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Antibiotic Resistance and Health Promoting Germs May 31stMAY 2O10
Where am I coming from? May 31st 2010
The Great Calcium Question May 5th 2010
Drug Companies Treat Symptoms Not The Cause May 1st 2010
There Truely is a Cure for Arthritis April 20 2010
Sunday, May 30, 2010
Antibiotic Resistance and Health Promoting Germs
Antibiotic Resistance and Health Promoting Germs
Most people today would be aware of the fact that antibiotics over use has reached a stage where because it has happened over a lot of years, we now have bugs resistant to our antibiotics yet so many people when they go to the doctor feeling off, wanting antibiotics, in fact I know of several people who changed doctors because theirs probably correctly wouldn’t prescribe them so they went to another to get them. Whilst the pills we take have no doubt exacerbated the situation it isn’t the only cause and most likely the main cause.
The reason why I personally eat very little red meat or chicken is because of the amount of antibiotics they are given. I can almost hear people wondering if that is right and yes it is right, you see when they give the animals certain antibiotics, particularly in feed lots where because they are in such close density once a bug comes in with one animal it spreads like wildfire and is then costly and takes time making the feed lot unproductive so they give the animals antibiotics to prevent this weather they are sick or nit. The problem with this is it kills much of the good digestive enzymes and bacteria in their gut and instead of a proper digestion taking place so many of the half digested elements of nutrition in their gut as it passes into the blood system where they become toxic to the body and gets into the cells but isn’t as easy to be removed so the cell becomes gradually inflamed and sick. Over time this causes the animals to get fatter, put on weight so it is rather profitable to the farmers and it is wide spread in use as an aid to their bottom line profit and perfectly legal.
We then come along and eat the meat and absorb the same damaged cells full of the residual of the antibiotics and wonder why we too get fat or obese and antibiotic resistant when we don’t take antibiotics to excess? When this happens it also weakens our body’s immune to the point where we become vulnerable to such diseases as Heart disease, Cancer, Arthritis and many more.
Recently Research Scientists have revisited old scientific literature on how they used very large doses of both pre and probiotics to build up the immune, kill the yeast build up in the gut, recreate proper gut flora, correct digestion and so better health. In 1982 Bulgarian physician Ivan Bogdanov printed a book informing the world of the results of an experiment where he tested specially bred Probiotics to treat 100 patients suffering many different types of cancer and found the results stunning with results ranging from partial remission to outright cures, just by getting the right bacteria into the gut and supporting the immune system and this had been well researched before this as an article recently read shows research over just the last 30 years in numerous countries including Bulgaria, Denmark, Russia, Japan, and the United States show that anticancer properties have also been credited to special strains of probiotics.
The article also states that Probiotics helps many types of cancer and was found to be valuable in re-establishing gut flora and counter the bad effects of radiation and chemotherapy; where other therapies had failed and lead to remission and cures. Reinforcing the need for a good exercise program to assist the Lymphatic system remove the toxic left overs from antibiotics, restoring the PH balance and improving circulation so the body can heal. I recommend you read the article at http://www.i-sis.org.uk/probioticsRev.php the connection between gut bacteria, sleep and the immune system is really fascinating with claimed benefits including:
Some of the claimed benefit of probiotics are:
1. augments the immune system
2. prevents and controls diarrhoea
3. prevents osteoporosis
4. fights fungal/yeast/candida infections
5. alleviates anxiety
6. prevents arterial disease, lowering cholesterol
7. inhibits food pathogens and enhances food preservation
8. inhibits tumours and carcinogenesis
9. produces natural antibiotic-like agents that fight and prevent bacterial infections
10. promotes/aids liver function and detoxification
11. prevents osteoporosis
12. promotes longevity
Most people today would be aware of the fact that antibiotics over use has reached a stage where because it has happened over a lot of years, we now have bugs resistant to our antibiotics yet so many people when they go to the doctor feeling off, wanting antibiotics, in fact I know of several people who changed doctors because theirs probably correctly wouldn’t prescribe them so they went to another to get them. Whilst the pills we take have no doubt exacerbated the situation it isn’t the only cause and most likely the main cause.
