So thorough and brilliant! If this essay were mandatory reading for all students enrolled in conventional medical schools, well a majority of the curricula would be abandoned. Not to mention the elimination of big pHARMa's investments in the studies of "infectious, contagious pathogens." An enormous socioeconomic transformation would unfold.
The medical industrial complex could finally poop out their toxic myths, misconceptions, and corruption.
Never heard of it. If I have a medical problem, the only diagnosis is what kind of man made chemical toxin or poison is causing it. And for that, doctors are mostly useless. They are the one's using and prescribing the poisons. Sad that they refuse to acknowledge their putrid actions.
Isn't that the BigPharma and CartelMedicine way...identify troubling sx, create a treatment for symptoms only, create a NewDisease name for it, market it quickly in as many ways as possible, Parma reps push new drug on doctors, doctors push it on individuals , etc. propoganda 101. Has worked for decades now. They won't fix it ciz it isn't broken, yet!
Great article. I live in the US and have moved several times to different US cities during my lifetime . I noticed a pattern of getting sick within the first week or two of moving to a new environment. I see it in college students too. I figured out long ago that I was just adjusting to a new environment. And that illness was temporary. For a long time, I thought I was being exposed to new germs and the germs were the problem. But over the last decade, I have learned about the body’s terrain. After supporting my terrain , I get sick less often when traveling. I still hate airports and airplanes, though, for the environment they provide. But, keeping my body healthy is my best defense.
I seem to have a gut of steel. In the 70's I went to Mexico with family. Two out of 8 were tethered to a toilet the 1st 2-3 days. Bummer. The rest were fine. We were cautioned to not eat street food or homemade beer. I ate and drank it all and I don't even like beer.
Then, my sister would visit me in Jersey. Just crossing the border between states made her sick. Taking her to NYC, again, the same. We could barely make it home and she'd need the bathroom. Strange. We went to Aruba together and again, diarrhea for days.
Reading your comment brought these memories back. I believe the terrain is everything.
Great article! It's important to note that flying long distances puts you in hypoxia while you're a cruising altitude. That will heavily impact your cellular abilities to detoxify.
This is really just an opinion piece. I agree that taking medication to mask the symptoms is stupid, and we must let the body do what it needs to do, and heal itself. And Big Pharma products should be avoided. But your theories about the cause of travel sickness are just theories And also, they don't entirely fit with my experience. I do agree terrain plays a part. Obviously, the better one's terrain , the less likely one is to be affected by whatever it is that makes one sick in these countries. My personal opinion is, it is parasitic or bacterial water / food contamination. I traveled 4 times last year and twice this year already to a developing nation that I have not lived in before (same country always), and it is only a 2hour 45 minute flight. So there's no jet lag or travel stress, so not applicable. The food is similar, so not applicable. The air is cleaner than my home city, so it ain't that. Last year, everytime I went there, I got sick. This year I have not gotten sick. Maybe I'm building up resistance. Last year on my longest visit of two months, I got sick at the start (terrible diarrhea, worst I ever had) and towards the end of the trip (vomiting). And when I got sick towards the end , I had a family group of 8 pp visiting from my home country who also ALL got sick around the same time. It was at the end of (or just after) their 2 week trip (I had been there for 6 weeks by then). The first of us got sick on the day they left , and one by one the rest got sick over the next week. Some of them were back home by the time they were sick, but with the same symptoms (vomiting). When you have a group getting sick after 2 (6 for me) weeks in the country, and coincidentally , all within days of each other, not much of this fits your "theory". In fact, it fits a contagion theory better than your theory! But I believe it would be a water/food bacterial issue, and some people just take longer to succumb, even after they arrive home. BTW, we all drank purified bottled water the whole time we were there, but we brush our teeth with the tap water, so that's probably the main culprit. And all the studies where people with or without measurable contamination of their poo are or are not sick does not prove either way whether levels of something cause the illness or don't. They show how important terrain is. But it maybe you need poor terrain AND a trigger (bacterial, parasitic, poison, whatever). It might not be trigger exposure OR terrain and I don't know how you can be so certain it's only terain and that there's no acute trigger/exposure event.
Consuming clove pills when traveling is also a way to shorten “Montezuma’s Revenge/Delhi Belly”. Not sure if it’s actual or placebo effect, but its worked for me many times in Caribbean countries.
So thorough and brilliant! If this essay were mandatory reading for all students enrolled in conventional medical schools, well a majority of the curricula would be abandoned. Not to mention the elimination of big pHARMa's investments in the studies of "infectious, contagious pathogens." An enormous socioeconomic transformation would unfold.
