On yeast

[Guest guest]

I've been thinking about how is it that so many of us have to struggle

with yeast when we start chelation. Cutler says that mercury impairs

neutrophils ability to kill yeast.

I find this a little bit strange. In many other periods of my life my

immune system have been depressed. Now I know this was due to mercury

poisoning. However, since I started taking supplements, my immune

system improved a lot and right now I don't feel like immuno-depressed

at all... but for yeast!

It is weird that mercury impairs neutrophils ability to kill yeast but

*not other things*. So it comes to my mind the possibility that

neutrophils are not killing yeast because they are programmed to do so

in the presence of mercury.

The rationale of this is that candida are capable of methylate

mercury. In the paper

" Transformations of inorganic mercury by Candida albicans and

Saccharomyces cerevisiae " , by

S Yannai, I Berdicevsky, and L Duek

Appl Environ Microbiol. 1991 January; 57(1): 245–247.

it is shown how candida is in fact very efficient doing that.

Methylmercury is very dangerous for us, because it is readily

absorbed. But maybe the methylmercury remains inside the candida and

can be excreted thereafter together with the candida itself. This is

an important point of which I am not really sure.

So it may be the case that when mercury is bouncing around,

neutrophils stop killing yeast by a natural-selection mechanism

designed to protect us from the poisoning.

I am not advocating not to deal energically with the yeast problem. I

think chelation is a very different situation from the probably

short-term exposition

for which the allowance to proliferate of yeast perhaps evolved. If

yeast proliferate enough, it can prevent any further chelation.

Moreover, its side-effects are extremely debilitating. It is just that

I would like to understand why is it happening this yeast problem to

so many of us.

If this theory is right, it will also explain why we will only get rid

of yeast after enough chelation has been done and why we must

constantly fight yeast along chelation.

It would also make sense not to take products that improve neutrophils

performance to solve the yeast problem. In fact, not killing yeast

they are performing very well according to its nature. It would make

more sense to take antifungals (natural or Rx) and to try to eat

things that does not make them to proliferate too easily. Neutrophils

improving stuff should be taken if one is really immuno-depressed,

i.e., one gets colds too often, etc.

But beware, because I really know nothing about the biochemistry of

neutrophils and all this stuff and I could very easily be wrong! I

only wanted to share this ideas just in case there is someone out

there which know more than I and can confirm or reject them.

Regards,