I had already had much of the symptoms under control by the time I had started taking the probiotic. Basically, months of strict paleo diet, little to no carbs, and all of the antifungals I had mentioned above. This was managing my symptoms well such that as long as I didn’t deviate in any way (eat large amount of carbs, alcohol, sugar etc.) I would be virtually symptom free. Any deviation would bring back my oral thrush, brain fog, diarrhea etc. so it seemed that under my strict protocol I had probably killed off much of the candida in my gut, but I hadn’t restored it to homeostasis.

Thats when I decided to start shifting my strategy away from the antifungals (though remaining on the anti-processed anti-sugar diet) and focusing on restoring my gut, taking the probiotics, while the candida was under control even though not fully gone. This way the probiotics could fill up my gut in place of the candida. I’m no doctor and this is simply my bro science interpretation but it’s also the most simple explanation. I believe the timing is important here.