Aaron Hartman, MDFunctional Medicine Specialist | Clinical Researcher

Dr Horowitz | Rethinking Chronic Illness_ Outdated Models vs

2 Nov 2024 · 0 min

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Short excerpt from a YouTube conversation (featuring Aaron Hartman, MD) arguing that the 19th-century ‘one disease, one cause’ model (e.g., Koch/Pasteur-style postulates) is inadequate for 21st-century medicine. Speakers highlight the role of multiple modern environmental insults—viruses, chemicals, petroleum distillates, and toxins—that interact and suppress or dysregulate immune responses, complicating traditional disease attribution.

You just got to get used to the idea that the one disease, one cause, one disease model from the 1800s from Cox postulate or Pasteur's postulate. It doesn't work in 21st century medicine, especially when we've got all these viruses and toxins that are getting into people's bodies.
Yeah, I think we throw on top of that chemicals, petroleum distillates. Just so much stuff in our environment that suppresses our immune system, that affects our immune response, that's a toxic mess.