Suffering from symptoms after oral sex. Symptoms - swollen testicles, numbness in penis, uncomfortable feeling around prostate/sat on tennis ball feeling, decreased volume of semen and strange semen texture, pain when ejaculating. Stinging urethra.
I’ve attempted all kinds of antibiotics but nothing has worked. I’ve just done a urine and urethra swab and they found a heavy growth of Streptococcus, which is apparently responsive to Penicillin so have been prescribed Amoxicillin, 3 x 500mg, for 7 days.
Ordered the antibiotics - will post if I show an improvement from this! Posting this in case anyone else gets finds this is the bacteria that is causing all of their problems down there.

I recently had a small bowel enteroscopy performed with biopsies sent for testing. My pathology report came back normal, but I have these two microbiology reports and I can’t tell if the results are normal or not. Can someone help me interpret the results and what the normal levels of bacteria are?
Background: 30F with IBS-C, depression, and anxiety. Tested positive for SIBO 10 months ago. Currently taking pristiq (25mg/day) and lubiprostone (24mg x2/day)
Specimen Type: Anaerobe CX+Stn Result: POS Report Status: final Collected Date: May 01, 2024, 05:01 p.m. Additional Information: 1 colony Fusobacterium periodonticum Document Type: Current Report
Specimen Type: Body Fld CX+Stn Result: POS Report status : Final Collected Date: May 01, 2024, 05:01 p.m. Additional Information: 1+ (few) Streptococcus mitis group (viridans streptococci) 2+ (moderate) Neisseria species, not gonorrhoeae or meningitidis 1+ (few) Klebsiella aerogenes 1+ (few) Streptococcus salivarus group (viridans streptococci) 2+ (moderate) Granulicatella adiacens (nutritionally deficient Strep)

Hello everyone,
I wanted to share my struggles over the past couple of years. I'm a 22-year-old woman who never had UTI issues until recently. I got diagnosed with E. coli Sept 2023 and was prescribed ciprofloxacin for 4 days, but unfortunately, I've been feeling unwell since then. Despite multiple urine cultures returning negative results, the urinalysis suggests the presence of bacteria due to elevated leukocyte levels. Additionally, I've undergone cervical, vaginal, and ureteral smears, all of which have shown no signs of pathogenic bacteria. Before the E. coli infection, I had a streptococcus infection in September 2022, which was comparatively easier to treat.
Recently, I visited a urologist and had an ultrasound revealing inflammation in my urethra, with walls measuring about 4mm, despite all urine cultures indicating no bacteria. I was prescribed ofloxacin for 10 days, but unfortunately, I still don't feel any better. The dismissive attitude of doctors has worsened my situation, leaving me feeling hopeless. As for personal hygiene, I can assure everyone that I've never had issues in that domain or neglected to take care of myself. It's as if my body has been thrown out of balance ever since that strep infection in September 2022. I'd like to emphasize that I've also been taking D-mannose supplements for a month and drinking cranberry tea specifically for normal urinary tract function. Some days are better than others.
I'd greatly appreciate any advice on what steps to take next, as this ongoing issue has severely impacted my confidence, and antibiotics alone haven't provided a solution. This is extremely depressing as I feel constantly ill and haven't been able to function properly.

Ive been struggling with severe parasite overload for a while now. I tried urine therapy a few times and it works but only sometimes. Its weird one day ill drink 3-4 cups of urine and right away ill expel huge worms out. But then some days i can drink up to 6 cups without anything happening. Maybe it only works if my bowels are already moving and not constipated? Or maybe it has to break down the biofilm first? Im not sure
Has anyone got rid of worms using Urine therapy? And also candida? What protocol should i follow? (Im dealing with tapeworms, candida, bacteria, and a type of streptococcus) 🙏🏽🙏🏽

I’m having recurrent UTI issues which prompted me to do the microgen urine and vaginal testing. I’ve been taking a Azo pre-probiotic for 1 month. I’m surprised to see no protective lactobacilli and wonder if this contributes to the chronic/recurrent UTI’s. How do I fix the vag micro biome? Taking Azo pre-probiotic for the last month. And just ordered the fem-dophilus probiotics. Already started and treatment for the UTi.
Vaginal testing: Via PCR : Prevotella bivia Medium
Vaginal testing via Next generation sequencing Finegoldia magna 28% Streptococcus mitis 18% Corynebacterium kroppenstedtii 13% Corynebacterium renale 9% Klebsiella pneumoniae 8% Prevotella timonensis 7% Prevotella melaninogenica 3% Megaspaera micronuciformis 2%
Urine by PCR: Klebsiella pneumoniae 1.19 x 1000,000 Prevotella bivia 1.44 x 1000

Hello all! I’m hoping to get help from people that might have gone through something similar or might have a clue as to what I’m going through. 25 yo F. I haven’t drank coffee or alcohol in over a month. Starting on April 3 I started feeling this pressure in my bladder like I had to pee more than usual like UTI symptoms. I got my urine analysis back from Minute Clinic April 7 saying they found 1,000-9,000 CFU -ML Group B Streptococcus isolated so they started me on Cephalexin antibiotic. I still wasn’t feeling better at all with the main symptom being bladder urgency and frequency. It felt like I could pee so bad constantly, like my bladder was completely full. So they switched my antibiotic again to Amoxicillin for 7 days which I am finished with now . I went to my primary care provider and they took a urine analysis and it’s came back with no infection present. I got a vagina swab done to make sure I didn’t have a yeast infection bc there was a slight burning on the general outside part of my vagina sometimes . It came back for Bacterial Vaginosis so they started me on Metronidazole for 7 days. It is now April 21st and I still feel this constant full bladder feeling like I have to pee so bad all the time. My Dr is referring me to a urologist but I was told it will be WEEKS till I even get a call back. My situation is grim and I just have to live like this. I’ve tried getting an appointment myself but the gyno offices my insurance covers aren’t taking new patients till July&August and there’s no urologist under my insurance besides the one my Dr. referred me to. It feels like I will never feel better. I am very interested in alternative medicine or supplements that have helped with this full bladder feeling. I think my bladder is inflamed? but I don’t understand why it just hit me one day all of a sudden or why this is happening. And of course I can’t know anything till I wait months for a specialist. Is there any one that can help me I am so so desperate. I am open to any and all questions

