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When Should I Reintroduce Probiotics?

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Channel: CanXida · 2018 · Education

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Here is a question from a subscriber who has a parasite infection and who is taking an antibiotic. 


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Hi there, Eric Bakker, naturopath from New Zealand. Thanks for coming back and looking at my video. Got a bunch of YouTube subscriber questions here, so I'm going to go through them and do one video per question. 

The first one here is from a person called Billy Bob. When should I start to reintroduce good bacteria or probiotics into my system? 

I'm diagnosed with D. fragilis, which is a parasite, Dientamoeba fragilis through PCR testing and I'm on doxycycline right now. My pharmacist's told me to take the probiotics three hours before the antibiotics. This seems a terrible waste of money to me since probably all the probiotics will be killed off by the antibiotics. I also feel that my abdominal pain intensifies after I take the probiotics, and I don't want to feed the parasite who lives from my intestinal bacteria. On the other hand, the doxycycline therapy lasts over three weeks and I'm getting weaker and weaker every day. Can I get my strength back without taking probiotics?

Well, Billy Bob, I would question why you'd want to take antibiotics for three weeks to kill a bug that's quite easily killed off with something like grapefruit seed extract. Dientamoeba fragilis is not a hard parasite to nail by any means. It has a good friend called Blastocystis hominis, and those guys often hang out together. 

Whereas D. fragilis tends to be the guy with just the small charges like the felonies and the break an entrance, the Blastocystis is the heavy duty gangster. That's the guy who's killed people, who's probably joined ISIS, he's a real bad guy. So when you've got blasto and you've had it a long time it can be a tough sort of a monkey to get rid off. But when you've got Dientamoeba fragilis on its own from my experience it's a push over. It's easily nailed. It's a scaredy-cat. It can be taken out quite easily with grapefruit seed extract.
So all you have had to have done would be to take 5 to 10 drops of GSE, grapefruit seed extract three times per day for maybe two to three weeks, and you would have nailed this sucker and you would not have had to resort to doxycycline. I've done some videos on parasites so I'm sure of this. I'm quite upset when I read this, someone taking these stupid antibiotics for three weeks because the collateral damage can be quite significant. 

In my experience doxycyline is definitely linked up with the destruction of bifidobacteria, and these predominate in the large intestine. So taking the probiotics three hours before the antibiotics is dumb, it's a pretty dumb idea, just stupid to me. That's like having a cup of whiskeys before you go for a driving exam. 

What a stupid thing to do. You just don't do dumb things in life.

The pharmacist says it's okay, but I would wait until you're entirely finished the course of antibiotics, then I would go on the probiotics for about two to three months, a long time yes, two to three months minimum if you've been on three weeks, and also recommend that you start focusing on prebiotic foods. Look some of my videos I've completed on prebiotic foods. So these are foods high in FOS, GOS. These are particular sugars that feed up the bugs in the colon where the bifidobacteria like to live, and they get nailed by the doxycycline.

Doxycyline can cause side effects for some people. I would not, not, not recommend that you repeat this prescription of antibiotics because sometimes when you go back and repeat the bug test, they still find the bug, and then they want to give you more antibiotics. So you'd only be a fool to do that. 

Yes, I would start taking the probiotics as soon as you finish the antibiotics, like the second day, the following day you would take them, and then you would take them twice per day, sufficient with breakfast and eating meal, and you would take it for at least I would say 10 to 12 weeks or even longer, until you feel in very good shape and then probably another three to four weeks beyond that. And don't forget the prebiotic foods. 

Can I get my strength back without taking probiotics? You can, but it's going to take a lot longer, and it'll be a lot easier achieved. Try and get one in particular that's got a lot of bifidobacteria in it. I think that'll work quite well for you. Thank you Billy Bob for your question. I hope that answers it

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