Alternative Medicine Digest3

In the course of her many years of research on blood composition, Dr. Livingston identified an organism common to the tissue of patients with scleroderma, tuberculosis, leprosy, and all types of cancer. It is a bacteria that is capable of changing its shape and size and evolving through a complex but describable series of forms, from the tiniest virus to something the size of a red blood cell. In fact, it is only temporarily a bacteria.

Dr. Livingston gave this organism the name Progenitor cryptocides and described it as the "ancestral hidden killer" and "a silent but lethal bloodstream infection." In doing so, Dr. Livingston challenged two of modern medicine's presumed unassailable tenets: that cancer is not caused by a bacteria and that bacteria cannot change shape.

Ever since Louis Pasteur's germ theory of illness gained prominence in the mid -1800s, bacteriology has been ruled by the assumption of monomorphism. This theory holds that microbes exist in single, unchanging shapes-"one form"-and cause disease by invading the body from the outside. Dr. Livingston's model is based on an alternate theory called pleomorphism, proposed at the same time as Pasteur's germ theory. Here the belief is that a single microbe can take on "many forms" and that microbes change their nature and activity while already inside the body and thereby produce disease.

Cancer is primarily caused by a parasitic microbe, normally dormant and found in all humans and animals from birth, Dr. Livingston reported in 1969, based on her 25 years of careful laboratory studies. Under healthy conditions, the immune system keeps the microbe latent, noninvasive, and in check. But the cancer microbe begins to change shape and become pathogenic as the host's immune system becomes weakened from poor diet, emotional stress, chemical toxins, infected foods, old age, or a predisposing genetic susceptibility.

Other factors include functional problems with the endocrine glands, alkaline blood pH, allergies, lowered vitality after infection, cell membranes that are too porous, and physical or psychological trauma, said Dr. Livingston. Given these factors, the immune system and the body's detoxifying systems can no longer cope and become dysfunctional.

Lucy Ritter, L.V.N.

Lucille Ritter, L.V.N., prepares a patient to receive intravenous vitamin C. Livingston patients typically take 8-10 g daily of oral vitamin C in divided doses, while doses of up to 40 g daily may be given intravenously.

These conditions make it possible for the organism to invade the cells in overwhelming numbers, secreting toxins and tumor-promoting substances. "The advanced cancer patient has many pleomorphic forms of the P. cryptocides in his or her blood in vast numbers due to the loss of immunity," Dr. Livingston said.

How did this mysterious bacteria get into the human body? Dr. Livingston points to poultry-chicken and eggs-as the probable source of primary infection. "Most of the chickens on the dining tables and barbecue grills of America today," she wrote in 1984, "have this pathogenic form of the P. cryptocides microbe, which I contend is transmissible to human beings."

Repeated consumption of "sick" chicken could initiate a cancer process in people with already weakened immune systems, Dr. Livingston speculated. Once inside the body, its usual habitat is the intestinal tract which acts as a reservoir of P. cryptocides, which circulates in the blood and "parasitizes" red and white blood cells.

This organism is a "great simulator," yet when you follow its developmental life cycle through all its transitional stages using darkfield microscopic analysis of live blood, "it can be identified as a single agent," stated Dr. Livingston. She never claimed to be the first discoverer of P. cryptocides, noting that it has been "an unclassified mystery" periodically rediscovered since the early 1800s.