Denis Rancourt: "Historically, animals (including people), the main cause of death is infection. It's typically related to an injury from a fight or survival mode fight or defending yourself, whatever. […] Now, there's a lot of different ways to get infection. And the three main places are through your skin, your respiratory tract, and your gut, the digestive system. There's a complex microbiome, meaning all these different biota, including fungus, bacteria, you name it, that live in your gut and in your lungs. Your lungs are not sterile at any time. They're a living, breathing microbiome.

"The theory of the microbiomes is that this collection of microbes of different species and so on, it's in a balance that depends on its environment, that depends on what you're breathing, how you're breathing, what your health status is like, and so on. And that balance can be out of whack by various circumstances, one of the main ones being stress, biological stress. So you're being attacked, you're being threatened, you're afraid for your life, all these kinds of things. And that can put your microbiome out of balance to the point where it will kill you. That's what a self-infection is. […]

"Historically, there was not just the microbiomes; there were parasites as well. Now, thankfully, we've gotten rid of most parasites, but they're horrible things. People have lived with parasites on their skin, in their gut, even in their lungs, parasites everywhere. […]

"You can see death rates (the best data is since the Second World War, but even before, since 1900) from everything just dropping and dropping and dropping. That's largely because of cleanliness and better nutrition, so you're way more able to defend yourself against these parasites and you're way more stable against imbalances of your microbiomes. Therefore, you don't get killed by these things, which are the main killers historically. […]

"Nothing to do with medical science improving. Nothing to do with vaccines being developed.

"Antibiotics are very useful because they give you the tool to intervene when you have such an imbalance regarding your body, and you would normally could have a good chance of dying from that infection, we'll call it an infection, but understand it's not one single pathogen, it's a complex process going on in your body.

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"One of the points I make in my articles is that Ivermectin is an extremely efficient antibiotic in the sense that it's really good at fighting bacterial infections of the lungs. Extremely good. There are scientific papers about this. I believe that a lot of MDs thought they were treating a viral infection when in fact they were probably treating a bacterial infection. That's what would have saved the lives of these people."

Denis Rancourt, PhD with Ryan Cristian @ 38:05–42:15 & 26:29–26:55 (streamed 2024-12-27) https://rumble.com/v63gjdn-denis-rancourt-interview-the-covid-19-illusion-biological-stress-induced-ba.html?start=2285