Hello all! I’m hoping to get help from people that might have gone through something similar or might have a clue as to what I’m going through. 25 yo F. I have not drank alcohol or coffee in over a month. Starting on April 3 I started feeling this pressure in my bladder like I had to pee more than usual like UTI symptoms. I got my urine analysis back from Minute Clinic April 7 saying they found 1,000-9,000 CFU -ML Group B Streptococcus isolated so they started me on Cephalexin antibiotic. I still wasn’t feeling better at all with the main symptom being bladder urgency and frequency. It felt like I could pee so bad constantly, like my bladder was completely full. So they switched my antibiotic again to Amoxicillin for 7 days which I am finished with now . I went to my primary care provider and they took a urine analysis and it’s came back with no infection present. I got a vagina swab done to make sure I didn’t have a yeast infection bc there was a slight burning on the general outside part of my vagina sometimes . It came back for Bacterial Vaginosis so they started me on Metronidazole for 7 days. It is now April 21st and I still feel this constant full bladder feeling like I have to pee so bad all the time. My Dr is referring me to a urologist but I was told it will be WEEKS till I even get a call back. My situation is grim and I just have to live like this. I’ve tried getting an appointment myself but the gyno offices my insurance covers aren’t taking new patients till July&August and there’s no urologist under my insurance besides the one my Dr. referred me to. It feels like I will never feel better. I am very interested in alternative medicine or supplements that have helped with this full bladder feeling. I think my bladder is inflamed? but I don’t understand why it just hit me one day all of a sudden or why this is happening. And of course I can’t know anything till I wait months for a specialist. Is there any one that can help me I am so so desperate. I am open to any and all questions

Hi! I recently went in for my first ultrasound, I got to see my babies heartbeat and saw it moving around on the ultrasound which was honestly the best feeling in the world, all seemed to be going so perfectly. Until, my tests started coming back today. My urine sample came back testing positive for streptococcus mitis oralis. The doctors have not yet reviewed the test results, but me being a first time mom obviously had to google this. The things I have read so far are quite….horrifying to say at the least. After having the most amazing experience seeing my baby for the first time, I’m now so worried I’ll never be able to raise my lil bean. I know Google is a pregnant woman’s worst enemy, but I just need SOME peace of mind. Anyone who has been through this before and willing to share anything you feel comfortable sharing with me, it’d be greatly appreciated. I’m over here stressing myself out over this😭

Hi all, I’m hoping someone can help?
In January I tested positive for beta hemolytic streptococcus b in my urine but had no symptoms. We decided not to treat.
Fastforward to last week, I got random/sudden flank and kidney pain. I have no other symptoms at all - other than my back is sensitive to touch/movement and everything feels inflamed. My urine sample showed no flags, but the 3 day culture showed strep b again, this time at a higher concentration.
I have been on amoxicillin for 4 days, and there is no improvement in my pain. It stays at a constant 2-4 level. And I’ve developed a lot of discharge..?
Its been one week of pain. I’ve never heard of this bacteria before. I know kidney infections are dangerous and I’m afraid of what’s going on. Any advice on what to do? Do I need to go to ER? Would really prefer to avoid that at all costs given the expense and time. Thank you in advance 😣🩷

28 years old Female No current medications Complaint began a week ago History of kidney stones (but this doesn’t feel like that)
Hi all, I’m hoping someone can help?
In January I tested positive for beta hemolytic streptococcus b in my urine but had no symptoms. We decided not to treat.
Fastforward to last week, I got random/sudden flank and kidney pain. I have no other symptoms at all - other than my back is sensitive to touch/movement and everything feels inflamed. My urine sample showed no flags, but the culture showed strep b again, this time at a higher concentration (greater than 100,000). I had blood work done at an urgent care and only thing that showed on a CBC was slightly elevated monocytes. They showed no concern.
I have been on amoxicillin for 4 days and there is no improvement in my pain. It stays at a constant 2-4 level.
Its been one week of pain. I’ve never heard of this bacteria before, it’s not the standard? I know kidney infections are dangerous and I don’t know what’s going on. Any advice on what to do? Do I need to go to ER? Would really prefer to avoid that at all costs given the expense and time. Also yes I have terrible anxiety. Thank you in advance 🩷

I have been to so many doctors at this point it’s not even funny. I have had the scope down my urethra a colonoscopy a scope down my throat many different urine and blood tests even stool tests. I have painful urination and it leaks a while after I’m done it’s mostly a dull ache. My rectum always feels full and it itches in my perineum. Around the time this started 2.5 years ago I also had white patches on my tongue. All the tests have showed no bacteria prostate was a little swollen but not huge is what the urologist said. Took a microgen dx test of my seamen and it came back with 30% streptococcus mitis, 22% corneybacterium glucuron. 8% streptococcus oralis and a few smaller numbers of other bacteria. Urologist thought they were irrelevant just trying to get some answers tired of feeling this way and tired of being brushed off..

Hi, I’m 37f, went to my doctor on a whim that I might have a bladder infection, but was convinced it was just ovulation pain.
They did a urine test and everything was normal, but they sent it away for culture. It came back with this result >=1x10e7 cfu/l streptococcus anginosus. I’m wondering if this is easily treatable? I was prescribed Macrobid tonight for 10 days.
I should note I also had a second urine test done two days ago, all clear except for trace amount of blood.

