About
About Dr. Cécile Jadin
Surgeon • Researcher • Author • Artist
My first contact with chronic infectious disease was in my father, Professor J.B. Jadin's lab.
From a very early age, I wanted to be an artist. I became a doctor almost by distraction — and surprisingly, it exceeded all expectations as I did not have any dream in this field except to become a surgeon. I did it and I left it. Chronic multiple infections took over and extended in parallel with my art.
At the age of 6, I was feeding the lab animals — guinea pigs, rats and chimpanzees — with sugar, magnesium and glutamate to improve germs' growth. From being in charge of following their daily temperature fluctuations, I was promoted to splenectomise them in order to crash their Immune Systems. This was the reason why I became a surgeon.
I finished my degree by spending the last year of formation in South Africa (or in Switzerland – as it was the regulation in Belgium for the girls in 1981). I chose South Africa and didn't return to my country.
From Surgery to Research
How an interest in surgery evolved into decades of clinical research into chronic infectious diseases.
After a few years, I decided to go back to my first medical love: infectious diseases. And, with the help of my father, an adequate lab was opened in South Africa around 1992. It is still functioning with constant sensitivity and specificity.
I have been treating patients with chronic infectious diseases since 1992. By then I had had a practice in Denmark, in Belgium, in Germany, in Johannesburg, in Cape Town, in Port Elizabeth and in Pietermaritzburg for about 20 years. I still work full time in Johannesburg.
The Jadin Approach
Clinical observations developed over many years of treating patients with chronic infectious diseases.
This allowed me to see and treat an incredible amount of patients with great success by following and adapting my father’s methodology. The number of my new patients positive for Lyme is around 200 for this last year only (2023). This is not including the old patients.
After having established a positive diagnosis towards the Obligated Intra Cellular Organism - OIO, I use a pulsed, combined antibiotics’ regime for 7 days/month which is precisely the natural rhythm of multiplication of all OIO.
I alternate the combination of antibiotics to avoid mutation (resistance), to minimise the destruction of healthy cells and to respect the natural intestinal flora reproduction.
I see each patient in person for the first visit, or online subsequently. Recently, I notice an increasing number of positivity towards the Western Blood Test for Lyme disease. Around 70% lately, although the symptoms of the so sadly called and Co (meaning Rickettsia, Mycoplasma, Chlamydia, Toxoplasmosis, Brucella, Helicobacter pylori, Bartonella, Babesiosis and Bilharzia) are similar and so is the treatment – except for Bilharziosis.
I am investigating infections and dysfunctions in parallel because I believe that active infections not only create symptoms but also have an impact on the human's organs. This approach consolidates the serology's credibility. I also stress that a specific germ never exists alone.
I prefer reading patients rather than medical publications about them. I believe this method is more accurate, more secure and definitely wider. In other words, my patients are my teachers.
My patients are my teachers.
Conditions Encountered
Arthritic conditions
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
Myalgic Encephalomyelitis
Yuppie Flu
Fibromyalgia
Thyroid abnormalities
Skin problems
Ophthalmic troubles
Digestive complications
Heart attacks or other cardiac dysfunctions
Renal failure
Myopathies
Neurological diseases
Psychiatric conditions
Auto-immune response
Cancer
In the Press
Historical newspaper coverage of Dr. Cécile Jadin's early work.
Newspaper coverage of Dr. Cécile Jadin's early work.
Profile of Dr. Cécile Jadin and her research into infectious diseases.
The Beginning of the Jadin Protocol
Her father was Professor JB Jadin, who undertook groundbreaking research on tropical diseases, among them Rickettsial infection, with Professor Paul Giroud in Central Africa, South Africa, the Near East, and in Europe. Together they developed the work started in the Pasteur Institute of Tunis, with Professor Charles Nicolle, who was a disciple of Louis Pasteur. Thus, Cécile was familiar with those germs from an early age and her work represents the results of teamwork through the last 100 years.
At the end of 1987, one of her friends became unable to walk and was diagnosed as having CFS. For 4 years, Dr. Jadin suggested the diagnosis of Rickettsial Infection, and therefore the Weil-Felix test, the only one then availabl in South Africa for diagnosis of Rickettsia, was performed several times but the results were negative.
The friend developed an acute appendicitis that needed surgery. Afterwards, her serum was sent to Prof. JB Jadin in Belgium to test for Rickettsiae, and the result was positive. Dr. Jadin treated her with Tetracyclines and 3 weeks later she was riding her horse again. It was at this point that Dr. Jadin started to focus on the Rickettsial approach.
Influences & Foundations
Professor J.B. Jadin
Thanks to him and his colleagues, I am able to collect ticks, rats and bats anywhere in the world.
Horizons 80. Liber amicorum.
Professor Paul Giroud
Thanks to his insistent motivations, I became a doctor rather than an artist.
Guinea Pig
Cervical smear infected with Rickettsia
Acknowledgements
Thanks to my father, Prof. JB Jadin, and his Pasteurian colleagues, I have at my disposal an impressive collection of scientific literature.
Thanks to the faith of my numerous patients, I have my illustrated pathology.
