Was The Man Behind Orthodox Medicine Louis Pasteur Wrong in his monomorphic germ theory? What are the implications for finding a cure for cancer if he was in fact wrong? Are we ignoring pioneering research done by so many who already put forth convincingly comprehensive cancer theories which have been set aside by orthodox thinking?

As per Louis Pasteur’s monomorphic germ theory of 1862,

  • Germs, or microbes, cause disease
  • Germs invade the body from the outside
  • Human blood is sterile and can only be infected by outside microbes
  • Germs are monomorphic, in other words, they have only one form and can be identified by species
  • The shapes and colours of microorganisms are constant
  • Every disease is associated with a partciular microorganism
  • Germs should be killed by drugs

In contrast, there was another French microbiologist Antoine Bechamp, who proposed a theory known as pleomorphism as per which microorganisms can go through different stages of development and they can evolve into various growth forms within their life cycle. As per Bechamp, disease comes from inside the body when microbe like particles in the blood which he called microzymas, which change as individuals became diseased. So, these changes in these microbes are a result of changes in the environment of the host. These ever present microbes become harmful to the host only when the health of the host gets deteriorated. So, it is the deterioration of health or healthy environment of the body i.e. the host that makes these microbes turn against the host which are otherwise living in harmony with each other.

One of the major terrain factors that can go wrong for the body is acidic environment in which these microbes change into harmful ones and can thrive working against the host. This is the basis for pH theory of disease including cancer where we know that cancer is a disease of the acidic environment and cannot survive in an alkaline environment.

Towards the end of his life, Pasteur seemed to have acknowledged that his germ theory was in fact not right and is believed to have quoted Claude Bernard by saying: “The microbe is nothing. The terrain is everything.”. But, orthodox medicine already got entrenched in Pasteur’s germ theory to back away from it.

There is one major problem with Pasteur’s theory that cannot explain why some people or animals infected with the same germs don’t develop the disease. This can be explained by the integrity of the terrain of the host. The factors such as good pH balance, solid nutritional status, proper immune functioning etc. can explain why these can resist the infection where as others succumb to it who might have compromised health status.

Major implications for this reexamination of the fundamental issues of the causative factors of disease are how we approach addressing the health problems of the humanity. Focusing on killing the germs can save lives who have compromised their health status and are made vulnerable for diseases. But as we are finding out germs are smarter survivors and they quickly develop resistance to this kind of approach. Instead, if we can get the status of body health i.e. host environment a rock solid one, germs probably cannot gain much of an upper hand. When the body’s health environment is ideal, germs probably don’t have much of a chance but to either live in harmony, die or leave for an environment that is ideal for themselves.