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Unlocking the  mystery of  microzymas

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 Preamble
We are not yet at the stage of 'cracking' the mystery of microzymas. This will come one day perhaps.
What we are going to do today is to lift the veil that hides the microzymas discovered by Antoine
Béchamp (1816 -­‐ 1908).
These small ferments of life are at the base of all living matter, of all living organisms.
The microzyma is the element without which no matter can be alive.
The knowledge of microzymas allows us to understand living matter in its entirety, in all its
coherence.
The work that I am going to present to you could constitute a new approach to science for all
scientists who are attentive and curious.
We will make the link with recent discoveries.
Scientists are indeed rediscovering microzymas without knowing it.
This knowledge can only be of great help and could save them time.

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 Discovery of  microzymas  (1854)
In what is known as sugar interversion, the sugar is progressively replaced by 2 glucoses of opposite
rotatory powers.
Applying his credo "There is no chemical transformation without a provocative cause", Antoine
Béchamp sought the cause of this interversion when cold, whereas it normally occurs only in the
presence of acid, facilitated by an increase in temperature.
He discovered that it only occurred in the presence of moulds or « small bodies ».
He isolated a soluble substance, produced by moulds or small bodies, which caused this reversal.
He named the active substance « zymase ». He thus discovered zymases, which later became
enzymes.
He realised that these small bodies were the origin of moulds, and that they had been deposited
by the ambient air.
It was these small bodies that he later called microzymas.

The first step in alcoholic fermentation is this reversal of the sugar.

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 The  theory of  fermentation  (1857)

Moulds and « small bodies » are ferments, like yeast, that can ferment sugar and produce alcohol.
The root "zym" means "ferment": microzyma means "very small ferment".

Fermentation, according to Antoine Béchamp, is a physiological act of nutrition and occurs in two phases:
1. The ferment produces the zymase so that it modifies the medium to make it assimilable (sugar inversion)
2. The ferment feeds on it, assimilates and then de-­‐assimilates.
Alcohol and other fermentation products are therefore waste products!
He distinguished the soluble ferment (zymase) from the insoluble ferment that produces it, organised and
alive.
"There is no exception: everything that lives is organised, and everything that is organised is insoluble. »
It was this difference in properties that enabled him to separate and analyse the two.
And, importantly, he found that when he isolated zymase, it could not produce fermentation on its own (with
pure sugar -­‐ pure water), without the presence of the organised, living.

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 Description  of  microzymas
Antoine Béchamp has found these little ferments everywhere in the environment and
inside all living animal and plant organisms.
"To see them, all you have to do is take a fragment of an organ, an almond embryo, the
parenchyma of a leaf, a bit of liver, pancreas, thymus or kidney, a bit of egg yolk; With a scalpel
you lightly scrape the fragment in a little water on the microscope's slide, or you dilute a parcel
of egg yolk in a little water, cover the preparation with a thin slide and look carefully, under a
magnification of 500 diameters (objective 3, eyepiece 2, of Nachet), at the smallest thing in the
suitably illuminated field. In all preparations, these are very small spheres similar to those
described in air dust and in chalk. If the magnification is more considerable, you will discover in
them, as in those of the air, a brilliant centre and a shell."
They are some of the molecular granulations that scientists know about without assigning
them a role:
"Not all molecular granulations are microzymas, but all microzymas are molecular
granulations". "If we pay attention to them < the granulations >, we invariably find that they
present themselves with a shining centre, endowed with a certain mobility, a kind of trepidation,
back and forth movement. This bright spot, in a certain position, appears as a black spot, but
when it is in focus, one gets the idea of a sphere whose centre is bright with a dark outline. Most
of these granulations are less than a thousandth of a millimetre in diameter, but there are
some that are hardly half a thousandth of a millimetre ..."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-­‐coEy1eVaJM&t

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 Molecular granulations
This is how microzymas were seen and perceived by scientists in the days of Antoine
Béchamp and Louis Pasteur, and this has not changed. Essentially, they are seen as
amorphous granules.

