Chapter 1
Sickness Is No Accident: The body has a plan
 
“It is highly dishonourable for a reasonable soul, living in
so divinely a built mansion as the body she resides in, to
be totally unacquainted with its exquisite structure.”
 — Robert Boyle, 1690
 The human body is the exquisite structure in which we
reside, and surely it is the responsibility of every human
being to know something about the house we live in. Allow me the pleasure of assisting you to become
acquainted with your exquisite structure. The human body has the ability to heal itself. It is a self-
healing organism. The question is then posed: “If this is
so, why are so many sick?” The human body will heal
itself if given the right conditions. Unfortunately , many
today are ignorant of these conditions. The aim of this book is to explore the answer to this
great question that billions of dollars in medical
expenditure are not solving. We can understand how cars, aeroplanes, computers
and machinery work, and treat them with the respect
they require in order to keep them operating in optimum
condition. When it comes to the amazing organism in
which we reside, we have to conclude that for themajority , there is an astounding lack of any real
knowledge of the working and care that is required to
keep it in a condition to carry us smoothly and trouble-
free through this great journey of life. Let’s start with the bare basics—the cycle of life. All
living things eventually die and are returned back to
dust. How does this relate to sickness in the human body? As we will soon see it has everything to do with it, for
this cycle of life is happening in a living breathing body . It
is the how , when and why of this that I would like to
explore. To Rudyard Kipling this concept was so important it
inspired him to write a poem. Allow me to share with you
the first few lines:
 “I have six trusty serving men, They taught me all I
know , Their names are What, Why , When, Where,
How, and Who.”  
 DUST T O DUST : THE CYCLE OF LIFE
 To take reference from the oldest history book we have,
the Bible says
 “In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou
return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken:
for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return. -
Genesis 3:19”
 And again, “All go to one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to
dust again.”
 -Ecclesiastes 3:20
 This is the verse the minister at the funeral is referring
to when he says “ashes to ashes and dust to dust.”
 Science calls this process the Carbon Cycle,
sometimes it is called the cycle of life. The Carbon Cycle
is a description of how living matter is brought back to
dust upon death of the organism. The Carbon Cycle Illustrated
 Cell damage causes microorganisms to change into:
  What causes this process? Microorganisms. The soil of
the earth is alive with microscopic organisms whose role
it is to bring matter back to dust. MICROORGANISMS IN THE DUST
 An excellent example of the carbon cycle is the
compost bin. I have three compost bins. Bin number one  is the bin in which I am throwing the
food scraps from the kitchen. I am also putting in the
weeds from the garden, along with a good helping of
cow manure. Bin number two  is the bin that is sitting and allowing
the carbon cycle to work. Bin number three  is ready for the garden. The Carbon
Cycle has brought all the vegetable matter back to dust
and I can now put it in the garden. What caused the vegetable matter to be brought back to
dust? Bacteria, fungi and yeast make up a large proportion of
the microscopic life a large proportion of the microscopic
life forms that live in the soil. They are responsible for
breaking down dead matter and bringing it back to dust. Fungi produce acid by-products that help them use
nutrients in the minerals. This results in the return of essential nutrients and
minerals like calcium, phosphate and potassium backinto the soil where they can nourish plants and
microbes. Rocks are composed of minerals, the vast majority of
which contain metals. They might be considered an
inhospitable habitat for life to flourish, yet here fungi can
thrive in the harshest of environments. These
microscopic life forms can remain inactive or dormant for
decades. But as soon as the environment provides a
food source, they become active again. There is a law of science that states, “Nothing is
created and nothing is destroyed.” These life forms
cannot be destroyed, but they have the ability to change
form, depending on the environment. Sometimes they
may lay dormant for a long time—some for thousands of
years— then become active when a good food source
arrives. Mosby’ s Medical Dictionary defines fungi as:
 A eukaryotic (contains a nucleus), thallus-forming
organism that feeds by absorbing organic molecules
from its surroundings. Fungi lack chlorophyll and are
therefore not capable of photosynthesis. They may be
saprophytes (eat dead organisms) or parasites (feed of f
living organisms). Unicellular fungi (yeasts) reproduce by
budding; multicellular fungi (mould) reproduce by spore
formation. Fungi may invade living organisms, including
humans as well as non-living organic sub- stances. Of
the 100,000 identified species of fungi, 100 are commonin humans and 10 are pathogenic (capable of causing
disease). The Bantam Medical Dictionary defines fungi as:
 Simple plants that lack the green pigment, chlorophyll. Fungi include yeasts, rusts, moulds and mushrooms. They live as either saprophytes or as parasites of plants
and animals. Some species infect and cause diseases in
man. The single-celled microscopic yeasts are a good
source of vitamin B and many antibiotics are obtained
from the moulds. In other words, a fungal cell has a nucleus like an
animal cell. In the yeast form, fungi are able to breathe
without the use of oxygen (anaerobically) just like plants
and yet they have no chlorophyll; fungi reproduce by
spores and obtain nutrition from their environment
(whether alive, dead or non-living organisms). MICROORGANISMS IN PLANTS
 Microbes are essential to the plant’ s existence and
health. The plant moves 50 percent of its glucose to the
roots each night and 60 percent of this is released to
feed hoards of microorganisms surrounding the roots. It is a classic example of the universal law “give and
you shall receive”. The plant is well rewarded for this gift. These microbes fix nitrogen from the atmosphere,
recycle minerals from plant residues, remove toxins,
stabilise locked up phosphorus, produce plant growth
stimulants and protect the plant from pathogens. The same microorganisms that are active in the growth
and development of the plant also accomplish its
breakdown. An apple grows by the action of these
microorganisms. The same microorganisms ripen the
apple. If not eaten, the microorganisms will also cause it
to rot. The environment dictates the role, phase, function
and form of each organism. Classification of fungi has been a concern since the
17th century because they are neither animal nor plant,
but contain some characteristics of both. Fungi play a crucial role on planet Earth as:
 
The clean-up team or garbage collectors. They
accomplish this task by breaking down dead
matter and bringing it back to dust. (The Carbon
Cycle.) The producers of carbon dioxide in the soil for
plant respiration. Agents that produce acids that convert metals
and
 Minerals in the soil to an absorbable form for the
plants. MICROORGANISMS IN THE EGG
 Consider a mother hen sitting on ten eggs—all have
the potential to hatch into a chicken. Imagine if I take
one egg and shake it violently , then place it back under
mother hen. In several weeks the sound of chirping
reveals little life forms called chickens, emerging from
the eggs. What caused the egg to develop into a
chicken? It was the microorganisms contained in the
white and yolk of the egg. We notice one egg has been kicked from the nest
perhaps due to a bad smell emitting from it. What
caused this smell? The cell damage caused by the
shaking, required the microorganisms in that egg to
change into bacteria, yeast, fungus and mould to
accomplish their role in the Carbon Cycle and bring the
damaged tissue back to dust. MICROORGANISMS IN HUMANS
 The human body contains more microorganisms than
cells. (Does that mean we are more plant than animal?) The largest concentration of the body’ s microorganisms
is found in the gastrointestinal tract. Here they play a
similar role as they do in the soil, they are breaking
down some of the nutrients in our food into absorbable
forms (specifically the B vitamins). The tiny villi that line our small intestines can be likened to the roots of the plant. Just as the chlorophyll (the plants blood system) in the
roots of the plants absorbs the nutrients in the soil that
have been broken down by these microscopic life forms,
so too does the blood supply in our villi absorb the
nutrients that have been broken down in our
gastrointestinal tract by microscopic life forms. Acidophilus and bifidus are the two permanent bacteria
that live in the gastrointestinal tract. There are many other bacteria but they are transitory . Bacteria, yeast and fungus are everywhere. These
single- celled forms of life live on our skin, our hair , in
our mouth, in our intestines and on the food we eat. Not
only do they play a role in aiding the absorption of
certain nutrients, they also protect us from harmful
microbes. Candida albicans is a yeast that lives in our
gastrointestinal tract. This yeast plays an important role
in the chemical balance in our intestines. Lactobacillus-
acidophilus and bifidus bacterium are the bacteria that
protect us from this yeast over colonising. There are dozens of dif ferent species of candida. Approximately eight are known to cause disease in man. Broad spectrum antibiotic treatment kills of f acidophilus
and bifidus allowing candida to multiply at an aggressive
rate. The overgrowth of these yeasts causes them to
pass through the mucosal lining and leak into the blood
stream. This is a common way this form of yeast can
cause disease in humans. Understanding the role of bacteria, fungus and yeast in
nature gives us an indication of how these can af fect
humans. As we have already acknowledged, they have
their two main roles: saprophytes and parasites. Saprophytes feed of f dead organisms. This includes
any area in the human body that sustains damage frompoisoning or trauma creating an environment conducive
to fungal growth. Parasites feed of f living organisms. Fungi are able to
live in the human body feeding of f its tissues. They can
enter in various ways—I will cover this later in the book. So it is seen that some fungus feeds of f dead
organisms operating as nature’ s garbage disposal, while
other parasitic fungus, feeds of f live organisms. These pathogenic fungi cause plant, animal and human
diseases. Some of the simpler and more well known are
athlete’ s foot (tinea), swimmer ’s ear , ringworm, dandruf f,
finger and toenail infections, rosacea and yeast
infections. Typically fungi sprout from a spore and grow as
filaments termed hyphae. These hyphae extend at their
tips and enable the fungus to grow continuously into
fresh zones of nutrients and also to penetrate hard
surfaces such as plant cell walls, insect cuticles, human
skin and nails, and so on. This is why fungi are so
important as plant pathogens and as decomposer
organisms. Y east transforms itself and grows hyphae
very well at 37.5C (body temperature). This explains why athlete’ s foot is a systemic condition. It has grown very deep into the tissues. A LIVING ILLUSTRA TION
 Let us look at how the Carbon Cycle can function in a
human body as an attempt to repair or heal cell damage. Sick Steve is 35 years old and has smoked 15 to 20
cigarettes a day for 15 years. Cell damage is constantly
happening in sick Steve’ s lungs. T obacco, with its
nicotine and approximately 4,000 other chemicals, does
nasty things to every part of the body that it touches. Steve’ s microorganisms are evolving constantly into the
“clean up brigade” (bacteria) in an attempt to keep his
lungs working. Sick Steve is often coughing since this is
how his lungs eliminate the waste from the clean up. Sick Steve has a brother named Healthy Harry . Sick
Steve thinks that Healthy Harry is a fitness fanatic. He
exercises for an hour every day , drinks two to three litres
of water every day and eats a lot of fresh fruit and
vegetables, whole grains, legumes, nuts and seeds. He
does not drink alcohol, take drugs or even smoke
cigarettes. Sick Steve thinks that Healthy Harry is dead
boring. One day their Cousin Colin visits. Colin has a bad cold. He coughs on both Sick Steve and Healthy Harry . The
bacteria that are active in “spring cleaning” Cousin Colin
are catapulted into Sick Steve. After a quick scout
around, the bacteria discover a veritable banquet in Sick
Steve’ s respiratory system. They even meet up with
some relatives already feasting. As is their habit, they multiply rapidly . Coupled with the
enzymes they release to digest their meal and the wastegiven of f from the digestion of their meal, a toxic load is
produced. This causes Sick Steve to rush to the doctor
complain- ing of a terrible cold given to him by Cousin
Colin. Now Sick Steve is really sick! These same microorganisms that entered Sick Steve
also entered Healthy Harry . But there was nothing to eat,
very little waste to feed on and nothing in Healthy
Harry’ s food program to feed on either . As the food
supply was so poor , these microorganisms failed to
thrive and were forced into dormancy . If germs do cause disease, if Pasteur was right, Sick
Steve and Healthy Harry should both have come down
with the cold. But only Sick Steve becomes sick. Meanwhile, in the doctor ’s office, Sick Steve describes
the foul lumps that he is coughing up and how terrible he
feels. He is all clogged up with mucus, his muscles ache
and he feels like death warmed up. The doctor agrees. Sick Steve has caught a terrible cold from his cousin. The doctor prescribes an antibiotic to kill the unwelcome
invader . Sick Steve begins his medication immediately ,
breathing a sigh of relief. T o celebrate, he treats himself
to his favourite meal of baked mushrooms on fresh yeast
bread with blue vein cheese and a large steak. He
washes this down with a few large glasses of beer ,
nibbling on a few peanuts as he drinks. T o finish the
meal he has a large bowl of ice cream covered in
chocolate syrup. Within six to eight hours, Sick Steve is experiencing
relief from the symptoms of his cold. The bacteria that
were having a party in his respiratory tract have suf fered
a lethal blow from the action of the antibiotics and the
toxic waste they were producing has been reduced. What is now happening in Sick Steve? Let us pull the
curtain aside and have a look at the activity of these
microscopic life forms in Sick Steve’ s body . Unknowingly , Sick Steve has given the perfect food to
the yeast and fungus now multiplying nicely in his body . For not only did the antibiotics kill of f the bacteria in his
lungs, but also the bacteria that forms the flora in his
intestines. Now that they are reduced, the yeast that
resides there (Candida albicans), begins to multiply . When yeast and fungus are introduced into the body in
this way and allowed to multiply , they feed on cell
damage and the yeast and sugar that are fed to it by the
host (the human). They multiply quickly . The waste they
give of f is highly toxic to the body . As already mentioned, several dozen candida species
exist, and eight are known to cause disease in humans. The overgrowth of Candida albicans in the intestinal
tract causes damage to the gut wall allowing subsequent
pas- sage through the mucosa lining of the gut into the
bloodstream. This basically means the yeast can poke
holes in the intestines allowing the yeast and partially
digested food to enter the bloodstream. Because thewhite blood cells consider these to be enemies, this is
one of the causes of many autoimmune diseases. Let’s see how Sick Steve is doing. His bad cold did die
down but another problem developed. Sick Steve now
has a bad case of jock itch around his scrotum, anal itch
and tinea between his toes. He also notices that his
tongue is heavily coated. These are all fungal outbreaks. Sick Steve returns to the doctor who gives him a course
of nystatin. This antifungal medication causes the fungus
to mutate and go deeper into the tissues. In an attempt to alleviate the common cold, a far
greater dilemma has been created, and poor old Steve
is really sick! In his ignorance, Sick Steve is caught up in
a vicious cycle. His food and lifestyle habits are slowly
killing him. CAUSE AND EFFECT
 Newton’ s third law of motion states that: “T o every
action there is an equal and opposite reaction” or , simply
put, the law of cause and ef fect. “This law never ceases to act as the perfect balancer . Nature’ s equalizer; set- ting into motion compensatory
forces to remedy every imbalance,” says David Phillips
in his book From Soil to Psyche. ANTIBIOTICS–ARE THEY FRIEND OR FOE? What are antibiotics, where did they come from, how do
they af fect the body , and what is the long-term ef fect of
their use on the body? In 1928, Alexander Fleming discovered that the spore
from a mouldy orange on a fruit platter in the upstairs
window had killed the bacteria he was growing in a flask
in his downstairs laboratory . Alexander Fleming named
the mould penecillium, and the mould waste, penecillic
acid. The mould waste, or mycotoxin, is far more toxicthan the mould itself. The mycotoxin is designed to kill
off anything that would compete with its food source. This is a survival mechanism to ensure survival of the
mould by protecting the source of food from any
competition. Antibiotics have saved millions of lives by killing of f
bacteria, thus eliminating them and the toxic waste they
produce. This cannot be denied. The human body can
cope with one or two courses of antibiotics in a lifetime. But there is a dangerous situation happening today with
the overuse of antibiotics and the failure to question why
the bacteria, yeast and fungus are so active in the body . One percent of doctors today are claiming that
antibiotics are causing more problems than they have
cured. Remember anything that kills one organism (bacterium)
in small doses has the ability to kill much larger
organisms (humans) in large or repeated doses. With the discovery of penicillium, hundreds of dif ferent
mycotoxins were tested as possible antibiotics; 80
percent of them were deadly , too toxic to use. Antibiotics
are antibacterial and antihuman substances. They not
only kill of f bacteria as in Sick Steve’ s lungs—which by
the way were cleaning up his cell damage—they also kill
the healthy bacteria living in the human gut; for example,
bifidus bacterium and lactobacillus acidophilus. This now
clears the way for yeast living also in the gut—Candida
albicans—to multiply at an alarming rate. To indicate how quickly yeast can multiply we have to
look no further than yeast bread. It doubles in half an
hour. Chapter 2
Historical Moments: What does the past tell us? “The curse causeless shall not come.”
—Proverbs 26:2
 