The medical industrial complex could finally poop out their toxic myths, misconceptions, and corruption.
Never heard of it. If I have a medical problem, the only diagnosis is what kind of man made chemical toxin or poison is causing it. And for that, doctors are mostly useless. They are the one's using and prescribing the poisons. Sad that they refuse to acknowledge their putrid actions.
Isn't that the BigPharma and CartelMedicine way...identify troubling sx, create a treatment for symptoms only, create a NewDisease name for it, market it quickly in as many ways as possible, Parma reps push new drug on doctors, doctors push it on individuals , etc. propoganda 101. Has worked for decades now. They won't fix it ciz it isn't broken, yet!
5 reasons why a person with a good level of vitamin D should not get traveler's diarrhea.
https://vitamindwiki.com/pages/diarrhea-and-vitamin-d-many-studies/
Another reason to stay the hell home!
Great article. I live in the US and have moved several times to different US cities during my lifetime . I noticed a pattern of getting sick within the first week or two of moving to a new environment. I see it in college students too. I figured out long ago that I was just adjusting to a new environment. And that illness was temporary. For a long time, I thought I was being exposed to new germs and the germs were the problem. But over the last decade, I have learned about the body’s terrain. After supporting my terrain , I get sick less often when traveling. I still hate airports and airplanes, though, for the environment they provide. But, keeping my body healthy is my best defense.
I seem to have a gut of steel. In the 70's I went to Mexico with family. Two out of 8 were tethered to a toilet the 1st 2-3 days. Bummer. The rest were fine. We were cautioned to not eat street food or homemade beer. I ate and drank it all and I don't even like beer.
Then, my sister would visit me in Jersey. Just crossing the border between states made her sick. Taking her to NYC, again, the same. We could barely make it home and she'd need the bathroom. Strange. We went to Aruba together and again, diarrhea for days.
Reading your comment brought these memories back. I believe the terrain is everything.
This one was a no brainer! Thanks again!
You forgot Gandhi's revenge. ;O)
Great article! It's important to note that flying long distances puts you in hypoxia while you're a cruising altitude. That will heavily impact your cellular abilities to detoxify.
This is really just an opinion piece. I agree that taking medication to mask the symptoms is stupid, and we must let the body do what it needs to do, and heal itself. And Big Pharma products should be avoided. But your theories about the cause of travel sickness are just theories And also, they don't entirely fit with my experience. I do agree terrain plays a part. Obviously, the better one's terrain , the less likely one is to be affected by whatever it is that makes one sick in these countries. My personal opinion is, it is parasitic or bacterial water / food contamination. I traveled 4 times last year and twice this year already to a developing nation that I have not lived in before (same country always), and it is only a 2hour 45 minute flight. So there's no jet lag or travel stress, so not applicable. The food is similar, so not applicable. The air is cleaner than my home city, so it ain't that. Last year, everytime I went there, I got sick. This year I have not gotten sick. Maybe I'm building up resistance. Last year on my longest visit of two months, I got sick at the start (terrible diarrhea, worst I ever had) and towards the end of the trip (vomiting). And when I got sick towards the end , I had a family group of 8 pp visiting from my home country who also ALL got sick around the same time. It was at the end of (or just after) their 2 week trip (I had been there for 6 weeks by then). The first of us got sick on the day they left , and one by one the rest got sick over the next week. Some of them were back home by the time they were sick, but with the same symptoms (vomiting). When you have a group getting sick after 2 (6 for me) weeks in the country, and coincidentally , all within days of each other, not much of this fits your "theory". In fact, it fits a contagion theory better than your theory! But I believe it would be a water/food bacterial issue, and some people just take longer to succumb, even after they arrive home. BTW, we all drank purified bottled water the whole time we were there, but we brush our teeth with the tap water, so that's probably the main culprit. And all the studies where people with or without measurable contamination of their poo are or are not sick does not prove either way whether levels of something cause the illness or don't. They show how important terrain is. But it maybe you need poor terrain AND a trigger (bacterial, parasitic, poison, whatever). It might not be trigger exposure OR terrain and I don't know how you can be so certain it's only terain and that there's no acute trigger/exposure event.
So your response is really just an opinion piece also - an opinion formed by your personal experience?
Great post!
Consuming clove pills when traveling is also a way to shorten “Montezuma’s Revenge/Delhi Belly”. Not sure if it’s actual or placebo effect, but its worked for me many times in Caribbean countries.
I call clove pills the vacation saver.
Well-researched & beautifully expressed. Thx!!