It is not my intention to claim superiority over doctors who have undergone extensive medical training. I know I'm not even as intelligent as them, I couldn't pass the MCAT. That doesn't change the fact of the matter that anyone who takes the time to ponder this notion will see clearly that the mainstream conception of health and disease is limited by a paradigm built with foundational principles that contain presuppositions with faulty premises. Brilliance is not required to understand bad logic.
"It is much easier to fool someone than it is to convince them they've been fooled." I think that was Mark Twain.
The subject of this post is something most people have always just accepted to be true without ever questioning. It's so ingrained into the psyche of the collective that to even hear that it's a lie can be shocking. I had accepted it to be true my entire life as well up until recently.
When I first heard it, I was a bit flabbergasted, confused, and skeptical.
Due to being so miserably ill, after having been treated by some of the top functional medicine practitioners in the country, their attempts to treat me produced no positive effects, and actually I felt worse after most of their attempts. Finally, one day I decided that these people did not know what they were doing and that I would have to figure this out for myself. With no potential solutions on the horizon, I gave this idea of "terrain theory" a chance and listened to what people had to say about it. The more I heard, the more it just started to make sense.
Terrain theory states that it is not tiny, microscopic particles invading the body that make us sick. That instead it is the relative general care or treatment of the body, or terrain that contributes to our relative health or sickness. Terrain theory suggests one must avoid poisons, eat healthy and treat the body with care to stay healthy. I have since concluded that this theory, while, closer to the truth than germ theory (and does accurately explain about 10% of the entire picture of what causes disease and heath), is also incorrect. This article represents the evolution of my understanding of health.
The concept of exploring terrain theory was paramount to getting to the point of my current understanding, so first it must be shown how germ theory is wrong, then the article will move towards explaining how terrain theory is also wrong.
It is not my intention to claim superiority over doctors who have undergone extensive medical training. I know I'm not even as intelligent as them, I couldn't pass the MCAT.
That doesn't change the fact of the matter that anyone who takes the time to ponder this notion will see clearly that the mainstream conception of health and disease is limited by a paradigm built with foundational principles that contain presuppositions with faulty premises.
Brilliance is not required to understand bad logic.
When trying to decide what is true, we need to look to other instances in nature to confirm that the process is repeatable. When we consider the basic role of bacteria everywhere in nature, we find that they are essential in maintaining a harmonious balance in all ecosystems. Bacteria inside the body are created by the body, they are our friend. We'd all be dead without bacteria.
The main concept I’ve explained in the previously linked post is that, everywhere in nature, ALL bacteria are essential in order to maintain a harmonious balance in ALL ecosystems. However, somehow, modern medicine suggests that some of these bacteria are “bad” and others are “good”. Germ theory cannot survive without this idea tied to an “immune system” because the same bacteria that are considered ‘pathogenic’ in some individuals can also be found in many healthy individuals.
Modern medicine suggests the reason healthy individuals aren’t experiencing symptoms is because they have a stronger “immune system”. This, while if one chooses to accept it at face value may seem to make sense, however, should sound very convoluted and requires acceptance that this ‘immune system’ exists yet doesn’t acknowledge how a strong immune system keeps these “bad” bacteria from affecting some individuals adversely yet not others, nor does it explain what it means to have a healthy immune system except in very vague terms.
If terrain theory is right about this, it means there will be a fundamental problem with the current paradigm. It means some sort of mistaken assumption at the base of the entire foundation upon which modern medicine is built. Some sort of mistake or confusion the whole world, doctors especially are making.
Here's what it is:
Imagine everywhere you saw a fire; you saw firemen. Then you thought to yourself, these firemen must be causing all the fires. In this analogy, you are the doctor, and the firemen are the bacteria. Bacteria do cause the symptoms we feel when we are sick, but they are not what's actually causing the sickness. They are the cleanup crew. They eat the dead and decaying tissue in our bodies, and they repair our bodies.
This is why people who take a significant amount of antibiotics have such severe health problems. Think about it, anti = against, biotic = life. Antibiotics, against life.
When we kill bacteria with antibiotics, yes, our symptoms will go away for some time and we think we have been healed, but the underlying problem the bacteria were present to resolve remains. Dr. Tom Cowan explains it like, if you have just one garbage can in your house, and you don't take it out, okay well it might start to stink, but that's not the end of the world. However, the longer you leave it there, the worse it gets, and if you continually accumulate more garbage that you also don't take out of the house, you might have to start piling it into the living room and eventually into the bedroom as well. Those of us who have been getting treatments from doctors for years, this analogy is fairly representative of what we are doing to ourselves. When we continually accumulate all this garbage and we kill the bacteria which are there to "take out the trash," this is can lead many people develop more serious illnesses, though is still not the main cause.
