Dr Andrew Kaufman reviews Can You Catch A Cold?

"Daniel has done it! He unearthed the buried research which gives the most definitive results available on contagion and germ theory. This may be the most important work on infectious disease since the microscope was first used to visualize microorganisms in diseased tissue. His impeccable reasoning and neutral approach to the subject puts the reader at ease as their understanding of health is turned upside down. I highly recommend this book and made it required reading for my home educated children."

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Imagine you are living in the jungle 100 years ago. One day, whilst out hunting, you step on a sharp spike, impaling your foot. The wound gets dirt and mud and other contaminants in it. What are your chances of survival?

We are told that one of the leading causes of death amongst hunter gatherers was from wounds becoming infected with bacteria. It is claimed that because native's did not have access to hospitals, or antibiotics, anyone unfortunate enough to become severely wounded, would acquire an infection, and likely succumb to their injuries. But is this really true?

Join me live on Facebook, on Monday the 30th of December at 1 PM AEST to find out more.

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Parasites: The Canary in the Coal Mine?

Part 1

Are parasites really out there to get us, or might they serve a much greater purpose?

A 2016 paper noted how parasites in waterways act as bio-indicators for the presence of heavy metals and other pollutants.

They also stated that parasites are bio-accumulators of heavy metals, that is, they sequester toxic compounds from the environment. Put simply, they're like mother natures hazardous waste disposal units.

Interestingly, the paper described parasites as 'sentinels'. If you look up the definition of a sentinel species, they are described as an organism used to detect risks to humans by providing advanced warning signals.

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Parasites: The Canary in the Coal Mine?

Part 2

A common example of a sentinel people might be familiar with is a canary in a coal mine. When the canary dies, it alerts the miners to a potential gas leak, giving them time to escape.

Now, no one would ever think dead canaries poison miners, so why are we so quick to lay blame on parasites? Could our understanding about their true role be off the mark?

Maybe they're just there to do a job and we've erroneously identified them as the cause of the problem.

So, next time a parasite shows up, ask yourself the question, is it the parasite wreaking havoc, or the heavy metals and other toxic pollutants in the environment?

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There is no question that modern society is the most disconnected from nature we have ever been. Consequently, we live our lives in direct opposition to nature, destroying it at every turn. If we continue down this destructive path, nature will eventually bite back, and hard. So, what can be done about this conundrum?

Mark Boyle, also known as 'The Moneyless Man' is all to aware of these issues plaguing humanity. Instead of waiting for others to make the world a better place, he decided to lead by example. Over a decade ago, Mark gave up money and modern technology in search of a richer, happier and more fulfilling existence. He has dedicated his life towards self-sufficiency and has become a true environmentalist.

If we are to heal the world, and ourselves, then it is this back-to-basics approach that humanity must rekindle. It's time for us to return to the old ways, to reconnect with our roots, and to live in harmony with nature rather than against it.

Listen to Mark's story here.

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In 1982, Prof. Kerin O’dea wanted to see what would happen to a group of chronically ill Australian natives when they reverted to a hunter-gatherer lifestyle.

The 10 participants moved to a remote location in the Western Australian bush, where they lived for 7 weeks. They spent their days hunting kangaroos, crocodiles and fish, whilst gathering fruits, vegetables and honey.

During the study period, a remarkable thing happened, their bodies began to heal. In less than 2 months, their metabolic abnormalities had reversed, and the risk factors of cardiovascular disease had ameliorated. Their body weight decreased, whilst blood sugar, insulin, glucose tolerance, cholesterol, and triglyceride markers normalized.

These results are testament to the fact that when we reconnect with nature, find meaning and purpose in our lives, become physically active, and eat local, fresh, seasonal, whole food, we activate our body’s innate self-healing response. No pills or potions required.

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How did humans survive before antibiotics?

In 1980, anthropologists and medical doctors from Harvard, Stanford and Duke University decided to find out. The team ventured deep into the Amazon rainforest, where they lived amongst the Waorani people, a tribe existing in complete isolation from the outside world.