The reason why I personally eat very little red meat or chicken is because of the amount of antibiotics they are given. I can almost hear people wondering if that is right and yes it is right, you see when they give the animals certain antibiotics, particularly in feed lots where because they are in such close density once a bug comes in with one animal it spreads like wildfire and is then costly and takes time making the feed lot unproductive so they give the animals antibiotics to prevent this weather they are sick or nit. The problem with this is it kills much of the good digestive enzymes and bacteria in their gut and instead of a proper digestion taking place so many of the half digested elements of nutrition in their gut as it passes into the blood system where they become toxic to the body and gets into the cells but isn’t as easy to be removed so the cell becomes gradually inflamed and sick. Over time this causes the animals to get fatter, put on weight so it is rather profitable to the farmers and it is wide spread in use as an aid to their bottom line profit and perfectly legal.
We then come along and eat the meat and absorb the same damaged cells full of the residual of the antibiotics and wonder why we too get fat or obese and antibiotic resistant when we don’t take antibiotics to excess? When this happens it also weakens our body’s immune to the point where we become vulnerable to such diseases as Heart disease, Cancer, Arthritis and many more.
Recently Research Scientists have revisited old scientific literature on how they used very large doses of both pre and probiotics to build up the immune, kill the yeast build up in the gut, recreate proper gut flora, correct digestion and so better health. In 1982 Bulgarian physician Ivan Bogdanov printed a book informing the world of the results of an experiment where he tested specially bred Probiotics to treat 100 patients suffering many different types of cancer and found the results stunning with results ranging from partial remission to outright cures, just by getting the right bacteria into the gut and supporting the immune system and this had been well researched before this as an article recently read shows research over just the last 30 years in numerous countries including Bulgaria, Denmark, Russia, Japan, and the United States show that anticancer properties have also been credited to special strains of probiotics.
The article also states that Probiotics helps many types of cancer and was found to be valuable in re-establishing gut flora and counter the bad effects of radiation and chemotherapy; where other therapies had failed and lead to remission and cures. Reinforcing the need for a good exercise program to assist the Lymphatic system remove the toxic left overs from antibiotics, restoring the PH balance and improving circulation so the body can heal. I recommend you read the article at http://www.i-sis.org.uk/probioticsRev.php the connection between gut bacteria, sleep and the immune system is really fascinating with claimed benefits including:
Some of the claimed benefit of probiotics are:
1. augments the immune system
2. prevents and controls diarrhoea
3. prevents osteoporosis
4. fights fungal/yeast/candida infections
5. alleviates anxiety
6. prevents arterial disease, lowering cholesterol
7. inhibits food pathogens and enhances food preservation
8. inhibits tumours and carcinogenesis
9. produces natural antibiotic-like agents that fight and prevent bacterial infections
10. promotes/aids liver function and detoxification
11. prevents osteoporosis
12. promotes longevity
WHERE AM I COMING FROM?
WHERE AM I COMING FROM?
When on 6th of June 1993 I was given a potential 6 months to live with a warning that the death would be one of the cruellest and most painful as one by one all the soft tissue organs start failing. At the age of 53 I was devastated and after a short but intense pity party decided that if I was to survive this dilemma I had to get positive and start doing something to avoid this outcome. Now some 17 years later and in better shape than I was in at age 50 before I got sick, I can look back with a degree of gratitude for the help and assistance I got from so many people and particularly those who left their writings for me and whoever else bothered to pick up and read their books.
Again the internet has proven to be a wonderful resource for me and I am now in turn sitting down to put onto both e-book format and later print what and why I did stuff and kept experimenting till I found what worked for me.
I have not only beaten the challenges that threatened to take my life then destroy all the quality of life I had but I have found that the writings of successful people of old that are mostly available in the public domain still work amazingly well to cure or remove the causes of the diseases. I would be less than truthful if I didn’t give credit for the wonderful friends who stood behind me in prayerful intercession and so many specialists have commented when they look at my file and me now “that it looks like someone has been keeping an eye on me” and I do believe their observations are accurate and appropriate.
Further as I ponder the scientific treatments they most often just treat the symptoms or remove the affected body parts which are not the cause but the results (symptoms) of a disease that is basically left either untreated (as in Arthritis) or partly wounded (as in cancerous tumours after Chemo and Radiation both highly invasive and or toxic) that can then recover and start up somewhere else in the body after largely weakening the auto immune and adding the toxic drugs to control the disease when it makes far more sense to me to strengthen the immune and disable the disease so that the immune can grow stronger and defeat the disease, so removing the cause of the symptoms that then disappear naturally because there is no more disease to produce the symptoms.
