Andreas Moritz
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 Otherwise, we all would have been taught long ago how to stay healthy or how to recover our health if we have fallen ill.
The germ theory of disease upon which almost the entire modern medical system is based, was postulated by the French chemist Louis Pasteur in the latter part of the 19th century. Although Pasteur admitted on his deathbed that his theory was wrong, the whole world had already accepted and begun to perpetuate the myth of the germ theory of disease. Pasteur finally realized that germs cannot cause infection without an underlying reason. |
Bruce H. Lipton
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 My favorite example of scientific denial of the reality of mind-body interactions relates to an article that appeared in Science about nineteenth-century German physician, Robert Koch, who along with Pasteur founded the germ theory. The germ theory holds that bacteria and viruses are the cause of disease. That theory is widely accepted now, but in Koch's day it was more controversial. One of Koch's critics was so convinced that the germ theory was wrong that he brazenly wolfed down a glass of water laced with vibrio cholerae, the bacteria Koch believed caused cholera. |
Roberta Bivins
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 Srinivasamurti then addressed the specific cases of cholera and tuberculosis, diseases closely identified with germ theory, the new pubhc health—and with medically justified compulsion in both Europe and European colonies (compulsion which met with strong pubHc resistance and condemnation in both places):
[E]ven in the case of diseases like cholera and tuberculosis, which are definitely stated to be due to specific bacteria, the chain of evidence is by no means so strong as it is generally stated to be. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Chemical-based medicine is a Newtonian view of health
That model of germ theory simply does not apply today. It doesn't mean that germ theory is false, but these chronic degenerative diseases exist in a different realm. For example, regarding physics and the laws of motion, Newtonian physics operate on a large scale; it talks about the interaction between the motion of objects and gravity and momentum. That is a very valid realm of physics and science. And it creates predictable observations and outcomes that match the mathematics. |
| And the germ theory says that every disease is based on an organism or an invading element, whether it is a virus or bacteria, and if you just have the right chemical compound, then you can cure that infectious disease.
Of course, this was quite valid in the day of penicillin, and it's still valid today for basic, simple infections. But the germ theory does not apply to chronic, degenerative diseases such as cancer, osteoporosis, Alzheimer's disease, arthritis, diabetes, cardiovascular heart disease, Crohn's disease, clinical depression, inflammatory diseases, and so on. |
Bruce H. Lipton
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| One of Koch's critics was so convinced that the germ theory was wrong that he brazenly wolfed down a glass of water laced with vibrio cholerae, the bacteria Koch believed caused cholera. To everyone's astonishment, the man was completely unaffected by the virulent pathogen. The Science article published in 2000 describing the incident stated: "For unexplained reasons he remained symptom free, but nevertheless incorrect." [DiRita 2000]
The man survived and Science, reflecting the unanimity of opinion on the germ theory, had the audacity to say his criticism was incorrect? |
Bill Sardi
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 A one-centimeter tumor ball (about 4/10ths of an inch around) would contain one billion tumor cells!
The germ theory of disease is being ignored when it comes to cancer prevention. It is now known that bacteria (example: H. pylori and stomach cancer) and viruses (example: Human papilloma virus and cervical cancer) induce malignancies. Stealth bacteria like Mycobacterium tuberculosis and paratuberculosis may mimic or actually trigger cancer. But little is done to put up a defense against infection. Garlic/allicin, onion/quercetin, oregano/Carvacrol, and folic acid may be helpful in this regard. |
| Cancer 88:1916-28, 2000]
Kill cancer-causing germs
Address the germ theory of cancer by consumption of natural agents that kill bacteria, viruses and fungi.
