Hi Pgm, your friend probably had no issues with his amalgams because his body may have been very adept at eliminating any mercury, plus he may have a good immunity as well. Removing his amalgams and chelating, may have made no impact on him, due to the fact they didn't make him sick in the first place...and possibly if they were very old, the mercury may have been quite minimal.

But those of us who have most definitely been made ill by amalgams, are usually in a state of no longer eliminating what is coming in. Storing up more of the toxins and then having often incredible symptoms after using a product that has an affinity for either chelating or mobilising mercury is very obvious to a person when it happens as to what it is.

That in itself is a strong indicator of there being mercury in the system. I do not know of any mercury detox product that kills off candida, so my symptoms were not related to candida die off, but rather movement of metals.

My die off symptoms from candida were different that detox from metals. I would get dizzy from the alcohols coming off from dying yeast (almost drunk), the typical headache, sleepiness etc. That was from a strict diet and nothing else.

However, when I used a very strong antifungal, I also dumped not only yeast toxins, but a load of metals with it. I then got symptoms of not just yeast, but heavy metal poisoning. I could not improve from this until I used mercury chelating products, yet another proof of metal poisoning.

Apparently testing was done after use of strong antifungals (obviously in metal toxic patients) and they found that the urine showed much higher levels of metal/mercury after antifungal use. Yeast is known to have the ability to hold its own weight in mercury, so this would make sense.

Once my amalgams were all out, my body did indeed begin to dump the storage of mercury and the symptoms were classic poisoning. And in inducing movment of metals through chelation, or using exercise, sweat/heat, would also produce extreme symptoms. I would stink of metal as it came out of my pores and was lucky to discover some improvement after it. But during it, I was a total mess.

Metal taste in the mouth maybe attributed to other things at times, but for me? I knew full well what it was, And the rashes over my entire body from mercury coming out, was seen by other people. This only occured after a DMPS infection, which dumped the mercury into accessible areas and forced my body to excrete it and it came out via the skin. That too eventually allowed for improvement, but was a pretty awful way to gain it.

Candida during that time, was not the problem for me. If I took anything at all that could move or chelate mercury, the symptoms could be extreme and very obviousy mercurial. I no longer get this because the issues I have no are not related to mercury as such, but rather candida and infection.

Detox effects cannot be from candida or parasites if a person is using products unrelated to killing candida, like DMSA, ALA, etc. But it could be if they are using garlic or some other strong antifungal, that could both kill candida and mobilise metals, or they are on a strict candida diet. I believe that both metals and yeast can cause similar symptoms though.