I like the main idea of the essay and I agree that the industry based on diagnoses hides a small number of fundamental causes, and that workers in that industry (MDs) are blinded by the practice and pursue false and mostly harmful remedies.
However, I think the 4 causes that you describe miss some important dimensions, as follows.
1. Parasites are real and are a major biological stress depending on the ecology and species and environment. Humans are no exception. In a broad sense this can include unrestrained bacterial population structures in the major microbiomes (respiratory, gut, skin, urinary/reproductive).
2. Environmental variations and fluctuations (especially temperature and atmospheric pressure) are a major source of biological stress that is needed to explain the so-called (quite large) winter burden of excess mortality on the planet.
3. Going beyond individual experienced stress, a change in social isolation can itself be quite deadly.
4. Going beyond individual experienced stress, a change in mobility (physical immobilization or movement impedance) literally and efficiently kills, as animal experiments have proven.
5. Going beyond individual experienced stress, non-chronic stress that is ordinary chaotic aggression and stress associated with maintaining the societal dominance hierarchy makes you sick and kills. There is necessarily a health gradient in the social hierarchy, beyond the 4 causes that you described. The gradient will be accompanied by a nutritional gradient also.
6. Unavoidable body-intrinsic aging, which accumulates unrepaired sub-cellular defects until tissues degrade and organ systems start to fail. This is related to the so-called Gompertz law of mortality.
7. Accidents (including overdoses), injuries from fights, attacks form animals and plants, self-harm including suicide... earthquakes, volcanoes, landslides, floods, structural failures... which need not be related to your 4 causes.
8. War and genocide between social groups.
9. Climatic changes... inducing droughts, cold temperature, reduced agricultural yields, etc. These are well documented in history.
10. State/empire failure or melt down, which follows its own dynamics... as I explored in my recent "Conceptual Model of State Collapse", which is associated with bursts of elite over-exploitation, often causing price inflation...
Sorry, I felt I needed to advance a broader picture.
Also, in my opinion, direct bodily EMF impact is minimal, except as part of an imposed work or living environment, which is under social dominance hierarchy. The EMF controversies are another story.
Fair point that several items on your list (accidents, war, state collapse, climatic catastrophe, aging) sit outside what I was trying to address. The essay is about disease specifically—the body's internal response to terrain disruption—rather than everything that kills. That's a narrower frame than your broader picture, and I should have made that scope explicit.
On stress, you've surfaced something I underweighted. The essay leans heavily on Maté's emotional repression work, but Selye's original definition—"the nonspecific response of the body to any demand"—is broad enough to include environmental fluctuation, social isolation, immobility, and dominance hierarchy. These are real and distinct. Worth developing further.
On parasites: the terrain position is that compromised terrain precedes infestation—they arrive because the internal environment supports them, then become an additional stressor. Your framing of them as biological stress fits within that.
IMO, based on much reading and experience and discussions, "the terrain position that compromised terrain precedes infestation" as a general or strict rule/law is incorrect. Parasites and clusters of potential pathogens assault or challenge the body constantly. Whether a threatening significant infection or invasion develops or is repelled depends in part on prior health status but certainly not as an absolute general rule. There is not a health shield that blocks assaults or entry and once the threat is delivered the outcome is not entirely determined by prior health status. (It's a chaotic complex system.) There are many varied cases. For example, on the other hand, much sickness does not require any outside assaults or challenges, such as when one of one's microbiomes (respiratory, gut, skin, urinal/reproductive) spirals out of balance. Those cases are classic cases where "stress" plays a major role, and resilience against the effects of "stress" is highly dependent on health and nutritional status, etc. My article "Medical Hypothesis: Respiratory epidemics and pandemics without viral transmission" has a good referenced overview.
Also, you state <<"the nonspecific response of the body to any demand"—is broad enough to include environmental fluctuation, social isolation, immobility, and dominance hierarchy>>. I would respond that "broad enough to include" is contrary to identifying the fundamental cause and masks or blurs too much important context. The specific impacts of different environmental causes that are "environmental fluctuation, social isolation, immobility, and dominance hierarchy" are worth identifying and characterizing if one wants to understand health. One then asks to discover the mechanisms wherein each fundamental cause produces "biological stress" and whether that is the best or only follow-up research question.
None of my comments are intended as merely criticisms but rather as part of a broad discussion. Cheers, and thanks for a great essay.
You are right about parasites, I think. After 20+ years of unsuitable food, I decided to change. Without knowing I was hosting parasites, one day, maybe a year after drastic dietary improvement, what I discharged into the toilet amazed and disgusted me. I say that my cleaned-out body was no longer of interest to those repulsive "worms".
Now about "accidents". I say there are no accidents in the universe. People who can no longer exist in their physical form attract accidents which either kills them or gives them a warning that all is not right and needs change. It may be something as small as cutting yourself while chopping food, or it may be a car crash leaving you dead or debilitated. In any case, it happens for a reason. We believe in a rational universe or we don't. If we don't, we are no better than the medical professionals pushing their symptom-suppressing drugs and treatments.
Parasites really seem to be the elephant in the room. Completely ignored by Rockefeller medicine + extremely tricky to diagnose - when you are not looking for something there is 0 chance of finding it. Parasite paradigm point more than clearly made by recent "New book - cancer / parasites" unbekoming post by Ben Fen most will have read. Interesting point that the nation of India deworms twice yearly as a standard practice, and this on top of the hot/spicy food there.
Hi, H.F.A. Thanks for your most interesting comments. I wonder how many folks "look beyond the immediate surface of life's events etc." I don't see much of that. Everything bad that "happens" to them is always someone else's fault. Toujours an innocent victim.
That's the essential point. "We" are the ones forming the world. If we wouldn't look the other way all the time, distract ourselves etc but be active and aware, and also especially aware we are all spiritual beings, the world would be a different place. The NWO reptiles running the show from the background through their army of useful idiots wouldn't stand half a chance. Big if.
Yup. And the folks who really run things behind the scenes make sure that we are kept busy distracting ourselves, even sometimes against our better judgement. Think of high-test team sports for one thing.
The "Spanish Flu" illustrates several of your points.
Virtually all of the illnesses that were retrospectively pumped into the "Spanish Flu" pile of disease and death were in fact caused by the various impacts of WW1.
