Whenever the man next to you coughs loudly in the train, or the girl behind you sneezes profusely in the lift, do you sometimes notice disapproving looks from the surrounding people?

Besides feeling sorry for them, we may be secretly wishing that the bacteria or germs excreted by the sick people will be blown away from our inhalation.

I myself have experienced a few occasions where dissatisfied customers told service staff off for being “sick” at the counter and “passing germs around” - once in a hotel, and others at air-line check-in counters.

We feel threatened by these bacteria or germs which fly around and attack us to make us sick.

Why this bacteria war? Why is pasteurization a norm of society now? Why do we stage global wars against bacteria everyday - from shunning sick people on a small scale, to multi-billion anti-biotics vaccine industries on a large scale?

Is it because it is much more profitable and easy to convince the masses to fight and kill off bacteria compared to taking responsibility for our own health so that bad bacteria cannot flourish in the first place?

When a chronic smoker quits smoking, and experiences terrible withdrawal symptoms like bad colds, do people say that he/she is attacked by bacteria?

No! Instead, we understand that the body is getting rid of toxic build up and recovering from the abuse. After the withdrawal symptoms, the ex-smoker usually feels a new sense of well-being, clearer skin and eyes, better sense of taste and smell, improved stamina and better energy than before.

But if we have been eating processed and bad foods all these “X” (insert age) number of years, and then we suddenly switched to a cleaner diet, do we expect to feel better immediately? If we have withdrawal symptoms, do we blame it on bacteria from raw foods?

Next - does cooking help to eliminate bacteria so that we will not be “attacked” and fall sick?

Yes, definitely, cooking does destroy bacteria. But it also kills enzymes, vitamins and other nutrients. In other words, if we want to remain bacteria free, we probably have to cook ourselves too!

The bad news is - bacteria is in fact, everywhere! We cannot escape them because they are in the air we breathe, in the water we drink, in the foods we eat, and even in our body!

But the good and even better news is that - bacteria can be “good” or “bad” depending on the state of our health.

The biological terrain in which bacteria dwells can determine whether the bacteria is beneficial or harmful. Let’s take a brief look at some research:

Antoine Bechamp, a biochemist, discovered that the smallest living unit in all living organisms (including humans) can change forms according to the general health of the rest of the cells of the biological host.

Later on, Dr Gunther Enderlein ( a German doctor) proved Bechamp’s theory to be right through 60 years of work.

Another doctor - Dr Robert Young, PhD, DSc also claimed that an unhealthy blood cell can morph into bacterium which can further changes into fungus.

Dr Bruno Comby (a Physicist) researched that virus and bacteria are not harmful in themselves; rather, they present harm only if the body’s internal chemistry is greatly unbalanced and compromised. He proposed that microbes like bacteria are not inherently harmful in a person eating a 100% or mostly raw diet.

Dr Comby also claimed that bacteria can even be beneficial in assisting elimination of abnormal substances in healthy biological terrain. Dr Comby witnessed people eliminate tapeworms (which previously resisted to be excreted from conventional treatments) when they were put on raw foods!

Actually, just like humans, animals, trees and other organisms, bacteria has a part to play in the cycle of life. They break down respective groups of dead organisms so that life carries on.

Of course, we are not saying we should live inside decomposing rubbish dumps everyday, but this would be a more rational way of looking at bacteria.

An interesting question to ask ourselves would be: If we crashed into a sharp edge of a table while walking, do we blame the pain on the table for being there? Or do we make a note to walk more carefully the next time?

“The most powerful diet for bringing a diseased biological terrain back to normal is live foods.”
Dr Gunther Enderlein

(C) 2009 Copyright, Linda Loo

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