Renegade Heart Show, 11-6-11
November 13th, 2011 -- Posted in Radio Show | No Comments »It has come into my awareness that in order to really be open to health and healing we need to make some significant changes in the way we think and approach life and dis-ease.
The first concept that needs to be changed is the idea of the Germ Theory.
I told the story of a preceptor while I was in medical school who made an offhand comment about the germ theory which sent me on a quest to discover more about why he would make such a comment in the first place.
Turns out when germs were discovered there were discovered two opposing views about their importance.
Louis Pasteur theorized the germs, since they always showed up when infections were noted, must be causing the infections.
Antoine Beauchamp, on the other hand, theorized that the “milieu” or biological terrain – our state of health – was what determined whether we would get an infection and even what organism would show up.
Unfortunately Pasteur was much more charismatic and better at winning popular opinion so the germ theory gained prominence
A several things have followed as a result.
First, we have developed a huge industry around the production of antibiotics designed specifically to kill bacteria, thinking that this would bring health.
Second, this has resulted in selecting out even more invasive bacteria since we have further deteriorated our “milieus” – further damaged our individual and collective biology.
Next, we have shut the door to thinking about the correct approach, about making ourselves truly healthy.
And probably worst of all, it has generated and perpetrated a mindset of “entitlement” and “victimization” in our cultural consciousness. It leads us to believe that all of our ills and problems are outside of ourselves and that we are not responsible either for their inception or their solution.
The milieu theory, on the other hand, would teach us just the opposite.
The bacteria show up to clean up the mess, to try to right the wrongful environment.
It tells us to be responsible for our inner being, self and health.
The milieu theory also leads to further interesting concepts about germs, viruses and fungi and puts the microorganisms into a larger construct. It offers the idea of “pleomorphism“.
This is the idea that all microbes come from one spore form and mutate through the various forms of virus, bacteria and/or fungus depending on how the biological terrain changes, eventually completing the cycle to generate more spore forms.
The beauty of this approach is that it provides many more tools and weapons to use to help promote actual health instead of just trying to kill a supposed enemy.
As I often say, “Killing a problem never solved anything.”
Be sure to listen to the whole show to get the entire context, stories and implications behind this polarity of thought.
Interestingly, on his deathbed Pasteur was purported to have said that Beauchamp was correct all along. Too late to make changes, though, and by then the die was cast to send us along this errant trail upon which we still tread today in our approach to medicine and health.
And most importantly, this errant idea that you have been taught has and continues to directly and negatively impact your personal health every day. Time to wake up and understand the difference. Time to shift your thinking to open yourself to healing.
Until next time,
Rethink Everything! Be the Renegade!
Go in Health,
Blessings,
Dr Jon
Renegade Doc
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