Over the course of eight years, the researchers observed many of the natives become seriously injured. However, very few, if any, of their wounds ever became infected. One of the researchers recalled an instance where a woman from the tribe was attacked and left for dead during a spearing raid.

What happened to her? Find out in part 2.

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How did humans survive before antibiotics?

Part 2

Her injuries were extensive. The spear had entered her belly and exited through her back. The treatment involved both ends of the spear being cut off, leaving the shaft embedded inside her abdomen. Mud from a pigs wallow was then rubbed into the wound and she was left to recover in a hammock.

We are led to believe that without antibiotics, such an injury would be a death sentence due to infection. Yet, within two weeks, the woman's body pushed the spear shaft out and she was well enough to gather food again. The wound healed completely without ever becoming infected, an outcome that defies the marvels of modern medicine.

Once upon a time, native people the world over knew how to harness the body's remarkable capacity to heal itself. It seems we have forgotten about this ancient wisdom in modern times.

It's time for us to reconnect.

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Lawyer and painter, George Catlin, dedicated his life to studying the natives of North and South America. During the 1800’s, Catlin observed over 150 tribes, totaling more than 2 million people. Although each tribe was unique, they all had one thing in common. Exceptional health. In fact, disease was so rare among the natives, Catlin concluded that “nature produces no disease” and that ill health was a consequence of civilization.

Catlin discovered that infant mortality rates were exceedingly low. He learned from the Chief’s that the death of a child under the age of 10 was a very unusual occurrence. Of the handful of childhood deaths the Chief’s could recall, none were due to disease, but from accidents like snakebites or drowning. Even more surprising was that there were no stillborn, no deformities, and death resulting from childbirth, for the mother or child, was unheard of. These issues were only ever seen in the tribes who had been supplied with food and alcohol by Europeans.

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Sir William Lane is one of the most celebrated surgeons in British history. He had a particular interest in the cause and prevention of disease and published a paper titled “The Prevention of the Diseases” in 1925. In it, Lane explained how primitive people enjoyed long, healthy lives, essentially free from disease. He noted that the leading causes of death were from accidents, exposure to the elements, starvation, and old age.

Sir Lane wrote that “death from old age is painless and sweet but is exceedingly rare in civilized men. If civilized men lived in the way in which they ought to live they would lead long, happy and useful lives. Their physical and mental faculties would remain practically unimpaired to the end, and they would pass away peacefully, often in their sleep. Such deaths are very exceptional among the more advanced nations”.

He believed that the major causes of disease in the West were due to an improper diet and impaired channels of elimination (i.e. constipation).

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The Xavante are a group of about 13,000 natives from Brazil. They lived in complete isolation until the early 1950’s when a research team made first contact. The teams’ doctor was so impressed with their state of health, he suggested the Xavante represented “the physical standard that should be the Brazilian ideal”. A decade later, another team conducted further biomedical studies. Their findings were equally impressive, stating “one is forced to ascribe to untouched primitive man a very high level of physical fitness and resistance indeed”.

Following first contact with the outside world, processed and refined foods were introduced into the community. Within two decades, the once healthy and virile natives had become overweight and obese. Chronic health problems like diabetes and cardiovascular disease, which were once unheard of, became commonplace. The Xavante are now working towards solving this crisis by regaining sovereignty over their lands and reconnecting with their traditional ways.

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Blue therapy, or spending time near large open bodies of water, has been shown to have a dramatic effect on people’s wellbeing. In 2018, a case-study was published in the BMJ, on the benefits of blue therapy in a 24-year-old woman with anxiety and major depressive disorder. The woman had suffered from depression since the age of 17, and was unable to improve her condition, despite taking anti-depressants and trying various psychological interventions.

Within a month of swimming in open bodies of water, twice per week, for 30 minutes, the woman’s mental health began to improve significantly, and she was able to reduce her medication. Within four months, her mood had improved to the point that she no longer required drug therapy.

Nature has the power to heal.

