Actually, this is not the case. Candida overgrows anytime the body's immunity is no longer able to keep yeast at normal/healthy levels. There are people who have committed suciide from candida alone.

Hal Huggins is also contradicted by most other health professinals on his ideas that candida is good and a help. Candida makes mercury more toxic, it methylates mercury (Hal says it demethylates mercury and he's the ONLY person I've yet hear say that). This guy is not always right.

candida adds to the toxic overload of mercury, candida overloads the liver and the gut, which are needed for detox. candida prevents proper absorption of nutrients and zaps the body of much needed nutrition, further weakning it, allowing it to be more suseptible to yeast and causes much the same symptoms than mercury and simply doubles the load of poisoning, plus denies nutrients.

I know people who've been mercury toxic that went on a candida diet and it was the only thing that saved them from some of their horrific symptoms. The candida diet does NOT do the same as an antifungal. The diet is not abnormal, it is how we are supposed to eat. We are not meant to consume sugar/junkfood. So to go ont eh candida diet, is to basically eat how the body is meant to eat. This allows the body to then take care of excess yeast levels and other toxins. It gives the body a chance to lower the yeast to more acceptable levels, so the immune system can be less burdened and is able to take care of the mercury problem more. Also, the side effect of having teh heatlhy diet with no sugar etc, does not pop yeast open, it simply denies them what they need to flourish and overtake the immune system, so they then begin to get sicker/weaker and start to die out. They then release their death toxins and this is why people sometimes feel worse for a time.

Antifungals maybe anther story, because they take over the natural starvation of yeast and simply kill them in bigger number. But they act by popping the yeast cell walls open, this then releases any of the metals the yeast may have absorbed and the metals then go straight into the blood stream and can feel like acute poisoning. So that can be an issue, but in my expeirence candida is horrific.

But I tell you now, the yeast can be even worse than the mercury issue. Yeast is absolutely terrible in what it can do and should not be tolerated in somebody already poisoned. The body can become almost suffocated by candida.

Candida simply takes advantage of a bad situation. It is not meant to grow out of control, but will do if your body is not functioning. Candida is good in death as it's part of the decay process, but imagine this in life?

The health professionals who say yeast is helpful are sadly going to hurt a lot of mercury toxic people. Diet is the best and safest way of lowering levels of yeast, but antifungals maybe necessary if a person is suffering too mcuh from candida and is unable to get results with diet and is suffering too badly.