The Fallacious Germ Theory

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The Germ Theory is the belief that germs are the primal cause of disease.  Nutrition and exercise play a small role, but it’s really the all-pervading germ that makes you sick.  That’s why we “catch cold”, thereby expelling the responsibility outside ourselves. With this mistaken ideology we lose our innate power to heal ourselves, what Hippocrates called vis medicatrix naturae. Since it was something outside of your body that made you sick, in order to get well you must also seek help from an outside force, namely vaccines and doctors in general. Luckily we don’t live in a bizarro reality like that.  We don’t “catch disease”, we create it.  It is not a sick person’s fault for being sick, since they never learned how the human body actually operates, but ultimately the responsibility lies with the individual. Germs do not cause disease.  The precautions…

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