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Medical data is for informational purposes only. You should always consult your family physician, or one of our referral physicians prior to treatment.

Supplement to

The Art of Getting Well

Friendly Bacteria --

Lactobacillus acidophilus

Bifido bacterium

Sources are given in references.

Authors of contributions\quotations are alphabetically arranged;

major author, if any, is underlined.

John M. Baron, D.O., Luc De Schepper, M.D., Ph.D., C.A.,

Gerald Domingue, M.D., Brad Everett, Howard Hughes, William

H. Lee, R.Ph., Ph.D., Lida Mattman, Ph.D., Ed McCabe, Natasha

Trenev, Dr. Ken Rifkin Ray C. Wunderlich, Jr., M.D./Responsible

editor/writer Anthony di Fabio.

Foundation for Eradication of Rheumatoid Disease

AKA The Arthritis Trust of America

7376 Walker Road, Fairview, Tn 37062

The subject of intestinal microflora is of importance to

arthritics for two major reasons: (1) it is essential for good health

to have a good colony of synergistically (working together and

reinforcing one another) behaving microflora; (2) it is essential

for metabolization of some of the medicines we recommend when

halting the progress of Rheumatoid Diseases, as reported in The

Art of Getting Well

. [See http://www.arthritistrust.org.]

There are more bacteria in the world today than all the humans

ever born. There are more bacteria than all the mammals that have

ever been born. The head of one pin may contain one trillion or

more of them! Bacteria, as will be seen, exist under the most

varying, most extreme, most hostile conditions on our planet. They

are pervasive!

Clearly bacteria are the dominant life form on planet Earth!

As man's lifeline evolved from simple, one-celled origins, and

became an interacting group of single-celled bacteria, and thence

onward where each cell specialized to help the whole survive, we

carried along with us a special set of cells that helped to digest food,

produce certain key vitamins, maintain balance of acidity/

alkalinity, and a host of other good features many of which are not

yet known.

The single cell — whether classified as plant or animal -- is a

wonderous and complex machine, not at all fully understood by

the wisest men. [See "Correcting an Inaccurate Paradigm on

Cellular Functions -- Lay Version," http://www.arthritistrust.org.]

As with all life-forms, bacteria strive to survive, and they do

this by reproducing themselves again and again and again. Where

was one bacteria, there are now two, then four, then eight, then

sixteen, thirty-two, sixty-four, one hundred and twenty-eight — and

they double each period of time, so long as nourishment is available

to permit growth, and so long as space is there to grow in, and

so long as no predators gobble them up or kill them.

An individual bacterium is unimportant to the species'

survival, the group (species' survival) is all-important.

Yet an individual bacterium differs in ways that are too subtle

to notice until the environment becomes hostile to the species.

Perhaps one bacterium out of a trillion has the fascinating ability

to survive in conditions that are inimical to most. A penicillin

environment, for example, may kill all but one in a trillion, but that

last goes on to double and redouble, until finally the species has

different characteristics, different abilities — and most of the

surviving progeny can survive in the changed environment. The

use of penicillin — usually a dangerous environment for bacteria —

is an excellent example. Use it to get well, and most bacteria die.

Sooner or later there is spread amongst us progeny of that single or

small colony of bacteria that are naturally resistant to pencillin.

Some bacteria can live in the absence of oxygen, and some

require oxygen. Some live on sulfurs and hydrogen at the deeps

of the sea, near turmoiling and broiling volcanic vents. Certain

bacteria grow well on oil, and others on otherwise deadly poisons.

Some must float nicely in conjunction with other miniscule life-

forms in the ever-changing and billowing white clouds.

Some bacteria produce deadly toxins, and others produce life-

giving (to humans) vitamins.

You can’t kill all of the microrganisms in your food, unless

you boil your water at 126

Centigrade (258.8

Fahrenheit), under

some pressure (autoclaving) for 96 hours. As water under standard

pressure conditions boils at 100

Centigrade (212

Fahrenheit), such

persistent determination to kill all microorganisms will also destroy

your food.

Some can live to 190

Centigrade (324

Fahrenheit) below zero.

Despite Howard Hughes’ billions and his alleged fanatic

attempts to shield himself from bacteria, he was surrounded in a sea

of them. Only his immunological system, such as it might have

been, waged the actual warfare, not his reputed ineffectual “non-

contact” procedures.

If world governments sling holocaust bombs at each other,

bacteria will still be alive and well!

A bacterium, called Radiodurans, thrives inside operating

nuclear reactors. These bacteria have the highest levels of Super

Oxide Dismutase and Catalase and some other antioxidant enzymes

than any others measured

According to Gerald Domingue, M.D.

, in a talk presented in

part at the 75th Annual Meeting of American Society for

Microbiology and subsequently published by Microbia, in his

article “Naked Bacteria in Human Blood,” many common and

disease-producing bacteria, under the influence of many antibiotics,

do not die, but rather are stripped of their walls so that they are no

longer recognizable by our immune system. Our immune system

uses the invader's cell walls to recognize a foreign invasion. If the

cell wall is missing, our immune system assumes there is no

invasion!

Some of these “Cell-Wall-Deficient Bacteria” can revert to

and reduce themselves down to a filterable virus size — among

the smallest known forms of virus.

Amazingly, it has been shown that these viral particles and the

incomplete bacteria — Cell-Wall Deficient Bacteria -- can and

often do restructure themselves again. Since the bacteria has

restructured itself to include a cell wall, it is once again recognized

as an invader by our immune system. So now our systems react and

it appears as though another full-fledged disease is at hand,

“another infection” that must be treated with more antibiotics,

which then strip off the walls to go unrecognized, ad infinitum. . .

. . .!