permanent damage from antibiotics

Anything that is a strong antioxidant would prevent most DNA damage. Our healthy cells die naturally all the time! We are constantly regenerating new cells. The gut does take time to replenish.

How about taking L-glutamine to help rebuild cells lining the stomach? It is what I do and I know it has helped a lot!

IHL, the issue is not just with candida, but other fungi and microbes that opportunistically "take advantage" of the competition for space in your gut after antibiotics knock out your intestinal flora. Remember that our guts are colonized with bacteria that helps digestion. Unfortunately, antibiotics don't just work on pathogenic bacteria - they kill all bacteria that fall within that spectrum of antibiotic activity. Candida is simply fungus that commonly thrives after the good bacteria are wiped out with antibiotics. The antibiotics have, in essence, created an environment that allows Candida to thrive, whereas they could not before with all the good bacteria doing their job.

I will ask razzle. Thanks guys that makes a lot of sense. So as long as I'm replacing good bacteria at the same time I should be good. Are 100 billion probiotics enough?

I just had my phone appt today with my LLND and I asked him about antibiotics and mitochondrial damage from them. He said that mitochondrial damage is happening from lyme itself and so there's not much point in worrying about it from abx. We need to treat the lyme and get rid of it... And then our bodies will heal.. The mitochondrial damage isn't permanent.

I checked my pro biotic and it has 4 strains. I drink our homemade Jun I have no idea how many strains it has since I can't test it myself... but it's probably pretty rich with life.

I see. I'll get some better stuff today and start some more Kim chi. Ugh. Hate that stuff and kefir. But I hate having a stomach ache more I suppose

I'm an RN, and this is what I've always told my patients--
abx therapy is, by definition, chemo. So mitigation of the negatives are very important to obtain therapeutic benefit of the treatment.

The biggest negative (besides the risk of anaphylaxis) with abx is the nuclear bomb it drops in your GI tract, it basically kills everything in sight. And like scorched earth, the regrowth will be from the hardiest flora and fauna, opportunistically. Unfortunately, they might not be the happy bugs that help you...

So the intention to continually replace beneficial gut bacteria while on long-term abx is crucial. If you don't do this, you can literally crash your health and end up having to stop the abx. You might even end up hospitalized. So it's a biggie.

IMO, treatment with probiotics is just as important as detoxing from the dieoff of the infx. Billions, as many as you can get, of the good guys. There are relatively inexpensive ways to accomplish this repopulation; and while kefir, live culture yogurt, acidophilus milk, etc are all good, I believe it's hard to beat some of the probiotics that come in concentrated capsule form.

In short, I think it's the single most important consideration for a person on abx. Worth the money.

It only takes cells in the GI tract about 3 or 4 days to have a complete turnover. That means you have a completely different GI tract every 3 or 4 days.

I buy my Kefir raw and local. My brother is amazing and said he was going to start making it himself for me! Totally braggable and that doesn't help you.

Go to a health food store? Amazon sells kits to start it yourself. I'm going to buy one I'll try and remember to post what I end up with and put updates.

150 billion prebiotic seems really good.

I have been eating a new brand of greek yogurt (at least to my stores) called Maia. It's from grass-fed cosw, non-GMO, gluten free. They use cane sugar and it contains 25 billions probiotics. I usually only get the vanilla. it only has 16g of carbs - 13g sugars which is very low for a flavored greek yogurt. These 25 billion probiotics are in addition to the 60 billion I take 2-3 hours after my morning abx. Once in while I'll take another 20-30b before bed, but that is not consistent. If you can find this yogurt, I think it's a good tasting way to supplement your daily probiotics.

Besides taking a good probiotic (VSL#3 DS, and Floristor), I have recently added Inositol and MSM supplements to help restore cellular health and repair mitochondrial damage. Too early to tell if either is helping.