Mercury can cause candida, candida methylates mercury and makes it even more toxic ( so I hear). Candida messes up the gut and frustrates detox, mercury messes up the gut and can cause candida.

The cycle can be very bad, especially if someone is immune comprimised in even more ways. Dealing with candida can be crucial because it can add to the misery of mercury or even surpass it in some cases.

Doesn't mean aggressively treating it, becuase that can be dangerous. The body builds up a certain amount of yeast naturally to a metal toxic environment, but problem is because the body is weakened and poisoned, it goes beyond that and cannot control further overgrowth which then becomes an illness in itself.

Mercury and/or candida both can cause chemical sensitivity. So it's a two edge sword. Both should be addressed simulatanously. Antifungals are risky if they are not used carefully because they can kill yeast in large numbers at onetime, releasing not just massive amounts of dead yeast toxins/alcohols, but also any heavy metals the yeast happened to contain, which can mean acute toxicity and then the need to chelate the re-exposure back out.

I have had this occur, so it really can happen. But usually if the person may have had a long standing overgrowth of yeast that may have had plenty of time to absorb mercury. So it can be an initial shock and in some cases apparently it's dangerous.

I chelated the metals back out with DMSA, so luckily that did work. But again, cause of my ongoing other health issues, candida continues to afflict me and I can only barely get it remotely under some control with a strict, but healthy diet. I believe the diet is the first and best thing to address (removing gluten, wheat, sugar, milk etc) and going from there. Becuase the diet supports the immunity and aids detox at the seametime. Healing can often take place through diet alone in some cases. But most of us need more than that.

Is it possible for you to stick to porcelain if you feel it suits? Cerec is a good one and apparently very biocompatible. I realise it's more suited to large plus sized fillings, but I think cerec is a little different from typical porcelain...

Your extreme reaction to garlic could be die off, but also wild mobilisation of other toxins. Garlic is potent and can redistribute mercury and other metals easily and often into worse areas. I had HORRIFIC reactiosn to garlic supplementation and had to go into emergency one night because of the agony of having toxins basically rammed into my gut area from the garlic.

Some people do great on it and seem to feel it aids metal detox...for me? I just can't. Once I could to a point, but yes it always produced a reaction either way of detox/die off, who knows? The food maybe safer than the supplement.