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The Progress of Cellular Medicine

By Dr. Matthias Rath MD
Dr Rath Foundation

The latest available statistics of the World Health Organization regarding the main causes of death in Europe, the United States, and other industrialized countries at the end of the twentieth century show that every year 12 million people worldwide die of the results of arteriosclerosis, heart infarctions, and strokes. These are by far the most common causes of death in our time. Cellular Medicine has already found an answer to this epidemic:

Arteriosclerosis, in which fatty substances are deposited in the arteries and fibrosis forms on the inner layers of the arteries, and its consequences, heart infarction and stroke, are early forms of scurvy. Based on this knowledge, coronary heart disease will be brought down to a fraction of the current figures over the next decades.

The second largest common disease is cancer malignant tumors. Coronary disease and cancer together are responsible for over 80% of all deaths in industrialized countries. Incidences of cancer keep increasing on a global scale. There is only one plausible explanation for this: conventional medicine does not know the causes for cancer nor how this disease spreads. Because of this there is no effective cancer therapy available and the disease can keep on expanding on a global scale.

The most common diseases and causes of death in developing countries are infectious diseases, including the AIDS epidemic. These serious infectious diseases can only continue spreading the way they do because the knowledge of Cellular Medicine has not been efficiently used. This book will also provide the solution for the control of these diseases.

The Fundamental Question of Cellular Medicine.

Basically, the origin of diseases can be considered from two cellular aspects: the lack of biological fuel needed by the cell’s power plants, the mitochondria, or a failure in the function of the nucleus, the metabolic control centre of the cell.

1. Lack of biological fuel in the power plants of the cell (mitochondria). Coronary heart disease, for instance, is mainly caused by an insufficient supply of biological fuel in the form of vitamins and other cell factors to the cell. These nutrients are needed for the conversion of food into cellular energy, which is used by the cell in many metabolic reactions. A perfect example for this is heart failure, which is caused by a lack of bio-fuel in the cells of the heart muscle. With low energy production the pumping function of the heart muscle becomes impaired, causing shortness of breath and the accumulation of fluids in the body. Generally the supply of vitamins and other bio-energy fuel will soon correct this.
2. Diseases caused by a problem in the cell’s metabolic program. The second largest cause of diseases in general is an error in the metabolic software of the cell’s control centre, the nucleus. Like a computer virus that will disrupt a computer’s normal functions, cells can come under the control of a disease program. The most important diseases in this group are infectious diseases (such as virus infections) and cancer. This faulty programming will only lead to a disease when two preconditions have been met:

a) programming order causes uncontrolled “cell multiplication”, and at the same time
b) programming order causes a “disruption of the organization of the surrounding connective tissue”, which enables the diseased cells to spread. The mechanisms that facilitate the spread of these aggressive diseases and the possibilities of slowing down or stopping their progress will be discussed later in detail.

How Cells Move through the Body.

If we want to understand how disease spreads, we have to take a look at the way the cells move through the body. This is easy to explain in the case of red and white blood cells: these cells are just carried along in the blood stream. However, it is more difficult to imagine how cells composing other organs can move through a body’s strong connective tissue. This happens constantly every second inside our bodies.

In order to move through the connective tissue, any cell has to be capable of temporarily dissolving the surrounding tissue – the collagen and elastic fibers – and so it can make its way through. For this purpose the cells use enzymes that can temporarily digest and weaken the connective fibers surrounding them. All enzymes are proteins, which are produced by the cells themselves and then secreted. In order to become active, many enzymes bind to other specific molecules, such as trace elements, which change their biochemical structure and induce their activity. Cellular migration through dense tissue requires that the cell secrete enzymes that can dissolve the surrounding collagen. This is why these protein molecules are known as collagen dissolving enzymes.

In addition, the cell often needs to secrete activators – the molecules that can vitalize dormant enzymes located outside the cell, thereby enabling them to digest and loosen up the surrounding collagen molecules.

Collagen Dissolving Cell Systems.

Most cells of the body are capable of producing enzymes that can “eat” their way through connective tissue. In healthy people this takes place in certain, biologically defined physiological stages. In the case of a disease this happens when cells and cellular systems become reprogrammed. Cancer cells, for instance, use these “biological weapons” to multiply inside an organ and then spread through the entire body (metastasis). Viruses and other micro-organisms also use this collagen dissolving “weapon” to spread an infection to other parts of the body.

How is it possible that a single disease mechanism, the destruction of collagen by protein-digesting enzymes, is of such extraordinary value that it plays a vital role in all serious diseases? The body itself uses the same mechanism in a healthy person for its normal functions, in various metabolic pathways or to restructure some organs. For instance, enzymatic degradation of the connective tissue is important in the function of the body’s immune system during growth, but also in the restructuring of the reproductive organs during the monthly female cycle and in pregnancy.

