Antoine Béchamp

nothing lost create transform prey death life

"Nothing is lost, nothing is created all is transformed. Nothing is the prey of death. All is the prey of life."

— Antoine Béchamp (1816-1908)

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"The most serious disorders may be provoked by the injection of living organisms into the blood, into a medium not intended for them, may provoke redoubtable manifestations of the gravest morbid phenomena."

— Antoine Béchamp (1816-1908)

cause disease health

"The primary cause of disease is in us, always in us."

— Antoine Béchamp (1816-1908)

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"all natural organic matters (matters that once lived), absolutely protected from atmospheric germs, invariably and spontaneously alter and ferment, because they necessarily and inherently contain within themselves the agents of their spontaneous alteration, digestion, dissolution".

— Antoine Béchamp (1816-1908)

microbe disease symptom cause

"The characteristic microbe of a disease might be a symptom instead of a cause."

— Antoine Béchamp (1816-1908)

microzyma bacteria cellular organization

"As the microzymas of the destroyed bacteria are also living, it follows that these microzymas are the living end of all cellular organization which in turn, turn into all living things, beings, organs everything. They are the end and the beginning of all physical life. All cells, organs, all living forms are built from these 'little bodies'."

— Antoine Béchamp (1816-1908)

life secret enzymes fermentation nutrition

"Rather, living organization, Life, is characterized by the property of producing and secreting enzymes, each according to the nature of its species; and the production of the chemical-physiological phenomena of transformations called fermentation, acid base, which are facts of nutrition, that is to say, of digestion followed by absorption, assimilation, disassimilation, and so forth, and finally the ability to reproduce itself if all conditions dependent upon nutrition are fulfilled."

— Antoine Béchamp (1816-1908)

death cell life substance

"What happens after the death of a cell? The above prove that the littlest form of the Lebendssubstanz, Life substance, is not destructible. Robert Mayer proved the law of the maintenance of energy so that no energy can disappear without a trace. What happens to the power source that made the cell as an expression of or only as the carrier of the living substance? Because the living substance is distinguished fundamentally by the inanimate matter, one cannot let it theoretically pass over also into inanimate matter without an essential characteristic loss.."

— Antoine Béchamp (1816-1908)