That was miniscule to irrelevant (when speaking specifically to the fabricated "Spanish Flu") compared to the impacts of WW1 particularly the impacts of the various poisonous weaponry that was utilized (and remained in the environment for years) by all forces and the global social devastation that created virtually every severe deprivation known to humanity.
I don't need to read your post on this Denis as I have researched and written on this topic at great length.
Glad you added all those .. I would add inherited traits/limitations/defects, spiritual afflictions, religious conflicts etc . The most important fact is they all INTERELATE too .. it became such a minefield for our ancestors, combined with the logistics of maintaining a healing profession, that they wound up treating symptoms as clearly and discretely as possible. Health narratives balloon into a giant mushroom cloud when you start to address all the likely factors... Amazing any of us are still standing tbh. lol.
(For me EMFs are one of the biggest factors btw.. because we all differ so much. I am acutely sensitive to them !)
yup .. or as my friend puts it .. we seem to be quite hard to kill . lol. If you look at things people have lived through in the past , its mind boggling !
that's a bit simplistic if you read the parasite research. All 'parasites' and commensals are different. There is some quite nuanced research on all this. Some help sometimes and are neutral at other times and harm at other times , if the research is anything to go by. it's pretty commonsensical tho . A mouse in your house helps sometimes, is neutral sometimes and harmful other times. Animals are often stronger if they have some active parasites .. but pathology, overgrowth, behaviour change etc can be the result also. They might eat the heavy metals but what do they then do with them ?? Its a much broader subject than simple good vs bad. In fact all these factors are more complex.
I am not sure about this, but it seems that "heavy metals" entered the human world after people got the idea to dig into the soil in a big way, thereby unleashing these molecules onto us. And the "rest is history".
Yes and when we stopped eating so much meat I guess . Animals filter out most of the toxins for us. When we eat plants we eat the toxins more directly .. and yes, we pollute rivers in the process too.
From what I can see, parasites only thrive in a body that is under assault with toxicity and heavy metals . Therefore, parasites are actually doing good work once they ingest the heavy metals and there is nothing left for them to eat, they die off, leaving the organism better than it was.
Parasites really seem to be the elephant in the room. Completely ignored by Rockefeller medicine + extremely tricky to diagnose - when you are not looking for something there is 0 chance of finding it. Parasite paradigm point more than clearly made by recent "New book - cancer / parasites" unbekoming post by Ben Fen most will have read. Interesting point that the nation of India deworms twice yearly as a standard practice, and this on top of the hot/spicy food there.
What is lacking in this whole discussion is the central role a whole and vibrant immune system plays in protecting the body from all pathogens. They exist from viral form to bacterial to fungal. A whole and vibrant system will eliminate the pathogen readily.
There is a place for prescription drugs to manage acute situations. I acquired either E Coli or C Diff from mistakenly consuming a rare filet. It is reported that 6% of the cattle carry these pathogens. At least 30,000 die of C-Diff annually in the USA and over 500,000 acquire it. Eliminate hospital room contamination and cattle that carry the pathogen and the problem would be solved. I would have bleed to death if Mayo had not administered a IV antibiotic on a timely basis. My friend Sharon died of C-Diff because she was not warned of the danger after being hospitalized and treated with antibiotics for pneumonia. Death by Medicine is real. Gary Null et al described it well. Over medication is a major issue. My wife's lymphoma was subdued for 8 years until she was treated with RX drugs that have immune system suppressing effects. I did not understand that at the time. Her immune system was strong enough for 8 years to suppress the pathogen that creates the B Cell issue because we changed her life style. So, there is a lot of dirty bath water, but we don't want to throw the baby out with the water. The allopathic medicine model has to be dampened and changed, and the monied medicine boys don't what that to happen. RFK Jr. knows what needs to be done and the road blocks have and will be many.
Since learning how medicine really works after being gas lite thru my professional career and having been a care giver multiple times in retirement, I have been preaching N2E+ for Life. First N for good nutrition without toxins, Second N for supplementation for nutrition deficiencies, and E for Exercise and + for Mind Body harmony. Translation on Mind-Body is learn to live a stress free life so cortisol doesn't suppress your immune system chronically. thomasabraurph@substack.com PS: Most Americans are deficient in Vitamin D for a host of reasons.
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I hope I'm not the only one who thinks this would make a great intro for a theatrical show/Thought-provoking/satirical/Medical Industrial Complex poking comedy so sad that you have to laugh or you're gonna cry, Documentary? A way to keep the uninitiated viewer interested and educate them or make them think of things that they never have before? And maybe make one person, family, neighborhood, town, city, county, state, country healthier.
How do you explain the fact that some folks love their disease/illness/condition? And can't wait to have it suppressed this way or that by visiting a person with a white coat and a prescription pad? My mother was that way.
OK, I'll answer my own question. They want attention from "important" people.
“‘The body’s healing responses are classified as diseases requiring suppression’ is a potent inversion. i'll keep from this, what’s the upstream insult this symptom might be adapting to?”
This is a great piece that has the potential to "flip" the way someone thinks about illness. There is no need for every single causal factor to be included (that would require a lengthy book) as the foundational concepts you lay out bring clarity to an otherwise (intentionally) muddled picture.
Whooping cough is an excellent example of how a "disease" is completely invented not only to advance the allopathic model but also to cover up the actual causes of illness. The major epidemic in Paris in 1578 was the first documented “outbreak” of whooping cough with the supposed "cause" of these coughing fits identified until much later.
Remarkably absent from this retrospective analysis of this alleged condition is any consideration of what life was like in Paris in 1578 and how those conditions created the perfect petri dish for an all out assault on the respiratory system.
Everyday life through 16th and 17th century Paris was crowded, foul-smelling, and sharply divided by class. Streets were narrow and muddy, sanitation was nearly nonexistent, and disease was a constant threat. Most Parisians struggled with poverty, food shortages, and brutal living conditions. Wolves roamed the streets.
Daily life for most people was defined by widespread poverty, rampant disease, poor sanitation and severe food crises. Most lived in crowded, unsanitary conditions, personal bathing was infrequent leading to lice and infestations.
Diets were extremely poor for most, consisting of black bread, vegetable soups, and occasional meat which was often rotted as there was no refrigeration. Scurvy and other vitamin deficiencies were common. People resorted to eating rats, dogs, zoo animals, and military horses, with accounts of cannibalism and making bread from human bones that have been chronicled.
