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This is a contentious topic, and one where I think you will find there are extreme opinions on both side. On the one hand, you will find people who want you to go through life like a ‘Bubble Boy’, pumping gas while wearing latex gloves, sanitizing hands after each handshake, and living in a sterile environment devoid of any life. On the other end of the spectrum are individuals who would say bring on maximum outside organisms and the more the merrier — touting the beneficial qualities of bacteria inside the body — and so go ahead and eat food off the floor, let people sneeze on you, and French kiss anybody who is willing.
I am obviously painting a bit of caricature of both sides of this issue. In my view and experience, the truth lies somewhere in the middle of these two approaches.
I do acknowledge the amazing power of beneficial bacteria, considering how vast and expansive your microbiome colony is. These helpful probiotic bacteria help to break down matter inside your body, especially acidic toxic materials and waste. When the bacteria consumes this material, they then excrete out the processed toxins in its own waste, which typically has a higher pH (the bacterial waste is more basic/alkaline and less acidic than the original toxins consumed). Therefore, it is easier for the lymphatic system and kidneys to then filter out the remaining chemistry — these bacteria are doing you a big favor.
I can also appreciate the logic behind the immune system getting strengthened and/or conditioned from some level of stimulation from the outside environment. Your immune system is an intelligent network and learns from data inputs. An outside threat gets exposed to your body and then your own defense mechanism builds up an immunity and cellular intelligence to protect against that specific harmful entity. Without any exposure to actual threats, the immune system has nothing to learn from and prepare for and becomes weakened.
There are indeed some compelling arguments for the need to have a bacterial interaction with this world we live in, in terms of fostering our relationship with beneficial probiotics, conditioning our immune system to be strong, and receiving natural exposure to have our own thriving microbiome and independent immunity towards all manner of threats that go on in this world.
With all this said, I am not recommending that you go into a butcher’s shop and start licking all the countertops, prepare your meals on the kitchen floor, go weeks without showering, or go to bed without brushing your teeth. There is a level of common sense and intuition involved that is equally critical.
Keep in mind the actual need to avoid poisonous toxins and chemical pollutants to your body. For example, dust mites are very common, but are not particularly harmful if consumed into a human body in terms of being an existential biological threat. However, these dust mites create their own wastes, and these wastes within a human body are toxic and acidic and would be detrimental. So the same areas that you may feel like avoiding because of some actual biological threat of a real harmful organism (a dirty floor, a public bathroom toilet, a stray alleycat) are likely to have threats not on a biological level but which are chemically toxic contained within the same area, so it is actually understandable that you would want to avoid contact with certain spaces.
There is also a legitimate logic behind the fact that there are harmful organisms, invasive life forms and parasites that you would not want inside your body — this is the whole point of your immune system. As great as beneficial bacteria is (the body recognizes this so that your immune system doesn’t eliminate this population) there are organisms which your body clearly perceives as threats. Your immune system has very sophisticated methods it uses to identify and eliminate these threats, as well as maintain a natural defense against any future threats of the same nature.
Harmful organism and parasite cleansing is covered in another segment in greater detail, and by now you know that these species are very, very antagonistic towards the healthy, high-level functioning of a human being. It is absolutely understandable for you to wish to avoid exposure to these things in your environment.
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I know individuals who are so gung-ho about beneficial, probiotic bacteria that they will eat food from the ground, just as one example, and basically will extend an open invite towards any kind of foreign inputs to be welcomed into their body. They insist that there is no need to be careful about what we’re exposing ourselves to because our body lives in harmony with bacteria.
My view on this is that I recognize there are three types of relationships in nature: Mutualistic, Commensalistic, and Parasitic. Mutualistic relationships mean that both species are benefitting from the intermingling relationship (such as probiotic bacteria). Commensalistic relationships happen when one species benefits and the other species is neutral or basically doesn’t experience any difference. Parasitic relationships occur whenever one species is exploiting another species at the expense of that other species and causing them harm.
We all know that parasitic dynamics exist in nature and so then why would you invite any willing guest into your body so liberally? Doing so is only going to create extra work for your lymphatic system and immune system. If you have a choice to use a knife that was just used to cut raw meat to cut up a piece of fruit, or to use a different knife — by God, use the clean knife! Why give yourself a parasitic infection that could take much effort and expenditure of your immune resources and/or herbal stimulation to eliminate out of your body? I’ll bet you have enough problems with parasitic relationships in the real world of humans, without needing to worry about extra troubles from microscopic or biological scroungers.
When I first started to get myself really into detoxification and was cleaning myself out deeply, I will admit that I did become a little bit obsessive, as I was myopic at the time about cleaning out my body of toxins. I would do things like fastidiously wash all of my food, clean my home and car with a natural cleaner regularly, and sanitize my hands with a natural hand sanitizer after being out in public for a while. Some people such as my close family would have described me as a bit of a ‘germaphobe’ during this time, and I was teased about this because I was sort of behaving like a stereotype.
Now, years later, I’ve definitely relaxed and loosened up. I don’t worry so much about washing hands or obsessing over a spotless environment, although I do still maintain an awareness about the level of toxins and/or potential harmful organisms in an environment. I think this may partly have to do with how healthy and radiant you can become and in turn the strength and resilience of your immune system. Back in the beginning, frankly I felt weak and overloaded with toxins and I was really dead-set on helping out my immune system by not overloading it with additional liabilities. After a few years, and definitely after doing multiple rounds of parasitic and harmful organism cleansing, I felt much more confident in my own immune system’s ability to handle whatever it might get exposed to.
I am happy to say that I am a much more laid back individual nowadays about this stuff. There are still things I am careful about. I still don’t like to walk around barefooted in a gym locker room, shower or sauna. I do filter the air inside of my home using a high-grade air filtration unit. I am very disciplined about oral hygiene and every night I take a shower before bed and fall asleep in clean sheets. I am also more careful about who I French kiss with, although I definitely don’t mind a few extra germs here or there.
My immune system seems like it is very strong now. Even without really being careful about physical contact with other humans, or even after my sick nieces cough in my face or put their fingers in my mouth, within the last several years it seems like I still haven’t ‘caught a cold’ or fallen ill because of some such exposure.
The last note I’ll touch on is that after you gain a higher level of awareness about harmful organisms and their proliferation — especially after you get yourself cleaned out and healthy — you may very well look at sensual relationships and physical intimacy differently. You may end up finding that your old lover just doesn’t taste as sweet anymore. The cleaner and clearer your body gets, and as your awareness grows, so too might your sensitivity towards individuals, especially who may be full of toxins and/or harmful organisms or parasites. This is not necessarily easy to navigate, but just be grateful to your body’s own heightened intelligence about this and ‘go with your gut’ in terms of how to associate yourself in this ever-evolving bio-electro-chemical world that we live in.
If you do feel the need to neutralize your environment and/or lower the risk of exposure to harmful organism and/or poisonous toxins in your surroundings, here are the natural products I have used over the years:
Produce Wash:
RapidRegeneration.com/ProduceWash
Household Cleaner
RapidRegeneration.com/Cleaner
Hand Sanitizer
RapidRegeneration.com/HandSanitizer
Home Air Filter
RapidRegeneration.com/AirFilter
Good luck!