Hi Bex. Yes, this guy on the candida forum you mentioned appears to know what he's doing. ALA and NAC are the most powerful conventional supplements to raise glutathione, and they can be dangerous for some people, if taken too early in the process. First, use softer methods like C, E, selenium to destroy the most easily accessible candida. I've heard you can get pretty horrible candida detox symptoms from taking too much vit C alone. And I have to say that this was so true for me at least. Although selenium may sound innocent, it may not be that innocent either. I'm still getting some detox symptoms from selenium, even if I take very little of it (10-15 micrograms), so I assume that taking it too early in the process would have been a bad idea. However, everyone still has to try out for themselves what the effects are. You can try out anything with little or no risk provided that you are careful in how much you take at a time. 1/4-1/8 of normal dose is a good rule of thumb when you start out to test something new. It all depends on how much candida or mercury you have around, when you start out. Raising glutathione will still affect both the mercury and pathogens, so you might not know which symptoms belong to which. But I'm starting to get a touch on what candida toxins cause, by reading on the sites about candida. I also listen to the people who have not had any amalgams so you can factor out the mercury as the cause. You will still end up with symptoms that are pretty similar to what mercury toxic people have.

Mercury is very offensive on the body's glutathione, I think it is the most potent toxin around for that, because not only does it use it up (like ordinary toxins do), but it also disturbs the biochemistry required for manufacturing it.

If you have a viral infection, I would take selenium, because there are some papers that claim that selenium deficiency makes you more susceptible to ordinary viruses that causes no trouble for normal people. This is likely because of selenium's role in the manufacturing of the glutathione peroxidase enzyme which has some anti-viral properties, which prevents viruses from transforming themselves to more dangerous forms in your body.

I started wondering about the detox pages regarding aspartame, when I realized that it must be people who suffer from candida/mercury and they noticed that aspartame makes their symptoms worse. Aspartame breaks down into methanol and further to formaldehyde which consumes glutathione for detox. People already deficient in glutathione will get even sicker from this.