"Bark bread," acorns, and other non-traditional items were consumed during extreme dearth. In essence, the late 16th century in Paris was marked by recurrent food insecurity, culminating in the devastating famine during the 1590 siege, a stark example of how war and poor harvests decimated urban populations
This isn’t to traffic in morbid descriptions but to highlight the severity of the living conditions that people faced during this time.
People having chronic coughing conditions was the norm. Yet we are told that the cause of these respiratory illnesses was some bacterium and not the brutal living conditions.
You really have to have been driven into a state of irrational thought to believe the modern medical mythologies and years of non-stop propaganda does just that.
Thank you. The whooping cough example is exactly right—brutal living conditions producing respiratory symptoms, symptoms attributed to a pathogen, actual causes vanishing from view. Appreciate you extending the framework.
"People resorted to eating rats, dogs, zoo animals, and military horses, with accounts of cannibalism and making bread from human bones that have been chronicled."
And we can expect that to reoccur even here in good ol' US of A, after a complete economic breakdown, which is not outside the realm of possibility. People are so hooked on meat that there won't be any animal left after such chaos. Domesticated food animals, wild animals, birds, zoo animals, "pets", bats, and so on. Sayonara to them all. And human bushmeat last in the lineup.
By the way, acorns are a good food if properly prepared. But you need plenty of clean water for that procedure.
Thank you!!! What a great article, and agree with these 4 causes. However, I would add Dehydration (Water and Mineralised Salt depletion}. When the water in the body or terrain is clean and possesses -ve electron voltage where there is no stagnation, flow will occur within the fascia, lymphatic, circulatory and other body systems with normal organ functions. It stands to reason that health is inevitable when we are well hydrated with Structured /Living water and Mineralised salt!
There is a book Called " You're not Sick, You're Thirsty by Dr Batmangheldi listing numerous health conditions as a result of acute and chronic dehydration. Water is LIFE!!!
We also need to restore our relationship to the elements
Air and Deep Breathing
Consuming Structured, UN- fluoridated and unpoisoned drinking water
Grounding / Earthing and
Sun Gazing / Sun Exposure for Natural Light and Balance of Neurochemicals
The Aether because of its electromagnetic properties - Still much to learn on this topic!
Thank you to Dawn and David for your information, not to mention , Dr Daniel Roytas, Dr Tom Cowan, Dr Andrew Kauffman and the Bigelsen Brothers for sharing their fathers work on holographic blood. You are my " go to" in all my readings out of the mainstream !
Nina ex Nurse in Australia Reprogramming for Truth in Health and wellness
Thank you, Nina. Dehydration fits within the deficiency category—the body lacking essential inputs, water being among the most fundamental. Same framework, same logic. Appreciate the kind words and the work you're doing reprogramming for truth.
"There is a book Called " You're not Sick, You're Thirsty by Dr Batmangheldi [sic] listing numerous health conditions as a result of acute and chronic dehydration."
First of all, I acknowledge that it is not a crime to get sick, regardless of what you do in life to promote good health in other people. So we must sorrowfully add Dr. Banmanghelidj to the list of health experts/writers of all kinds who were not able to cure themselves. I wonder why hydration did not cure Batmanghelidj of his pneumonia. Maybe it was electrolytes, not plain water we need? I remember hearing him on a radio show critical of the show's host concern over additives in tap water - Batman thought that practice was just fine because, you know, "untreated water will make you sick." Someone should have told him that treated water makes you sick, too, but in a different way.
Michio Kushi; countless macrobiotic teachers; Andreas Moritz; Annemarie Colbin; Adelle Davis (though she blamed herself for her serious problem and admitted that one aspect of her advice was bad;); Dr. Batmanghelidj; Hulda Clark.
Those are the few I can quickly recall and there are so many more. I don't criticize any of them, I congratulate them for having helped many people for at least a period of time. I am only wondering if you can't cure yourself thru your method you want others to follow, why would I listen. I do not take financial advice from a pauper.
The idea of getting at root causes of illness is vital and an essential advance in the understanding of diagnosis and treatment. The idea of having a small number of thematically linked categories of illness causation is correct, but I would quibble with the categories chosen. The category of toxic exposure is spot on, but I would group EMF in that category, as it is a toxin, although not a chemical one. I'd also make it clear that bad nutrition includes toxic foods that are equivalent to chemical toxins, as well as nutritionally deficient foods. In the category of deficiency, I'd add to the category of missing nutrients a lack of exposure to sunshine, lack of exercise, lack of exposure to nature, and lack of spiritual direction. These are all deficiencies quite prevalent in the modern world. The category of stress needs a bit of reworking from my point of view. Stress is a good thing, except when to excess. Lack of stress can be a deficiency, as we can see from those who fail to exercise, fail to challenge their minds, and fail to test their grit (to wit, The Coddling of the American Mind). I prefer to replace the stress category with constitutional mismatch. As a homeopath, I study the various strengths and weaknesses of different types of people - their Achilles heels and their unique gifts. Homeopathy posits that all humans possess both, but to different degrees and of differing characters. One person might be quite sensitive to odors, another to temperature change, another to criticism, and yet another to heights. These constitutional factors, which are inborn, but not necessarily entirely genetic, determine our unique human profile of susceptibilities. Whereas one person may weep easily at small stresses, another will have a weak back that can not tolerate even moderate levels of exercise. Helping the mind-body system's native healing powers to shore up weaknesses is part of homeopathic constitutional treatment. It dips our Achilles heels into the River Styx, although never with entirely perfect outcomes. Two other categories strike me as warranting inclusion: one is trauma - which is exposure to severe stresses that are outside of the realm of normal human capacity for adaptation: a severe blow to the head during a motor vehicle accident, or the accidental death of a loved one are examples. A final category is microbiome disturbance, which may be due to toxicity, but implies only a toxic effect to the microbiome itself, not necessarily directly to the body. This may be a subset of an even larger category -being out of synch with the environment to which we are symbiotically linked. This may comprise social disjunction - dislocation from one's family, friends or community, or a sick relationship with one's environment, such as depending on a lifestyle that poisons the life forms that we depend on for sustenance. This category might better be thought of as environmental relational imbalance. Such are my proposed revisions, although I agree with the idea that there are basic root causes that we would be unwise to ignore, and in fact must pay attention to truly bring about healing in our patients.
