What if having the common flu is our body’s normal physiological response to the changing seasons? For example, when we go from winter cold to warmth in the spring, or from the fall to the winter, and if the difference in temperature is large enough over a period of several days, people’s bodies may trigger a change in metabolism. We may go from a summer metabolism to a winter metabolism, and back, presumably to help us preserve energy during the colder months.
Is this even possible? And if we do swap out our seasonal metabolisms, may we show the symptoms of the common flu? My point is this: What if the flu isn’t at all caused by some airborne virus that travels around the globe each year, with new mutations, targeting the same people? What if the flu is simply caused by our own bodies trying to optimize our metabolism for the new season?
That might explain why the flu returns in such predictable intervals, and why medical science has never been able to produce a vaccine for the common flu. It’s not a virus.
My blasphemous hypothesis could also explain why, for example, the Negroe peoples living in Central Africa suffer almost no flu viruses at all, whereas the peoples living in Northern Europe suffer the flu every year from October through April. Of course. Unlike the nations of the equator, European, Russian, and North American (and other such) nations experience drastic climactic swings from summer to winter, and back.
This brings me to the oft-ridiculed theories of Aajonus Vonderplanitz, a radical raw-food evangelist, who famously claimed our bodies need the bacteria we get from eating raw, uncooked, and unprocessed foods. He believed our bodies and the microbes learn to work together (in our stomachs and in our blood) and so provide a more optimal digestion that our bodies alone could never achieve. If we cook the food, we destroy those helper-bacteria, making it harder to digest certain foods.
In his personal case, Vonderplanitz was forced to eat raw foods due to a surgery on his stomach. It left him unable to digest cooked foods, and doctors gave him only a few years if not months to live. The botched surgery forced him to go looking for the helper-bacteria that could help him properly digest food again. He found them by eating raw foods, especially raw meat. His health returned and he outlived his doctors’ life-expectancy prediction by at least thirty years.
And that wasn’t Vonderplantz’s only radical insight. He also suggested, in his 2005 book We Want to Live, that viruses may not be some dangerous airborn attack vectors that penetrate our bodies via our lungs, eyes, skin, ears, nose, or mouths. Rather, he suggested that the ‘viruses’ doctors seemingly detect in our bodies are actually produced by the cells in our own bodies. Viruses, he wrote, may be a sort of solvents our cells excrete to help cleanup toxins. Those solvents do contain bits of DNA—our own.
In other words, the ‘soap’ that remains after a cleanup exercise is what docters worldwide have mistakenly classified as selfish, self-replicating, cell-destroying viruses. Dead things that kill us. Doctors do agree that most viruses are nothing but dead protein wrapped around bits of DNA. It just never occurred to the doctors that, perhaps, viruses are being produced inside our own bodies, and that they are the solvents that help rid our bodies of toxins.
In case of the common flu, I can imagine it so: Our bodies have to ‘harden up’ in response to colder winter temperatures, and the structures built-up for our winter metabolism have to be broken down again when the summer comes. Different structures may need to be built up at the start of the summer, as well, and torn down again when winter comes. This seasonal destruction of bodily structures, I believe, may be why our bodies naturally excrete specific viruses—the common flu—to clean up the structures’ remnants.
Mind you, I haven’t proven any of this. It’s my thought experiment, but I sense that Vonderplanitz was onto something much more fundamental about how our bodies work. The presence of viruses, according to his view, is a sign of good health, not of disease. It means our bodies detected certain toxins, poisons, or other unecessary matter inside our bodies, upon which some of our cells activated a rinsing program to get rid of these substances.
In doing so, some of these cells destroy themselves to release the “virus”. The viruses then help clean up the toxins we, most likely, ingested. What is so radical about this belief is that it suggests (some of) our cells may be self-sacrificing.