The world acclaimed scientist Dr. T. Colin Campbell, Professor of nutrition at Cornell University claimed in his book “The China Study” as do the two Western Australian Nobel Prize winning scientists who also made a similar statement that it is far more lucrative for the sickness industry to keep people alive for as long as possible and treat the symptoms for the duration of their life than to cure them with a short dose of treatment that kills the disease and then they loose a cash flow from that customer ( see on http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2005/s1474662.htm) for a full transcript.
The implications of what these people are saying are that we will never see a cure on the market for these permanent and degenerative diseases including Cancer, Diabetes, Arthritis, Heart disease, MS, and other degenerative diseases because the drug companies, Doctors, Hospitals and all those supposedly treating our sickness are more concentrated with profits and don’t want a cure as it would ruin several cash cows in the sickness industry with expensive operations removing body parts that are symptoms and often creating further operations as the disease creates the likes of more tumours and diseased joints to again be removed with more heavy costs to us, the government, insurance companies and at the cost of our wellbeing and suffering..
When I first heard this I thought if this isn’t right there will be massive law suits as they will sue for sure, but strangely there hasn’t been any I have seen so one may be excused for deducting that they just could be right and Campbell’s book came out in 2004 whilst the ABC 7.30 report was 2005 so there has been plenty of time to take action.
When on 6th of June 1993 I was given a potential 6 months to live with a warning that the death would be one of the cruellest and most painful as one by one all the soft tissue organs start failing. At the age of 53 I was devastated and after a short but intense pity party decided that if I was to survive this dilemma I had to get positive and start doing something to avoid this outcome. Now some 17 years later and in better shape than I was in at age 50 before I got sick, I can look back with a degree of gratitude for the help and assistance I got from so many people and particularly those who left their writings for me and whoever else bothered to pick up and read their books.
Again the internet has proven to be a wonderful resource for me and I am now in turn sitting down to put onto both e-book format and later print what and why I did stuff and kept experimenting till I found what worked for me.
I have not only beaten the challenges that threatened to take my life then destroy all the quality of life I had but I have found that the writings of successful people of old that are mostly available in the public domain still work amazingly well to cure or remove the causes of the diseases. I would be less than truthful if I didn’t give credit for the wonderful friends who stood behind me in prayerful intercession and so many specialists have commented when they look at my file and me now “that it looks like someone has been keeping an eye on me” and I do believe their observations are accurate and appropriate.
Further as I ponder the scientific treatments they most often just treat the symptoms or remove the affected body parts which are not the cause but the results (symptoms) of a disease that is basically left either untreated (as in Arthritis) or partly wounded (as in cancerous tumours after Chemo and Radiation both highly invasive and or toxic) that can then recover and start up somewhere else in the body after largely weakening the auto immune and adding the toxic drugs to control the disease when it makes far more sense to me to strengthen the immune and disable the disease so that the immune can grow stronger and defeat the disease, so removing the cause of the symptoms that then disappear naturally because there is no more disease to produce the symptoms.
The world acclaimed scientist Dr. T. Colin Campbell, Professor of nutrition at Cornell University claimed in his book “The China Study” as do the two Western Australian Nobel Prize winning scientists who also made a similar statement that it is far more lucrative for the sickness industry to keep people alive for as long as possible and treat the symptoms for the duration of their life than to cure them with a short dose of treatment that kills the disease and then they loose a cash flow from that customer ( see on http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2005/s1474662.htm) for a full transcript.
The implications of what these people are saying are that we will never see a cure on the market for these permanent and degenerative diseases including Cancer, Diabetes, Arthritis, Heart disease, MS, and other degenerative diseases because the drug companies, Doctors, Hospitals and all those supposedly treating our sickness are more concentrated with profits and don’t want a cure as it would ruin several cash cows in the sickness industry with expensive operations removing body parts that are symptoms and often creating further operations as the disease creates the likes of more tumours and diseased joints to again be removed with more heavy costs to us, the government, insurance companies and at the cost of our wellbeing and suffering..
When I first heard this I thought if this isn’t right there will be massive law suits as they will sue for sure, but strangely there hasn’t been any I have seen so one may be excused for deducting that they just could be right and Campbell’s book came out in 2004 whilst the ABC 7.30 report was 2005 so there has been plenty of time to take action.
Thursday, May 6, 2010
The Great Calcium Question.
