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it causes inflammation in "susceptible hosts only"—in those ponderance of cooked food—all of which represent pathological whose tissues are already irritated by foreign agents. In addition, phenomena. so-called respiratory pathogenic bacteria are present in throat The body must exist in a toxic state before it will institute washings of those who have colds, but killing the microorganisms __ the disease process. Neither bacteria nor anything else can does not shorten the period of illness. start and sustain a healing crisis—micro-organisms are inca- Colds are preventable, but first we must learn their causes. As _ pable of unified action and cannot exist where there is no food long as it is assumed that germs and viruses cause colds and that (soil) for them to survive. Living healthy cells are not soil for we ‘catch' them, and as long as our efforts are directed against _ bacteria, but decomposing substances are. these microscopic entities, the cold will prevail. Colds are actual- If a healthy body can ‘catch’ a cold or flu due to influenza germs ly remedial efforts made necessary by the accumulation in the and is unable to resist an ‘attack’ by these micro-organisms, then blood, lymph, and tissues of unexcreted metabolic waste, and by —_ how can the subsequently debilitated body ever recover? How can the intestinal absorption of toxic by-products of indigestion. the weakened organism repel the onslaught of trillions of prolifer- The ultimate causes of the cold are habits of living which reduce —_ating micro-organisms? The inevitable result would be the death digestive efficiency, check elimination and cause enervation, per- _of the organism. mitting the internal environment to become polluted—a state of If bacteria did invade organisms and subsequently laid them physiological smog, if you will. low, as medically supposed, the impetus and momentum they built Unless a germ will cause a disease every time it 'infects' the up in the process would become progressively more pronounced body, it is not a cause. A cause must be consistent and specific and overwhelming as the organism receded further into disease. in its influence. Germs are omnipresent and fail to have a spe- If germs and microbe ‘attackers’ overwhelmed a healthy body, cific influence all the time. then, once they laid a victim low, their proliferating reproduction Both laboratory evidence and empirical observations substanti- | would exponentially increase the ‘devouring’, which would cease ate that disease is the body's reaction to intoxication, and not to only when they had exhausted their food supply. There would be germs—bacteria do not invade nor control the body, for they no recovery. If bacteria and viruses cause disease and debilitate are always within the physical the body, how does the weakened domain. = individual recover? Were germs the cause of disease, The Body Controls its Bacterial : there would be no remission, and Population Colds are actually remedial efforts germ proliferation would continue Normal healthy organisms are ‘ unimpeded. actually deadly to germs and para- made necessary by the Once the invading entities have a sites and have innate, built-in acCumulation in the blood, lymph, head start, it does not seem they resources to handle them. Bacteria and tissues of unexcreted metabolic would stop their destruction but, are helpless against living cells, espe- a ores instead, would further diminish the cially white blood cells and others waste, and by the intestinal organism's ability to defend itself. that compose our natural lines of 4 1Y 1 | : When bacteria start decomposing a defence. absorp tion of toxic by, P roducts of body, only complete exhaustion of We harbour countless billions of indigestion. all organic materials ends their micro-organisms within our intestinal course—only when 'the bones are tract, within our skin, in our mouth, picked clean’, so to speak. nose and other body cavities. The Logic tells us that if microbial celebrated Dr Lewis Thomas, who heads the Sloan-Kettering organisms 'make someone sick’ and proliferate by the billions as Cancer Institute, said: "Pity not the man who has caught bacteria, they become more numerous and stronger, they would progres- rather pity the bacteria that was caught by the man." Humans fur- _ sively sap more and more energy, vitality and resources from their nish a very rough environment for bacteria, keeping them tightly victim. How can this process be reversed by a much weakened restricted and controlled. organism? Lymph nodes—the glandular tissue masses that occur along the The whole concept of being laid low by microbes and then lymphatic vessels throughout the body—routinely remove bacteria __ turning the tables on them makes for good fiction, but is physi- and foreign particles from the general lymph circulation and sup- _ologically false. For once dominance is established in nature over ply lymphocytes to the circulatory system. The lymph nodes and a weakened organism, it's downhill from there. Once zebras are spleen form a portion of the body's reticuloendothelial system— overwhelmed by carnivores, they rarely survive. Once bacteria referring to those phagocytic cells scattered throughout the body __ start decomposing organic matter, they continue until their food which can ingest bacteria, solid particles and other errant cells. source is exhausted. This aids in keeping the body in a healthy, stable condition. The body does not suppress the growth and multiplication of For example, billions and even trillions of bacteria and fungi are ‘disease germs’ until the morbid toxins on which they subsist have incidentally absorbed from the intestinal tract into the portal blood been consumed, and until the inflammatory process has run its each day. These are so effectively apprehended and destroyed by _ course. our white blood cells and macrophages that scarcely any bacteria When diseases are said by medical authorities to be ‘limited’, or fungi ever enter the circulating blood. this really means the illness is a body detoxification process that is Leukocytes (white corpuscles) are the blood's defensive organ- _ terminated by the body when its purging objectives are reached. isms that prevent intoxication by bacteria, cooked food debris or The body is in control, and not at the mercy of hordes of microbes other toxic materials. Leukocytosis (an excessive proliferation of or some ‘mysterious disease entity’. white blood cells in the circulation) occurs in response to inflam- Disease, once more, is not caused by germs but by the toxic mation, to excessive numbers of bacteria in the body, and toa pre- state of the body which allows the germ to flourish. This course, When diseases are said by medical authorities to be ‘limited’, this really means the illness is a body detoxification process that is terminated by the body when its purging objectives are reached. The body is in control, and not at the mercy of hordes of microbes or some ‘mysterious disease entity’. Disease, once more, is not caused by germs but by the toxic state of the body which allows the germ to flourish. This 38°NEXUS AUGUST - SEPTEMBER 1994