The Natural Biosciences Research Foundation

We all recognize that clinical research into natural solutions for health is woefully underfunded. While the pharmaceutical industry spends billions of (your) dollars funding research efforts that lead to revenue-generating and often extremely costly and toxic drugs, natural solutions are ignored. It means that doctors and the healthcare system remain ignorant of such natural solutions, opting for “solutions” that are not solutions, but paths to revenue generation, an example of the flawed and outdated pharmaceutical model. We need to help fix this flawed and exploitative system.

When I tried to obtain federal funding for this research, I encountered resistance and ignorance. It was clear that nearly all federal funding is designed to support the development of pharmaceutical agents. I was asked questions such as “What is the design of your phase I trial?” meaning how is the first phase of drug testing going to be conducted. The process was essentially opaque and unmanageable unless you are in the business of developing pharmaceutical agents.

I have therefore formed the 501(c)(3) tax-exempt Natural Biosciences Research Foundation that will raise funds to fund such research. If there is any frustration in championing such a cause, it’s having to confine our choices to just a handful of projects from the many thousands of questions for which we need answers. Think of all the issues that practicing physicians remain unaware of but, with better evidence, would provide them with improved solutions to numerous health conditions. For example, they are unaware that:

• Fatty liver, a condition affecting >100 million Americans, while it has no pharmaceutical solutions, can be reversed within weeks with basic nutritional health strategies.
   
• Coronary disease that leads to heart attack, sudden cardiac death, and remains the number one moneymaker for the healthcare system, is readily managed and reversed using natural strategies.
   
• Type 2 diabetes and pre-diabetes can be reversed in the majority.
   
• Reversal of obesity does not require pharmaceuticals, calorie-cutting diets, or bariatric procedures to remedy. Addressing body composition with natural solutions yields superior results.
   
• Pregnancy, the early postpartum period, and early childhood have huge microbiome implications, yet these messages are not being passed onto women of childbearing age, pregnant or breastfeeding mothers.
   
• Menopausal issues can be effectively and safely managed without pharmaceuticals and without exogenous hormones simply by addressing several natural factors absent from modern life.
   
• Depression and suicide are, to an astounding degree, issues arising from a disrupted microbiome. Such insights can lead to more effective therapies than the lame and ineffective “treatments” currently in vogue.

The first research effort we fund will explore and corroborate an important societal phenomenon: the loss of the microbe, Lactobacillus (Limosilactobacillus) reuteri, presumptively responsible for 1) the loss of the ability to boost hypothalamic release of the hormone oxytocin, and 2) small intestinal-colonizing, bacteriocin-producing effects that have potential to correct the small intestinal bacterial overgrowth, SIBO, that has become an epidemic, both of which have major impacts on human social and emotional life. We explore this question at a time of human history marked by record social isolation, divorce, suicide, and rise in narcissistic behavior, social phenomena that have the loss of oxytocin and metabolic endotoxemia as potential contributing root causes.

I am assembling a scientific advisory board of scientists and clinicians that now include Kiran Krishnan, PhD, microbiologist and founder of Microbiome Labs; Raul Cano, PhD, academic microbiologist and co-founder of BiotiQuest and the Microbiome Collective research project; and Kim Martin, DC, for her talents in building professional relationships.

I shall be announcing developments in this effort right here on my DrDavisInfiniteHealth.com or WilliamDavisMD.com blog. In the meantime, if you would like to play a part in this emerging effort, go to the Natural Biosciences Research Foundation website and make your tax-deductible donation.

The original IHB post is currently found on the: ⎆Infinite Health Blog, but accessing it there can require an unnecessary separate blog membership. The copy of it above is complete, and has been re-curated and enhanced for the Inner Circle membership.