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The Curse of Louis Pasteur

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Nancy Appleton shows us that Pasteur's discovery of infectious diseases has been both a blessing and a curse for all of us. Its been a blessing because it led to the discovery of the antibiotics, which have helped cure many of our infectious diseases. Its been a curse because the success of researchers in finding antibiotics that cure infectious diseases has given the entire medical profession a one-track mind. Researchers now assume that, because they found drugs that kill microbes, they can find other drugs that will "kill" metabolic diseases, such as heart attack, stroke, diabetes, arthritis, kidney failure, etc. They're looking for what Paul Ehrlich called "magic bullets." But they won't find any "magic bullets" for these degenerative diseases, because there's nothing to kill. These diseases all have complex cause-and-effect chains that disrupt our body chemistry. Unless we eliminate what were doing to cause these disruptions, we cant prevent these diseases. So what can we do about metabolic disorders? Weston A. Price and Denis Burkitt, among others, found the answer to this question. Their studies showed first, that Third World peoples are almost entirely immune to our degenerative diseases and second, that when those peoples switch from their traditional natural foods to our factory-produced junk food, they come down with all the metabolic diseases that are rampant in our society. This means that our hospitals are full of people who could have avoided their agonizing and often fatal ailments if only they had stayed with the natural foods of our ancestors. But the knowledge that would have saved these patients has been ignored by our medical researchers who are futilely chasing the will o the wisp of magic-bullet cures that dont exist. The resulting "slaughter of the innocents" is one of the many tragic results of the curse of Louis Pasteur.

This book is fabulous! I encourage anyone who has a health challenge and is solely relying on traditional medicine to read this book! I have known for years that the germ theory and the paradigm of the human body as a chemical machine was too narrow and simply didn't "solve" many health challenges. But now I know that Louis Pasteur "sold" his theory in his day in the face of other, more scientifically sounder theories and that this is why medicine today is so lacking in so many ways. I acknowledge and very much appreciate what modern-day medicine can do in acute, emergency situations- but it simply doesn't solve other chronic problems. If a modern-day doctor can't ultimately cut or drug the symptoms of a problem, he is at a loss and we, the patients, continue to suffer! This book is not only scientifically documented, but it offers a paradigm of common sense regarding our health. This book is a wonderful catalog of the scientists that were on the right track and had the evidence to back their assertions up. I am so pleased now to be able to speak intelligently about the origins and shortcomings of the modern-day medical paradigm and why it doesn't work! It makes total sense that if we would but feed our body properly, it would stay in balance and keep us healthy! This point- that the body is self-regulating wherein disease is an exception and not the norm, and that the responsibility for health must be returned to and accepted by the individual- are crucial messages for us to understand. Appleton not only gives us the theoretical and historical data for our understanding, but also specific, practical ABC's as to how to better feed and take care of our bodies. And her writing style is direct and easy to read for such a complex and scientific topic. This book will be long treasured in my library of health books!

Discovering this book was a great delight for me! It provides a good beginning for enlightenment beyond the confines of modern medicine. Its data is both informative and practical. Appleton has taken extremely complex subject matter and made it simple enough for any to understand. I have studied extensively for over 20 years ALL of the material covered by this book. There are no lies within its covers. Consequences today from Pasteur's devious behavior and efforts in the previous century make Adolf Hitler look like a Cub Scout by comparison! The two previous reviews should be stricken because they are absolute lies put forth from one(s) hypnotized by the mysticism within fallacious medical dogma. Read `The Private Science of Louis Pasteur' by Gerald L. Geison published by Princeton University Press. It was the winner of the 1996 William H. Welch Medal sponsored by the American Association for the History of Medicine and was one of Choice's Outstanding Academic Books of 1995. It provides exacting detail from Pasteur's own writings of what an abominable person he was.

After finding out that infectious diseases and degenerative diseases are increasing per 100,000 people in the United States as well as the rest of the world, I questioned what causes disease in the first place. A great deal of research led me to one conclusion: that Louis Pasteur's germ theory has overpowered other ideas about the origins and development of disease. My research led me to the concept that we, with our 20th-century lifestyle, create our own illnesses. My research also led me to write The Curse of Louis Pasteur (TCLP). TCLP documents how Pasteur's germ theory overcame far sounder theories to become the medical paradigm of modern times. TCLP demonstrates why the germ theory is not workable. TCLP reveals a much simpler, and I believe much truer, theory as to what causes disease. TCLP ends with self-help techniques that can help stop the cause of disease, and consequently heal the body and prevent future sickness. Nanc;y Appleton, Ph.D.