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In 1923, President of the Orthopedic Surgeons Group, Dr. Francois Petrus Fouche, published an article in the British Medical Journal titled “Freedom of Negro Races from Cancer”. He noted how Dr Robert McCarrison never saw a single case of cancer whilst living amongst the natives of the Himalayas for almost a decade.

Fouche also referred to his own experience treating African's over a six-year period. During that time, he never saw cancer in any of the 14,000 natives residing in his district. It was only in the European population that cancer was prevalent. According to Fouche, the absence of cancer amongst natives seemed to be a well-known phenomenon acknowledged by the medical profession in South Africa.

Why were native people largely free of this disease, whilst those living in the civilized world are riddled with it?

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Inflammation is not the cause of disease.

Many people perceive inflammation as being the bane of humanity’s existence. From diabetes to dementia, inflammation is blamed as the cause of our modern health woes, a destructive process that must be suppressed at all costs. But is it really the villain it’s been made out to be?

When you cut your finger or sprain your ankle, the body mounts an acute inflammatory response. The injury occurs first (cause), and the inflammation follows (effect). No one thinks the inflammation caused the problem. The purpose of the inflammation is to heal the damaged tissue.

However, when it comes to chronic inflammation this logic is thrown out the window. People erroneously believe chronic inflammation destroys healthy tissue and causes disease. The reality is that chronic inflammation is the body’s attempt to heal tissue that is being continually damaged and insulted.

Although the true nature of inflammation was once understood by the medical profession, it seems to have been forgotten in recent times. In 1860, Dr William Braithwaite, a surgeon and lecturer at the Leeds School of Medicine, exemplified this understanding in a leading medical journal.

He stated “One great error which has blinded the minds of medical men in observing the true principles of science, is confounding symptoms of disease with the disease itself. A man has a bit of sharp sand blown on his cornea by the wind; he cannot displace it himself—what occurs? The eye begins to inflame and looks red and angry; the eye looks diseased. But is this disease? No. It is only the symptom produced by the bit of sand—the sand, in fact, is the real disease, and the inflammation is nothing more than an effort of nature to get rid of the bit of sand. The inflammation (the falsely called disease) in short is a conservative process".

Simply put, inflammation is the response to tissue damage caused by an aggravating factor. Inflammation resolves itself when the healing process is complete. Therefore, our focus should be on removing and avoiding the aggravating factor(s) and supporting the body's innate healing response, rather than trying to suppress the symptoms of inflammation and blaming it for our ills.

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Time to rethink our understanding of disease?

When the engine warning light comes on in your car, it’s a sign that something is wrong. When your car blows black smoke from the exhaust, it’s a symptom of a deeper issue. Neither the warning light nor the smoke caused the problem, they are the consequence (i.e. effect) of the problem (i.e. cause). Maybe there’s not enough fuel in the tank, or the air filter is clogged, or the oil is running low.

Imagine taking your car to a mechanic who proceeds to blame the warning light and the black smoke (i.e. the signs and symptoms) as the cause of the problem. Instead of identifying and treating the cause, the mechanic unscrews the engine warning light and blocks off the exhaust. In effect, what they have done is suppress the signs and symptoms without fixing the underlying issue(s). Does this sound like a logical and rational approach, or would it make more sense to check the air-filter and the fluid levels?

The above example is analogous to the human body. Elevated cholesterol, hormonal imbalances, insulin resistance, neurotransmitter deficiencies, inflammation, high blood pressure, etc., are signs and symptoms of disease. They are akin to the engine warning light, or the black smoke—a signal that something is wrong. They can also be an adaptive and protective response in an effort by the body to restore or maintain homeostasis. In other words, signs and symptoms are there to help, not hinder.

Signs and symptoms are the downstream consequence (i.e. effect) of an upstream input (i.e. cause). Upstream inputs are things like food and beverages, physical activity, stress levels, sun exposure, chemical exposure, sleep quality, air quality, beliefs, etc. Therefore, when it comes to dealing with disease, wouldn’t it make sense to focus our attention on the inputs, rather than blaming and suppressing the body’s response to them?

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In August of 1911, Dr Herbert Basedow was tasked with assessing the native Australians living on Bathurst Island by the Commonwealth Government.