There are many great minds from the last two
centuries whose quest for the true cause of disease
has led them to the conclusion that fungus plays a
major role in human diseases. We will look at them later . But let us now view a sample
of the thoughts of a few of these great names as we
consider this theory . An example of this theory in history:
Florence Nightingale (1820–1910). Florence led the
nurses caring for thousands  of soldiers during the
Crimean W ar and helped  save the British army from
medical disaster . Conditions at the military hospital at
the port in Scutari (modern-day Üsküdar in Istanbul)
were so appalling that the death rate was up to 50
percent—higher than the battle front! When this report
reached England, Florence was asked to take a team of
nurses to see if they could help. In November 1855, a team of nurses, under Florence's 
direction, began scrubbing and cleaning. The following
month, a shipload of clean linen, bed clothes, bandages,
scrubbing brushes and a cook arrived, courtesy of
Florence's father . By April 1856, the death rate had
fallen to 12 percent and within six months it had lowered
still further to 2 percent. This famous British nurse, who changed history by her
radical treatment of disease using improved nutrition,
hygiene and sanitation, wrote a book called Notes on
Nursing in 1860. In her first paragraph Florence states:
 
Shall we begin by taking it as a general principle—that
all disease, at some period, or other of its course, is
more or less a reparative process, not necessarily
accompanied by suf fering: an ef fort of nature to remedy
a process of poisoning or of decay , which has taken
place weeks, months, sometimes years beforehand,
unnoticed, the termination of the disease being then,
while the antecedent process was going on determined? Here Florence Nightingale calls disease a process of
repair . In other words, disease is actually our friend and
the means by which our body repairs  itself. If given the
right conditions the body will repair , but if that process of
repair is inhibited by such things as drugs, dehydration,
malnutrition, or other neglect of health principles, then
the very process designed to repair us may kill us.Notice that Florence states that disease is actually an
effort of nature to remedy a process of poisoning or
decay . In the poisoning process it is the microforms that
clean up the mess. What is decay? Surely it is another condition arising
from poor lifestyle habits, again requiring the action  of
these small microforms. Professor Antoine Bechamp (1816-1908)  was a
French professor who was famous for his many years of
experiments on these microscopic life forms. In one
experiment he took a dead cat and sealed it in an airtight
container . Four months later he opened it and found dust and
bones. What caused the breakdown? The microscopic
life forms that were so vital to the life of the cat evolved
into the clean-up brigade (bacteria) upon its death. Then
followed the exterminators (yeast/fungus) and the
undertakers (mould), successfully fulfilling their roles in
the cycle of life by bringing matter back to dust. Bechamp took some of the dust and placed it under his
microscope. It was alive with microscopic life forms. Once they had completed their role in the Carbon Cycle
they then ‘devolved’ back into the form of
microorganisms found in the dust. A look at the now deceased cat’ s dust under the
microscope revealed life—microorganisms. THE CARBON CYCLE IN ACTION: 
The cell damage in the cat (death) caused 
the microorganisms to evolve into:
Yeast/Fungus (Exterminators)
Mould (Undertakers)
DUST
As the environment changes, so does the role of these
players in the great cycle of life. Chapter 3
Familiarising With A Fungus Feast
 
Fungus is a living microorganism that is neither plant
nor animal. Being a living organism, however , it must
have food. It is estimated that there are 1.5 million
different fungi, but their palate is similar . The more of its
favourite food it can find, the more vigorous will be the
fungus growth. FUNGI’S F AVOURITE FEAST
Sugar in all its forms is fungi’ s favourite feast. The
pure, crystallised acid that is extracted from the sugar
cane or sugar beet plants is a particularly potent way to
cause any fungus  in the body to multiply quickly . Although fungus prefers the highly sweetened form of
sugar extracted from the sugar cane, if this is denied,
the fungus  will accept honey , maple syrup and the
sugar found in fruits; it is not fussy as to where the sugar
comes from. When the following foods are consumed, fungal
growth is encouraged. All alcoholic beverages contain mycotoxins or
yeasts. Yeast bread contains live yeast spore. While
sourdough bread does contain small amounts of
wild yeast, these do not pose a problem as they
come in combination  with lactobacillus, a
“friendly” bacteria that can help break down food,
absorb nutrients, and fight of f diseases. Peanuts and cooked rice are both extrem ely
susceptible to mould growth. Brewer ’s Yeast, and yeast extract spreads all
contain yeast. Mushrooms are a fungus  and need to be
eliminated when endeavouring to eradicate
fungus from the body . Mouldy food. Any food that has a trace of mould
on it must  not be eaten. This includes aged
cheeses which are commonly infused with mould
to create the cheeses’ distinctive flavours (take a
visit to a cheese factory and observe). THE FUNGAL EVOLUTION IN THE HUMAN BODY 
Many people are sick today because unhealthy lifestyle
habits are causing cell damage in the body , requiring the
body’ s own microorganisms to evolve into a clean-up
brigade (bacteria) as part of the compensatory forces. If
the bad habits continue, the bacteria can evolve into
yeast and fungus, just as they do in the natural world. Most foods today contain added sugar , which supplies
these microforms with their favourite food allowing them
to multiply unhindered. The waste from these
microforms is toxic and can cause disease. THE FUNGAL INV ASION IN THE HUMAN BODY
 
Another cause of sickness can come from an invasion
of fungus  and mould wastes, which can enter the
human body in four ways: 
 
Ingestion —eating mouldy food or taking antibiotics. Inhalation —breathing in mould from compost or
damp mouldy areas in buildings, carpet and even
mattresses and pillows. Via the Skin —mould spores can enter through the
pores of the skin. Sexual T ransmission —fungus can travel via body
fluids from one person to another . If mould or fungus enters the body in the spore form, it
can only survive and flourish providing there is a good
food supply . In extreme cases some very virulent  forms,
when entering in large numbers, can cause death quite
quickly . DEFINING THE FUNGI P ALLET IN THE HUMAN
BODY
 
1. Waste
As exterminators, the role of fungus on planet Earth
is to clear dead and decaying matter . Anywhere in
the body where cell damage/death is occurring,
these microforms—bacteria, fungi and yeast—will
be. 2. Chemicals
Every year new chemicals are introduced. Some
are found in herbicides, others in insecticides and
pesticides. Residues of these are in all non-
organically grown fruits, vegetables, nuts and grains. Meat, chicken and fish are commonly contaminated,
as are dairy products and eggs. Toxic chemicals are found in many household
cleaning products as well as laundry detergents,
soaps, shampoo, toothpaste, perfumes and makeup. When clothes made with nylon, acrylic and polyester
are worn, these fibres release chemicals that the
skin can absorb, especially when the person wearing
them gets hot and begins to perspire. These environmental poisons create free radicals 
that damage living tissue. In the cycle of life, these
damaged tissues are a food supply for the
opportunistic microorganisms—bacteria, yeast and
fungi. 3. Synthetic Hormones
Synthetic hormones are contained in the
contraceptive pill and hormone replacement therapy . Most synthetic hormone therapies contain oestrogen. Oestrogen’ s role in the body is that of a cell
proliferator , causing massive  cell growth. High levels
of oestrogen cause yeast and fungus  to multiply
very quickly . Dr John Lee, Dr Sandra Cabot and Dr
Sherrill Sellman are among sever- al authors who
have written excellent books on how to balance your
hormones naturally . Family Planning Clinics in most
large towns provide information on natural birth
control as an alternative to the pill. Perhaps not as
convenient, but definitely not life threatening. 4. Heavy MetalsFor the past fifty years, dentistry has been using
metal amalgam fillings in teeth. These amalgam
fillings can be 40–60 percent mercury . Over the
years this mercury is absorbed and accumulates in
the tissues of the body in the most toxic form,
methyl  mercury . Mercury is neurotoxic. There is no
safe dose in humans. Fungus ef fectively breaks
down heavy metals in the soil and so can also feed
on heavy metals that accumulate in the tissues of the
human body . There are many excellent alternatives today to mercury
fillings, which are just as strong yet not as toxic, with the
added benefit of being cosmetically desirable. Chapter 4
Mycology: The Study of Fungi
 
Mycology began with the discovery of aflatoxin in
the early 1960s. Disease due to fungus, however ,
has been known from Bible times. The King James version of the Bible talks about
leprosy of the skin, leprosy of the house and leprosy of
the clothes. In modern translations leprosy of the house
is called mildew . Leprosy in clothes is also interpreted as
mildew ,  but leprosy of the skin is interpreted as
infectious skin disease, though if following the former
rules of translation, the latter should be interpreted as
mildew of the skin. It has been well documented that mycotoxins (fungal
waste) cause disease in plants, animals and humans. The total number of mycotoxins is not known  but toxic
metabolites (waste) of fungi potentially could number in
the millions. Mycotoxins are produced by yeast/fungi and
moulds. They are the ‘urine and faeces’, so to speak,
which are produced as the fungi consume their food. The toxicity of these mycotoxins is designed to kill of f
anything that would compete with the fungi food source. Certain mycotoxins function as potential virulencefactors in producing disease in plants, animals and
humans. According to the American Council of Agricultural
Science and T echnology (CAST), it is not possible to
estimate precisely  the economic cost of mycotoxins. Their rough estimate of food and stock feed losses came
up with the figure of $932 million per year for the US
alone. This figure was for 2003 and would quite possibly
be higher now . With nearly 90 percent of Australians living in urban 
areas (cities or towns of more than 1000 people),1 food
must  be grown in large amounts and thus stored in
large amounts. This is one of the reasons why grains
infected with moulds/fungi are now a problem. Corn,
wheat and peanuts are the most commonly af fected. Silos where these grains are stored commonly sustain
moisture contact thus giving the perfect environment for
mould/fungal growth. MOST COMMONL Y FOUND MYCOT OXINS IN FOODS
 
Aspergillus, Penicillium, Fusarium are three of the most
potentially toxic fungal species found infecting grains. Aflatoxin, Ochratoxin, T richothecenes, Zearalenone,
Fumonisin, Citreoviridum, Penicillic acid and Gliotoxinare some of the disease-causing mycotoxins that these
fungi produce. Aflatoxin . Believed to be the most carcinogenic
substance ever tested. Aflatoxicosis is well
documented, and has many times linked aflatoxin to
hepatocellular carcinoma (liver cancer). Other studies also link aflatoxin with cancer in the
gastrointestinal tract and liver . These particular studies
were in Africa, the Philippines, China and in India, where
the mortality reached 25 percent. Kwashiorkor and
Reye’ s syndrome have been associated with aflatoxin in
food.2
 
Aflatoxins were detected in liver tissue  of 36 children
with Kwashiorkor . In 1994, research in Shanghai 
demonstrated a specific biomarker for aflatoxin is related
to human liver cancer , and that hepatitis B virus and
aflatoxin B interact as risk factors for liver cancer .3
 
Aflatoxin B1 is a known contaminant in cured tobacco,
thus it is highly likely to be in the smoke. Aflatoxin B1 is
known  to cause mutations in the tumour suppressor
gene. Aflatoxin is commonly found in corn and peanuts. Ochratoxins . A mycotoxin produced primarily by the
moulds Aspergillus or Penicillium that occurs on several
commodities prevalent in human diets; for example,cereal grains and peanuts. It's known  for its ef fect
primarily on the kidneys but can also af fect the liver . A
major renal disease  in swine occurs in some European
countries, especially Denmark, and is associated with
consumption of ocharatoxin contaminated barley .4
 
In 1956, the first clinical description of a human kidney
disease, known  as Balkan Endemic Nephropathy with
unknown cause, was published. Ochratoxin has been
strongly  linked to this disease, especially since this
mycotoxin  has been found in the food of patients from
the Balkan countries. Guinea pigs and rabbits experimentally exposed to air
passed through a layer of the ochratoxin-contaminated
wheat experienced renal failure. Intestinal microflora can convert Ochratoxin A into
Ochratoxin alpha, a non-toxic metabolite that can be
measured in the urine and faeces. Trichothecenes . This mycotoxin is a potent protein
inhibitor , which is the basic mechanism of their toxicity . In Russia in 1944, a disease  occurred known as
Alimentary T oxic Aleukia, and was characterised by total
recrotic angina. Mortality rates reached 80 percent. Patients experienced vomiting, diarrhoea, abdominal
pain and burning in the upper gastrointestinal tract. This
would occur shortly after eating contaminated food. It
was caused by consuming over-wintered cereal grains
or their products. The Fusarium organism was isolatedfrom the grains after more than 20 years of storage. Fusarium is capable of producing the mycotoxin
trichothecenes—T2 toxin. These symptoms can be
produced in cats when given purified T2 toxin orally .5 
 
