Hi illonisguy,

Congratulations. Looks like a very effective regime. I'd say you most definitely did kill off alot of excess yeast and obviously restored the gut flora.

Can you clarify if you are maintaining this regime at any level? E.g. on some kind of good diet? like still avoiding the obvious sugar/wheat/gluten (since wheat is treated with mercury fungicide, I'd never eat the stuff, plus gluten can cause candida because some people cannot digest it properly). Sugar lowers immunity and is bad for anybody, well or sick....

I would personally, no matter how much better I felt, continue to avoid the obvious baddies. I used to do that and I was still able to eat fruits, high carb veg, non gluten grain, natural treats, potatoe chips etc and did well.

So I'm curious to whether you're doing that, or you're actually back with sugars wheat/gluten and you're eating anything and still dong well?

Just a word of caution. If the underlying problem is still there, (e.g. mercury) as much as it was before, then you are still being challenged. It depends how much mercury you have and it's possible you may have ridden some metals in the process too. That can happen. But relapses can occur. Even in my younger, healthier stage with mercury toxicity, if I played around too much with the looser diet by including the baddies too much? Inevitably it lead to a few sick days to come right again. Thankfully it didn't take weeks though (then).

Restored gut flora maybe removed again by a bad diet long term. Of course, you could repeat the process of what you did, but personally I'd be more inclined to try and maintain it at some level. Plus, the fact you have mercury, maining some kind of candida diet, even a loose one like I did years ago, will help immunity and aid your body with the metals. It helps the gut, the liver, and healing.

I wouldn't like to see you relapse, but I guess it's an interesting test to see if one good 6 week routine works long term regardless of going right back to normal diet.....

If the mercury is at the bottom of all this, I'd look at working on that also. It's wise to treat both - maintain a good diet, whilst you start on the mercury. That way you can keep yourself a bit healthier, a bit happier in the process and stronger. It enables you to better handle detoxing mercury also and probably more efficient to do so.