Discover The Underlying Cause




My name is Mark Cobb, and this website is dedicated to the millions of people who, like me, have suffered through the debilitating effects of, and myriad treatments for what is commonly referred to as Candida, or more accurately, a yeast/fungal overgrowth of Candida albicans, which I was diagnosed with 19 years ago.

Candida Yeast/Fungal overgrowth has been found to be a common occurrence in many disorders and is also present in millions of other people who cannot figure out what is wrong with them, or what to do about it.

Symptoms vary from person to person and fluctuate in severity, or may come and go. Most symptoms are invisible, which makes it difficult for others to understand the vast array of debilitating symptoms with which we contend.

The most common are:

  • an incapacitating fatigue
  • problems with concentration and short-term memory
  • flu-like symptoms such as pain in the joints and muscle
  • extreme tightness in the shoulders and neck
  • hyper-acidity/acid reflux
  • brown colored mucus in the back of the throat
  • blisters in the mouth/tongue/throat
  • either white or "blood blisters"
  • un-refreshing sleep
  • sore throat
  • white coated tongue
  • dark circles under the eyes
  • an aversion to being touched or jumping
  • "crawling" skin
  • chronic sinus problems and headaches
  • chronic dental problems

Visual disturbances may include blurring, sensitivity to light and eye pain.

Psychological problems may include:

  • depression
  • irritability
  • anxiety
  • panic attacks
  • recurring obsessive thoughts
  • personality changes and mood swings (irrational rage or crying for no reason - fear of talking to people, any kind of confrontation, isolation)
  • paranoia

More of the physical symptoms may include:

  • chills and night sweats
  • shortness of breath
  • dizziness and balance problems
  • sensitivity to heat and/or cold
  • alcohol intolerance
  • gluten and/or casein intolerance
  • irregular heartbeat
  • irritable bowel
  • constipation and/or diarrhea
  • painful gas and abdominal bloating
  • low-grade fever or low body temperature
  • numbness, tingling and/or burning sensations in the face or extremities
  • dryness of the mouth and eyes
  • difficulty swallowing
  • projectile vomiting

Also:

  • menstrual problems including PMS
  • recurrent yeast infections
  • recurrent ear infections
  • rashes and dry, flaking skin
  • eczema
  • dermatitis
  • acne
  • skin discoloration and/or blotchiness
  • dandruff
  • jock and rectal itching
  • chronic athlete's foot
  • chronic toenail and fingernail fungus
  • ringing in the ears
  • allergies and sensitivities to noise/sound, foods, odors, chemicals
  • anemia
  • weight changes without changes in diet
  • light-headedness
  • feeling in a fog
  • fainting
  • muscle twitching and muscle weakness
  • restless legs
  • low sex drive and/or numbness in the genital area

These are only the symptoms most commonly reported and documented. It can be an underlying condition in many diseases, but is often not diagnosed, misdiagnosed, disputed to even exist or is disregarded altogether.  

To a person who does not suffer with this bizarre combination (in one form or another), it may seem to be impossible. However, to those of us who have suffered, it is a blessing and a confirmation that we are not alone.

Our Story:

Our story is unique to us, so results obviously may vary from person to person

My history with this disease state began 19 years ago, and until recently I had been fighting many battles, but ultimately, was losing the war. The cost, in terms of all those things that we associate with good health, has been incalculable. The cost in terms of money has easily been more than $65,000.

Most people get candida from prolonged or extensive use of antibiotics , but I contracted it from an infected sexual partner, passed it on to my wife after we met, and we had been passing it back and forth to each other for 12 years. Of all the symptoms listed above, we had all but a few of them either consistently, or on a recurring basis.

In the beginning I went to many doctors hoping for a diagnosis and treatment. Since they didn't know what Candida was (nor did I), they naturally couldn't test for it. They all told me I was "as healthy as a horse," except for one doctor who gave me a prescription for an antidepressant! I thought I really was going to go mad until someone told me about a Dr. William Cowden, who had for years been studying the underlying cause of many diseases, which he determined to be an overgrowth of Candida albicans. He was able to diagnose and treat what over the years has come to be called simply, "Candida." His tests came back off the scale and he put me on powerful antifungal drugs and the now infamous "Candida diet." The drugs worked as long as I was taking them (at $18 a pill), but the symptoms came back full blown as soon as I stopped. The "Candida diet" almost killed me. My 6' frame got down to 145 pounds and I looked and felt as though I was starving to death.

