This saying from Hippocrates is less well known than the Hippocratic Oath ‘First Do No Harm’ supposedly taken by doctors on graduation and then promptly ignored. It’s only in the last 20 years or so that the symbiotic relationship between our gut microbiome and our intestinal absorption is being acknowledged – begrudgingly for the most part since it challenges the ‘Pill for Every Ill’ or ‘Cut it Out’ heroics of the allopathic model. I’m ever mindful however that these same heroics saved my life just 14 years ago, but what a shame that no effort was put into preventing my illness in the first place. Thankfully the naturopathic community are forging ahead with research that connects the microbiome with most chronic diseases and it’s finally getting the attention it deserves. We are learning how to optimise our health by making accommodations for the parasitic organisms on which we depend. ‘The poison is in the dose’ as they say; balance is key.
As I pondered on the state of the world this morning it occurred to me that there are striking similarities between the digestive microbiome and our political representation. What we are experiencing globally is closely akin to having an extreme stomach upset. Governments have forgotten that we elect them to serve us. Instead we are being dictated to under threat of sanction. The unpleasant experience of being tethered to the toilet or vomiting copiously – often both, is almost inevitable when we overeat, or allow some E coli infection to run out of control. So often with food poisoning we had no idea the dish was tainted. So too, many apparently trustworthy politicians have proven themselves to be anything but. Instead of the yeast infection we recognise resulted from overindulgence in sugar, we are sensing the tyrannical overreach of government emerging from overdependence on state handouts whether in the form of welfare or employment.
The captured media is acting like a biofilm protection for the unfolding global tyranny. Where once we could depend on bloodhound reporters to hunt out the truth, nowadays they behave like dentally challenged lapdogs, positively discouraged from working for a living. Their role is now one of misdirection so that the civic immune response of righteous indignation and even street protest is muted or muzzled completely. How simple it was to achieve such massive corruption. All it took was heaps of cash in lucrative advertising deals and discreet stuffed envelopes. For added leverage there were Jeffrey Epstein style honeytraps or Kincora type scandals. Every jurisdiction has its vice dens.
So now we’ve reached crisis. Like an expected stomach purge, which turns you green for an hour beforehand, we’re heading into Biden’s Dark Winter where much unpleasantness seems inevitable. On the bright side, when the purge is over, we can restore a healthy society. The resulting weight loss will require that we buy a new wardrobe of clothes, a society not weighed down by parasites and their governing institutions but the minimum necessary to support wholesome community development.
Hippocrates has waited long enough to be taken seriously. From now on we will prevent disease, and optimise our immune systems, by attending to our gut health. We will never again permit parasitic government to control our lives and dictate terms for our existence. Purging them from our system may be an unpleasant but necessary step on the road to a brighter future.
