In this episode Nigel Howitt and Dr Zach Bush discuss the new health paradigm that is emerging as a result of joining all the dots of the latest scientific medical discoveries while reminding ourselves of the broader context. The first point to note is that these days it is absolutely necessary to think outside the box and to ask root cause questions to achieve health. It is no longer satisfactory to just go along with what ever your Medical Doctor (or GP) says, because he is increasingly likely to be misinformed, if well intentioned.

Dr Zach Bush is one of the few triple board-certified physicians in the country – with expertise in Internal Medicine, Endocrinology and Metabolism, and Hospice/Palliative care. The breakthrough science that Dr. Bush and his colleagues have delivered offer profound new insights into human health and longevity. In 2012 he discovered a family of carbon-based redox molecules made by bacteria. He and his team subsequently demonstrated that this cellular communication network functions to compensate for glyphosate, and many other dietary, chemical, and pharmaceutical toxins that disrupt our body’s natural defense systems. This science has resulted in a revolutionary class of dietary supplements, including the product, RESTORE.

A very brief history of medicine

A few hundred years ago it was common place to see excrement in the streets. There were no flushing toilets or running water in most cities. We learned of the necessity for clean water and sanitation, and now diseases like Cholera and Typhoid are no longer a part of everyday life. Joseph Lister (1827 – 1912) was a British surgeon and a pioneer of antiseptic surgery. He promoted the idea of sterile surgery while working at the Glasgow Royal Infirmary. His ideas brought us up-to-date with the need to keep wounds clean. Then in 1928 Alexander Fleming discovered penicilin and there began the age of antibiotics and the mass “bacteriacide” that has ensued ever since.

In 1953 Francis Crick (1916-2004) and James Watson (born 1928 and now aged 89) identified the structure of DNA and went on to win the nobelpeace prize in 1962. It was now trumpeted as all being in the DNA! The human genome project enthusiastically set about mapping our genes expecting to find about 200,000 genes since that is the approxomate number of proteins making up the human body. They found only about 20,000. This should have been BIG news, but the mainstream paid little attention.

Epigenetics is the study of heritable changes in gene function that do not involve changes in the DNA sequence. It emerged as the science of how the environment influences the coding of our genetic expression by switching on and off specific genes. Much of what was once considered ‘junk DNA’ is also responsible for switching genes on or off as well.

In the early 2000’s there were advances in technology allowing the identification of microbes and bacteria enabling the mapping of the human gut microbiome. It was discovered in California Universities that various bacterial profiles correlated with particular diseases and cancers. A link between health and the microbiome was established.

The point of all this is that mainstream medicine (the allopathic model) has been totally sold on germ theory and has swung way too far in the direction of killing all known germs dead. The truth that is currently being uncovered by innovating and pioneering doctors like Zach Bush is that we need these microbes. We depend on them. Yes keep the water clean and practice basic hygiene, yes keep wounds clean, but dont go killing bacteria and other microbes indiscriminately.

New discoveries made by Dr Zach Bush

In 2012 Zach Bush discovered redox signalling molecules in soil and made the link that bacteria are making these molecules that are crucial for cell to cell communication and absolutely key to human health because ...