However, our bodies are completely helpless when the mechanism that is normally used becomes activated and abused, such as by invading microbes. As soon as the virus or cancer cell is capable of overcoming the body with its own collagen dissolving weapons, the disease starts spreading aggressively.
To explain this fundamental principle that distinguishes our health from disease, we will look at how the body uses this collagen dissolving mechanism to perform its normal physiological functions.

Restructuring of Collagen in Healthy People.

Protection against infections.
The body’s basic protection against invaders (microbes) is secured by the white blood cells (“police cells”). There are several subgroups of white blood cells that perform specific functions in the immune system. Especially important are the macrophages, which can “eat” and digest invaders. Immature forms of these “eating cells”, called monocytes, can reach every part of the body through the blood stream. If an infection takes place in a particular part of the body, such as in the lungs, the body releases “alarm substances” that attract monocytes to the source of the microbial invasion.

The police cells arriving through the blood stream then have to traverse the blood vessel wall and move into the lung tissue with the help of collagen-digesting enzymes. Using this mechanism in the blood capillary wall, the police cells can temporarily create a little space between the cells in the blood vessel wall (endothelium), which allow them to move from the blood into the lung tissue.
To reach the place in the lungs that has been invaded by viruses and bacteria, the eating cells must be able to move through the lung tissue. In order to do this, monocytes use the same collagen-dissolving mechanism. They secrete collagen-dissolving enzymes in the direction of the infection. This way cells can loosen up the dense connective tissue that surround them and move through the tissue much like an expedition that cuts its way through the jungle with a machete.

The connective tissue will close again right after the cell has passed through, using the compensating mechanisms that can repair the tissue. This repair is assured by the optimal production of collagen molecules that require a sufficient supply of vitamin C and other cell factors in the diet.

Ovulation.

One of the most fascinating functions in which the body continuously uses a collagen-dissolving mechanism is the ovulation process in the female body. Monthly hormonal changes in the first half of the female cycle stimulate certain cell types (granulocytes), which build the wall around the ripening egg cell (follicle). These cells produce large amounts of fluid that is rich in collagen-digesting enzymes.

In the middle of the cycle, the ripened egg contains so much collagen-digesting enzyme that it is capable of temporarily disrupting the collagen tissue of the ovarian wall. This is the mechanism that operates every month, allowing the egg cell to move from the ovary through the fallopian tube and into the womb (uterus).
It is understandable that this mechanism needs to be precisely timed and be confined to a specific location. This mechanism must assure that only one egg per cycle ripens and passes through. Therefore, it is absolutely necessary that collagen-digesting enzymes remain in a timely and physiological balance with the mechanism that blocks these enzymes and initiates self-healing of the tissue.
Immediately after the egg cell has left the ovary, the activity of collagen-digesting enzymes is blocked by the body’s own enzymatic blocks. This shifts the balance toward collagen-producing mechanisms, which become prevalent over the collagen-destroying process. Using this mechanism the tissue of the ovary wall can heal quickly and close itself. Four weeks later, during the next cycle, the whole process repeats itself, taking place in the body of every healthy woman until menopause

Degradation of Collagen as a Precondition
for the Spread of Diseases.

Collagen Dissolving in Infectious Diseases.

The collagen-dissolving mechanism plays an important role in infectious diseases. Without the disruption of the surrounding connective tissue, the agents that cause diseases (viruses, bacteria) cannot invade the body and spread the disease.

Contrary to all other cells, which contain both metabolic software (in the nucleus) and hardware (production system for protein and other metabolic molecules), a virus consists only of software (genetic information). If it wants to reproduce it has to multiply inside a host cell using the host cell’s hardware. In the case of a flu virus, the host cell can be a cell of the mucous membrane in the nose, throat, or lungs. As soon as the virus has invaded the host cell, it incorporates its genetic information into the nucleus of the host. This allows the virus to convert metabolic functions of the host cell for its own purposes and spread the infection through:

1. Multiplication of the virus. The metabolic production system of the host cell receives an order to multiply the virus particles. After multiple reproduction cycles, virus particles are released by the host cell into the surrounding area where the newly made viruses can invade new cells.

2. Mass production of collagen-dissolving enzymes. The virus also orders the host cell to produce collagen-digesting enzymes. The host cell excretes these enzymes, which start to dissolve the surrounding tissue. The infection can then easily spread to other parts of the body.

The more a virus is capable of using the metabolism of a host cell for these purposes, the faster a virus infection will spread and the sicker a patient will feel.

Collagen Dissolving in Cancer.

All forms of cancer spread with the help of the tissue-dissolving mechanism. The liver is the body’s central metabolic organ and is responsible for neutralizing and removing toxins from the body. Of the toxins that enter the body through the diet, such as pesticides, preservatives are the most common cause of liver cancer. Also, all pharmaceutical drugs have to be detoxified by the liver. In this context, in January 1996, the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) issued a warning that all cholesterol-lowering medications (statins) used on the market at that time were carcinogenic (causing cancer).