Thoughtful refinements—thank you. The overlap with Selye is real: he distinguished eustress from distress, and your point that stress is good except in excess fits that framing. Expanding deficiency beyond nutrients to include sunshine, exercise, nature, and spiritual direction also resonates—these are documented and underweighted. Appreciate the careful engagement.
This article came at a particular interesting time for me. I went to the doctor last Wednesday after a number of symptoms that had been plaguing me for weeks. It's the first time I had been to the doctor in over four years. After much discussion with my doctor (that is somewhat aware; he knows all about iatrogenic medicine) and a few basic tests, the conclusion was no diagnosis. Thank God. Instead of insisting on a diagnosis, I plan on becoming more proactive in figuring out my problems on my own. I'm 78 years old and take no pharmaceuticals so I think I'm on the right track.
GNM started with the identification of brain lesions post trauma - leading to an adaptation in the body - the area of which depended, in part, on the site of the lesion.
Paul, I appreciate your comment. It is wise. I'm glad to know I'm not the only one thinking about the limitations and/or ill-intents of GNM. Thank you.
Dump Western medicine. The branches, such as functional medicine, holistic doctors or whatever still use the medical label to figure out how to treat. Naturopaths do the same thing, except they use supplements, so you end up with a supplement graveyard. Functional medicine doctors take this label and isolate the system and it's collaterals to try and treat you.
Chinese medicine uses circulation as one of the means of diagnosis because 5000 years have revealed patterns of tissue responses to endothelial dysfunction (leaky blood vessels). Labels are important because 'cancer' has a higher sense of urgency than a lump that otherwise has no symptoms associated with it; although I expect the Chinese medicine doctor will be able to find the meridians that need help. Using meridians gives you a pattern that the doctor can then use a set of herbs (proprietary or a new script) to help the body get things in order.
Homeopathy works on patterns also, although if the condition is acute, they will use their emergency toolkit before the remedies they use for lower grade, more chronic complaints.
So pattern matching works much better than the reductionist model of Western medicine except in trauma cases where reductionism is the only model that works in treatment.
Your first paragraph is just great. Re naturopaths, maybe their brains were still stuck on medical labels, but in the past they at least used herbs and long-existing effective external treatments; and some of these nature doctors were quite wise (personal experience). However, over a generation ago, they reinvented themselves into MDs though without the legal right to deliver babies or do major surgery, though otherwise they still have the same mentality. If you can find a traditional naturopath, you are lucky indeed.
Chinese medicine is a wonderful framework for understanding symptoms with its ideas of patterns. However, as I am sure you know, they have gotten pretty hung up on modern western style treatments, too. As in: go to your allopath, get pieces of your body lopped off and irradiated, then then come back and take their acupuncture and herbs. LOL. Anybody notice that acupuncture clinics are mushrooming like crazy? No more herbs, just get yer 10 (or more) needle treatments at $70.00 a crack. SMH. I must add that the western invention called "electro-acupuncture" is an improvement. I can swear by it. Western-ism isn't totally criminal.
2. Learn to listen to your body. It tells you what is the situation with health. Try not to trust your own tongue (taste buds are present on it). Nothing wrong with indulgence, but, everything with moderation.
3. Nobody forces you to use harmful EMF emitting devices.
I think it is more complex than you present but I agree that these four issues should be the first line of action for a society. If we do not deal with these we don't know what the residual chronic illnesses are. This fits my own advice on metabolic health - don't eat anything with added sugar and don't have food prepared with seed oils. After a few months of that you can then decide on what other diet changes might be useful but the major crippling agents have been banished.
Large-scale, this seems spot-on. However, when you're assessing the individual - maybe yourself, maybe a loved one - I think there's another factor to consider: actual physical deformity (in organs, bone structure, etc). Granted, the cause of the deformity might be traced back to maternal nutrition or toxic exposure, but for the affected individual, that deformity can still cause significant issues that, unfortunately, can't be resolved by eliminating toxins and EMF exposure, reducing stress, and implementing high-quality nutrition. When you're trying to figure out the root of a health issue to help someone or yourself feel better, I would propose 5 categories to consider, the 5th being physical deformity.
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The four cases are a bit of oversimplifying the situation, and are using a reversed argument, because those, who represent them haven't defined health, as opposed to illness. I have:
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Thank you kindly. I never seek contention, but try to spend the little time I have left helping out. Of course, I only inform, entertain, and motivate, and it MUST be everyone's personal decision, whatever they decide, and they'll never have to agree with me! My reward is that they are making their own decisions! :)
I like the main idea of the essay and I agree that the industry based on diagnoses hides a small number of fundamental causes, and that workers in that industry (MDs) are blinded by the practice and pursue false and mostly harmful remedies.
However, I think the 4 causes that you describe miss some important dimensions, as follows.
1. Parasites are real and are a major biological stress depending on the ecology and species and environment. Humans are no exception. In a broad sense this can include unrestrained bacterial population structures in the major microbiomes (respiratory, gut, skin, urinary/reproductive).
2. Environmental variations and fluctuations (especially temperature and atmospheric pressure) are a major source of biological stress that is needed to explain the so-called (quite large) winter burden of excess mortality on the planet.
3. Going beyond individual experienced stress, a change in social isolation can itself be quite deadly.
4. Going beyond individual experienced stress, a change in mobility (physical immobilization or movement impedance) literally and efficiently kills, as animal experiments have proven.
5. Going beyond individual experienced stress, non-chronic stress that is ordinary chaotic aggression and stress associated with maintaining the societal dominance hierarchy makes you sick and kills. There is necessarily a health gradient in the social hierarchy, beyond the 4 causes that you described. The gradient will be accompanied by a nutritional gradient also.
6. Unavoidable body-intrinsic aging, which accumulates unrepaired sub-cellular defects until tissues degrade and organ systems start to fail. This is related to the so-called Gompertz law of mortality.
7. Accidents (including overdoses), injuries from fights, attacks form animals and plants, self-harm including suicide... earthquakes, volcanoes, landslides, floods, structural failures... which need not be related to your 4 causes.
