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Reprinted from TOWNSEND LETTER FOR DOCTORS & PATIENTS – FEBRUARY/MARCH
2001
Medical Journalist Report of
Innovative Biologics
by Morton Walker, DPM
Homeostatic Soil Organisms for
One's Primal Defense
During 1996, at the age of nineteen, Jordan Rubin of Palm
Beach Gardens, Florida had arrived at death's door, suffering
from the most severe symptoms of Crohn's disease. This
condition is a chronic, inflammatory, abnormality of the bowel
showing overlapping clinical, epidemiologic, and pathologic
findings. But medical science has determined no definite cause
for the condition. It produces numerous, serious discomforts
by exhibiting four common and characteristic disease patterns:
(a) inflammation with pain and tenderness in the right lower
part of the abdomen;
(b) recurring acute intestinal obstructions
that bring on deeply painful spasms of the intestinal wall,
swelling of the abdomen, persistent diarrhea, and vomiting;
(c) inflammation and chronic partial intestinal obstruction
causing subtle but serious malnutrition and chronic debility;
(d) abnormal channels (fistulas) with many pus-filled pockets
of infection (abscesses) that produce fever, painful masses in
the abdomen, and severe weight loss.
Jordan Rubin showed
all four of these disease patterns.1
For more than two years the young man experienced
between twelve and 30 usually bloody bowel movements per
day. They came on all night too, allowing him to sleep no more
than one hour at any given time.
Laboratory tests showed that Jordan had no iron in his
blood, and his serum measurement for albumin indicated
muscle wasting (cachexia). By laboratory standards, this
patient's blood was like that of a dead man. His body was
affected by candidiasis, amoebiasis, cryptosporidiosis,
extreme intestinal dysbiosis, acute electrolyte imbalance,
elevated C-reactive protein, anemia, chronic fatigue, arthritis,
diabetes, hair loss, and leukocytosis. The chance for recovery
by conventional treatment methods remained discouraging,
because Jordan also exhibited malabsorption syndrome for
food nutrients. He could not assimilate the nutrients in food
even if he had any appetite, which had been lacking for him
for over a year. Jordan had dropped so much weight, from
180 to 104 pounds, he looked like a survivor of a Nazi death
camp.
Jordan Rubin's quality of life was nonexistent. To find some
viable therapy, he consulted over 70 health practitioners
worldwide and tried more than 200 different nutritional
products, including several probiotic preparations. As he
explained to me, "During the two years of my illness, despite
my ongoing search for treatment, I was never granted even
one day of reprieve from the symptoms of Crohn's disease. The excessive amounts of emotional, physical, and mental
distress caused me to want to die. Al I could do was pray to a
compassionate God that the cure for Crohn's disease would
someday be found. "And then," he added with a smile, "it happened!"
The Cure for Crohn's Disease Comes to Jordan Rubin
Most people are unaware of the groundbreaking findings
of Nobel laureate Elie Metchnikoff, PhD, the Russian
bacteriologist who more than 91 years ago documented a
direct link between human longevity and the necessity of
maintaining a healthy balance between those beneficial and
pathological microorganisms residing within the human gut. Dr. Metchnikoff's 1908 Nobel prize in physiology had been
awarded for his discovery of phagocytes and other immune
system components, but his accurate description of vital
elements in the body's intestinal flora is equally important.2
Dr. Metchnikoff came to believe that human beings could
live to the age of 150 years if they kept the organisms within
their intestines in a state of homeostatic balance. This, he
said, could be accomplished by consuming live, fermented
foods. Such a concept expressed way back in 1909 by this
great scientist forms the foundation for the cure of Crohn's
disease that came to Jordan Rubin.
Jordan was able to regain his health by supplementing
the small amount that he could eat with homeostatic soil
organisms (HSOsä) which reversed the degenerative process
of his Crohn's disease. The HSOsä detoxified Jordan's
intestinal tract, increased his ability to absorb nutrients from
food, and boosted his immune system, especially in its ability
to phagocytize viruses and bacteria. Moreover, the HSOsä
turned really aggressive against pathological molds, yeasts,
fungi, and parasites of all types which permeated his gut. They
stimulate the formation of lactoferrin (the iron-binding protein
found in neutrophils which exerts antimicrobial activity by
withholding iron from any harmful microorganisms that the
patient ingests).
Homeostatic soil organisms are super probiotics (the
opposite of antibiotics). They restore balance to an
autointoxicated gastrointestinal tract in a specific manner. Upon being swallowed, the
HSOsä activate and bring about
gut restoration by attaching themselves to the intestinal
mucosa. On the gut wall they reproduce to form colonies along
the course of "receptor sites" which had previously been
established by harmful bacteria and other pathological
microorganisms. These pathogens are crowded out or eaten
up by the probiotics so that symptoms of illness they had been
producing tend to terminate eventually. The time factor for
symptomatic healing is dependent upon the volume of
pathogens lodged at the gut's receptor sites. No matter what
the number of bad bacteria or other pathogens, HSOsä
implant themselves and bring about gut restoration.