I’ve purchased their suggested solutions in meantime (boric acid, integrative pro flora women’s probiotic, and lactoferrin) but I’d like some insight on my results. Frequent uti like symptoms after sex and end of my period, no discharge, bladder pressure, frequent urination, and mild itch. Just wondering if anyone had similar results and saw resolution from their suggestions!

• 45.69% gardnerella piotii
• 41.69% lactobacillus crispatus
• 3.65% gardnerella vaginalis
• 3.03% gardnerella swidsinskii
• 2.74% prevotella bivia
• 1.76% streptococcus anginosus
• 1.45% lactobacillus iners

Thanks!

Extracted from "Bacteria, Germs and VIRUSES Do Not Cause Disease: Discriminating between Medical Myth and Biological Fact, excerpted from the book, Awakening Our Self-Healing Body. By Arthur M. Baker.

Not many people realise that bacteria and viruses are the result, not the cause of disease.

PASTEUR'S GERM THEORY OF DISEASE CAUSATION
In 1864, French chemist Louis Pasteur fathered "The Science of Bacteriology" and "The Germ Theory of Disease Causation" by demonstrating the existence of various micro-organisms— and concluding that these germs cause pathogenic changes in living cultures within the laboratory setting. The germ theory states that diseases are due solely to invasion by specific aggressive microorganisms. A specific germ is responsible for each disease, and micro-organisms are capable of reproduction and transportation outside of the body.
With the germ theory of disease, no longer did we have to take responsibility for sickness caused by our own transgressions of the laws of health. Instead, we blamed germs that invaded the body. The germ theory effectively shifted our personal responsibility for health and well-being onto the shoulders of the medical profession who supposedly knew how to kill off the offending germs.
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Our own personal health slipped from our control. Almost everyone in the Western world has been nurtured on the germ theory of disease: that disease is the direct consequence of the work of some outside agent, be it germ or virus. People have been educated to be terrified of bacteria and to believe implicitly in the idea of contagion: that specific, malevolently-aggressive disease germs pass from one host to another.
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They also have been programmed to believe that healing requires some powerful force to remove whatever is at fault. In their view, illness is hardly their own doing. The 'germ era' helped usher in the decline of hygienic health reform in the 19th century and, ironically, the people also found a soothing complacency in placing the blame for their ill health on malevolent, microscopic 'invaders', rather than facing responsibility for their own insalubrious lifestyle habits and their own suffering.
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Pasteur was a chemist and physicist and knew very little about biological processes. He was a respected, influential and charismatic man, however, whose phobic fear of infection and belief in the "malignancy and belligerence" of germs had popular far-reaching consequences in the scientific community which was convinced of the threat of the microbe to man. Thus was born the fear of germs (bacteriophobia), which still exists today. Before the discoveries of Pasteur, medical science was a disorganised medley of diversified diseases with imaginary
causes, each treated symptomatically rather than at their root cause. Up to this time, the evolution of medical thought had its roots in ancient shamanism, superstition and religion, of invading entities and spirits. The profession searched in vain for a tangible basis on which to base its theories and practices. Pasteur then gave the profession the "germ".
By the 1870s, the medical profession fully adopted the germ theory with a vengeance that continues today. The advent of the microscope made it possible to see, differentiate and categorise the organisms. Invading microbes were now seen as the cause of disease. The medical-pharmaceutical industry began their relentless search for the perfect drug to combat each disease-causing microbe—of which there are now over 10,000 distinct diseases recognised by the American Medical Association.
The universal acceptance of the germ theory and widespread bacteriophobia resulted in frenzied efforts to avoid the threat of germs. A whole new era of modern medicine was then inaugurated, including sterilisation, pasteurisation, vaccination, and fear of eating raw food. Medical authorities advised the public to cook all food thoroughly and to boil water.
With the deprivation of raw foods, an inevitable deterioration of health ensued. The practice of killing germs with drugs was also initiated, resulting in iatrogenic (medically-induced) disease and further degeneration of health. Various programmes were instituted to confer 'immunity' against specific germs by way of vaccines and serums, with horrendous effects. Fortunately, the horror of consuming raw food as being dangerous and bacteria-ridden has largely been overcome, although the ban on unpasteurised dairy foods still exists in most of this country [USA]. And the acceptance of poisonous drugs and inoculations has not waned to any appreciable extent.
Pasteur Not the Originator of the "Germ Theory"
Actually, the first "Germ Theory of Infectious Disease" was published in 1762 (almost 100 years prior to Pasteur's theory) by a Viennese physician, Dr M. A. Plenciz. In 1860, Louis Pasteur took
the credit for the experiments and theory and became identified as its originator. Read the books, Pasteur: Plagiarist, Impostor, by R. B. Pearson, and Bechamp or Pasteur? A Lost Chapter in the History of Biology by Douglas E. Hume, for all the details. Claude Bernard (1813-1878) disputed the validity of the germ theory and maintained that the general condition of the body is the principal factor in disease, but this idea was largely ignored by the medical profession and the general public. Bernard and Pasteur had many debates on the relative importance of the microbe and the internal environment in which they thrive.
Pasteur Realises Mistake
Around 1880, Pasteur himself admitted his mistake. According to Dr Duclaux (one of Pasteur's co-workers), Pasteur discovered that microbial species can undergo many transformations. These facts were not consistent with his germ theory and destroyed its very basis.
It is frequently overlooked that around 1880, Pasteur changed his theory. According to Dr Duclaux, Pasteur stated that germs were "ordinarily kept within bounds by natural laws, but when conditions change, when its virulence is exalted, when its host is enfeebled, the germ is able to invade the territory which was previously barred to it." This is the premise that a healthy body is resistant and not susceptible to disease. With the advent of Pasteur's mysterious germ, however, medicine cloaked itself under the guise of 'science' and ever since has succeeded in keeping the public ignorant of the true nature of disease.

