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by Karl Loren

This is the MAIN page for this web site.  You'll find a general description of germanium and this web site here, on this page, with links to each of the other sections and many other pages on this web site.

Announcement!

The year was 1986.  The vitamin world was buzzing about a new nutrient -- germanium.  When I first heard about it, it was whispers only, and the price was $9,000 per KG.  The point was, not that the price was high, but that you couldn't find any, anywhere.  I had to have some.  I didn't want to spend $9,000 however, so I started my research.  Very soon I found the famous Book, Miracle Cure by Dr. Asai.

Before long I was traveling through Japan.  I believed that the best place to get it.  After all, it has been "invented" there.  By the time I got to Japan for my 10-day investigation I had already learned that the Asai Research Institute had the license from Dr. Asai to make and dispense germanium on a medical prescription basis, and that only one other company was authorized to manufacture and sell germanium -- Tokai Sangyo, Tokyo.  Tokai had the license to make germanium, under the Asai patent, for sale as a non-prescription product.

I struck a deal with Tokai, to not only buy their germanium, but to represent them in the United States.

The deal fell apart when the government of Japan was unable or unwilling to enforce their own laws against smuggling.  The government, even when given the details of the smuggled goods coming into Japan, did nothing to stop it, and those same smuggled goods continued to be repackaged and exported to the US.  Virtually all of that non-licensed germanium was exported to a single company, a front for a famous doctor who was reselling germanium in huge quantities.  

My own book on germanium was published in 1987.  In that Book I predicted specifically that the FDA would find a way to make the import of germanium illegal -- it happened.

I was rather brash in those days and publicized this whole arrangement, accusing this doctor of selling smuggled goods.  He sued me for libel and I represented myself in court.  It was fun.  I had an expensive Beverly Hills law firm trying to give me a hard time and I ran rings around them.  They finally agreed to "settle out of court" if I would issue a press release saying something nice about the doctor and he would issue his press release saying something nice about me.

I traded press releases to avoid the continuing expense.  It cost that doctor many thousands of dollars in legal fees, but it was costing me many hours of precious time when I could be doing something better.

The smuggled germanium was taking a dive on price and Tokai finally decided to just get out of the US market.  The last time I looked, those 10+ years ago, it had settled down at about $1,000 per KG.  It has come down more since then.

Click Here to read the False Claim Of US Origin For Some Germanium Sold In The US

As part of my continuing research I traveled to Belgium.  I was a guest of the only pharmaceutical plant in Europe that was importing Tokai's germanium and converting it into injectable medical drug materials.  They would take the Tokai germanium, mix it properly, in a government-approved drug manufacturing facility and were selling it all over Europe -- but selling it as a prescription drug.

Around that time there was a competing form of germanium coming on the market, with an Eastern Europe origin, but mostly manufactured in Germany.  

So, the US market has been deprived of a legitimate supply of germanium for more than 10 years!

Notice that we NOW sell organic germanium which we purchase from the Asai Research Institute in Japan.  That is the only reliable source for honest germanium.  Click here to see a web page of someone selling GE, and saying that their Ge was "developed" by Asai.  All Ge was "developed" by Asai, but many other sources, including China, offer "germanium" at extremely low prices.  The tests for honest germanium are not adequate.  A disreputable company can mix "germanium oxide" with Vitamin C in the right proportions to "test out" as Ge-132.  It would be a fraud.  You could not tell.  Deal with an honest source.

Get still comes into the US -- smuggled and legal, but very, very little from the only legitimate source.  But the amount is small and although you can find this germanium in the US market, you won't find it in large dosages, and hardly ever find it as a single substance.

The problem is not that germanium is harmful.  It is not!

The problem is that too many people made too many claims that germanium would cure cancer.  Unfortunately such a claim is illegal unless the substance for which the claim is made has been approved by the FDA as a medical drug.

The Asai Research Institute was working hard to get such approval, but never made it.  They did get a patent in the US, and it showed good results, but even if a substance "works" it might never get off the ground if the big drug companies don't control it.

So, for these 10 years there has been very little public availability of germanium in the US.

Europe?  Yes, it's available.  Japan?  Yes, it's available.

Did it turn out to be the Miracle Cure that Dr. Asai hoped for?  No.  It is one of those great nutrients which can be very helpful in many ways, but the manufacturing process is complicated and expensive.  The material is still so expensive and the required dosage for therapeutic value so high that it will probably never become a popular nutrient.

It is an example an excellent product where greed and lack of proper business handling have combined to keep the product from its rightful place in the schedule of useful nutrients.

After an initial exchange of messages I agreed to investigate this new germanium, and if I found it to be legitimate and helpful, I agreed I would get further involved.

That investigation is in progress at this moment.  You are reading about my investigation and research as it is occurring -- and these pages are the results of my early work along this line.

My first advice to my new Russian friends was:  "You must control the market so that a dozen different people are NOT each claiming to have the "real" stuff.  There is a patent on this new germanium, but as I've discovered, patents can be very harmful if all they do is give the process by which someone can make the stuff -- and there is no enforcement.  Actually, my Russian friends have something even better than a patent -- they have a "patent pending."

During a time a patent has been applied for, but not yet granted, it is confidential -- it is NOT a public document.  Many companies will attempt to keep their secret inventions in the "pending" status as long as they can so that others can't easily find a way to "get around the patent."

So, there is a "patent pending" new form of germanium being described on this web site.

The patent which Dr. Asai got was on "germanium sesquioxide."  There are many patents already issued on the subject of "sesquioxide germanium."  Click here to review some of that data.