Medical journalist Ann Louise Gittleman, MS, like myself a
proponent of supplementing with HSOsä, affirms that once
colonized in the GI tract, these super probiotics eventually
balance the colonic pH to set the stage for restoring all body
systems. She assures us that the survival of some of the gut's
most important resident microorganisms such as Lactobacillus
acidophilus depends on the visiting HSOä byproduct and
the HSO-produced acidic colonic pH.3
Ingesting HSOs ä allows people to achieve optimum health
by supplying them with the nutrients they would ordinarily be
receiving had they eaten food derived from nutrient-dense
soil. HSOsä are beneficial bacteria which live in pure, nutrient-
rich soil and are responsible for providing plants (vegetables
and fruits) with those nutrients they require. The HSOsä are
absorbed by plants and become their protectors against
harmful invaders. In that way the HSOsä keep plants healthy
and loaded with nutritional components as a source of food
for humans. The same thing occurs for humans when we ingest
the friendly organisms as nutritional supplements. These
friendly organisms keep the human GI tract in a state of
homeostasis by increasing intestinal absorption and keeping
it free of parasites, yeasts, molds, other fungi, harmful bacteria,
viruses, and additional pathogens such as spirochetes,
rickettsiae, chlamydiae, protozoa, and helminths.
In large measure, the probiotic content of each person's
gastrointestinal tract is an integral part of his or her immune
system. While not generally known by the average individual,
probiotics are absolutely essential for effective functioning of
the gastrointestinal system. They synthesize the B-complex
vitamins, crowd out yeast and parasites, help regulate blood
cholesterol levels, and produce antibiotic compounds.
The Original Reason for Jordan's Two Years of Misery
How Jordan Rubin's gastrointestinal tract came to be so
out of balance to bring on his affliction is no puzzle. As occurs
with so many young people who leave home and head out on
their own, Jordan's two years of misery were probably brought
on inadvertently by a bad diet and stress.
"Crohn's disease began for me during my first year away
at college. I did not take care of myself. While I had grown up
under the supervision of my dad, Herb Rubin, DC, an advocate
of holistic health who never allowed processed food or refined
sugar in our home, on my own his food rules were forgotten. I
stayed up late to pursue my studies or to carouse with the
guys. Sleeping was a waste of time. But then I came under
much scholastic stress – constantly on the run – and for the
first time ate lots of junk food," Jordan admits. "My body wasn't
able to cope, and it broke down."
During that first college year, this student followed the
lifestyle patterns of most people in the United States which
cause them to develop a disproportionately high ratio of bad
to good bacteria in the gut. While the normal ratio of friendly
microorganisms to harmful ones usually runs at 85 to 15%.
Jordan's wrong proportions probably ran in the opposite
direction. In fact, stool analysis does show that the average
resident of North America possesses a pathogenic gut content
of about 55%, so that he or she remains in a subclinical state
of disease. Symptoms may not show up, but illness lies waiting
to manifest itself just under the surface. Eventually, abdominal
dysfunction flares up in response to any stress that tips the
balance further into the pathologic realm. Check your local
pharmacy and count the vast number of commercial products
used for digestive problems.
The good and bad microorganisms fighting it out in a
person's gut get out of balance because of a series of
unhealthy lifestyle practices. To name just a few:
(a) too much
alcohol;
(b) eating foods impregnated with pesticides,
herbicides, antibiotic residues, and hormonal pollutants;
(c)
the overconsumption of sugars and other refined
carbohydrates;
(d) the distress of too much stress; and
(e) the
lack of nutrition from living fresh foods grown in nutrient-rich
soil.
Such conditions are the precursors for assorted GI tract
dysfunctions such as malabsorption syndrome, celiac disease,
lactose intolerance, polyps, intestinal obstruction, colon
cancer, diarrhea, constipation, inflammatory bowel diseases [e.g., colitis], diverticular diseases, irritable bowel syndrome, appendicitis,
ischemic bowel disease, fistulas, fissures, hemorrhoids,
peritonitis, hernia, small intestine dysbiosis, leaky gut
syndrome, and more.4
Development of a New and Potent Probiotic Product
When I first interviewed Jordan Rubin over the telephone
during the spring of 1997, he had gone through two full years
of misery attempting to control Crohn's disease. He
succeeded! The young man had cured himself by
supplementing daily with HSOsä. From ages nineteen to 21,
his appearance changed in a highly remarkable manner. My medical journalist article resulting from our
interviews was published in the August/September 1997 issue
of the Townsend Letter for Doctors & Patients. lt was illustrated
with Jordan's before-and-after photographs which became an
inspiration for readers from all over the world.5
People suffering
with bowel disease contacted him by the thousands. The
readers communicated by sending over two thousand requests
to buy HSOsä. All of them wanted to know where and how to
acquire this truly effective probiotic food supplement.
