Show 906: The New Germ Theory of Disease (Archive)
The People's Pharmacy
Joe and Terry Graedon
4.6 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 9 July 2015
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
Inflammation is a primary cause of many chronic conditions, from Alzheimer’s disease and arthritis to asthma and inflammatory bowel disease. But what causes the inflammation? Could infectious agents be the root of most of our chronic disease–including cancer?
The New Germ Theory:
Find out about the new germ theory linking infections and mental illness. Is it possible that there is a connection between schizophrenia and a common pathogen?
Other hard-to-treat conditions such as multiple sclerosis, fibromyalgia and inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) might all be triggered by infection. Could a vaccine help prevent these devastating conditions and even cancer?
This Week’s Guest:
Paul Ewald, PhD, is professor of biology and director of the program on disease evolution at the University of Louisville. His books include Controlling Cancer: A Powerful Plan for Taking On the World’s Most Daunting Disease, co-authored with Holly Swain Ewald, and Plague Time:The New Germ Theory of Disease.
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, I'm Joe Graydon. |
| 0:02.3 | I'm Terry Graydon. |
| 0:03.8 | Welcome to this podcast of the People's Pharmacy, where we bring you the stories behind the health headlines. |
| 0:10.2 | This podcast is brought to you by Redux Industries, makers of utterly smooth body cream. |
| 0:16.0 | 800-345-7339 on the web at utter cream.com. |
| 0:29.6 | Inflammation is at the root of many chronic conditions from asthma to arthritis or Alzheimer's. |
| 0:37.1 | Where is the inflammation coming from? This arthritis or Alzheimer's, where is the inflammation coming |
| 0:39.3 | from? |
| 0:40.3 | This is the People's Pharmacy with Terry and Joe Graydon. |
| 0:48.3 | Biologist Paul Ewald has developed a new theory explaining the origins of many of our most devastating chronic diseases. |
| 0:58.8 | Conditions as diverse as Alzheimer's, cancer, gingivitis, heart disease, and schizophrenia might have infection as a common denominator. |
| 1:07.6 | Should we be treating the underlying infectious causes of these conditions as opposed to |
| 1:12.4 | trying to suppress the symptoms? |
| 1:14.3 | And what about prevention? |
| 1:16.0 | Could vaccines keep us from developing some cancers in the first place? |
| 1:19.8 | Coming up on the People's Pharmacy, the new germ theory behind so many difficult to treat diseases. |
| 1:25.7 | First, this news. |
| 1:30.2 | In the People's pharmacy health headlines, statin-type cholesterol-lowering drugs may |
| 1:36.5 | increase aggression in post-menopausal women. |
| 1:39.6 | That's the finding of a new study from the University of California, San Diego. |
| 1:43.6 | The research was a |
| 1:45.4 | randomized controlled trial designed to look at behavioral changes. It included more than |
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