Garlic/allicin by virtue of its ability to kill all known viruses, bacteria, fungi. [Planta Medica 58:417-23, 1992; Mycoses 48:95-100, 2005] Papilloma virus causes cervical cancer. Lymphomas are known to be of viral origin. [Current Opinion Hematology 13:254-259, 2006] Allicin kills Helicobacter pylori, the bacterium involved in gastric cancer. [Biotechnology Progress 20:397-401, 2004]
Resveratrol inhibits growth of bacteria [H. |
Roberta Bivins
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| Germs remained dogmatic as well as experimental entities; indeed, one doctor echoed the catechism in expressing his own allegiance to germ theory:
I hold that every contagious disease is caused by the introduction into the system of a living organism or microzyme, capable of reproducing its kind, and minute beyond all reach of sense. I hold that as all life on our planet is the result of antecedent life, so is all specific disease the result of antecedent specific disease. I hold that as no germ can originate de novo, neither can a scarlet fever come into existence spontaneously. |
Bill Sardi
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| Lawrence Broxmeyer, a New York physician who carefully outlined the history of the germ theory of cancer. [Medical Hypotheses 63:986-96, 2004]. Dr. Virginia Livingston, working with other investigators, could distinguish cancerous tissue from healthy tissue by the presence of one type of bacterium - mycobacterium. The American Medical Association muzzled the news press when Dr. Livingston created a live exhibit at their annual meeting in 1953. Dr. Broxmeyer even cites what may have been a cancer cure in 1926, known as "Glover's Serum." Dr. |
Roberta Bivins
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| In any case, when the rise of germ theory and 'scientific medicine' (like homeopathy and mesmerism before them) threatened the fragile unity of the western profession, Indian traditional practitioners took careful note of the debates that followed.
One of the more famous anecdotes of the germ-theory era exemplifies both the timing and public nature of the debate involved. The story is that of Max Von Pettenkofer, an eminent Bavarian hygienist and public health worker. |
Andreas Moritz
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| Pasteur's germ theory proposed that disease germs are after us because they need to prey on us for their own survival while contributing nothing to us in return. He initially believed that infectious/inflammatory diseases are a direct result of germs feasting on us. In microscopic studies of host tissues in such diseases, Pasteur, Koch and their colleagues repeatedly observed that germs proliferated while many host cells were dying. These researchers concluded that germs attack and destroy healthy cells, and thereby start a disease process in the body. |
| Although Pasteur admitted on his deathbed that his theory was wrong, the whole world had already accepted and begun to perpetuate the myth of the germ theory of disease. Pasteur finally realized that germs cannot cause infection without an underlying reason. He acknowledged that it is rather the cell environment or milieu that determined what types of germs and how many of them attached themselves to the cells of organic matter. This is what a contemporary of Pasteur, Antoine Beauchamp, had discovered and taught long before Pasteur came to the same realization at the end of his life. |
Anne Harrington
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 Above all, he would have learned that it was interfering with government-led efforts to control the epidemic spread of infectious disease by educating the Chinese people in modern germ theory.54
What changed everything was the 1949 Communist revolution, spearheaded by Mao Tse-Tung. Initially, Mao had taken the same scornful view of traditional medical practitioners as the republican government, at one point famously comparing them to "circus entertainers, snake oil salesmen, and street hawkers"—a comment that ended up in Mao's Little Red Book, read by millions of Chinese. |
Donna Jackson Nakazawa
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 A recent report from the American Society of Microbiology highlights how widely this "new germ theory" applies to some thirty viral and bacterial microorganisms for which there exists strong evidence of an association to chronic disease. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 In fact, the system is stuck in the germ theory of medicine, believing that every disease or condition (including degenerative disease) can be treated with a synthetic chemical. This is why you end up with drugs to treat osteoporosis, for example, when osteoporosis is quite clearly not caused by a pharmaceutical deficiency.
There is no meaningful effort in medicine today to actually prevent disease, teach holistic nutrition to patients or promote non-patentable things that help people heal (like sunlight, water or medicinal herbs). And that's partly why conventional medicine doesn't work. |
Bill Sardi
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| Cornelius Rhoads, chief at Sloan Kettering Cancer Hospital in New York, sought to discredit the germ theory of cancer. Rhoads was head of chemical warfare during the Korean War and was deeply committed to using toxic chemicals to kill cancer cells.
Other investigators validated the link between mycobacteria and cancer. In 1965, Canadian researchers had confirmed the existence of bacterial-like organisms inside tumors. [Canadian Medical Assn Journal 92: 31-33, 1965] The germ was believed to be a variant of tuberculosis, a known mycobacterium. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 It's an era of medicine steeped in the paradigm of the germ theory, which believed every disease could be countered with an appropriate chemical. Thus, from the mid-1900s on, pharmaceutical companies sought out specific chemicals to counter diseases in the same way penicillin kills bacteria.