Zearalenone . In Puerto Rico in 1985, premature puberty
occurred in seven- and eight-year-old children in
epidemic proportions. Researchers examined local food
and found high concentrations of the mycotoxin
Zearalenone, which is an Estradiol equivalent in some of
the meat. Zeoralanol is a processed anabolic product
made from Zearalenone and approved for use as an
anabolic agent in cattle and sheep in Puerto Rico. It
appears that exposure could have been from mothers
who ingested contaminated food during pregnancy . Hsieh, in 1989, suggested that Zearalenone was
possibly involved in human cervical cancer and
premature puberty . Zearalenone has also been found in
high concentrations in cereal foods (grains). Fumonisin . An association between the
consumption of mouldy corn and the high human
oesophageal cancer rates found in parts of Southern
Africa6 and the Linxian area of China7  has been
known  for some time. Oesophageal cancer rates and the consumption of
corn products, which likely contain Fumonisins,8 havesimultaneously increased in northern Italy in recent 
years. Various Fusarium species are common in corn
worldwide, but it is the con- sumption of food prepared
from ‘home grown’ contaminated corn that has been
correlated with oesophageal dysplasia (pre-cancerous),
and also oesophageal cancer in southern Africa and
China.9
  
   
Citreoviridum . Acute cardiac beri beri is a disease  that
occurred for centuries, including the early twentieth
century in Japan and other Asian countries. It was characterised by rapid pulse, palpitations,
vomiting and low blood pressure, and led to respiratory
failure and death (V eno 1974). A fungus  was isolated
and identified as Citreoviridum.10 The Rice Act of 1921
passed by the Japanese government decreased the
availability of mouldy rice in the markets and resulted in
a rapid decline  of the disease.11
  
   
Gliotoxin . This immunosuppressive mycotoxin first
attracted the interest of investigators searching for
new antibiotics. However , its toxicity precluded
clinical use as an antibiotic. (Many proposed fungal
antibiotics were never marketed because theirtoxicity precluded their clinical use). Interest in
Gliotoxin was revived when it was discovered to be
produced by Aspergillus fumigatus and other such
fungi as Candida Albicans, and that it had unusual
immunosuppressive activities. This toxin has been
found in vaginal secretions of women with Candida
Vaginitis. The involvement of Gliotoxin in the
pathogenesis of Aspergillosis and Candidiasis could
be important because the immunosuppressive
nature of this toxin could exacerbate the infection
and possibly be a virulence factor . Immune-
suppression is a major ef fect of mycotoxins.12
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Chapter Four References
 
1     Australian Bureau of Statistics, Australian
Demographic Statistics, June 2012
2    Council for Agricultural Science and T echnology
(2003) Mycotoxins: Risks in Plant, Animal and
Human Systems, T ask Force Report No 139,
January 2003, page 50. 3    ibid. 4    CAST , op cit, page 51. 5    ibid, page 52. 6    Marasas,  WFO, Jaskiewicz, K, V enter , FS, and
Van Schalkwyk,  DJ (1988). Fusarium
moniliforme contamination of maize inoesophogeal cancer areas in T ranskei. South
African Medical Journal, V ol 74, pages 1 10–1 14. 7     Y ang, CS, (1980) Research on esophageal
cancer in China: a review . Cancer Research
Journal, V ol 40, pages 2633–2644. 8    Doko, MB and V isconti,  A (1994), Occurrence of
fumonisins B1 and B2 in corn and corn-based
human foodstuf fs in Italy . Food Additives and
Contaminants,  V ol 11 No 4, pages 433-439. 9    CAST , op cit, page 54. 10  Miyake and Igaku 1943, cited in Ueno 1974. 11  CAST ,  op cit, page 53. 12   ibid, page 56.Chapter 5
Presenting the Evidence, History of Fungus: The role
fungus plays in Human Disease
 
“There is nothing new under the sun.”
—Ecclesiastes 1:9  
As has been established, fungi are everywhere and
can cause disease in humans. The first
known documented description of fungus is in the Bible. As previously mentioned the older versions call it
leprosy . The newer versions call it mildew . The Bible
talks about mildew in the clothes, in the house and on
the skin. Notice the description, “He (the authorities) is to
examine the mildew on the walls of the house and if it
has greenish or reddish depressions” (Leviticus 14:37)—
a vivid description of fungus! The account goes on to explain how the stones of the
house with the mildew had to be thrown outside the city . The house then had to be scraped  and the dust
discarded. Next, other stones were to be put in the place
of the discarded stones and plastered in. If the mildew
returned after this process then the authorities would
declare it ‘unclean’, and the house had to be destroyed. The remnants were to be taken out of the city to an
‘unclean’ place—this may seem like an overreaction tous. T o take such action  reveals that mildew was
considered dangerous and deadly! The Hebrew word for
leprosy is the same word used for leprosy of the skin,
house and clothes. In a modern translation of the Bible,
the translators have used the word mildew in place of
leprosy when discussing houses and clothes. But instead of calling the condition ‘mildew of the skin’,
when discussing skin, they have called it ‘infectious skin
disease’. Science today reveals the fungal link with skin
diseases. Today more and more doctors and scientists are
discovering the fungal link with disease. But it is not new
to today’ s biologists and mycologists. In the book The
Germ that Causes Cancer , Doug Kaufman explores the
role of fungus in human disease. In one section of this
fascinating book, Kaufman discusses the work of Dr
Milton White, a scientist who has published medical
articles  for more than 50 years. His search for the cause
of cancer led him to see the relationship between
fungus and disease. Kaufman explains it well:
 
“Dr White writes that the spores from the Asomycete
fungi are involved in cancer ’s cause. Asomycete
fungi are the class of fungi whose spores require a
container in which to lie dormant. The container is
actually a very durable sac. It cannot be destroyedusing strong caustics, by boiling, or by alternate
freezing and thawing of the sac. Upon entry into a human host, this spore is deprived
of atmospheric oxygen and exposed to a
temperature of 98.6 degrees F (or 36 degrees C),—
human body temperature. In this new environment,
the spore thrives even in the absence of oxygen as it
begins to shed its durable sac. W ithout its hard
covering, the spore, referred to as a ‘deficient form’
(ie. deficient of its environmental enclosure), is now
free to invade human cells as a liberated fungal
spore. Spore reproduction begins inside the human
cell.1
 
Systemic infection can be caused by ascomycete
candida in its spore form. The adult form of this
fungus is not capable of causing serious disease but
may play a role in inflammation. The ascomycete
fungi are a large class of true fungi, the sac fungi,
which includes true yeasts, blue moulds and
penicillium. Once inside the body , the fungal spores shed their
protective cell walls in order to use human cells as
sacs. These ‘egg’ spores can lay dormant in nature
or inside the human body for years. There are a
number of 'dormancy breakers' that can cause spore
reproduction. The availability of the fungis’ favouritefood—sugar—and a high carbohydrate diet or
antibiotics or depressed immune system or certain
hormones. These dormancy breakers can be the
biggest risk factors in the invasion of humans’
fungi .”2  
The fungal spores in their cell wall and deficient forms
inside the human cell are able to incorporate their DNA
with the human DNA to create a hybrid or mutated cell. The cell now changes  from aerobic (in the presence of
oxygen) to anaerobic (the absence of oxygen)
respiration. This anaerobic respiration gives of f lactic acid, which in
turn  lowers the pH of the body . Fungus and disease
thrive in an acid pH. In her book, Cell W all Deficient Forms, Ida Mattman
further explains how the fungi can merge into a human
cell:  
Chemical analyses show that the walls of these
organisms have a high lipid (fat) content. This
explains why they wash from slides and why they
melt to artefacts when the slide is heat-fixed. Which
is why the cover slip is needed on the slide. These organisms are tiny and they slip into
erythrocytes (red blood cells), thanks to pinocytosis (the
ability of certain substances to be able to merge into the
cell). Within the red blood cell they are protected fromphagocytosis (destruction) by immune cells (white blood
cells) and have transportation to all areas of the body .3
 
As the fungal cell is now merged with the human cell, it
escapes destruction by the white blood cell because the
white blood cell now sees it as a human cell. PLEOMORPHISM (many forms)
Pleomorphism describes the changing role of microbes
in the human body . Pleomorphism is the Carbon Cycle
in action. Medicine today is based on Louis Pasteur ’s
theory of monomorphism, which states  that bacteria is
only ever bacteria, or fungus  is only ever fungus. The
following scientists and doctors have proven otherwise. Professor Gunther Enderlein  (1872-1968) called the
tiny biological unit of life a ‘protit’. It has since been
named a microorganism. Enderlein observed when
looking at live blood under a microscope that ‘protits’
remained small in response to a healthy condition as
they built and worked within the body . But when these
life units encountered a disturbed inner condition they
enlarged and change into more complex forms including
bacteria and fungus. This is called pleomorphism:
relating to the ability of these small life units to change
roles. Antoine Bechamp (1816-1908 ) was a Master of
Pharmacy , Doctor of Science, Doctor of Medicine,Professor of Medical Chemistry and Pharmacy , Fellow
and Professor of Physics and T oxicology , Professor of
Biological Chemistry and a Dean of Faculty of Medicine. Bechamp named the microscopic forms of life that he
viewed through the microscope ‘microzymas’ or small
ferments, describing the microscopic life form’ s digestion
as fermentation. For example, bacteria decompose dead
leaves and rocks into dust. Bechamp stated,
“Microzymas are at the beginning and end of all
organisations”. He referred to ‘microzymas’ as the builders and
destroyers of cells. “In the state of health the
‘microzymas’ act harmoniously and our life is in every
sense of the word a regular fermentation.” Whenever 
there is cell damage these ‘microzymas’ change their
function and turn into forms capable of more vigorous 
fermentative breakdown. This led Bechamp to conclude:
“Diseases are born of us and in us.”
 
Claude Bernard (1813-1878)  was a French
physiologist. Bernard called the internal environment
of the body ‘The T errain’. He maintained that the
condition of ‘The T errain’ was the most important in
disease conditions, much  more so than the
microorganism, as the microorganism changed  its
role depending on the condition of ‘The T errain’ (the
body). Royal Raymond Rife (1888-1971)  built a
microscope with 31,000 diometres revolution which
was capable of detail and clarity surpassing any
other micro- scope of its day , or even for that matter ,
our day . Weighing 90 kilograms (200 pounds),
standing 60 centimetres (2 feet) high and containing
5,682 parts, it was an unsung wonder  of the world. It
used prismatically dispersed natural light. Royal
Rife’s work demonstrated beyond a shadow of a
doubt that microscopic life forms are pleomorphic. A
major upshot of his work was his ability through
several pleomorphic stages, to transform a virus he
found in cancer tissues into a fungus, plant the
fungus  into an asparagus-based medium, and
produce bacillus E coli, the type of microform found
in the human intestine. He repeated this hundreds of
times. The Mayo Clinic’ s Dr Edward Rosenon wrote as
early as 1914 in the Journal of Infectious Diseases
that “It would seem that focal (mouth) infections are
no longer looked upon merely as a place of entrance
of bacteria but as a place where conditions are
favourable for them to acquire  the properties that
give them a wide range of af finities for various
structures.”  
Dr Virginia Livingston, in 1947, discovered a
pleomorphic organism in all cancers she studied. She
found it could be both helpful and unhelpful to the body ,
and that it is “dormant until  activated by the need torepair damaged cells”. In 1953 with two other women 
doctors, Dr Diller and Dr Jackson, they presented an
exhibit  at a meeting of the American Medical
Association with visual footage of pleomorphic changes. They showed the link between these microbes and
cancer . In 1974, Ida H. Mattman of the department of
Biology W ayne State University published Cell W all
Deficient Forms. Though pleomorphism was a
proven phenomenon, the orthodox school continued
to ignore it. Mattman writes:
 
Current bacteriology holds the belief that each species
of bacteria has only a certain simple form. . . in contrast,
this writer , using carefully prepared
pure cultures found that bacteria pass through stages
with markedly different morphology . Pleomorphic forms
are the first growth in culture. Bacterial life is subject to a
series of diverse morphological stages, only one of
which is the classical rod, coccus, spirillum or
spirochete. Granular , mycelial, and large body stages
are all capable of reverting to the parent forms . . . the
shape the variants adopt is largely determined by the
presence and concentration of certain amino acids,
carbohydrates, ions and gases in the environment .”4  
Time lapse photography shows that many agents and
conditions cause a bacterium to alter its morphology ,
exchanging a rigid format for a pleomorphic outline. Florence Seibert, Professor Emeritus of the
Biochemistry University of Pennsylvania, wrote the book
on this subject Pebbles on the Hill of a Scientist in 1968. “We were able to isolate bacteria from every piece of
tumour and every acute leukemia blood specimen we
had.” This was published in the Annuls of the New Y ork
Academy of Sciences: “One of the most interesting
properties of these bacteria is their great pleomorphism. For example, they readily change their shape from round
cocci, to elongate rods and even to long thread like
filaments depending on what medium they grow on and
how long they grow .”
 
In a paper presented to the New Y ork Academy of
Sciences in 1969, Dr V irginia Livingston and Dr
Elenor Alexander Jackson declared that a single
cancer microorganism exists. They said that the
reason an army of cancer researchers couldn’t find it
was that it changed form. “The organism has remained an unclassified
mystery , due in part to its pleomorphism and its
stimulation of other microorganisms. Phases may
resemble viruses, micrococci, diptheroids, bacilli and
fungi. ”
 
In 1980, French bacteriologists Sorin Sonea and
Maurice Parisset published their book A New
Bacteriology . The central theme of their book was thatbacterial pleomorphism was now a scientific fact. They
stated that, “dif ferent  types of bacteria were only
different manifestations of a unified bacterial world”. In 2001, Dr Robert Y oung explained in his book Sick
and T ired that he had made similar observations and
had identified this pleomorphic cycle. He states  that
these microforms in live cells became bacteria, then
yeast and fungus, and then became mould. The acids
produced by these life forms are poisons and can poison
the human body . The book contains photographs of
slides taken of the microorganisms changing form. These scientists are all describing a process well
known on planet Earth as the Carbon Cycle. The Bible
describes it in Genesis 3:19: “W e came from dust and
we return to dust.”
 
