Thanks Jammes.

I take your point. But you need to take mine also.

Candida is not just caused by heavy metals or AIDS virus. There are plenty of other means of lowering immunity that those. And many I'm sure that even doctors haven't got a name for yet. Plenty of severe bacterias/viruses out there that have devastated people's lives/immunities other than the aids virus or heavy metals.

The virus/bacteria that I got in 2003 was and is severe. It devastated me, my immune system and my life. It is not the same as glandular fever, or in fact any other kind of virus I've had which I always recovered from. Nor was/is it the same as heavy metal toxicity. My health, my response to detox, everything has completely changed.

Yeah, my increased candida problem with ALA use may well be due to heavy metals still present. But certainly, heavy metals themselves are not the entire problem. Since bacteria infection, my body fails to respond to detoxing as it did and I am not even able to eliminate toxins properly. That has only been an issue since the bacteria/virus. This was never an issue with heavy metal toxicity. I've repeated this a number of times now.

One who has not had the same thing happen to them, maybe not be in a position to be dismissive. The doctors I have been to understand that there are of course virus/bacteria they do not have a name for it, or an accurate enough test for, nor are they all understood. I've battled trying to get anybody to understand what's happened to me since I got it. And in the end, I usually wind up giving up bothering.

Yes, I will be trying ALA - but not until I am in a position to handle it. It was bad enough before, but right now it would be a disaster.