Over the years I have tried literally everything to control it, to no avail. While some products seemed to help for a short period of time, nothing could kill it completely and the symptoms always returned. I used to say I would drink lye if I thought it would rid me of this beast. I had begun Dr. Jacob Teitelbaum’s program (author of the book, From Fatigued To Fantastic), that I estimate would have easily cost me $30,000, all out of pocket, since probably no insurance company would cover the program. Even Dr. Teitelbaum warned that it could take as much as a year and a half to two and a half years to completely address the problem.

The regimen included high (1,500mg a day) and prolonged doses of antibiotics, antifungal drugs along with a strictly adhered to (and seemingly impossible) schedule of a dozen or more nutritional supplements. I saw it as my last hope for a lasting solution. My wife saw it as a death sentence, petrified that something as simple as an ear infection would prove resistant to antibiotics in the future. I didn't care. I was willing to endure anything and spend whatever it took to get rid of, what I have always called, "The Monster."

And so I began.

I was on a constant regimen of the most powerful antibiotics and antifungal drugs, pain pills, sleeping pills and handfuls of supplements. I felt lousy, but was determined to stick it out. It was while my wife was looking on the Internet for a cheap source of antifungal drugs that I came across a product called ThreeLacProbiotics. What caught my eye on the website were the almost naïve, as opposed to slick, “marketing statements.” They were simply the personal experience of a family who had recovered from Candida, and other people to whom they had sold the product (I was highly skeptical, to say the least). My wife pleaded with me to try it, saying that if I would, she would try it with me. Of all the hundreds of products and treatments I had tried over the years, she had never agreed to do this, always saying she only saw me getting worse, never better, no matter what I tried.

It sounded too good to be true, but my thinking was, since an initial order was so small relative to what I was spending and have spent, that even if it didn’t work I wouldn’t be out much money. "Okay, order it - what have I got to lose?" My wife was elated, to say the least.

And lo and behold, the stuff started working virtually immediately on both my wife, Alyson, and me. We experienced a host of improved conditions.

As one longtime sufferer on the Internet said, “Candida is the cold that came and never went away.” I was using approximately 3 boxes of Kleenex a week, with constant sneezing, wheezing and coughing. ThreeLacProbiotics and Oxygen Elements-Max began to work almost immediately, and one morning after about two weeks, I woke up and realized that my sinuses were clear and I was breathing normally, and that I had slept an entire night without getting up a dozen or more times to go to the bathroom or to blow my nose and use the nose spray I was addicted to. Our bowel movements became normal once again (I had IBS, my wife had chronic constipation).

Believe me, many prayers of thanks were sent above in this household! We cried... and then we laughed. How could something work for us after all these years - and so quickly?

Other wonderful things began to happen: the brain fog lifted, energy levels began to rise, blurry vision went away and I can actually say that I can see better than I have in years. The skin rashes, jock itch and constant itching deep in my ears is gone. The recurrent sore throat that I have had for 19 years finally went away. I quit snoring and we both stopped grinding our teeth at night. My low-grade fever that I had learned to live with was over. The natural oil has come back into my hair, whereas it was dry and brittle and prematurely aged. My wife’s hair, which had become dull and was falling out by the handfuls, is once again healthy and shiny. We can cuddle at night without breaking into night sweats. Once brittle and ridged fingernails are now strong and smooth. Our appearance in general is more youthful (brighter whites of our eyes and more sparkle, less wrinkled and more naturally moisturized skin). I can finally look forward to going somewhere without fear of my Irritable Bowel acting up suddenly.

I have always said that this condition prematurely ages a person. My wife especially has noticed a fantastic difference in her joints. She had begun to experience what she thought was bad arthritis in her knees and wrists that was really frightening to her at the age of 46. She had gotten to the point where even driving was almost impossible, much less stairs. When she discovered a couple of years ago that her symptoms were consistent with Fibromyalgia and that the only "treatment" was a lifetime of pain medications and sleeping pills, she refused to do it. Her pain was the first thing to subside. Her energy increased dramatically. Her previously horrible menstrual cycle became normal once again and her worsening symptoms of Low Blood Sugar began to stabilize. We have both noticed a greater sense of relaxation. It may sound weird but we are able to take natural, deep breaths instead of short and shallow breaths. Alyson's anxiety attacks are history; my "anger" is gone. Our "stuttering and stammering" for words is gone and we are able to speak more cogently. My overly acidic (20 antacid tablets a day) system has become more alkaline. I was having frequent and horrible kidney stones which have not resurfaced, and my persistent bladder infection is also a thing of the past. Without going into any more detail, I will simply tell you that every symptom I had faded away. Oh, and my (major) foot odor disappeared and body odor did too.