Liver cells that are exposed to these poisonous substances can either be destroyed or permanently damaged. This damage often involves an error in the genetic program of the cells (cell’s software), similar to what we have seen in virus infections. This damage can trigger two processes that facilitate the development of cancer:

1. Uncontrolled cell multiplication. The software of a cancer cell is reprogrammed in such a way that it causes constant reproduction and multiplication of the cell. This uncontrolled cellular multiplication is the first precondition for cancer to develop.
2. Mass production of collagen-dissolving enzymes. The second precondition is the production of enzymes that destroy the surrounding connective tissue that would otherwise keep the cancer cells confined.
Research has established that the more enzymes a cancer cell produces, the more aggressively the cancer develops. The faster the cancer can spread
through a body, the shorter the life expectancy of the patient if the mechanism is not stopped.

How Cancer Spreads – Metastasis.

The collagen-dissolving mechanism also plays a decisive role in the spread of cancer and the growth of secondary tumors in other organs or parts of the body (metastasis). In the metastasis of a liver tumor, small blood vessels provide oxygen and nutrients to tumor cells. The walls of these blood capillaries are no obstacles for a cancer cell. With the help of collagen dissolving enzymes, a cancer cell can “eat” its way into the lumen of the small blood vessel and into the blood stream. The blood can then carry away cancer cells, by which they can spread and invade other organs. The obstacles for the cancer cell in the blood stream are small lung capillaries that supply oxygen to the blood. The diameter of these capillaries is smaller than a hair, so the cancer cell attaches itself to the wall of the capillary and “eats” its way in with the help of collagen-dissolving enzymes. This way the cell can invade the lung tissue. In the lung, the cancer cell starts to multiply and develop into a secondary tumor, the metastasis. Inside the lung the same kind of tumor will now grow as the original one did in the liver.

The same rule applies to the development of secondary tumors: the more collagen-digesting enzymes a specific cancer cell can produce, the faster secondary tumors will develop – not only in the lungs but also in other organs – and the more ill a patient will become.

Collagen Dissolving in Chronic Inflammation.

Collagen-digesting enzymes also play a crucial part in the spread of other diseases. In chronic arthritis the body’s defence cells play a crucial role in the fight against inflammation. As you already know, the defence cells belong to the group of white blood cells (leukocytes). Because of their function, these cells are often called the “police cells”. Especially important in this group in the battle against “foreign” substances and also in the “clearance of the inflammation battlefield” are the so-called “eating cells” (macrophages).

What happens if an inflammation continues for a long time, for example because the invaders’ attack is too powerful and the body engages too much of its police cells? The result is that the eating cells secrete high quantities of their “defence substances” over a long period of time. This defence weapon consists not only of collagen-digesting enzymes but also of a load of free radicals. As we saw in the example of the lung infection, the police cells use collagen destroying enzymes to move through thick connective tissue to get to the area of infection. If the immune system’s battle at the site of the inflammation takes too long, huge amounts of collagen dissolving enzymes are secreted, creating a problem: the inflammation will erode the connective tissue and turn into a chronic (long-term) process.
Chronic inflammations are not simply restricted to bone joints but can also be found in all organs of the body. What is important is that, independent of the organ where the inflammation takes place, the body will always use the same defence cells and mechanisms.

Collagen Dissolving in Advanced Arteriosclerosis.

During the growth of arteriosclerotic plaques (deposits), even in advanced stages of arteriosclerosis, the process of collagen destruction plays an important role.
It is generally known that, as in the sailor’s disease scurvy, the initial step in the development of arteriosclerosis is a lack of vitamins in the arterial wall. As a result of this vitamin deficiency the arteries of the heart weaken, which triggers a repair process to stabilize the wall of these blood vessels. Initially, the body mobilizes fatty particles (lipoproteins) and other repair molecules from the blood to deposit them in the weakest areas of the arterial wall.

When these repair measures become insufficient the weakening arterial wall is further stabilized through an uncontrolled growth of the cells that build the vascular wall. These cells, called smooth-muscle cells, migrate from the outermost cell layer of the artery to the area that contains arteriosclerotic fatty deposits. These muscle cells have to move through a very strong and dense intermediate layer of collagen fibers and connective tissue, the basal membrane. In order to do that, smooth muscle cells produce collagen digesting enzymes that can make the collagen soluble and let them pass through the basal membrane and move in the direction of the plaque.

Naturally, the effective approach in the prevention and treatment of arteriosclerosis is to preserve the integrity of the artery walls, which can be achieved through an optimal supply of vitamins.

Natural Prevention of Collagen Degradation and the Purpose of Enzyme Blocking Therapy.

Lysine as a Natural Enzyme Activity Block.
Previously we have learned about the role of collagen dissolving in facilitating the spread of diseases through the body. The activation of this collagen dissolving mechanism is a precondition for the development of aggressive diseases such as cancer and microbial infections. Apart from that, this mechanism plays an important role in all diseases that progress to advanced stages. Every therapeutic possibility that will halt this mechanism or even slow it down will therefore be one of the most important therapeutic successes in the field of medicine.