"Molecular granulations had thus been noticed, some had even attributed to them a certain function in
the genesis of cells, but a completely mechanical function... M. Charles Robin ... in an article in the
Dictionary of Medicine and Surgery < by Littré and Robin>, ... gives the following description: "Molecular
granulations, ..., which are found either in suspension in all the humours of the body, or interposed in the
fibres of the tissues, or included in the substance of the cells, fibres or other anatomical elements, or
especially in many amorphous matters. They may be very abundant especially ..., in the normal medullary
tissue."
I add that in all the treatises and plates of histology and pathological anatomy, these granulations are
mentioned and drawn as a fine dust or in the main form of the drawing... It is even mentioned in the
genesis of cells... M. Robin finally recalls in this same dictionary that leucocytes and infusoria, while
decomposing, let out molecular granulations which offer a Brownian movement with the most intense
hopping, and which have sometimes, wrongly, he says, been considered as particular infusorial animals."
.../... (extract from the 3rd lecture)

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 Molecular granulations
" ... Not only do they play no role in histology, but nothing is known about their physiological or
chemical functions. ...
The discovery that I claim as my own is to have brought them out of their obscurity, to have
demonstrated :
That some of them are ferments of rare power, and consequently, that they are organised in the sense
of structure;
That they can, under certain conditions, evolve physiologically to generate other organisms,
and To have established that, under other conditions, they can reconstitute cells.
In short, it is not because they are animated by Brownian motion that I have concluded that they
are living and organised beings, but from all the facts that I am about to enumerate.
This is how he described his research on granulations in his book of more than 1000 pages, in
the form of lectures that he gave to medical students of the time.
You need to understand what a scientist Antoine Béchamp was. His statements cannot be taken
lightly.
"...I am, in scientific matters, like Boileau in matters of poetry
Make haste slowly; without losing courage, Twenty times on the job put back your work,
and I do not publish an experiment until I have remembered Lavoisier's precept twenty times...".

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 The  scientific approach
Lavoisier's advice and  method – (1st  lecture   of  the  book  "Les  Microzymas")

"Lavoisier admirably described this state of mind which leads so many scientists, today
as in the past, to reason about hypotheses as if they were proven truths.
"...it is not surprising, therefore, that in the physical sciences in general, suppositions have often
been assumed instead of concluded; that suppositions, handed down from age to age, have
become more and more imposing by the weight of the authorities they have acquired, and that
they have at last been adopted and regarded as fundamental truths, even by very good minds..."
The method which follows from these precepts consists in not paying lip service to the
idea; in not making gratuitous hypotheses; in never proceeding except from the known
to the unknown; in constantly taking experience as a guide, in constantly using it to
control the views of the mind; in considering the same objects for a long time in order
to see them from all their sides; in considering the same fact from all sides, from all
points of view, before concluding."

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 29  years dedicated to  microzymas
He found them everywhere in the air, in soils, in limestone, in plants, in animals, in humans.
He was able to extract these granulations, to observe them directly despite their extreme smallness
thanks to a powerful microscope (x700) for the time, enhanced by an immersion cell.
An excellent chemist, he was able to analyse them, check their function as ferments and their
capacity to multiply.
He noted differences in their chemical functions of fermentation according to the original vital
centre, and thus realised that they are specific to the original vital centre.
He found differences in their ability to produce bacteria.
Observed the differences also according to age from embryo to adult.
I would like to point out that these experiments were carried out as a precautionary measure,
protected from airborne germs, using the same proportions and the same conditions.
"After having noticed their presence in my cane sugar solutions as early as before 1857, I took 7 years to convince myself of
their independent existence, their functions and their organised nature. I then discovered them in the air, where no one, ... had
looked for them, ... Yet they were known, they were even described under the name of molecular granulations, amorphous
matter; but they were considered unimportant and without significance in the order of organization and functions in the
organism. They were nothing, and I dare to assure you that they are the whole of the organisation! ... "

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 Composition  of  microzymas
80%  water,  C-­‐H-­‐O-­‐N,  Minerals
Comparison of  the  content  of  the  components  of  different microzymas  with yeast :  

"The microzyma is organized, structured; it is

morphologically defined, to speak as Cl. Bernard; it is
endowed with multiple activities: chemical, physiological
and histological. ... the elementary composition of the
microzyma in the egg, in the liver, in the pancreas is more or
less close to that of brewer's yeast and of the albuminoid
substances. Immediate analysis reveals fats and minerals.
And a more detailed analysis of the microzymas of the hen's
egg yolk has revealed several albuminoid substances, one of
which is a zymase ......
The composition of microzymas in their physiological state
admits 80% water in their tissue.
They therefore satisfy all the conditions of life by their
composition.

