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Germs, viruses and bacteria are not the cause of disease. Our best defence is good health. _-—--—, - -—- ---- nitially, the word "virus” meant poison, and the word “virulent” meant poisonous. Today, virus means a submicroscopic entity, and virulent generally means conta- gious. Modern medicine has employed the term virus to mean an ultra-minute form of life that infects cells, and which is blamed for causing more and more of our. dis- eases. According to the popular portrayal of the virus, it is a form of life that parasitises all life forms including animal, plant, and saprophytic (fungi and bacteria). In descriptions of viral disease, viruses are credited with such actions as "injecting themselves", “incubating”, “laying m wait", "invading", having an “active stage", "com- manding", "reactivating", “disguising themselves", "infecting", “conducting sieges” and being “devastating” and "deadly". Conventional medical theory explains that viruses come from dying cells which they have infected—the virus "injects" itself into the cell and "commands" it to reproduce itself, and this occurs until the cell explodes from the burden. Viruses are then free to seek out other cells to repeat the process, thereby infecting the organism. Virologists admit, however, that although viruses are distinctive and definitely organic in nature, they have no metabolism, cannot be replicated in the laboratory, do not possess any characteristics of living things and, in fact, have never been observed alive!! “Live Viruses" Are Always Dead The term "live virus" means only those created from living tissue cultures in vitro (with- in the laboratory) since trillions of them result from “live” tissue. But herein lies the point: even though some laboratory cultures are kept alive, there is massive cell tumover in the process, and it is from these dying cells that "viruses" are obtained. They are always dead and inactive because they have no metabolism or life, except being molecules of DNA and protein. Viruses contain nucleic acid and protein but lack enzymes, and cannot support life on their own since they do not even possess the first prerequisites of life, namely metabolic control mechanisms (and even ‘lowly’ bacteria have these). Guyton’s Medical Textbook acknowledges that viruses have no reproductive system, no locomotion, no metabolism, and cannot be reproduced as live entities in vitro. The Mitochondria Connection Since "viruses" are not alive, they cannot act in any of the ways as ascribed to them by medical authorities except as a functional unit of our normal genetic material inside the cell's nucleus or the mitochondrian nucleus within the cell. Mitochondria are living organisms—just one of many of the varying organelles (little organs) within each cell of our body. Mitochondria are about the size of bacteria, both of which have their own DNA and their own metabolism. The mitochondria metabolise glucose into ATP molecules, which is ready-made energy usable when called upon by the body. What do these facts have to do with "viruses" as such? Everything, as you will see in just a moment. For anyone who has studied cytology (cell structure), the greatest number of life-forms within a cell are the mitochondria—the creators of our energy. Simple single-celled protozoa have up to a half-million mitochondria within them. Human cells have less—from a few hundred in blood cells, to 30,000 or more in our larg- er muscle-tissue cells. Since the entire human body contains some 75 to 100 trillion cells, by Arthur M. Baker, M.A. Self-Health Care Systems 1800 S. Robertson Boulevard, Suite 239-55 Los Angeles, Ca 9035, USA Phone/fax (310) 202 1170 | Extracted with permission from “Bacteria, Germs and Sera Do rainy rience Discriminati ee E ical Myth and Bi ical Fact’, excerpted from : bor Ane Our Self-Healing Body. 2 (See book review on page 75) NEXUS ¢ 35 The Viral Theory of Disease Causation OCTOBER - NOVEMBER 1994