The Carbon Cycle is demonstrated on the rainforest
floor and in the compost bin. It is the microscopic life
forms that cause this Carbon Cycle to happen. The same microorganisms that cause an apple to grow
also cause it to ripen, and also cause it to rot, bringing it
back to dust. If the apple is damaged the Carbon Cycle
can kick in earlier . The environment dictates the activity
or role of these life forms. The final breakdown is
accomplished by yeast, fungus and mould. They can be
called the undertakers. This is their role on planet Earth. A basic law of science states: “Nothing is created and
nothing is destroyed”. It changes form. This is
pleomorphism. If not for the important role of bacteria, fungus, yeast
and mould, this planet would be covered in rubbish. The medical textbook, Principles and Practice of
Clinical Mycology , written by C.C. Kibbler in 1996, shows
in detail the fungal link in every human disease. Note the chapter titles:
The Fungal Kingdom: Essentials of Mycology 
Pathogenesis of Fungal Diseases 
Epidemiology of Fungal Diseases
Diagnosis of Fungal Diseases
Antifungal Therapy
Fungal Disease of Bone and Joint
Fungal Diseases of the Cardiovascular System
Fungal Meningitis
Mycoses Causing Mass Legions of the Central
Nervous System
Fungal Disease in Dermatology
Fungal Infections of the Ear , Nose and Throat 
Fungemia and Disseminated Fungal Infection 
Fungal Infection of the Gastro-Intestinal T ract 
Fungal Diseases in Genitourinary MedicineFungal Infections of the Kidney and those associated
with Renal Failure, Dialysis and Renal
Transplantation
Fungal Diseases in Ophthalmology
Fungal Infections of the Respiratory T ract
  
In Chapter 2, Kibbler states: “The escalating incidence of
fungal infections is linked in part to the widespread use
of broad-spectrum antibiotics and the advent of
increasing numbers of patients with cancer and other
underlying diseases receiving intensive
immunosuppressant regimens.”
 
I have included the following chart (from Kibbler ’s
book) which gives a short and concise  summary of
common human fungal pathogens and the diseases they
can cause. __________________________________________
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Chapter Five References
 
1    Kaufman, D, (2002), The Germ that Causes
Cancer , Mediatrition, page 124. 2    ibid, page 139. 3    Mattman,  I, (2000, first published September
1974),  Cell W all Deficient Forms, Third Edition, 
CRC Press. page 10. 4    ibid, page 32.Chapter 6
The Link Between Fungus And Cancer
 
As we have discussed, over the last century and
before, many researchers have proven the fungal link in
disease. Let us now look at some compelling evidence
linking fungus  with cancer over the last few decades. Professor A.V Constantine, former head of the W orld
Health Organization, Department of Mycology , has
written several books in the Fungal Bionic Series
showing the relationship between fungus  and disease,
including cancer . These books provide documentary
evidence that fungi and their biological metabolites, the
mycotoxins, are silent and relentless attackers of human
health in that they cause the major ‘degenerative’ and
‘cancerous’ diseases that plague mankind. Constantine
backs his theory with more than 20 years of research;
his books were published in the late 1990s. Doug Kaufmann has written a series of books also
showing the relation- ship between fungus  and disease. Three of his books Fungal Link One, T wo and Three
show the link with various diseases. But his most
remarkable book called The Germ That Causes Cancer
goes into the history of medicine in the 19th, 20th and
beginning of the 21st century showing the alarming factthat the link between fungus  and cancer has been
known for over a hundred years. These books were
published in the 1990s. In 2007, Dr T ullio Simoncini published a book called
Cancer is a Fungus: A revolution in the therapy of
tumours. Dr Simoncini is a medical doctor and surgeon
based in Rome who specialises in Oncology ,
Diabetology and Metabolic disorders. He is also a
Doctor of Philosophy . After quoting much  research to
prove his theory , Simoncini states  in his book: “Candida
is truly the cancer and it must  be fought from this
standpoint in all its pathogenic variants.”1
 
He has had quite phenomenal results by treating
cancer with a very simple treatment that has been used
to treat fungus  in agriculture for many years— sodium
bicarbonate. Sodium bicarbonate is safe, extremely inexpensive, it
can be bought in a supermarket for a few dollars and
yet, it is a deadly killer to cancer cells for it hits them with
a shock wave of alkalinity . This alkalinity allows a rush of
oxygen into the cancer cell. Cancer cannot survive in the
presence of high levels of oxygen. By making  the terrain
where the fungus  is living completely inorganic, sodium
bicarbonate eliminates the slightest organic material that
fungus uses for nourishment. Sodium bicarbonate is
currently used to treat oral candidiasis in children andappears to be such a simple  and handy weapon  in
uprooting, inhibiting and even reversing any malignant
growth wherever  it is applied. Simoncini uses a local application of sodium
bicarbonate in solution where possible, but resorts to
inserting catheters for areas that cannot be reached with
local applications. He states  that almost  all organs can
be treated with this therapy . He has found this to be a
very powerful weapon against fungi in these areas,
stating that its ef fectiveness is painless leaving no after
effects with very low risks:
 
We have seen that fungi are able to quickly mutate
their genetic structure. That means that after an
initial phase of sensitivity to fungicides, in a short
time they are able to codify them and to metabolise
them without been damaged by them—rather
paradoxically , they extract a benefit from their high
toxicity on the organism.2
 
In other words, many antifungal therapies may be
effective at first but consistently lose their ef fectiveness
with time. Sodium bicarbonate instead, as it is extremely
diffusible and without that structural complexity that fungi
can easily codify , retains its ability to penetrate the
masses for a long time. This is also and especially dueto the speed at which it disintegrates them,  which
makes it impossible for the fungi to adapt so that it
cannot defend itself. Along with the sodium bicarbonate treatment,
Simoncini stresses the importance of assessing the
emotional health of the patient along with proper
hydration and diet.3
  
   
Dr T. Colin Campbell’ s book The China Study (2006) is
being cited as one of the most important books on
nutrition ever written. In the first few chapters of the
book, Campbell talks about his early career , which was
spent  working with two of the most toxic chemicals ever
discovered—Dioxin and Aflatoxin. He was asked to
investigate the unusually high prevalence of liver cancer
in Filipino children. This was linked to the high
consumption of aflatoxin, a mould toxin found in peanuts
and corn. In his research, the peanut butter the children
consumed was found to have far higher levels of
aflatoxin than standard peanuts. What startled Campbell
was the high death rate amongst the wealthy children. He found that the wealthier Filipino families ate high
amounts of meat and dairy products, compared to the
poorer children who were on a traditional Chinese diet of
mainly vegetables, rice, some soy and a little fish. Around this time, a research paper from India surfaced
in the American Medical Association Journal. The paper
described an experiment observing the link between
liver cancer and protein consumption in two groups of
laboratory rats. One group was given aflatoxin and then
fed a diet containing 20 percent animal protein. The
second was given the same level of aflatoxin and then
fed a diet containing just 5 percent animal protein. Every
single rat fed 20 percent animal protein developed liver
cancer or its precursor lesions, but not a single rat fed a
5 percent protein diet got liver cancer or its precursor
lesions. This was not a trivial dif ference: it was a 100
percent versus 0 percent. Rarely in research do you get
these results.4
 
As these results confirmed what Campbell was finding,
he applied  for funding and spent  the next few decades
researching this himself. Campbell and his team
organised a very large study of several hundred rats. Rats generally live two years. The study was a hundred
weeks in length. All animals that were administered
aflatoxin and were fed 20 percent levels of casein
(animal protein) were dead or near death from liver
tumours at 100 weeks. All animals administered the
same level of aflatoxin but fed the low 5 percent protein
diet were alive, active and thriving with sleek hair coats
at 100 weeks. This was a virtual 100 to 0 score. A result 
rarely seen in research and almost identical to the
original research in India.5, 6 
In his experiments, Campbell was surprised to find that
plant protein did not promote cancer growth, even at a
20 percent level. When the rats were given 20 percent
plant protein, the results were similar to a 5 percent
animal protein response. In other words, the cancer
protective ef fect given by 5 percent animal protein was
also given with 20 percent plant protein. Campbell discovered that low-protein diets or their
equivalents (plant protein), reduce tumours by the
following mechanisms:
 
Less aflatoxin entered the cell
Cells multiplied more slowly
Multiple changes occurred within the enzyme
complex to reduce its activity
The quantity of critical components of the
relevant enzymes was reduced
 Less aflatoxin-DNA adducts were formed. The recommended daily allowance for protein
consumption is 10 percent of our energy . The average
Australian consumes 15–16 percent protein. T en percent
dietary protein is equivalent to eating 50–60 grams of
protein per day . The average Australian is eating 70–100
grams of protein per day . This is generally animalprotein. As the research confirms, this amount of protein
is not a problem if it comes from plants. The October 2007 Australian edition of T ime presented
a very interesting article on breast cancer . In the section
‘Western W ays, W estern  W oes’ it stated that, “If the
spread of US and European lifestyles  is indeed
contributing to the breast cancer boom, the first and
worse of all those new habits is almost surely diet. In a
study released in July , scientists traced the eating habits
of 3000 Chinese women  ranging  in age from 25-64. Half of the group ate a ‘meat- sweet’ diet of W estern 
cuisine, rich in red meat, shrimp, fish, candy , desserts,
bread and milk. The others stuck to more traditional
Asian fare of vegetables, sprouts, beans, tofu, fish and
soy milk. Post-menopausal women  in the ‘meat- sweet’
group showed a 60 percent greater risk of developing
the most common kind of breast cancer .”
 
Dr Otto W arburg was certainly not an author of the last
decade, but his findings in the earlier part of the 20th
century support what these authors are saying. The two-
time Nobel prize winner stated in his book The
Metabolism of T umours that “The primary cause of
cancer was the replacement of oxygen in the respiratory
cell chemistry by the fermentation of glucose.” The
human cell prefers to function aerobically , that is using
oxygen. Fungus and cancer cells function anaerobically ,
that is without oxygen using fermentation. In 1931 DrWarburg received his Nobel prize for this
discovery . Fungus and cancer cells not only create acid
as the anaerobic cell gives of f lactic acid as its waste,
but they also thrive in an acid environment. “Cancer is a
dark thing living in an acidic place devoid of oxygen.”  
CURRENT MEDICAL CANCER TREA TMENTS
Chemotherapy Reassessed
Professor Gianfranco V alse Pantellini in the treatise
interview ‘The Individual, Disease and Medicine’ says
this of chemotherapy: “It has a devastating action  on the
whole organism . . . it is based on an axiom—rather than
a paradox . . . that which causes cancer cures it. Look at
what level of absurdity we managed to get to . . .” 7
 
A quote from Dr Simoncini’ s book states;
 
Chemotherapy in fact destroys everything and how it
can make the fungi mass regress is still a mystery . It
is a given fact that it dramatically exhausts the cells
of the marrow and of the blood, thus allowing a
greater spreading of the infection. It irreversibly intoxicates the liver , thus preventing it
from building new elements of defence, and it
mercilessly knocks out nerve cells, thus weakening
the organisms’ reactive capabilities and delivering it
to the invaders .8  
Australian OncologistsIn March 2006, an important paper was published in
the journal Clinical Oncology entitled ‘The Contribution
of Cytotoxic Chemotherapy to 5-year Survival in Adult
Malignancies.’ This paper set out to accurately quantify
and assess the actual benefit conferred by
chemotherapy in the treatment of adults with the most
common types of cancer . Although the paper has
attracted some attention in Australia, the native country
of the paper ’s authors, it has been greeted with
complete silence  by the rest of the world. All three of the paper ’s authors are oncologists. Lead
author Associate Professor Graeme Morgan is a
radiation oncologist at Royal North Shore Hospital in
Sydney; Professor Robyn W ard is a medical oncologist
at University of New South W ales and Saint V incent’ s
Hospital. Professor W ard is also a member of the
Therapeutic Goods Authority of the Australian Federal
Departments of Health and Ageing, the of ficial body that
advises the Australian Government on the suitability and
efficacy of drugs to be listed on the national
Pharmaceutical Benefits Schedule (PBS). The third
author , Doctor Michael Barton, is a radiation oncologist
and a member of the Collaboration for Cancer
Outcomes Research and Evaluation, Liverpool Health
Service, Sydney . The conclusion of these oncologists meticulous study
was based on an analysis of the results of all the
randomised, controlled clinical trials (RCT s) performed in
Australia and the US that reported a statistically
significant increase in 5-year survival due to the use of
chemotherapy in adult malignancies. Survival data were
drawn from the Australian cancer registries and the US
National Cancer Institute’ s Surveillance Epidemiology
and End Results (SEER) registry spanning the period
January 1990 until  January 2004. Wherever data were uncertain, the authors deliberately
erred on the side of overestimating the benefit of
chemotherapy . Even so, the study concluded that
overall, chemotherapy contributes just over 2 percent to
improved survival in cancer patients. Radiotherapy
Radiotherapy aims to literally burn out the cancer cells,
but it is very dif ficult to ef fect a mortal blow to the cancer
without damaging surrounding tissues and organs. Damaged tissues are always a target for opportunistic
fungus. Radiotherapy is not addressing the cause,
although it may initially regress cancer growth,
radiotherapy can actually create the very environment
for cancer to flourish. Surgery
Whenever  the human body is cut, it is damaged, thus
again creating a fruitful environment for fungal increase. Dr Simoncini found that in a few cases, when the tumour
is extremely large and able to be safely removed and the
area washed with sodium bicarbonate, there can be
benefit. However , the body has been designed to heal itself,
and if the tumour has not reached the point of blocking
any major body functions, then given the right
conditions, the tumour may be able to be reduced and
eliminated. CONCLUSION
These toxic treatments do not address the root causes
of cancer . They are dangerous approaches involving
risks. Common  sense speaks to us that a treatment that
burns, poisons and slashes the human body is contrary
to the body’ s inbuilt healing mechanisms. W e are
morally and ethically obligated  to search out and
investigate alternatives that work with the healing
powers that are inherent in the human body .
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        Chapter 1
Sickness Is No Accident: The body has a plan
 
