"When Pasteur demonstrated in the late 1800s that bacteria caused disease, it took a long while for the public to get a clear idea of what bacteria were and how they did what they did...
Still, most people agree on the basics: You catch an infection from other people, because a germ invades your body through broken skin, the digestive system, or lungs... Pardon this lengthy post, but it is so relevant to our mutual search for answers to our health issues that I felt it was worth it. Of course, further discussion can be moved to the off-topic list. Louis Pasteur had it all wrong. The above description is so bogus as to be ridiculous. Read on: The Germ Theory Everyone has heard of Louis Pasteur. He is considered the father of the Germ Theory of Medicine and he invented the process of pasteurization. Despite the simple fact that the Germ Theory of Medicine was at least a hundred years older than Pasteur, his experiments that supposedly "proved" this theory have established him as a cornerstone in Modern Medical History. Too bad much of his work was plagiarized and totally unscientific. What most of us dont know about Pasteur is that throughout his career, he too often doubted his assumptions. On his deathbed, he even recanted saying the Germ Theory was all wrong: "Its the terrain, not the germ." But did we hear his last words? No. Was he speaking of the immune system? If we have a strong immune system, the germ doesnt matter, does it? Wrong, he was not speaking of the immune system. As Dr Young points out in Sick and Tired, the immune systems function of fighting off germs is its secondary job. If youre immune system is battling off bugs, youre driving on a "spare tire," according to the good doctor. The Terrain What exactly is a healthy terrain? Dr Youngs book introduced me to Antoine Béchamp. I looked him up on the web and read one of his books published there. Amazing stuff. You wont find Béchamps name in the history of medicine. He and his work have been expurgated. When he died, his accomplishments were listed in a journal. They took up seven pages. Some of the things we attribute to Pasteur were actually accomplished by Béchamp. Even though Béchamp was a scientist, his work is very easy to read. Scientists hadnt yet developed their Latin/Greek lingo that would keep the average person on the sidelines looking in. The first thing I read by him was a study on cats. One group was fed cooked foods and the other was fed raw foods. The raw foods group were much healthier than the group fed cooked foods. By the third generation, the young of the cooked foods group (also getting cooked foods) did not survive into adulthood. Is there any wonder why the Cancer Diet is 70% live foods? Now Béchamp was a critic of Pasteurs. Pasteur hated Béchamp, mainly because Béchamp was constantly finding fault in Pasteurs work. For instance, Pasteurs experiments that "proved" his germ theory were less than scientific, according to Béchamp . Pasteur had injected healthy animals with the blood of a sick animal. The healthy animals got sick. First off do I need to point out that we do not catch germs in this fashion? I mean, if I had to get an injection to catch a cold, Id never catch one. Secondly, there are too many variables in a syringe full of a sick animals blood to "prove" that the germs in the blood are making the experimental animal sick. Béchamp made the obvious observation that Pasteur was poisoning the blood of the experimental animal. Claude Bernard was also a contemporary of Pasteurs. On Pasteurs deathbed, he admitted that Bernard was right and that he, Pasteur, was wrong (though he never mentioned his nemesis Béchamp). Bernard is considered the Father of Experimental medicine today. He was a physiologist. However, his greatest achievements are entirely overlooked today. Let me give you one example of this mans assertions. Amidst a group of physicians and scientists, Claude Bernard made the statement: "The terrain is everything; the germ is nothing," and then drank down a glass of water filled with cholera. There are not many scientists who are willing to risk their lives on a theory. This we know. Claude Bernard has few equals in the history of medicine. Germs Do Not Cause Disease The most telling "concept" that has ever crossed my desk is the quotation Dr Young uses right at the beginning of his book, Sick and Tired: If I could live my life over again, I would devote it to proving that germs seek their natural habitatdiseased tissuerather than being the cause of the diseased tissue; e.g., mosquitoes seek the stagnant water, but do not cause the pool to become stagnant. Rudolph Virchow (Father of Pathology) Do you understand the importance of this? When I read this quotation for the first time, it hit me like a brick. Ive always known the terrain was the key, but I had always thought of the terrain as the immune system. I had had no idea that the proper terrain alone was, by itself, enough for perfect health. Nor had it ever occurred to me that the immune system was merely a backup system that took over when the terrain failed. So, Béchamp was, in effect, telling Pasteur that his experiments proved nothing because it poisoned the experimental animals terrain, hence allowing the germs to attack the diseased tissues caused by the poisoning. Before we go any further, we need to know this Take a banana and place it on a counter next to a piece of cheese. Place a glass over the cheese so it doesn't dry out too quickly. Now watch them both over the over the next few days. What do you think will happen? The banana starts to turn black and the cheese begins to mold. They go bad. They rot. Now slice open the cheese. Inside, no mold. Slice open the banana. It's rotten inside. Smell the banana and you'll smell a hint of alcohol. It's fermenting. Something that perhaps only a few of you already knew is: The cheese molds from the outside in, but the banana rots from the inside out. The banana was alive. The cheese is not alive. Every living thing comes equipped with its own janitorial service that goes to work when it dies. They are programmed to clean up the mess our dead bodies leave behind. This is a VERY important concept for us to know and remember, always. Healthy Terrain So what is healthy terrain? Béchamp began to describe it nearly two hundred years ago, but Claude Bernard finally put it this way. It consists of two internal factors: 1. Alkalinity 2. Negative Electrical Charge Contributing to a healthy terrain are two factors, according to Bernard: 1. Nutrition 2. Toxins One must have proper nutrition and be free of toxins to maintain a healthy terrain. More recent studies add one more factor contributing to a healthy terrain: Emotions/Mental Health. In our last newsletter we touched upon psychoneuroimmunology with a small test that you can take on your own (Click Here to see it). The higher the score, the greater your chances of getting sick. Why? Well, the higher the score, the greater your acidity/the less your alkalinity. There is an emotional side to our terrain. You can do everything the books tell you to keep your body alkaline, but if you have unchecked emotional issues, you will still be acidic. This is the body/mind connection, or as someone put it: emotional toxicity. We live in a toxic society. Our food, water, air is poisoned. Additionally, we are poisoning ourselves with drugs, alcohol, smoke, and even the way we cook our foods (barbecuing, microwaving). Nearly every drug your doctor gives you causes your body to become acidic. Every can of pop, every cup of coffee, every teaspoon of sugar, every piece of chicken, steak, or fish you consume causes your body to become acidic. The Clean-Up Crew Within Béchamp theorized that there was a particle of life in us, the smallest living thing on the planet, called a microzyma. It is a plant. Scientists previous to Béchamp had seen these little "molecular granulations" but had no idea what they were. Gaston Naessens discovered somatids. Are they the same thing? I think so. Many think so. The newer powerful dark field microscopes allow doctors and scientists to view living tissues. The microzymas are part of the clean-up crew that lives within all of us. Now, one place where modern medicine is completely off track is in our standard blood tests. They take blood, stain it, freeze it, and examine it. Blood is alive. It is not a liquid, but a mobile tissue (Béchamp was the first to describe blood thus). The things in our blood are alive. And one thing modern medicine does not accept is that something like a bacterium can change into a yeast that can turn into a fungus that can turn into a mold. Weve talked about this in previous newsletters; it is called pleomorphism. Pleo meaning many and morph meaning form or body. Gaston Naessens has thoroughly documented the life cycle of his somatids. As we published in our Cancer Edition of the Wellness Directory of Minnesota, Naessens discovered that his somatids are nearly indestructible. They resisted blasts of radiation, temperatures up to 392 degrees, and laughed at the strongest acids. Naessens mapped the somatid's (or microzyma's) pleomorphic life cycle. Others have documented the pleomorphic changes in bacteria, viruses, yeasts, molds and fungi. Dr Young, the author of Sick and Tired has watched these tiny creatures change from one to another under a dark field microscope. He has even seen a red blood cell turn into a bacterium and then back into a red blood cell. Yet it might take 100 more years for medical science recognize this fact. You will see why shortly. The True Definition of Disease When does disease begin? In our culture, disease begins at the onset of symptoms. In Chinese medicine, disease begins much earlier. However, with the theories of Béchamp followed by the scientific and verifiable research of Professor Gunter Enderlein (who basically proved all the theories of Béchamp), we now have a new definition of disease. Disease begins when our alkaline tissues turn acidic and when our negative energy charge turns positive. This is the beginning of disease. Perhaps we should be quoting Dr Arthur C Guyton MD who wrote the Textbook of Medical Physiology (once used in most medical schools): The first steps in maintaining health is to alkalize the body (pH or acid/alkaline balance). This is one of the most important aspects of homeostasis. Changes in pH alter virtually all body functions. The cells of a healthy body are alkaline while the cells of a diseased body are below a pH of 7.0. The more acidic the cell, the sicker we become. If the body cannot alkalize the cells they will become acidic and thus, disease sets in. Our bodies produce acid as a by-product of normal metabolism. Since our bodies do not manufacture alkalinity, we must supply the alkalinity from an outside source to keep us from becoming acidic and dying. For the complete article, see: http://www.mnwelldir.org/docs/Newsletters/03_Sep.htm#Lost Dr. Carey Reams maintained that the primary factor affecting the bodys pH was not alkaline/acid food ash, but the balance/imbalance of the various types of calciums in the body. A person with an acid pH is deficient in alkalinizing calciums. This is one of the reasons Coral calcium has had such success (it is an alkalinizing calcium). Since I started Metabolic Biochemical testing in 1984, Ive noticed that most folks over the age of 40 are acidic, and that acid pH is happening at a younger and younger age. Terry Chamberlin ______________________________________________________________________ Post your free ad now! http://personals.yahoo.ca -- The Silver List is a moderated forum for discussing Colloidal Silver. 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