Personally, I noticed that I make more trips to the bathroom when I have a flare-up. Actually, for me it was the other way around. I noticed I was going to the bathroom less after I started treating my candida. And yes, it’s a drag to keep getting out of bed all night. Some nights it seemed to make more sense just to go to sleep on the throne. Some of our “replacements” can be enjoyable, we just have to remind ourselves that it is a new food and it is not supposed to taste like, in the last example, chocolate milk. I think if we expect it to be different, but still good, it may help us. Just think, our illness is helping us to get back to a healthy diet, what we are probably supposed to eat. Well, african mango extract enzymes are not bacteria, but they are another food component that we need. I don’t know much about them, but I know that you can find more of them in whole raw food (cooking kills them) and little or none in processed food. They help in the fight against disease, especially immune-related stuff like candida and cancer. It is because our food gets digested better when enzymes are present. They are signs it is more than one place and systemic. I would recommend seeing a naturopath that can help you find exactly what would be best for you to use to help your absorption, as it is always different things for different people. She became so disappointed that she ignored the problem for nearly one year.