this journalist was telling me. I had to find out more, especially after hearing success story after success story from people who had cheated death much like Le Perlier had done. Three years prior to the picnic, I had lost my beloved wife and mother. I knew there were thousands of people dying of cancer right at that very moment. I had to know who this Mirko Beljanski was. From where did he come? How was it that a microbiologist and not a medical doctor had developed such a powerful answer to such a troublesome disease? How did he arrive at this ground-breaking research, and what was it really all about?
What were these herbal concoctions made of?
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Mirko Beljanski’s Early Years
A dedicated biochemist of humble origin, Dr. Mirko Beljanski was arguably one of the most important scientists of the twentieth century. Graduating with his doctorate in 1951 from the University of Paris, he worked for thirty years as a researcher in molecular biology at the Pasteur Institute, and then spent the remainder of his years tirelessly researching the secrets of DNA and RNA. I believe that Mirko Beljanski, Ph.D., has brought humankind a means of healing beyond all others in the history of medicine. He was a modest man and totally dedicated to improving the health of the human body, but his life could have ended in obscurity, a mere farmer tucked away in the backwaters of northern Serbia. Fortunately for all of us, it did not.
Mirko Beljanski was born in 1923 into a rural family in the northernmost province of Serbia, which was then part of Yugoslavia. His was the large farming village of Turija and its inhabitants were devoted to their corn crops, their pigs, geese, and goats. Mirko Beljanski’s father, Milan, worked as a mechanic in the repairing of his neighbors’ farm equipment. One of Milan’s mechanical talents was the ability to drill fresh water wells for the townspeople, who at the time still had no running water. Electricity came to Turija many years after Mirko had left the place permanently.
The weather in northern Serbia was extremely harsh with freezing cold winters and searing hot summers. Such weather, coupled with the seemingly constant ongoing political struggles that have plagued this region from time immemorial, left his fellow townsfolk to be at times unhopeful about life. His neighbors’ negative attitude irritated the boy. He was born with a positive outlook and wanted to do great things in life.
Even at age seven, a thirst for independence and productivity grew in him. Brimming with strong self-discipline, the young Beljanski refused to accept imposed authority or collective discipline. Mirko wanted knowledge, and he recognized that schoolbook learning would allow him to follow his own path out of the limiting Serbian lifestyle and mindset. He put all of his energy into achieving an education. He sought advice from elders and planned with them how he might accomplish his goal.
From his village of six thousand hard-working people, three children were selected for a scholarship to travel to the nearest town twenty-two miles away where there was a small elementary school in combination with a high school. The three Turija students, all thirsty for learning, took a test to see if they were smart enough to warrant their living away from home and attending school. Mirko, eleven years of age, passed and was told he was to leave his family to go live with his Uncle Mitia and his wife in the distant town of Novi-Sad, the capitol of the region. The young Mirko wanted that potential education with all his being. He must have felt ecstatic, knowing he had a chance to make his dream come true.
The boy traveled the required twenty-two miles to Novi-Sad by carriage in the fall of 1934. He resided in his relatives’ small, whitecob house consisting of only two clean rooms, one for his uncle and aunt and the other for Mirko and his grandmother. His aunt milked two cows in a small cow shed out back to help the