ADDITIONAL INFORMATION: My doctor’s visit last week was so thrilling as he hadn’t seen my adrenals this responsive in over a year! My thyroid labs showed that I’m one step away from ideal – way better than what it’s been for a few years. Amazing!!! One issue my doctor noticed right away was the white coating on my tongue – something he always checks for at our 3 month visits and hasn’t seen this issue until last week (my last visit was right before I started GT5). Now, with that said, I have been having yeast issues for a few years but it has been presenting itself vaginally – monthly yeast infections. He put me on heavy dose anti-fungal pharmaceuticals last winter for a month, after failing to respond to natural treatments. Those meds did not eradicate the yeast. This is the very reason I did GT5. During the entire program, I’ve been battling yeast symptoms vaginally as well as on the tongue. I’ve been scraping my tongue multiple times a day during this program. It was my assumption that the yeast was coming to the surface and leaving my body, hence the constant vaginal irritation and the white coating. I continue to drink the Pau D’Arco tea daily, douche with tea tree oil when needed (very calming and effective for me) and am now, through my doctor, taking Muscadine Grape Seed Extract tincture 3x a day for a few months. I was hoping GT5 would have helped me completely eradicate my systemic yeast issue. I unfortunately took antibiotics for one year to treat Lyme disease. The antibiotics helped clear my body of Lyme and co-infections but it’s left me suffering from yeast. I never had a yeast infection prior and now it seems that yeast is the most stubborn of all! I honestly believe that yeast was contributing to my poor thyroid levels and I do believe that I’ve lessened my yeast load internally and hence my thyroid levels are bouncing back. I’m extremely motivated and somewhat desperate to continue this work so that I can further my healing (adrenals and thyroid) as well as live without the discomfort of continuous yeast infections.

A: Congratulations with your thyroid and adrenal success! That is lovely to hear and I'm sure wonderful to experience!! Yeast comes off in layers, so you are astute to realize that you have made considerable progress with a few layers… enough to have your thyroid conversion restored. That is wonderful. Now it sounds like with Lyme and a year on antibiotics and intense treatment, that you would really benefit from taking the Matula Tea (http://bit.ly/1LiwGJs) for 60 days as well at TVIVI (http://bit.ly/1K641Xb) and Saccaromyces Boulardii(http://bit.ly/1KCUGwL).

The Matula Tea is a low dose and highly effective for the stage you are in to continue working on the yeast especially because you are still experiencing it systemically (oral/vaginal) and that means there are more layers to remove in the GI tract. It will not undo any of the good work of reseeding either. The T-VIVI will give you a stronger dose of Pau D'Arco and Lomatium Dissecutim, which is AMAZING for the fortification and re-education of the immune system to operate away from pathogenic yeast. Saccaromyces Boulardii should be taken at night away from those two as it "eats" pathogenic yeast. 3 at night should work out well. I think with your history, you need to give this another 60-90 days and then use colostrum.

Please get a mercury test to make certain that heavy metals are not an underlying cause of this issue. It doesn't sound like they are, but with all you've been through it's important to rule it out. Good luck. Much success and continued healing to kick candida for good! You may also continue with DE at 1/2 teaspoon a day with your tea/tincture combo.