“It is highly dishonourable for a reasonable soul, living in
so divinely a built mansion as the body she resides in, to
be totally unacquainted with its exquisite structure. ”
 — Robert Boyle, 1690
 The human body is the exquisite structure in which we
reside, and surely it is the responsibility of every human
being to know something about the house we live in. Allow me the pleasure of assisting you to become
acquainted with your exquisite structure. The human body has the ability to heal itself. It is a self-
healing organism. The question is then posed: “If this is
so, why are so many sick. ” The human body will heal
itself if given the right conditions. Unfortunately, many
today are ignorant of these conditions. The aim of this book is to explore the answer to this
great question that billions of dollars in medical
expenditure are not solving. We can understand how cars, aeroplanes, computers
and machinery work, and treat them with the respect
they require in order to keep them operating in optimum
condition. When it comes to the amazing organism in
which we reside, we have to conclude that for themajority, there is an astounding lack of any real
knowledge of the working and care that is required to
keep it in a condition to carry us smoothly and trouble-
free through this great journey of life. Let’s start with the bare basics—the cycle of life. All
living things eventually die and are returned back to
dust. How does this relate to sickness in the human body. As we will soon see it has everything to do with it, for
this cycle of life is happening in a living breathing body. It
is the how, when and why of this that I would like to
explore. To Rudyard Kipling this concept was so important it
inspired him to write a poem. Allow me to share with you
the first few lines:
 “I have six trusty serving men, They taught me all I
know, Their names are What, Why, When, Where,
How, and Who. ”  
 DUST T O DUST : THE CYCLE OF LIFE
 To take reference from the oldest history book we have,
the Bible says
 “In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou
return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken:
for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return. -
Genesis 3:19”
 And again, “All go to one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to
dust again. ”
 -Ecclesiastes 3:20
 This is the verse the minister at the funeral is referring
to when he says “ashes to ashes and dust to dust. ”
 Science calls this process the Carbon Cycle,
sometimes it is called the cycle of life. The Carbon Cycle
is a description of how living matter is brought back to
dust upon death of the organism. The Carbon Cycle Illustrated
 Cell damage causes microorganisms to change into:
  What causes this process. Microorganisms. The soil of
the earth is alive with microscopic organisms whose role
it is to bring matter back to dust. MICROORGANISMS IN THE DUST
 An excellent example of the carbon cycle is the
compost bin. I have three compost bins. Bin number one  is the bin in which I am throwing the
food scraps from the kitchen. I am also putting in the
weeds from the garden, along with a good helping of
cow manure. Bin number two  is the bin that is sitting and allowing
the carbon cycle to work. Bin number three  is ready for the garden. The Carbon
Cycle has brought all the vegetable matter back to dust
and I can now put it in the garden. What caused the vegetable matter to be brought back to
dust. Bacteria, fungi and yeast make up a large proportion of
the microscopic life a large proportion of the microscopic
life forms that live in the soil. They are responsible for
breaking down dead matter and bringing it back to dust. Fungi produce acid by-products that help them use
nutrients in the minerals. This results in the return of essential nutrients and
minerals like calcium, phosphate and potassium backinto the soil where they can nourish plants and
microbes. Rocks are composed of minerals, the vast majority of
which contain metals. They might be considered an
inhospitable habitat for life to flourish, yet here fungi can
thrive in the harshest of environments. These
microscopic life forms can remain inactive or dormant for
decades. But as soon as the environment provides a
food source, they become active again. There is a law of science that states, “Nothing is
created and nothing is destroyed. ” These life forms
cannot be destroyed, but they have the ability to change
form, depending on the environment. Sometimes they
may lay dormant for a long time—some for thousands of
years— then become active when a good food source
arrives. Mosby’ s Medical Dictionary defines fungi as:
 A eukaryotic (contains a nucleus), thallus-forming
organism that feeds by absorbing organic molecules
from its surroundings. Fungi lack chlorophyll and are
therefore not capable of photosynthesis. They may be
saprophytes (eat dead organisms) or parasites (feed of f
living organisms). Unicellular fungi (yeasts) reproduce by
budding; multicellular fungi (mould) reproduce by spore
formation. Fungi may invade living organisms, including
humans as well as non-living organic sub- stances. Of
the 100,000 identified species of fungi, 100 are commonin humans and 10 are pathogenic (capable of causing
disease). The Bantam Medical Dictionary defines fungi as:
 Simple plants that lack the green pigment, chlorophyll. Fungi include yeasts, rusts, moulds and mushrooms. They live as either saprophytes or as parasites of plants
and animals. Some species infect and cause diseases in
man. The single-celled microscopic yeasts are a good
source of vitamin B and many antibiotics are obtained
from the moulds. In other words, a fungal cell has a nucleus like an
animal cell. In the yeast form, fungi are able to breathe
without the use of oxygen (anaerobically) just like plants
and yet they have no chlorophyll; fungi reproduce by
spores and obtain nutrition from their environment
(whether alive, dead or non-living organisms). MICROORGANISMS IN PLANTS
 Microbes are essential to the plant’ s existence and
health. The plant moves 50 percent of its glucose to the
roots each night and 60 percent of this is released to
feed hoards of microorganisms surrounding the roots. It is a classic example of the universal law “give and
you shall receive”. The plant is well rewarded for this gift. These microbes fix nitrogen from the atmosphere,
recycle minerals from plant residues, remove toxins,
stabilise locked up phosphorus, produce plant growth
stimulants and protect the plant from pathogens. The same microorganisms that are active in the growth
and development of the plant also accomplish its
breakdown. An apple grows by the action of these
microorganisms. The same microorganisms ripen the
apple. If not eaten, the microorganisms will also cause it
to rot. The environment dictates the role, phase, function
and form of each organism. Classification of fungi has been a concern since the
17th century because they are neither animal nor plant,
but contain some characteristics of both. Fungi play a crucial role on planet Earth as:
 
The clean-up team or garbage collectors. They
accomplish this task by breaking down dead
matter and bringing it back to dust. (The Carbon
Cycle. ) The producers of carbon dioxide in the soil for
plant respiration. Agents that produce acids that convert metals
and
 Minerals in the soil to an absorbable form for the
plants. MICROORGANISMS IN THE EGG
 Consider a mother hen sitting on ten eggs—all have
the potential to hatch into a chicken. Imagine if I take
one egg and shake it violently, then place it back under
mother hen. In several weeks the sound of chirping
reveals little life forms called chickens, emerging from
the eggs. What caused the egg to develop into a
chicken. It was the microorganisms contained in the
white and yolk of the egg. We notice one egg has been kicked from the nest
perhaps due to a bad smell emitting from it. What
caused this smell. The cell damage caused by the
shaking, required the microorganisms in that egg to
change into bacteria, yeast, fungus and mould to
accomplish their role in the Carbon Cycle and bring the
damaged tissue back to dust. MICROORGANISMS IN HUMANS
 The human body contains more microorganisms than
cells. (Does that mean we are more plant than animal. ) The largest concentration of the body’ s microorganisms
is found in the gastrointestinal tract. Here they play a
similar role as they do in the soil, they are breaking
down some of the nutrients in our food into absorbable
forms (specifically the B vitamins). The tiny villi that line our small intestines can be likened to the roots of the plant. Just as the chlorophyll (the plants blood system) in the
roots of the plants absorbs the nutrients in the soil that
have been broken down by these microscopic life forms,
so too does the blood supply in our villi absorb the
nutrients that have been broken down in our
gastrointestinal tract by microscopic life forms. Acidophilus and bifidus are the two permanent bacteria
that live in the gastrointestinal tract. There are many other bacteria but they are transitory. Bacteria, yeast and fungus are everywhere. These
single- celled forms of life live on our skin, our hair, in
our mouth, in our intestines and on the food we eat. Not
only do they play a role in aiding the absorption of
certain nutrients, they also protect us from harmful
microbes. Candida albicans is a yeast that lives in our
gastrointestinal tract. This yeast plays an important role
in the chemical balance in our intestines. Lactobacillus-
acidophilus and bifidus bacterium are the bacteria that
protect us from this yeast over colonising. There are dozens of dif ferent species of candida. Approximately eight are known to cause disease in man. Broad spectrum antibiotic treatment kills of f acidophilus
and bifidus allowing candida to multiply at an aggressive
rate. The overgrowth of these yeasts causes them to
pass through the mucosal lining and leak into the blood
stream. This is a common way this form of yeast can
cause disease in humans. Understanding the role of bacteria, fungus and yeast in
nature gives us an indication of how these can af fect
humans. As we have already acknowledged, they have
their two main roles: saprophytes and parasites. Saprophytes feed of f dead organisms. This includes
any area in the human body that sustains damage frompoisoning or trauma creating an environment conducive
to fungal growth. Parasites feed of f living organisms. Fungi are able to
live in the human body feeding of f its tissues. They can
enter in various ways—I will cover this later in the book. So it is seen that some fungus feeds of f dead
organisms operating as nature’ s garbage disposal, while
other parasitic fungus, feeds of f live organisms. These pathogenic fungi cause plant, animal and human
diseases. Some of the simpler and more well known are
athlete’ s foot (tinea), swimmer ’s ear, ringworm, dandruf f,
finger and toenail infections, rosacea and yeast
infections. Typically fungi sprout from a spore and grow as
filaments termed hyphae. These hyphae extend at their
tips and enable the fungus to grow continuously into
fresh zones of nutrients and also to penetrate hard
surfaces such as plant cell walls, insect cuticles, human
skin and nails, and so on. This is why fungi are so
important as plant pathogens and as decomposer
organisms. Y east transforms itself and grows hyphae
very well at 37. 5C (body temperature). This explains why athlete’ s foot is a systemic condition. It has grown very deep into the tissues. A LIVING ILLUSTRA TION
 Let us look at how the Carbon Cycle can function in a
human body as an attempt to repair or heal cell damage. Sick Steve is 35 years old and has smoked 15 to 20
cigarettes a day for 15 years. Cell damage is constantly
happening in sick Steve’ s lungs. T obacco, with its
nicotine and approximately 4,000 other chemicals, does
nasty things to every part of the body that it touches. Steve’ s microorganisms are evolving constantly into the
“clean up brigade” (bacteria) in an attempt to keep his
lungs working. Sick Steve is often coughing since this is
how his lungs eliminate the waste from the clean up. Sick Steve has a brother named Healthy Harry. Sick
Steve thinks that Healthy Harry is a fitness fanatic. He
exercises for an hour every day, drinks two to three litres
of water every day and eats a lot of fresh fruit and
vegetables, whole grains, legumes, nuts and seeds. He
does not drink alcohol, take drugs or even smoke
cigarettes. Sick Steve thinks that Healthy Harry is dead
boring. One day their Cousin Colin visits. Colin has a bad cold. He coughs on both Sick Steve and Healthy Harry. The
bacteria that are active in “spring cleaning” Cousin Colin
are catapulted into Sick Steve. After a quick scout
around, the bacteria discover a veritable banquet in Sick
Steve’ s respiratory system. They even meet up with
some relatives already feasting. As is their habit, they multiply rapidly. Coupled with the
enzymes they release to digest their meal and the wastegiven of f from the digestion of their meal, a toxic load is
produced. This causes Sick Steve to rush to the doctor
complain- ing of a terrible cold given to him by Cousin
Colin. Now Sick Steve is really sick. These same microorganisms that entered Sick Steve
also entered Healthy Harry. But there was nothing to eat,
very little waste to feed on and nothing in Healthy
Harry’ s food program to feed on either. As the food
supply was so poor, these microorganisms failed to
thrive and were forced into dormancy. If germs do cause disease, if Pasteur was right, Sick
Steve and Healthy Harry should both have come down
with the cold. But only Sick Steve becomes sick. Meanwhile, in the doctor ’s office, Sick Steve describes
the foul lumps that he is coughing up and how terrible he
feels. He is all clogged up with mucus, his muscles ache
and he feels like death warmed up. The doctor agrees. Sick Steve has caught a terrible cold from his cousin. The doctor prescribes an antibiotic to kill the unwelcome
invader. Sick Steve begins his medication immediately,
breathing a sigh of relief. T o celebrate, he treats himself
to his favourite meal of baked mushrooms on fresh yeast
bread with blue vein cheese and a large steak. He
washes this down with a few large glasses of beer,
nibbling on a few peanuts as he drinks. T o finish the
meal he has a large bowl of ice cream covered in
chocolate syrup. Within six to eight hours, Sick Steve is experiencing
relief from the symptoms of his cold. The bacteria that
were having a party in his respiratory tract have suf fered
a lethal blow from the action of the antibiotics and the
toxic waste they were producing has been reduced. What is now happening in Sick Steve. Let us pull the
curtain aside and have a look at the activity of these
microscopic life forms in Sick Steve’ s body. Unknowingly, Sick Steve has given the perfect food to
the yeast and fungus now multiplying nicely in his body. For not only did the antibiotics kill of f the bacteria in his
lungs, but also the bacteria that forms the flora in his
intestines. Now that they are reduced, the yeast that
resides there (Candida albicans), begins to multiply. When yeast and fungus are introduced into the body in
this way and allowed to multiply, they feed on cell
damage and the yeast and sugar that are fed to it by the
host (the human). They multiply quickly. The waste they
give of f is highly toxic to the body. As already mentioned, several dozen candida species
exist, and eight are known to cause disease in humans. The overgrowth of Candida albicans in the intestinal
tract causes damage to the gut wall allowing subsequent
pas- sage through the mucosa lining of the gut into the
bloodstream. This basically means the yeast can poke
holes in the intestines allowing the yeast and partially
digested food to enter the bloodstream. Because thewhite blood cells consider these to be enemies, this is
one of the causes of many autoimmune diseases. Let’s see how Sick Steve is doing. His bad cold did die
down but another problem developed. Sick Steve now
has a bad case of jock itch around his scrotum, anal itch
and tinea between his toes. He also notices that his
tongue is heavily coated. These are all fungal outbreaks. Sick Steve returns to the doctor who gives him a course
of nystatin. This antifungal medication causes the fungus
to mutate and go deeper into the tissues. In an attempt to alleviate the common cold, a far
greater dilemma has been created, and poor old Steve
is really sick. In his ignorance, Sick Steve is caught up in
a vicious cycle. His food and lifestyle habits are slowly
killing him. CAUSE AND EFFECT
 Newton’ s third law of motion states that: “T o every
action there is an equal and opposite reaction” or, simply
put, the law of cause and ef fect. “This law never ceases to act as the perfect balancer. Nature’ s equalizer; set- ting into motion compensatory
forces to remedy every imbalance,” says David Phillips
in his book From Soil to Psyche. ANTIBIOTICS–ARE THEY FRIEND OR FOE. What are antibiotics, where did they come from, how do
they af fect the body, and what is the long-term ef fect of
their use on the body. In 1928, Alexander Fleming discovered that the spore
from a mouldy orange on a fruit platter in the upstairs
window had killed the bacteria he was growing in a flask
in his downstairs laboratory. Alexander Fleming named
the mould penecillium, and the mould waste, penecillic
acid. The mould waste, or mycotoxin, is far more toxicthan the mould itself. The mycotoxin is designed to kill
off anything that would compete with its food source. This is a survival mechanism to ensure survival of the
mould by protecting the source of food from any
competition. Antibiotics have saved millions of lives by killing of f
bacteria, thus eliminating them and the toxic waste they
produce. This cannot be denied. The human body can
cope with one or two courses of antibiotics in a lifetime. But there is a dangerous situation happening today with
the overuse of antibiotics and the failure to question why
the bacteria, yeast and fungus are so active in the body. One percent of doctors today are claiming that
antibiotics are causing more problems than they have
cured. Remember anything that kills one organism (bacterium)
in small doses has the ability to kill much larger
organisms (humans) in large or repeated doses. With the discovery of penicillium, hundreds of dif ferent
mycotoxins were tested as possible antibiotics; 80
percent of them were deadly, too toxic to use. Antibiotics
are antibacterial and antihuman substances. They not
only kill of f bacteria as in Sick Steve’ s lungs—which by
the way were cleaning up his cell damage—they also kill
the healthy bacteria living in the human gut; for example,
bifidus bacterium and lactobacillus acidophilus. This now
clears the way for yeast living also in the gut—Candida
albicans—to multiply at an alarming rate. To indicate how quickly yeast can multiply we have to
look no further than yeast bread. It doubles in half an
hour. Chapter 2
Historical Moments: What does the past tell us. “The curse causeless shall not come. ”
—Proverbs 26:2
 
