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Thank you for tuning into this video today. Today I’d like to do a little bit of a review on a product called ThreeLac. A product which is quite popular. It’s become very popularized, particularly in the US, in the last five years for the treatment and eradication of Candida yeast infection.

I’m not going to spend a great deal of time on ThreeLac, but what I am going to tell you is going to be quite important if you’re considering buying this product or have used this product. It might make a lot of sense, and my comments and opinions are purely based on my clinical experience spanning over 25 years.

As you can imagine because I specialize in yeast infection, I’ve used every kind of product on the market that I could find, including ThreeLac, FiveLac, many different types of products. I’m not going to go into a whole bunch of technical jargon on why this particular bacterial strain with this particular research shows this particular outcome. I think a lot of that might be good for academics, but when it comes to the clinic, I think it’s all bologna. It doesn’t make any difference what any kind of research shows. To me, all the nonsense stops in the clinic. So when you use a product on a patient consistently and get a consistently good outcome, that’s what matters to me. Not what some Harvard University shows or what some testimonial shows. That’s all bologna to me.

Let’s first have a look at this product and I’ll give you a couple of my critiques on why I don’t think this is a really viable product whatsoever for a yeast infection. It contains a couple of sugars in it, which immediately to me rings alarm bells. Now some experts out there will look at this and say, “This Mr. Bakker guy is stupid. He’s gone too far because the sugars that are used in ThreeLac are quite safe. They don’t feed yeast infection.”

Well, I don’t believe that’s the case. Cyclodextrin and erythritol, and really erythritol, it’s a particular type of sugar that’s used in things like confectionary. It was discovered in the 1840s. It’s found in this particular type of sugar, particularly the erythritol is found in fruits, so it’s extracted out of these foods. It’s also chemically made. I don’t really like any kind of yeast infection product where sugars are put in there to flavor the powder. So ThreeLac are sachets, basically, I think you get about 60 sachets in a box. So you tear open a sachet and you mix it in with water and drink that.

This product also contains some dried lemon juice powder and goodness gracious it even contains Canola oil. Why would you want to consume Canola oil? So lemon juice powder, Canola oil, it’s got three different types of bacteria in here which are probably reasonably useful. But there’s no lactobacillus acidophilus in here, which I’m really at a loss. They also put fructooligosaccharides in here, which is in my mind, not a good move. When you’re putting a saccharide and other kinds of sugars like dextrins in with a yeast infection product, I think it’s quite dumb. Because you’re not only potentially creating a problem where you’re feeding Candida, you’re also feeding bacteria in there. We know that FOS, for example, feeds certain types of bacteria like Klebsiella, so I don’t like this at all.

I have certainly conducted stool testing on patients after they’ve taken ThreeLac and found no benefit at all of them taking this product. I’ve had hundreds of patients on ThreeLac over the years and you want my perfect honest opinion? I think this product gets the thumbs down from me. I don’t really see the benefit except for you spending lots and lots of your hard-earned cash on boxes of this sweet tasting product.

I used it in the clinic for about four years non-stop and I gave it a very good trial. And in that four-year period, to be honest, I had one patient come back and say that she felt fantastic on it. But all the patients who spent money on this product gave me bad feedback on it. I had patients with headaches, increasing brain fog, worsening diarrhea. I didn’t really see the turnaround, so I stopped using it. When I consistently get bad feedback from people, I stop using it.

Now I’ve printed off reams and reams of paper on the internet of all these people with so-called good testimonials on this product. Well, you know what? A lot of these people who put these testimonials up on websites are not clinicians like me. They don’t actually see patients. They just peddle supplements. They sell products. Half of these testimonials are fake or sham. I don’t even believe them.

You make up your own mind, but if you want to buy a product that’s going to help eradicate Candida yeast infection, the first and foremost thing you need to do is to look at your diet and lifestyle. This is number one.

ThreeLac even mentioned on their website when you look at people marketing this product, you don’t even need to worry about diet they say. This product will gobble up and eat Candida. When you hear people talking about diet’s irrelevance with eradication of Candida, you turn and walk the other way. Diet is everything. Lifestyle is everything. Unless you’ve got those two things nailed, you’re wasting your time even looking at a product.

So that’s my expert opinion. Thanks for tuning in today.

Thank you for checking out my video today. I’m going to do another review on a Candida dietary supplement, which I have used on occasion and recommended for patients, my US and Canadian patients. It’s called CandiGone by Naturacraft.

It’s a nice product. I quite like this one, but there are, like a lot of other products, a lot of flaws and gaps in it and reasons why I wouldn’t use it for Candida patients. Oregano oil, Caprylic acid, lactobacillus acidophilus, protease, cellulase, aloe vera, larch arabinogalactan, anise seed 4 to 1 extract, black walnut, wormwood and reishi.

So let’s have a look at this product and analyze it a little bit and see what these guys were trying to create when they designed this product. I think they’ve gone a bit overboard and put too many ingredients in there. They’ve mixed and mashed a lot of things. They’ve put probiotics with enzymes with antifungals. They put carminative herbs in there to try to calm the gut and stop gas and bloating. Goodness knows why they put reishi mushroom in there. That should have been kept out of there completely, which is a very powerful immune modulating herb. I don’t believe it plays any role in this product at all.

