Do You Have This Gut Feeling, Too?
Your gut is a decision-maker, often choosing between life and death.
Doctors put drugs of which they know little into bodies of which they know less for diseases of which they know nothing at all.” (Voltaire)
Everyone is a doctor
The following article can touch a nerve, especially for those who have seriously invested in some “healing” methods. The article is still unique in its definition of illness and the concept of the immune system.
Anyway, as I previously noted, everyone is a doctor1, which is hard to dispute, as the following story also shows:
In one of my favorite childhood stories, the king and the nobles are strolling through the castle, discussing what the most common occupation in the world is. They cannot agree, and the court jester gets bored with the futile discussion, walks up to them, and says,
“You are all fools! Everyone should know that the most common occupation is a doctor’s!”
He catches the king in a bad mood, so he is told,
“If you don’t prove that by tonight, you’ll get a good thrashing!”
A couple of hours pass, and there is terrible wailing, moaning, and screaming from the other end of the palace. The king and his lords hurry there and find the fool writhing in pain on the floor.
“What ails you?” they ask him.
The fool, diligently screaming and wailing, points to spots on his body, and comes out with a long list of complaints. The lords feel pity on him, and start telling him what he should do. After the last one is finished, the fool happily jumps up, and tells the king,
“You see, my buddy; everyone is a doctor!”
The guts
Ancient Greeks believed that the “heart” (the “seat of the soul”) is in the guts. They “believed the heart was the source of emotions. There were 2 souls in the body: psyche in the brain was the eternal life soul, and thymos in the heart controlled emotions and desires.”2
The “father of Medicine,” Hippocrates, confided, “Let your food be thy medicine,” which in itself emphasizes the significance of gut health3. Currently, the gut flora is considered to harbor about 80 percent of the “immune system,” which in this case means the maintenance of an equilibrium between to body and bacteria, fungi, and parasites that live in symbiosis with their host. Those who are lucky enough to have an appendix, are safer, because this part of the intestinal tract, previously considered redundant by “medical science,” turns out to be the safekeeper of the gut flora in case of emergencies (dysentery, drastic laxatives, antibiotic use, and similar situations, when the gut flora is devastated).
Logically, therefore, a common cause of illness comprises the loss of this equilibrium and the pathogenic overgrowth of some of the creatures that normally reside in the body (e.g. candida or h. pylori) wreaking havoc in the guts and even killing off necessary “good” bacteria. In April, 2023, I shared my paradigm in my flagship article on the concepts of health and illness:
The “immune system”
Those who are familiar with stories of heart transplants, must have encountered stories according to which the heart withholds memories to the extent that the heart recipient can experience episodes from its “previous life.” It’s common to re-live the trauma that led to the previous owner’s death. In stories about blood transfusion, you can hear how a person’s personality has changed. The immune system, in my understanding, at first, is the ability to fight off toxins, foreign pathogens or parasites, and the ability to restore the balance between the body and its symbiotic “guests.” After that, the body “remembers” and attempts to use the methods it used in similar situations before.
How about naturopathic medicine?
“Leaky gut” is a generalization naturopaths use (as it cannot be verified, the “diagnosis” resembles the idea of “viral infections,” opening up a Pandora’s box for “tretments.” Reality seems to be a lot more complex than whatever the idea of “leaky gut” suggests. Nonetheless, some natural methods can work in specific cases, but I haven’t found reliable documentation on those. They are usually advertised by people who profit from the “cure.”4 Their success can be largely attributed to the body’s self-healing faculties that work in most cases, but at least they don’t necessarily use toxic pharmaceuticals. That, however, doesn’t mean that they don’t market certain products and receive kickbacks. A product, after all, is not always helpful only because it’s natural; poisonous mushrooms and excrement are also natural, but not for human consumption, and the insect diet, reserved for the survivors of the general public by the globalists, might also be natural, although who knows what will NOT be genetically modified in a few years.
Homeopathy is a bit different in its applying minuscule amounts of poisons that seem to invigorate immune responses, much in the way blood-letting worked in the Middle Ages.
The problem with the gut flora
In the last several weeks, I managed to discuss the problem with three doctors who, to my surprise, agreed with me, although I emphasized that my current standing is tentative and I am fully aware that I cannot be completely correct in my conjecturing. One of them called me “extremely intelligent” (which I don’t care for, because I can make huge mistakes like everyone else) and another specifically joined me by saying that “medical research” usually focuses on killing pathogens, instead of identifying bacteria, fungi, and parasites that are indispensable for the body to maintain itself, because that would not necessitate the lifetime “treatment” of conditions to which doctors are far too accustomed and sometimes even cause with their legit drugs, and the ones who would venture into propagating truly “safe and effective” cures by pointing out essential bacterial strains for specific conditions might quickly die in a car accident or jump out from the twentieth floor and close the window behind him.