The very best source of organic calcium, be it for us or our dogs is egg shells, that’s right egg shells but not just as they are. They have to be uncooked and well washed, the shells of free range eggs that you are going to break for say poaches or scrambled eggs and if you soak the shells in an 8% Acid Apple Cider Vinegar and Only Apple Cider Vinegar Never any other (I use Melrose Organic an Australian Company). I simply press several empty egg shells into a drinking glass and cover with Apple Cider Vinegar and when the vinegar stops digesting the egg shell I simply poor the liquid through a fine filter to remove the residue and what is left is great organic calcium, easily digestible with a substantial boost of Potassium from the cider vinegar to balance and assist the bodies absorption of the Calcium. I have read several Articles including Dr. D. C. Jarvis MD that one to three tea spoons full of this mixture and a tea spoonful of honey in a glass of warm water will raise the available level of calcium in the blood stream for 24 hours. Checking this with our local associate professor of Natural Medicine he confirmed it saying that raw bones can also be used but egg shells are great but the calcium suppliment manufacturers don’t want you to know that.
I was particularly interested to read from World Leading Nutritional Scientist Dr T. Colin Campbell who has conducted the largest ever research on the relationship between nutrition and diseases that the world statistics conclusively show that contrary to the Dairy Industry advertising campaigns there is a direct relationship between the various nations average dairy consumption per head per year and degenerative diseases of affluence countries. The one I was particularly impressed as a stand out was MS where the incidents of MS rose almost exactly the same rate as the Dairy consumption. This is a great way of getting a health boost and increasing our Calcium intake at the same time but avoiding the damaging protein that is in dairy except cream and butter as they are just fat and not protein.
In fact one of the bits of valuable information I found when researching why a particular group of Himalayan monks were so long living, they were basically vegetarian but they did drink the yoke of a raw egg in a freshly squeezed fruit juice drink of a morning and it certainly does seems to stick to you for a long time.
A word of warning here:
As many Supermarket eggs contain traces of harmful bacteria we are warned to have our eggs lightly boiled. Simply bring the water to the boil, drop the egg in turning the heat off and leave in the water for 3 minutes and eat the egg Yoke only as it has all the proteins our brain and soft tissue organs need but definitely not the whites unless we do strenuous physical work as the whites are only absorbed by the muscles.
This bit of information was an important link in finding the cause and a cure for Arthritis diseases and I hope it blesses someone you care about and enriches the quality of their lives. It also was important to rebuilding the joints where Arthritis was active in my body so I am keen to help others with this sort of information.
I was particularly interested to read from World Leading Nutritional Scientist Dr T. Colin Campbell who has conducted the largest ever research on the relationship between nutrition and diseases that the world statistics conclusively show that contrary to the Dairy Industry advertising campaigns there is a direct relationship between the various nations average dairy consumption per head per year and degenerative diseases of affluence countries. The one I was particularly impressed as a stand out was MS where the incidents of MS rose almost exactly the same rate as the Dairy consumption. This is a great way of getting a health boost and increasing our Calcium intake at the same time but avoiding the damaging protein that is in dairy except cream and butter as they are just fat and not protein.
In fact one of the bits of valuable information I found when researching why a particular group of Himalayan monks were so long living, they were basically vegetarian but they did drink the yoke of a raw egg in a freshly squeezed fruit juice drink of a morning and it certainly does seems to stick to you for a long time.
A word of warning here:
As many Supermarket eggs contain traces of harmful bacteria we are warned to have our eggs lightly boiled. Simply bring the water to the boil, drop the egg in turning the heat off and leave in the water for 3 minutes and eat the egg Yoke only as it has all the proteins our brain and soft tissue organs need but definitely not the whites unless we do strenuous physical work as the whites are only absorbed by the muscles.
This bit of information was an important link in finding the cause and a cure for Arthritis diseases and I hope it blesses someone you care about and enriches the quality of their lives. It also was important to rebuilding the joints where Arthritis was active in my body so I am keen to help others with this sort of information.
Saturday, May 1, 2010
Drug Companies Treat Symptoms not Causes
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
TV PROGRAM TRANSCRIPT
LOCATION: http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2005/s1474662.htm
Broadcast: 04/10/2005
Nobel Prize winners join elite group of Australians
Reporter: Mick O'Donnell
MAXINE McKEW: A call from Stockholm last night to two close mates in Perth has placed them on the elite roll of internationally celebrated scientists. Robin Warren and Barry Marshall have won the 2005 Nobel Prize for Medicine. This places them among the very few Australians - only eight - to receive the prestigious award. They join famous names such as Peter Doherty, Howard Florey and McFarlane Burnett in being honoured for ground-breaking medical research. Professors Warren and Marshall revolutionised the treatment of stomach ulers with their research in the early '80s. And like all great science discovery tales, this one has the underdogs triumphing over a dominant orthodoxy. Mick O'Donnell reports.