As a cause of disease, bacteria do not 'invade' the body—for they are already present in the digestive tract. As needed bacteria are brought into the circulatory system to aid in the process of purging the physiology of accumulated wastes.

Bacteria and Their Symbiotic Role in the Body.
Bacteria are our symbiotic partners in life and are completely normal to the body. They work symbiotically with the host organism by assisting in the breakdown and removal of toxic materials and in creating nutrients that are vital to our welfare. Lactobacillus acidophilus, Lactobacillus bifidus and coli bacteria are normally present in the human digestive tract and are sometimes called "friendly, beneficial or symbiotic intestinal flora". They are necessary within the body for the proper absorption and utilisation of food particles; for aiding in cellular nourishment; for stimulating peristalsis; for detoxifying and creating soft, smooth stools; and for keeping down pathogenic germs. (Antibiotics destroy these forms of useful bacteria).
Bacteria and micro-organisms also form a vital part in the world's food chain. When organic matter within plants and animals decomposes throughout nature, bacteria and moulds of the Monera family disorganise the highly complex organic molecules into simple inorganic wastes—whose elements are excreted back into the soil to be taken up once again as food by plants, and reorganised via the process of photosynthesis into widely diverse forms of vegetable matter, including food for humans, such as fruits, nuts, and seeds.
Bacteria are actually primitive forms of life which subsist on scavenging dead organic material. They break up and decompose waste material in our system just as they do within the plant and animal kingdoms. Bacterial action renders some waste-matters usable in our body that would ordinarily be expelled and, as such, bacteria are essential to our lives—without them, our existence would not be possible. As intestinal flora, for instance, bacteria are a much needed symbiotic partner in life, responsible for synthesising vitamin B 12 and vitamin K within our body.
Bacterial action renders some waste-matters usable in our body that would ordinarily be expelled and, as such, bacteria are essential to our lives—without them, our existence would not be possible. As intestinal flora, for instance, bacteria are a much needed symbiotic
partner in life, responsible for synthesising vitamin B 12 and vitamin K within our body.
Our body carries about a five-year supply of vitamin B12, and receives a constantly refurnished supply from bacterial activity in the lower intestine, just as is the case with other primates and natural plant-eating animals, including man. Also, vitamin K does not need to be supplied by food since bacteria which live symbiotically in the human intestine are capable of producing this nutrient, which is required for normal functioning of the body's blood-clotting agents.
The Beneficial Role of Bacteria in Disease
As a cause of disease, bacteria do not 'invade' the body—for they are already present in the digestive tract (which, by the way, technically is considered outside the body proper). As needed, bacteria are brought into the circulatory system to aid in the process of purging the physiology of accumulated wastes. When the body creates a highly localised toxic condition in the system, as occurs during inflammation, the body absorbs bacteria from the intestines and/or other body cavities and transports them to where the accumulated poisons have been concentrated.
During the inflammatory process, pus is formed from the aggregate of dead cells and from the healing, white blood cell activity that takes place; and bacteria proliferate to feast on and process this material which makes it easier for the body to expel. In this way, bacteria symbiotically assist in breaking down these toxic materials for elimination. In the process, however, the excreta of bacteria generated therein is toxic. The bacteria's own excretion
reflects the morbidity of the toxins they consume, in that these wastes are also highly virulent. If not eliminated from the body, these accumulate to such an extent that the body initiates a
cleansing/healing crisis.
Bacteria do not produce disease but are useful organisms that help decompose dead cellular material when the body's cells have completed their normal life cycle.
This process helps eliminate the dead matter from the body and, likewise, the bacteria aid in clearing toxic substances. This is why they are seen regularly during the disease/purification process since these processes require the disintegration of accumulated poisonous refuse which the system is endeavouring to purge.
Bacteria do not cause the death of the organic matter on which they act, however, as they are a part of the result of disease, not its cause.
Bacteria and germs play an important role in the evolution of disease but are not fundamental causes as commonly believed. Bacteria are intimately associated with serious illness, but merely contribute secondary or tertiary complicating factors by elaborating certain powerful toxins already present in the toxic body due to the poisonous by-products of their own fermentative and putrefactive actions.
Lactic acid, acetic acid (vinegar), alcohol from the fermentation process; and ammonias, indoles, skatols and purines, etc., from the putrefaction process are toxic—although our body, under normal conditions of health, can easily eliminate these forms of bacterial excreta. In fact, our faeces and urine are loaded with these protein decomposition by-products from both bacterial activity and our own body metabolism.
Bacteria need nourishment to grow and reproduce. When there is a dangerous accumulation of waste materials which is threatening body integrity, our symbiotic bacteria go into action and perform their anitorial/scavenging function of clearing the body of filth and debris. Afterwards, they resume their passive state once again.
Bacteria have an important role to perform in the vital process of healing. Germs take part in virtually all disease phenomena that require the disintegration of refuse and toxic matter within the body which the system is endeavouring to remove. They act as scavengers in clearing up the affected area of toxic saturation. As soon as their role is complete, their numbers decline.
For this reason once again, bacteria are associated with disease processes but are not its cause, for bacteria no more cause disease than flies cause garbage. To assume, because germs are present and active in the decomposition processes connected with dead organic matter, that they cause its death is erroneous. When toxicosis exists and threatens the well-being of the organism, the body responds by purging the toxins, and disease symptoms
appear. Bacteria are present to decompose metabolic wastes, toxins, dead cells and tissues and as such are a vitally important part of the healing process.
Bacteria are capable of only one action in regard to the disease process: the processing of dead materials as their food. Bacteria proliferate because there is dead organic matter for them to feed on, not because they suddenly become malevolent.

