Prosper
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I was skimming through a bunch of threads about SIBO, IBS & candida on this forum, when someone suggested doing the garlic protocol from a site called Gutcritters. I thought I'd made a separate thread for this, since this seems like an interesting approach. Here is the basic plot:
Here is also another article from the site going in depth about garlic: https://www.gutcritters.com/why-raw-garlic-may-be-your-guts-best-friend/
Has anyone tried this? I have been suffering from minor symptoms of yeast excess for years (eczema, sugar makes tongue white) and it would be convenient if something as natural and cheap as this could fix the issue. I just took my first "dose" of locally grown raw garlic. I will be reporting my experience later in this thread.
https://www.gutcritters.com/small-i...growth-part-eight-treatment-options-for-sibo/So what follows is my experience using raw-organic garlic to treat my IBS and what I believe was SIBO and yeast overgrowth.
I had read that imported garlic was irradiated by the USDA at the border. Unfortunately, irradiation kills the enzyme allinase and it’s this enzyme that is responsible for forming the active ingredient allicin when a clove of garlic is crushed or chopped. So I was careful to use only organic garlic that I sourced from a local health-food store or farmer’s market.
I used a garlic press to crush one to two cloves into a glass, added fizzy water to make the garlic bits float to the top and waited a minimum of 15 minutes before drinking to allow the allicin time to form.
I soon learned it was best to take this garlic “juice” on a full stomach or risk nausea. I did this after each meal, including breakfast, if you can imagine, for about seven days. So what happened?
Well, at first I felt a lot of stomach discomfort and rumbling. Then the need to go to the bathroom became overwhelming. It was not unusual to experience cramping as well. And what showed up in the toilet was like nothing I had ever seen before or since. I can only describe it as fudge-like in consistency with a very reddish-brown hue. I’ll leave it at that.
This went on for several days until my stools returned to normal. By then all of my IBS symptoms disappeared. I was shocked to say the least as nothing else had worked until then. What the garlic killed is still a mystery to me. Was it bacterial or fungal or both? I don’t know or really care. I was just happy it, whatever “it” was, was finally gone. I have not seen a doctor for anything other than a physical in the last two years.
Here is also another article from the site going in depth about garlic: https://www.gutcritters.com/why-raw-garlic-may-be-your-guts-best-friend/
Has anyone tried this? I have been suffering from minor symptoms of yeast excess for years (eczema, sugar makes tongue white) and it would be convenient if something as natural and cheap as this could fix the issue. I just took my first "dose" of locally grown raw garlic. I will be reporting my experience later in this thread.