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Homeostatic Soil Organisms
Support Immune System Functions from the Ground Up
In October 1994, Herbert Rubin, DC, of Palm Beach Gardens, Florida
telephoned me. Crohn's disease is a long-term swelling of the bowel of unknown origin that affects the lower part of the small intestine (the ileum), the main part of the large intestine (the colon), or both structures simultaneously. Jordan S. Rubin was experiencing every sort of discomforting symptom associated with it: a minimum of one dozen attacks of diarrhea daily, severe stomach pain, generalized abdominal cramps, nausea, fever, chills, weakness, emotional depression, disappearance of appetite, and dramatic weight loss. He had malabsorption of food nutrients, and nonspecific laboratory findings that included a serum iron level at zero for over a year, an elevated serum candida antigen, positive tests for amoebiasis (amoebae infection), cryptosporidiosis (protozoa infestation), and extreme intestinal dysbiosis, hypoalbuminemia, electrolyte imbalance, leukocytosis, anemia, and elevated C-reactive protein. Definitive X-ray studies and endoscopy testing by gastroenterologists confirmed the young man's condition.
Acting on my published information, Dr. Rubin sent his son to Bad
Steben, Germany to receive treatment from Helmut G. Keller, MD, the
developer of Carnivora®. But as it turned out, he returned to the
United States feeling worse, needing to come home in a wheelchair. "I began seeking treatment from many different healers, nearly 70 in all, including allopathic physicians, chiro- practors, herbalists, homeopaths, acupuncturists, osteopaths, nutritionists, and numerous other health professionals. The dozens of pharmaceuticals prescribed by medical doctors, especially prednisone, only made my symptoms worse. I took over 200 different nutritional supplements each day," Jordan explains. "Because of an attack of thrush [candidiasis], my tongue looked like it was wearing a polar bear pelt. From a weight of 180 pounds, within a few weeks I dropped to 150. "An osteopath, having tested me for every kind of disease - including MDS - misdiagnosed my weight loss as some kind of bacterial infection. He prescribed antibiotics and sent me back to school, where my symptoms worsened. As terrible joint pains struck me, I ran fevers of 104°F. When my body temperature spiked 106°F, the college authorities became really alarmed and had me flown home. I was given emergency treatment in a Palm Beach hospital.
"That was my first hospitalization which lasted two weeks. Here
is a short list of drugs I was prescribed thereafter: intravenous
(IV) hydrocortisone, multiple forms of broadspectrum antibiotics, IV
metronidazole [Flagyl®], anticholinergics, and antidiarrheal
loperamide. By then my body weight had fallen to 140 pounds. I felt
exceedingly weak. From a biopsy of the large intestine, my diagnosis
of'Crohn's colitis,' accompanied by 'marked duodenitis,' was made
during this hospitalization. Thus, the condition was affecting my
bowel from the duodenum to the rectum. Surgery involving a colostomy
wasn't any option," Jordan advises. "The treatment offered
was more drugs with their various adverse side effects. Therefore, my
parents and I started to search at that time for alternative methods
of healing the condition of Crohn's colitis. His search for treatment also brought Jordan to use other biological therapies too numerous to include here, but he did hint at a few. "I took shark cartilage; the antiyeast diet plus the anticandidiasis drugs nystatin and Diflucan®; massive doses of L-glutamine amino acid; applied kinesiology; hormone replacement therapy; injectible thymus; the rotation diet; acupuncture; oral enteral feedings; gluten- and dairy-free dieting; Ultra ClearTM sustained dieting; almost every available food supplement, and any form of immune-stimulating product," Jordan says. "But nothing out of all these seemed to help! "By now, I was experiencing as many as 30 bowel movements during a 24-hour period. I was fatigued and terribly dehydrated. My body weight fell to just 104 pounds; my resting heart rate galloped at 220 beats per minute. Almost no electrolytes were detectable in my body. This resulted in emergency hospitalization; it took the nurses three hours to get blood from me. That's when my dad telephoned you, Dr. Walker, to learn more about IV and oral Carnivora®. And I did make the trip to Germany.
"At the time of that second hospitalization during the late fall
of 1995, the hospital staff was convinced that I was about to
die," Jordan says. "I asked God to help me, and those
prayers were answered by his sending a solution for my suffering.
