I had an appointment last week with the natural medicine doctor,
who said he had a theory that the candida which accompanies mercury/metal poisoning is a natural protective response by the body.
He said that he was aware most people would not agree or accept this as truth.
I like this idea as I believe that the body is always trying 100%it's best to sort things out and I quite like the idea of eating foods in moderation instead of cutting things out so strictly & feeling somewhat miserable because of it.
I do not eat sugar etc and have no intention of heading down that road but I am really easing off on the intensive purposefull killing of the candida ,such as not drinking Pau d'arco every day,not loading up on the garlic,grapefruit seed extract etc like I've been doing and just having some garlic every now & then,
I think garlic is great stuff, I love it.Good for so many reasons.

I feel more positive about this because I have confidence that my body will get rid of all the harmful stuff &replenish the good stuff.
He recommended I start taking the bio-acidophillus which the nutritional therapist had told me to stop back in December because my gut levels measured in balance but he said I still need to maintain those levels...
again more conflicting advice.
aagghh.

To sum it up I feel better while taking the bio acidophillus,
I feel better taking some garlic, maybe 1 every 2 days or so,
BUT feel so awful when trying to kill off the candida...
(Yes, I know it's probably the die off I'm complaining about)

BUT he might really be onto something,lets just say that the body IS producing,encouraging some candida to protect itself in some way?
And we are working hard to kill it off & in the process, using energy that most of us here really need,ending up tired,exhausted(like me) and suffering awful die off symptoms only to find that NO MATTER how impeccable our anti-candida diet is ,the candida is back with a vengeance.

I believe he really is onto something here.