What is it in spoiled or rotten food that makes us sick? If you ask the question like that then you’re assuming that there’s something in the food that’s making you sick. Now let’s just say for a minute that it’s clearly eat the food and you get sick. I’m so I’m not disputing that. That’s an observation. You eat the food and then you and maybe other people get sick. So it’s clearly the food made you sick. The thing that I want to point out is an assumption which all of us, certainly myself included, have made our whole lives and would have made even up to five minutes ago, is therefore there must be something in the food that’s making us sick.

I mean that sounds like a perfectly reasonable assumption, right? So we look and we see is there bacteria so then we do the thing that I keep saying you isolate i.e. separate the bacteria that are growing and you give only those and then nobody gets sick. So it’s not the bacteria. So there must be something else. But what I want to point out is even thinking there’s something in the food that’s making you sick may be an invalid assumption. It’s like I was thinking of an analogy. Which part of pumpkin do I enjoy and love so much? And obviously that’s the wrong question because there is no part of him.

It’s not like I like pumpkin because of his his paw or his foot or his tail or it is not like I like eating lobster because of the red color. In other words with most of life you don’t break things down into parts in order to explain their effect. It’s basically the person. I love my wife. I love my children. It’s not because I love their ear or their foot or their big toenail and similarly with food. So I would say it’s the food that’s making you sick. Now you could feel dissatisfied with that and say there’s got to be something in the food.

Now that’s where you would have to do science and then you would first like I would start with denatured or rotted proteins. In other words proteins from say meat or mayonnaise or something that have broken down and formed potentially toxic byproducts. And then you could isolate those and see if they made you sick and they may or may not. And if I was just to make a guess to see whether there is a part in say meat or mayonnaise that makes you sick I would say there may be some proteins that have broken down and if you isolated those and ate those and then you recreated the symptoms that would give you the answer.

I have a suspicion though and I’ve never done this and I don’t know that it’s even ever been done that that may not work and it may be that it’s just a rotting food in totality that makes you sick not any specific part. [tr:trw].

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