I know ayurveda is a system of medicine (as you state), and that’s enough. If common bacterial and viral illnesses are a way for the body to expel toxins, then why curb them? On the contrary, we should let them free to do their beneficial work!
Cheers
François
Iguana,
Occasionally I see posters on here who complain about paleo dogmatics, with the implication that some posters on here get carried away with paleo purism.
I try not to do that but, hunose.... maybe I do.
But I do know one thing and that is that the paleo diet or our version of it is not some magical wand from the heavens that somehow makes us perfectly healthy and blue skinned shining deities that lived for hundreds of years, as the Hindus describe.
Paleos had disease also. We have all seen threads on here where paleos were examined by modern methods and found to have diseases, chronic and acute and seemed to have short lifespans. They have also lived in areas where they killed off all of the prey they lived off of and ate gawd knows what just to survive. That is the reality of life then and now.
Nowadays we get most of our food from the grocery store and naturally some (me) get a lot from farmers and grow a certain amount of fruit. We have raspberries, grapes, figs, cherries, prune plums, pears, apples on our property. We can get all kinds of seafood not far from here but have not gotten into it yet. Our paleo ancestors would never have had access to that variety of food or different species except in some unique tropical paradise. They would also have had to walk/run to find that food.
So as a consequence PPL got diseases. At some point somebody in the community would notice that when a certain type of disease arose, it was caused by one thing and cured by another. They had no idea what or why, just that it worked. Animals will do this naturally and if you go along with the Evolution 'story' we evolved from animals.
Since disease is not nice to have, these forms of oral or possibly as Rupert Sheldrake has brilliantly pointed out 'morphogenic fields'
Morphogenetic Field (Body Field) - Rupert Sheldrake, Ph.D, University of Cambridge contain this information and eventually it was codified into the various books of the various medical systems of the world.
As far as bacteria being scavengers who actually help us to get rid of toxins, I believe that theory to be true, however I have studied a great many disease theories, systems, machines, modalities and I have come to an interim conclusion that disease is caused by a plethora of different things.
Diet is one cause. Our reaction to the world around us, ie. fear, anger, jealousy, covetousness etc is another cause, our addictions is another cause. Lack of certain nutrients in our diet is another, indeed the list would take a long time to enumerate.
Maybe it can be compared to the different levels of reality. In the Newtonian view of the world there is gravity, matter, mass etc. In the Einsteinian view there is not matter, but a series of very tiny things called atoms with lots of space in between. Then on the quantum level of Nils Bor, there is nothing there, just energy and it can pop in and out of existence affecting things millions of miles away.....
The world is not as simplistic as eat paleo and you'll be perfect.
For one thing PPL on this forum come into this diet with ancestral dietary abuse and gawd knows what genetic malformation. You don't go from being a thalidomide child to being a regular dude from eating steak. Beef is not paleo anyways. Cattle are a recent invention. Neither are pigs, chicken and tuna. Even the wild animals nowadays are not real, as a certain proportion live off of the proceeds of farming and human waste.
If you want to put up with an illness, go for it, don't let fear hold you back.
