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Conclusion Perhaps the biggest reason why bacteria are ignored in human disease is that these microbes are so ubiquitous. Everyone carries them, both in sickness and in health. Physicians are reluctant to accept that the same type of bacteria present in a healthy individual could cause a variety of diseases in sick people. However, almost all healthy people eventually die of diseases, such as cancer, heart or kidney disease or stroke. Livingston was fond of saying that "the microbe" is both the giver and the taker of life. | think it is fair to say that we still know very little about the bacteria we carry in our bodies and the trouble they can cause as we age. Regarding McPhee, why did a bacteria-produced Botox product start a healing? The paralytic product forced a "breaking up" of the tight, constricted muscle. This, along with the massage therapy, allowed better blood flow to the muscle. Could bacteria be involved in some chronic muscular disease states? | am reminded of an autopsy study of a fatal case of AIDS in which | discovered tiny round bacterial forms in the skeletal muscle (figure 5). Fatal cases of AIDS are frequently associated with muscle weakness and "wasting". Despite the heretical aspects of this report, | trust it will stimulate other researchers to search for similar bacteria in an attempt to elucidate their precise role in the most common chronic illnesses of man. 34 ¢ NEXUS Figure 4: Bacteria in the kidney in a fatal case of systemic scleroderma Figure 5: Tiny round bacterial forms in the skeletal muscle Continued on page 81 www.nexusmagazine.com AUGUST — SEPTEMBER 2009