From Gut-Brain Secrets. Louis Pasteur’s “germ theory” vs. Antoine Béchamp and Claude Bernard’s “terrain theory” Louis Pasteur made the germ theory famous starting in the 1850s. He studied the growth and behavior of tiny organisms under a microscope and concluded that germs cause disease. But if germs really cause disease, all we have to do is find something to kill germs and we can wipe out...
From Gut-Brain Secrets. Cholesterol is not the bad guy. It does not cause heart disease. And the conspiracy to deceive us all has been carefully planned, extremely well-funded, and manipulatively orchestrated. The truth of the matter: cholesterol is an essential material for tissue repair development and normal functioning of the brain and nervous system hormone production, such as cortisol...
From Gut-Brain Secrets. Before Dr. Elaine Ingham came along, most scientists, growers and agriculture companies thought of raising plants as basically a “minerals applied, minerals uptaken” sort of thing. Whatever is in the soil gets taken up by the plant to feed itself, and ultimately goes to the animal that eats that plant. Minerals in the earth basically get consumed and depleted over the...
From Gut-Brain Secrets. We forget about the role that food preservation plays in our health, and our food supply, because taste and price are priorities #1 and 2 for most people. We don’t stop to consider the virtues and vices of different food preservation techniques because, having lived with shelf-stable foods our entire lives, and having left most of those decisions up to Big Food, we take a...
From Gut-Brain Secrets. Glyphosate is the ultimate fast-acting poison for plants Glyphosate (the active ingredient in Roundup) is a freakishly effective chelator that does most of its damage by tying up beneficial minerals that organisms need to drive their enzyme reactions, and thus their biology. This devastates biologic function so extensively, for so many life forms, that it’s hard to believe...
From Gut-Brain Secrets and The Mitochondriac Manifesto. How inflammation heals The body uses inflammation to repair pretty much any sort of damage that can happen anywhere in the body, including: cuts, bruises and overuse injuries damage to bones, muscles, tendons, blood vessels and internal organs microbial infection radiation damage chemical and heavy metal poisoning as well as ordinary wear...