Take the case of h. pylori, for one. These bacteria are so resilient that it can survive in stomach acid (aka. gastric acid or hydrochloric acid), and they are usually5 found in patients with ulcers, leading to the false conclusion that they are the direct causes of ulcers. The problem is that they are also often found in healthy people, which alone indicates that their presence alone doesn’t cause ulcers. However, there must be bacteria that protect the stomach from damages from stomach acid. When these bacteria are depleted or disappear, ulcers develop without any pathogen, because hydrochloric acid alone can perform the task. It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to see that the bacteria that “prevent” harm are constantly busy, and their job also includes repairing damaged stomach tissue6. When their numbers are insufficient, ulcers develop, which can be life-threatening. To make matters worse, stomach ulcers are often misdiagnosed as heart conditions, especially in those who already have been diagnosed with one. Somehow, modern “Medicine” seems to be stuck in the “one-pathogen-one-illness” path7, which simplifies diagnoses, but often harms the patient, especially once toxic treatments are also introduced. H. pylori is treated with an antibiotic, which I assume, is better than kicking the bucket. Antibiotics, of course, kill off most bacteria, which gives the body a chance to start over and it tends to excel at that.
Prebiotics and probiotics
They are manufactured by the same companies that make “medications.” By now, it is unclear if these are synthetic compounds or even GMO products; either way, they are harmful. Moreover, if they contained all essential bacterial strains, they might prevent the body to establish its own chain of production, rendering the user to develop a dependency on the artificial products. Still, they certainly don’t contain everything that’s needed, because they don’t seem to work much. An alternative has been picking on in medical practice: install someone else’s (preferably, a healthy “donor’s”) fecal matter into the patient’s intestines. No such tweaks would be necessary, if prebiotics and probioics worked.
Is healing only a myth?
The situation makes me ask the question: Is healing, the way it understood these days, a myth altogether?
https://rayhorvaththesource.substack.com/p/is-healing-a-myth-altogether
No matter what kind of medicine one prefers, it is always a leap into the dark, with the sole exception of old and stable communities with little or no contact with the external world, because under such circumstances, possibilities are limited and previously-helpful methods are likely to work again.8
Even as a child I noted that every doctor kills a few dozen patients at the beginning of their practice. The difference between good ones and bad ones is that the good ones learn from their mistakes. One of the three doctors I previously mentioned in this article even explicitly stated what my first doctor used to say 50 or so years ago: doctors hardly ever know what they are doing, but they can always give it an honest try and learn from the experience. Besides, they also have to constantly learn and, preferably, not from corrupt “medical” journals and even more corrupt (pharma-sponsored) studies, so trying to be a good doctor will remain a heroic enterprise until a reliable medical paradigm is established.
Unfortunately, it’s a lot more common to believe in what you consume (eat, drink, or put on your skin) than what NOT to, confirming the modern medical myth that pictures the human body as a cauldron in a witch’s kitchen, often not allowing the body to heal itself or produce healing substances naturally instead of taking synthetic stuff…
https://rayhorvaththesource.substack.com/p/to-eat-or-not-to-eat
This is the fallacy that is playing a major part in believing in “medications” that, without an exception, are toxic, but sometimes the benefits outweigh the damages (“side effects,” after the last three years, are likely to be intentional, and nobody knows about symptoms that come out a long time after taking a chemical, especially if it’s one of the toxic substances that tend to accumulate like heavy metals).
Under such circumstances, quacks and bottom-feeders abound:
As Letsrock noted in Comments, ulcers can develop and the patient can be tested negative for h. pylori, and it is possible to have ulcers from mercury poisoning from amalgam fillings.
I have encountered stories about aloe vera gel curing stomach ulcers in a matter of days.
Traditional Chinese medicine is a good example or traditional healing methods, some of which are proven to work irrespective of circumstances (e.g. acupuncture for pain). As for generalized applications, with geoengineering around, results often become unpredictable, while even the remotest places on the planet might not remain intact:
https://rayhorvaththesource.substack.com/p/geoengineering-entails-more-than
RH,'some natural methods can work in specific cases, but I haven’t found reliable documentation on those. They are usually advertised by people who profit from the “cure.”' Yea&nyay, Prof Ray...all the online summits this ol'mechanic has attended-20 of 'em, have a spectrum of speakers- MDs,naturopaths, TCM docs,body workers,aromatherapists etc...The MOST surprising thing is, that majority of them got into traditional healing after spending years or decades of dangerous&ineffective protocols on the Allopathic treadmill/conveyor belt ...So to dismiss them thusly is doing readers a disservice...My pop was a criminal lawyer& you'd see him reading pulp fiction in his old age. 'Why?'
his reply was, that ALL books have something to offer us. [plug ...what have you got to lose?
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Um, actually your statement re "leaky gut" being unsubstantiated is pseudoscience. It has, it is and yes it's a thing.😉
The epithelial layer lining your gut has gap junctions. Think of them as bricks tightly packed together, so as to be seem less. The joining (junction) becomes weakened through exposure to chemical, pesticides (glysophate decimated gap junctions), food additives, toxins, etc. This creates holes in the gaps that get bigger as years and damage continues. Bit like mortar or grout gets damages from scrubbing bathroom walls etc.😉
Hence, leaky gut occurs when more stuff, that should not be getting in to places, like food molecules etc, start to get in between the junctions, into the blood stream etc. You then get all sorts of inflammatory responses from the body and it starts trying to protect itself from itself or the molecules causing the damage.
And H.Pylori, yes it's a microbe everyone has, but much like Candida and many others, if you have an excess growth it will cause damage, in HPs case, it causes ulcers. But likewise, you need it in smaller amounts to keep other microbes in check, among other things. Balance.
There is enough people running around muddying the waters when it comes to understanding gut issues and microbiome- everyone's got religion/opinion on something that is barely understood and a much smaller part of the overall halobiome.
Your work is usually much higher caliber than this Ray.🤔😉