Unfortunately many of the people on this list or site, are not intelligent
enough to think for themselves. They swallow like gullible automatons, the
lying, marketing propaganda of the pharmaceutical, the junk food and the
restaurant industries.
Bacteria, viruses, worms and parasites, have nothing to do with the illnesses
that living beings manifest!
To prove such, I will eat before any audience, any natural, raw, unprocessed
and palatable food, whether it be fruits, vegetables, avocados, nuts, grains,
legumes, eggs, dairy, meat, fish, etc., infested with any kind of bacteria,
viruses, parasites or worms, the audience chooses, and I will not become ill
from this!
T.C.Fry wrote, "Actually bacteria are our symbiotic partners in both health
and disease. They serve a useful role. As scavengers, they make harmless or
remove undesirable substances within our bodies. They also elaborate certain
of our body needs. That is, they help build complex organic compounds from
simple ingredients. A notable example of this is the production of vitamin
B-12 in our intestines."
Fry also wrote, "'Infection' is no war in which the body is fighting
invaders. The bacteria that come to these sites are symbiotic and help the
body in elaborating dead cells and tissues for expulsion-they are partners in
the cleanup process. When this has been accumulated, the bacteria disappear
and the wound heals. Infection...is a body cleaning process for a body
burdened with toxic materials."
Dr. Paul Goldberg writes, "We need to re-direct our perspectives of microbes
and see them in a new light. In terms of bacteria, for example, we need to
appreciate them as: Bodily inhabitants who assist us in such ways as
protecting us from other organisms (e.g. fungi), assisting in digestion and
metabolism of food, synthesizing vitamins, and helping to eliminate waste
materials."
Dr. Alec Burton writes, "DO GERMS CAUSE DISEASE? Or could it be the other way
around...first the disease, then the germs. Natural Hygiene contends that
germs do not cause disease. They are not the originators. Most diseases occur
when people allow themselves to become enervated, that is, low in nerve
energy. As a consequence, the organs of excretion fail to function normally
and waste material accumulates in the body. When this waste continues to
build up, exceeding the body's toleration point, a crisis arises.  The body,
to offset this overabundance of poisonous matter, begins to react. The result
of this reaction is sometimes a cold, the flu, pneumonia, or some such,
depending on the individual. At this crisis point of elimination, germs may
or may not be present. They are sure to come later, not to attack, but to
assist in the cleanup or cleansing process."
Dr. Virginia V. Vetrano writes, "(Natural) Hygienists object to the germ
theory of disease because germs do not cause disease. They may be present in
disease processes, and they may complicate a disease with their waste
products which can be very toxic at times, but the germ or virus alone is
never the sole cause of disease."
"Germs are saprophytes; that is, they live of dead and decaying organic
matter. Bacteria are actually our benefactors. They decompose our excretions,
helping to rid the system of them. Bacteria are non-toxic, and non-virulent
as long as body secretions and excretions are normal. When toxemia exists,
that is, when metabolic wastes accumulate in the system in excess, causing
the secretions and excretions of the body to become abnormal and poisonous, a
non-pathogenic bacterium can turn into a so-called pathogenic one by feeding
on toxic wastes. Bacteria excrete toxic waste only when human secretions are
abnormal and when the cells of the body rid itself of dead tissue. 'Disease
producing' germs are often present in the absence of the disease they are
supposed to cause. They are often found when an individual has not had the
disease that a particular germ is supposed to cause and when the individual
never develops the disease. Furthermore, in myriads of cases, a particular
pathogenic germ is not present when the disease it is supposed to cause
exists."
Dr. Robert R. Gross wrote, "Germs do not cause disease! Nature never
surrounded her children with enemies. It is the individual himself who makes
disease possible in his own body because of poor living habits...Do
mosquitoes make the water stagnant; or does stagnant water attract the
mosquitoes? We should all be taught that germs are friends and scavengers
attracted by disease, rather enemies causing disease...As their internal
environment is, so will be the attraction for any specific
micro-organism...The germ theory and vaccination are kept going by
commercialism."
Dr. Herbert Shelton wrote, "Warmth, moisture, food-these are the causes that
activate latent germs and arouse them to activity. They exist, all except the
food, in the mouth, nose and throat at all times. The food is thrown out into
these, as excretions, in disease. The germs feed on the excretions. They are
scavengers. They were never anything else and will never be anything else.
They break up and consume the discharge from the tissues. This is the
function ascribed to germs everywhere in nature outside the body and is their
real and only function in disease. They are purifying and beneficial agents.