To the astonishment of the investigators, the 500 or so natives were in excellent health, compared to those living in or near civilization. Apart from a handful of individuals who had suffered physical injuries and a few other minor ailments (i.e. cataracts, keratitis), they were free from any serious diseases. Basedow described them as very healthy, strong, powerful, and sturdy people.

Basedows findings are consistent with the countless anthropological studies of natives conducted throughout history. Humans that adhere to a traditional diet lifestyle in their natural environment enjoy excellent health. Disease only seems to arise after contact with the outside world, suggesting ill health is a consequence of modernity.

Nature doesn’t do disease.

The attached image was taken in 1939 of Bathurst Island men.

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What's the deal with giardia?

Giardia is one of the most common so-called parasitic infections in humans. We are told that this organism supposedly infects more than 300 million people every single year and causes untold suffering. But could there be more to the story?

If giardia really causes disease, then why do most infected individuals fail to develop symptoms? I can already hear people answering "Because those people have strong immune systems, duh!"

The problem with this answer is that giardia is most prevalent among developing nations, where the rates of asymptomatic infection can be as high as 80%. This is rather odd considering people in these countries have limited access to food, clean drinking water, and proper housing, all of which are necessary for a healthy functioning 'immune system'.

Does it not seem strange that those with the 'weakest immune systems' are able to thwart this pathogens onslaught without ever getting sick?

Quite the conundrum.

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Paul Chek and I had a great discussion about colds and flu, germs, human experiments attempting to prove contagion, and my book Can You Catch A Cold on his podcast Spirit Gym.

Check out Episode 329 - Are You Being Experimented On?

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This neurosurgeon met a friend in a dream. The next day the friend told him he had the exact same dream, confirming the experience they shared. Is there more to the dream world than we realise?

He also tells the story of a fellow surgeon who had a patient express their concern about an upcoming surgery. Despite this 'bad feeling', the surgery went ahead. A complication during the procedure resulted in the death of the patient. This unfortunate event raises a few important questions.

Do we listen to ourselves enough? Is our gut feeling a sixth-sense, a mechanism that can help us navigate this matrix? Are there untapped powers inside each and every one of us that we are yet to realise?

Hear Dr Goobie's take on things.

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AI cancer vaccines have been receiving a lot of attention recently. But why is humanity pinning all its hopes on a treatment when we know that prevention is better than cure?

Now, people might argue that vaccines are preventive, so this intervention is dealing with the cause. However, as stated in a 2024 Nature Journal article, cancer vaccines are not preventive. They work on destroying the cancer cells after the tumour has developed.

According to Harvard University "The cancer miracle isn't a cure, it's prevention". The 2019 article explicitly states "We cannot treat our way out of the rising cancer caseload. The only solution is a full-scale defense, so that nobody suffers the disease in the first place".

If we heed Harvard's sound advice, then identifying and treating the cause should be of the utmost importance. This raises the question, what's causing cancer? The answer is, many things. Therefore our attention should be focused on dealing with the most impactful causes first.

Enter PM2.5 (fine air particles less than 2.5 microns). Yesterday as reported in the Economic Times, the air pollution levels in Bangkok exceeded 120 mcg/m3, more than 8 times the limit (15 mcg/m3) stipulated by the WHO. The air quality was so bad that visibility was at an all time low and almost 200 schools across the city were closed. The article correctly points out that PM2.5 particles are small enough to enter the blood stream and cause cancer.

A 2016 study followed almost 70,000 residents in Hong Kong for more than a decade. The researchers found that for every 10 mcg/m3 increase above the tolerable PM2.5 limit, the risk of dying from any cancer rose by 22%. For cancers of the upper digestive tract the mortality risk was 42% higher, and 35% higher for other digestive organs. For breast cancer, the mortality risk increased by over 80%. Obviously, clean air matters.

Surely a coordinated effort towards making our air healthy to breathe would be at the top of the list of priorities for governments the world over? Instead, we get a reactive approach which promises to quell the burgeoning cancer crisis with the prick of a needle.

Go figure.

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