There are many great minds from the last two
centuries whose quest for the true cause of disease
has led them to the conclusion that fungus plays a
major role in human diseases. We will look at them later. But let us now view a sample
of the thoughts of a few of these great names as we
consider this theory. An example of this theory in history:
Florence Nightingale (1820–1910). Florence led the
nurses caring for thousands  of soldiers during the
Crimean W ar and helped  save the British army from
medical disaster. Conditions at the military hospital at
the port in Scutari (modern-day Üsküdar in Istanbul)
were so appalling that the death rate was up to 50
percent—higher than the battle front. When this report
reached England, Florence was asked to take a team of
nurses to see if they could help. In November 1855, a team of nurses, under Florence's 
direction, began scrubbing and cleaning. The following
month, a shipload of clean linen, bed clothes, bandages,
scrubbing brushes and a cook arrived, courtesy of
Florence's father. By April 1856, the death rate had
fallen to 12 percent and within six months it had lowered
still further to 2 percent. This famous British nurse, who changed history by her
radical treatment of disease using improved nutrition,
hygiene and sanitation, wrote a book called Notes on
Nursing in 1860. In her first paragraph Florence states:
 
Shall we begin by taking it as a general principle—that
all disease, at some period, or other of its course, is
more or less a reparative process, not necessarily
accompanied by suf fering: an ef fort of nature to remedy
a process of poisoning or of decay, which has taken
place weeks, months, sometimes years beforehand,
unnoticed, the termination of the disease being then,
while the antecedent process was going on determined. Here Florence Nightingale calls disease a process of
repair. In other words, disease is actually our friend and
the means by which our body repairs  itself. If given the
right conditions the body will repair, but if that process of
repair is inhibited by such things as drugs, dehydration,
malnutrition, or other neglect of health principles, then
the very process designed to repair us may kill us. Notice that Florence states that disease is actually an
effort of nature to remedy a process of poisoning or
decay. In the poisoning process it is the microforms that
clean up the mess. What is decay. Surely it is another condition arising
from poor lifestyle habits, again requiring the action  of
these small microforms. Professor Antoine Bechamp (1816-1908)  was a
French professor who was famous for his many years of
experiments on these microscopic life forms. In one
experiment he took a dead cat and sealed it in an airtight
container. Four months later he opened it and found dust and
bones. What caused the breakdown. The microscopic
life forms that were so vital to the life of the cat evolved
into the clean-up brigade (bacteria) upon its death. Then
followed the exterminators (yeast/fungus) and the
undertakers (mould), successfully fulfilling their roles in
the cycle of life by bringing matter back to dust. Bechamp took some of the dust and placed it under his
microscope. It was alive with microscopic life forms. Once they had completed their role in the Carbon Cycle
they then ‘devolved’ back into the form of
microorganisms found in the dust. A look at the now deceased cat’ s dust under the
microscope revealed life—microorganisms. THE CARBON CYCLE IN ACTION: 
The cell damage in the cat (death) caused 
the microorganisms to evolve into:
Yeast/Fungus (Exterminators)
Mould (Undertakers)
DUST
As the environment changes, so does the role of these
players in the great cycle of life. Chapter 3
Familiarising With A Fungus Feast
 
Fungus is a living microorganism that is neither plant
nor animal. Being a living organism, however, it must
have food. It is estimated that there are 1. 5 million
different fungi, but their palate is similar. The more of its
favourite food it can find, the more vigorous will be the
fungus growth. FUNGI’S F AVOURITE FEAST
Sugar in all its forms is fungi’ s favourite feast. The
pure, crystallised acid that is extracted from the sugar
cane or sugar beet plants is a particularly potent way to
cause any fungus  in the body to multiply quickly. Although fungus prefers the highly sweetened form of
sugar extracted from the sugar cane, if this is denied,
the fungus  will accept honey, maple syrup and the
sugar found in fruits; it is not fussy as to where the sugar
comes from. When the following foods are consumed, fungal
growth is encouraged. All alcoholic beverages contain mycotoxins or
yeasts. Yeast bread contains live yeast spore. While
sourdough bread does contain small amounts of
wild yeast, these do not pose a problem as they
come in combination  with lactobacillus, a
“friendly” bacteria that can help break down food,
absorb nutrients, and fight of f diseases. Peanuts and cooked rice are both extrem ely
susceptible to mould growth. Brewer ’s Yeast, and yeast extract spreads all
contain yeast. Mushrooms are a fungus  and need to be
eliminated when endeavouring to eradicate
fungus from the body. Mouldy food. Any food that has a trace of mould
on it must  not be eaten. This includes aged
cheeses which are commonly infused with mould
to create the cheeses’ distinctive flavours (take a
visit to a cheese factory and observe). THE FUNGAL EVOLUTION IN THE HUMAN BODY 
Many people are sick today because unhealthy lifestyle
habits are causing cell damage in the body, requiring the
body’ s own microorganisms to evolve into a clean-up
brigade (bacteria) as part of the compensatory forces. If
the bad habits continue, the bacteria can evolve into
yeast and fungus, just as they do in the natural world. Most foods today contain added sugar, which supplies
these microforms with their favourite food allowing them
to multiply unhindered. The waste from these
microforms is toxic and can cause disease. THE FUNGAL INV ASION IN THE HUMAN BODY
 
Another cause of sickness can come from an invasion
of fungus  and mould wastes, which can enter the
human body in four ways: 
 
Ingestion —eating mouldy food or taking antibiotics. Inhalation —breathing in mould from compost or
damp mouldy areas in buildings, carpet and even
mattresses and pillows. Via the Skin —mould spores can enter through the
pores of the skin. Sexual T ransmission —fungus can travel via body
fluids from one person to another. If mould or fungus enters the body in the spore form, it
can only survive and flourish providing there is a good
food supply. In extreme cases some very virulent  forms,
when entering in large numbers, can cause death quite
quickly. DEFINING THE FUNGI P ALLET IN THE HUMAN
BODY
 
1. Waste
As exterminators, the role of fungus on planet Earth
is to clear dead and decaying matter. Anywhere in
the body where cell damage/death is occurring,
these microforms—bacteria, fungi and yeast—will
be. 2. Chemicals
Every year new chemicals are introduced. Some
are found in herbicides, others in insecticides and
pesticides. Residues of these are in all non-
organically grown fruits, vegetables, nuts and grains. Meat, chicken and fish are commonly contaminated,
as are dairy products and eggs. Toxic chemicals are found in many household
cleaning products as well as laundry detergents,
soaps, shampoo, toothpaste, perfumes and makeup. When clothes made with nylon, acrylic and polyester
are worn, these fibres release chemicals that the
skin can absorb, especially when the person wearing
them gets hot and begins to perspire. These environmental poisons create free radicals 
that damage living tissue. In the cycle of life, these
damaged tissues are a food supply for the
opportunistic microorganisms—bacteria, yeast and
fungi. 3. Synthetic Hormones
Synthetic hormones are contained in the
contraceptive pill and hormone replacement therapy. Most synthetic hormone therapies contain oestrogen. Oestrogen’ s role in the body is that of a cell
proliferator, causing massive  cell growth. High levels
of oestrogen cause yeast and fungus  to multiply
very quickly. Dr John Lee, Dr Sandra Cabot and Dr
Sherrill Sellman are among sever- al authors who
have written excellent books on how to balance your
hormones naturally. Family Planning Clinics in most
large towns provide information on natural birth
control as an alternative to the pill. Perhaps not as
convenient, but definitely not life threatening. 4. Heavy MetalsFor the past fifty years, dentistry has been using
metal amalgam fillings in teeth. These amalgam
fillings can be 40–60 percent mercury. Over the
years this mercury is absorbed and accumulates in
the tissues of the body in the most toxic form,
methyl  mercury. Mercury is neurotoxic. There is no
safe dose in humans. Fungus ef fectively breaks
down heavy metals in the soil and so can also feed
on heavy metals that accumulate in the tissues of the
human body. There are many excellent alternatives today to mercury
fillings, which are just as strong yet not as toxic, with the
added benefit of being cosmetically desirable. Chapter 4
Mycology: The Study of Fungi
 
Mycology began with the discovery of aflatoxin in
the early 1960s. Disease due to fungus, however,
has been known from Bible times. The King James version of the Bible talks about
leprosy of the skin, leprosy of the house and leprosy of
the clothes. In modern translations leprosy of the house
is called mildew. Leprosy in clothes is also interpreted as
mildew,  but leprosy of the skin is interpreted as
infectious skin disease, though if following the former
rules of translation, the latter should be interpreted as
mildew of the skin. It has been well documented that mycotoxins (fungal
waste) cause disease in plants, animals and humans. The total number of mycotoxins is not known  but toxic
metabolites (waste) of fungi potentially could number in
the millions. Mycotoxins are produced by yeast/fungi and
moulds. They are the ‘urine and faeces’, so to speak,
which are produced as the fungi consume their food. The toxicity of these mycotoxins is designed to kill of f
anything that would compete with the fungi food source. Certain mycotoxins function as potential virulencefactors in producing disease in plants, animals and
humans. According to the American Council of Agricultural
Science and T echnology (CAST), it is not possible to
estimate precisely  the economic cost of mycotoxins. Their rough estimate of food and stock feed losses came
up with the figure of $932 million per year for the US
alone. This figure was for 2003 and would quite possibly
be higher now. With nearly 90 percent of Australians living in urban 
areas (cities or towns of more than 1000 people),1 food
must  be grown in large amounts and thus stored in
large amounts. This is one of the reasons why grains
infected with moulds/fungi are now a problem. Corn,
wheat and peanuts are the most commonly af fected. Silos where these grains are stored commonly sustain
moisture contact thus giving the perfect environment for
mould/fungal growth. MOST COMMONL Y FOUND MYCOT OXINS IN FOODS
 
Aspergillus, Penicillium, Fusarium are three of the most
potentially toxic fungal species found infecting grains. Aflatoxin, Ochratoxin, T richothecenes, Zearalenone,
Fumonisin, Citreoviridum, Penicillic acid and Gliotoxinare some of the disease-causing mycotoxins that these
fungi produce. Aflatoxin. Believed to be the most carcinogenic
substance ever tested. Aflatoxicosis is well
documented, and has many times linked aflatoxin to
hepatocellular carcinoma (liver cancer). Other studies also link aflatoxin with cancer in the
gastrointestinal tract and liver. These particular studies
were in Africa, the Philippines, China and in India, where
the mortality reached 25 percent. Kwashiorkor and
Reye’ s syndrome have been associated with aflatoxin in
food. 2
 
Aflatoxins were detected in liver tissue  of 36 children
with Kwashiorkor. In 1994, research in Shanghai 
demonstrated a specific biomarker for aflatoxin is related
to human liver cancer, and that hepatitis B virus and
aflatoxin B interact as risk factors for liver cancer. 3
 
Aflatoxin B1 is a known contaminant in cured tobacco,
thus it is highly likely to be in the smoke. Aflatoxin B1 is
known  to cause mutations in the tumour suppressor
gene. Aflatoxin is commonly found in corn and peanuts. Ochratoxins. A mycotoxin produced primarily by the
moulds Aspergillus or Penicillium that occurs on several
commodities prevalent in human diets; for example,cereal grains and peanuts. It's known  for its ef fect
primarily on the kidneys but can also af fect the liver. A
major renal disease  in swine occurs in some European
countries, especially Denmark, and is associated with
consumption of ocharatoxin contaminated barley. 4
 
In 1956, the first clinical description of a human kidney
disease, known  as Balkan Endemic Nephropathy with
unknown cause, was published. Ochratoxin has been
strongly  linked to this disease, especially since this
mycotoxin  has been found in the food of patients from
the Balkan countries. Guinea pigs and rabbits experimentally exposed to air
passed through a layer of the ochratoxin-contaminated
wheat experienced renal failure. Intestinal microflora can convert Ochratoxin A into
Ochratoxin alpha, a non-toxic metabolite that can be
measured in the urine and faeces. Trichothecenes. This mycotoxin is a potent protein
inhibitor, which is the basic mechanism of their toxicity. In Russia in 1944, a disease  occurred known as
Alimentary T oxic Aleukia, and was characterised by total
recrotic angina. Mortality rates reached 80 percent. Patients experienced vomiting, diarrhoea, abdominal
pain and burning in the upper gastrointestinal tract. This
would occur shortly after eating contaminated food. It
was caused by consuming over-wintered cereal grains
or their products. The Fusarium organism was isolatedfrom the grains after more than 20 years of storage. Fusarium is capable of producing the mycotoxin
trichothecenes—T2 toxin. These symptoms can be
produced in cats when given purified T2 toxin orally. 5 
 
