"After years of study, Bechamp came to the conclusion that these microzymas were more basic to life than cells. Even with his crude equipment, he was able to observe that the microzymas underwent dramatic transformations during their life cycle. This caused Bechamp to champion the idea that the cause for disease lay within the body. Pasteur's germ theory held that the cause came from without. Pasteur's outspokenness helped the germ theory win out and it has dominated medical thinking for the past century.
Now, a hundred years later, Gaston Naessens has discovered an ultra-microscopic, subcellular, living and reproducing microscopic form which he christened a "somatid" (tiny body). This new particle could be cultured outside the bodies of the host. Naessens also observed that the particle had a pleomorphic (form-changing) life cycle, which has sixteen stages. Only the first three stages of the somatid's life cycle are normal.
Naessens discovered that when the immune system is weakened or disrupted, the somatids go through the other thirteen stages. The weakening of the immune system could be brought about by a number of causes, such as exposure to chemical pollution, ionising radiation, electric fields, poor nutrition, accidents, shock, depression, and many more."
http://customers.hbci.com/~wenonah/new/naessen.htm
"Clark claimed that all cancers and many other diseases are caused by “parasites, toxins, and pollutants” and can be cured by killing the parasites and ridding the body of environmental chemicals."
https://quackwatch.org/related/Cancer/clark/
"While researching with his microscopes, Rife observed that viruses “are released from bacteria just as a chicken lays an egg”. He also observed the pleomorphic nature of viruses. One virus form could change into another virus form, and back into its original form, depending upon the medium in which it grew"
https://art2zen.net/rife-technology/
"Dr. Linus Pauling, stated "You can trace every sickness, every disease and every ailment to a mineral deficiency.""
http://www.thetruthaboutfoodandhealth.com/healtharticles/orthomolecular-psychiatry-medicine-linus-pauling.html
"If the environment in the body becomes toxic, polluted, or doesn’t have the nutrients it requires to maintain health these “tiny dots” hook together into long threads and change into the viruses, bacteria and finally the fungi (candida albicans)"
https://www.healingnaturallybybee.com/the-somatid-cycle-of-life-by-naessens/
"Research has demonstrated that the virus-like particles present in tumours and the blood of cancer patients are actually filtrable (pleomorphic) bacteria in their diseased phase. The cancer-causing Rous “virus” first isolated in 1911 is now known to be a classical bacterium. It produces both DNA and RNA and, like other pathogenic micro-organisms, has been cultured on slides outside the host. Despite the repeated demonstration many times since Bechamp of pleomorphism and the endogenous (internal) source of disease-causing bacteria, modern medicine remains as resistant as ever to testing the clinical applications of this body of knowledge"
"Naessens’s somatid is an elementary, sub-cellular and pleomorphic particle (analogous to Bechamp’s “microzymia” or Wilhelm Reich’s “bion”) present in all biological liquids and especially in blood, with a potentially variable life cycle comprising 16 separate stages in all. The first three stages (somatid-spore-double spore) are seen in the blood of all individuals. Whether or not these bacteria will then devolve further into their pathogenic forms is determined by the integrity of the internal environment"
"The mainstream study of pleomorphism would necessitate profound changes in the entire field of bacteriology and in the clinical treatment of cancer, AIDS and other degenerative diseases. Since it would also expose and threaten a vast, interdependent web of vested interests in the medico-industrial complex, it continues to be unscrupulously suppressed. Pleomorphism has been proven and demonstrated in the laboratory; the cancer micro-organism has been isolated and cultured outside the organism and then reintroduced; revolutionary ocular devices, such as Naessens’s and Rife’s, document and forge the new advances"
https://adistantmirror.com/gaston-naessens-somatid-and-somatoscope/