I think the oregano oil and Caprylic acid combination is very good, but unfortunately, they missed that boat. These guys missed the boat. They didn’t put grapefruit seed extract in this product, which is a real shame. They also failed to put undecylenic acid in there. Undecylenic acid and the Caprylic acid and the grapefruit seed extract together, in my opinion, form the triad. And if you put a standardized garlic extract in there, you’re going to get the biggest, powerful punch you’ll ever get really when it comes to an antifungal approach.

So these guys are really using a shotgun approach. They’re trying to sort of achieve multiple things with one dietary supplement. But unfortunately where they’ve really missed the boat is they’ve also recommended a product alongside this one, hyperbiotics, which contain FOS. Why the hell would you give FOS, fructooligosaccharides? You’re going to give a soluble fiber to someone. It’s literally a sugar. FOS given on top of this product, in my opinion, is going to be very disadvantageous for patients. It’s not a good idea.

I gave up using FOS years ago on patients. I found that it made them too stoned, too spaced out. It made people too gassy. It created more problems than I wanted in the clinic. Any probiotics I have now contain no FOS. I’ve thrown them out. I don’t use them anymore. I don’t think FOS plays any role really, and I think that in time you’ll find a lot of companies will really understand it when they hear more from clinicians like me that FOS just doesn’t work with the bulk of Candida patients. With some it works, but with the majority it doesn’t.

So on the one hand they’ve got a semi-reasonably good formula. But on the other hand, they’re actually destroying that by recommending FOS with a probiotic.
It’s not a good idea. This product will certainly help some people, but I don’t think it’s as effective as many others I’ve seen. I have had reasonably good feedback from it, but I haven’t had fantastic feedback from it. It’s better than some, but it’s not the best.

Be careful taking this product particularly if you’ve got a lot of parasites because you could get a lot of bad aggravation on this, and that’s why they put the anise seed in there to help calm the gut and to stop the gas and the bloating. I would never put anise seed in a product. I would also use it as a separate to treat a patient if they experience that problem rather than to actually throw it in the dietary supplement. I think they’ve wasted space in this supplement by putting reishi and anise seed in there. It plays no role.

The arabinogalactan is not a bad addition in there, but again it is a kind of a sugar that you need to be careful of. It’s very good for sore throats. It was used a lot in Switzerland and Germany a long time ago. Dr. Alfred Vogel, the father of naturopathy in Switzerland, in fact, was the one who discovered chewing on larch buds of the tree helped with sore throats. And larch contains a particular kind of a sugar called arabinogalactan, which has a good immune modulating effect.

The protease and cellulase is a nice addition in the product, but I don’t really believe it plays any benefit in the product alongside the antifungals. So this person who designed it would have been better off having the probiotics and enzymes together and then giving a separate antifungal. And that’s the problem in our industry; people try to throw everything in one basket and say “Take this.” It doesn’t really work. You’re better off really treating patients individually and creating highly targeted supplements to achieve that end. That’s how you get the right effect in Candida.

Lifestyle, diet and highly specific supplements, bingo, you get a beautiful result. And I tend to get them time and again with patients because I target supplements specifically to suit the patient. I would not just use a shotgun approach.

So I hope that gives you a bit of an idea on CandiGone by Naturacraft and the hyperbiotics, which I would not recommend you take at all.

Thanks for tuning in.

Thanks for checking out my video today. I’m going to do another expert review today on a Candida product. This one is Candidate. It’s in a small liquid bottle. I think it’s probably a two-ounce bottle it comes in. It contains pau d’arco, marigold, and lemon grass extract. But the problem with this product is also it’s made in vegetable glycerin, which is a dumb idea for somebody, particularly, with a vaginal yeast infection. I really don’t like women or guys, for that matter, with jock itch taking glycerin or glycetract formulas.

So when you look at a number of herbal medicines, they are made either in alcoholic extracts or they can be made in glycerin extracts. Herbal medicines can also be extracted using water by what we call decoctions like in boiling or infusions like in making a cup of tea. Alcoholic extracts usually contain 25 up to 40 percent alcohol as a norm, but glycerin is often used as well, particularly with the pediatric or children formulas.

Glycerin plays no role in a yeast infection. Patients who’ve got a yeast infection should not take glycerin. It’s too sweet. It’s too sugary. Even small amounts, dropperful in a glass of water once or twice a day, so this is not really a good product for anyone with a yeast infection. They say that it promotes balance and probiotic flora and this is probably because of the sugar that they’ve got in this product, remember if it tastes very sweet, avoid it with Candida.

This goes for a lot of the added sugars that you’ll find in all kinds of drinks and chewing gum, and many things now contain all those artificial sugars. You want to avoid all of those as well. It’s not really a good idea to have sugar, particularly in the first four to six weeks of Candida treatment when you’re making diet changes.

So I’ve got thumbs down on this product. I would not recommend you get Candidate at all. And anyone that promotes it should clearly look at the label and if they see vegetable glycerin, they should think twice about why they’re recommending you take this product. They’re probably recommending you take the product because they’re making a profit on it.

There are some Candida websites that promote this product, and I don’t really like it when people promote products that they’re not clinicians themselves. If these websites actually have someone affiliated with the site who actually treats patients, they’ll understand that these products aggravate people. And I’ve certainly found Candidate to aggravate particularly women with vaginal yeast infections and also guys with jock itch. So for that reason, it’s got the thumbs down for me.

I hope that gives you information on Candidate. Thanks for tuning in.