Nature itself provides us with two large groups of molecules that can block collagen digestion and it’s dissolving actions. The first group is the body’s intrinsic enzymatic block that can stop the action of collagen-digesting enzymes in a few moments. The second group is the enzyme blocking substances that come from our diet or as dietary supplement. The most important one in this group is the natural amino acid L-lysine. When lysine is supplied in a sufficient amount as a dietary supplement, it can block the anchor sites in the connective tissue that collagen digesting enzymes use to attach themselves to the tissue. This way lysine prevents these enzymes from uncontrollably disintegrating connective tissue.

While the cells still produce high levels of collagen digesting enzymes, in the presence of lysine these enzymes are no longer effective in breaking down collagen. Therefore, uncontrolled destruction of collagen and connective tissue structure can be prevented. This way the spread of diseases can be slowed down or stopped.

The Remarkable Value of Lysine.

All metabolic functions in the human body are controlled by biological language. To date, some twenty amino acids are known, and these compose all the proteins in our bodies. These building blocks of life function like the letters of the alphabet. Our body uses various combinations of amino acids to create innumerable biological words (pep-tides) and sentences (proteins). Separate amino acids (letters) also have important “individual” metabolic functions, and lysine is a prime example.

The cells of the body can produce most amino acids themselves. These amino acids are called nonessential. However, there are nine known amino acids that our body cannot produce, and they have to be supplied through the diet. These amino acids are called essential (needed for life).

Within the group of essential amino acids, lysine plays a similarly important role as vitamin C does within the vitamin group. The daily requirement of lysine surpasses that of all other amino acids. Among its many functions, lysine is the basic building block of the amino acid carnitine, which is important for energy metabolism in every cell.

The fact that the human body can store a large amount of this amino acid is proof enough of its importance for our health. About 25% of collagen, the most abundant and important structural molecule of bones, skin, blood vessel walls, and all other organs, consists of two amino acids, lysine and proline. As the summary on the next page shows, a person weighing 70 kg has about 500 g (1.1 lb.) of lysine stored in the body at all times.

An overdose of lysine is as impossible as an overdose of vitamin C. Our metabolism is familiar with handling large amounts of lysine, and it will simply excrete the molecules that are not used. Rather, the opposite is generally the case: almost all people suffer from a chronic deficiency of lysine.

How much lysine can our bodies handle?

• A human body weighing 70 kg contains about 10 kg of proteins.
• 50% of this protein mass is present as the connective tissue proteins, collagen and elastin.
• The amino acid lysine forms about 12% of the collagen and elastin mass, which means some 500 to 600 g.
• A human body weighing 70 kg. therefore contains about 1.1 lb. (500g) of lysine.

Since our bodies are accustomed to such large amounts of lysine, taking 100g or 200g of lysine daily as a dietary supplement should not be considered an "overdose."

The Balance between Collagen Dissolving Enzymes and Lysine.

We have already learned that enzyme activity can be blocked with the body’s own molecules and with those supplied through the diet, such as with lysine. The body’s own block (enzymatic inhibitor) is the first line of defence that assures the balance among the body’s systems and keeps them in check. Lysine molecules have the same function but are the second line of defence, ready to step in when the body’s own systems are insufficient. The lysine block cannot overshoot its goal, not even when taken in high amounts, such as 100g or 200g a day.

A second important fact is the balance between the collagen dissolving mechanism and its blocking mechanism during sickness and health. In normal conditions these systems are in perfect balance. When “police cells” are wandering through the body, the balance is disturbed. But the healthy body then restores the balance within moments.
In cancer and other previously described diseases, this balance becomes disrupted in favour of the collagen dissolving mechanism. Because the natural cellular mechanisms cannot sufficiently block the collagen disintegration process, a high dosage dietary supplement of lysine is the only possible therapy to stop or to slow down this process. The goal of this therapy is to correct the disrupted balance with a long term high concentration of lysine to block disintegration.

The Use of Enzyme Blocks in Cancer Therapy.

Efficient control of the spread of a disease by collagen dissolving enzyme blocks has been successful with several diseases. This is especially important in diseases for which orthodox medicine has no preventive or healing therapies yet.

To date there are hundreds of studies that have established that a high dosage supply of vitamin C, vitamin E, beta-carotene, and other dietary supplements can prevent several forms of cancer. A supply of vitamins in high dosages forms the basis for every current cancer therapy. Vitamin therapy has achieved therapeutic success in hormone independent forms of cancer, whereas in hormone dependent forms of cancer the natural therapies have been either hardly effective or not successful.

