An excerpt from our interesting interview (some of which is on the video clip, other parts are not):

“…Chronic diseases used to be these black holes where doctors used to treat the patient just to keep him comfortable. It has become clear that even some chronic diseases that we didn’t think were linked to infectious pathogens now has a infectious pathogen component to them. Chronicity seems to be very different from what we see with acute infections, and we will probably touch on this later, but it seems that the type of bacteria that cause chronic infections are a genetically different type of bacteria from what we see in our acute infections.

One of the other things that we’re seeing with chronic diseases is that they’re mostly caused by polymicrobial agents. In other words, it’s not just one bacterium that is causing these chronic infections. You could have 2 or 3 or 10 bacterial organisms or probably viruses and fungi that are involved in chronic diseases.

And so essentially what you’re looking at is an individual has an infectious organism in their blood or in their body and their tissues in any part and, over time, they’re not able to clear it. It clearly means this pathogen has found a way to evade the immune system, and that’s really what chronicity is: that, over time, whatever the infectious agent is, it has been able to outsmart the immune system, outdo the immune system in some way so that, over time, one develops a set of infectious bacteria that live in certain areas, organs, tissues of the body.

The body now either sees as self or resolves not to, to take them out, and so, over time, what happens is that our immune systems don’t get any better with age, or with time, and as our immune systems deteriorate, these pathogens take over more and more of the real estate that they have co-opted, and when that happens, the pathology that is associated with chronic diseases shows itself.

Now, one of the challenges at this point in time is which bacteria or which group of bacteria do you target as the cause of this chronic infection, and that is why chronic infections are so difficult to treat. This is one of the reasons why they are so complicated for many clinicians; because it is very difficult to find out what the true etiology of these infections are, and, at the same time, maybe these patients have developed several other complications over time, maybe totally unrelated to the bacteria that were present, but compounded, these conditions lead to debilitations that these patients find, find it very hard to overcome…”