Hi Teri, truly it doesn't take long for the thickness to come back. For me it was odd, it just seemed to happen at some point...kind of crept up on me. I just suddenly thought omg, my hair is back to normal... I couldn't quite understand it because hair has to "grow" so it was astonishing.

But yes, the diet is what brought it back for me. I know I was mercury poisoned though, but obviously I had yeast as well and everything combined was stuffing so many body systems up, my hair just went thin.

I was a sugarholic, so I know exactly what you mean and I was the LAST person you could imagine ever going on a diet like this. But frankly, NOTHING else worked and I was desperate watching myself bloated, with thin hair and depression and many other problems.

I tried antidepressants and homeopathy, herbs etc and NONE of them did a thing to aid me in the long term. So finally I was told by a doctor to get on a candida diet and believe me, at first it was too weird that I didn't want to do it. I kept cheating and stuffing around on the diet.

Finally I went cold turkey and the cravings I intially went through just about drove me nuts (which was a clear indicator that I had big toxic issues and yeast). I cried, and paced the kitchen craving the very things that were causing me to stay sick. I was off all sugar, wheat/gluten. But at that time was still having limited fruit (which I can't have these days). But I only had about 2 pieces a day then. I also had some gluten free grain then too. But mainly just ate meat, vegetables, eggs, etc.

I then developed some detox headaches and discomforting symptoms and it took about two weeks at that stage for things to improve. The change at the end of those two weeks was miraculous. My skin, hair, appearance had altered and improved to such an extent that you'd hardly believe I was the same person.

My skin became smooth and transluecent, hair looked healthier and was already looking thicker, eyes sparkled, I felt so much better and depression lifted immensely, anxiety lessened and many mental symptoms had abated. This was from diet alone and nothing else.

So yeast and other problems most definitely cause many symptoms in association with mercury or other illnesses. The very fact you would find it so hard to do a diet like this, indicates you may have a real problem as I did. The harder it is, the more symptoms you get with the withdrawal, the more you actually need to do it.

Anybody can if I can and eventually you get so used to it, that it doesn't seem odd anymore and you never want to go back to feeling that way again.

I wish I could gain those improvements these days, but thanks to virus and other infections from other dental work, I am not quite so lucky. So if you want to give the diet a go? Just know that you're not alone! And the cravings can at first feel quite overwhelming because the yeast etc are wanting the bad food and you're literally starving them to death. They do NOT like that and will send out every signal they can to get you to succumb. I fought it and refused to give in. At first I did slip up from time to time, but eventually realised that the slip ups were not worth it. I had to do it completely.