Yet they have taken this paradigm too far; they have tried to apply the germ theory to diseases not caused by germs. Cancer has no germs. Diabetes is not caused by a parasite or a microbe. Heart disease is not caused by bacteria or viruses. |
Roberta Bivins
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| If a doctor could not definitively name at the bedside, by observing and questioning the patient, the disease from which its occupant suffered, without relying on a faceless technician totally unaware of the patient's particular circumstances, then how would patients be able to trust in medical authority? Both germ theory and the labs that put it into practice played active and highly visible roles in imperialism, and in India. |
| Temperate Seeds in Tropical Soils: germ theory in the Indian Medical Marketplace
William Osier remarked in 1905 that
The quarrels of doctors make a pretty chapter in the history of medicine. Each generation seems to have had its own. The Coans and Cnidians, the Arabians and the Galenists, the Brunonians and the Broussonians, the Homeopaths and the Regulars, have in different centuries, rent the robe of Aesculapius and of course the bald statement that 'doctors differ' is a truism applied to non-western and western practitioners alike. |
Dr. Paula Baillie-Hamilton
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 In a paper discussing chemical intolerance in Annals of New York Academy ofSciences, Miller wrote:
In the late 1800s, physicians observed that certain illnesses spread from sick, feverish individuals to those contacting them, paving the way for the germ theory of disease. The germ theory served as a crude but elegant formulation that explained dozens of seemingly unrelated illnesses affecting literally every organ system. |
Peter h. Fraser and Harry Massey
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 You have only to think of germ theory, tectonic plate theory, quantum electrodynamics, and string theory to know that even ideas that are accepted widely in our day were dismissed as crackpot ideas by a previous generation of scientists.
Michael Faraday, who developed the first modern theory of electricity in the nineteenth century, was trained as a bookbinder and had no formal scientific training, but his theory became the impetus for all the later breakthroughs in understanding electromagnetism. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| The reason they think they can cure these diseases if they just have enough money and enough time is because conventional medicine remains stuck in the paradigm of germ theory. And the germ theory says that every disease is based on an organism or an invading element, whether it is a virus or bacteria, and if you just have the right chemical compound, then you can cure that infectious disease.
Of course, this was quite valid in the day of penicillin, and it's still valid today for basic, simple infections. |
Roberta Bivins
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| Britain's colonies were regarded by her 'germ-enthusiasts' and proponents of 'scientific medicine' as essential laboratories for the proving and deployment of germ theory. With scientific progress increasingly seen as an emblem of national prominence, even a wealth of germs could become grounds for nationalistic pride and competitiveness. |
Jacky Law
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 Ewald, proponent of what he has termed the germ theory of medicine, believes a new way of thinking is required.
We need to remember that out expectations are biased by minds that tend to visualize threats as invaders coming from beyond our border. Perhaps the experts are looking in the wrong place. Perhaps the most menacing infectious adversaries are already here.10
Ewald reminds us how our bodies are home to millions, if not trillions, of life's tiniest forms, most of which we cohabit with happily and harmoniously. |
Mike Adams
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 The healing powers of plants is far beyond the scope of today's technology, and certainly beyond the philosophy of conventional medicine, which continues to be entrenched in the "germ theory" of medicine and disease, in which one "magic" chemical (such as penicillin) will "cure" a particular ailment. |
Dr. Paula Baillie-Hamilton
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| The germ theory served as a crude but elegant formulation that explained dozens of seemingly unrelated illnesses affecting literally every organ system.
Today we are witnessing another medical anomaly—a unique pattern of illness involving chemically exposed people who subsequently report multisystem symptoms and new-onset chemical and food intolerances. These intolerances may be the hallmark for a new disease process, just as fever is a hallmark for infection. |
Dr Bernard Jenson and Mark Anderson
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 I am not saying that the germ theory of medicine is totally without basis but, rather, without perspective.
The germ theory of medicine is a nineteenth-century concept, promoted by Louis Pasteur before vitamins, trace elements, and other nutrients had even been discovered. The germ theory is still believed to be the central cause of disease, because around it exists a colossal supportive infrastructure of commercial interests that built multi-billion-dollar industries based upon this theory. |
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