CAUSE of COMMON COLD (1)
"The doctor of the future will give no medicine, but will interest his patient in the care of the human frame, in diet, and in the cause and prevention of disease" - Thomas Edison
Numerous researches have tried to identify and examine the evasive microbe that is supposed to cause common cold. As recently as in the 1940-ies the scientists explained the ineffectiveness of the research by the fact that the microbe is too small to be seen under the available microscopes. Later spectacular technical advances, including electron microscope, didn’t change the situation. Sophisticated optical equipment allowed the discovery of hundreds of new microorganisms, but none of them could be pinned down as the only cause of common cold.
Today, more than 200 different viruses are said to cause the symptoms of the common cold (rhinoviruses, coronaveruses, paramyxoviruses… the list goes on and on..)
Why can’t we identify the microbe that causes the common cold? - Because there is no such thing. Each of the suspected microorganisms is only feeding on the mucus produced in the bodysuffering from common cold. That mucus, resulting from wrong nutritional habits, is in the body all the time.
In the spring and fall seasons, the body starts cleaning itself of the excess amounts of mucus. That’s when germs show up and start dissolving and then destroying or removing the mucus, in effect helping us to clean up our body.
But what do we do then?
We take medications to get rid of the microbes. This way, we end up killing what is helping us and allowing the mucus to stay in our body. After some time, we get sick again either with common cold or influenza. The root of the problem remains the same, only this time a different kind of microorganism is feeding on the mucus.
Year after year in spring and fall seasons, epidemic numbers of people suffer from runny noses, bone aches, and other common cold symptoms. We have more and more medications intended to kill the microbes. The germs, tiny as they are, are not stupid. They want to live, and they find ways to become immune to our drugs. It doesn’t take a prophet to predict the result of such "wars". The stronger and more effective drugs we invent the more vicious microbes we have to deal with.
Who is the loser in this war? Our health is. All drugs, even those considered very safe, cause side effect.
What then is the cause of common cold ?
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