8. War and genocide between social groups.
9. Climatic changes... inducing droughts, cold temperature, reduced agricultural yields, etc. These are well documented in history.
10. State/empire failure or melt down, which follows its own dynamics... as I explored in my recent "Conceptual Model of State Collapse", which is associated with bursts of elite over-exploitation, often causing price inflation...
Sorry, I felt I needed to advance a broader picture.
Also, in my opinion, direct bodily EMF impact is minimal, except as part of an imposed work or living environment, which is under social dominance hierarchy. The EMF controversies are another story.
Cheers.
Thank you for this.
Fair point that several items on your list (accidents, war, state collapse, climatic catastrophe, aging) sit outside what I was trying to address. The essay is about disease specifically—the body's internal response to terrain disruption—rather than everything that kills. That's a narrower frame than your broader picture, and I should have made that scope explicit.
On stress, you've surfaced something I underweighted. The essay leans heavily on Maté's emotional repression work, but Selye's original definition—"the nonspecific response of the body to any demand"—is broad enough to include environmental fluctuation, social isolation, immobility, and dominance hierarchy. These are real and distinct. Worth developing further.
On parasites: the terrain position is that compromised terrain precedes infestation—they arrive because the internal environment supports them, then become an additional stressor. Your framing of them as biological stress fits within that.
Appreciate you pushing on this.
Hi Unbekoming,
IMO, based on much reading and experience and discussions, "the terrain position that compromised terrain precedes infestation" as a general or strict rule/law is incorrect. Parasites and clusters of potential pathogens assault or challenge the body constantly. Whether a threatening significant infection or invasion develops or is repelled depends in part on prior health status but certainly not as an absolute general rule. There is not a health shield that blocks assaults or entry and once the threat is delivered the outcome is not entirely determined by prior health status. (It's a chaotic complex system.) There are many varied cases. For example, on the other hand, much sickness does not require any outside assaults or challenges, such as when one of one's microbiomes (respiratory, gut, skin, urinal/reproductive) spirals out of balance. Those cases are classic cases where "stress" plays a major role, and resilience against the effects of "stress" is highly dependent on health and nutritional status, etc. My article "Medical Hypothesis: Respiratory epidemics and pandemics without viral transmission" has a good referenced overview.
Also, you state <<"the nonspecific response of the body to any demand"—is broad enough to include environmental fluctuation, social isolation, immobility, and dominance hierarchy>>. I would respond that "broad enough to include" is contrary to identifying the fundamental cause and masks or blurs too much important context. The specific impacts of different environmental causes that are "environmental fluctuation, social isolation, immobility, and dominance hierarchy" are worth identifying and characterizing if one wants to understand health. One then asks to discover the mechanisms wherein each fundamental cause produces "biological stress" and whether that is the best or only follow-up research question.
None of my comments are intended as merely criticisms but rather as part of a broad discussion. Cheers, and thanks for a great essay.
You are right about parasites, I think. After 20+ years of unsuitable food, I decided to change. Without knowing I was hosting parasites, one day, maybe a year after drastic dietary improvement, what I discharged into the toilet amazed and disgusted me. I say that my cleaned-out body was no longer of interest to those repulsive "worms".
Now about "accidents". I say there are no accidents in the universe. People who can no longer exist in their physical form attract accidents which either kills them or gives them a warning that all is not right and needs change. It may be something as small as cutting yourself while chopping food, or it may be a car crash leaving you dead or debilitated. In any case, it happens for a reason. We believe in a rational universe or we don't. If we don't, we are no better than the medical professionals pushing their symptom-suppressing drugs and treatments.
Your article is precious. It is so wise.
> If we don't believe in a rational universe, we are no better than the medical professionals pushing their symptom-suppressing drugs and treatments.
Completely disagree. If we deny there is a spiritual world you are locked into todays' 100 percent materialistic, satanic world.
"Rational world" means a universe with a purpose, whether we can discern that purpose or not. It does not deny a spiritual world.
Parasites really seem to be the elephant in the room. Completely ignored by Rockefeller medicine + extremely tricky to diagnose - when you are not looking for something there is 0 chance of finding it. Parasite paradigm point more than clearly made by recent "New book - cancer / parasites" unbekoming post by Ben Fen most will have read. Interesting point that the nation of India deworms twice yearly as a standard practice, and this on top of the hot/spicy food there.
I recall reading that here in Amerika, too, parents dewormed their children once a year. I don't know how long ago that was, though.
Hi, H.F.A. Thanks for your most interesting comments. I wonder how many folks "look beyond the immediate surface of life's events etc." I don't see much of that. Everything bad that "happens" to them is always someone else's fault. Toujours an innocent victim.
That's the essential point. "We" are the ones forming the world. If we wouldn't look the other way all the time, distract ourselves etc but be active and aware, and also especially aware we are all spiritual beings, the world would be a different place. The NWO reptiles running the show from the background through their army of useful idiots wouldn't stand half a chance. Big if.
Yup. And the folks who really run things behind the scenes make sure that we are kept busy distracting ourselves, even sometimes against our better judgement. Think of high-test team sports for one thing.
The "Spanish Flu" illustrates several of your points.
Virtually all of the illnesses that were retrospectively pumped into the "Spanish Flu" pile of disease and death were in fact caused by the various impacts of WW1.
Actually, analysts often miss the large cause related to opioid pharma dumping in that 1918 period. see my medical hypothesis post.
That was miniscule to irrelevant (when speaking specifically to the fabricated "Spanish Flu") compared to the impacts of WW1 particularly the impacts of the various poisonous weaponry that was utilized (and remained in the environment for years) by all forces and the global social devastation that created virtually every severe deprivation known to humanity.
I don't need to read your post on this Denis as I have researched and written on this topic at great length.
Where do we find your writing on this topic, Allen?
https://healthfreedomdefense.org/exploding-the-spanish-flu-myth/
Glad you added all those .. I would add inherited traits/limitations/defects, spiritual afflictions, religious conflicts etc . The most important fact is they all INTERELATE too .. it became such a minefield for our ancestors, combined with the logistics of maintaining a healing profession, that they wound up treating symptoms as clearly and discretely as possible. Health narratives balloon into a giant mushroom cloud when you start to address all the likely factors... Amazing any of us are still standing tbh. lol.
