What Are Viruses?
Alive? Dead? Or genetic data packets sharing environmental upgrades between individuals?
Viruses are dead pieces of genetic material.
They cannot replicate on their own. They require a cell's machinery—its ribosomes—to function. Without a host, a virus does nothing.
But here's the interesting part: Viruses must be recognized by cell surface receptors to gain entry. The cell has to allow the virus in.
Key question: If viruses are purely harmful invaders, why would cells have evolved receptors to actively take them in?
Viruses as USB drives.
What if viruses function as genetic data packets—little USB drives for sharing genetic upgrades between individuals?
Gradual Exposure
When we encounter viruses gradually through normal social contact, we process environmental changes incrementally. The body adapts without symptoms.
Acute Exposure
When exposed to a large viral load suddenly, the body attempts rapid cellular reorganization. This triggers illness symptoms as the body rushes to process the "update."
The "Sick" Response
Symptoms may represent the body's adaptation process—not an attack, but an upgrade in progress.
Exosomes: The body's internal upgrade system.
Your cells constantly produce and release tiny vesicles called exosomes. These carry genetic material, proteins, and signaling molecules between cells.
Remarkably, exosomes are structurally indistinguishable from many viruses. Same size. Same lipid envelope. Same genetic cargo.
Exosomes
- 30-150nm diameter
- Lipid bilayer envelope
- Carry RNA and proteins
- Cell-to-cell communication
- Made by your own cells
Viruses
- 20-300nm diameter
- Lipid bilayer envelope
- Carry RNA or DNA
- Person-to-person transfer
- Origin... less clear
The communication hypothesis.
Your body encounters environmental changes—new toxins, new electromagnetic exposures, new stressors.
Cells adapt internally using exosomes to share genetic updates between tissues.
Some of these vesicles are shed externally—becoming what we call "viruses."
Others in your community receive these packets and generate their own exosomes to implement the adaptation.
Symptoms occur when the update requires significant cellular reorganization.
Environmental triggers, not viral virulence.
Throughout history, major epidemics have coincided with significant environmental changes—particularly in electromagnetic exposure.
From this perspective, the body isn't under attack. It's responding to environmental stress and sharing that response with others—a form of collective adaptation.
The terrain perspective: It's not the virus that makes you sick—it's the condition of your internal environment that determines how your body responds to environmental change.
What this means.
Conventional View
- Viruses are invaders
- Kill the pathogen
- Isolate the infected
- Sterilize everything
- Fear exposure
Terrain View
- Viruses are messengers
- Strengthen the terrain
- Support adaptation
- Reduce environmental toxicity
- Trust the body's wisdom
Evolution, not invasion.
What if viruses facilitate human evolution rather than threaten it?
What if getting "sick" is sometimes the body upgrading its operating system?