Now, for the first time we have at our disposal an effective form of a natural therapy, which is based on blocking the enzymatic destruction of collagen. As it was seen in the example of ovulation, these collagen dissolving enzymes are in particular activated by hormones; therefore the use of lysine in high dosages can be effective in treating all forms of cancer. In 1977, a Swedish research group led by Dr. Astedt from the University of Lund reported about the successful treatment of breast cancer with enzyme blocks:

“Secondary tumors were already developing in the brain of the patient with breast cancer. Radiation and chemotherapy were without results. While under the treatment with enzymatic blocks the brain metastasis and other symptoms of the illness began to diminish. One year after the treatment the patient was free of complaints.

This patient was treated with tranexamic acid, a synthetic derivative of the natural amino acid lysine. This chemically modified form of lysine is many times stronger than the natural substance; it is artificial and can be used on prescription only. High dosages of lysine will have a similar result but without the side effects associated with the use of tranexamic acid.

In the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), July 11, 1977, the same research group presented spectacular successes in the treatment of ovarian tumors. Even in very advanced cases – with secondary tumors in other organs – the enzyme-blocking therapy led to the encapsulation of the tumors, stopping them from spreading further.

In 1980, a group of scientists from the University of Tokyo led by Dr. Suma published the following:

“The treatment was successful in a patient with advanced, inoperable ovarian cancer. The disease had already caused secondary tumors and fluid accumulation in the stomach. Even in this advanced stage the cancer was brought to a standstill with the help of enzyme block therapy.” The researchers had observed the development of the disease for several years and closed the case as follows: “Three years after the start of the treatment the patient had no more complaints.”
By far the most common form of cancer in women is breast cancer, followed by the uterine and ovarian cancers. The physiology of the breast tissue and its hormonal restructuring during the monthly cycle makes it particularly prone to cancerous transformations. If there is some kind of disturbance in the regulatory mechanism, the tissue slips toward steady restructuring, which can eventually lead to an uncontrolled growth of tissue and the forming of tumors.

Considering the fact that in Europe alone hundreds of thousands of women die of this form of cancer every year, the question poses itself: Why does it take so long before safe and potentially successful forms of therapy, such as enzyme blocking therapy, are generally applied? The answer is simple: Cancer and chemotherapeutic drugs are the second most lucrative market for the pharmaceutical industry after the heart disease market. The global market for chemotherapeutics alone makes a profit of over a hundred billion dollars a year. This is why the pharmaceutical industry has no interest in finding cures for diseases.

The Use of Enzyme Blocks in Other Serious Diseases.

The therapeutic applications for lysine in the fight against disease are not restricted to cancer. It can be used in the natural treatment of many other diseases for which orthodox medicine has not yet found a solution.
In arteriosclerosis, lysine can help in stopping the spread and growth of deposits (arteriosclerotic plaques) in the arteries of the heart and brain. At the same time, with the help of vitamins and other dietary supplements, a natural healing process of the arterial walls can commence.

In infectious diseases caused by viruses, such as flu, herpes, and AIDS, or caused by bacteria, such as lung, inner ear, and bladder infections, lysine can stop or slow down an aggressive spread of infection. A combination of high dosages of vitamin C and other dietary supplements can bring additional benefits.
Even in the case of chronic inflammation of the stomach, intestines, joints, and bones the use of lysine can help keeping the inflammation in check. Effective treatment of chronic inflammation involves the use of high dosages of lysine combined with other important dietary nutrients.

Even very common allergic problems, such as hay fever, neurodermatitis, or nettle rash, can benefit from the use of lysine, which can relieve the illness or prevent it. In these cases I also recommend combining lysine with vitamin C and other dietary supplements.

The Victory Over Cancer Deaths Has Been Known For Decades.

The breakthrough in the treatment of cancer and other serious diseases could have been established long ago, saving the lives of millions of people. The following is a list of studies that found evidence of the successful application of blocking collagen-dissolving enzymes. Please note that most of these publications are over 10 years old, and some are even over 25 years old! These early research data were also known to the pharmaceutical industry, since in some studies artificial lysine derivatives were used. Yet the prospect of ending cancer and other serious diseases also meant the end to enormous profits for the pharmaceutical industry. Therefore, further research in this field has been neglected in order not to en-danger a billion-dollar market of chemotherapeutics and other expensive pharmaceutical drugs.

Conventional Cancer Therapy – A Dead-End Street.

When you have reached this point, you will undoubtedly ask yourself, “Is the medical world on the wrong track with their cancer therapy?” My answer would be, “Yes!”

The conventional treatment of cancer involves surgery, radiation therapy, and especially chemotherapy. None of these therapies has been proven to extend the life of a patient. This means that these therapies have been used for decades even though physicians know that it will not heal the disease and will often even accelerate it.

Constantly pressured by the pharmaceutical industry, patients are offered no options until they agree to chemotherapy. Chemotherapy means poisoning the cells. The pharmaceutical industry sells this cell poison with the argument that it will damage the cancer cells. What they do not tell patients is that all the other cells of the body are damaged as well. Thus chemo-poisoning of the bone marrow, the place where new blood cells are produced, will lead to anaemia and an increased susceptibility to infections. Chemo-poisoning of the mucous membrane cells of the gastrointestinal tract will lead to diarrhoea and intestinal bleeding. The damage to hair follicles leads to extreme loss of hair.

