Dear Sally,

You will find the answers to your questions in the books you have ordered, especially in the Key to Health and Rejuvenation and The Amazing Liver Cleanse. The latter one gives you all the signs and marks of stones in the liver and gallbladder. Candida is certainly an effect of gallstones. With diminsihed bile secretions your food won't be digested properly and the resulting extra waste requires bacteria and yeast to decompose it. Candida only proliferates in an unclean environemnt. The albicans bacteria are part of the body's natural defense mechanisms, so you don't to red rid of them. You would want ot keep them in check. Bile is neceessary to digest food and to maintain proper balance between beneficial and destructive bacteria. Diet has a certain influence, but a minor one when compared with liver functions, and bile production in particular. It is nearly impossible to permanently control yeast growth in the gut if bile ducts remain congested with stones. As long as there are stones present, yeast overgrowth is actually the next best thing the body can to protect it from suffocation through waste.

Have also discussed the subject of mercury fillings. In some individuals it can play a serious role, especially if a hidden tooth infection occurs; in others, for others is not that problematic. However, if you have the opportunity , I would replace them gradually with composite fillings that that don't contain metals.

There is a whole section in The Key ... dedicated to the pro and contra of raw versus cooked foods. Just know that, most raw foods (except fruit which is already "precooked", i.e. ripened, by the sun)are difficult to digest because their cells walls cannot be crushed through chewing. So most of the nutrients you think you get pass undigested into the colon, where bacteria break down the cells walls and ferment the contents. This can cuuse gas and intestinal bloating. The cooking process , however, would break the the cellulose (cell walls) and allow the body to digest and aborb the nutrients they contain. Vegetables are among the most suited foods for nourishing the body. More details about all that is in my books.

Andreas