MICK O'DONNELL: It's a long way from the lonely years in the lab to the limelight of the Nobel laureate.
BARRY MARSHALL, 2005 NOBEL PRIZE WINNER: It's not as if we sat down one day and said, "Ulcers, that's an important problem we should tackle." We just drifted into it.
MICK O'DONNELL: But today, 20 years after their quiet laboratory breakthrough, two Western Australian medical scientists stepped gracefully, even humbly, into the glare of world attention.
BARRY MARSHALL: If you've got a balanced life you're not really going to change.
MICK O'DONNELL: Barry Marshall at 54 is a professor of microbiologist at the University of Western Australia. Robin Warren is retired at 68 after a pathology career at the Royal Perth Hospital.
ROBIN WARREN, 2005 NOBEL PRIZE WINNER: When they rang me from Stockholm suddenly the blood ran from my head - I could feel it.
BARRY MARSHALL: You didn't look well, Robin.
MICK O'DONNELL: As of last night they're Australia's newest recipients of the Nobel prize for Medicine, the world's most prestigious, joining four other Australians over recent years. Peter Doherty, the microbiologist who won in '96, just wrote a book called 'A Beginners Guide to Winning the Nobel Prize'.
PETER DOHERTY, 1996 NOBEL PRIZE WINNER: It was fantastic to see Barry and Robin win this and a tremendous accolade for Australian science and for a really rather simple but very powerful discovery that's had enormous effort on human wellbeing.
MICK O'DONNELL: Behind the humble demeanour of the two Perth winners is a quiet confidence in the significance of their research. The discovery that a bacterium, bacterium helicobacter pilori, not stress, is the cause of stomach ulcers.
PROFESSOR TERRY BOLIN, GUT FOUNDATION: It was the most revolutionary discovery in gastroenterology in the last quarter of a century. Nothing else of that dramatic nature has exceeded it.
MICK O'DONNELL: At Royal Perth Hospital back in the early '80s Robin Warren noticed a strain of bacteria in a petri dish left for longer than usual over the Easter break.
ROBIN WARREN: Just by chance I saw this bacteria from a biopsy from the stomach. I tried to show them to my colleagues in the laboratory because they looked very interesting to me. I thought they looked very interesting and no-one would believe me.
MICK O'DONNELL: Dismissed as obsessive, Warren found a kindrid spirit in Barry Marshall. The two had to fight a prevailing orthodoxy to resist the idea that a bug caused ulcers.
BARRY MARSHALL: We said, "Let's look back a bit and look down the ordinary old microscope, and we can see these bugs everywhere". And they said, "No, you can't. It's just in Western Australia, there's something wrong with that place."
MICK O'DONNELL: They teamed up and examined dozens of stomach biopsies and convinced themselves that the stress theory was simply wrong.
BARRY MARSHALL: The paradox was that many people gave up this stressful lifestyle trying to protect themselves from ulcers, and they still had the ulcers.
ROBIN WARREN: Drug companies were making masses of money out of it, too.
MICK O'DONNELL: At the time major drug companies had introduced acid reducing drugs which were prescribed in a huge worldwide market. Marshall and Warren showed a simple course of antibiotics could stop 80-90 per cent of ulcers.
BARRY MARSHALL: A pharmaceutical company want to sell you a drug that you take every day for the rest of your life, a cholesterol drug, a diabetes drug, they are great sellers. If they sell you a drug which cures you, you only need to take it once or for one week. So how can you make it generate as much profit?
MICK O'DONNELL: You've killed the market?
BARRY MARSHALL: That's right.
ROBIN WARREN: The drugs went out of business because we stopped the bacteria so they weren't needed anymore.
MICK O'DONNELL: Today, Barry Marshall was asked over and over to repeat the anecdote that he dosed himself with the bacteria in 1984, to prove the bug they nicknamed the helicopter was the culprit.
BARRY MARSHALL: Somebody had to do it, swallow the bacteria and develop the disease.
ROBIN WARREN: He sent a piece to me and it was a very nasty and inflamed stomach.