Instead of strengthening the body’s immune system to help fight the cancer, the chemotherapy will paralyse it. Chemotherapy’s side effects require the additional use of other, new medication, such as antibiotics, plasma replacement drugs, painkillers, cortisone, and many more. The last weeks or months of life for the patients undergoing cancer therapy are like the pharmaceutical industry selling them a Cadillac Eldorado.

I cannot think of any doctor I know who would choose to undergo chemotherapy in case of cancer.
It is not just ordinary people that end up in the dead-end street of conventional medicine, as we see in the example of King Hussein of Jordan. Convinced that he was receiving an excellent treatment for his leukaemia (blood cancer), King Hussein moved to one of the citadels of the Pharma-Cartel, the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota. We all know the result: the chemotherapy destroyed the king’s bone marrow. In order to replace it, a bone marrow transplant was required, which King Hussein did not survive. The chemotherapy, propagated by the Pharma-Cartel, killed the king faster than the actual disease would have. The exact same thing has happened to the former First Lady of Russia, Raisa Gorbachowa. Her leukaemia was likewise treated with chemotherapy, again in a citadel of the Pharma-Cartel, in Munster, Germany. Before the bone marrow transplant could even take place to save some of the damaged cells, an infection set in which proved to be fatal.

Cancer – No Longer a Death Warrant.

In 1992, I published the progress of Cellular Medicine for the first time in a scientifically founded work called Plasmin-induced proteolysis and the role of apoprotein(a), lysine and synthetic lysine analogs. I asked Nobel laureate Linus Pauling to be my co-author and to support the far-reaching results of my work.
For the first time in the history of medicine it was clear that:

• Not only cancer and some selected diseases, but also practically all known
diseases use the collagen dissolving mechanism to spread through the body.
• The collagen dissolving mechanism plays an important role in the formation of
plaques in advanced arteriosclerosis.
• The use of high dosage lysine can slow down or halt the spread of almost every disease. The fact that lysine in combination with vitamin C can stabilize the connective tissue in the body is a medical breakthrough in the control of many diseases so far considered incurable.
• The widespread use of this therapy will lead to a break-through in the fight against cancer, infectious diseases, including AIDS and almost all other diseases.

The results of my study conclude that cancer diagnosis should no longer be a death warrant. As the following pages show, this research will also lead to a breakthrough in the treatment of AIDS.

Enzyme Blocks and AIDS.

The most far-reaching consequence of my scientific research was the breakthrough in the fight against the AIDS epidemic. In the summary of my work I wrote, “It is foreseeable that the medical applications of lysine and synthetic lysine analogs, especially when combined with vitamin C, will lead to a breakthrough in the control of several forms of cancer, infectious diseases including AIDS, as well as many other diseases”.

In the year 1992, when this work was published, the worldwide AIDS epidemic expanded to more than 10 million victims, and a successful AIDS therapy was not yet in sight. My discovery that this epidemic could be controlled by the use of lysine, a natural block of protein-digesting enzymes (proteases), was a breakthrough. Yet in the board rooms of the pharmaceutical companies it was decided that the AIDS epidemic had to continue as long as possible as a market for profitable drugs. They immediately arranged a media boycott against any information about natural treatments for AIDS.

At the same time the Pharma-Cartel attempted to explore and use the therapeutic applications of my research. The employees of the pharmaceutical laboratories feverishly worked on synthetic, and therefore patented and profitable, protease blocks. Already in 1996 the cartel celebrated the breakthrough in the AIDS-therapy search with the first artificial protease-inhibitor.
Treatment with the new protease inhibitor will cost about $5,000 per patient per year. Millions of AIDS patients die in Africa, Asia, and South America because they cannot afford this medication.

The Cover-Up of Medical Advances.

This is one of the most frequent questions people ask me. My answer is that the pharmaceutical industry has fought successfully against natural remedies, because these would undermine a worldwide, billion dollar market of pharmaceutical drugs. How else would you explain the fact that, according to data of the AOK health insurance company, one of the largest health insurers in Germany (AOK Magazine 4/98), over 24,000 pharmaceutical products on the German market at that time were without any proven benefits.

I speak from personal experience when I tell you about the manipulation of public opinions in the interests of the pharma-cartel. As the breakthrough in AIDS research with the protease inhibitor could not be kept silent, a scientist had to be presented to the world at large that had made the discovery. To prevent the world from learning about natural therapies against AIDS and other diseases, a surrogate was presented as the first man to make a breakthrough. Time magazine choose the largely unknown Dr. Ho as “Time Man of the Year 1997”. Dr. Ho was honest enough to declare to the Time reporters that he had not made the discovery.
The background of this manipulation on a global scale is that Time magazine, as well as the television network CNN, is under the control of the Rockefeller Group. The Rockefeller clan owns shares in over 200 pharmaceutical companies and purposively uses CNN, Time, and other media to manipulate public opinion worldwide in the interest of the pharma-cartel.