(For me EMFs are one of the biggest factors btw.. because we all differ so much. I am acutely sensitive to them !)
yup .. or as my friend puts it .. we seem to be quite hard to kill . lol. If you look at things people have lived through in the past , its mind boggling !
I agree with you but parasites and bacteria are a result of damage or toxins.
In tuna, parasites sequester mercury so that the rest of the tuna doesn't have issues with nerve signaling and muscles.
that's a bit simplistic if you read the parasite research. All 'parasites' and commensals are different. There is some quite nuanced research on all this. Some help sometimes and are neutral at other times and harm at other times , if the research is anything to go by. it's pretty commonsensical tho . A mouse in your house helps sometimes, is neutral sometimes and harmful other times. Animals are often stronger if they have some active parasites .. but pathology, overgrowth, behaviour change etc can be the result also. They might eat the heavy metals but what do they then do with them ?? Its a much broader subject than simple good vs bad. In fact all these factors are more complex.
Yes! And I could add a bunch more if time permitted. Cheers.
I am not sure about this, but it seems that "heavy metals" entered the human world after people got the idea to dig into the soil in a big way, thereby unleashing these molecules onto us. And the "rest is history".
Yes and when we stopped eating so much meat I guess . Animals filter out most of the toxins for us. When we eat plants we eat the toxins more directly .. and yes, we pollute rivers in the process too.
I think it pertinent to point out that your #s 6, 7, and 8 are causes of death but not necessarily disease, the latter being the subject of his post.
From what I can see, parasites only thrive in a body that is under assault with toxicity and heavy metals . Therefore, parasites are actually doing good work once they ingest the heavy metals and there is nothing left for them to eat, they die off, leaving the organism better than it was.
Parasites really seem to be the elephant in the room. Completely ignored by Rockefeller medicine + extremely tricky to diagnose - when you are not looking for something there is 0 chance of finding it. Parasite paradigm point more than clearly made by recent "New book - cancer / parasites" unbekoming post by Ben Fen most will have read. Interesting point that the nation of India deworms twice yearly as a standard practice, and this on top of the hot/spicy food there.
What is lacking in this whole discussion is the central role a whole and vibrant immune system plays in protecting the body from all pathogens. They exist from viral form to bacterial to fungal. A whole and vibrant system will eliminate the pathogen readily.
There is a place for prescription drugs to manage acute situations. I acquired either E Coli or C Diff from mistakenly consuming a rare filet. It is reported that 6% of the cattle carry these pathogens. At least 30,000 die of C-Diff annually in the USA and over 500,000 acquire it. Eliminate hospital room contamination and cattle that carry the pathogen and the problem would be solved. I would have bleed to death if Mayo had not administered a IV antibiotic on a timely basis. My friend Sharon died of C-Diff because she was not warned of the danger after being hospitalized and treated with antibiotics for pneumonia. Death by Medicine is real. Gary Null et al described it well. Over medication is a major issue. My wife's lymphoma was subdued for 8 years until she was treated with RX drugs that have immune system suppressing effects. I did not understand that at the time. Her immune system was strong enough for 8 years to suppress the pathogen that creates the B Cell issue because we changed her life style. So, there is a lot of dirty bath water, but we don't want to throw the baby out with the water. The allopathic medicine model has to be dampened and changed, and the monied medicine boys don't what that to happen. RFK Jr. knows what needs to be done and the road blocks have and will be many.
Since learning how medicine really works after being gas lite thru my professional career and having been a care giver multiple times in retirement, I have been preaching N2E+ for Life. First N for good nutrition without toxins, Second N for supplementation for nutrition deficiencies, and E for Exercise and + for Mind Body harmony. Translation on Mind-Body is learn to live a stress free life so cortisol doesn't suppress your immune system chronically. thomasabraurph@substack.com PS: Most Americans are deficient in Vitamin D for a host of reasons.
Thank you. “The truth is in the whole.”
Appreciate your points here, but does not in any way remove the power of this essay by piling on. Some of these you mention may simply be subsets.
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Funny. Telepathy works. Exactly the words of Dr. Trozzi in his latest article
"Kla TV interview: How Medicine Was Transformed into Theatre & Deception
Drawing on firsthand experience and broader trends, I explain how fear and conformity displaced ethics, science, and clinical responsibility"
Dr Mark Trozzi MD - Jan 28, 2026
https://www.drtrozzi.news/p/kla-tv-interview-how-medicine-was
How do you explain the fact that some folks love their disease/illness/condition? And can't wait to have it suppressed this way or that by visiting a person with a white coat and a prescription pad? My mother was that way.
OK, I'll answer my own question. They want attention from "important" people.
“‘The body’s healing responses are classified as diseases requiring suppression’ is a potent inversion. i'll keep from this, what’s the upstream insult this symptom might be adapting to?”
This is a great piece that has the potential to "flip" the way someone thinks about illness. There is no need for every single causal factor to be included (that would require a lengthy book) as the foundational concepts you lay out bring clarity to an otherwise (intentionally) muddled picture.
Whooping cough is an excellent example of how a "disease" is completely invented not only to advance the allopathic model but also to cover up the actual causes of illness. The major epidemic in Paris in 1578 was the first documented “outbreak” of whooping cough with the supposed "cause" of these coughing fits identified until much later.
Remarkably absent from this retrospective analysis of this alleged condition is any consideration of what life was like in Paris in 1578 and how those conditions created the perfect petri dish for an all out assault on the respiratory system.
Everyday life through 16th and 17th century Paris was crowded, foul-smelling, and sharply divided by class. Streets were narrow and muddy, sanitation was nearly nonexistent, and disease was a constant threat. Most Parisians struggled with poverty, food shortages, and brutal living conditions. Wolves roamed the streets.
Daily life for most people was defined by widespread poverty, rampant disease, poor sanitation and severe food crises. Most lived in crowded, unsanitary conditions, personal bathing was infrequent leading to lice and infestations.
Diets were extremely poor for most, consisting of black bread, vegetable soups, and occasional meat which was often rotted as there was no refrigeration. Scurvy and other vitamin deficiencies were common. People resorted to eating rats, dogs, zoo animals, and military horses, with accounts of cannibalism and making bread from human bones that have been chronicled.