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 The  microzyma  and  the  cell
Microzymas carry out the functions of our various vital centres, sheltered in cells that they have
built in order to preserve the ideal environment for carrying out their functions. They manage the
incoming and outgoing flows in order to maintain homeostasis.
"Microzymas summarise in themselves what is essential in the chemical functioning of a given cell or
mood.
What Antoine Béchamp means by this is the result of experiments on the chemical functions
performed by the microzymas.
These functions, in terms of fermentations, were those expected by the cells of the original vital
centre.
On their own, they are capable of performing the function of the vital centre from which they
were extracted.
The microzymas are permanent, the cells are only transitory.
The destruction of a cell reveals its original microzymas.
"The purpose of these lectures is to demonstrate that the vital, irreducible, physiologically indestructible
unit of which the cell itself is formed, is none other than the microzyma. It is the living form, reduced to its
simplest expression, having life in itself, without which life does not manifest itself anywhere .... In short,
the microzyma is the living unit per se; and this is what cannot be said of the cell.

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 The  importance  of  the  medium

There are as many media as there are functions.

The same microzymas, depending on the medium, will form different cells OR
different bacteria and other micro-­‐organisms.

According to Antoine Béchamp :

« It's all about the medium »
« The appearance of bacteria excludes the formation of cells proper, and vice versa »

(The notion of terrain is from Claude Bernard. It is not incompatible, it is a notion of general state. But the
physico-­‐chemical state of a terrain cannot be defined, unless the precise medium concerned is specified.)

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Obtained with a  magnification   of  650
Fig 1  :  free,  coupled (torula)   2-­‐ and  multi-­‐grain   Fig 2  :  termo bacterium and  different
microzymas  and  clusters  of  microzymas states  of  evolution of   microzymas

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 Fig 3  :  
a,  bacteria
b,  articulated bacteria
c,  head or  bright spot  bacteria

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 Fig 5  :  Mother   of  vinegar in  the  sweet yeast broth.  
Obtained with a  magnification   of  650 a:  developed and  free  cell
Fig 4  :  Bacteriads and  leptothrix b:  cell in  the  process of  forming in  the  membrane
c:  developed cell still committed to  the  membrane

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 Microzymas  and  micro-­‐organisms
As we have seen, depending on the medium, microzymas will form micro-­‐organisms...
We know how difficult it is for microbiologists to maintain a culture.
In a seminar, Didier Raoult explained the need to have real "cooking recipes" to produce a
precise culture. And he explains that it is very difficult to maintain the culture.
This is all the more understandable given that the medium is constantly evolving due to the
assimilation and de-­‐assimilation of micro-­‐organisms, which are ferments.
"We take them for parasites and turn them into genera and species" complains Antoine
Béchamp.
Monomorphism means attributing a species to a stable state of evolution.
The 'species' of the various micro-­‐organisms are in fact stages in the evolution of
microzymas according to the environment. This is what we call: microbial polymorphism

Seminar link :  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKntxhM6jug

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 Microbial polymorphism
Some examples:
One winter he looked under the microscope at a fat plant, part of which had been frozen. What did
he see?
In the frozen part: bacteria.
In the healthy part: granulations (visible at x700)
In the intermediate part: stages in the formation of bacteria from the granulations.
Analysis of the microzymas of the liver and their capacity to evolve into bacteria...
< mouse liver after 48h in a bottle of phenic water>... We find isolated microzymas, others associated in a
string; we see microzymas with a large and a small diameter, which progress in the manner of bacteria;
finally we also see true bacteria. Many are associated in linear groups of 2 or 3. Is it not obvious that these
are the various forms of the various phases of the evolution of microzymas?
It also notes:
"In a large number of trials, these bacteria appeared in the centre of the livers before being visible in the
surrounding fluid.
Jules Tissot noted the evolution of cultures according to the medium, confirming the microbial
polymorphism:
"I have demonstrated, in the most formal way, ..., that bacterial cultures are transformed into
hyphomycetes, that is to say, into mould cultures, when they are placed in conditions favourable to this
transformation. ... The opposite phenomenon also occurs..." (vol 2 page 5 « Constitution des organismes animaux et
végétaux … » 1936)

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 Origin of  living  organisms
"Microzymas  are  at  the  very root of  organisation:  without them there is no  
organisation  and  no  living  matter.