This concept is a product of terrain theory, and it does hold true. However, the more I incorporated terrain theory into my approach to health, I began running into all sorts of problems. Despite all that, terrain theory does produce some lines of thinking that do check out as true.
Terrain theory suggests that to claim we have a specific category of illness caused by a specific type of bug, is inaccurate. I agree because I can look up any disease on webmd and generally it will tend to say, “you may or may not have some or all of these symptoms.”
Have we ever stopped for a moment to just think about what that means? How is it even possible to categorize something as a "disease" if it rarely ever presents with the same symptoms?
It's not.
That's why it's a bit absurd to attempt to suggest a certain "disease" exists. (A lot of people presume this to mean we are saying because the specific disease doesn't necessarily exist means they are not sick; this is not at all what's being said here.)
Due to this influence and my realization germ theory definitely wasn't true, I began to incorporate this perspective that it must be all the poison we ingest on a regular basis, or some problem related to my nutrition. However, these ideas present particularly problematic for a whole host of reasons:
1. I attempted to protect myself from every toxin out there, I purchased all very specific products, attempted to live as organically as possible, and my health did not improve. I was far more conscientious of these things than the vast majority of others, yet they all seemed much healthier than I was.
2. It does not explain why some people ingest more poisons than others yet were nowhere near as sick as I was.
3. It would mean that people who eat very unhealthy diets should all be much sicker than I was, yet I did not observe this to be true in reality.
4. It doesn’t explain why some people who smoke their entire lives get emphysema yet others who have never smoked a day in their life also sometimes get emphysema. This last contradiction can be applied to numerous other diseases that certain people should get but don’t and others shouldn’t get but do.
Taking a wider perspective on health, one connection few seem to make, which at face value is fairly obvious: the body is intelligent. It knows what to do and it knows how to heal itself.
Think about some of the more obvious ways our bodies heal themselves.
If we break an arm, or tear a ligament, we put on a cast or a splint and we just avoid using it for a while. After a couple months, what happens?
The body heals it on its own with no intervention necessary.
When we fall and scrape our elbow, the body creates a scab, and a few days later, the scab falls off and new skin appears.
If we get a splinter in our finger, the body creates pus to push the splinter out.
Does it make any sense to call the pus a disease? Because that's an analogy for how doctors are taught to think about disease. They mistake the body's intelligent adjustments for disease.
Consider this, if the body knows what to do in all these scenarios just listed, why does everyone jump to this conclusion that in so many other instances, the body is attacking itself because it is dumb and confused (like so many auto-immune diagnoses suggest)?
I'm not trying to blame doctors for doing the wrong things, it's not their fault, it's just how they are all taught to think about disease. The faulty premise necessitates all strategies providing treatment utilize means of interfering with the natural processes of the body that cause healing. This is why everyone continually goes to doctors to feel better today, then ends up getting sicker and sicker as they get older. Eventually doctors will just say, "it's called getting old, deal with it like the rest of us". Meanwhile the presence of "blue zones" point to locales where older individuals have far fewer health problems, and there are even some 100-year-old individuals who run marathons.
How come those individuals aren't plagued with broken down bodies and are not disease-ridden?
Many people will say, but I went to the doctor for x, y or z and he did this thing and it helped.
I'm not denying that is very likely true, but it does not change anything previously stated. Whatever the doctor did helped because the body's methods to heal itself generally do cause pain or discomfort, particularly when talking about the work bacteria do. But essentially, any successful treatment the doctor gives you is just kicking the can down the road.
To clarify, "kicking the can down the road" means, you feel symptoms because the body is addressing some sort of issue, when the doctor's treatment halts this process, yes, the symptoms do go away, for now.
However, the underlying problem the body was attempting to resolve remains.
This means it is still going to have to address this issue at a later point, or it could end up turning into more health problems (as we see in the whole, “it’s called getting old, just deal with it like the rest of us” saying) down the road (the road you've been kicking the can down). You may have stopped it for now, which made you feel better today, but by doing so, you've not allowed the body to run its natural course and fix the underlying problem, which is what leads to future health problems.
A lot of people will say things like, well it’s not true that germs don’t spread because I had a cold then my roommate also caught a cold.
What I am saying is bacteria and viruses don't cause it, so transferring them from one person to another can't be what causes two people in the same place to get sick. However, this can also be explained.
Have you ever noticed when one person in your household is sick, not always does everyone else in the household get sick? If it’s that simple to just walk in the room and breathe in a sick person’s exhaled air particles, would not everyone in the household also get sick every time?
Or how about in school during the fall when a huge percentage of the students would all get sick at the same time, and they would say, “there’s a bug going around”. How come the bug didn’t infect every single student?
