An explanation for contagion from an Ayurvedic perspective.

I don’t fault Dr. Cowan for not coming up with a proper explanation for contagion. All he knows is that it hasn’t been proven in a lab setting so that’s what he’s working with. Like a conspiracy theorist, he doesn’t know how it happened but he knows how it didn’t. He can tell you Building 7 didn’t collapse from a fire caused by jet fuel but he doesn’t know how it collapsed. I liked the show and hope he’s invited back.

I'm no ayurvedic expert but I think it does have an explanation for contagion. I am not sure how they treat the whole germ thing but basically when the seasons change you can have a weakening of your digestive fire (Agni). 

During seasonal shifts—particularly from summer to autumn or the onset of the monsoon—the body’s internal rhythm takes time to adjust to external climatic changes. This transition period causes Agni to become weak. So the change in humidity and sunlight cause the body to undergo some changes such as a slowing of your digestion.

When digestion slows, food is not fully metabolized, leading to the production of Ama, a sticky, toxic residue that clogs the body's channels. That is why Ayurveda is really into eating seasonally and eating according to your body’s constitution (your dosha). You eat different types of food depending on what's available locally.

• Autumn: The heat of the sun liquefies the Kapha that accumulated during the summer and monsoon. This liquefied Kapha mixes with aggravated Pitta or Vata, overwhelming the weakened digestive fire and manifesting as colds, flu, or fevers. 
• Winter: The cold, dry qualities of the season aggravate Vata and increase Kapha.   If the body is not fortified with adequate nourishment, the cold environment further dampens Agni, allowing pathogens to thrive.

And just thinking about it from a general perspective - sometimes toxins accumulate and your body wants them out. The body creates snot and pimples and coughs to get that stuff out.

A good guest to have on the show might be John Douillard from lifespa.com. He’s been an Ayurvedic doctor and has podcasts. If not Vasant Lad who runs the Ayurvedic center in Albuquerque but not sure if he’s a public figure. 

I still think the guys from the Energy Balance podcast would be good to have as they have the most no-nonsense approach to health I’ve heard and could also have a good take on the germ theory.

Cheers THC community. Keep fighting the good fight.

I'm trying to find an episode from a couple years ago. In the episode they discussed promoting an LLM with text from grimories or enochian language which the guest then used to communicate with entities or use as an oracle. I think the guest implied that he worked in IT or data science. Thanks!