The Meaning of Disease

Human life and health depend on very delicately adjusted chemical reactions both inside and outside the billions of cells in the body. Energy is required for its its integral organization. This is possible with the correct chemical combination of the elements from the outer environment through the we eat, the air we breathe and the fluids we drink. Health is maintained by an optimum supply of oxygen with nutrients and removal of wastes.

This is made possible by the " River of Life ", the blood stream and tissue fluids which form Claude Bernard's " milieu interieur ". The human body through homeostatic mechanisms, is self-cleansing, self-protecting and self-healing. Why then man continues to suffer with more side effects using modern medication and amenities ? Is auto-intoxication, a concept founded by Dr. Senator in 1888, a self-poisoning process due to toxic build-up of metabolites generated by gastrointestinal bacteria, the result of our ignorance of nutritional science or due to sheer indifference to natural elements that ensure our health and survival ?

The secret to man's health and survival is well illustrated by Dr. Alex Carell of Rockefellow Insitute for medical research in USA, who made medical history with his classical experiment with embryonic chicken heart tissue which survived for 29 years when the nutrient solution was daily changed but died one day when it was neglected.

Living cells survive indefinitely when the supply of nutrients and the removal of wastes is balanced. Ill-health or breakdown of the functional capacity of the body is due to defective osmosis at the cellular level by waste precipitation of " cell cinders " ( German ) or " cell carbon " ( English ) which are altered metabolic wastes such as uric acid, carbonic acid, cholesterol, chlorine and calcium carbonate blocking the diffusion process across the porous membrane.

This waste infusion is the outcome of abnormal bowel activity with release of their toxic waste by putrifaction in the gut by the mutating gut bacterial flora. Health is regained by detoxification, a cleansing process whereby the obstructive matter " cell carbon " is removed, thus re-establishing osmotic efficiency and balanced chemistry. A chemico-physiological restoration of cellular health also requires an infinitesimal supply of " cell-salts " which are absorbed minerals, according to the father of cell salt therapy, Wilheim Schussler MD. These cell salts acting synergistically with other body chemicals, activate structures that make the person and form the personality, are the " living forces " that repair hurts and revitalise the body.

Louis Pasteur, the French chemist,discovered germs during his experimentation on formentation. His discovery was initially rejected but was later enthusiastically excepted when the one-germ one-disease model was fashioned to order with its immense potential for commercial exploitation.

In 1914, Dr Rosenow, associate of the Mayo Foundation, the most eminent bacteriologist then, shattered the foundation of the serum and drug industries with the results of painstaking experimentation. The Rosenow experiments, verifying the conclusions of Bechamp and others, showed that there exists no specific bacteria. The extant bacteria are the genotypic and phenotypic variants with marked capacity to change their properties to ensure survival in an unpredictable environment.

Bacterial variation occurs selectively, modifying the microscopic, colonial, nutritional, biochemical, antigenic, pathogenic and drug sensitive attributes of the bacterium, when there is an alteration in the condition, nutrition and temperature of the environment.

The phenomenon of bacterial variation is observed in our everyday practice.

1. The development of resistance to escalating/under dosage regimen by mutant strains. ( acquired resistance )
2. The development of multiple resistance to drugs ( Infective transfer of Resistance or R factor from resistant to sensitive strains )
3. The proliferation of pathogenic microbes after a single or combined antimicrobial course, when the vitamin synthesizing commensals in the gut, the normal flora in the respiratory tract and in the skin are eliminated ( Superinfection )
4. Temporary acquired resistance to drugs by bacteria in dormant or non-metabolizing state. Persister state in anti-tubercular chemotherapy.
5. The substitution of drug sensitive bacteria and re-infection of surface wounds or burns by resistant strains with R Factor in hospitalised patients. ( Nosocomial cross-infection )
6. Reversion to incomplete drug sensitivity by previously resistant strains when the drug was removed for some time. (Mutational reversion )

Man's constitution, the immune system in particular, determines the pathogenicity of the microbes. His susceptibility to microbial infection due to an impaired immune system, is increased with a degenerated body damaged by free radicles generated by environmental pollutants. The HIV-related Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome ( AIDS ) is an example. The negative sero-conversion of a non-reactor after a course of vaccination and the late sero-conversion of a so-called " chronic carrier ", indicate a dysfunctioning immune system and indirectly record the consequences of nutritional defects due to pollutant interference.

Quoting A. Milne [ New Zealand Medical Journal 14 Dec '88 ]

" The immunising potency of hepatitis B Vaccine is not related directly to the quantity of antigen. It depends, instead, on the tertiary structuring of the antigen that specified its quality. "

To this I would like to add that given the immunologically potent antigen, optimum seroconversion also depends on an unimpaired immune system.