Bacteria proliferate because there is dead organic matter for them to feed on, not because they suddenly become malevolent.

In a relatively sterile environment they die due to lack of nourishment, just as they similarly die off in an environment of their own creating—namely, in the presence of their own toxic excreta
including lactic acid, acetic acid, alcohol, ammonia and numerous other protein decomposition by-products.
It is inappropriate to call bacterial activity an 'attack' or an 'invasion' on the part of germs, unless we mean it is an attack on the toxins. The only real attack that takes place is the one we make upon our own body as we continually assault ourselves on the average of some 30 poisoning acts each day—including the devitalised 'foods' and 'beverages' we consume, the drugs we take, constantly staying up late and overeating needlessly—all of which create enervation and exhaustion of the body.
On the other hand, bacteria cannot thrive in healthy blood. This is why a clean, well nourished body is not subject to their presence. Living in a germ-free environment is impossible, however, and not even wholly desirable. Trillions of bacteria live in our body at all times.
Bacteria Mutate According to Decomposing Soil in the Environment.
There are no 'disease-producing' bacteria, germs, microbes, bacilli or viruses: it is the environment and the host which determine disease symptoms and the type of bacteria that proliferate. Germs do not cause disease; rather, the body generates disease occasions for the germ proliferation that takes place. In order for a particular germ to exist, it has to have a suitable environment created by the toxic and pathological pollution saturating the body. Systemic poisoning then creates the specific germ culture, depending upon where the body has accumulated the wastes and according to the unhealthful lifestyle habits of the sufferer.
The key point is, however, that it is the diseased toxemic condition, where the body is overwhelmed with poisonous waste, which creates an environment favourable to the mutation of bacteria into those commonly associated with particular diseases. The disease condition favours proliferation and increasing virulence until their function of devouring toxic debris is accomplished. When you ask a bacteriologist what comes first, the soil or the bacteria, the answer is always the tainted environment, in order for the bacteria to thrive. Bacteria never exist in a proliferating state where there is no food or soil for their propagation—but they multiply rapidly when there is decomposing material to feast on, and then they die off when there is famine or adversity in their surroundings.
Once again, bacteria no more create their food supply than flies cause garbage. The garbage or soiled state within our body must pre-exist the presence of bacterial 'invasion': bacteria do
not cause disease; they are present because of it.
Bacteriologists themselves wrongly divide the germ population into specific 'good germs' and 'bad germs' and overlook the fact that 'good germs' have the ability to mutate and proliferate into 'bad' virulent germs when their soil is suitable for this change.
In other words, germs can modify their structure and metabolic function according to the environment in which they find themselves. They exist in a multitude of strains, shapes and metabolic capabilities and may appear as rod-shaped or circular shaped depending on the dictates of their environment.
The germ theory was founded on the assumption that disease germs are specific, unchangeable entities in their biological structure and chemical characteristics. The 1968 Pulitzer Prizewinner and eminent bacteriologist Dr Rene J. Dubos contradicted this assumption, showing that the virulence of microbial species is variable.
As far back as 1914 in the Journal of Infectious Diseases, experiments by E. C. Risenow, M.D., of the Mayo Biological Laboratories in Rochester, Minnesota, demonstrated that pus germs (streptococci) can be transformed into pneumonia germs (pneumococci) simply by making minor alterations in their environment and by feeding them on pneumonia virus—dead organic matter characteristic with the manifestation of the disease. When the procedure was reversed, the bacteria quickly reverted to the pus germs. In each case when the environment and food source were changed, the germs, regardless of type, quickly mutated into
other forms.
Two New York City bacteriologists, in similar experiments, converted cocci (round, berry-shaped bacteria) into bacilli (long, rodshaped bacteria) and back again. A coccus (pneumonia germ) can change to a bacillus (typhoid germ) simply by making minor alterations in its environment and by feeding it typhoid virus—specific dead organic matter which is particular to this type of bacteria proliferation. When the procedure is reversed, typhoid germs revert to pneumonia germs illustrating that, indeed, any bacteria can modify and adapt its structure and metabolic function in accordance with its changing environment. The virulence of germs can likewise be altered in the laboratory at will by the technician.

...pus germs (streptococci) can be transformed into pneumonia germs (pneumococci) simply by making minor alterations in their environment and by feeding them on.

