When I went on the candida diet, I had candida die off symptoms. I had typical dizziness and feeling drunk (from the released alcohols), some headache, exhaustion, sleepiness, nausea and moodiness etc.

However, when I used a strong herbal antifungal, all hell broke loose. I felt as though I had been acutely poisoned. Interestingly, I was right. I had released metals from aggressive yeast killing and I had symptoms that were not so much die off, but acute mercury toxicity (i believe).

I had night sweats so bad I soaked all the sheets. I smelt of metal. I was an absolute mess. I had chills and fever/flushing. I had tremors and severe depression/anxiety. I had to use DMSA chelation to get this stuff back out of me and it worked.

I had read a few times now that killing yeast aggressively with antifungal use in a mercury toxic individual, is not only foolish, but potentially dangerous. Apparently testing was done and found that after antifungal use, there was a marked increase in mercury found in urine!

I can believe that only because of my own experience, so yes it can happen. So even with the candida diet, my body had indeed kept a certain amount of yeast there, probably for some protection. But the diet itself enabled my system to lessen just enough yeast to improve my health and help lift some awful symptoms.

It's a balance. Eating sugar is unwise either way. You're just feeding something that can explode into a very big problem and very quickly.