I respect Huggins quite a bit with many of his recommendations, but other things I have come across have left me wondering.....and what I've read here just adds to that. I just dont know what to think!!!

One doctor in US who spoke to a conference of doctors which is on audio tape even spoke of a certain professional who believed that B12 methylated mercury and should never be used. She said she was so stunned at this professional's apparent lack of knowledge on basic biochemistry. (I think she may have meant Huggins, as he's the main one I know of that mentioned this B12 problem). She then when onto explain further about the B12 and mercury and why it is ok to supplement it. Though for me, most of it was way over my head. Definitely directed to doctors, however some of the tapes were very good and able to be understood by those like myself. She spoke of the problems of finding very low mercury levels on testing in some mercury toxic patients. She said these will be your sickest patients. So she was very aware of retention toxicity.

Huggins also says that candida is our friend. This is probably one of the most misleading statements I have heard. If I had read that in my ignorance I shudder to imagine where I would be now. Possibly dead from suicide. If I had not tackled my yeast, even on a modified level, the outcome would have been dire.

Yeast is already at high levels in a metal toxic environment. It proliferates anytime the immunity is down and metals are present apparently (I can believe that). Perhaps this is a natural reaction and maybe some of that yeast IS in fact a form of defense. however, when this already larger yeast growth is fed even further by the typical western diet of gluten and sugars, it goes beyond even this stage of overgrowth and can become a systemic and serious fungus. In fact, it can be as damaging as mercury and allows mercury to do even more damage because of an over burdened immunity, overburdened gut and liver (from the yeast toxins).

It can take over and grow everywhere, and can affect the brain so seriously as to cause real psychological problems. Huggins is the ONLY health professional I have ever heard say that yeast de-methylates mercury and makes it less toxic. Everything else I have read states the total opposite and states that yeast methylate mercury and make it even more toxic and with my combined symptoms of candida and mercury, I I have no doubts that candida was my enemy, not my friend.

The only thing that might be a problem is that if the yeast happen to have a lot of contained metals in them and a person goes on quite an aggressive yeast killing compaign, this may release a large load of those contained metals in one go and make the person incredibly sick and toxic. You can get acute metal toxicity from attacking yeast too aggressively.

So this is why a person might be wise to take iit easy and simply go on a modified form of a candida diet at first, taking no antifungals. Just basically eliminating all the obvious bad foods like sugar, white flour, gluten and yeast etc. Might be able to include perhaps a piece of fruit a day or something just to have a "little" bit of natural sweetness. Later as the die off symptoms lessen, the person can get stricter. Certainly for me, I didn't think I was eating much sugar, but I was so sick that I decided to not have any of it. Little did I know, that even the bits I was eating earlier were enough to maintain the yeast at very unhealthy levels. I had NO idea and once I cut the sugar out and didn't cheat, then I started to eventually improve. Though I went through unpleasant yeast die off which made me feel sick temporarily from their toxins.

When you do enough reading as a sick person, you come across article after article and your own experience and observations of others on other forums and it is amazing what you do learn. I'll never understand the all the technical chemical terms or anything of that nature, but certainly experience by myself and others speaks volumes. Huggins does not always get it right. But i do respect so much of the other things he has laid out for us mercury toxic people.

I believe that guy should be told how dangerous candida has been for many of us on here. How many here go into a state of nightmare symptoms when they go off their diet? One girl I know of is not on this forum anymore because she is healing from her toxicity. She believes part of that healing was the diet. Even now if she goes off it, the nightmare symptoms tend to return so she is obviously still metal toxic. The diet is literally keeping her going and she is now working and enjoying better health. And I hear this often, even on this forum alone.