HI Richard, for me the candida tended to smother the problem and I was far sicker with it combining with the mercury.

less candida made me much more aware of any mercury exposure, but I was far more stable as well. My body seemed to alert me to it more readily, whereas before it was me suffering so much toxicity at once, I didn't know what was doing what.

Candida does not help with mercury with myself. It makes it WORSE for many people. Sandi is another example, as I am too. Candida methylates mercury and makes it more toxic, it also absorbs it and holds the toxins in much more. Seeming to protect, it just overloads the gut and liver, gives off its own toxins and combines with mercury to lower immunity even more.

At least that's my experience and what I have read. Maybe some people are not so bad eating sugar, but at any rate, sugar lowers immunity, slows healing, feeds yeast, and harms the body in many other ways. Reducing yeast, by allowing the body to do it naturally by giving it a chance through diet is natural and the yeast will only reduce to a more tolerable level. There will always be yeast there in the presence of heavy metals and lowered immunity, but at least if you help the body with diet, your body has a bit of a stronger chance against it flourishing out of control.

Antifungals maybe the problem, they kill of yeast aggressively, many at once, releasing their toxic loads in great amounts, heavy metals can be included. So they can be risky.

As for the candida diet? it's simply a healthy diet for anybody, and helps the body to heal regardless of ones condition.