Antoine  Béchamp  observed the  origin of  birds in  detail,  from the  hen's ovary,  the  stages  of  egg
formation,  then in  the  egg itself,  the  development of  the  embryo (9th  lecture).
The  egg yolk,  vitellus,  corresponds  to  the  oocyte  of  mammals.
Scientists believe that beyond the  cell,  there is nothing organised.
He  says of  the  cell theory:
"Let  me  just say that there is something profoundly philosophical in  his conception  that must  be retained;  it is
the  notion  that what is alive  comes from what is already alive.  But  the  cell is not  what is alive  per  se;  it is,  on  
the  contrary,  something essentially provisional. »
He shows that the vital, permanent unit at the origin of all living organisms is the
microzyma, which is the only one present at the beginning of the egg's formation.

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 Notion  of  organisation
Shaken ostrich egg experiment (M. Donné -­‐ 9th lecture):
The shaken egg undergoes putrefaction by its microzymas (without evolution into bacteria)
originally contained in the yolk. Patience! It took 6 months. These are found at the end still
alive, the sugar has disappeared.
"Ah, certainly the egg is organised, skilfully organised. And how many precautions have been taken to ensure
that nothing naturally disturbs the admirable order that reigns there.
The embryologists have admirably described all these parts .......But after having noted these marvellous
arrangements, have they looked for what is endowed with transforming activity in the egg, what is really
alive, what weaves the cells, the tissues of the being that will come from it? And if they have looked for it,
have they recognised it? While waiting for me to answer these questions, let's ask ourselves what happens
when we scramble everything in the egg with strong shocks?
It happens that what in the divine plan was a premeditated arrangement, something structured, something built
for a certain purpose, has been destroyed; so that the things in the edifice which were intended to remain
separate have been confused; ...; subsequently the desired result is no longer achieved, although the necessary
matter is still present! So what has changed? The conditions: apparently little, but in reality the essential,
without which the material will remain sterile!
Yet, is what was capable of producing a chicken earlier, with its future, absolutely destroyed by having shaken
the egg? No doubt it is a corpse of an egg, to speak as Mr. Donné does; but in the chemical sense is it a corpse?
No, since an activity is manifested.»

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 The  circular movement of  matter
Antoine Béchamp or his colleague M. Estor explained in a congress in Montpellier in 1869:

"After death -­‐ and here we leave the field of pathology and enter that of the physiology of the species -­‐ matter must
return to its primitive state, for it has only been lent for a time to the living organised being. In recent times, an
excessive role has been given to the germs brought in by the air; the air may indeed bring them in, but they are not
necessary. The microzymas in the state of bacteria are sufficient to ensure, by putrefaction, the circular movement of
matter... The living being, filled with microzymas, thus carries within itself the essential elements of life, disease, death
and destruction. Gentlemen, let this diversity of results not surprise us too much, the processes are the same; our cells,
it is a fact of constant observation, are constantly destroying themselves, as a result of fermentations very similar to
those which follow death; by entering into the intimacy of the phenomena, one could really say, were it not for the
shocking character of the expression, that we are constantly putrefying ourselves. »
What do we find at the end of complete putrefaction? The microzymas, alone and still alive, having regained
the nature of an autonomous ferment that they have already exercised in putrefaction. They also exercise this
function during our lifetime to better renew us.
A mechanical destruction experiment of yeast reveals its microzymas.
The physiological death of a cell gives rise to the microzymas that made it up.
Microzymas are at the beginning and end of every living organism, they are permanent in that organism:
"Every living organism is reducible to the microzyma".
This is true of all living organisms, such as ferments and all the micro-­‐organisms from which they originate.

