About the Author:
L. Stephen Coles, M.D., Ph.D., is a Visiting Scholar at the University of California at Los Angeles Department of Computer Science and an Assistant Researcher in the Department of Surgery, David Geffen School of Medicine. He co-founded the Los Angeles Gerontology Research Group in 1990, which has met monthly for nearly 20 years. He is a director of the Supercentenarian Research Foundation. Dr. Coles is the author of 129 scientific papers and holds 2 patents.
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Introduction
The Father of Modern Environmental Medicine
The history of science is filled with stories of men and women who, with the truths that they have discovered, have challenged powerful interests. These heroes of science, politics and other realms of society often demonstrate great courage to face off against extremely well-funded, established and profitable cartels like the intertwined interests of the chemical and food industries and the cancer and medical establishment. These mavericks frequently suffer greatly for their courage to advocate truth, however unpopular and unwanted it may be-at least by the most powerful monied interests...
Mirko Beljanski, Ph.D., was one such scientist. He spent a quarter century conducting controversial research at the Pasteur Institute where the Institute's director, Jacques Monod, suppressed his work in an epic battle to defend the primacy of cellular DNA over RNA. This is, in a sense, a "war story” worth telling.
Today, Beljanski's discovery showing that destabilized deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) is at the heart of cancer causation is critical to the development of selective nontoxic treatments for cancer and new and important methods of chemical toxicity screening. And so too are his findings that RNA remakes DNA.
Medical doctors throughout Europe and North America are now using these treatments based on Beljanski's molecules to help millions of people stay healthy. It's time for the public to know about Beljanski's approach to complementary medicine.
Beljanski's work is currently enjoying a renaissance because major institutions have taken it up and are studying its efficacy. The growing acceptance of his theories by researchers at powerful institutions like Columbia University and the Cancer Treatment Centers of America could help Beljanski's methods become the backbone of complementary medicine and an accepted way of viewing cellular damage for screening purposes.
Indeed, his findings are rapidly infiltrating the mainstream. It is as if he is more alive now than ever. Beljanski's fundamental research and its scientific dissemination may finally help the global health community in its fight to win the war on cancer.
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