If one in the classroom was sick and spread it to others, shouldn’t the entire classroom get sick? How did some manage to get it, but some did not? Also, the higher the percentage that did catch it, the more likely the entire classroom should have caught it. If half the classroom is home sick, and the germ theory is true, based on the logic just addressed, everyone in the classroom should be home sick.
When multiple people in the same place all get sick, it is generally because they all experienced the same conflict due to their relative vicinity. Here is an interesting explanation from “The Psychic Roots of Diseases”, which offers hundreds of other explanations based on this line of thinking:
“Austria’s February flu epidemics Every year, Austria is plagued by a flu epidemic in February. Interestingly enough, this always begins in the eastern states (Vienna, Lower Austria) before it spreads westward through the western states (such as Salzburg, Tirol). This can’t be attributed to the wind direction, because the prevailing westerly winds would carry germs in the exact opposite direction. Those who are familiar with the New Medicine know: It is due to school vacation scheduling. Every year in Austria, the eastern states start their semester break a week before the western states. In the east, students, teachers and parents are delivered from the stress of school a week earlier. Thus, they also get sick a week earlier (healing phase).”
A stressful school period where many students were probably cramming for mid-terms was over, then their bodies created bacteria to repair the damage the stress caused in the body, and all the kids got sick. The sickness was the repair phase proceeding the damage done by the stress. Maybe this is why half the kids in the class got sick at the same time. A big test just took place and now that it is over, their bodies need time to heal the damaged caused by the stress. Those who didn't get sick hadn't felt any "test related stress".
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If the AMA can trick us into making health seem so complicated that we could never understand it, we never begin to question the validity of their claims, and we keep going to these doctors who make the pharmaceutical industry VERY rich, meanwhile over the years and decades, making us sicker and sicker.
I never considered any of these things before I got sick, so I assume the majority of those reading likely hadn't considered them either. And had I not personally gone through this major ordeal, I'd likely not have recognized it, I would otherwise still be believing in the same things as everyone else about disease.
People often ask why more doctors don't come out talking about this.
Quite a few do, the earliest book I can find on it was published in 2004 called "Good-bye Germ Theory". The problem is, as soon as they try to say it, they lose their license to practice and everyone thinks they are a quack. A quick search of Dr. Cowan, produces these results:
Dr. Cowan is one of the few who do stand against the system to try to help us. And this is his reward. If you were a doctor and you knew coming out with this truth would cause the mainstream to think of you like this, would you be excited to try to share the news?
Some of my “conversations with ChatGPT” posts expose the same thing to be true across nearly every mainstream field of science. The further we delve into these topics we end up finding each individual field of science ends up being built upon some form of faulty presupposition, turning it from science into pseudoscience, and anyone submitting a theory that attempts to suggest the mainstream narrative is wrong gets railroaded, ridiculed, discredited, loses their licenses and becomes a pariah.
Is it any surprise so many prefer not to come out and state the truth?
Look at it from the perspective of a doctor. Imagine what it's like to be a doctor, building your entire identity about yourself based on this understanding of medicine, then attempting to work through this idea that everything you thought you knew about health is wrong. I can only imagine the turmoil and distress this would cause.
Also, most doctors graduate with hundreds of thousands of dollars in student debt. If they did discover the truth, and were to come out and expose it, they’d be discredited, lose the respect of everyone they know, the entire system, have their licenses to practice stripped from them, and be stuck with all this student debt and no way to pay it off.
From a personal standpoint, they are highly incentivized to stick with the status quo.
Most of them don't know the truth and are just fooled. It’s a lot more difficult to see these things when one is so immersed in them (like when you are too close to something to see the truth, someone might say, "you are missing the forest for the trees"). Doctors have this incredibly strong attachment to this lie because their whole sense of personal identity and what they think they know about the world is built upon it. If that is wrong, it means everything they thought they knew, and everything everyone else also thinks they know, is wrong. It also presumes that we have been misled to a degree so incredible, that there would have to be some incredibly nefarious individuals in control of our medical system (something the entirety of this blog intends to expose).
To even begin to try to accept something like this is true, it's difficult for the average person because they generally think of themselves as good and other people as good, that they can't fathom how someone could be so insidious.
Upon discovering and integrating the “terrain theory” belief structure behind disease as discussed in "What Really Makes you Ill", I got a little better. I generally attribute this to no longer believing my body was breaking down or under attack. Suffice to say, eating right, exercising and not poisoning ourselves are great suggestions for being a healthy person, but they aren’t enough on their own.
I know that because this did not cause significant improvements to my prior existing symptoms.