Zearalenone. In Puerto Rico in 1985, premature puberty
occurred in seven- and eight-year-old children in
epidemic proportions. Researchers examined local food
and found high concentrations of the mycotoxin
Zearalenone, which is an Estradiol equivalent in some of
the meat. Zeoralanol is a processed anabolic product
made from Zearalenone and approved for use as an
anabolic agent in cattle and sheep in Puerto Rico. It
appears that exposure could have been from mothers
who ingested contaminated food during pregnancy. Hsieh, in 1989, suggested that Zearalenone was
possibly involved in human cervical cancer and
premature puberty. Zearalenone has also been found in
high concentrations in cereal foods (grains). Fumonisin. An association between the
consumption of mouldy corn and the high human
oesophageal cancer rates found in parts of Southern
Africa6 and the Linxian area of China7  has been
known  for some time. Oesophageal cancer rates and the consumption of
corn products, which likely contain Fumonisins,8 havesimultaneously increased in northern Italy in recent 
years. Various Fusarium species are common in corn
worldwide, but it is the con- sumption of food prepared
from ‘home grown’ contaminated corn that has been
correlated with oesophageal dysplasia (pre-cancerous),
and also oesophageal cancer in southern Africa and
China. 9
  
   
Citreoviridum. Acute cardiac beri beri is a disease  that
occurred for centuries, including the early twentieth
century in Japan and other Asian countries. It was characterised by rapid pulse, palpitations,
vomiting and low blood pressure, and led to respiratory
failure and death (V eno 1974). A fungus  was isolated
and identified as Citreoviridum. 10 The Rice Act of 1921
passed by the Japanese government decreased the
availability of mouldy rice in the markets and resulted in
a rapid decline  of the disease. 11
  
   
Gliotoxin. This immunosuppressive mycotoxin first
attracted the interest of investigators searching for
new antibiotics. However, its toxicity precluded
clinical use as an antibiotic. (Many proposed fungal
antibiotics were never marketed because theirtoxicity precluded their clinical use). Interest in
Gliotoxin was revived when it was discovered to be
produced by Aspergillus fumigatus and other such
fungi as Candida Albicans, and that it had unusual
immunosuppressive activities. This toxin has been
found in vaginal secretions of women with Candida
Vaginitis. The involvement of Gliotoxin in the
pathogenesis of Aspergillosis and Candidiasis could
be important because the immunosuppressive
nature of this toxin could exacerbate the infection
and possibly be a virulence factor. Immune-
suppression is a major ef fect of mycotoxins. 12
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Chapter Four References
 
1     Australian Bureau of Statistics, Australian
Demographic Statistics, June 2012
2    Council for Agricultural Science and T echnology
(2003) Mycotoxins: Risks in Plant, Animal and
Human Systems, T ask Force Report No 139,
January 2003, page 50. 3    ibid. 4    CAST, op cit, page 51. 5    ibid, page 52. 6    Marasas,  WFO, Jaskiewicz, K, V enter, FS, and
Van Schalkwyk,  DJ (1988). Fusarium
moniliforme contamination of maize inoesophogeal cancer areas in T ranskei. South
African Medical Journal, V ol 74, pages 1 10–1 14. 7     Y ang, CS, (1980) Research on esophageal
cancer in China: a review. Cancer Research
Journal, V ol 40, pages 2633–2644. 8    Doko, MB and V isconti,  A (1994), Occurrence of
fumonisins B1 and B2 in corn and corn-based
human foodstuf fs in Italy. Food Additives and
Contaminants,  V ol 11 No 4, pages 433-439. 9    CAST, op cit, page 54. 10  Miyake and Igaku 1943, cited in Ueno 1974. 11  CAST,  op cit, page 53. 12   ibid, page 56. Chapter 5
Presenting the Evidence, History of Fungus: The role
fungus plays in Human Disease
 
“There is nothing new under the sun. ”
—Ecclesiastes 1:9  
As has been established, fungi are everywhere and
can cause disease in humans. The first
known documented description of fungus is in the Bible. As previously mentioned the older versions call it
leprosy. The newer versions call it mildew. The Bible
talks about mildew in the clothes, in the house and on
the skin. Notice the description, “He (the authorities) is to
examine the mildew on the walls of the house and if it
has greenish or reddish depressions” (Leviticus 14:37)—
a vivid description of fungus. The account goes on to explain how the stones of the
house with the mildew had to be thrown outside the city. The house then had to be scraped  and the dust
discarded. Next, other stones were to be put in the place
of the discarded stones and plastered in. If the mildew
returned after this process then the authorities would
declare it ‘unclean’, and the house had to be destroyed. The remnants were to be taken out of the city to an
‘unclean’ place—this may seem like an overreaction tous. T o take such action  reveals that mildew was
considered dangerous and deadly. The Hebrew word for
leprosy is the same word used for leprosy of the skin,
house and clothes. In a modern translation of the Bible,
the translators have used the word mildew in place of
leprosy when discussing houses and clothes. But instead of calling the condition ‘mildew of the skin’,
when discussing skin, they have called it ‘infectious skin
disease’. Science today reveals the fungal link with skin
diseases. Today more and more doctors and scientists are
discovering the fungal link with disease. But it is not new
to today’ s biologists and mycologists. In the book The
Germ that Causes Cancer, Doug Kaufman explores the
role of fungus in human disease. In one section of this
fascinating book, Kaufman discusses the work of Dr
Milton White, a scientist who has published medical
articles  for more than 50 years. His search for the cause
of cancer led him to see the relationship between
fungus and disease. Kaufman explains it well:
 
“Dr White writes that the spores from the Asomycete
fungi are involved in cancer ’s cause. Asomycete
fungi are the class of fungi whose spores require a
container in which to lie dormant. The container is
actually a very durable sac. It cannot be destroyedusing strong caustics, by boiling, or by alternate
freezing and thawing of the sac. Upon entry into a human host, this spore is deprived
of atmospheric oxygen and exposed to a
temperature of 98. 6 degrees F (or 36 degrees C),—
human body temperature. In this new environment,
the spore thrives even in the absence of oxygen as it
begins to shed its durable sac. W ithout its hard
covering, the spore, referred to as a ‘deficient form’
(ie. deficient of its environmental enclosure), is now
free to invade human cells as a liberated fungal
spore. Spore reproduction begins inside the human
cell. 1
 
Systemic infection can be caused by ascomycete
candida in its spore form. The adult form of this
fungus is not capable of causing serious disease but
may play a role in inflammation. The ascomycete
fungi are a large class of true fungi, the sac fungi,
which includes true yeasts, blue moulds and
penicillium. Once inside the body, the fungal spores shed their
protective cell walls in order to use human cells as
sacs. These ‘egg’ spores can lay dormant in nature
or inside the human body for years. There are a
number of 'dormancy breakers' that can cause spore
reproduction. The availability of the fungis’ favouritefood—sugar—and a high carbohydrate diet or
antibiotics or depressed immune system or certain
hormones. These dormancy breakers can be the
biggest risk factors in the invasion of humans’
fungi. ”2  
The fungal spores in their cell wall and deficient forms
inside the human cell are able to incorporate their DNA
with the human DNA to create a hybrid or mutated cell. The cell now changes  from aerobic (in the presence of
oxygen) to anaerobic (the absence of oxygen)
respiration. This anaerobic respiration gives of f lactic acid, which in
turn  lowers the pH of the body. Fungus and disease
thrive in an acid pH. In her book, Cell W all Deficient Forms, Ida Mattman
further explains how the fungi can merge into a human
cell:  
Chemical analyses show that the walls of these
organisms have a high lipid (fat) content. This
explains why they wash from slides and why they
melt to artefacts when the slide is heat-fixed. Which
is why the cover slip is needed on the slide. These organisms are tiny and they slip into
erythrocytes (red blood cells), thanks to pinocytosis (the
ability of certain substances to be able to merge into the
cell). Within the red blood cell they are protected fromphagocytosis (destruction) by immune cells (white blood
cells) and have transportation to all areas of the body. 3
 
As the fungal cell is now merged with the human cell, it
escapes destruction by the white blood cell because the
white blood cell now sees it as a human cell. PLEOMORPHISM (many forms)
Pleomorphism describes the changing role of microbes
in the human body. Pleomorphism is the Carbon Cycle
in action. Medicine today is based on Louis Pasteur ’s
theory of monomorphism, which states  that bacteria is
only ever bacteria, or fungus  is only ever fungus. The
following scientists and doctors have proven otherwise. Professor Gunther Enderlein  (1872-1968) called the
tiny biological unit of life a ‘protit’. It has since been
named a microorganism. Enderlein observed when
looking at live blood under a microscope that ‘protits’
remained small in response to a healthy condition as
they built and worked within the body. But when these
life units encountered a disturbed inner condition they
enlarged and change into more complex forms including
bacteria and fungus. This is called pleomorphism:
relating to the ability of these small life units to change
roles. Antoine Bechamp (1816-1908 ) was a Master of
Pharmacy, Doctor of Science, Doctor of Medicine,Professor of Medical Chemistry and Pharmacy, Fellow
and Professor of Physics and T oxicology, Professor of
Biological Chemistry and a Dean of Faculty of Medicine. Bechamp named the microscopic forms of life that he
viewed through the microscope ‘microzymas’ or small
ferments, describing the microscopic life form’ s digestion
as fermentation. For example, bacteria decompose dead
leaves and rocks into dust. Bechamp stated,
“Microzymas are at the beginning and end of all
organisations”. He referred to ‘microzymas’ as the builders and
destroyers of cells. “In the state of health the
‘microzymas’ act harmoniously and our life is in every
sense of the word a regular fermentation. ” Whenever 
there is cell damage these ‘microzymas’ change their
function and turn into forms capable of more vigorous 
fermentative breakdown. This led Bechamp to conclude:
“Diseases are born of us and in us. ”
 
Claude Bernard (1813-1878)  was a French
physiologist. Bernard called the internal environment
of the body ‘The T errain’. He maintained that the
condition of ‘The T errain’ was the most important in
disease conditions, much  more so than the
microorganism, as the microorganism changed  its
role depending on the condition of ‘The T errain’ (the
body). Royal Raymond Rife (1888-1971)  built a
microscope with 31,000 diometres revolution which
was capable of detail and clarity surpassing any
other micro- scope of its day, or even for that matter,
our day. Weighing 90 kilograms (200 pounds),
standing 60 centimetres (2 feet) high and containing
5,682 parts, it was an unsung wonder  of the world. It
used prismatically dispersed natural light. Royal
Rife’s work demonstrated beyond a shadow of a
doubt that microscopic life forms are pleomorphic. A
major upshot of his work was his ability through
several pleomorphic stages, to transform a virus he
found in cancer tissues into a fungus, plant the
fungus  into an asparagus-based medium, and
produce bacillus E coli, the type of microform found
in the human intestine. He repeated this hundreds of
times. The Mayo Clinic’ s Dr Edward Rosenon wrote as
early as 1914 in the Journal of Infectious Diseases
that “It would seem that focal (mouth) infections are
no longer looked upon merely as a place of entrance
of bacteria but as a place where conditions are
favourable for them to acquire  the properties that
give them a wide range of af finities for various
structures. ”  
Dr Virginia Livingston, in 1947, discovered a
pleomorphic organism in all cancers she studied. She
found it could be both helpful and unhelpful to the body,
and that it is “dormant until  activated by the need torepair damaged cells”. In 1953 with two other women 
doctors, Dr Diller and Dr Jackson, they presented an
exhibit  at a meeting of the American Medical
Association with visual footage of pleomorphic changes. They showed the link between these microbes and
cancer. In 1974, Ida H. Mattman of the department of
Biology W ayne State University published Cell W all
Deficient Forms. Though pleomorphism was a
proven phenomenon, the orthodox school continued
to ignore it. Mattman writes:
 
Current bacteriology holds the belief that each species
of bacteria has only a certain simple form. in contrast,
this writer, using carefully prepared
pure cultures found that bacteria pass through stages
with markedly different morphology. Pleomorphic forms
are the first growth in culture. Bacterial life is subject to a
series of diverse morphological stages, only one of
which is the classical rod, coccus, spirillum or
spirochete. Granular, mycelial, and large body stages
are all capable of reverting to the parent forms. the
shape the variants adopt is largely determined by the
presence and concentration of certain amino acids,
carbohydrates, ions and gases in the environment. ”4  
Time lapse photography shows that many agents and
conditions cause a bacterium to alter its morphology,
exchanging a rigid format for a pleomorphic outline. Florence Seibert, Professor Emeritus of the
Biochemistry University of Pennsylvania, wrote the book
on this subject Pebbles on the Hill of a Scientist in 1968. “We were able to isolate bacteria from every piece of
tumour and every acute leukemia blood specimen we
had. ” This was published in the Annuls of the New Y ork
Academy of Sciences: “One of the most interesting
properties of these bacteria is their great pleomorphism. For example, they readily change their shape from round
cocci, to elongate rods and even to long thread like
filaments depending on what medium they grow on and
how long they grow. ”
 
In a paper presented to the New Y ork Academy of
Sciences in 1969, Dr V irginia Livingston and Dr
Elenor Alexander Jackson declared that a single
cancer microorganism exists. They said that the
reason an army of cancer researchers couldn’t find it
was that it changed form. “The organism has remained an unclassified
mystery, due in part to its pleomorphism and its
stimulation of other microorganisms. Phases may
resemble viruses, micrococci, diptheroids, bacilli and
fungi. ”
 
In 1980, French bacteriologists Sorin Sonea and
Maurice Parisset published their book A New
Bacteriology. The central theme of their book was thatbacterial pleomorphism was now a scientific fact. They
stated that, “dif ferent  types of bacteria were only
different manifestations of a unified bacterial world”. In 2001, Dr Robert Y oung explained in his book Sick
and T ired that he had made similar observations and
had identified this pleomorphic cycle. He states  that
these microforms in live cells became bacteria, then
yeast and fungus, and then became mould. The acids
produced by these life forms are poisons and can poison
the human body. The book contains photographs of
slides taken of the microorganisms changing form. These scientists are all describing a process well
known on planet Earth as the Carbon Cycle. The Bible
describes it in Genesis 3:19: “W e came from dust and
we return to dust. ”
 
