hi Clare, even if you didn't have any amalgams, combining two antifungals like oil of oregano and garlic might be too much, especially for someone in the beginning phases of an antifungal protocol. Sometimes it's better to start one only one antifungal, use it for awhile and then stop and begin another type. Rotating antifungals sometimes can be helpful.

I just wanted to share with you that many candida sufferers have had bad results from doing really aggressive antifungal regimes while they still had amalgams in their mouths. That was certainly that case for me. I became incredibly ill.

My holistic/biological dentist believes that candida overgrowth is a sign of metal toxicity -- specifically mercury toxicity. The body produces excessive amounts of yeast which will wrap themselves around the mercury and buffer it from the body. When the yeasts are killed, people will experience die-off reactions to the mycotoxins from the dead yeasts PLUS experience the effects of mercury being re-released into the body.

Not everyone agrees with this theory, but I stand without question in believing that theory to be true in my case. In fact, my dentist told me not to take ANY antifungals unless I was taking Algin with it to help absorb the mercury that was being released.

Keeping an antifungal diet is a great place to start. Be on the lookout for reactions to sulphurous foods, like garlic, onions, broccoli, etc. Some mercury toxic people have problems with sulphur and have to made dietary modifications. Thankfully, I don't have that problem. Andy Cutler speaks about this though in his book, "Amalgam Illness."

Anyway, I happen to personally believe that yeast overgrowth is merely a symptom of something else that is going wrong in the body. For me, my horrendous yeast overgrowth problems were a result of my amalgams, I believe.



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