Video phage  enzyme  on  bacteria :  https://twitter.com/mICROBIOsh/status/1180480416580558849

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 Microzymas  from air,  soil....
Those found in the air, soil, limestone... are the remains of living animal and plant organisms that
have regained their autonomy.
Under natural conditions, they could be immortal, it is difficult to know. They can be destroyed by
heat in a variable way depending on their origin from 60°C, some resist up to 400°C, more often
around 100°C.
To extract and isolate them, Antoine Béchamp subjected them to aggressive treatments, such as
removing the fatty gangue surrounding the microzymas of the pancreas, without them losing their
properties and vivacity.
They can remain for a long time in a state of dormant ferments that reactivate when conditions are
favourable.
Do they retain the information of their origin?
They have a great capacity for adaptation and probably play an important role as cleaners,
fermenting (putrefying) organic waste, returning it to its mineral state.
They thus act on a larger scale, constantly re-­‐establishing a balance between the different kingdoms
on a planetary scale. (see the bacterial universe -­‐ Lynn Margulis)

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 Health and  disease states
"The microbes encountered in our diseases are produced by the unbalanced terrain of the patient,"
summarises Professor André Fougerousse.
Take the previous example of the frozen plant: the plant was sick, but the cause of the disease was
not the bacteria, but the cold that changed the conditions of the medium; the bacteria are only an
internal consequence.
The disease is primarily due to an imbalance that prevents the microzymas from performing their
function properly.
"Disease is in us and comes from us," says Béchamp. But the origin of the imbalance can be
external.
According to Antoine Béchamp, foreign microzymas would not develop in an organism, even if the
natural barriers were forced by an injection. In this case they could cause a "dyscrasia", i.e. an
imbalance to which the internal microzymas would react or not. The induced disease is not
necessarily the same.
Microbes are actually ferments, they are not parasites, they are not pathogenic. They could be
morbid but lose their morbidity very quickly.
Can there be contagion? This is not excluded. In this short phase of morbidity, can they cause this
internal "dyscrasia" without inoculation? Experiments on healthy people have been unsuccessful.

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 Sterility or  Impenetrability?

In our internal parts (excluding the digestive tract) we are not sterile, but populated by small
entities that work in harmony to operate and maintain our vital centres. But can we be invaded by
foreign micro-­‐organisms or are our natural barriers really effective, as long as they are not damaged
of course?
Example of an egg white infected by mould: The thin film that protects the yolk prevents it from
being invaded.
Why shouldn't our lungs be as well protected?
We can see that the intestines themselves are colonised without the bacteria of the intestinal
microbiota invading us.
The same is true of the vagina and the urinary system. Béchamp devotes a very interesting chapter
(12) to this system, in which we discover, among other things, that the bacteria that develop in a
urinary infection are an early development of urine microzymas due to an internal imbalance. In no
way is it an external invasion.
As long as our natural barriers are healthy, there is an impenetrability of microorganisms.

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 The  theory of  organisation  and  life
This is the name of Antoine Béchamp's theory, which is a real paradigm shift that I will try to summarise in a
few points:

• Microbes, which are mistaken for parasites, are in fact ferments.

• These ferments and the cells have the same origin, a life ferment, the Microzyma, transmitted by descent,
present at the beginning and end of any living animal or vegetable organism, without which there can be no
living matter.
• They are specific to a living organism and even to the original vital centre, having acquired their specificity
during their maturation.
• It is an imbalance in the environment that provokes a reaction of the microzymas which can associate and
evolve into bacteria by going through different stages. This is microbial polymorphism.
• What is observed as a species (monomorphism) is only a stage of evolution of the microzymas according to
the medium.
• These same ferments are found at the end of the putrefaction they carry out, still alive.
• The microbes found in the air, soil, water, limestone, etc. are the remains of living organisms that return to
life as autonomous ferments.

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 Conclusion:  a  little philosophy

Whatever our religion, whatever our philosophy, we cannot deny that we are something
other than a simple body, magnificently organised by our life ferments to whom we do not
facilitate the task, if you have understood correctly.
Microzymas are the source of living matter.
Living matter has been lent to us for a lifetime.
It continues its earthly life after us.
« Nothing  is the  prey of  death.  Everything is the  prey of  life »
Antoine  Béchamp  