In short, our entire world had been turned beautifully upright again. We had gone from tears of relief (just to be feeling better) to elation that we have found a lasting solution, as opposed to the temporary effects of all the other candida products I had tried over the years (and I tried everything on the market). We waited months before putting up this website because we kept waiting for it to fail (as everything else had eventually done in the past). But to our delight and surprise, we just got better and better every day. To be liberated from this monster is beyond words to describe. We simply had to share this experience with the people that we know are suffering.

I took both the ThreeLacProbiotics and Oxygen Elements-Max as recommended. Alyson only took the ThreeLacProbiotics for the first 6 weeks, then added Oxygen Elements-Max later. We still stand in amazement and disbelief every day; it's the only thing that has ever taken us "the last mile."

Then, in 2007, the unthinkable happened to Alyson. Due to a sudden, tragic, and particularly gruesome family tragedy, she completely regressed and became even sicker than she had ever been. After six months of trying to get back to normal with ThreeLacProbiotics, she found herself stalled at only about 75% improvement. Needless to say, we were very discouraged that she would ever recover again.

But over the previous few months, I had started telling some of our old customers about a new probiotic called SymbionProbiotics, which was developed for children with autism, and others who are allergic, or highly sensitive to yeast and many other added ingredients and flavorings. I had been taking both ThreeLacProbiotics and SymbionProbiotics and really liked the results much better. Not everyone had been successful with ThreeLacProbiotics over the years due to the ingredients, so I wanted them to give SymbionProbiotics a try. It’s available here: www.symbionprobiotics.com.

SymbionProbiotics is similar to ThreeLacProbiotics in that it contains two of the three bacterial strains that are in ThreeLacProbiotics, Bacillus coagulans, and Bacillus subtilis, and a third strain, Enterococcus faecium, as opposed to the Enterococcus faecalis that is in ThreeLacProbiotics. It doesn't contain the yeast or lemon juice powder that is in ThreeLacProbiotics, and it also contains FOS that feeds the bacteria while in storage.

Since then, we started getting rave reviews from these customers telling us that SymbionProbiotics works even better than ThreeLacProbiotics and that it didn't cause any nasty die-off symptoms. The parents of the autistic children started taking it too, and word spread.

Reluctantly, Alyson agreed to stop taking ThreeLacProbiotics for the first time and made the switch to SymbionProbiotics in desperation to get control of her remaining candida symptoms. After only a couple of days, she noticed something good happening and she was feeling a bit better. After two weeks, she knew she had done the right thing, as some of her remaining complaints began clearing up. After only two months, she came bounding down the stairs, saying, "Honey, I feel like I've got my life force back!”. Once again, all of her symptoms disappeared, but this time they never returned again. I still take both ThreeLacProbiotics and SymbionProbiotics, but Alyson said she will never take anything but SymbionProbiotics again.

What was so astounding is that it not only worked but was affordable. On Dr. Teitelbaum’s program, I was spending between $1,000 - $2,000 a month! I went off his program cold-turkey after only a few days with no side effects or recurring candida symptoms.

SymbionProbiotics costs $48 for a single bottle (120 capsules per bottle), or just 15% off when we buy two or more (we order 3 to get free shipping too). The company that sells SymbionProbiotics is here: www.symbionprobiotics.com

 

ThreeLacProbiotics costs $49.95 a box and contains 60 packets.  The company that distributes ThreeLacProbiotics in the U.S. is here: https://www.globalhealthtrax.com/retail

 

For ordering information, see our How To Order page.

To read instructions for how to be successful with the protocol, see our Instructions page.

For more information about candida, see our Resources page.

We are not healthcare professionals. We are simply long time Candida sufferers who want to share the amazing results we have experienced with these products. We know first hand what you are going through.

We are required to add that these statements have not been evaluated by the Food and Drug Administration, nor are these products intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease. The statements are for informational purposes only and it is not meant to replace the services or recommendations of a physician or qualified health care practitioner. Those with health problems or pregnancy are specifically advised that they should consult their physician before taking any nutritional supplement.

We wish you the health and happiness of becoming Candida Free!

Mark & Alyson Cobb

Write to us at cobbcoinc@aol.com or

7324 Gaston Ave. #124-315

Dallas, TX 75214

 

 

 

 

 

 

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