BARRY MARSHALL: I said to my wife, "We were right." And she said, "What?" "I took the bacteria, I've got the illness." She said, "You did what?! Here we are trying to manage with all of these little children and the chaos in our lives and in the middle of it you make yourself sick." I was then threatened with eviction.
PROFESSOR TERRY BOLIN, GUT FOUNDATION: Barry was quite courageous in swallowing this concoction that apparently contained the bacteria and got terrible gastro-intestinal problems afterwards, but then it was a long road of proving the association with ulcers, the bacteria and then eradicating the ulcers with antibiotic therapy.
MICK O'DONNELL: In 1990 an international medical committee held a news conference to endorse the Marshall-Warren research.
JOHN VERREN: I saw my father die from the same problem and I'm quite convinced that I was well on the way to following in his footsteps.
MICK O'DONNELL: Now millions around the world just like Perth man John Verron have had their gastric and peptic ulcers quickly cured, thanks to these two Perth researchers.
JOHN VERREN: This is a new world. There's no reason to suffer anymore.
PROFESSOR TERRY BOLIN: Ulcers are now disappearing in the West. They're still prevalent in developing countries.
PETER DOHERTY: They'll be feeing pretty happy about it and they'll be tired and they'll be maybe even thinking a little bit, are they sure they got the right guys? I think probably not in this case because it's been out there for such a long time and people realise it's so important for such a long time, it seems such an obvious Nobel prize really.
MICK O'DONNELL: Robin Warren is retired but returned to his workplace at Royal Melbourne today for a few pats on his back. The two seem unfazed by the prize money that comes with the Nobel - $750,000 each.
BARRY MARSHALL: It's monopoly money, just the numbers that you can't comprehend really.
ROBIN WARREN: My computer crashed last night and at the same time Barry has got about 100 emails from around the world. Perhaps it's a good time for my computer to crash. Perhaps I'll buy a big new computer (Laughs).
MAXINE MCKEW: Maybe he will. A couple of great new champions for science.
TV PROGRAM TRANSCRIPT
LOCATION: http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2005/s1474662.htm
Broadcast: 04/10/2005
Nobel Prize winners join elite group of Australians
Reporter: Mick O'Donnell
MAXINE McKEW: A call from Stockholm last night to two close mates in Perth has placed them on the elite roll of internationally celebrated scientists. Robin Warren and Barry Marshall have won the 2005 Nobel Prize for Medicine. This places them among the very few Australians - only eight - to receive the prestigious award. They join famous names such as Peter Doherty, Howard Florey and McFarlane Burnett in being honoured for ground-breaking medical research. Professors Warren and Marshall revolutionised the treatment of stomach ulers with their research in the early '80s. And like all great science discovery tales, this one has the underdogs triumphing over a dominant orthodoxy. Mick O'Donnell reports.
MICK O'DONNELL: It's a long way from the lonely years in the lab to the limelight of the Nobel laureate.
BARRY MARSHALL, 2005 NOBEL PRIZE WINNER: It's not as if we sat down one day and said, "Ulcers, that's an important problem we should tackle." We just drifted into it.
MICK O'DONNELL: But today, 20 years after their quiet laboratory breakthrough, two Western Australian medical scientists stepped gracefully, even humbly, into the glare of world attention.
BARRY MARSHALL: If you've got a balanced life you're not really going to change.
MICK O'DONNELL: Barry Marshall at 54 is a professor of microbiologist at the University of Western Australia. Robin Warren is retired at 68 after a pathology career at the Royal Perth Hospital.
ROBIN WARREN, 2005 NOBEL PRIZE WINNER: When they rang me from Stockholm suddenly the blood ran from my head - I could feel it.
BARRY MARSHALL: You didn't look well, Robin.
MICK O'DONNELL: As of last night they're Australia's newest recipients of the Nobel prize for Medicine, the world's most prestigious, joining four other Australians over recent years. Peter Doherty, the microbiologist who won in '96, just wrote a book called 'A Beginners Guide to Winning the Nobel Prize'.
PETER DOHERTY, 1996 NOBEL PRIZE WINNER: It was fantastic to see Barry and Robin win this and a tremendous accolade for Australian science and for a really rather simple but very powerful discovery that's had enormous effort on human wellbeing.
MICK O'DONNELL: Behind the humble demeanour of the two Perth winners is a quiet confidence in the significance of their research. The discovery that a bacterium, bacterium helicobacter pilori, not stress, is the cause of stomach ulcers.
