Hi pgm, for my own experience, yeast being treated was a big help but not the cure as I've said. After amalgam removal, my yeast treatments did not produce the results they once did. responding to chelators can hardly be attributed to yeast when they focus directly on metals. IN removing metals, the body may assert itself more against yeast. But they are not antifungals. I'd love to get andrew cutler on here about that. I have never yet heard of chelating agents being antifungal, directly or otherwise. If from their action someone improves their yeast condition, this is often from further removal of metals.

The chelating agents I used were not antifungals and my results from using them eventually became long term, even after I had stopped. If they were simply antifungals and did not remove metals, they would have done much the same as my previous efforts at treating yeast - only producing a certain response but after stopping, my condition would return. Chelation produced long term improvements because it addressed the real issue (metal).

Your experience maybe related more to yeast for some other reason. For me it was both and in the end mostly mercury that was the culprit. I think it's a mistake to treat one without the other....in my opinion. I had eight amalgams altogether and had them all my young life. This is actually over the limit of how much a human being is supposed to have. As far as I know, 4 is the limit...

Yet I've heard people get sick from just one small pit filling, so it goes to show the stuff really isn't welcome in the human body. Or at least the fact that it's there 24/7 is the problem.

Have you tried a proper chelation protocol by the way? Rather than just concentrating on pathogens, sometimes it's wise to try chelating and seeing if you get further results. Some people on here are doing that and finding breakthroughs. They were treating pathogens also but unfortunately were not getting well. If it really WAS pathogens, antifungals and diet would be enough to rid the person of symptoms. I have no doubts that when someone responds to chelation after years of treating yeast and not getting enough results, that metal was most definitely involved.

If someone gets well on antifungals and not chelation, perhaps their problem was more candida than mercury. If someone gets well from chelation, rather than antifungals, usually it's metal. But so many of us require both.