Thanks to the stimulation from and support of my South African colleagues, I started my intensive research.
Thanks to the patience of my husband, Dr. Patrick Gerin, the tolerance of my three children, Jean-Baptiste, Aurelie and Antoine, and the vigilance of my staff, in particular Janet Shepherd, Amanda Malcomes, Diane Starr and Leonie Knezovich.
Thanks to the unlimited generosity of Meg Fox who tried to unravel the mysteries of the computer for me.
Because of all of the above, I have been able to participate in and give the following conferences.
Conferences & International Presentations
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June 2024: Presented two conferences in Saint Raphael at Chronimed
- Les infections et la génétique
- A propos des Organismes intracellulaires obligés
- December 2023:Online talk with Dr Rob Bransfield about Lyme Disease - YouTube
- July 2023: Online Conference invited by Ken Lassessen - About Rickettsioses and other Obligated Intra-cellular Organisms
- May 2019: Speaker at Chronimed - Paris: Les rats n’ont pas pris la sortie historique
- October 2018: Speaker at Chronimed - Paris: Quoi de neuf dans le fauteuil medical
- October 2017: Speaker at Chronimed - Paris: Dermatologie
- May 2017: Speaker: La Balistique des Antibiotiques, Greoux, France, for le G.R.A.I.N.
- February 2017: Organised a 3 days conference in Johannesburg, 37 participants, amongst them Prof Luc Montagnier - About: Les Yeux
- April 2016: Speaker: Lyme Disease and Co at ILADS, Antwerp
- September 2015: Speaker at Chronimed - Paris: Gènes et agents pathogènes
- September 2015: Finalisation of a cartoon called Jeremy’s story (available on her website, in French and in English)
- May 2015: Speaker in Biarritz - le G.R.A.I.N: Les tribulations infectieuses et métaboliques du néphron
- October 2014:
Speaker at Chronimed - Paris:
Ce qu’ils sont devenus
A l’Assemblée Nationale de Paris: L’impact des infections froides dans la médecine d’aujourd’hui - May 2014:
Speaker in Biarritz, le G.R.A.I.N.
L’intestin ne dort jamais and Ce que cache le tablier epiploique - May 2014: Speaker at Chronimed - Paris: Les coulisses en Médecine
- October 2013: Speaker at Chronimed - Paris: Baleine ciblée au Swarosky
- April 2013: Speaker at Chronimed – Paris: Rétrospective clinique de maladies génétiques, idiopathiques, essentielles, auto-immunitaires
- March 2012: Speaker at Chronimed - Paris: Polymorphisme des maladies infectieuses
- September 2011:
Speaker in Bordeaux, Le G.R.A.I.N.
Les infections chroniques à l’origine de l’anoxie cellulaire - September 2011: Created a short movie on “triggering chronic fatigue” available on her website
- September 2010: Institute Pasteur de Tunis - Meeting with Prof Ali Bouatour, parasitologist, and Prof Amor Chaddly
- Since May 2010: Is an active member of Chronimed - gathering regularly at Unesco, Paris
- August 2009: Held a 2 day conference and workshop in Johannesburg, South Africa, 15 CPD points accredited: Possible consequences of chronic multiple infections
- June 2009: Opened a forum in Germany with international participants
- May 2009: Participated in the Ratna Link workshop in Sonoma County, California
- February 2008: International Conference in Schloss-Engers, Germany, with Dr. Jadin invited as the key speaker: About 'Multiple Chronic Infections as a Cause of Various Pathological Conditions'
- March 2005: CFS/ME VICTORIA and ACNEM Association, Melbourne, Australia: Educated health professionals and the public on “The Role of Chronic Infection in the Clinical Treatment of CFS”
- March 2005:
Newcastle University, Australia:
Gave lectures to medical doctors, as well as talks
to the public about:
- The CFS Journey
- Case Study
- The Root of Pathogenicity
- Pitfall of Medicine
- September 2004: PARSA Annual Conference - Pilanesberg, South Africa: Gave a talk about “Diagnosing Schistosomiasis”
- March 2003:
Flora Clinic Johannesburg, South Africa:
Gave a talk entitled
'From cellular Anoxemia to CFS and other chronic diseases.'
*CPD points were accredited to the attending doctors. - January 2001: Seattle, Washington: Presented an abstract from “Chronic Infections as a Source of Chronic Fatigue Syndrome”
- September 1999: Padua University - Padua, Italy: Gave a talk entitled “From Cellular Anoxemia, caused by the presence of Rickettsia, to CFS”
- September 1999: Second World Congress on Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, Brussels, Belgium: Presented the article “Common Clinical and Biological Windows on CFS and Rickettsial Disease”
- February 1999:
Manly Conference, Sydney, Australia:
Presented two publications:
- The Rickettsial Approach and treatment of patients presenting with CFS, Fibromyalgia, Rheumatoid Arthritis and Neurological Dysfunction
- Case Study: Depression, Psychotic Dysfunction, Rickettsial Infection
- February 1998: Newcastle, Australia: Presented a paper on CFS