I have been doing cursory research into terrain theory and germ theory over the past day. Still very much on the fence over which holds more merit than the other. As they are both theories it makes sense to me that neither are 'absolute' as it were as both arguments have their strengths and flaws. I'm interested in hearing what more learned people believe and why.
You're viewing a single comment thread. View all comments, or full comment thread.
Comments (8)
sorted by:
Short version is both can exist at the same time in part. Terrain being that your bodies health affects how many things will affect your body and that essentially most sickness is caused by your immune system getting out of whack and that allowing things already in your system to get out of normal proportion, which causes problems (sickness) the more out of whack it gets. Germ theory acts as if the inside of your body is sterile and lacks any micro-organisms at all unless they are introduced from the outside, and that those make you sick. We already know our bodies are filled with all kinds of bacteria and our systems are used to offload the waste that the bacteria in us are always producing already as well as keep in line the relative populations of them.
External things getting into the body does happen, but terrain states that the majority of things causing illness are already inside you.
Bullshit. Germ theory doesn't claim that.