This story is published at microbialgarden.com
War is coming - however, instead of waging war with the 'germ', we will all be fighting for our lives to defend against it.
The pathogen is making a comeback, and because we as a society fear the bacterium, we will not have educated masses to defeat it; the germ or, the pathogen, will in the end consume us all.
Would you believe that the forfeiture of existence for all mankind boils down to human beings treating their planet like the disgusting, filthy human beings that we are?
Would you believe that if we all cleaned up our act, we do in fact possess the knowledge to turn the planet around - and save ourselves from ourselves - strictly through the use of beneficial microbes?
Would you believe that mankind is too chickenshit of ‘germs’ to embrace beneficial bacteria, and that through this nescient mentality, man will meet his ultimate demise?
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Take a collective breath and follow me as I guide you on a journey that describes a silent war being fought; this is a war that affects all of humanity, waged by humanity against humanity - and humanity is losing badly.
Over a century ago this war began, though it was not WWI itself - it was more precisely the ideology of one particular munition - the ‘germ’. Through years of indoctrination, bacteria and pathogens have become synonymous, breeding fear into classrooms throughout the world.
Only over the last decade have studies begun on the beneficial aspect of bacteria, where soil science pioneer Dr. Elaine Ingham has mapped the soil food web, the microscopic equivalent of our visible food chain.
- Soil Food Web
These are organisms you cannot see with the naked eye, nor hear; you can certainly smell them and you feel them every day - and, by God you eat them. They are, in every worldly form, living microbes - good and bad, anaerobic, beneficial, mutualistic; these organic lifeforms balance your own personal microbiome, enhance it, change it and fortify it. They impregnate our gut with a natural fauna and flora, the so called bio sponge inside each of us, ecological habitats that harbor microbial life. You are
- Decomposing banana on the sidewalk in the middle of a busy metropolitan city
symbiotic with most of these organisms. Others, you most certainly are not.
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A healthy microbiome is maintained by one who refrains from destroying their body's own natural fauna and flora. It is quite easy to damage your natural ecosystem in today's society: to begin with, water in almost every form contains compounds that are toxic to your habitat. Chlorine and chlorides are the most common toxins; they wreak havoc on microbial populations by killing indiscriminately. Inevitably, the microbes that one will lose through ill diet would be ones that could conceivably stave off your hereditary disease. Microbes either hold at bay or directly cause life threatening diseases through microbial imbalance in nearly every imaginable ailment known to man. Microbes can quite conceivably cure any one of them as well.
A person's microbiome can take over an entire room within hours, turning a suspiciously scented hotel suite into something that feels like home away from home through the spreading of one’s personal microbial culture.
Microbes can float on air, explaining why one might feel things attach themselves from out of nowhere without actually seeing anything.
Ejected gut bacteria can live unseen for weeks, permeating the air of a storefront, sight unseen. These are pathogens that continue to live and thrive beyond a simple clean up.
Extremophile microbes have been found to exist in amazingly profound conditions, such as attached to the exterior of manned space vehicles in vacuum, to the searing heat of fiery volcanoes, from the frigid polar regions of the antarctic, to fathoms below in deep sea.
Actively aerated compost teas can breathe new life into barren soil landscapes, while specific beneficial tea brews strengthen plants against pests and disease. Beneficial bacteria and fungi serve the roots by converting base nutrients into complex compounds that become plant available food; without microbes, nutrient lock can occur.
Microbes have been identified that eat electricity, others that can consume oil spills. Microbes in soil has lead to the most recent discovery of the most powerful antibiotics in more than 50 years.
- Beneficial microbes bring out the beauty of life
The Tree of Life, a categorization of known species, has recently doubled in discovery of new phyla: up until now no one had ever thought to look for microbes on a scale barely a tenth of the size.
Years of cultivation have taught us that inorganic farming, petroleum based fertilizers and other adulterations cause loss of natural fauna and flora, including beneficial bacteria and fungi that sustain healthy roots and plant life.
