For me, the candida diet actually increased my ability to absorb nutrients/minerals and calcium from my diet. Not just from the elimination of foods that interfere with calcium absorption (sugar etc), but the intake of healthy foods like nuts, broccoli, seeds, yoghurt etc.

As with other nutrients, they get absorbed better when on this kind of diet.

I agree with what you said, that candida overgrows in this kind of environment (metal toxicity) because the same thing happened when I was poisoned by a big cigarette smoking intake. My yeast issues went out of control. Yeast tends to overgrow naturally, which I think does act as a kind of buffer, but unless the person sticks to a sugar free diet, this overgrowth spirals out of control very easily and makes the person doubly sick.

At least that's how it is for me. I didn't realise how essential this diet was until I went on it. It frightens me to think what would have happened had I never known about it and stayed on as I was.