"Bark bread," acorns, and other non-traditional items were consumed during extreme dearth. In essence, the late 16th century in Paris was marked by recurrent food insecurity, culminating in the devastating famine during the 1590 siege, a stark example of how war and poor harvests decimated urban populations
This isn’t to traffic in morbid descriptions but to highlight the severity of the living conditions that people faced during this time.
People having chronic coughing conditions was the norm. Yet we are told that the cause of these respiratory illnesses was some bacterium and not the brutal living conditions.
You really have to have been driven into a state of irrational thought to believe the modern medical mythologies and years of non-stop propaganda does just that.
Thank you. The whooping cough example is exactly right—brutal living conditions producing respiratory symptoms, symptoms attributed to a pathogen, actual causes vanishing from view. Appreciate you extending the framework.
"People resorted to eating rats, dogs, zoo animals, and military horses, with accounts of cannibalism and making bread from human bones that have been chronicled."
And we can expect that to reoccur even here in good ol' US of A, after a complete economic breakdown, which is not outside the realm of possibility. People are so hooked on meat that there won't be any animal left after such chaos. Domesticated food animals, wild animals, birds, zoo animals, "pets", bats, and so on. Sayonara to them all. And human bushmeat last in the lineup.
By the way, acorns are a good food if properly prepared. But you need plenty of clean water for that procedure.
Thank you!!! What a great article, and agree with these 4 causes. However, I would add Dehydration (Water and Mineralised Salt depletion}. When the water in the body or terrain is clean and possesses -ve electron voltage where there is no stagnation, flow will occur within the fascia, lymphatic, circulatory and other body systems with normal organ functions. It stands to reason that health is inevitable when we are well hydrated with Structured /Living water and Mineralised salt!
There is a book Called " You're not Sick, You're Thirsty by Dr Batmangheldi listing numerous health conditions as a result of acute and chronic dehydration. Water is LIFE!!!
We also need to restore our relationship to the elements
Air and Deep Breathing
Consuming Structured, UN- fluoridated and unpoisoned drinking water
Grounding / Earthing and
Sun Gazing / Sun Exposure for Natural Light and Balance of Neurochemicals
The Aether because of its electromagnetic properties - Still much to learn on this topic!
Thank you to Dawn and David for your information, not to mention , Dr Daniel Roytas, Dr Tom Cowan, Dr Andrew Kauffman and the Bigelsen Brothers for sharing their fathers work on holographic blood. You are my " go to" in all my readings out of the mainstream !
Nina ex Nurse in Australia Reprogramming for Truth in Health and wellness
#beingheartcentredbeings
Thank you, Nina. Dehydration fits within the deficiency category—the body lacking essential inputs, water being among the most fundamental. Same framework, same logic. Appreciate the kind words and the work you're doing reprogramming for truth.
"There is a book Called " You're not Sick, You're Thirsty by Dr Batmangheldi [sic] listing numerous health conditions as a result of acute and chronic dehydration."
First of all, I acknowledge that it is not a crime to get sick, regardless of what you do in life to promote good health in other people. So we must sorrowfully add Dr. Banmanghelidj to the list of health experts/writers of all kinds who were not able to cure themselves. I wonder why hydration did not cure Batmanghelidj of his pneumonia. Maybe it was electrolytes, not plain water we need? I remember hearing him on a radio show critical of the show's host concern over additives in tap water - Batman thought that practice was just fine because, you know, "untreated water will make you sick." Someone should have told him that treated water makes you sick, too, but in a different way.
Michio Kushi; countless macrobiotic teachers; Andreas Moritz; Annemarie Colbin; Adelle Davis (though she blamed herself for her serious problem and admitted that one aspect of her advice was bad;); Dr. Batmanghelidj; Hulda Clark.
Those are the few I can quickly recall and there are so many more. I don't criticize any of them, I congratulate them for having helped many people for at least a period of time. I am only wondering if you can't cure yourself thru your method you want others to follow, why would I listen. I do not take financial advice from a pauper.
The idea of getting at root causes of illness is vital and an essential advance in the understanding of diagnosis and treatment. The idea of having a small number of thematically linked categories of illness causation is correct, but I would quibble with the categories chosen. The category of toxic exposure is spot on, but I would group EMF in that category, as it is a toxin, although not a chemical one. I'd also make it clear that bad nutrition includes toxic foods that are equivalent to chemical toxins, as well as nutritionally deficient foods. In the category of deficiency, I'd add to the category of missing nutrients a lack of exposure to sunshine, lack of exercise, lack of exposure to nature, and lack of spiritual direction. These are all deficiencies quite prevalent in the modern world. The category of stress needs a bit of reworking from my point of view. Stress is a good thing, except when to excess. Lack of stress can be a deficiency, as we can see from those who fail to exercise, fail to challenge their minds, and fail to test their grit (to wit, The Coddling of the American Mind). I prefer to replace the stress category with constitutional mismatch. As a homeopath, I study the various strengths and weaknesses of different types of people - their Achilles heels and their unique gifts. Homeopathy posits that all humans possess both, but to different degrees and of differing characters. One person might be quite sensitive to odors, another to temperature change, another to criticism, and yet another to heights. These constitutional factors, which are inborn, but not necessarily entirely genetic, determine our unique human profile of susceptibilities. Whereas one person may weep easily at small stresses, another will have a weak back that can not tolerate even moderate levels of exercise. Helping the mind-body system's native healing powers to shore up weaknesses is part of homeopathic constitutional treatment. It dips our Achilles heels into the River Styx, although never with entirely perfect outcomes. Two other categories strike me as warranting inclusion: one is trauma - which is exposure to severe stresses that are outside of the realm of normal human capacity for adaptation: a severe blow to the head during a motor vehicle accident, or the accidental death of a loved one are examples. A final category is microbiome disturbance, which may be due to toxicity, but implies only a toxic effect to the microbiome itself, not necessarily directly to the body. This may be a subset of an even larger category -being out of synch with the environment to which we are symbiotically linked. This may comprise social disjunction - dislocation from one's family, friends or community, or a sick relationship with one's environment, such as depending on a lifestyle that poisons the life forms that we depend on for sustenance. This category might better be thought of as environmental relational imbalance. Such are my proposed revisions, although I agree with the idea that there are basic root causes that we would be unwise to ignore, and in fact must pay attention to truly bring about healing in our patients.
