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scientists, including Charles Mayo, Dr. Price declared that “Modern medicine is mistaking effect for cause.”20
Other common focal infections may involve the tonsils and sinuses. These foci become even more well-established when children receive excessive rounds of antibiotics for colds, ear and sinus infections and strep throat. These interventions actually increase the likelihood of struggling in adulthood with various dysfunc- tions and diseases emanating from insidiously silent chronic upper respiratory focal infections. Antibiotics kill the weaker bacteria but tend to encourage stronger bacteria to adapt and survive by hiding or mutating.
Bacteria’s most common mutation strategy is to lose their cell wall over successive genera- tions which renders them virtually unrecogniz- able by future antibiotics—as well as our own immune systems.30 These mutated cell wall- defective (CWD) bacteria make up most of the pathogenic microbes found in focal infections in the teeth, tonsils and sinuses and furnish the basis for the future onset of autoimmune dis- ease. Over time, CWD bacteria migrate to other warm, moist, semi-anaerobic and microbe- hospitable areas of the body. These common disturbed fields include the heart valves, the sy- novial fluid in the joints, the glomerular tubules in the kidneys and the meninges of the brain.
Dr. Martin Fischer, a German-born Ameri- can professor of physiology and the author of Death and Dentistry, comments: “For it is said truly that the disease of man’s mature years are naught but the diseases of childhood, grown old.”31 Thus, while the antibiotic-treated ton- sillitis and other upper respiratory infections of childhood may no longer occur when we are adults, the pathogenic bacteria remaining in dental, tonsil and sinus focal infections can maintain symptoms such as fatigue, memory loss, kidney or bladder dysfunction, joint pain, and heart disease for a lifetime.
Whereas the causative focus is often silent and asymptomatic, the disturbed fields are not. If you have chronic hip or shoulder pain, fatigue, headaches or frequent urination that are not resolved by conventional medicine, consider consulting a holistic doctor or practitioner or a biological dentist who is knowledgeable and
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experienced in diagnosing and treating focal infections. Radical Medicine (Chapters 8-13) provides more in-depth information on chronic foci.20 I discuss optimal recovery from dental surgery in The 5 Post-Cavitation Surgery Days32 and describe in my book, CASPERS Syndrome: A Naturopathic Doctor’s Guide to Treating Chronic Autoimmune Stealth Patho- gens Evolved from Resistant Bacterial Species, how overuse and abuse of antibiotics help gener- ate chronic focal infections.30
REMOVE MIASMIC TENDENCIES Fundamentally, our life is determined not by genetics but by epigenetics; that is, the en- vironment we live in and create for ourselves primarily determines the expression of our genes and our level of health. Following the recommendations in the previous four sec- tions can have an enormous effect on one’s epigenetics, with corresponding effects on the degree and quality of health and happiness. A sizeable percentage of us, however, still suffer from disturbing symptoms even though we adhere to an allergy-free Wise Traditions diet, use clean soaps and cosmetics, have removed our amalgam fillings and have cleared all of our focal infections. This fact—observed in myself and in my patients—motivated me to study homeopathy and the treatment of miasms. The term “miasm” refers to the inherited or environ- mentally caused predisposition to disease and the susceptibility of succumbing to that disease
under stress.20
Unfortunately, there are many modern-day
stressors: seventy vaccines from birth to eigh- teen, ten or more rounds of antibiotics before immune systems have matured at the age of seven, and the innumerable statins and other toxic drugs that characterize the polypharmacy of adulthood.33 These can render even the stur- diest immune system dysfunctional. Dr. Hahn- emann’s observations in the nineteenth century ring even more true today:
Of all the chronic diseases, these botchings of the human condition brought forth by the allopathic calami- tous art (at its worst in recent times) are the saddest and most incurable. I
Bacteria’s most common mutation strategy is to lose their cell wall over successive generations which renders them virtually unrecogniz- able by future antibiotics— as well as our own immune systems.
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