The Toxic Body Produces the Virulent Germ
It is evident, then, that germs do not directly produce disease: rather, the body-generated healing crisis produces the germ by providing a suitable environment where non-toxic bacteria mutate into toxic micro-organisms within septic surroundings. For germs to become dangerous, they must be intermingled with concentrated waste products before a germ metamorphoses into a toxic entity. While it is true that germs and bacteria exist everywhere, the micro-organisms only proliferate in the body when a person develops toxemia as a result of an unhealthy lifestyle.
When high quantities of oxidized organic material are being extraordinarily eliminated by the body via the throat, lungs or elsewhere, bacteria multiply geometrically. In hours, they may
number in the trillions but suitable 'soil' must be present before they can proliferate.
Strep throat and sore throat are said to be caused by streptococcus bacteria. This is a common form of bacteria in the lactobacilli family, a round-shaped organism that also breaks down or sours milk.
You can easily prepare a culture containing billions of strep bacteria as in yoghurt, and any healthy person eating the yoghurt will not develop strep throat. Put them in a milk culture, and in
hours they multiply into trillions. It is difficult to find anyone who does not contain this form of bacteria in their throat except in those using massive amounts of antibiotics or other life-destroying drugs.
Streptococci are not in themselves dangerous, however, for millions of them are found in the average person's throat and body cavities—but their excrement can be highly toxic as they help break down, decompose and putrefy waste materials which the body then eliminates through the lungs, throat, mucous membranes and/or skin.
A sore throat is actually an irritation of the tissues, caused either by what is being eliminated there or by some injurious substance sent down it. Streptococcus bacteria use the exudates as soil. When a concentration of toxic material is available, their reproduction is tremendous. To reiterate, streptococci are not harmful bacteria as they are always a normal portion of the body's flora.
Scientists know that specific bacteria are not always found in each case of the disease they are supposed to cause. Introducing germ cultures in a healthy body does not consistently generate
disease symptoms. Numerous experiments feeding pure cultures of typhoid, pneumonia, diphtheria, tuberculosis and meningitis germs produced no ill effects.
As mentioned before, in 28-40% of diphtheria cases, diphtheria bacillus is absent. Likewise, in about 20% of those suffering venereal disease (syphilis, herpes, gonorrhoea, etc.) neither gonococcus nor spirochetes are present. Saying that bacteria causes an ulcer,
pustule or pimple about the genitals disregards the fact that these result from the body's autolysis (self-digestion) of issue. The creation of boils and inflammations characteristic of V.D. are vital body actions, not bacterial or viral invasions.
Similarly, pneumonia is thought to be caused by the bacterium pneumococcus, although it is absent in more than 25% of cases. Moreover, administering the bacterium to healthy organisms does not occasion the disease.
Even during the early stages of the common cold, nasal secretions are completely void of bacteria, as none are found in the thin watery mucus in the first two to three days. When thick purulent secretion begins, pneumococci, staphylococci and streptococci appear. Since bacteria are so conspicuously absent at the onset of a cold, another cause had to be found. Now, 150 different viruses are blamed for the affliction.
Colds are not 'caught'; rather, they develop from our enervating way of life. Bacteria or viruses have nothing to do with the development of colds. They may be complicating features, since bacteria function as saprophytes (scavengers) feeding on the debris being eliminated. As long as tissues remain abnormal, bacteria thrive. Once the eliminative and purging actions are completed, they subside.
Physicians readily admit that they do not know exactly which virus causes colds, for when the cold virus is sprayed into throats it causes inflammation in "susceptible hosts only"—in those whose tissues are already irritated by foreign agents. In addition, so-called respiratory pathogenic bacteria are present in throat washings of those who have colds, but killing the microorganisms does not shorten the period of illness.
Colds are preventable, but first we must learn their causes. As long as it is assumed that germs and viruses cause colds and that we 'catch' them, and as long as our efforts are directed against these microscopic entities, the cold will prevail. Colds are actually remedial efforts made necessary by the accumulation in the blood, lymph, and tissues of unexcreted metabolic waste, and by the intestinal absorption of toxic by-products of indigestion.
The ultimate causes of the cold are habits of living which reduce digestive efficiency, check elimination and cause enervation, permitting the internal environment to become polluted—a state of physiological smog, if you will. Unless a germ will cause a disease every time it 'infects' the body, it is not a cause. A cause must be consistent and specific in its influence. Germs are omnipresent and fail to have a specific influence all the time.
Both laboratory evidence and empirical observations substantiate that disease is the body's reaction to intoxication, and not to germs—bacteria do not invade nor control the body, for they are always within the physical domain.
The Body Controls its Bacterial Population
Normal healthy organisms are actually deadly to germs and parasites and have innate, built-in resources to handle them. Bacteria are helpless against living cells, especially white blood cells and others that compose our natural lines of defence.
We harbour countless billions of micro-organisms within our intestinal tract, within our skin, in our mouth, nose and other body cavities. The celebrated Dr Lewis Thomas, who heads the Sloan-Kettering Cancer Institute, said: "Pity not the man who has caught bacteria, rather pity the bacteria that was caught by the man." Humans furnish a very rough environment for bacteria, keeping them tightly restricted and controlled.

Colds are actually remedial efforts made necessary by the accumulation in the blood/ lymph, and tissues of unexcreted metabolic waste, and by the intestinal absorption of toxic by-products of indigestion.