This led me down further rabbit holes until I had an intuitive idea of my own based on my collection of personal experiences that led to an entirely different perspective. This concept I had in my mind was that it was our behavior, thoughts and beliefs that really made us ill. All I had was this theory, until one day I contracted scabies for the 10th time in 10 years. I am not going to go in depth on this here as I discuss it in more depth in my book. What I will say is, I have had scabies probably near 10 different times in my life. I took this as an opportunity to prove to myself that this theory I had of disease was legitimate, and I refused to treat myself with conventional medicine (of which I had done all previous times, however, despite finding relief with those treatments they continued returning—I was kicking the can down the road, as described above.)
I got to work on figuring out understanding what mistake I could be making. I considered the meaning of scabies from a metaphorical standpoint (as all "diseases" are literal metaphors for where we have gone wrong or exemplify some mistake we are making in life). I tried to look for the lesson in what could the scabies be trying to teach me.
As we see in numerology and astrology, the main purpose of life is to learn lessons.
There is some lesson in whatever illness you have that is plaguing you. The lesson in the scabies was that I was “over-giving in a manipulative way”. Which I resolved by writing an apology letter to someone I had wronged. Yes, without treatment, and after writing an apology letter, the scabies went away on their own. Before you say, “that wasn’t scabies, it doesn’t do that”, recognize, I have had scabies at least 10 times, I know exactly how to identify and treat it. I get that it can be hard to believe, it would have been hard for me to believe 5 years ago, but all one has to do is adopt this perspective on life and approach it from this angle, then watch how things start to change.
This realization led me to the understanding that everything in the universe/life works on energetic balance.
I thought about what scabies are and what they do, I came up with, “they get under my skin and make me uncomfortable”, so I thought about that, in what way could I be over-giving that gets under other people’s skin and makes them uncomfortable? That’s when it hit me.
I was getting under other people's skin and making them uncomfortable, the scabies was the necessary antecedent to create energetic balance.
To break down what really causes illness:
In an abstract sense, symptoms are physical manifestations of energetic blockages within the body (something well established in Traditional Chinese Medicine, as well as every other society in the history of the world except the modern one here in the west). It is fair to say this is an additional reason Western doctors struggle to cure illness, as they don't even operate from a paradigm that acknowledges this energy is even present in the body. You can prove its existence by simply holding your arms and hands taut, out in front of you as if holding a big beach ball with fingers straightened, wait a few moments, then feel the energy accumulate in your hands.
In a more practical sense, a symptom is essentially an indication of either a conflict within the mind, or an external circumstance that led to a mistaken belief or some traumatic experience that occurred leading to a state of stress.
The causes of illness can generally be broken down into four categories, the first three account for probably less than 10% of all sickness, the fourth one being by far the most prevalent cause:
1. Malnutrition, being nutrient deficient can make you feel sick--though it is not clear if the literal deficiency is what makes us sick, or if it is the indirect effect of nutrient deficiency causing weaknesses in our minds allowing for these contradictions or mistaken beliefs to be more prevalent.
2. Toxic exposure, which can be anything really, because even water in too large of an amount can cause death (drowning). Salt at high enough levels is toxic, or inhaling any kind of toxic fumes can cause health problems.
3. Electromagnetic frequencies can have some negative effects on health.
4. In my own experience curing my own diseases, the vast majority of them are psychological in nature. Conflicts within the mind, or disharmony within one's life, or bad behavior are the cause of the vast majority of illnesses people have.
To say a conflict in the mind causes the symptoms may be difficult to conceptualize. A conflict in the mind can mean a wide range of things. It could be two competing desires leaving our intentions for what we want ambiguous, it could be our actions (behavior) not in alignment with our values, it could be that we fear a certain consequence, so we act in such a way to mitigate that fear, but that choice has unintended consequences on some other belief that we hold—thus causing a conflict. Traumatic experiences also play a very significant role in sickness. Dr. Hamer, the creator of “Germanic Medicine”, from which some of this post is inspired, suggests that many individuals who develop cancer had recently had some sort of traumatic experience that occurred relatively recently prior to the cancer diagnosis.
I will leave you with this study, from the same book previously quoted, "The Psychic Root of Diseases".
"Infection Experiments, Boston, USA
Sixty-two young sailors, who were in the brig in 1918 for service-related offenses, were promised a pardon if they participated in the following experiment:
Severely ill “Spanish Flu” patients were instructed to exhale heavily, and the subjects had to inhale their foul-smelling, exhaled air.
The patients had to cough directly into each subject’s face for 5 minutes.
Lastly, mucus was scraped from the nasal cavities of the sick and brushed into the subject’s noses.
Each of the subjects had to complete this procedure with at least 10 flu patients. A similar experiment took place in San Francisco with 50 prisoners.
The result was the same both times: None of the subjects became ill. (Source: Alfred W. Crosby “America’s Forgotten Pandemic,” Cambridge University Press, 2003) "
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