This concept is based on the experience of those who studied and practised Arnold Ehret’s mucusless diet healing system.
According to this view, disease is caused not only by bacteria but also by chemical components associated with these microorganisms, which affect the unbalanced metabolism of cells in the human body and produce symptoms of disease. However, microorganisms associated with illness are presented not as the cause of the condition that led to pathological development in the body, but as part of its consequences.
A healthy or unhealthy biological terrain is said to be determined mainly by four factors:
- its acid–alkaline balance (pH)
- its electromagnetic charge (negative or positive)
- its level of intoxication (toxicity)
- its nutritional status.
A critical symptom of unhealthy terrain, according to this concept, is a lack of oxygen. Another is the slowing or stagnation of colloidal fluid flow in the intercellular space. A further problem is described as the loss of electrical charge from the surface of red blood cells.
Within the cell wall, all chemical substances and components are described as acting together to drive organic life. Nothing inside the cell is considered alive by itself. Yet when living blood is observed, the article states that microorganisms pass through a precise, scientifically confirmed cycle of changes in form.
As fascinating as the transformation of a caterpillar into a butterfly, this evolution is described as even more remarkable because it can occur quite rapidly, sometimes within minutes. In this framework there are no specific enemies or diseases to fight, only the result of balance or imbalance.
The universe is described as functioning by holding pairs of opposites in balance. When something falls out of balance, a sign or symptom usually appears, telling us that something has changed in the order of things. Health is presented as balance within the system. As a rough analogy for what happens in an unhealthy body, imagine not cleaning your home for an entire year.
In such an environment, all kinds of little “guests” may appear seemingly from nowhere. In the same way, unhealthy eating habits and lifestyle are said to “pollute” our internal environment. The terrain becomes too acidic, meaning an imbalanced pH, which is said to open the way for unwanted guests. In this imbalanced environment, harmful bacteria are described as capable of arising from our own cells.
These tiny forms of life are described as being able to change their form and function rapidly. Through a process called pleomorphism (pleo = many, morph = form), bacteria are said to turn into yeast, yeast into fungi, and fungi into mould. Microorganisms such as certain bacteria can take different forms, involving a change in function or appearance.
Dr E. C. Rosenow of Mayo Biological Labs and other bacteriologists are cited as having shown that changes in the internal environment can turn streptococci into pneumococci, while changes in nutrition can turn pneumococci back into streptococci. This is also presented as evidence that bacteria are “scavengers” by nature and essentially “storehouses” of enzymes, changing their form and enzyme production in order to break down pieces of dead tissue into their smallest elements.
Alongside pH and pleomorphism, the article highlights another important idea: the distinction between symptoms of disease and the state of disease itself. In pleomorphism, the so-called species is described as only one stage in the growth cycle of a family of organisms. Each member is said to perform different functions and differ substantially from the others.
What most people call “disease”, according to this view, is actually a symptom or a collection of symptoms. Tumours and various forms of cancer, for example, are presented as symptoms, and attempts to fight them are said to have contributed to the epidemic described in the article. People are said to mistake symptoms for causes of disease. Bacteria, yeast and their descendants are placed in this category. When microbes are involved in disease, the article states that they produce secondary symptoms or affect the body.
Orthodox medicine is described as treating these secondary symptoms as the disease itself. In this framework, however, the answer lies in the condition of the biological terrain. Are all of its values balanced, or does it encourage the development of unwanted guests? Once balance is disturbed, a vicious circle is said to begin. When the body’s pH changes, its tissues are described as becoming acidic. This state is attributed to many factors, mainly the type of food consumed and poor digestion.
When digestion does not occur properly, foods are said to ferment or decompose. In the early stages of imbalance, outward symptoms are usually not very pronounced and are often “treated” with medication. These symptoms are listed as including:
- Skin rashes
- Migraine
- Allergies
- Colds and flu
- Sinusitis
As imbalance in the biological terrain increases, the article says that more serious conditions can arise, with weakened glands, organs and systems beginning to fail — including the thyroid gland, adrenal glands and liver.
The article argues that treating symptoms with medication simply to make them disappear can play a role in more serious symptoms emerging later. It suggests that most people do not consider or recognise this when they visit a doctor hoping to resolve the “disease” quickly.
It further claims that many doctors are unaware of this or simply follow prevailing practice. A militaristic medical approach is described as favouring artificial therapy over natural therapy and poisons (medicines) over food. The text argues that lack of understanding creates fear, but that once we understand health and disease as products of lifestyle and eating habits, fear of “germs” disappears.
Our immune system is described as inevitably connected with planet Earth because our bodies are built from its elements. The Earth, viewed as the geosphere as a whole, is said to have its own immune system — a system that protects, restores and heals itself. When we act against or damage this system, the article presents our own degeneration as an inevitable consequence.
Even the British Medical Journal in November 1950 is cited as acknowledging:
“Despite close attention, heavy bacterial contamination of vaccine serum is unavoidable during its preparation, and no fewer than 500 million organisms per ml may be present …”.
The article then argues that if it were equally true that bacteria cause disease, everyone receiving a first vaccination would die within 24 hours of being vaccinated.
History
Rudolf Virchow, described here as the father of germ theory, is quoted as saying in the later years of his life:
“If I could live my life over again, I would devote it to proving that germs seek their natural habitat — diseased tissue — rather than causing disease.”
Pasteur (1822–1895) and Paul Ehrlich (1854–1915) are presented as jointly giving the civilised world the doctrines of germ theory, microbiology and immunology before the discovery of vitamins, trace elements and other nutrients. According to the article, their efforts and questionable discoveries brought vaccines into fashion and led to their promotion by prominent scientists.
Antoine Béchamp
Dr Béchamp, described as one of the world’s earliest bacteriologists and a contemporary of Pasteur, is said to have made major scientific discoveries, with some of the greatest minds of his time accepting his theory and conclusions as sufficiently reliable facts.
Béchamp is credited with so many achievements that, after his death, eight pages of a scientific journal were reportedly needed to list them.
Among other things, he is said to have saved the French silk industry from the death of silkworms while Pasteur, who had been assigned to solve the problem, was present.
- He clearly described fermentation for what it is: a process of digestion by microscopic organisms.
- He was the first to state that blood is not a liquid but a fluid tissue.
- He developed an economical process for producing aniline, helping to launch the dye industry.
- What makes germ theory so dangerous, according to this account, is that it seems so obvious. But, it says, it is only partly true.
Béchamp is quoted as saying:
“There is no doctrine so false that it does not contain a portion of truth. The same is true of the doctrine of germs.”
Béchamp is described as having discovered microzymas (now commonly referred to in the article as microorganisms) and as having concluded that germs are the result rather than the cause of disease.
The article says that his experiments showed that the vital characteristics of cells are determined by the environment in which their microzymas feed, grow and reproduce within the human body. Both normal cells and microbes are described as having specific tasks: cells organise the tissues and organs of the human body, while microbes clean the system and free it from accumulations of pathogenic and mucus-forming substances. It states that we constantly inhale around 14,000 microbes and bacteria per hour.
If germs are so bad, why do we not die?
In the early stages of inflammation, described here as pus formation, the bacteria present are said to be streptococci; as red blood cells and tissues break down further, the streptococci are described as transforming into staphylococci, taking a form suited to the new environment of dead tissue.
The article states that bacteria do not act on living cells, only on dead ones, and that they are the result rather than the cause of disease. It also states that in many cases of pneumonia, pneumococci appear at the site 36–72 hours after the illness begins.
