What do we need an immune system for?

'Killer cells' can't help us with glyphosate, EMFs, and heavy metals

Hello, and welcome back to my Substack exploring the importance of knowing that “viruses” are fictional, the “germ theory” should be called the disproven germ hypothesis, and contagion is a myth. Today we are talking about the “immune system.”

Supposedly a microscope image of a “natural killer cell” (they are, unlike “viruses,” big enough to see, but is this what they really look like? Or is it, like so many images of tiny things, a drawing?)

My understanding of how our bodies work to maintain health and balance does not include a role for the “immune system,” as it is conventionally understood. The “immune system,” we are told, is our body’s way to protect us from pathogens such as “viruses” and “bad germs.” It is, according to this model, elegantly designed to detect these invaders and destroy them before they can make us sick. It even has what are called “killer cells” that do this search-and-destroy work.

This description employs the war metaphor to explain what the immune system is, which I and others have argued is not in keeping with nature’s principles but rather applies a human construct to how our biology works (see my previous article, Life is not a battle). The “immune system” story is not unlike the story that calls herbal medicines “anti-viral,” “antibacterial,” and “anti-microbial” when they are actually supporting the body’s own processes rather than killing anything (see my previous article Herbs have no opinion whatsoever of ‘viruses’ or ‘pathogens’). An “immune system” defined in terms of the war metaphor also misunderstands how our bodies work to maintain balance and optimal health by ridding the body of toxins and clearing out dead and dying tissue.

Germs or terrain? It’s one or the other

There are many people saying that it is possible for both the disproven germ hypothesis (“germ theory”) and “terrain theory” to be true. If our basic health is not optimal, they argue—in other words, our terrain is not in the best condition because we are run down, aren’t eating well, aren’t getting enough sleep, etc.—we are more likely to become sick due to pathogenic germs. So keeping the terrain healthy is important, but, they say, we also need an immune system for the times when the terrain is vulnerable.

As I explained in my article Why our terrain is the key to health, this view is a misunderstanding of the premises of both models. The disproven germ hypothesis, which says each specific disease is caused by a specific microbe, maintains that these microbes can make a healthy body sick. People getting sick because they have a “vulnerable terrain” doesn’t square with this premise—everyone is vulnerable to pathogens.

The “both are true” argument also fails in light of a true understanding of the terrain paradigm, in which there are no “pathogens.” “Viruses” do not exist (or have never been proven to) and bacteria do not cause disease, nor are there “contagious” or “infectious” illnesses that are passed from one person to another via microbes through the air or on surfaces. There are, then, no disease-causing invaders that require an immune system to defend against. Nothing for those natural-born killer cells to kill!

a does not equal b

So it’s either the disproven germ hypothesis as an explanation for why people get sick, or it’s the terrain model. Not both. In terms of the terrain model, then, that leaves us with a question: if there are no pathogenic invaders requiring a defense system in the body, why would we need an immune system? And if we don’t have an immune system, how is our body protecting us from the toxins that assault us from every side?

I have no background or education (beyond secondary school and one college class) in biology or any other science, but I do claim to be an intelligent, generally well educated, and critically thinking person who can read and reason. With that disclaimer, I will offer my thoughts. (Because to me, as that person, the terrain model makes so much more sense than the disproven germ hypothesis, especially once you know that “viruses” have never been found and contagion has been disproven over and over and over.)

Symptoms redux

We know that the symptoms that supposedly indicate sickness caused by an invading pathogen—things like sneezing and coughing, runny nose, vomiting, diarrhea, skin rashes, tiredness, achy joints, etc.—are actually what happens when the body is working to eliminate something unwanted or harmful.

(Believers in the disproven germ hypothesis might say the body is trying to eliminate the invading pathogen, but that doesn’t square with the hypothesis, which says the symptoms are being caused by the invading pathogen attacking our tissues, not by the body trying to get rid of the pathogen. And according to the disproven germ hypothesis, which arose just as petroleum-based pharmaceutical drugs were beginning to be made, the experience of “sickness” means the immune system has failed to protect us, and we need a pharmaceutical drug to eliminate the “pathogen” which it does by getting rid of the symptoms.)

So when we have symptoms, the body is trying to eliminate something, but it is not an invading pathogen. What might it be, then? I like Dr. Tom Cowan’s suggestion that there are three causes of sickness symptoms: injury, starvation or malnutrition, and poisons or toxins. In any of the three cases—all of which are very broad and not as simple as they may sound—the body is working to eliminate dead and dying tissue, which can be caused by any of them. In the case of a toxin, it is also breaking down and eliminating the toxin itself—or trying to. When there is injury, malnutrition that deprives body tissues of needed nutrients so they atrophy, or damage due to a toxin that doesn’t belong in the body, bacteria are sent to clean up the dead and dying tissue so it can be removed. Depending on where in the body and what type of tissue is involved, the elimination pathway the body chooses will result in one or more of the common symptoms. That’s what it means to be sick.

Invasion by toxins and poisons

So, we are being assaulted and invaded from outside—not by pathogenic microbes, but rather by toxins or poisons. It is only against this type of invasion that an “immune system” could conceivably be needed. Not an immune system with “killer cells” that track down and destroy microbial pathogens, but an immune system with the capacity to break down a toxin and get it out of the body through one of the elimination pathways, and to clean up the damaged tissue that the toxic substance has harmed. That function is what bacteria do, and it is why they are so often blamed for causing symptoms. In a certain way, they do cause symptoms, but the symptoms are not the sickness: they are in fact the cure. Or, perhaps more precisely, they are the process of the cure.

