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There is a lot of truth to the idea of persistency in microbial infections, especially when we deal with symbiotic microbes that can evade our immune system. These symbiotes evolve to a stronger colony as they gain more microbes to give them more armor from the newfound strength from new microbes in the colony. Which is to say that if we practice good hygiene and know how to provide our own preemptive defenses we essentially are nipping at the bud the ability of pathogenic microbes to be persistent.
But our body themselves are a mixture of microbes that in a good environment can coexist together and balance each other out to keep any microbes from dominating. It is when the terrain is not a healthy one that some microbes could become dominant, and a microbe that used to be harmless and healthfully useful could become pathogenic when the terrain condition favor it far more than the rest of the community of microbes, called the microbiome.
I see this kind of dynamic in my pet cats. When we'll cared for, I do not have to worry about an infestation of ticks even when these cats do their fair share of getting outside my home. This contrasts a lot with when I knew nothing about caring for pets and my cat and dog were always infested, and I had to give them shampoos which later on I found out made them did early because they had poisons in them.
I can draw a parallel in my experience with my pets to my own experience. Knowing the right principles goes a long way in keeping us free from whatever disease, whether it is infectious or degenerative (as they are distinguished conventionally from one another but the line is blurred but I digress).
Reddit has a lot of techies and techies cater towards the thinking of people like Dave Asprey and less to people like Ray Peat. Though each have their share of redemptive qualities as irredeemable faults, but that a matter of opinion, as I would say when I believe in things considered controversial. And health and medicine tend to bring people into irreconcilable differences.
You agree with Ray Peat about viruses- that they exist. The article expounds on viruses, and favors the use of vaccines. I do not, as I find in nature already mechanisms that bring about the balance that makes viruses and vaccines an unnecessary appendage of a vibrant ecosystem that continually develops towards superior beings over time, as we were made by God to become.
