Why Do Ambulances Now Post Warning Signs of Sepsis, Not COVID-19?

BOOK REVIEW: Daniel Roytas, Can You Catch a Cold? Untold History and Human Experiments, 2024.

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It is with great reluctance that I attempt a constructive critical review of Daniel Roytas’ Terrain Theory interpretation of his epic compilation of research “Can You Catch a Cold?”  It deserves more than a five-star rating but instead I intentionally give it one-star, so this review will perhaps fall into the category of “best critical review” to stimulate dialogue and return criticism. It should be noted that Roytas’ book is apparently intended for others in the Professional Class and is not a self-help book about how NOT to “catch” a cold.

As a non-medical professional, I concur with the author’s proof of his thesis that “germs” and “coughing, sneezing and contact” do not cause people to get sick during the cold weather season. But, so what, since cold and flus are self-clearing diseases in 3 to 10 days for 98% of the population by fasting, hydration, electrolytes, sunlight, boosting cholesterol for the Innate Immune System, and bedrest. Thus, the folk medicine proverb “starve a fever” because the liver cannot concurrently filter food and toxins and will take food first, thus spilling toxins into the bloodstream to the lung to eliminate them in a process called “vicarious elimination” which can self-trigger deadly pneumonia (Henry Beiler, MD, Food is the Best Medicine, 1975). We are co-producers of our own disease.

Roytas’ book does not address the vulnerable 2% of the population with diabetes, obesity, cirrhosis of the liver, kidney stones, or lowered immunity from prescribed drugs, that are described as the most likely victims of the mysterious bugaboo COVID-19. That is beyond the limited scope of his book. Thus, Roytas doesn’t adequately describe how colds and flus can be self-generated by overloading the liver with toxicity, infection, and food. To be fair, Roytas’s makes it clear his book is not about COVID-19 but merely about catching minor colds. But many of his many uncritical reviewers infer the implications of his book can also apply to COVID-19. 

Conventional Medicine, and its Germ Theory ideology, considers bacteria a pathogen (think Strep Throat), ignores parasites altogether, asserts that respiratory diseases are caused by bacterial infection, uses fungal based antibiotics to kill infectious bacteria, and relies on immunizations against invisible viruses. Conversely, Alternative Medicine, and its Terrain Theory ideology, believe that bacteria and fungi are solely cleansers and digesters, parasites are compartmentalizers of toxins and metals in our bodies, there is no such thing as viruses, and the timing and intensity of colds and flus can be controlled or avoided by hydration and elimination.

Neither of these two ideologies have anything to do with the stark reality of COVID-19 as hospital-created Sepsis and antibiotic resistance. According to Jean-Louis Vincent, MD, PhD, Belgium, COVID-19 cannot be distinguished from Sepsis. Moreover, the French medical lab Bio-Force (bioMerieux) reports that 100% of COVID-19 non-survivors had Sepsis and “viral infections do not generally cause sepsis”.  In Dublin, Ireland, ambulances now post the warning signs of Sepsis, not COVID-19, on the outside of their vehicles. If this is so, then COVID-19 is a bacterial infection, not some bugaboo virus, and its origin is a hospital, not a lab leak or cross species transmission from a bat to humans.  For clarification, COVID-19 is an institutional, not microbial disease having little to do with this book.

The notable Dr. Jennifer Daniels, MD, in an online video “Murder by Medicine” dated January 15, 2013, describes that there is a “virus” of sorts that causes Sepsis, but it is bacterial. She explains that harmless Staphylococcus bacteria on our skin (and C. Difficile bacteria in our gut) can morph into a Plasmid to protect itself from infusions of killer antibiotics. This results in an uncontrollable reaction called bacterial resistance.  Or if a catheter or breathing tube punctures a blood vessel allowing to Staph to enter, it can cause deadly blood poisoning. Infection is not merely dying or sick cells that bacteria or exosomes remove. Rather, it is an overgrowth that causes a dangerous gut microbe imbalance. This microbial turf war does not fit either Germ Theory or Terrain Theory explanations.

Plasmids only form in bacteria, not other human cells. Antibiotic induced Bacteria Plasmids are virus-like microbes that invade host cells, can replicate, spread, can produce airborne spores, and can form a “mutant” or hybrid bacteria that can cause infection (Mary E. Wilson, Antibiotics: What Everyone Needs to Know, 2019). Plasmids are not imaginary biological artefacts and bacteriophages are their host. Plasmids are what biology calls an “obligate” parasite that can’t occur in isolation and hides inside host cells and have been photographed inside bacteriophages. We know Bacterial Plasmids are real because of the deadliness of their interaction with fungal antibiotics and other bacterial strains.

Germ Theory is based on a strategy of vaccinating the fish if there is a polluted tank, while Terrain Theory is based on a strategy of cleaning the tank. But metaphorically there can be clean fishbowl water and vaccinated fish, but nonetheless a deadly microbial turf war can occur between, say, predator and non-predator fish. Neither theory accurately describes the Turf War between bacteria and fungus and are ideologies that serve vested interests.

Those who say bacteriophages are not pathogenic do not address hidden Plasmids and the lethality of Antibiotic Resistance. Those who use a compost pile analogy to describe the action of bacteria as purely to remove or eat dead or dying matter, fail to discuss that compost piles can also develop Plasmids. Unlike the bugaboo virus, bacteriophages that host Plasmids can be seen by the human eye and can be simply isolated from pond water by use of a cone filter and a spatula (Dr. Sabrina Green, PhD).   

I also take issue with the author’s Terrain Theory environmentalist ideology that “abolishing toxic, man-made chemicals, environmental pollution, and ultra-processed foods” will make humans “happier, healthier and wealthier”. For one, I would direct readers to Dr. Bruce Ames’, PhD, definitive studies which show that 99.99% of pesticides and toxins we consume in our diet are from natural pesticides in organically grown plant foods and rodent waste presumably from food storage, which is 10,000 times more than from other industrial chemical exposures (Bruce Ames, Margie Profet, and Lois Gold, “Dietary pesticides 99.99% all natural PNAS 87: 7777-81, Published: October 1990). So organic and unprocessed plant food like oxalate-laced Spinach can be toxic. Or even vitamin C and beneficial Aspergillus fungus can combine in our liver to internally produce oxalate kidney stones, breast cancer fibrins, arterial plaques, and arthritic crystals. No bad germs or industrial-polluted terrain needed. Roytas includes a fascinating overview of how the pH acidity of outdoor air may be associated with influenza. But the author did not attempt to explain why cigarette smokers were the least affected group from the bugaboo COVID-19.

I don’t relish having to write this critical review of an author who has done an amazing job of research and is not an enemy of the people.

I suggest readers not to expect this book to be a refutation of Germ Theory or vindication for Terrain Theory vis a vis COVID 19. Hopefully, this review will deflect any unjust criticism from the author.  Buy the book, it is a classic.