Article by Doug Kaufmann



This Valentine's Day, I have an anniversary to celebrate. It was in1974 that I really began to understand that fungus was a parasite and its fuel was sugar. I learned this from patients more than books. I was working in an allergy clinic in Los Angeles and, in just that year alone, I probably met 500 allergy sufferers, many of whom had sought allergy relief in clinics before, to no avail. What was different about our allergy clinic? On a hunch that diet really meant something, my boss, the good (great!) G. Howard Gottschalk, M.D. had just sent me to The Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, MO in hopes that I would bring back a viable food allergy test that we could perform in our office laboratory. One of the women I studied with was credited with developing the pap test. She was observing the interaction that ensued when living white blood cells were exposed to dried foods on glass slides. In some cases, the cells would die very quickly after being exposed to certain foods. Bakers and brewers yeast were the most common offenders. Little did I understand the meaning of such violent cellular reactions 35 years ago!

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Article by Doug Kaufmann



In order to understand why healthcare is such big business throughout the world, one must understand the machinery involved. Healthcare seems to evolve around a central doctrine, in the USA, called the Hippocratic oath; an oath of allegiance that doctors take to remain united in their support of their education, and their perception of the healthcare industry, which they are instructed they have become an integral part of. On the surface, this all seems honorable and ethical. But most every surface has deeper roots.
Hippocrates was the father of medicine. It is thought that The Hippocratic Oath initiated around the year 400 B.C. In days of old, graduate physicians would presumably raise their right hands, speak the oath aloud, throw their stethoscopes into the air and become certified doctors. After interviewing a few of my physician friends however, I have come to realize that neither version of the Hippocratic oath is recited upon graduating anymore. Oh, yes, there are two versions to the Hippocratic oath; the original version recommended using diet as a means of improving the patients' health, never using a deadly drug nor recommending its use and avoiding abortive remedies all together. Of course, all three references were deleted from the most current version.

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I read your letters, so I know what you're thinking! So many of you wonder whether I am addicted or merely devoted to my Initial Phase Diet, and wonder if I have ever veered from it, while others have suggested that WWDD, (What Would Doug Do?), bracelets become mandated fashion-wear before going to the doctor. This newsletter is going to be one of those sentimental, holiday spirit newsletters wherein I come clean with you, as I recall a simpler time in my life!

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WHY DON'T DOCTORS KNOW ABOUT FUNGUS?
~Because it doesn't fit Koch's Postulate~


The dictionary defines the word postulate as "to assume without proof, or as self-evident."


Although fungi were among the first proven causes of disease, it is most unfortunate that most physicians are unaware of the ability of fungus to infect human tissues and cause symptoms and diseases. There is a reason for this oversight. We refer to medical practice today as "modern," yet its very diagnostic foundation relies on what can best be described as "scientific guesswork," as defined by doctors Robert Koch and Friedrich Loeffler in 1884. Koch and Loeffler knew that germs caused diseases - which, itself, was considered a major discovery in 1884. To this day, many doctors rely on this postulate to diagnose their patients. Why? Because that's what they were taught in medical school.

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Article by Doug Kaufmann

So complex for them, yet so simple for us ~ ~

I subscribe to a service that forwards me articles with key words like "fungus" from news wires, and you can only imagine some of the reports I read! But every once in a while, I get a doozie. Such was the case on a Saturday morning at 7a.m., following my jog, when I received the following headline:

4 ARTHRITIS DRUGS GET FUNGUS WARNINGS


Now, if I were a layperson who didn't take arthritis drugs, (there have to be a few out there who don't), or even a physician who wasn't educated on fungus in medical school, (far more than a few), this headline wouldn't mean a thing. But I'm Doug Kaufmann, and as I read it, I quickly began to see why physicians, including those with the FDA, haven't a clue as to the cause of arthritis. As you know, I believe that fungus causes arthritis.

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