One such inquiry came from a chiropractor who had been
stricken with intestinal polyps, renal carcinoma and
degenerative arthritis affecting his back, left shoulder, and
neck. He was additionally burdened by avascular necrosis of
the left jaw and left shoulder. Moreover, the unfortunate man
also had three damaged vertebrae which had been injured
from violent spasms arising out his abdominal cramping from
end-stage Crohn's disease. The patient's Crohn's disease left
him with nerve damage in the left leg and right hand plus a
crushed lumbar spine. He lost 51 pounds and was written off
by numerous attending physicians who agreed that he could
not possibly live past another year. The former chiropractor
(who no longer practices as a DC) is Scott G. Robinson, PhD,
LRC, DC, of Vista, California (a suburb of San Diego). Currently Dr. Robinson's occupation is as a home-care trainer for the
chronic and terminally ill under the auspices of the Eastern
Orthodox Church in Duluth, Minnesota.
Dr. Robinson had refused chemotherapy for kidney cancer
at the University of Southern California Medical Center and
used natural and nontoxic therapies instead. He went through
the two Gerson Institute clinics in Tijuana, Mexico and Sedona,
Arizona and became not only a patient at the Tijuana Gerson
hospital but also accepted a position as a therapist. Thereafter,
Dr. Robinson gave up his professional license under California
law in order to work with cancer patients.
"While still working at the Gerson Institute facility in 1997,
I read an article in the Townsend Letter for Doctors & Patients
which you wrote, Dr. Walker. I still reproduce it for patients to
read when they suffer from gastrointestinal tract problems,"
says Dr. Robinson. "Learning about homeostatic soil
organisms back then led me to search out these very special
probiotics. Within about three days of taking them, all the pain
I had been experiencing from Crohn's disease spasms just
vanished, and they've not returned. The Gerson therapy had
helped me to get rid of my cancer tumors, polyps, cysts, and
parasites, but it's the HSOsä that completely control my gut
pain.
"When I counsel cancer patients now, especially if they
have undergone radiation or chemotherapy, I advise them to
ingest the HSOsä. These patients must replace the friendly
gut bacteria which have been destroyed by conventional
cancer treatment. As for me, now I am all better," affirms Dr.
Scott Robinson. "I am happy with my health as maintained by
the HSOsä."
Continuing with Jordan's Introduction to HSOsä
Picking up the story about introducing his HSOä product,
Jordan Rubin continues: "All those queries from that first
Townsend Letter article forced me into manufacturing the
product that got me well. I worked directly with the original
developer of HSOsä and incorporated some of my own
concepts for making people healthier; they have proven highly
advantageous. Included in the formulation are 15 homeostatic
soil organisms with product improvements being made all the
time.
"Currently," he advises, "the probiotics comprising part of
my formula are Lactobacillus acidophilus, Lactobacillus
bulgaricus, Lactobacillus delbreukii, Lactobacillus case ii,
Lactobacillus caucasicus, Lactobacillus fermenti, Lactobacillus
plantarum, Lactobacillus brevis, Lactobacillus helveticus,
Lactobacillus leichmannii, Lactobacillus lactis, Bacillus
licheniformus, Bacillus subtilis, Bifidobacteria bifidus, and
Sacchromyces boulardi."
So, in some way Crohn's disease did Jordan Rubin a favor,
for it offered him the opportunity to share his gift with others. The young fellow's interest in his own health maintenance
caused him to study nutrition, eventually becoming a certified
member of the National Association of Nutritional Consultants
(a CNC), a participant in the American Academy of Sports
Medicine, a certified nutritional instructor, and the author of
numerous magazine articles.
When recently I met Jordan in Boca Raton, Florida, five
years after the termination of his illness, he had improved his
appearance still further. Now, at age 25, he is completely free
of Crohn's disease or any other illness.
Based on experiences that had brought him to perfect
health, he has been researching, manufacturing, and
distributing a variety of new food supplements to health product
wholesalers, health professionals, natural food stores, and
medical consumers seeking to overcome a variety of illnesses. His newest product is the first and only protein powder made
from goat's milk. The HSOsä product that brought him a cure
for his gastrointestinal dysfunction remains the cornerstone
of his health program. He has given his thoroughly researched,
ever-improving and evolving new and potent probiotic, the
name Primal Defenseä.
Reprinted from TOWNSEND LETTER FOR DOCTORS & PATIENTS – FEBRUARY/MARCH
2001
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