Hi Bex. Yes, increasing glutathione is enough to kill yeast. It works on any pathogens, if the immune system can just reach them. This explains the success with the whey protein (whose main function is to raise glutathione) to treat chronically ill people, who may not have ever even been exposed to mercury in their life. They most often also get Herx reactions to raising glutathione.

The success behind DMSA cannot be ignored either. It can be explained if glutathione is depleted; then the body is unable to detox mercury on its own and DMSA is helpful to get the body on its feet again. If glutathione is depleted, the body burden of mercury tends to be high, but it may be low too, if there has not been any exposure. Some have such a weak immune system that they get glutathione depletion even without mercury. Other toxins than mercury can naturally cause glutathione depletion, such as methanol and formaldehyde. Pathogen accumulation happens always where there is glutathione depletion, candida being among the first. I've also seen that color blindness is one sign of poor mercury excretion. It must be said that DMSA is not useful for everyone either, but ALA appears to be more useful for most people.

If you only used DMSA, did you improve on your mental problems? You are not fully healed if you didn't get away with your shyness and all that. I now know that these are curable, and NOT a part of a normal person's mind. I suspect the cause is candida, and their location is brains for this disorder, because of the reactions to all agents that are known to pass blood brain barrier (for me), some of them known chelate to mercury, but some not. The spaciness and dizzyness from ALA chelation is really a candida symptom, which is also described as a symptom from systemic anti-fungals as well (if you look around a little).

If your dental restoration was helpful, you should feel detox reactions by now, given that your candida situation is really bad. It hit me really hard on the third day after my removal, and continued for months.