The Carbon Cycle is demonstrated on the rainforest
floor and in the compost bin. It is the microscopic life
forms that cause this Carbon Cycle to happen. The same microorganisms that cause an apple to grow
also cause it to ripen, and also cause it to rot, bringing it
back to dust. If the apple is damaged the Carbon Cycle
can kick in earlier. The environment dictates the activity
or role of these life forms. The final breakdown is
accomplished by yeast, fungus and mould. They can be
called the undertakers. This is their role on planet Earth. A basic law of science states: “Nothing is created and
nothing is destroyed”. It changes form. This is
pleomorphism. If not for the important role of bacteria, fungus, yeast
and mould, this planet would be covered in rubbish. The medical textbook, Principles and Practice of
Clinical Mycology, written by C. C. Kibbler in 1996, shows
in detail the fungal link in every human disease. Note the chapter titles:
The Fungal Kingdom: Essentials of Mycology 
Pathogenesis of Fungal Diseases 
Epidemiology of Fungal Diseases
Diagnosis of Fungal Diseases
Antifungal Therapy
Fungal Disease of Bone and Joint
Fungal Diseases of the Cardiovascular System
Fungal Meningitis
Mycoses Causing Mass Legions of the Central
Nervous System
Fungal Disease in Dermatology
Fungal Infections of the Ear, Nose and Throat 
Fungemia and Disseminated Fungal Infection 
Fungal Infection of the Gastro-Intestinal T ract 
Fungal Diseases in Genitourinary MedicineFungal Infections of the Kidney and those associated
with Renal Failure, Dialysis and Renal
Transplantation
Fungal Diseases in Ophthalmology
Fungal Infections of the Respiratory T ract
  
In Chapter 2, Kibbler states: “The escalating incidence of
fungal infections is linked in part to the widespread use
of broad-spectrum antibiotics and the advent of
increasing numbers of patients with cancer and other
underlying diseases receiving intensive
immunosuppressant regimens. ”
 
I have included the following chart (from Kibbler ’s
book) which gives a short and concise  summary of
common human fungal pathogens and the diseases they
can cause. __________________________________________
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Chapter Five References
 
1    Kaufman, D, (2002), The Germ that Causes
Cancer, Mediatrition, page 124. 2    ibid, page 139. 3    Mattman,  I, (2000, first published September
1974),  Cell W all Deficient Forms, Third Edition, 
CRC Press. page 10. 4    ibid, page 32. Chapter 6
The Link Between Fungus And Cancer
 
As we have discussed, over the last century and
before, many researchers have proven the fungal link in
disease. Let us now look at some compelling evidence
linking fungus  with cancer over the last few decades. Professor A. V Constantine, former head of the W orld
Health Organization, Department of Mycology, has
written several books in the Fungal Bionic Series
showing the relationship between fungus  and disease,
including cancer. These books provide documentary
evidence that fungi and their biological metabolites, the
mycotoxins, are silent and relentless attackers of human
health in that they cause the major ‘degenerative’ and
‘cancerous’ diseases that plague mankind. Constantine
backs his theory with more than 20 years of research;
his books were published in the late 1990s. Doug Kaufmann has written a series of books also
showing the relation- ship between fungus  and disease. Three of his books Fungal Link One, T wo and Three
show the link with various diseases. But his most
remarkable book called The Germ That Causes Cancer
goes into the history of medicine in the 19th, 20th and
beginning of the 21st century showing the alarming factthat the link between fungus  and cancer has been
known for over a hundred years. These books were
published in the 1990s. In 2007, Dr T ullio Simoncini published a book called
Cancer is a Fungus: A revolution in the therapy of
tumours. Dr Simoncini is a medical doctor and surgeon
based in Rome who specialises in Oncology,
Diabetology and Metabolic disorders. He is also a
Doctor of Philosophy. After quoting much  research to
prove his theory, Simoncini states  in his book: “Candida
is truly the cancer and it must  be fought from this
standpoint in all its pathogenic variants. ”1
 
He has had quite phenomenal results by treating
cancer with a very simple treatment that has been used
to treat fungus  in agriculture for many years— sodium
bicarbonate. Sodium bicarbonate is safe, extremely inexpensive, it
can be bought in a supermarket for a few dollars and
yet, it is a deadly killer to cancer cells for it hits them with
a shock wave of alkalinity. This alkalinity allows a rush of
oxygen into the cancer cell. Cancer cannot survive in the
presence of high levels of oxygen. By making  the terrain
where the fungus  is living completely inorganic, sodium
bicarbonate eliminates the slightest organic material that
fungus uses for nourishment. Sodium bicarbonate is
currently used to treat oral candidiasis in children andappears to be such a simple  and handy weapon  in
uprooting, inhibiting and even reversing any malignant
growth wherever  it is applied. Simoncini uses a local application of sodium
bicarbonate in solution where possible, but resorts to
inserting catheters for areas that cannot be reached with
local applications. He states  that almost  all organs can
be treated with this therapy. He has found this to be a
very powerful weapon against fungi in these areas,
stating that its ef fectiveness is painless leaving no after
effects with very low risks:
 
We have seen that fungi are able to quickly mutate
their genetic structure. That means that after an
initial phase of sensitivity to fungicides, in a short
time they are able to codify them and to metabolise
them without been damaged by them—rather
paradoxically, they extract a benefit from their high
toxicity on the organism. 2
 
In other words, many antifungal therapies may be
effective at first but consistently lose their ef fectiveness
with time. Sodium bicarbonate instead, as it is extremely
diffusible and without that structural complexity that fungi
can easily codify, retains its ability to penetrate the
masses for a long time. This is also and especially dueto the speed at which it disintegrates them,  which
makes it impossible for the fungi to adapt so that it
cannot defend itself. Along with the sodium bicarbonate treatment,
Simoncini stresses the importance of assessing the
emotional health of the patient along with proper
hydration and diet. 3
  
   
Dr T. Colin Campbell’ s book The China Study (2006) is
being cited as one of the most important books on
nutrition ever written. In the first few chapters of the
book, Campbell talks about his early career, which was
spent  working with two of the most toxic chemicals ever
discovered—Dioxin and Aflatoxin. He was asked to
investigate the unusually high prevalence of liver cancer
in Filipino children. This was linked to the high
consumption of aflatoxin, a mould toxin found in peanuts
and corn. In his research, the peanut butter the children
consumed was found to have far higher levels of
aflatoxin than standard peanuts. What startled Campbell
was the high death rate amongst the wealthy children. He found that the wealthier Filipino families ate high
amounts of meat and dairy products, compared to the
poorer children who were on a traditional Chinese diet of
mainly vegetables, rice, some soy and a little fish. Around this time, a research paper from India surfaced
in the American Medical Association Journal. The paper
described an experiment observing the link between
liver cancer and protein consumption in two groups of
laboratory rats. One group was given aflatoxin and then
fed a diet containing 20 percent animal protein. The
second was given the same level of aflatoxin and then
fed a diet containing just 5 percent animal protein. Every
single rat fed 20 percent animal protein developed liver
cancer or its precursor lesions, but not a single rat fed a
5 percent protein diet got liver cancer or its precursor
lesions. This was not a trivial dif ference: it was a 100
percent versus 0 percent. Rarely in research do you get
these results. 4
 
As these results confirmed what Campbell was finding,
he applied  for funding and spent  the next few decades
researching this himself. Campbell and his team
organised a very large study of several hundred rats. Rats generally live two years. The study was a hundred
weeks in length. All animals that were administered
aflatoxin and were fed 20 percent levels of casein
(animal protein) were dead or near death from liver
tumours at 100 weeks. All animals administered the
same level of aflatoxin but fed the low 5 percent protein
diet were alive, active and thriving with sleek hair coats
at 100 weeks. This was a virtual 100 to 0 score. A result 
rarely seen in research and almost identical to the
original research in India. 5, 6 
In his experiments, Campbell was surprised to find that
plant protein did not promote cancer growth, even at a
20 percent level. When the rats were given 20 percent
plant protein, the results were similar to a 5 percent
animal protein response. In other words, the cancer
protective ef fect given by 5 percent animal protein was
also given with 20 percent plant protein. Campbell discovered that low-protein diets or their
equivalents (plant protein), reduce tumours by the
following mechanisms:
 
Less aflatoxin entered the cell
Cells multiplied more slowly
Multiple changes occurred within the enzyme
complex to reduce its activity
The quantity of critical components of the
relevant enzymes was reduced
 Less aflatoxin-DNA adducts were formed. The recommended daily allowance for protein
consumption is 10 percent of our energy. The average
Australian consumes 15–16 percent protein. T en percent
dietary protein is equivalent to eating 50–60 grams of
protein per day. The average Australian is eating 70–100
grams of protein per day. This is generally animalprotein. As the research confirms, this amount of protein
is not a problem if it comes from plants. The October 2007 Australian edition of T ime presented
a very interesting article on breast cancer. In the section
‘Western W ays, W estern  W oes’ it stated that, “If the
spread of US and European lifestyles  is indeed
contributing to the breast cancer boom, the first and
worse of all those new habits is almost surely diet. In a
study released in July, scientists traced the eating habits
of 3000 Chinese women  ranging  in age from 25-64. Half of the group ate a ‘meat- sweet’ diet of W estern 
cuisine, rich in red meat, shrimp, fish, candy, desserts,
bread and milk. The others stuck to more traditional
Asian fare of vegetables, sprouts, beans, tofu, fish and
soy milk. Post-menopausal women  in the ‘meat- sweet’
group showed a 60 percent greater risk of developing
the most common kind of breast cancer. ”
 
Dr Otto W arburg was certainly not an author of the last
decade, but his findings in the earlier part of the 20th
century support what these authors are saying. The two-
time Nobel prize winner stated in his book The
Metabolism of T umours that “The primary cause of
cancer was the replacement of oxygen in the respiratory
cell chemistry by the fermentation of glucose. ” The
human cell prefers to function aerobically, that is using
oxygen. Fungus and cancer cells function anaerobically,
that is without oxygen using fermentation. In 1931 DrWarburg received his Nobel prize for this
discovery. Fungus and cancer cells not only create acid
as the anaerobic cell gives of f lactic acid as its waste,
but they also thrive in an acid environment. “Cancer is a
dark thing living in an acidic place devoid of oxygen. ”  
CURRENT MEDICAL CANCER TREA TMENTS
Chemotherapy Reassessed
Professor Gianfranco V alse Pantellini in the treatise
interview ‘The Individual, Disease and Medicine’ says
this of chemotherapy: “It has a devastating action  on the
whole organism. it is based on an axiom—rather than
a paradox. that which causes cancer cures it. Look at
what level of absurdity we managed to get to. ” 7
 
A quote from Dr Simoncini’ s book states;
 
Chemotherapy in fact destroys everything and how it
can make the fungi mass regress is still a mystery. It
is a given fact that it dramatically exhausts the cells
of the marrow and of the blood, thus allowing a
greater spreading of the infection. It irreversibly intoxicates the liver, thus preventing it
from building new elements of defence, and it
mercilessly knocks out nerve cells, thus weakening
the organisms’ reactive capabilities and delivering it
to the invaders. 8  
Australian OncologistsIn March 2006, an important paper was published in
the journal Clinical Oncology entitled ‘The Contribution
of Cytotoxic Chemotherapy to 5-year Survival in Adult
Malignancies. ’ This paper set out to accurately quantify
and assess the actual benefit conferred by
chemotherapy in the treatment of adults with the most
common types of cancer. Although the paper has
attracted some attention in Australia, the native country
of the paper ’s authors, it has been greeted with
complete silence  by the rest of the world. All three of the paper ’s authors are oncologists. Lead
author Associate Professor Graeme Morgan is a
radiation oncologist at Royal North Shore Hospital in
Sydney; Professor Robyn W ard is a medical oncologist
at University of New South W ales and Saint V incent’ s
Hospital. Professor W ard is also a member of the
Therapeutic Goods Authority of the Australian Federal
Departments of Health and Ageing, the of ficial body that
advises the Australian Government on the suitability and
efficacy of drugs to be listed on the national
Pharmaceutical Benefits Schedule (PBS). The third
author, Doctor Michael Barton, is a radiation oncologist
and a member of the Collaboration for Cancer
Outcomes Research and Evaluation, Liverpool Health
Service, Sydney. The conclusion of these oncologists meticulous study
was based on an analysis of the results of all the
randomised, controlled clinical trials (RCT s) performed in
Australia and the US that reported a statistically
significant increase in 5-year survival due to the use of
chemotherapy in adult malignancies. Survival data were
drawn from the Australian cancer registries and the US
National Cancer Institute’ s Surveillance Epidemiology
and End Results (SEER) registry spanning the period
January 1990 until  January 2004. Wherever data were uncertain, the authors deliberately
erred on the side of overestimating the benefit of
chemotherapy. Even so, the study concluded that
overall, chemotherapy contributes just over 2 percent to
improved survival in cancer patients. Radiotherapy
Radiotherapy aims to literally burn out the cancer cells,
but it is very dif ficult to ef fect a mortal blow to the cancer
without damaging surrounding tissues and organs. Damaged tissues are always a target for opportunistic
fungus. Radiotherapy is not addressing the cause,
although it may initially regress cancer growth,
radiotherapy can actually create the very environment
for cancer to flourish. Surgery
Whenever  the human body is cut, it is damaged, thus
again creating a fruitful environment for fungal increase. Dr Simoncini found that in a few cases, when the tumour
is extremely large and able to be safely removed and the
area washed with sodium bicarbonate, there can be
benefit. However, the body has been designed to heal itself,
and if the tumour has not reached the point of blocking
any major body functions, then given the right
conditions, the tumour may be able to be reduced and
eliminated. CONCLUSION
These toxic treatments do not address the root causes
of cancer. They are dangerous approaches involving
risks. Common  sense speaks to us that a treatment that
burns, poisons and slashes the human body is contrary
to the body’ s inbuilt healing mechanisms. W e are
morally and ethically obligated  to search out and
investigate alternatives that work with the healing
powers that are inherent in the human body. Section summary: 

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