>but my own personal feeling is that the roots of candida go way deeper than this.
Hi Amanda,
I agree with your point. I don't really believe mercury or vaccines etc etc 'caused' my health problems/candida....catalysts yes but not the 'cause'. I don't believe in the one cause theory for any illness or health imbalance. I think it's lots of different factors that come together. Also depends what we're born with...so a naturopath who assessed me once....went into my whole health history....what grandparents died of, what illnesses parents have/had etc etc. She concluded I was born with a potassium deficiency which led to my susceptibility to candida. That's a very simple explanation but has some relevance I think.
Also some people are born with genes which help them to detoxify things like mercury much easier than others. Something called aliproproteins(?) which are part of genes. So if you're missing one of them APP4 I think you're more vulnerable to the effects of mercury. Sorry don't have the ref right now, someone just posted about it on the adult chelation yahoo group a while back.
I do believe chelation will help me judging by my reaction to alpha lipoic acid.
Have you considered Amalgam removal and chelation?