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"In the 1860s, French chemist Louis Pasteur developed modern germ theory. He proved that food spoiled because of contamination by invisible bacteria, not because of spontaneous generation. Pasteur stipulated that bacteria caused infection and disease. Before Pasteur’s discovery, scientists believed that living matter (like bugs and disease) were born from non-living organisms (like dust or dirt)."
Modern medicine accepted germ theory not by appending it to terrain theory, but by supplanting it. We reached the end of the usefulness of germ theory. We seemed to think that we could eradicate or cure disease - but in reality, we were blinded by a idiosyncracy.
Consider the following:
- Upwards of 10 trillion bacteria can be present in a cubic inch.
- Cleaning, antibiotic materials are advertised as killing "99.9% of germs". This leaves .1%, or for a block of solid bacteria, or a billion bacteria in a cubic inch.
- Bacteria multiply readily.
What this means is that pathogens will always be among us. Add to this also the fact that most disease killing Americans now is not caused by germs. Cancer: 30% of deaths. Heart disease: 30%. Alzheimers: 6%. Stroke: 5%. Diabetes: 4%. Life expectancy is going down. The trick of antibiotics has outlived its usefulness and it is time to admit:
Germ theory does not disprove terrain theory - it only disproves spontaneous generation.
We need new grids to understand health. Health is not the absence of pathogens. Health is the condition of a body such that pathogens cannot thrive, or at least not cause havoc.
I submit that, just like weeds, all pathogenic diseases cannot be eradicated. We claim to have "eradicated" many, but the pathogens still roam the earth, albeit in pockets, or in labs. Any approach to health that depends on eliminating a stressor, rather than making it impossible for the stressor to live, is flawed. It is flawed in large part because it refuses to acknowledge the role of weeds, pests, and pathogens: to clean up the world. We know that insects only eat low-brix (that is, minerally/nutritionally deficient) plants. We don't want to eat nutritionally deficient plants. The pest is only a sign of a deeper problem which must be addressed, not covered up.
I submit that the same logic applies to higher species as well in many cases. I am not advocating for eugenics by any stretch of the imagination - I am advocating for addressing the mineral-nutritional-biological imbalances that allow pathogens, or the human body system itself, to inflict harm upon the body.