Vitamin C and Lysine – Key Molecules of Cellular Medicine.

With vitamin C (ascorbic acid) and the amino acid lysine, we have established the most important natural substances of which deficiency in humans can lead to disease. There are two basic reasons why almost every human suffers from a deficiency of these cell factors: the human body cannot produce them, and our modern dietary habits cannot provide them in sufficient amounts. The result is that only marginal amounts of these substances are found in the body.
Almost all diseases thrive on a lack of vitamin C and lysine to spread through the body. This is related to the extra-ordinary value of these substances for the body’s own connective tissue. We can summarize this as follows:

1. Lysine inhibits the destruction of the connective tissue by preventing enzymatic digestion of collagen molecules. At the same time the amino acid lysine is a component of collagen and it is used for making the collagen in the body.

2. Vitamin C stimulates the production of the connective tissue and it is essential for its optimal structure. Deficiency of vitamin C leads to tissue weakness and eventually to scurvy. On the other hand, an optimal supply of vitamin C assures optimal production of collagen and elastic fiber molecules and contributes to having strong connective tissue in the body.

Collagen Production – A Key to Disease Prevention and Control.

Optimal production of collagen molecules is the precondition for the control of aggressive diseases. The muscle cell of the arterial wall, in addition to other physiological tasks, has to produce enough collagen molecules to maintain the strength and elasticity of the arterial wall. For optimal collagen production the cells require three major nutrients:

• Vitamin C, which controls the collagen production from the cell nucleus’ software. Vitamin C is also responsible for collagen molecules, which wind around each other like a twilled rope, attaining their optimal structure essential for biological activity and stability of collagen. To obtain this biological conformation, the oxygen and hydrogen atoms – the so-called “OH group” – have to be anchored to specific places on lysine and proline molecules and connect collagen strands like “bridges” to stabilize the entire structure. This “hydroxylation” process is catalysed by vitamin C.
• Lysine, which is a building block of the chain of amino acids that form collagen fibers. Since our body cannot produce its own lysine, every single lysine molecule must be supplied through the diet or from dietary supplements.
• Proline, which is another important amino acid component of collagen. Our body can produce it, but only in limited amounts. In people with long-term or aggressive diseases accompanied by the enzymatic destruction of tissue collagen, the body’s capacity to produce proline can be exhausted. This often leads to a deficiency of this important amino acid.

How Much Vitamin C? – A Tolerance Test.

People very frequently ask me, “How much vitamin C do I need to take per day?” My answer is, “Only your own body can tell you this!” But what does that mean?
The daily vitamin C needs for your body to stay healthy depend on two basic factors: your genetic construction – the DNA (stretched cone) – and the actual health status of your body (short cone). As there is no system to measure the required daily need for vitamin C, we have to learn how to interpret the signals our body gives us. Too much vitamin C and the body will react with the signal of mild diarrhoea. The reason: the excess vitamin C is excreted and causes fast bowels.

This method can only be used to measure an individual’s need for vitamin C when following a step plan. Start taking vitamin C and increase the intake gradually, by one gram a day, until you start to notice that your bowel movements become quicker. Now decrease the dosage by one or two grams and stay on it. This is your individual daily need of vitamin C.

California based Dr. Cathcart established in his clinical research that patients with serious diseases could handle far higher amounts of vitamin C before they developed diarrhoea than his healthy control group could. Whereas in healthy people 8 to 10 grams a day were sufficient, patients with infections and other serious diseases could take up to 40 to 60 grams of vitamin C a day without problems, because of the body’s increased need.

Cellular Medicine – Extending and Saving Lives.

Today conventional medicine is in a stage of despair. Despite millions of dollars spent on pharmacological research, cancer, coronary disease, and other common health problems keep proliferating like wildfire. The only reason why the incidence of these diseases keeps increasing is that their true causes have not been understood or have been kept hidden; therefore no effective, conventional therapy is available.

Cellular Medicine has paved the way to the end of other common diseases. Among these are several forms of cancer, many infectious diseases, chronic inflammations, allergies, and other problems from which millions suffer. Cellular Medicine can help 9 out of 10 patients to extend their lives or even save them. This, truly, is a breathtaking prospect.

People on high dose vitamin programs tell us about positive changes in their health, often experienced after only a few weeks on these programs. Frequently, after consulting with their physician, these patients are allowed to reduce the number of prescription drugs they take and can sometimes stop taking them completely. Many people have been surprised to find out that without these medications they can improve their health even further. The reason for this is logical: when you stop taking pharmaceutical drugs, which can be damaging to your body, the body no longer needs to deal with the side effects. It can finally start to heal itself.