In the case of injury and malnutrition, the damage occurs within the body, not via a microbe or “virus” from outside whose sole purpose is causing harm and injury. We eat a food to which we have a sensitivity or allergy, or one covered in industrial agriculture poisons, or we eat some of the “food-like substances” found on supermarket and convenience store shelves and which our body cannot break down. Some of the substances may simply pass through our system, but many of them cause various degrees and types of harm—inflammation, free radicals, disruption of the gut microbiome, etc.

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Then other bacteria must come to break down the dead and dying tissue and usher it out of the body along with the toxic substance. Many, probably almost all, pharmaceutical drugs cause damage in the body, often called their “side effects.” Without doubt, all vaccines do this. This harm also requires the cleanup crew to break down the toxin and remove the damaged tissue, or perhaps take other measures to sequester the damage (a topic for another time).

Eating substances that are not real food also results in malnutrition, which causes damage in the body due to tissues not receiving the nutrients they need to function. This starvation of our tissues can obviously lead, over time, to more serious loss of function as well as ongoing inflammation and cell damage, requiring the bacterial cleanup crew more or less constantly and resulting in chronic conditions.

Terrain includes your whole life and environment

Here I have only addressed the physical kinds of injury and starvation that can affect the health of our tissues. Since the terrain includes the entire milieu of a person’s life—their emotional, mental, and spiritual life; their social connections; their sense of purpose in life; and the literal terrain of their house and environment—there are many other sources of injury and starvation that affect each of us. As Daniel Roytas puts it in his recent book, Can You Catch a Cold?, speaking about the doctors and scientists who advocated for a terrain view in the 19^th century,

… in the eyes of the terrain theorists, even homeostasis was not confined to the body. They appreciated the broader system, noting the inextricable link between the natural environment and the human body.… This means that health of the soil upon which people live plays a role in disease as much as the internal “soil” of their body. (p. 60)

Health cannot be maintained by an ‘immune system’

Obviously, the environmental terrain in which we live is not healthy, and that cannot help but affect us. For the support our bodies need in maintaining optimal health and homeostasis, an “immune system” as conceived by Western medicine will not be of any use. According to Merriam-Webster, immunity is: “the condition of being able to resist a particular disease especially through preventing development of a pathogenic microorganism or by counteracting the effects of its products.” This is entirely irrelevant in the absence of pathogenic microorganisms.

One of the most important takeaways from this is the awareness that we have much more control over when and how we get sick than we think. In the disproven germ hypothesis paradigm, we are always potential victims of tiny beings from outside of us, being breathed out, for example, by the person standing next to us in the supermarket line or our kindergartner who “brought it home from school”—that can jump into our bodies without our knowing and cause sickness and even death. In the terrain paradigm, our daily decisions about what to eat, how to move, how to respond to events that happen to us, etc., either support our optimal health or subject us to injury, malnutrition, or toxic exposure resulting in sickness. So we have a lot of say in the matter of our health, and we are not (for the most part) victims.

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Of course, we are exposed constantly to toxins and poisons over which we do not have control. This is one of the big challenges of living today, when the air, water, soil, and every living thing are reservoirs of industrial poisons and the toxic waste products of civilization, to say nothing of what seem like deliberate attempts to poison us. Our bodies are working 24/7 to get these toxic substances out of us and repair the damage they cause. This is in addition to the normal cleanup of cells that die every second in the renewal process of our tissues.

We can avoid some of these toxins that assault us from outside, for example, by purifying tap water before we drink it and by choosing organically grown food that has not been sprayed with toxic pesticides and herbicides. For the rest, such as the heavy metals and heaven only knows what else that is being sprayed in the skies, and the EMF radiation that surrounds and penetrates us via our various devices and the Wi-Fi networks and 5G cell towers that are springing up everywhere, we need to maintain our inner and outer terrain in as healthy a state as we possibly can so our body has a chance to detoxify those substances and their effects.

Detoxification, not immunity

You can see from this discussion why I don’t call the body’s detox capacities an “immune system.” Immunity means protection against something that could cause you harm, particularly, as we saw in the Merriam-Webster definition, disease-causing pathogenic microorganisms. What the body does is better called detoxification, and it is system-wide, not centered in particular areas such as the thymus gland or blood cells. Sam Bailey’s latest video addresses other reasons why the concept of “immunity” does not apply in a terrain understanding of health, and even has aspects of being pseudoscientific.

Is Immunity Real?

I used to think that we humans are pretty resilient to be doing as well as we are in the ever-toxifying world we live in. Now, I think we have been soothed into being unaware of the significant, often severe toll, that is taken on our bodies by living amidst so much poison. Most of us, I believe, do not know what full, vibrant health looks and feels like.

But I dream that one day, the waters in streams and lakes will be pure enough to drink; the weather will be natural rather than created by aerial spraying and frequency weapons; the soil and the food grown in it will be full of minerals and biological richness; the natural will have replaced the artificial in all the possible places; and humans will live in the wholeness we are designed to experience. I hope I may live to see that day.

Thank you for reading my thoughts about why a strong “immune system” will not help us, but we do need to maintain our health in every way that is within our control, and to nourish an optimally functioning detoxification system for all of the assaults on our health that come from outside of us and are beyond our control, as well as those we may voluntarily subject ourselves to through choices about what we eat as well as what we think and believe.

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Good reading for this week

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60 Years of Failing Flu Vaccines

Mike Stone continues his detailed and well-documented telling of the ignoble tale of the disproven germ hypothesis, with part 2.

The Germ Hypothesis Part 2

Dawn Lester explores the ways that we are taught to fear the sun, and the untruths being told about the link to melanoma.

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