FYI for anyone doing the anti-candida diet - certain probiotic formulas contain Saccharomyces boulardii. Read the labels to see if yours does. I think that garden of life ULTRA has it. there are even more references to Saccharomyces boulardii in pubmed if you're curious.

Saccharomyces boulardii decreases inflammation and...[Med Mycol. 2007] - PubMed Result

1: Med Mycol. 2007 Dec;45(8):691-700.
Saccharomyces boulardii decreases inflammation and intestinal colonization...

Silymarin is extracted from Milk Thistle.
Note the reference to "dust mite extract (DPE)-induced atopic dermatitis".
One can buy milk thistle and/or silymarin from health food/supplements stores. is that part of that pill that tmmdej (or whatever her name is) is hawking?

1: Int Immunopharmacol. 2008 Jun 28.
Inhibition of atopic dermatitis by topical application of silymarin in NC/Nga mice.

Kang JS, Yoon WK, Han MH, Lee H, Lee CW, Lee...

New results supporting both low-carb and mediterranean diets as health beneficial, even more so than low-fat diets at controlling blood-glucose levels and improving LDL to HDL ratio.

"Conclusions Mediterranean and low-carbohydrate diets may be effective alternatives to low-fat diets. The more favorable effects on lipids (with the low-carbohydrate diet) and on glycemic control (with the Mediterranean diet) suggest that personal preferences and metabolic considerations might inform...

"high intakes of high-fat dairy foods and CLA may reduce the risk of colorectal cancer" not to mention give us plenty of that delicious vitamin A and D. This is a study on women in Sweden.

"Each increment of 2 servings of high-fat dairy foods/d corresponded to a 13% reduction in the risk of colorectal cancer (multivariate rate ratio: 0.87; 95% CI: 0.78, 0.96). For CLA, the multivariate rate ratio of colorectal cancer in a comparison of the 2 extreme quartiles of intake...

I'm not fully on the raw milk boat BUT I find the raw milk movement interesting and the news about it provocative.

from a recent article:

"The revolution will not be pasteurized: Inside the raw-milk underground" by Nathanael Johnson (Harper's Magazine)

"In a 2006 study of thousands of children living on farms in Shropshire, England, Strachan and another scientist, Michael Perkin, found that raw-milk drinkers were unlikely to have eczema or to...