The modern rise in viral infections may point to an increasingly toxic food supply. As globalization and human overpopulation force food producers everywhere to cut cost, our lowest-cost foods simply aren’t the healthiest. They are full of small but accumulating amounts of various toxins and poisons. The foods we eat nowadays are of a poorer quality than the foods our hunter-gatherer ancestors used to eat. The ancestors survived and thrived in the absence of any medical science for millions of years, even in the harshest climates.
If it weren’t for Vonderplanitz’s suggestion, I could never have imagined viruses this way. I, too, was brainwashed into believing that viruses are very dangerous attack vectors that, once they enter our bodies, begin to attack our host cells in order to self-replicate, for “no other reason”.
This idea of selfish, self-replicating dead things happens to echo another one peddled by Richard Dawkins, the evolutionary biologist who also thinks our genes are selfish entities merely trying to replicate themselves. In fact, all of such beliefs in selfish dead things that self-replicate come from the same Marxist-materialist political worldview. In the view of these materialists, everything that goes around in the universe is mindless matter-in-motion.
The materialists believe, for example, that even human consciousness, our minds, or having a free will are religious fictions. But since they see everything as dead matter set in motion by the Big Bang, one has to wonder why they think matter has any selfish desires at all?
The medical doctrine that now educates students of medicine (not of health!) to believe in viral attack vectors, then, is a form of political indoctrination. By the time medical students graduate, these M.D.’s have spent a good decade or more of their lives absorbing a materialist view of life. Inclusion into the class of medical doctors serves as plentiful pressure to get everyone in that class to conform to the same materialist nonsense.
In reality, no one has ever traced a piece of viral matter exiting from one person’s lungs, flying through the air, then entering another person’s lungs, and then attacking host cells to self-replicate. Doctors have, at best, found cells full of viral matter bursting out of these cells. It just never occurred to materialist-indoctrinated doctors that such cells may have voluntarily produced the ‘virus’, namely as a solvent to help clean up toxins that came into contact with the cell.
Doctors have good reason why they might want to ridicule this self-sacrificial hypothesis. It doesn’t serve their careers, for one. You can’t sell vaccines and pills to combat viruses if viruses are actually good things that help rinse the insides of our bodies. Elderly people’s bodies may no longer be able to deal with the rinsing program, and they may, indeed, die of the virus. The elderly who die of the “flu” die because they’ve grown too old to successfully rid their bodies of toxins.
Another reason why doctors won’t go along with Vonderplanitz’s suggestion? Well, the belief in sacrificial selflessness stands at incredible odds with the materialist belief in egotistical selfishness. Imagine that: a living, self-sacrificing cell that excretes viral solvents in order to protect the rest of the body from toxins! That is an idea unheard of among medical doctors because it denies the fundaments of materialism. If certain cells willingly commit suicide to save other cells, it denies that genes must be selfish.
In fact, if Vonderplanitz was right, the theory of selfish genes must be false. If Vonderplanitz was right, the foundations of modern materialist atheism were built on make-believe.
Here, I come to a personal conclusion. If I assume that Vonderplanitz may indeed have been right, then the materialist professions (such as modern medicine and other materialist sciences) all center around a belief in egotism and selfishness as the universe’s guiding principles.
And that, my friends, may betray nothing more than the mindsets of the doctors and scientists themselves. It’s all projection! Materialists are merely projecting their own selfish attitudes toward the world, as though they want you and I to believe the whole universe is one giant ego—theirs.
Indeed, the belief in mindless viruses randomly attacking passers-by makes for a sensational movie, at least, it if weren’t already part of the boring science curriculum for schoolgoing children around the world. I can imagine the tagline for a hit film titled The Martians: “Viruses from Mars that slowly turn you into them!” Yet, this is what we are supposed to accept as our reality—materialist indoctrination.
The dead-matter theory that suggests dead things can somehow attack and self-replicate inside other organisms’ host cells, for no other reason but to self-replicate, is what medical doctors truly believe. As Vonderplanitz suggested, that belief may be on par with saying houshold soap is a dangerous grey goo that may one day self-replicate and cover the whole world, suffocating everything.
Once again, I discover that political materialism lies at the heart of science and medicine.
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