Lymph nodes—the glandular tissue masses that occur along the lymphatic vessels throughout the body—routinely remove bacteria and foreign particles from the general lymph circulation and supply lymphocytes to the circulatory system. The lymph nodes and spleen form a portion of the body's reticuloendothelial system— referring to those phagocytic cells scattered throughout the body which can ingest bacteria, solid particles and other errant cells. This aids in keeping the body in a healthy, stable condition.
For example, billions and even trillions of bacteria and fungi are incidentally absorbed from the intestinal tract into the portal blood each day. These are so effectively apprehended and destroyed by our white blood cells and macrophages that scarcely any bacteria or fungi ever enter the circulating blood.
Leukocytes (white corpuscles) are the blood's defensive organisms that prevent intoxication by bacteria, cooked food debris or other toxic materials. Leukocytosis (an excessive proliferation of white blood cells in the circulation) occurs in response to inflammation, to excessive numbers of bacteria in the body, and to a preponderance of cooked food—all of which represent pathological phenomena.
The body must exist in a toxic state before it will institute the disease process. Neither bacteria nor anything else can start and sustain a healing crisis—micro-organisms are incapable of unified action and cannot exist where there is no food (soil) for them to survive. Living healthy cells are not soil for bacteria, but decomposing substances are.
If a healthy body can 'catch' a cold or flu due to influenza germs and is unable to resist an 'attack' by these micro-organisms, then how can the subsequently debilitated body ever recover? How can the weakened organism repel the onslaught of trillions of proliferating
micro-organisms? The inevitable result would be the death of the organism.
If bacteria did invade organisms and subsequently laid them low, as medically supposed, the impetus and momentum they built up in the process would become progressively more pronounced and overwhelming as the organism receded further into disease. If germs and microbe 'attackers' overwhelmed a healthy body, then, once they laid a victim low, their proliferating reproduction would exponentially increase the 'devouring', which would cease only when they had exhausted their food supply. There would be no recovery. If bacteria and viruses cause disease and debilitate the body, how does the weakened individual recover?
Were germs the cause of disease, there would be no remission, and germ proliferation would continue unimpeded.
Once the invading entities have a head start, it does not seem they would stop their destruction but, instead, would further diminish the organism's ability to defend itself. When bacteria start decomposing a body, only complete exhaustion of all organic materials ends their course—only when 'the bones are picked clean', so to speak.
Logic tells us that if microbial organisms make someone sick' and proliferate by the billions as they become more numerous and stronger, they would progressively sap more and more
energy, vitality and resources from their victim. How can this process be reversed by a much weakened organism?
The whole concept of being laid low by microbes and then turning
the tables on them makes for good fiction, but is physiologically false. For once dominance is established in nature over a weakened organism, it's downhill from there. Once zebras are overwhelmed by carnivores, they rarely survive. Once bacteria start decomposing
organic matter, they continue until their food source is exhausted.
The body does not suppress the growth and multiplication of 'disease germs' until the morbid toxins on which they subsist have been consumed, and until the inflammatory process has run its course.
When diseases are said by medical authorities to be 'limited', this really means the illness is a body detoxification process that is terminated by the body when its purging objectives are reached. The body is in control, and not at the mercy of hordes of microbes or some 'mysterious disease entity'.
Disease, once more, is not caused by germs but by the toxic state of the body which allows the germ to flourish. This deranged state of the organism is the outgrowth of violating our biological requirements, and is no chance or haphazard condition.
It is this diseased condition that creates an environment favourable to the mutation of bacteria into those associated with specific disease, and to their increasing virulence and proliferation. A state of internal cleanliness, therefore, is essential for health and well-being A pure bloodstream, free unimpeded circulation of all body fluids, and unobstructed excretion generate and maintain healthy tissue Virulent bacteria soon die in this environment for want of suitable nourishment.
If the microbe is to have any part in causing disease, it must find an organism that produces suitable soil for its metabolic activities We cannot avoid germs for they are everywhere—we must be proof against them We avoid disease only by keeping ourselves in such a
state of health that germs are powerless against us.
Medical Rationale of "Susceptibility" and "Resistance"
Everyone has literally trillions of fungi, bacteria and viruses in their body even when healthy When physicians are confronted with this, they say that disease is not caused by these agencies because "you are not susceptible' or because "your resistance is high'
This is a cop-out, saying that these agents do not cause disease, but those factors which dispose us to susceptibility do - since the word "susceptible" means that the criterion which establishes susceptibility is the actual cause of disease, and not the micro-organism or the agency blamed. This cop-out confirms that the supposed contagious agents—bacteria, viruses and fungi—do not cause disease. The actual cause is whatever causes susceptibility or low resistance.
If we maintain our body in a clean, healthy state then germs are irrelevant, for susceptibility does not exist. The concept of susceptibility is really the medical rationale which admits that
bacteria only proliferate when the internal physiological condition warrants it To repeat, it is an admission that an unclean environment is really the cause of disease—for if germs were the cause of disease, everyone exposed to the harmful germ would become sick with the same illness.
When the condition of susceptibility is introduced into medical theory to describe disease causation, the condition of the host is then of primary importance in the production of disease.
Susceptible individuals are those with a high degree of body toxicity and sufficient vitality to conduct the disease/purification process When such sufficient vitality is waning, organic tissue
damage occurs from the extraordinarily polluted internal state of the body which creates the foundation for chronic disease So long as our body is relatively pure, however, waste materials do not accumulate and the scavenging assistance of bacterial germs is not called upon
Physicians say that our resistance against germs is our only protection to avoid disease, but they leave their patients ignorant of how to guarantee a high degree of resistance at all times. We are told that germs invade only when resistance is lost. But what causes a loss of resistance? Obviously, loss of health means diminished resistance.
So if health is the best protection against disease, why not promote health by educating the populace in the requisites of health according to their biological mandate? Why not create a true "health care" system, instead of the prevailing "disease care" system that currently exists? We must promote health by living life according to those factors upon which health is generated.

I finished doxy (10 days) 2 months ago, but I still have symptoms that sound like I have interstitial cystitis (IC). I got results recently and I am ureaplasma clean. They did find leukoplakia with cystoscopy, which obviously means that something damaged my bladder wall, could be from untreated infection. My symptoms are not getting better with time and they are unbearable somethimes. I stopped studying and working. Doctors are telling me how this can't happen from ureaplasma and they think it might be something that will pass on it's own or IC.
I am following IC diet/rules, did ALL the gyno examinations, abdominal MR, MANY blood and urine tests already and they only found I HAD EpsteinBarr (high values) and Streptococcus (that can fuck up your immune system a lot, high values). I am using some special healthy oils and am putting them down there to make it better. I do PFT. I started therapy as well in case it's anxiety related. I took fluconazole preventively after antibiotics. I am loosing my mind with what to do with my 24/7 symptoms (abdominal/bladder pain, burning and urethral pain) that are getting worse after walking (?!). So I am not even able to f*cking move normally anymore. I am just in bed 70% of the day. Any advice or similar occurence? :(

