I don't quite buy into the parasites protecting us from heavy metals, nor "yeast" doing the same thing, but have heard it before.

Neither have ever been beneficial in my life and have added to the misery ten fold. If anything, they are a sign your body is in a bad way, the beneficial bacteria in your gut is obviously messed up, yeast/parasites can no longer be contained at normal tolerable levels and instead flourish out of control by a low immunity and metal toxic (or other problem) environment.

These are opportunistics, rather than helpers. They flourish anytime the body is too weighed down and sick to fight back. There "maybe" a certain amount of yeast acting as a buffer towards metals, but it seems that they cause more misery than aid.

They can apparently absorb metals and can also release metals during any harsh cleansing protocols and in some cases can cause an acute state of poisoning (metal toxicity) from taking stuff to kill them off too quickly and harshly. I have had it myself. I had to chelate it back out.

however, treating these issues was only otherwise helpful to me. Basically saving my life. Had I let these buggers flourish as they were doing, taking over my body for their own resources, causing me such severe mental problems it was torture, overtaking the gut and liver with their ongoing release of toxins their waste products spilling into the blood and affecting even the brain, I don't know what would have happened to me.

Frankly, without treating the yeast, I was a step away from suicide. It was not an option to leave things as they were and decide that these organisms were actually "helping" me and allowing them to continue feeding happily off both my food and myself and spilling their ongoing waste products into my already toxic system.

So be careful of reading articles that try and tell you they are there to help you. I'm not saying the body doesn't build up a certain level of yeast in the presence of metals, but we don't know if this is to act as a buffer/protection or is simply an indicator the body cannot keep the levels down, because this "level" is never contained, it goes way out of control even with a small amount of sugar and takes over.

If they were helpful, the little "cheats" I have every now and again, would be beneficial, not devastating. I would also be able to eat a little natural sugars from fruit and high carbs like grains, yet I become extremely ill from the bugs feeding off them quite happily.

And when I do? I become so toxic, that my feet and ankles swell right up, I lose some bladder control (embarassing as that is to admit), also get urinary tract infection, start feeling drunk, cannot function barely at all...that is the result of those nasty buggers feeding and releasing their waste products and poisoning me severely.