The fourth greatest cause of death: "Polypharmacy"

The above statistic by the World Health Organisation does not take into account that the serious side effects of medical drugs have now become the fourth greatest cause of death, after heart infarction, cancer, and stroke. To keep people from finding this out, the pharmaceutical industry has even come up with a diagnostic term for this cause of death: "polypharmacy," meaning too much pharmaceutical medication.
The worldwide success of Cellular Medicine will now also end the threat of this killer "polypharmacy", an epidemic caused by the pharmaceutical industry itself.

Questions and Answers.

In this section, you can find answers to some of the questions you may have been asking yourself while reading the book.

Do vitamins and amino acids only help against the
spreading of cancer or can they also help to prevent the development of cancer?

The development of cancer always proceeds through different stages. It starts with a cell that was damaged by toxins from the diet, medication, radiation, or other damaging factors. In many cases the damaged cells die. Others survive and start to multiply uncontrollably. These cells are the cradles of the cancerous disease. Now only a weakness of the connective tissue is needed for the cells to multiply even more and start spreading, leading to cancer.

In all stages of the disease, also at the onset, vitamins have a protective function. Vitamin C, for instance, is decisive in the detoxification of the pharmaceutical drugs in the liver, which could otherwise lead to liver damage and liver cancer. Numerous studies have established that several other vitamins and substances found in our Cellular Medicine formulas have the same importance in cancer prevention. These include in particular various antioxidants, such as carotenoids, vitamin E, co-enzyme Q10, and others.

To prevent the cancer from spreading further, high dosages of lysine and vitamin C are particularly important, as I described in this book. That is why these natural substances are now available in a powdered form, so that the dosage can be easily increased when needed.

What about the government’s recommended daily amounts (RDA)? Why are those lower than the ones you recommend in this book?

Advisory agencies on nutrition and the like have maintained for decades that 60 milligrams of vitamin C a day is sufficient to keep a person healthy. Generations of doctors have passed this false information on to their patients. Now the following has been established:

• There was or is no scientific or clinical research to substantiate these “recommendations”.
• This small amount of vitamin C may be sufficient to prevent scurvy, but it can never guarantee the strength of the connective tissue that is needed to prevent the spread of disease.
• These agencies are often tools of the pharmaceutical industry and they purposively recommend insufficient amounts because there is no better way to keep maintaining common diseases among millions of people and create a mass market for pharmaceutical products.

Why did you establish your research firm in the Netherlands? Was there a special reason for this?

Holland is one of the few countries where the pharmaceutical industry has not had a hand in the legislation. For decades pharmaceutical companies, such as Bayer, Hoechst and BASF dictated the medicine laws in Germany, Austria and other countries. To artificially stabilize their market for useless but profitable pharmaceutical preparations these companies have manipulated the government to accept bills, such as the one that arbitrarily declares a preparation with over 500 mg vitamin C a medication. Lysine and other vitally important natural amino acids are now placed on the lists of substances to which access should be denied through pharma-cartel-laws. However, the people of Europe will no longer stand for this. These irresponsible laws now tumble under the convincing health successes of Cellular Medicine. Laws that arbitrarily limit the access and use of vitamins and other natural substances should be declared null and void in all countries.

Exactly how do enzymes dissolve collagen?

First, the cell secretes an enzyme, called the plasminogen-activator, which has the function of activating a second enzyme, the pro-collagenase, and converts it to the final enzyme collagenase. As we can deduce from the name, collagenase is the enzyme that digests the collagen, thus facilitating the conditions for cells to move around.
Is there a chance of side effects when taking nutrients in the dosages recommended in this book?

No. The vitamins, minerals and amino acids that are not used up by the body cells are simply excreted. Remember that the human body has learned to deal with these natural substances for thousands of years. On the other hand, pharmaceutical products were developed in the test tubes of the pharmaceutical companies only this century. The human body treats them as foreign substances or cell toxins that have to be detoxified.

Naturally, “high” dosage is a relative term. Mammals – the goat for instance – can manufacture about 15 grams of vitamin C a day, and in cases of stress, even more. That is over 200 times the RDA “recommendation”. Alternative cancer clinics in the United States treat patients with advanced stages of cancer with up to 200 grams of vitamin C a day – over 200,000 milligrams or 3,000 times the RDA recommendation. Naturally, these vitamin C doses must be given intravenously. However, it is a fact that to date no patient has died of an overdose of vitamin C, whereas hundreds of thousands die each year because they never hear about vitamin therapy to fight serious diseases, or they learn of it when it is already too late.

As has been discussed, no side effects or disruptions of normal body functions can be expected when taking lysine, even in dosages of several grams a day. However, the opposite is often the case. Many people die because this natural therapy is not applied.

Can every disease discussed in this book benefit form Cellular Medicine formulas?

Cellular Medicine formulas are the best thing you can do in a natural way to help your body prevent and heal diseases. In many cases however, especially in the advanced stages of a disease, Cellular Medicine cannot fully recover your health. Extensive research is being done to try and make these cases the exceptions.

Dr. Mathias Rath
www.drrath.com

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