Please help
Hi everyone. 39F here. I've been experiencing a range of symptoms and I need some help figuring out what is causing this so I can get it treated.
Starting summer of last year, my feet started hurting in the morning (would go away quite quickly), and my stomach also started to gurgle more. Starting around fall/winter of last year, I would have random loose stools, same gurgling noises, gas/bloating, abdominal cramping. I also have joint and muscle pain all over (not debilitating). Tailbone pain that gets worse with sitting (sometimes very painful). About a month ago I caught the Flu A and had some diarrhea and also had mucus in my stool three times in a 2 week time frame. Of course this freaked me out. I feel like my bowel movements are more regular now, my stool doesn't necessarily seem thinner, but I do feel a little constipated (even though I am going everyday). Rib pain? Frequent urination. Feeling depressed/ anxiety. I'm feeling very worried about my symptoms.
Prior to this, the only major health issue I had was my postpartum preeclampsia following the birth of my baby #2 in the fall of 2022. I was on BP medication for about 6 months following the diagnosis, I weaned off slowly, I wouldn't say my BP is what is was prior to the preeclampsia, but it's not high enough to be medicated (on a good day is about 110s/70s or low 80s, bad days 130s/80s).
I have had recent blood tests and a stool test. I'm posting just the values that were low or high below (per my doctor or the report) as the post would get too long.
Reverse T3, Serum 21.8
Glucose 97
Creatinine 0.49
BUN/Creatinine Ratio 24
Tryglycerides 94
HDL Cholesterol 39
LDL Chol Calc (N1H) 115
Vitamin B12 >2000
Hemoglobin A1c 5.6
DHEA sulfate 317
Prolactin 2.5
Progesterone (Day 20) 0.4
Insulin 7.4
Ferritin 102
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Stool sample results:
Akkermansia muciniphila was low (no value?)
Roseburia spp. was high (2.47e10 H)
Bacteriodetes was high (4.74e12 H)
Firmicutes was high (4.24e11 H)
Staphylococcus aureus High 7.04e2
Streptococcus spp. High 2.11e4
Secretory IgA 2038 H
Anti-gliadin IgA 250 H
Zonulin 222.3 H
Negative for H pylori
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I have a colonoscopy/endoscopy, abdominal ultrasound, and rheumatologist appointment scheduled.
Any ideas what could be causing these symptoms?

Hi everyone. 39F here. I've been experiencing a range of symptoms and I need some help figuring out what is causing this so I can get it treated.
Starting summer of last year, my feet started hurting in the morning (would go away quite quickly), and my stomach also started to gurgle more. Starting around fall/winter of last year, I would have random loose stools, same gurgling noises, gas/bloating, abdominal cramping. I also have joint and muscle pain all over (not debilitating). Tailbone pain that gets worse with sitting (sometimes very painful). About a month ago I caught the Flu A and had some diarrhea and also had mucus in my stool three times in a 2 week time frame. Of course this freaked me out. I feel like my bowel movements are more regular now, my stool doesn't necessarily seem thinner, but I do feel a little constipated (even though I am going everyday). Rib pain? Frequent urination. Feeling depressed/ anxiety. I'm feeling very worried about my symptoms.
Prior to this, the only major health issue I had was my postpartum preeclampsia following the birth of my baby #2 in the fall of 2022. I was on BP medication for about 6 months following the diagnosis, I weaned off slowly, I wouldn't say my BP is what is was prior to the preeclampsia, but it's not high enough to be medicated (on a good day is about 110s/70s or low 80s, bad days 130s/80s).
I have had recent blood tests and a stool test. I'm posting just the values that were low or high below (per my doctor or the report) as the post would get too long.
Reverse T3, Serum 21.8
Glucose 97
Creatinine 0.49
BUN/Creatinine Ratio 24
Tryglycerides 94
HDL Cholesterol 39
LDL Chol Calc (N1H) 115
Vitamin B12 >2000
Hemoglobin A1c 5.6
DHEA sulfate 317
Prolactin 2.5
Progesterone (Day 20) 0.4
Insulin 7.4
Ferritin 102
​
Stool sample results:
Akkermansia muciniphila was low (no value?)
Roseburia spp. was high (2.47e10 H)
Bacteriodetes was high (4.74e12 H)
Firmicutes was high (4.24e11 H)
Staphylococcus aureus High 7.04e2
Streptococcus spp. High 2.11e4
Secretory IgA 2038 H
Anti-gliadin IgA 250 H
Zonulin 222.3 H
Negative for H pylori
​
I have a colonoscopy/endoscopy, abdominal ultrasound, and rheumatologist appointment scheduled.
Any ideas what could be causing these symptoms?

So I really need to find a specialist who is on the cutting edge of treating dysbiosis and understands complex vitamin metabolism problems. Here's my situation:
Food poisoning and 3 months on antibiotics destroyed my gut. Constant upper abdominal distension, can't move bowels but when I can it's loose. Extreme fatigue and brain fog. Vitamin D fixes fatigue but only for a few days and then makes things worse every time I've tried every co factor. B6 fixes motility but same thing, only works for a few days then I get B6 toxicity. Mag deficiency despite supplementing huge doses daily.
Gastroenterologist has been useless. Stomach emptying study, endoscopy colonoscopy normal. PT scan normal. They said there's nothing they can do.
Did a ton of tests with natropathic doctors. Extremely high markers for yeast / fungus in urine but only a little candida in stool. Very low beneficial bacteria, streptococcus overgrowth. I also tested positive for something called shiga toxin producing e coli. Tried nystatin but I had to stop because of the joint pain and irritability. The solutions I've been offered by these doctors are very basic stuff I could have come up with myself from my own research.
I don't think I'll be able to fix my microbiome until I fix this upper GI motility problem and no one has had any idea that's helped so far. Betaine HCl and digestive enzymes don't help. B6 is the only thing that has helped. I've achieved totally normal motility and stools for 2 or 3 days but then the benefits stop and I get a rash, pins and needles in my hands and feet and mood and cognitive problems. The doctor says the altered B6 metabolism is from inflammation but my inflammation markers are normal.
Thanks for reading!