The Fungus Link, Volume 1  - Doug Kaufmann

Preface

In 1996, Dr. David Holland and I were busy gathering data to confirm our suspicions that what we had been observing clinically had scientific validity. For the previous 25 years, I had been able to assist people with many diseases and symptoms by addressing a germ that physicians had completely missed in their diagnoses. There are today approximately 80 documented autoimmune diseases, each one without an etiological basis (known cause). Scientists have no idea what causes the heart attacks and cancers that kill one million people annually. In medicine, the word “germ” is often used synonymously with the word “bacteria.” This, in a small way, illustrates the confusion regarding the causes of disease among even the brightest medical practitioners and scientists. 

So it is that the first book we know of to implicate fungus as the cause of debilitation and death has been completed. As you peruse these pages, know that this work includes scientific notation and confirmation of the hypothesis that disease does have a known pathogen and is not bacterial in every instance! 

I suppose the invention of antibiotics was viewed as revolutionary by those in 1950s science. Our brightest, best scientists concluded that we had finally defeated the germs responsible for causing sickness and disease. If this were true, 1955 should have been a banner year in science. Certainly those millions who took antibiotics in that five year time span were now less vulnerable to common maladies. If not, they reasoned, then perhaps more antibiotics would permanently fix them. I have often used the analogy of calcium intake and osteoporosis in America to prove my point before surrendering to the notion that antibiotics were not the magic bullet hoped for. If osteoporosis were due to calcium deficiency,Americans would never have osteoporosis. Today, celebrity white moustaches abound, beckoning us to drink more milk! Between the calcium supplements we throw down our throats and the amount of milk that we drink, our bones should never become fragile! 

Yet the opposite is true in each of these situations. Osteoporosis is striking more Americans than ever before in history, despite dairy intake and calcium supplementation. Bacteria continue to elude even the best antibiotics, despite the billions of dollars of pharmaceutical research. Unless the etiology (cause) of a disease is identified, all the supplements and drugs in the world may be for naught.
Early in the year 2000, researchers discovered that the density of the bones of laboratory mice improved up to 50 percent 

when they were given cholesterol-lowering drugs. It is even more important to note that cholesterol-lowering drugs are antifungal medications. That brings us full circle.
This book is a compilation of data originally published from 1997 to 1999 in our newsletter,The Fungazette. TheFungus Link is designed to help our readers locate the possible cause of their health maladies. It seems an especially lonely existence when you are sick and no one knows why. This book does not replace the diagnosis, prognosis, or treatment that your health care practitioner can provide. But it is my hope that, in time, the competency at diagnosing fungal disease will improve. I can assure you that will happen if medical protocol will call for proper diet and antifungal herbs or medicines for their difficult patients. There is nothing more convincing than observing life threatening diseases frequently respond favorably to simple antifungal therapy. 

This book is dedicated to...
...the living and deceased patients erroneously diagnosed with a serious disease when all the while they were actually suffering from an undiagnosed, fungal condition 

...and the open-minded physicians who help the sick and prevent pain, suffering and death by treating every symptom and disease for which we do not know the cause as though it were induced by fungi.
Your peers will scoff, but your patients will flourish.

About Doug Kaufmann

Doug Kaufmann is a nationally recognized author, lecturer, television and radio show host, with more than 30 years of experience in diversified health care. 

Kaufmann served as a Navy hospital corpsman in Vietnam, where he was honored with the Combat Action Ribbon, Vietnamese Cross of Gallantry and the Vietnam Service Medal, one bronze star.
After Vietnam, Kaufmann added an American Society of Allergy Technicians certification to his Navy training. While working in al-lergy/immunology with a Los Angeles specialist, he studied food allergies at the Washington University School of Medicine. He coinvestigated several research papers with doctors at USC Medical School. Later, he opened a laboratory and staffed it with four, research immunologists focused on food and fungal research. The lab devised the first ELISA tests for food allergy, and it conducted significant research aimed at better understanding the food-disease link. 

A group of Texas physicians recruited Kaufmann in 1987. During subsequent research in Dallas, he saw many patients with various, apparently incurable diseases responded favorably to dietary changes and antifungal drugs.
Kaufmann began broadcasting his findings in nutrition on Texas radio in 1992. His “At A Glance” vignettes continue to be broadcast daily by more than 200 radio stations. He transitioned to television in 1999, as host of the nationally broadcast program, Your Health. The show empowers its viewers to take possession of their own health. Your Health is currently broadcast in more than 160 cities throughout the United States.
Kaufmann’s other books include The Food Sensitivity Diet (1984), The Germ That Causes Cancer(2002), andInfectious Diabetes(2003). Each book offers an alternative viewpoint to prevailing medical thought on the diagnosis and treatment of disease. 

Currently, Kaufmann and Dr. Holland devote most of their time to research and writing, and holding seminars on their findings throughout the United States.
Kaufmann and his wife, Ruth, have been married for more than 20 years. They live with their two sons in a Dallas suburb

About Dr. David Holland, M.D.

David Holland is the Medical Communications Director at MediaTrition, Inc. He works documenting the roles fungi and fungal toxins play in common, human illnesses, and communicating his findings to the medical community. 

Dr. Holland holds a B.S. in Microbiology from Texas Tech University. Since obtaining his M.D. from Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center in 1993, he has worked in primary care, urgent care, occupational and nutritional medicine. He is a Diplomat of the American Board of Family Practice, as well as the American Board of Ambulatory Medicine. 

Dr. Holland joined Doug Kaufmann in operating a nutritional medicine clinic in Dallas, Texas in 1996. He went on to complete his residency at John Peter Smith Hospital in Ft. Worth, Texas in 2002, and is currently Board Certified in Family Practice. 

Dr. Holland is married with two children. He stays in shape by jogging and running in the occasional marathon. 

Patrick Kwan, MSc. received his BSc. in Microbiology from the University of California, Riverside. He graduated with an MSc. from Oregon State University. Mr. Kwan is a founding member of Diversified Research, the largest food laboratory in Canada. For 13 years, he was a senior consultant to George Weston, Ltd., the largest retail food chain in Canada. 

Milt Gearing, Ph.D. received his doctorate in clinical psychology from the University of South Carolina. Dr. Gearing was formerly director of Psychological Services, Charter Hospital, Dallas.
Nathan L. Lipton, M.D. is a Fellow of the American Academy of Ophthalmologists, and Diplomate of the American Board of Ophthalmology. 

C. R. Mabray, M.D. is a Fellow of the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.
Richard Becker, D.O. has spent 15 years in family practice. He received his B.A. in biochemistry from Loma Linda University, a world leader in nutritional therapies, and his graduate degree from the Health Science College of Osteopathic Medicine, Kansas City, Missouri. Dr. Becker is a Hodgkins lymphoma survivor. He follows Doug Kaufmann’s nutritional approach to the treatment of cancer