This book is fabulous! I encourage anyone who has a health challenge and is solely relying on traditional medicine to read this book! I have known for years that the germ theory and the paradigm of the human body as a chemical machine was too narrow and simply didn't "solve" many health challenges. But now I know that Louis Pasteur "sold" his theory in his day in the face of other, more scientifically sounder theories and that this is why medicine today is so lacking in so many ways. I acknowledge and very much appreciate what modern-day medicine can do in acute, emergency situations- but it simply doesn't solve other chronic problems. If a modern-day doctor can't ultimately cut or drug the symptoms of a problem, he is at a loss and we, the patients, continue to suffer! This book is not only scientifically documented, but it offers a paradigm of common sense regarding our health. This book is a wonderful catalog of the scientists that were on the right track and had the evidence to back their assertions up. I am so pleased now to be able to speak intelligently about the origins and shortcomings of the modern-day medical paradigm and why it doesn't work! It makes total sense that if we would but feed our body properly, it would stay in balance and keep us healthy! This point- that the body is self-regulating wherein disease is an exception and not the norm, and that the responsibility for health must be returned to and accepted by the individual- are crucial messages for us to understand. Appleton not only gives us the theoretical and historical data for our understanding, but also specific, practical ABC's as to how to better feed and take care of our bodies. And her writing style is direct and easy to read for such a complex and scientific topic. This book will be long treasured in my library of health books!

Ive only just learned of this books from the Westonaprice website, so i cant comment on it. But i can comment on Mr Heersinks review. He claims Appleton is a mere PhD, and so not qualified to write on this topic. However, lack of qualifications didnt seem to bother Heersink in another of his reviews: that of Mortimer Adler's Ten Philsophical mistakes. He wrote the following:
'Adler is not a "professional" philosopher, but that doesn't make his contribution any less worthy. Indeed, because of its accessibility and wide terrain, this is an engaging dialectic for most of the prominent philosophers from Plato to Nietzsche, One ought '

So, Appleton may not be a 'professional'MD or DO. That does not make her conrribution any less worthy

Back in the early Seventies, when an undergraduate at Berkeley, I took a nutrition survey course from George Briggs, Ph.D., Department Chair, Nobel Laureate, and the U.S. expert on nutrition. At our first lecture, Briggs excoriated Adele Davis, the Sixties' food guru, and his former student. Ever since, I've viewed "counter theories" with a more suspicious eye. This book is a perfect example of why.

Ms. Appleton is a Ph.D., but no scientist. What are her qualifications to debunk the proven germ-theory of disease? None. She's merely speculating about something nonscientific armchair Ph.D.s have no expertise in. If you really want a scientific account of "Why We Get Sick," read a book by that name by authors Randolph Nesse and George Williams (M.D. and Ph.D. respectively). They not only prove the germ theory of disease, but give evolutionary reasons for it. Don't buy this nonsense that doesn't even reach the level of "junk science," because there is no science here. This book is quackery, plain and simple.

Certainly, not all illnesses are because of, nor exacerbated by, food intolerances. Such panacea descriptions have been debunked over and over, and still people crave to blame disease and disorders on "food intolerances," and food "allergies," and other such nonsense. Indeed, I think she'd be hard-pressed to find any such association between food and disease, much less any disease, except for metabolic disorders. Before long, she'll ascribe even HIV and cancer as the result of food intolerance!

Don't misunderstand me; good nutrition and healthy diets do promote healthy outcomes, but so do microorganisms produce illnesses and disorders far more than mere any food will. Conversely, we know that people who exercise daily and eat four healthy meals a day come down with a plethora of disorders and diseases that have nothing whatsoever to do with food.

We do know that diets high in fat, salt, and sugar are not healthy, but this doesn't excuse the "leap" to "food intolerances" as the cause of things like lymphadentiis,viseral abscesses, septic shock, staphyloccocus, streptococcus, pneumeococcus, Anthrax, Cholera, Meliodosis, Tuberculosis, systemic Fungal, Rickettsial, Chlamydial, Viral, and Parasitic infections, much less immunological, cardiovascular, pulmonary, gastrointestinal, hepatic and bilary, endoctrine, hematological, musculoskeletal, muscular, neurological, psychiatric, genitourinary, and dermatological disorders, to name a few.

This book is total and unadulterated nonsense that is just another gimmick in the world of conspiracies. Yes, we really do want to believe that disease is all because of the food we eat, because that's something we think we can control. To a limited extent, the maxim, "you are what you eat" is apropro. But to make outlandish claims that have no biological, chemical, or physical bases in fact is spurious from the get go. Don't waste your precious money on these panhandlers. If you want a serious and scientific book on "Why We Get Sick," seek out Nesse's and William's excellent alternative.

...I should have stopped reading it after first sentence: " When I finished my research and investigation into what causes disease...." but I kept reading until I got really sick. The book attacks the postulates of the germ theory, which states that certain diseases are caused by pathogenic (bad) microorganisms and their products. The author suggests that the diseases occur due to disbalances in the body that lead to the change in our normal bacteria, which become toxic and cause disease. The book is so far off the charts that probably nobody competent enough to attack it had ever read it.

What a great book!! I have seen cultures of Staph and Strep and I know!! And did you also know that martians even as we speak are developing leeches that can unbalance our body in a way even Sir Thomas Browne could not have imagined? Trust me I have it on the authority of Zeus

It's all a lie. I do not recommend this book ever, ever