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Many of the disease phenomena making news headlines these days reveal challenges that are the direct result of our take- no-prisoners assault on germs.
comments by Ethel Douglas Hume in 1923,17 one author has remarked that Pasteur’s “greatest claim to fame ought to have been the inaugura- tion of the ‘calamitous prostitution of science and medicine to commercialism.’”3
Béchamp, according to his fans, held a
rather “marvelous view of the life process” and espoused a more nuanced perspective on infectious and chronic illness—for which his- tory branded him a heretic. Much of Béchamp’s work centered on the biological role of fermenta- tion.18 He coined the term “microzymas” (from zyme, the ancient Greek word for a ferment)19 to describe tiny particles that he viewed as the “primary anatomical elements of all living beings”—“the beginning and end of all orga- nization.”20 Béchamp viewed these particles as living entities precisely because of their “power
of movement and production of fermentation.” Subsequent generations of open-minded re- searchers agreed with Béchamp’s pioneering observations about microparticles as the fun- damental unit of biology, with the most recent research in this vein proposing a new genetic theory and a “universal life paradigm” involving spontaneous self-assembly of DNA.21
Béchamp’s various discoveries led him to conclude that our bodies are, in effect, “mini- ecosystems.” When an individual’s internal ecosystem becomes weakened—whether due to poor nutrition, toxicity or other factors—it changes the function of the microbes that are naturally present in the body, producing disease.20 In other words, microorganisms only become pathogenic after environmental factors cause the host’s cellular “terrain” to deteriorate.15
As one example of the powerful influence of weakening forces on the host’s ecosystem, a mid-1980s study looked at French children who experienced complications of wild-type varicella (chickenpox).22 (Note: France has never implemented varicella vaccination.) Although three deaths resulted from what is ordinarily an extremely benign childhood illness, all three fatalities took place within a subset of nine chil- dren who had been taking steroid medications on a long-term basis. In comparison, ninety-four previously healthy children recovered from varicella without incident. The researchers con-
cluded that the deaths occurred “as a function of the [weakened] terrain.”
PROBLEMS OF OUR OWN MAKING Many of the disease phenomena making news headlines these days underscore the deficiencies of the pharmaceutical model and reveal challenges that are the direct result of our
take-no-prisoners assault on germs.
For example, dangerous superbugs23,24 are
emerging—largely due to overuse of “anti- everything” drugs such as antibiotics and anti- fungals—and are ushering in a potential return “to a world in which infectious diseases drasti-
cally shorten lives.”
drug-resistant pathogens will become a bigger killer than cancer by 2050.25
Although the conventional pharmacopeia that created the superbug problem has thus far been helpless to address it, experts are unwilling to step out of the lucrative Pasteurian mindset. Thus, leading researchers at Harvard, Glaxo- SmithKline (GSK) and Cincinnati Children’s Hospital suggest that the solution to super- bugs is. . .more antibiotics, plus vaccines!25 In proposing vaccines as a response, the trio of establishment researchers makes the argument that vaccines are “evolution-proof” and do not generate resistance.25 The GSK researcher also confidently asserts that vaccination is “the most effective medical intervention that has ever been introduced”—and gives Pasteur considerable credit.26
INCONVENIENT FACTS
The complacent attitude that vaccines
are the answer for everything sidesteps many inconvenient facts—documented by numerous studies—showing that vaccines are far from predictable or beneficial. In fact, in refutation of the static perspective promoted by Pasteur and evoked by the authors who want to use super- vaccines to solve superbug problems, vaccines not only increasingly fail to protect recipients against the microbes they target but are promot- ing increased susceptibility to vaccine strains as well as other strains and pathogens, while also augmenting disease severity.27
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