What is generally accepted today as truth is what is objectively proven by science. That’s often true, but not always. When someone has high blood pressure and high cholesterol and has a stroke, one is inclined to say that the high cholesterol and high blood pressure caused the stroke; That remains a scientific half-truth if I do not say at the same time that out of 100 people with high blood pressure and cholesterol levels 97 will not have a stroke. What does this have to do with viruses?
Today we know that viruses are the oldest structures in nature and that all organisms in this world are colonized with innumerable viruses and that they have played a decisive role in the gene regulation of all living things since the beginning of life.
Only in the last few years have studies been carried out that dealt with the question of what viruses actually do in healthy people. Surprisingly, it turns out that millions of different viruses can be found on the skin and mucous membranes, in the lungs and intestines, including numerous so-called pathogens. Over 70 percent were completely new, unknown viruses. The genetic make-up of a total of 94 types of virus could even be detected in the blood of 8,000 healthy blood donors, of which 19 of these types were found in 42% of the test persons. Also included: smallpox viruses, hepatitis B and C viruses, herpes viruses, papillomaviruses that are associated with cervical cancer, AIDS viruses, viruses that trigger yellow fever and early summer meningitis and much more
Like cholesterol in the blood, viruses obviously also play an important role in the organism of healthy people, which is not surprising in view of the long common evolutionary history of humans and viruses. We also know that viruses only have any relevance to disease above a certain number (viral load), so that their occurrence “in moderation” is quite normal. The viruses regulate the population dynamics of the microorganisms in nature, ie they ensure that the approximately 50 trillion bacteria with which healthy people are colonized are in a balanced proportion to one another. The so-called microbiome, ie the entirety of all microorganisms living in symbiosis with humans, is understood today as a human organ because it fulfills countless, essential functions in the organism. The viruses belong to this microbiome.
If we lower the cholesterol in the blood, it may make sense in many cases and help prevent many a stroke, but if we were to vaccinate against cholesterol, that is, induce the body to produce antibodies against cholesterol, then we would endanger the patient’s life because cholesterol is essential for health. In the case of viruses, this is not so dramatic because there are very many of them. However, we can no longer ignore the fact that we use antiviral vaccines to intervene in healthy processes of microbial and genetic regulation and thus increase the risk of autoimmune diseases. In the USA, where there is a generous vaccination policy, 15.9% of the population (41 million citizens) already have antibodies against the body’s own genetic material. Around 20-30 million Americans suffer from one or more autoimmune diseases (type 1 diabetes, multiple sclerosis, rheumatism, and many more) and the trend has been increasing for years.
A responsible science must point out these connections, otherwise the explanation will remain incomplete.
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Dr. med. Thomas Hardtmuth, Steinheim
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