Upon my leaving the hospital two weeks later weighing one hundred
eleven (111) pounds [see Jordan's photograph at age 20], I learned
about God's gift to me; it was homeostatic soil organisms. Also referred to as "die-off", the Herxheimer reaction is an allergic response resulting from the death of large numbers of pathological organisms. Their cell-wall proteins become absorbed through the patient's chronically weakened mucous membranes which absorb toxic products from these dead organisms. The collective effects of organism die-off often temporarily worsen one's symptoms. Holistic physicians who practice environmental medicine believe this die-off reaction indicates that the patient is having an excellent backlash effect to good treatment.2 "About 30 days after taking the beneficial bacteria, I eliminated this shiny, black, tar-like material. After experiencing about seven thousand bowel movements in a year, one would think my colon was pretty much cleaned out. But it wasn't," Jordan states. "For about 30 days, I didn't really see much improvement but stuck with those homeostatic soil organisms, primarily because I had never before read such convincing research on any product. Within a month, I began feeling new surges of energy. My immune system started to restore itself. My appetite returned, and each week I've put on a few pounds as well as good muscle mass. Today, a year after finding the beneficial bacteria, I weigh 184 pounds [see Jordan's photograph at age 21, which was taken six months ago]. And I am pursuing a career in the health field.
"From the ground up, these homeostatic soil organisms have
kick-started my immune system into re-functioning again. Nothing else
has helped me like they have," Jordan concludes. "From
spending as much as $100 a day on nutritional supplements, now I'm
down to taking almost nothing else except the homeostatic soil
organisms and a whole-food supplement. All I require to keep a
healthy bowel is to stay on a diet of whole foods which includes meat
and dairy and a daily nutritional supplement of homeostatic soil
organisms as the foundation of my eating program." Nobel laureate Elias Metchnikoff PhD, who discovered many immune system components including phagocytes at the turn of the 20th century, wrote about the prolongation of life. He postulated that there's a direct and intimate correlation between health, longevity, and the proper balance of beneficial microorganisms in the body. Recently there has been renewed interest in microbes, probably because the antibiotic-resistant bacteria are currently invading hospitals and causing havoc. Once again scientists are documenting many of Dr. Metchnikoff's findings and today, medical scientists and some clinicians are refocusing attention on the indispensable part played by living organisms in the gut and the rest of the body.3 Over 400 distinct species of microorganisms inhabit the human digestive tract, and their collective quantity far exceed the number of physiological tissue cells. These friendly microorganisms are responsible for numerous essential body operations, including maintaining the chemical and hormonal balance, preventing infiltration of harmful bacteria, yeasts, viruses, molds, and other parasites, producing and regulating vitamins, stimulating the function of the entire digestive system, and promoting proper immune function.4 In unpublished observations, William Bryce, MD, class)fies homeostatic soil organisms (HSOs) as a type of "probiotic" that has a role in the body along with their beneficial bacterial cousins. Aprobiotic falls into the category of a dietary supplement consisting of beneficial microorganisms which limit the proliferation of disease-causing microbes by competitive exclusion in the gastrointestinal tract of humans and animals.5 "When homeostatic soil organisms are ingested and deposited in the human gut, the principle remains the same as in the soil of a garden," says Dr. Bryce, "except that the more complicated environment provides greater opportunity for influence within a living organism and the processes therein. Mammals are wrapped around their own organic garden [the gastrointestinal tract] and carry it with them."
Dr. Bryce concludes, "Just as HSOs destroy molds, yeasts, fungi,
and viruses in the soil of the organic garden, they perform the same
function with pathological organisms present in the gut, which
greatly enhances the body's immune system." The word flora, as in "gut flora," means "flower," and probiotics are flower-like plants growing within the alimentary canal. Their soil is the gut mucosa with an acid pH ranging from 5.0 to 6.9. (Neutral is a pH of 7.) If the mucosal soil's pH turns alkaline, illness sets in as leaky gut syndrome, irritable bowel syndrome, Crohn's, or some other series of symptoms that bring on serious gastrointestinal discomfort. It's best to employ probiotics as a means of avoiding such discomfort.6
Reprinted with permission from Townsend Letter Aug/Sept 1997
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