Would it stand to reason that assorted adulterations that saturate our daily diets actually destroy our own beneficial bacteria and natural flora and fauna?
Before mentioning controversial compounds, it must be noted that anything one might include in a diet in high volume can destroy one's own flora and fauna - or microbiota. Simply put, the ecology of the human body was not designed to 'binge' sources to make up for deficiencies. The human microbiome is a control panel that - in a healthy body - is correctly wired. When there is an influx of a mineral, compound or other adulteration, a portion of that microbial community may die off or a different microbial population may spur into existence. These are the changes in one's microbiota that are the root cause of most diseases - and while some
- Pathogenic and parasitic-ridden carcass decomposing in the middle of an urban neighborhood
diseases are attributed as hereditary through genetic markers, unhealthy microbiota are most certainly hereditary as well.
Looking at today's statistics on deaths by natural causes worldwide, well over three quarters - if not all - of these are directly or indirectly related to microbial imbalances in one's microbiome. Science is only now using microbes to cure many diseases and afflictions. And while this is promising, there are circumstances that call for social education and implementation of beneficial microbes.
Fact: Every cattle pasture, chicken coup, hog pit and sheep pen that smells foul and putrid is indeed foul and putrid. The reason these pastures smell in such a way to our nostrils is that they are pathogenic and toxic.
It so happens that livestock practices are wrong. Modern day livestock are increasingly susceptible to disease and constantly build resistances to antibiotics. As production weights continually drop due to poor health, these industries often turn to steroids to enhance growth, in effect throwing good money after bad.
In current use are Indigenous Microorganisms (IMO's), which are beneficial bacteria lactates discovered in the late naught's. By inoculating livestock, food sources and surface areas, practitioners have found that bacteria lactates actually consume - or arrest - foul odors, effectively cleansing animals and living quarters of harmful organisms and replenishing their fauna and flora. Further, research has shown that inoculated livestock require less food, are healthier and do not require traditional regimental treatments against infectious diseases.
In fact, indigenous bacteria lactates have shown so much promise, these beneficials could conceivably serve to clean up human filth in metropolitan communities worldwide.
Imagine recycling receptacles inoculated with odor-arresting lactates, harmless to humans, yet ferocious to anaerobic and pathogenic bacteria: puddles, ponds and rivers annihilating pathogen-protecting bio-films, all the while feeding and reproducing to continue on with it's job. Imagine inoculated water sources functioning as microbial self-sustaining, preventing protein buildup that causes algae bloom while keeping water bodies balanced against anaerobic or stagnant states.
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Losing Our Troops Through Microbial Bias
Nothing damages a war effort more than troop morale. In this battle to conquer the pathogen, we as a society have been indoctrinated through the use of germ warfare to instinctively reject the bacterium simply on merit. The germ - a pathogen - is conveniently lumped into one broad term of use: when one says 'beneficial bacteria' to the uneducated ear one hears 'bacteria' and disassociates the previous word out of prejudice.
- Organic beer is always good for troop morale
It's clear that if society intends to have a serious conversation about microbial health, we must start from the ground up: educating our kids who have yet to be ingrained to fear all that you cannot see.
Microbes can regulate protein rich bodies of water where present technology has few weapons in the arsenal to defend from algae blooms and stagnant breeding grounds from parasitic transmitting insects, as well the potential to break down infectious bio-films that incubate devastating diseases.
The brilliant part about the Obama plan of action is how we as a society can use it: every science teacher in every school should feel compelled to read up on the simple procedure to extracting IMO's and create a course syllabus; apply to the Federal Government and receive funding to take your students out on field trips to gather biological cultures.
These cultures are harmless and by far outweigh through their humanitarian importance any other subject one might wish to teach this fall. Anyone can learn to create or extract beneficial bacteria, fungi or bacteria lactates.
The benefits to learning how to control pathogen and parasite transmission while enhancing human health is immeasurable, and the contribution to both science and Mother Earth are rewards no one else can give away but by Nature Herself - if for no other reason, than to honor those beneficial microbe practitioners who soldier on.♥
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