PROFESSOR TERRY BOLIN, GUT FOUNDATION: It was the most revolutionary discovery in gastroenterology in the last quarter of a century. Nothing else of that dramatic nature has exceeded it.
MICK O'DONNELL: At Royal Perth Hospital back in the early '80s Robin Warren noticed a strain of bacteria in a petri dish left for longer than usual over the Easter break.
ROBIN WARREN: Just by chance I saw this bacteria from a biopsy from the stomach. I tried to show them to my colleagues in the laboratory because they looked very interesting to me. I thought they looked very interesting and no-one would believe me.
MICK O'DONNELL: Dismissed as obsessive, Warren found a kindrid spirit in Barry Marshall. The two had to fight a prevailing orthodoxy to resist the idea that a bug caused ulcers.
BARRY MARSHALL: We said, "Let's look back a bit and look down the ordinary old microscope, and we can see these bugs everywhere". And they said, "No, you can't. It's just in Western Australia, there's something wrong with that place."
MICK O'DONNELL: They teamed up and examined dozens of stomach biopsies and convinced themselves that the stress theory was simply wrong.
BARRY MARSHALL: The paradox was that many people gave up this stressful lifestyle trying to protect themselves from ulcers, and they still had the ulcers.
ROBIN WARREN: Drug companies were making masses of money out of it, too.
MICK O'DONNELL: At the time major drug companies had introduced acid reducing drugs which were prescribed in a huge worldwide market. Marshall and Warren showed a simple course of antibiotics could stop 80-90 per cent of ulcers.
BARRY MARSHALL: A pharmaceutical company want to sell you a drug that you take every day for the rest of your life, a cholesterol drug, a diabetes drug, they are great sellers. If they sell you a drug which cures you, you only need to take it once or for one week. So how can you make it generate as much profit?
MICK O'DONNELL: You've killed the market?
BARRY MARSHALL: That's right.
ROBIN WARREN: The drugs went out of business because we stopped the bacteria so they weren't needed anymore.
MICK O'DONNELL: Today, Barry Marshall was asked over and over to repeat the anecdote that he dosed himself with the bacteria in 1984, to prove the bug they nicknamed the helicopter was the culprit.
BARRY MARSHALL: Somebody had to do it, swallow the bacteria and develop the disease.
ROBIN WARREN: He sent a piece to me and it was a very nasty and inflamed stomach.
BARRY MARSHALL: I said to my wife, "We were right." And she said, "What?" "I took the bacteria, I've got the illness." She said, "You did what?! Here we are trying to manage with all of these little children and the chaos in our lives and in the middle of it you make yourself sick." I was then threatened with eviction.
PROFESSOR TERRY BOLIN, GUT FOUNDATION: Barry was quite courageous in swallowing this concoction that apparently contained the bacteria and got terrible gastro-intestinal problems afterwards, but then it was a long road of proving the association with ulcers, the bacteria and then eradicating the ulcers with antibiotic therapy.
MICK O'DONNELL: In 1990 an international medical committee held a news conference to endorse the Marshall-Warren research.
JOHN VERREN: I saw my father die from the same problem and I'm quite convinced that I was well on the way to following in his footsteps.
MICK O'DONNELL: Now millions around the world just like Perth man John Verron have had their gastric and peptic ulcers quickly cured, thanks to these two Perth researchers.
JOHN VERREN: This is a new world. There's no reason to suffer anymore.
PROFESSOR TERRY BOLIN: Ulcers are now disappearing in the West. They're still prevalent in developing countries.
PETER DOHERTY: They'll be feeing pretty happy about it and they'll be tired and they'll be maybe even thinking a little bit, are they sure they got the right guys? I think probably not in this case because it's been out there for such a long time and people realise it's so important for such a long time, it seems such an obvious Nobel prize really.
MICK O'DONNELL: Robin Warren is retired but returned to his workplace at Royal Melbourne today for a few pats on his back. The two seem unfazed by the prize money that comes with the Nobel - $750,000 each.
BARRY MARSHALL: It's monopoly money, just the numbers that you can't comprehend really.
ROBIN WARREN: My computer crashed last night and at the same time Barry has got about 100 emails from around the world. Perhaps it's a good time for my computer to crash. Perhaps I'll buy a big new computer (Laughs).
MAXINE MCKEW: Maybe he will. A couple of great new champions for science.
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