Thoughtful refinements—thank you. The overlap with Selye is real: he distinguished eustress from distress, and your point that stress is good except in excess fits that framing. Expanding deficiency beyond nutrients to include sunshine, exercise, nature, and spiritual direction also resonates—these are documented and underweighted. Appreciate the careful engagement.
No money in health only sickness … Rockefeller knew. Great write up , thank you. ☺️
This article came at a particular interesting time for me. I went to the doctor last Wednesday after a number of symptoms that had been plaguing me for weeks. It's the first time I had been to the doctor in over four years. After much discussion with my doctor (that is somewhat aware; he knows all about iatrogenic medicine) and a few basic tests, the conclusion was no diagnosis. Thank God. Instead of insisting on a diagnosis, I plan on becoming more proactive in figuring out my problems on my own. I'm 78 years old and take no pharmaceuticals so I think I'm on the right track.
You ARE!
Excellent post. Wholly informative.
Although perhaps unintended, it makes me question German New Medicine even more given its OVER-emphasis on emotions over all else.
Hello Katherine. Emotions are biological messengers. Correct. The OVER-emphasis is suspect. I believe German New Medicine is medical psyop in spades.
GNM started with the identification of brain lesions post trauma - leading to an adaptation in the body - the area of which depended, in part, on the site of the lesion.
Paul, I appreciate your comment. It is wise. I'm glad to know I'm not the only one thinking about the limitations and/or ill-intents of GNM. Thank you.
And Thank You for your kind reply. Best regards.
As a patient I find this reasoning more credible than doctors always prescribing a drug that suppresses the symptoms.
Dump Western medicine. The branches, such as functional medicine, holistic doctors or whatever still use the medical label to figure out how to treat. Naturopaths do the same thing, except they use supplements, so you end up with a supplement graveyard. Functional medicine doctors take this label and isolate the system and it's collaterals to try and treat you.
Chinese medicine uses circulation as one of the means of diagnosis because 5000 years have revealed patterns of tissue responses to endothelial dysfunction (leaky blood vessels). Labels are important because 'cancer' has a higher sense of urgency than a lump that otherwise has no symptoms associated with it; although I expect the Chinese medicine doctor will be able to find the meridians that need help. Using meridians gives you a pattern that the doctor can then use a set of herbs (proprietary or a new script) to help the body get things in order.
Homeopathy works on patterns also, although if the condition is acute, they will use their emergency toolkit before the remedies they use for lower grade, more chronic complaints.
So pattern matching works much better than the reductionist model of Western medicine except in trauma cases where reductionism is the only model that works in treatment.
Homeopathy worked great for me several times. Good practitioners difficult to find though.
Your first paragraph is just great. Re naturopaths, maybe their brains were still stuck on medical labels, but in the past they at least used herbs and long-existing effective external treatments; and some of these nature doctors were quite wise (personal experience). However, over a generation ago, they reinvented themselves into MDs though without the legal right to deliver babies or do major surgery, though otherwise they still have the same mentality. If you can find a traditional naturopath, you are lucky indeed.
Chinese medicine is a wonderful framework for understanding symptoms with its ideas of patterns. However, as I am sure you know, they have gotten pretty hung up on modern western style treatments, too. As in: go to your allopath, get pieces of your body lopped off and irradiated, then then come back and take their acupuncture and herbs. LOL. Anybody notice that acupuncture clinics are mushrooming like crazy? No more herbs, just get yer 10 (or more) needle treatments at $70.00 a crack. SMH. I must add that the western invention called "electro-acupuncture" is an improvement. I can swear by it. Western-ism isn't totally criminal.
I am just now waking up to TCM and so happy to have found my way to it! All of it has proven track records!
Four simple solutions...
1. Grow your own food.
2. Learn to listen to your body. It tells you what is the situation with health. Try not to trust your own tongue (taste buds are present on it). Nothing wrong with indulgence, but, everything with moderation.
3. Nobody forces you to use harmful EMF emitting devices.
Choice is yours to make (no complaining please).
4. Nature provides healthy things. Gym workout is foolishness. Try natural activities. Brisk walk, Running, Swimming (not indoor swimming).
Balanced diet intake, sleep (rest to body).
Clense body with twice a year with good body dewormer (Caster oil).
Stay away from wifi, mobile devices and cook your own food.
Do you live in India? Seems the twice yearly deworming procedure is followed by many
I think it is more complex than you present but I agree that these four issues should be the first line of action for a society. If we do not deal with these we don't know what the residual chronic illnesses are. This fits my own advice on metabolic health - don't eat anything with added sugar and don't have food prepared with seed oils. After a few months of that you can then decide on what other diet changes might be useful but the major crippling agents have been banished.
The other feature of avoiding added sugar and seed oils is that it cuts out a lot of the other rubbish that's bad for people.
Large-scale, this seems spot-on. However, when you're assessing the individual - maybe yourself, maybe a loved one - I think there's another factor to consider: actual physical deformity (in organs, bone structure, etc). Granted, the cause of the deformity might be traced back to maternal nutrition or toxic exposure, but for the affected individual, that deformity can still cause significant issues that, unfortunately, can't be resolved by eliminating toxins and EMF exposure, reducing stress, and implementing high-quality nutrition. When you're trying to figure out the root of a health issue to help someone or yourself feel better, I would propose 5 categories to consider, the 5th being physical deformity.
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The slandering and discrediting of snake oil - turning it into a synonym for fraudulent, useless remedies - is yet another project of the allopathic behemoth to crush natural medicine.
The reality is that snake oil is high in certain essential fats. Look it up, as they say. But I first read about this in a health book some years ago and don't know if the truth is even on the internet.
The four cases are a bit of oversimplifying the situation, and are using a reversed argument, because those, who represent them haven't defined health, as opposed to illness. I have:
https://rayhorvaththesource.substack.com/p/the-symbiotic-human-body
You are ubiquitous! Every time I go into a chat section to find answers to my questions, there you are. You are like the angel on my shoulder, the voice of reason. I’ve learned alot from you just from reading your comments. I just felt compelled to say this. Much respect.
Thank you kindly. I never seek contention, but try to spend the little time I have left helping out. Of course, I only inform, entertain, and motivate, and it MUST be everyone's personal decision, whatever they decide, and they'll never have to agree with me! My reward is that they are making their own decisions! :)