Working with Nature
We used to think all bacteria were “bad”. We are constantly learning more about the complexity of all life. What is a virus? All things in balance and moderation is the basic tenant of Traditional Chinese Medicine. I have been following Dr Zach for a while now. He has an interesting perspective on life after working with cancer patients. I hope you find his work of interest. He does have his critics of course. You get to decide what you think.
“The last 30 years of microbiome research necessitates a radical shift in our model of human health. For centuries, Western medicine has waged war against microbes. Ironically, this war is not saving us. It’s killing us. Why? We are not against nature. We are the result of nature. Our very survival now requires us to embrace this reality – fast. And there is something else we need to understand. Nature is intelligent. Science has discovered that this intelligence saturates and connects all life through a natural system we have named the microbiome. The microbiome expresses extraordinary capacity for genetic diversification through the mechanisms of horizontal gene transfer, exosomes, and viruses…(from his web site)