In this interview, Dr. Thomas Cowan, a practicing physician and founding board member of the Weston A. Price Foundation, shares his perspective on vaccines and autoimmune disease, which is the topic of his latest book, “Vaccines, Autoimmunity, and the Changing Nature of Childhood Illness.” The book was an outgrowth of answering a rather simple question: How do we recover from illness?

“When we get sick, there’s a very certain sequence of events that happens, which I describe as, ‘We’re fine, then we get hot, then we get snot, and then we get better.’ I’ve asked myself all these years, ‘Why does that happen in that sequence?’ That little question made me get into ‘What is the nature of fever, and what is the nature of the cell?’ Because, in my opinion, we have that wrong …

What’s the intention of your body? Once you see that, then you start to see that if you do something to prevent that sequence of events from happening … you’re going to end up with something worse happening. In a sense, that’s the story of modern pediatrics and health of the children in the United States, and even more broadly, probably in the world.

The thwarting of that sequence is such a problem. That, of course, is tied in with vaccines, because they’re a preemptive attack on that sequence.”

The Role of Intracellular Water in Health and Disease

While writing “Human Heart, Cosmic Heart” — a book focused on heart function and the mechanics of heart disease, Cowan began investigating the nature of water, discovering that water exists in more than three phases (solid, liquid and vapor). It also has a gel phase, known as exclusion zone (EZ) water. This is thoroughly explained in Gerald Pollack’s book, “The Fourth Phase of Water.”

“That was crucial to the understanding of the role of fever in vaccines and childhood illness,” Cowan says, “Because what I realized is that, first of all, all of the intracellular fluid is in a gel phase.

It’s a bit like Jell-O. If you think about how Jell-O is made, you take hydrophilic proteins and you put it in water. If that’s all that happens, nothing happens. You have to heat up the proteins. This unfolds the proteins … from a circular to essentially a linear shape.

Then they can interact with the water, so that when it cools, it forms this gel. That process is exactly the same as what happens inside our cells. There are intracellular proteins and there’s water. The role of heat … is a molecule called adenosine triphosphate (ATP), which some people say is the energy molecule, but I would actually beg to differ.

What it does is it binds with the proteins in the cell, unfolds them and allows the cell to interact with water. That forms a gel inside the cell … As a result of the difference between the sodium and potassium [in the cell], there’s a charge around the cell, which allows the cell to integrate itself into a whole and to do work. There’s literally nothing more important in cell biology than that process.

Over the years, people have [concluded] that it must be because of this sodium-potassium pump in the membrane … But, interestingly, Gilbert Ling did studies on it and showed it would take 30 to 40 times the energy to run the sodium-potassium pump than we have as energy for our entire being, so it can’t be the pump. How does this happen?

It happens because the nature of the intracellular gel is like a mesh. The mesh naturally excludes sodium and collects potassium. There’s no energy required, except for the ATP to unfold the proteins. Essentially, when the gel is, let’s say, the perfect liquid crystal, like the perfect Jell-O, then that’s a perfectly well-functioning cell.

The things that create good health so you don’t get sick — things like sunlight, earth exposure (grounding), holding hands, infrared radiation, avoiding electromagnetic fields, good food, no sugar — all those things facilitate the creation of this perfect gel, which then, in a sense, creates perfect health.”

The Roots of Disease

Cowan postulates that when something happens in your body that interferes with this process of creating structured water (its gel form) in the cell, the disease process sets in, with the intention of reestablishing healthy gel. 

When you insert toxins such as arsenic, aluminum or glyphosate, for example, it distorts the ability of the gel to form properly, which in turn prevents healthy cell functioning. “It’s like having a screen on your house to keep mosquitoes out, but now the holes in the screen are an inch wide,” Cowan says. 

As a result, the cell cannot exclude the sodium and it cannot include the potassium. Nor can it properly perform any of its other functions. According to Cowan, to eliminate the toxin, your body creates heat, because by heating up the gel, it gets runny, more liquid. That’s phase 1: fever. Phase 2, the snot part, is the detoxification stage. The mucus traps the toxin, allowing it to be expelled from your body. 

“That’s how we get rid of whatever is interfering with our intracellular gels to essentially keep ourselves healthy,” Cowan says. “When you look at children and how they get sick, it’s just one process after another. They’re growing. They’re making metabolic poisons.

They’re exposed to all kinds of things. It’s part, in a sense, of the growing process to, every once in a while, … do a heating up and a snotting out, a kind of spring cleaning, and then you get on with being a healthy child.

When you see a child who is doing that all the time, and then it becomes … a chronic disease, that’s a child who is, A) chronically being intoxicated by all these different influences; doesn’t have enough sun, earth, good food and all of those other things, or is B) being thwarted from going through those natural phases. In either case, you’re going to end up with chronic disease.”

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