Microbes and Men

CONDUCTOR ,SALERIAN AJ,OIL PASTEL

                                                 Microbes and Men

    To whisper , microbes do not cause gastric ulcers, gastric  ulcers produce microbes , in a medical setting may elicit combustible responses . This is partly because microbes for a long time - since late 19 century , the times of Louis Pasteur and the discovery of microbes as causative agents of infections - have been accused of disseminating death and disease . The bad rumors about microbes got even worse after 2005 when Drs Marshall and Weller won the Nobel prize in medicine or physiology for proving that microbes  cause stomach ulcers.

     Curiously,  overlooked and forgotten were the laws of evolution and a birthday of the first bacteria born 3.5 billion years before Jesus (1). This meant organic matter can produce microbes.

     Is blaming foreign pathogens for all infections logical?

   Where do 38 trillion microbes living in human body come from? Are they all immigrants?

   How can we explain bacteria in the Atlantic Ocean on the Atlantis Massif in gabbroic rock (2) formed from the slow cooling of magnesium and iron-rich magma and mass deep beneath the Earth's surface.?

How about those bacteria  in Andes Mountains in South America.(3)?

    Paradigm shifts have always been difficult yet paradigms supported by Pasteur and the Nobel assembly seem nearly impossible to bend.

  Simply nothing would convince traditional medicine to consider the possibility that , pathways other than contamination exist and cause infections. Not the first bacteria, nor bacteria found on the bottom of the ocean nor buried under ice on mountain tops, nor bugs that prompted  the massacre of British cattle because of the mad cow disease .

Fortunately, It is easy to prove that h.pylori  are  byproducts of degenerative processes: numerous medical conditions and substances induce ulcers with a shared pathophysiology of lowering  stomach pH (5,6,7,8,9 ,10)and ulcers had been successfully treated without antibiotics  (11,12) before a fictional discovery made the discoverers Nobel Laureates.

        Transformations of  matter to bacteria and bacteria to  matter illuminate  the signature traits of living and nonliving things and human disorders : Nothing remains the same and changes are bidirectional. We come from earth, organic matter and bacteria and  we will return to our ancestral origins as we pass away.

This never ending journey , these infinite repetitions of slow and fast transformation of nonliving things to living things, and living things to nonliving things without any hint of cessation , this astonishing phenomenon is  called life or universe.