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Can You Catch A Cold?: Untold History & Human Experiments Paperback – March 23, 2024

by Daniel Roytas (Author), Dr Samantha Bailey (Foreword)
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The idea that the common cold and influenza are spread via coughing, sneezing, and physical contact has been firmly implanted in our minds since childhood. However, the results of human experiments cast doubt on this theory. Researchers have failed to consistently demonstrate contagion by exposing healthy people directly to sick people or their bodily fluids. These findings suggest that our understanding of infectious disease is incomplete and challenges the long-held belief that a cold or flu can be ‘caught’.

So, what might be causing these seasonal afflictions, and why do they appear to spread from person-to-person? