Weight training, Chronic illness, Recovery factors
Sorry to butt-in here.
I agree with a lot of what Ally says. Weight-training can certainly boost the immmune system. But unless you are strong enough to do it in the first place its a catch-22. Also unless your case is mild it may help, but not cure you.
One of the first things I tried for my mystery fatiguing illness was weights. I must say it worked remarkably well. It gave me great sympomatic relief. But the underlying problem was still there. And eventually I got worse - to the point I couldn't lift weights anymore. I found out eventually what I had - candida. Strangely aerobic exercise didn't agree with me at all. My body just couldn't handle it. My symptoms would go into overdrive.
My guess is that amongst other things the hormonal release (i.e. testosterone) from weights acted as a tonic to the body/immune-system.
I agree with Ally that reality follows thought. If we think illness then illness will be our reality. If we think health, health will be our reality. Andreas (morritz) is a big proponent of this - basically saying that you shouldn't focus on the disease, but on health - restoring the natural health systems of the body. This is true - to an extent. If you have a serious (accute or chronic) condition, merely thinking health will not necessarily get you healthy. Ignoring the problem doesn't work either. Rather you have to actively work *towards* health.
Of the people I have known who have recovered from candida (and sadly there aren't enough of them), all of them have taken a multifaceted "do whatever it takes" approach. There is no one answer. There are many things that can help, but the doing one thing approach doesn't seem to be sucessful. People may say that they did X to recover. But they will fail to mention that they also did A,B,C, ...Y. Its only that they attribute their recovery to X.
One of the most frustrating things about chronic illness is that even those who recover usually don't know why they did.
JV.