pgm. I'm leaning much more to what you're saying, due to my own experience with this horrible organism. It definitely IS an opportunist and can take over. Uses up much needed glutathione that the body is already having drained by mercury and leaves the person in a cycle of ongoing toxicity unable to properly detox.

Candida also caused me, even outside of the mercury, to be suicidal and often bedridden. Treating it, saved my life a number of times. Not treating it was the stupidest thing I ever did. Perhaps for some they can get away with a more relaxed diet than others. I think it depends on how poisoned you are, how immune compromised you are and what else is going on, as to how well your body will naturally keep yeast levels in check. If it cannot do this, it needs help and often alot of it to fight and reduce the overgrowth.