Dear Editor:
RE: Vitamin supplementation, and Vouching for vitamins, July 23 and 30.
Regarding John Scott’s letter to the editor in the July 30 Advertiser, I too take exception to the editor’s note regarding dismissal of the benefits of Vitamin D related to COVID-19. Searching mainstream sites, one of the benefits of Vitamin D is that it improves lung health. Respiratory failure is one symptom of COVID-19 so why would Vitamin D not be of value?
Louis Pasteur believed that disease arises from microorganisms outside of the body. He believed that to prevent disease we have to “build defenses”. Pharmaceutical companies today believe in a magic bullet.
Claude Bernard and later Antoine Bechamp believed the “terrain” or “internal environment” determined our state of health. Healthy terrain could handle various pathogenic microorganisms that are thrown its way. Bernard and Bechamp, and their followers to present day, believe that disease occurs to a large extent as a function of biology when metabolic processes become imbalanced. Germs are symptoms of a weak terrain. That terrain needs to be built up through nutrition, detoxification, and maintaining a proper pH balance.
Bechamp believed that to prevent disease we have to create health. This was nearly 200 years ago and scientists now know we all live within a “biome” and that science is psychoneuroimmunology.
We have more than ten times the bacteria, fungus, viruses, yeast and other microscopic creatures living in and around our bodies at all times. That 90% of our DNA isn’t really ours.
In his last remaining years Pasteur recanted his entire life work by stating “the microbe is nothing; the milieu is everything”. He conceded that Bechamp was correct in what he theorized.
Like you, I read many scientific reports and papers to form an opinion. I ask myself these questions to decide what science to trust.
1) Who stands to make trillions of dollars off the backs of healthy, or otherwise, people using taxpayer’s dollars to cover the cost of their “magic bullets” without any financial responsibility?
2) Who loses their reputation, life work research and are labeled as charlatans for being a whistle blower in reporting their truth?
Joyce Sloat,
Alma