Where did I say it was that simple? Where have I not mentioned the pathogen relationship to all this pgm?

My symptoms to iodine could be a number of things - overstimulation of the thyroid (overdosing or too soon high dosage), because I am not used to it. My adrenals probably could not handle this too well either and yes iodine can indeed cause some stirring up of metals and other toxins. anytime you replace the minerals/elements that mercury interferes with, they compete with mercury for binding sites and therefore displace some of it too. Selenium can do the same. As can any mineral that mercury interefers with. THough Andy does not believe it is a chelating agent, he mentioned that it doesn't detox it to "any clinical degree". He says this about selenium also. However, a certain amount of metals that are accessible can get stirred up. I've gone through it. They were not all pathogen related, I've been through much die off from pathogens in my time.

Iodine I hear also aids against infection, so perhaps pathogen die off too is involved.....none of this is that simple pgm, I don't think anybody said it was.....You can certainly blame everything on pathogen die off as you always do, but die off from antifungals never got rid of my mercury toxicity or mercury symptoms. Only chelation did that. If chelation was all about pathogens, I cannot imagine I'd have gotten too much further. They are not called metal chelating agents for nothing. To attempt to discount improvement from metal chelation as having anything to do with "metal", but rather pathgoens makes little sense to me.

I'm sure both are involved. Remove metal, you improve the body's ability to reduce pathogens. Reduce yeast/pathogens, you improve the body's ability to cope with mercury or other toxicity.....If I wanted to reduce yeast/pathogens and this is all I thought I had, I would never have bothered with chelation and probably would never have needed to.

Based on my experience and symptoms in taking many products for many years, I think I do have "some" idea of what was doing what and what improved what....though I'm not a qualified doctor and would not be able to do indepth studies and tests on myself to find out. Are you a doctor? Or some qualified alternative health therapist? I sure aren't. I can only read and go by what these people say and based on what I experience in my own symptoms, I am usually able to tell if they are accurate (in my case anyway).

In fact, many doctors got it wrong and screwed me up or did nothing for me. Funny how Cutler who isn't even as qualified got me on the right track....

The antifungals I took by the way were nystatain and that caused alot of yeast die off for me at that time. I've also used garlic, grapefruit seed extract, nilstat and another one from the doctor also at different times. Yes they are caused yeast die off, but once again, they did not get rid of the underlying problem - mercury. Amalgam removal and chelation were the only ways I was able to get the metals out of my system and THEN my body was better able to start keeping pathogens down.