Let me tell you a little secret they’re hoping you never hear: your body is a lot smarter than your doctor gives it credit for. It’s a self-cleaning, self-healing masterpiece, if you give it the tools it needs. And if you get out of its way. But of course, giving your body what it needs and getting out of the way doesn’t generate a fat monthly dividend check for Big Pharma. And we can’t have that, can we?
Kidney Stones: The Human Pearl
Now this one might surprise you. Picture an oyster. What happens when a grain of sand gets in? It gets coated, layer by layer, until a pearl forms. Well, turns out your kidneys might be doing the same thing. Only instead of sand, we’re talking about something far stranger—nano-bacteria.
Yep. In 1998, researchers cracked open a kidney stone and found a tiny surprise inside: a living, ultra-small bacterium, so small it was once considered “impossible.” At just 11 nanometers, way below what was thought to be the functional limit for life, it’s alive and irritating. And your body, in all its wisdom, does the same thing an oyster does. It coats the invader in layers of minerals. Voila! A kidney stone.
In the late 1990s and early 2000s, scientists discovered nanobacteria—ultra-small particles (measuring 10 to 200 nm) that can self-propagate and build calcium phosphate shells around themselves.
Back in the day, if you had told a room full of scientists about bacteria that small, they’d have laughed you out the door. Same way they used to teach us atoms had just three parts. That’s what they knew… right up until they started smashing atoms and found out they were stuffed full of more parts than a Swiss watch.
Fast forward: one high-impact study concluded kidney stones might be an infectious nanobacterial disease, “analogous to Helicobacter pylori infection”. In fact, nanobacteria nucleate carbonate apatite crystals right on their surface, just the mineral your kidney tries to wall off. Even spaceflight studies flagged nanobacteria as risky, potentially explaining kidney stones in astronauts.
What else are they wrong about?
Gallstones and Brain Fog, Maybe Not So Mysterious After All
Gallstones might have a similar story. And the plot thickens: a beneficial bacterium in your gut, Oxalobacter formigenes, actually reduces calcium‑oxalate kidney stones by digesting oxalate before it crystallizes. Coincidence? Or a pipeline for natural stone defense?
Dr. Phillip Hylemon over at the Virginia Medical College believes common bacteria like Clostridia and Eubacteria may be the starting point for these stones, too. Same basic idea: something the body doesn’t like gets walled off in layers. You end up with something that looks like a rock and feels like a railroad spike if it tries to leave the body.
Bacteria in the Brain: Alzheimer’s as Infection?
It gets even darker when you look at Alzheimer’s disease. A group at Wayne State School of Medicine did some digging (literally) and found that Chlamydia pneumoniae bacteria were present in the brains of 27 out of 29 Alzheimer’s victims. That’s not a coincidence. They even managed to culture live bacteria from those brain samples. And out of 18 people who died of other causes, only one had the bug in their brain.
Later work confirmed the bug’s presence in key Alzheimer-affected areas, and hinted that people with the risky APOE ε4 gene carried even more of it. That’s not slim: that’s statistical power screaming “something’s up!”
So, is Alzheimer’s caused by bacteria? Maybe. But who’s going to fund research into that if there’s no patentable pill at the end?
Magnetic Fields and the Patent Problem
Meanwhile, while they tell us to trust only what’s FDA-approved and rubber-stamped by a committee of well-lobbied “experts,” magnets are quietly healing people. Magnetic healing isn’t woo; it’s patented science.
We’re talking cancer treatment, bone fusion, cell regeneration, even blood cleansing. One patent even documents using magnets to lower blood sugar, and another to eliminate pathogens in the bloodstream.
Other patents include EMF devices for tissue repair at 0.05–0.5 gauss, triggering faster healing in mammals. NASA’s Johnson Space Center invented a PEMF device to regenerate cartilage non‑invasively.
One patent uses magnetic bone cement with nanoparticles for targeted hyperthermia, heating up and killing bone‑cancer cells. MagForce in Europe has clinical approval and is FDA-pending for iron‑oxide nanoparticle hyperthermia, actively treating tumors with magnetic heat.
That magnetic blanket? Not just fluff, it’s a low-grade EMF sleeve at work. And patents tell you there’s science behind it. But that’s not what they want you focused on. No, they want you hooked on monthly refills and insurance deductibles.
Why You’ll Never Hear This on the Evening News
Here’s why none of this is mainstream: if folks figured out how to handle kidney stones, gallstones, Alzheimer’s, cancer, and chronic infections on their own, the whole medical industry would take a financial nosedive. Hospitals would empty. Oncologists would be forced to find honest work. Drug reps would need a new script to sell. And the pension problem governments fear would get a whole lot worse because, brace yourself, people might live longer than 65. You think they want that? They don’t even want you thinking about that. So, they bury it. Carb-loaded processed lunch, handful of pills, repeat.
What You Can Actually Do
Now, don’t go getting mad unless you’re going to do something with it. Because out of all the people who read this, only a sliver of you will make a change. But if you’re one of the few who’s ready to take control of your health and give your body a fighting chance, start simple.
If you’re not just reading, you’re acting, here’s your starter kit:
- Support your gut: feed it Oxalobacter formigenes and its microbial friends. Probiotic, fermented foods—and most importantly, avoid antibiotics unless absolutely necessary.
- Colloidal silver: yes, still worth a daily splash. It’s not about a miracle; it’s about tipping the microbial balance.
- Try PEMF or magnetic blankets. Science is behind them. Look for those 0.05–0.5 gauss sleeves or NASA-style PEMF pads.
- Question aggressively. Ask your doctor: “What about nanobacteria? What about bacterial Alzheimer’s? What about magnetic therapy?” Keep them honest.
Don’t be afraid to ask your health provider the weird questions. Some of the greatest health truths on Earth were once considered “impossible.” Like a living microbe hiding in a kidney stone. Or the idea that your body might know what it’s doing better than a billion-dollar industry.
Stay skeptical. Stay curious. And whatever you do, don’t wait for permission to get well.
– Herb Roi Richards