Shroom
Although many believe that mercury, other toxins, etc are the cause of candida, that is not my opinion. Of course most of us have fillings in our mouth, and many millions of people have mercury fillings and never get ill from it. I do belive that mercury and other metals in the blood are only adding to our toxic load while sick with candida and of course that could be of detriment to healing. I bring this up only as an example. The point I am trying to make is that our environment is full of health hazards and there is simply no way we can avoid them. Fumes from pollution, chemicals, even perfume uses unhealth chemical. We are subjected to many things in our environment.

Therefore I do not believe our problem is fillings, flouride in our water or anything like that. It certainly does not help and of course when ill with candida we need to avoid as many as possible to try to give our bodies a better chance at fighting. The immune system can only fight so much. And they quesiton many have is what came first the toxins and they cause candida or vice versa. I tend to belive that Candida is in fact what happens first. I have been subjested to the same environmental toxins , mercury fillings , flouride etc since I was little as have most of us. But after a lifetime of taking Antibiotics , steroids and birth control pills, here I am . Candida does not happen over night, it takes years for it to do its nasty work. Slowly taking over the bowel. My guess is we all had minor symptoms that crept up on us that we never associatd with candida until it was a full blown illness.

Candida is like AIDS, in a sense, it does render the immune system much less effective. Some of the symtpoms of Candida are sore throats , colds etc. People who are chronically ill with colds are most likely ill with candida. Our immune systems can only fight so much as they only have so much fuel. Candida is clever because it robs us of our fuel from vits and minerals , causes our immune system to work overtime trying to foght the toxins and effects, and as we get weaker it gets stronger and stronger since it is opportunistic.

I stick by what I have known to work. I had Candida once before, I got rid of it with diet alone, die off was severe and lasted for almost a year. It was very hard to go thru then , but it is much worse this time. And diet alone is not working this time. Although id o think diet is the most important factor. It seems to me it does not matter what you take to kill candida if you also wind up feeding it.

Maybe peptides will be the answer, the fast fix we are looking for. But sine it will not be availabel anytime soon, we have no choice but to march on and fight.

Have you heard of Transfer Factor ? A Dr. I recently spoke to told me they ar having wonderful results. I do not know the specifics , but from what I understand it works by increasing cells that attack candida head on and destryo their cell membrane rendering them useless. It is made of cow colostrum and egg yolk.


If you get a chance Shroom let me know what you think of the transafer Factor idea.

Michelle

Do you think there is a possibility that candida also uses mercury as a "kamikaze-esque" defense mechanism? I read that antibodies can be "attacked" by [methyl]mercury, since they contain sulfur.

It is a known fact that candida albicans is very resistant to mercury. I couldn't find any study showing that it grabs and hold the mercury within its cell, but a lot of websites say so. The only related study on pubmed.com is one not accessible but titled "[Disappearance of mercury introduced into culture media where a yeast (Candida utilis) is growing.]".