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 Microzymas  and  contemporary science
How does contemporary science miss this essential element, without which there would be no
living matter on earth?
Researchers are specialised; it's not easy for them to get an overview, a perspective. But they are
well and truly rediscovering microzymas:
• Some people are discovering nanobots in nature.
• Exosomes, extracellular vesicles (EVs), are being discovered inside living organisms, and more and
more properties are being discovered. E.g.: publication of September 2022:
« Moreover,  EVs have  been  implicated in  important  processes,  such as  immune  responses,  homeostasis maintenance,  
coagulation,  inflammation,  cancer  progression,   angiogenesis,  and  antigen presentation.   Thus ,  Evs participate in  both
physiological and  pathological progression. »
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/363625357_Characteristics_of_culture-­‐
condition_stimulated_exosomes_or_their_loaded_hydrogels_in_comparison_with_other_extracellular_vesicles_or_MS
C_lysates
• Others are interested in the spores of bacteria as their "dormant" form. Pubmed Feb 2022 :
« Bacterial spores are the most dormant form of bacteria since they exhibit minimal metabolism and respiration, as well
as reduced enzyme production. »
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32310531/

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 A  sterile pathway
Concerning the purely internal parts of our organisms (i.e. outside the digestive tract), scientists continue to
reason in terms of sterility, whereas even in Béchamp's time the experiments all led to the same results:
In the absence of the influence of germs in the air, bacteria develop within materials taken from living
organisms, showing life in us and not sterility.
Subsequent interpretations of observed facts have always tried to adhere to this dogma of sterility. At no time
is a micro-­‐organism considered as being able to be SELF:
Over time, inconsistencies become normal. Numerous examples:
1. Any microbe encountered in an organism is considered foreign (NOT SELF)
2. Microbial genes that are useful to our cells are considered symbiotic because of this.
3. The recent discovery of an internal microbiome should have raised questions. But no, we continue to
think in the same way, asking ourselves: How did this microbiome get in? In other words, it cannot be
from the SELF according to the established reasoning.
4. The causality of a microbe in a disease is accepted and even the first cause sought, whereas
• some sick people do not carry the gene
• others without symptoms carry it.
• The genes are systematically different from one patient to another.
All these inconsistencies in the course of discovery should arouse the attention of researchers. On the contrary,
they get used to it, consensus becomes normality.

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 Starting afresh
The best thing would be to start again from the work of Béchamp (and his team) with modern
means.
But beware of the habits of thought: we have to accept that we are not just a sum of chemical
functions and that the living in us is undoubtedly there to organise us, to animate us.
And we don't know anything about genes compared to microzymas. I found two interesting
publications on this subject:
1. Could microzymas  be producers of  our genes?  This  publication  shows  the  self-­‐assembly of  DNA  
from 'Béchamp'  granules  in  the  yolk:  
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0968432813001017?via%3Dihub
2. The latter warns of risks in the detection of nano-­‐organisms when they would carry multiple
characteristics:
« Any microbiological classification of tentative nanoorganisms, such as nanobacteria proposed by Kajander and
Ciftcioglu (6) and nanobes proposed by Uwins et al. (8), is difficult because they are not typical bacteria. They
have also virus-­‐, fungus-­‐, and prion-­‐like characteristics and thus cannot fit into any existing class of
microorganisms ... They should be considered as their own entity. »
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC165317/
This is all the more interesting from the point of view of microbial polymorphism.

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 Outstanding issues
How can we distinguish the SELF, specific to the organism, from the NON-­‐SELF, foreign?
Is a phylogenetic tree of the genes of a single individual feasible and would this tree show an identity mark of the individual and
the vital centre of origin of the gene?
If they produce the genes, are there microzymas without genes?
Deep chemical transformations in organisms are explained by enzymes. But don't we think that
enzymes play a more important role than they are actually capable of, that only living elements,
ferments, are able to accomplish?
Eduard Büchner (in 1897) asserted that the yeast enzyme could carry out alcoholic fermentation
"on its own", in isolation, in the absence of the yeast, and yet he only carried out this fermentation
by "adding" a sedimentary rock.
At no time does it occur to him that the added rock might contain the ferment that is essential to
the achievement of profound chemical transformations such as fermentation.
Could the basic experiments demonstrating metabolism have neglected some living granules,
because they were deemed amorphous, carrying out deep chemical transformations that were
attributed to enzymes alone or to some structure (mitochondria, ribosome) left over from a
bacterial network destroyed by the electron microscopy fixation technique? The question arises.

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 The  way of  the  living

Could this globally coherent theory, based on a solid approach, finally enable science to
embark on a new path, that of the living being in its global understanding?
I hope so and I hope that this transmission will awaken scientists and make them want to
go deeper into the subject.
This is the objective I have set myself in making this presentation.

I would like to thank you

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