The Truth About Getting Sick: What If Everything We Thought We Knew Is Wrong?

We’ve been taught to fear the fever. To suppress the cough. To silence the symptom with something in a bottle.

But what if the cold isn’t the sickness?

What if the real sickness is believing we’re broken?

This quiet revolution in health thinking is growing. A growing number of wellness educators, researchers, and practitioners are questioning the very foundation of modern medicine—from germ theory to the booming vitamin industry. And what they’re finding is both shocking and liberating.

At the center of it is a radical shift in perspective: that symptoms aren’t signs of failure, but signals of a healing response. That sickness isn’t something we catch—but something we create, to cleanse, reset, and restore.

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Can You Actually “Catch” a Cold?

Health educator and author Daniel Roytas spent years reviewing more than 200 contagion studies—some dating back over a century—that attempted to prove whether illnesses like colds and flus were actually transmissible between people.

The results? Surprisingly inconclusive.

In these studies, healthy volunteers were exposed to sick patients through coughs, mucus, spit, even injections. But in the vast majority of cases, the healthy participants did not get sick.

And when they did, the results matched what you’d expect from placebo—or “nocebo”—effects. In other words, belief and suggestion may have played a larger role than microbes ever did.

So if it’s not a contagious germ, what’s really causing these familiar seasonal symptoms?

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The Environmental Factor

Roytas—and other proponents of terrain theory—suggest the real triggers are environmental: changes in humidity, barometric pressure, temperature, exposure to air pollution, even emotional stress or nutritional shifts.

Studies have shown that sudden drops in humidity, for example, can impair the body’s natural cleansing systems—causing the lungs to produce more mucus and expel accumulated waste. That runny nose and fatigue? It might just be your body doing its job.

And here’s where it gets wild: pandemics often follow an east-to-west pattern—regardless of wind direction or physical travel. That curious phenomenon, observed in past flu outbreaks and even COVID-19, remains unexplained by germ theory—but makes more sense in a model based on global weather patterns or electromagnetic shifts.

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The Vitamin Industry: Natural or Not?

The vitamin industry is booming. But few people realize where these so-called “natural” supplements actually come from.

Vitamin C? Most of it’s manufactured from GMO corn, chemically extracted with formaldehyde, acetone, and heavy metals.

Vitamin D? It’s not sunlight in a capsule—it’s a synthetic hormone made from sheep’s wool, often including ingredients also found in rat poison.

And despite appearing to be alternatives to Big Pharma, many vitamin brands are actually owned by the same pharmaceutical giants that produce the very drugs we’re told to avoid.

Even “whole food” vitamins aren’t what they seem. When 40 pounds of acerola cherry are condensed into one tiny capsule, what’s really left of the original food? Not the enzymes. Not the life force. Just a powdered echo of something real.

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So What Is Health, Then?

If we stop fearing symptoms, stop outsourcing wellness to pills and powders—what are we left with?

According to Roytas and many holistic practitioners, the answer is beautifully simple:

• Eat whole, local, seasonal food

• Move your body naturally

• Sleep deeply

• Get sunlight—not just for Vitamin D, but for life energy

• Connect with nature

• Create meaningful relationships

• Minimize exposure to toxins

• Honor your body’s signals

In this model, the body isn’t something to micromanage. It’s a self-regulating, brilliant system—capable of extraordinary resilience when given the right conditions.

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Healing as a Revolution

This isn’t anti-science. It’s better science—more honest, less fragmented, more connected to nature and intuition.

It invites us to rethink everything we’ve accepted: from synthetic vitamins to the belief that sickness comes from outside ourselves. What if, instead of fearing illness, we supported it? Nourished it? Trusted the process?

Maybe the body isn’t broken.

Maybe it’s brilliant.

Maybe, just maybe—it’s been trying to tell us that all along.

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Want to go deeper?

Daniel Roytas’s book “Can You Catch a Cold?” is available on Amazon. His platform, Humanley.com, offers a growing library of health education and workshops for those ready to take back their health—one real food, sunlit moment at a time.