Hi pgm, raising gluthathione levels from alpha lipoic acid I understand, plus using selenium, undenatured whey, etc which do the same. But these things also encourage mercury detox, and alpha lipoic acid directly chelates metals powerfully. And is advised it not be used until later in the programme because it crosses the blood brain barrier. Perhaps there is some candida die off involved but certainly the difference between candida die off and mercury detox can be quite marked in people who recognise their own body symptoms. Though I know the two often cross over.

I know people who have left here already from getting well after amalgam removal and proper detox, who never got well from candida treatments or parasite treatments....Many on here as you can see are already treating their candida and parasites, but so often this is far from enough. Usually there is something allowing these things to thrive and whether it's mercury or something condition that has lowered the immune system, obviously the amalgam path is a pretty obvious one to follow. It is so often at the bottom of many conditions like this.

DMSA and ALA both can feed yeast and cause it to flare up at the sametime, which is why people often have problem during their detoxing. So increasing glutathione by using ALA, may not outweigh the fact it apparently can also flare up/feed yeast. In fact, it is worse than DMSA for doing this. DMSA does not feed yeast as much, but as you said the neutropenia problem is there. Both have some drawbacks. Candida die off maybe unlikely during the use of either or both of these and often people have had to use some form of antifungal during the use of these products to help control this. It could also be due to the moving around of metals, which can flare yeast up.

I definitely got results by treating my candida, but the underlying problem remained until I discovered the amalgam toxicity. By removing amalgam, many of my food intolerances gradually lessened, candida did not have to be constantly treated as vigilantly, but this took time because detoxing mercury can flare up candida also. But after enough detox of metals, many things improved for me.

Now I have severe problems with candida from a permanent viral infection and this time they are continual. No detoxing works for me anymore. I still treat candida, but with little results. Antifungals are not that effective on me now either.

Cilantro an antifungal? I have never heard this before.

At any rate, die off from candida, may be different to mercury detox symptoms, but im sure both happen simultaneously. However in my experience, many times the yeast would flare up and often grow when I was under the strain of detoxing metals or the chelating agents themselves.