If I ask 10 people the question: “What causes disease?” The answer, most likely would be “Germs” There was a time that I would of answered with the same response. I now disagree with that answer. To explain this further, we have to understand how the term “Germs” came about. In the late 1800’s, there was a scientist that discovered germs. His name was Louis Pasteur. I had heard from several health guru’s that the germ theory was bogus, so I decided to do my own research. Turns out there was another scientist named, Professor Pierre Jaques Antoine Bechamp. Louis and Pierre were not the best of friends. As the record would show, Pasteur plagiarized much of Bechamp's work. At the time, Pasteur was in high favor of Napoleon III and the High Church. Bechamp was a workaholic and was not interested in fortune or favor.
Bechamp's investigations showed that the cell itself was made up of smaller living entities capable of intelligent behavior and self-reproduction. He referred to these as 'molecular granulations' and gave them the name of microzymas, which he said were the real basic units of life. Bechamp described how in certain conditions microzymas could develop into bacteria within a cell and could, if the right conditions persisted, become pathological, so that infection could develop in the body without the acquisition of the germ from an outside source. This is called pleomorphism.
This is where it starts to get too technical, so I will spare you. Basically, Bechamp believed that disease starts within the cell and Pasteur believes it starts outside with germs. There are staunch supporters of both theories on either side. They even say that Pasteur admitted that his theory was wrong on his death bed. I will be honest with you, both side make a great case for their cause. BUT, and that is a big but, I have to look at this threw my common sense eyes. Pasteur seemed to run into controversy everywhere he went. Ole Louis was out for fame and fortune. Bechamp was quite the nerd and kept to himself. He basically just wanted to help people.
So here is how it went down. With the help of these new fangled microscopes, Pasteur found these germs hanging around dead matter and made the conclusion that these germs must be the cause of disease. You have to understand, before his theory was accepted, the belief was that disease was caused by evil spirits. Needless to say, at the time, they were very ripe to accept any other theory. People were terrified that the evil spirits would take them over. So along comes Louie with a small step up. Now, little creatures called germs invade your body and cause you to be sick. Now people were terrified to catch a germ. Here is the major difference. At least germs had the ability to be destroyed by man threw drugs and procedures. Those evil spirits just could not be caged. Now for the big catch. There were oodles of money to be made from the drugs and procedures that Pasteur convinced Napoleon III that he could create. And create he did. It all comes down to money, doesn’t it?
At this point, you are probably thinking that I do not believe in germs. No so. The germs are real and they will take you over, but they are not the cause. Let me ask you a question? Does this make sense to you? If you saw a pile of trash with a bunch or rats hanging around the trash, would you say, Hmmmm, those rats must have brought that trash here” Of course you wouldn’t! The rats came because the trash was there. The trash was in a nice bag. Now the trash is everywhere because the rats dug it out of the bag. Plus, the rats have left their own deposits, if you know what I mean. Germs are everywhere. We eat and drink them. They live in the soil and water and drift on currents of air. They survive without oxygen or in the absence of sunlight. They form dense colonies on virtually any artificial surface. There have been discoveries of germs found living in volcanoes, 650 degrees F. The presence of normal germs also appears to prime the immune system into a higher state of readiness. Without germs we would not be able to survive. That being said, why do we get sick? What is the cause? Well, I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but you are the cause. You are the one that brings the trash into your body for the rats to feast on. You push your body to the limit and when your body can take any more, you end up getting sick. The first thing you say is. “Those dam germs!” It wasn’t that you went out all night drinking and smoking. It is not that you feed your body with every processed food known to man. It is those dam germs. As far as the flu shot, I challenge you to do a Google search on how the flu vaccination is made. I, personally, do NOT get one. Alright, I have preached enough. I hope you get the point.
Your body goes way beyond tremendous. I HIGHLY recommend you read up on all the body’s defenses that it uses to combat sickness. The bottom line is that our body was made to deal with the germs, but not to the extreme capacity that we put it threw. We fill our body with trash every day. It sits and accumulates over time. The germs are there for a reason. They are there to take care of the waste. When we do come in contact with some bad germs our body is in what I call “Custer’s Last Stand mode” We all know what happened there. He got his butt whooped and so does our body.
Most of us live our lives in a state of sickness just waiting for the next nasty bug to take us down. I got to the point in my live that I was just sick and tired of being sick and tired. I removed all the nasty things that were going in and replaced it with healthy natural food. I have not had a cold in almost 3 years now. I don’t take any medication. Not even Tylenol. All my ailments are gone. How do I feel now you ask? All I can say is, trying to explain the feeling to you would be like trying to explain what a rose smells like to someone that have never even smelled a flower.
I am going to end this post with this thought. Heinrich Hermann Robert Koch was a German physician in the late 1800’s. He became famous for isolating Bacillus anthracis, the Tuberculosis bacillus and the Vibrio cholerae and for his development of Koch's postulates. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his tuberculosis findings in 1905. Robert Koch made the discoveries that led Louis Pasteur to describe how small organisms called germs could invade the body and cause disease.
In the final decades of the 19th century, Koch conclusively established that a particular germ could cause a specific disease. He did this by experimentation with anthrax. Using a microscope, Koch examined the blood of cows that had died of anthrax. He observed rod-shaped bacteria and suspected they caused anthrax. When Koch infected mice with blood from anthrax-stricken cows, the mice also developed anthrax. This led Koch to list four criteria to determine that a certain germ causes a particular disease. These criteria are known as Koch’s Postulates and are still used today. Integral to these criteria is Postulate #3, “The disease must be reproduced when a pure culture is inoculated into a healthy, susceptible host.” Even today, with all of the advances in modern science, it would be impossible to prove that a specific germ is responsible for a disease without the use of laboratory animals.
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