how sensitive are you to taking supplements? Some people are sensitive others not sensitive and others are extremely sensitive

A way to reply to this question would be to say, you need to take the supplements as long as you derive benefit from supplements. But in my experience, many people are actually let down by their practitioners because they will be on a bottle or container of a product say two or three weeks and then that’s it. They won’t derive benefit from it, they stop taking it, and then they go onto another product or another doctor and this will happen for 1 to 5, 10 or even 20 years. The patient will be going from one supplement to another.

I’ve had patients come to me that are on 37 different supplements at the same time. And I’ve written about one such case in my book, an amazing amount of supplements. You can imagine how many tablets or capsules per day this would amount to and the cost factor is ridiculous. I believe supplements are necessary, but you need to take the right products in the right dosage and for as long as it takes for you to derive benefit from these supplements.

Many patients, unfortunately, will stop taking the products just as they derive benefit from them. Could it be a cost factor? Could it be because they forgot to take them? I don’t really know, but there are many reasons why people unfortunately stop taking supplements as they really need them. So if it is a cost factor, just reduce the dosage, take less, but be diligent in taking them regularly. Supplements are best taken three times per day generally with meals.

So another thing you can do to determine the level of Candida you have is to do my yeast infection survey. So go to yeastinfection.org and complete my survey to work out whether you have mild, moderate or severe Candida. This will give you a good idea also, not just on the severity, but on how much product you will need. And as you take them and your diet and lifestyle improve, you need less, but keep taking them until you no longer derive benefit.

How do you know? Easy, you just stop taking them for two or three weeks and then resume again. And if you get benefit again, you still need them. That’s one good way to gauge.

So I hope that answers your question, but you’ll find a lot more information on the correct dietary supplements in Candida Crusher, Chapter 7, Section 4. You can read all about the special foods and the right dietary supplements to take with a yeast infection.

Candida Question #37 Can the estrogen pill cause a yeast infection?

I don’t think it can cause a yeast infection as such, but it can certainly help to proliferate or exacerbate a Candida yeast infection in a person’s body.

Estrogen pills, patches or creams are often prescribed for women for various reasons. It could be as part of oral contraception or also as part of the perimenopausal or menopausal treatment when a woman has a declining estrogen level. Estrogen is a proliferative hormone, so it has an interesting effect on tissue and what we do know of is it is certainly implicated in exacerbating or causing huge blow outs of yeast infections.

I have seen this on many occasions. Many women I’ve seen in their 40s, 50s, and 60s have, in fact, had quite a major problem with a yeast infection after being prescribed oral estrogen for menopause. And these products are often prescribed for anxiety or hot flashes or thinning of the vaginal tissue, and they can certainly be of assistance here, but we know now that these products are also implicated in increasing the risk of breast cancer. I have certainly seen many other side effects as a result of these. They can include breast pain or dizziness or even liver toxicity. There are many issues involved around estrogen in women.

So if you have noticed an increase in itching, discharge or yeast-related symptoms or signs, which you can read in my book, Candida Crusher, do see your physician. And one product I would certainly recommend you try is an herb called Black Cohosh. Black Cohosh is a good herb to use for perimenopause and menopause. Vitamin E is often of benefit as well. But do see your naturopath or health care professional regarding taking these kinds of products.

But if you believe you have an issue here, see your practitioner and discuss whether you need estrogen or not and what your alternatives are.