Innovative researcher, Margaret McFall-Ngai, a biology and immunology professor at the University of Wisconsin, has announced a discovery that was discussed at length in the Wall Street Journal on August 28, 2008. She proposes that the immune system’s role is not always one of “killing,” but more importantly, one of “a master regulator” of our microbial menagerie, “working to maintain communities of bacteria in balance.”
This is what we in principle-based medicine have been saying for over 25 years. Louis Pasteur, who initiated the “germ theory” of disease, upon which our present-day immune system killing theory is based, refuted the importance of his own germ theory just before he died. Speaking of the body as the “terrain” upon which the germs reside, he said at his deathbed, “The terrain is everything.” He was referring to the fact that the body’s immune system is what regulates and determines the presence of disease, and not the organism itself. Unfortunately, that comment was ignored, because it did not fit the prevailing direction of medical care at the time. How refreshing it is today to see current medical thinking trends starting to shift!
My doctor says I can get all the vitamins and minerals I need from my food. What is your opinion on this?
I used to say the same thing to my patients, back in the days before I studied healthy alternatives. It is the party line of allopathic medicine, although that is starting to change. Here's the bottom line, and I'll follow up with some info on what allopaths are now doing:
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