The medical profession has worked itself into hysteria over the germ theory
and is using it to exploit an all too credulous public. Germs are ubiquitous.
They are in the air we breathe, the food we eat, the water we drink.  We
cannot escape them. We can destroy them only to a limited extent. It is folly
to attempt to escape disease by attempting to destroy or escape germs. Once
they are in the body, the physician has no means of destroying them that will
not, at the same time, destroy the patient. We cannot avoid germs. We must be
proof against them. We have to accept them as one of the joys of life."
Rudolph Virchow, a great German scientist, repudiated the germ theory of
disease.
He said that disease brought on germs rather than the germs caused disease.
Claude Bernard, Bechamp and Tissot-great French scientists all-disproved the
germ theory of disease. In Dr. Hans Selye's book "Stress of Life" (page 205),
an account is recorded that Louis Pasteur, inventor of the germ theory of
disease, admitted he was wrong. Sanitation is the only factor that has
reduced the spread of the old-time scourges. If the germ theory were founded
on facts, there would be no living being to read what is herein written, for
germs are ubiquitous-they exsist everywhere. In many diseases supposedly
caused by a specific germ, that germ is not present. Contrariwise, specific
germs said to cause a specific disease, are present in huge proportions
without the specific disease manifesting itself.
Dr. Virginia V. Vetrano writes, "Just remember that there are no contagious
diseases, just contagious habits which lower your vitality. There have been
many people who have had diphtheria and yet no germ could be found. The same
can be said of tuberculosis and other diseases. This is why the virus had to
be discovered-to save the germ theory. Now we have virus infections instead
of germ diseases of mankind. If a germ does not cause disease, what does?
Soon everyone will learn that it is the individual's way of life that
produces disease and not the saprophytes of earth, which are actually
beneficial to us. Without them we would all succumb. They do so many jobs for
us that it would take volumes to tell you about them. In fact without
bacterial life, all animal and plant life would soon wither and die. On
second thought, without bacteria we can,t even wither."
 Dr. Vetrano adds, "A truly healthy child can sleep with a person 'infected'
with scarlet fever, mumps, measles or some of the other virulent so-called
infectious diseases, night after night, and still not develop the disease.
But overfeed that same child and he will now develop a so-called infectious
disease. This disease will not be due to germs, but due to putrefactive
toxins absorbed from the digestive tract in an enervated and toxemic
individual."
(Natural) Hygienists do not use the term infection to mean 'invasion' of the
organism by pathogenic micro-organisms, but recognize the element of
poisoning in all so-called 'infections.' (Dr. John) Tilden said that all
infections stem from one source-protein decomposition. The term septic
infection covers the whole field of infection and means protein
decomposition. Pioneer (Natural) Hygienists said specific infections have no
place in biological abnormalities or disease and any infection is only septic
infection arising from absorbed protein putrefactive toxins from the
digestive tract. Dr. (Herbert) Shelton states that 'sepsis is the only
infecting agent all the so-called specific diseases.'"
"Parasites cannot thrive in the man or woman who maintains a high level
health. Parasites require certain conditions in which to grow and multiply
and the healthy organism simply has too many systems that prevent their
continued existence."
Dr. Herbert Shelton wrote that "drugs to rid the body of worms succeed in
worsening the condition of the infected one, making them still less resistant
to invasion by parasites. (Drs.) Weger and Tilden said a change to the clean
(Natural) Hygiene diet is all that is necessary, with no in between
eating...The quickest way to be free of parasites forever is to take a
complete fast and live (Natural) Hygienically thereafter, because the fast
cleanses the body and prevents further infestation. It is the (Natural)
Hygienic view that the parasites are merely incidental and adventitious
elements of disease not cause. Wrong habits of body and mind reduce the
powers of the body and make it possible for parasites to live in cavities."
"To repeat, the parasites are not the cause of the disease, but incidents of
the disease. When you start homesteading parasites you may know that your
tissues and secretions have become so impaired that the parasites find
residence in them possible. Parasites of all kinds must find favorable habits
if they are to set up housekeeping. It is well to know that parasites do no
thrive in an empty colon and when deprived of the decomposing food supply
upon which they live, they perish and the patient lives. This means that the
surest and safest way to free the digestive tract of parasites is a fast.
This also aids in freeing the patient of his gastro-intestinal catarrh, after
which digestion becomes normal. Thereafter a correct mode of living and sane
eating will maintain a digestive tract in which parasites can find no
lodgment. This plan of care works as effectively with tape worms as with
amoeba and hookworms. No drugs to kill the parasites, but stopping their food
supplies, frees the digestive tract of them without harm to the patient."