Derek

A doctor drank a petri dish of bacteria to prove every expert wrong. He won the Nobel Prize. In 1982, every doctor on earth knew stomach ulcers were caused by stress and spicy food. Patients were put on antacids for life. Zantac alone was a billion-dollar drug. Nobody questioned it. Then Barry Marshall and Robin Warren found a spiral bacterium called H. pylori living in the stomachs of ulcer patients. They said bacteria caused ulcers. The medical establishment laughed. Bacteria can't survive in stomach acid. Papers rejected. Mocked at conferences. So in 1984, Marshall drank a broth of H. pylori. Within days he was vomiting with severe gastritis. He biopsied his own stomach and proved the bacteria were there, destroying the lining. Then he cured himself with a two-week course of antibiotics. A two-week course of pills replaced a lifetime of antacids. The cure was cheaper than the disease. And that was the problem. The antacid industry was worth billions. A cheap cure was bad for business. It took a decade for the medical establishment to accept what Marshall had already proven with his own body. In 2005, Marshall and Warren won the Nobel Prize in Medicine. Millions of ulcer patients are now cured with antibiotics instead of managed with pills for life. He poisoned himself to save millions. They called him crazy. Follow the money. Question everything. #NSNG #NoSugarNoGrains #QuestionEverything #FollowTheMoney #BigPharma