The more general term is "organic germanium."  You'll find a great overlap, but there is a second list of US Patents that have been issued where the words "organic germanium" appear.  Click here.

Next, I advised them to avoid any specific claims such as would require FDA approval.  You will find no such claims on this web site.

This new form of germanium is specifically NOT similar to the germanium invented by Dr. Asai and for which he made all sorts of claims for curing cancer. 

No!  This is NOT that type of germanium.

This germanium has characteristics that are truly revolutionary, but no health claims are made directly for this new substance.

Let me give you an example, close to my heart.

For many years, starting in the early 1980s, I researched and wrote about "oral chelation."  That is a concept involving a combination of vitamins, generally including the amino acid cysteine.  For many years, my foolish years, I promoted this oral chelation formula as something that would reverse or prevent the symptoms of heart disease.  While I considered that a true claim, it was a dangerous one.

That claim was based on a flawed understanding of the disease itself -- heart disease.  I had bought into the false information that was believed to be true by many of my heroes -- the intravenous chelation doctors.  They were claiming that the EDTA in their treatment protocol was "removing the calcium blockage" in the arteries.  Any chemist who understood "chelation" and the mechanics of EDTA knew that this "removal of calcium" claim had to be false.  I didn't know it, so unknowingly I repeated it -- loudly.

Then, I read Dr. Elmer Cranton's Book, Bypassing Bypass, Second Edition, and discovered for the first time that there was another entire explanation of how this "chelation" worked!   I was delighted, and started changing my promotional message immediately.

You see, chelation therapy does NOT remove calcium from the arteries -- even though thousands of doctors who deliver IV Chelation Therapy still say this.  It just isn't true.

No, what is true is more complicated and therefore harder to explain.

The real truth is that chelation (both oral and IV) removes toxic metals from the body.  (Note that this is NOT a health claim since the FDA has yet to acknowledge the harmful role of toxic metals in the body).

When you remove toxic metals from the body (and that is all that chelation does) then there is a great reduction in free radical activity.  The full story is told on my chelation web sites, but you get the idea.  When you reduce free radical activity (and the FDA hardly recognizes that free radicals cause disease, either), you do, in fact, greatly reduce the chances of heart disease or cancer.  When the free radical activity is reduced, the individual cells in the arteries can be revitalized, and you get an increase in function leading to an increase of blood circulation.

So, the chelation, indirectly, causes and improvement in blood flow, but it does not do this directly.

I suggested that we find a similar way to make claims for the new germanium.

We have found claims that are completely safe as well as truthful.

That is what you will read about on this web site -- the non-medical claims that can safely be made for the new germanium, called, simply, "organic germanium compound."

I lived in Ghana, Africa, for several years and traveled in more than a dozen African countries.  I know some about that area of the world.  Where you have ingrained poverty, and a corrupt government that cannot, or does not, pay its own civil servants, you are very likely to get a high degree of bribery running rampant at the lowest levels of the government.

Nigeria, for instance, has "discovered" oil, many years ago, and there are some very rich Nigerians, but there are millions more very poor Nigerians -- many of whom work at very low, or unpaid, posts in the government.  Some of them are in the "Oil Ministry."  With not very much money you can get a VERY official looking document from a clerk in the Nigerian Oil Ministry, saying whatever you want it to say.  You can have a document which appears to give you access to several millions of barrels of oil.  You take that document and go looking for a sucker to help you finance your purchase of the oil, below OPEC rates, etc.  Many have been fooled.  The documents ARE real, but they are fake at the same time.

Now, let's take a look at "Russia" as a source for something like this germanium.

It is impossible to find out who owns what, or who controls what -- so signing an "agreement" for exclusive rights to a Russian-owned substance is, indeed, a chancy risk !

I have taken virtually all of the risk out of that arrangement!

The key here is the laboratory testing of the germanium.  The Russians have no trouble "making" their germanium, but how can YOU tell if it is the stuff you want.  Well, we develop a scientific test that will determine whether or not you have the real stuff, then we get a lot of the germanium gathered up, and allow the world's largest independent testing laboratory to take a sample, test the sample against a scientific protocol, and then certify that the batch they have tested IS the stuff that meets the test.  Then, the control of that batch, with each container sealed with the testing lab's lead seal, stays in the hands of someone you can reasonably trust.

You can buy a few ounces for your own tests, or a few tons, and know with certainty that the testing lab is using a publicly-known testing protocol (which you can duplicate in your lab).  So, if your sample gives you exciting results, and you have tested your sample, then the independent testing lab can give you the comfort of knowing that a larger purchase will be the same stuff.

There is much more to this story, but by now you begin to get the idea of where this is going.

We are looking for a dozen or so firms that are well-positioned to introduce a full line of "germanium enhanced nutritional products" into the world market.  This will take some millions of dollars in development, production and promotion costs -- more money than we have to invest in this project.

We are looking for a dozen such firms to purchase some samples of our independently tested new germanium, to check out the claims that we make on this web site, and then to simply negotiate for the exclusive right to this product.

This web site may offer some small retail packages of this new germanium as a means of generating some income during the time we are looking for the big buyer.  But, the prices on these retail packages is designed to leave room for the eventual buyer to introduce his products at or below the prices we are charging.

This web site is NOT designed to flood the market of consumers with the new germanium, but to elicit interest from some big nutritional firms -- firms that will purchase a few kilograms of sample material for their own testing, enter into non-disclosure agreements with us, possibly even get the license to manufacture the new germanium -- eventually with one firm to have all these rights exclusively.

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