bacterial theory of disease/book

[Guest guest]

Hi all and to everyone happy new year with much peace, contentment, and progress toward health.

My resolution (one of!) is to post more and read more. I've only been reading once a month due to new job, move, etc. Here's a book, I've wanted to tell you all about for months. It's called "Plague Time" by Eward, Free Press, $25. Yes, it's expensive; it's an academic type book. It was wriiten by a virologist, and reviewed in Newsweek and he reasons that "our genes shouldn't cause much heart disease, mental illness, cacner or automimmune disease. Genes the impede survival tend to die out over time, as their owners fail to reproduce. By contrast, parasites...are the most likely to stay in the game." Ewald argues that we're missing "an obvious lesson "It's the germs, stupid!" And they list four diseases as evidence:

Cardiac....Chamydia pneumoniae, pophyromonas gingivalis; cytomeglovirus

Cervical cancer...human papilloma virus

Liver cancer...hep B, hep C

Breast Cancer...Epstein-Barr virus, mouse mammary-tumor virus

and also

Alzheimer's: chlamydia pneumonaie.

Sounds like an incredible book, and if anyone needs more proof about the rheumatic diseases...Ahemm.

Happy reading, or at least happy "I told you so-ing" to any unsympathetic docs!

G.