Yes, he does go into the pathogen side of it to a point, but that's not his main focus. He has studied mercury toxicity more than pathogens and understands that pathogens are often the result of a mercury toxic system. He recommends treating them at the sametime as mercury but believes chelation is the cure in the end (if mercury is the problem). He said often the way to find out if you have a problem is taking an antifungal and seeing if you get a die off effect. Then stopping and trying again later and if the same thing occurs, because symptoms alone are pretty big indicators.

He does not go into the diet side of it as such, and I think that's a mistake, because diet is a big part of treating yeast overgrowth and sometimes a big part of helping a person feel a bit better too (sometimes a lot better). As they treat the mercury.

You would be wise to get his book (if you can) so you can read and find out exactly what mercury does inside each system of the body, what symptoms are created by it and what to take to help a person 'feel" better, whilst they chelate the mercury out to attain permanent improves, rather than just temporary from dosing up on supplements etc. He goes into it indepth and knows his stuff. He has studied it for years and cured himself of it and has helped and cured many others also around the world. He understands the nature of mercury and refers to it as causing "tremendous suffering". Not just directly, but indirectly by the very things it interfers with and leaving the body wide open for other infections also, messing up the endocrine system, depression, suicidal thoughts etc. Mercury can mess up any system inside the body, as well as allowing pathogens to overgrow which also do their own damage.

I'm not sure how someone would know if their symptoms were all mercury or pathogen or both. They would need to test that out by taking stuff and checking symptoms. I don't believe all testing methods are overly reliable. I think it's always a good idea to do trial by diet and antifungals (if necessary, though this can cause big issues in some people, antifungals can be far too aggressive, so I'd do trial by strict diet first) Though, that only took me so far, it did not really address the underlying issue. Chelation did and I knew my problems were very much metal and pathogen related at the sametime, so I needed to treat both.

Some find chelation does not work for them, yet diet and antifungals do, so they probably have a yeast issue caused by something else rather than mercury. Others find that diet and chelation help but don't do enough and therefore chelation maybe the answer.

Andy mentions this in the book also and there is a way of finding out both. You will find people on here may get tremendous detox reactions from metal chelating agents, yet others will find no such reaction at all, yet are still very sick and may find over time that they may need to search for some other diagnosis.

If you look up symptoms of both mercury and candida on many different websites, you will find the symptoms that both are capable of causing, though I don't know if anybody truly knows which one is exactly responsible for what all the time. I think only a specialist who has worked in this area of years and done much testing and experimenting might know that a bit more. Though I think the sufferer does too after many years, because you get to know your own body and symptoms very very well after a long time.

When I had amalgams, I used to treat my yeast with diet and antifungals and improved, but the underlying persistant symptoms of mercury poisoning were evident. I felt poisoned even before I knew about mercury. And my last visit to a dental office also left me very very ill, just by breathing in the vapors. Happens everytime.

Symptoms from my last vapor inhalation? - Chest/breathing restriction, severe depression, exhaustion, heart palpitations, fearfulness, wheezing in the lungs, metal taste again, swollen tongue, nightmares, itching in the face and sometimes rashes, aching painful stiff joints all over my body, some crying spells etc.

This happens eachtime I enter the office, but takes a wee while to kick in and things get very bad and stay bad for months afterwards. And no it's not pathogens, I suffer with those everyday and battle them everyday. In fact, my pathogen overgrowth is actually far worse now with my viral infection and other infections than it ever was when I just had mercury! But there is no doubting the symptoms when I've breathed in mercury vapor.