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The Nanobacteria Revolution
by author Zoltan P. Rona, MD, MSc

Are heart disease, dental plaque, kidney stones, and a host of other calcium-deposit diseases really caused by an infection? Research in the past decade suggests that diseases in which calcium accumulates inappropriately in the body (i.e., outside of your bones) may be caused by a bacterial infection.

The Discovery of Nanobacteria

More than a decade ago, researchers in Australia discovered that stomach and duodenal ulcers were caused by a bacterium called Helicobacter pylori. Antibiotic therapy successfully eliminated the infection, and ulcers healed dramatically, yet it took conventional medicine more than 10 years to accept H. pylori as the cause of ulcers. Prior to widespread acceptance of H. pylori, conventional doctors blamed stress and hyperacidity, ignoring the most effective treatment against ulcers.

Similarly, since 1990 there has been mounting evidence that abnormal calcification may be caused by a bacterial organism about 1/100 the size of a conventional bacterium, called Nanobacterium sanguineum (“nano” is the Latin word for very small or minute). While other microbes like Chlamydia and assorted fungi have been implicated in the development of abnormal calcification, research indicates that the more likely cause may be nanobacteria.

Researchers E. Olavi Kajander and Neva Ciftcioglu discovered in 1995 that nanobacteria secrete a sticky, calcium-rich coating that allows them to adhere to cells inside artery walls and to each other. The coating then calcifies into a shell, protecting the bacteria from the immune system as well as all antibiotics, radiation, and even chemotherapy. An inflammatory cascade is initiated in the artery or organ that ultimately forms hard calcific plaque. The plaque layers continually grow over a period of years, eventually leading to blood vessel or organ disease. Due to their small size, nanobacteria slip through conventional filters and can contaminate vaccines and other biological treatments.

The Calcium Bomb

A newly published book, The Calcium Bomb: The Nanobacteria Link to Heart Disease and Cancer by Douglas Mulhall and Katja Hansen (Midpoint Trade Books, 2004) provides a comprehensive list of health conditions reversed by killing off nanobacteria:

• aortic valve sclerosis
• bladder stones
• bone spurs
• breast implant calcification
• calcium deposits in the skin (calcinosis cutis)
• kidney stones
• prostatic stones.

The authors contend that “no diet, drug, or therapy has shown clinical trial evidence of reversing every measurable indicator of heart disease, including inflammation, clotting, and soft and hard plaques that contain calcium deposits.” They claim that this is because nanobacteria are the cause of calcium deposits–and conventional medicine isn’t treating patients for nanobacteria. Studies discussed in The Calcium Bomb indicate that nanobacteria are found in human blood; they reproduce much more slowly than most viruses and bacteria; and they can be observed and cultured from the blood of healthy humans using special methods.

Ignored by Conventional Doctors

The idea that bacteria could be responsible for abnormal calcification in arteries, tissues, and organs is a very difficult concept to grasp in the context of a medical system that focuses on drugs and surgeries that treat the symptoms more often than the causes of disease. Most medical doctors believe that the cause of abnormal calcification is, as yet, unexplained.

Conventional doctors believe that blood is sterile, despite studies in the past decade that suggest otherwise. Dark field microscopy and various blood culturing techniques have demonstrated the presence of numerous bacteria and fungi circulating in the bloodstreams of healthy people, including Bartonella, Brucella, and Candida. Researchers have been able to isolate nanobacteria from coronary artery disease plaque and have observed kidney stones in animals exposed to nanobacteria. However, instead of ridding the body of nanobacteria, the posited cause of the calcium deposits, conventional medical practice is to perform bypass surgery.

The Four Criteria

Conventional medicine requires that four criteria, called Koch’s postulates (or Koch’s laws), be met in order to prove that, for example, an organism like H. pylori is the cause of peptic ulcers. In nanobacterial infections, these four postulates have also been met:

Zoltan P. Rona, MD, MSc, has a private medical practice in Toronto and is the best-selling author of Return to The Joy of Health (alive Books, 2002). Visit highlevelwellness.ca.

Source: alive #271, May 2005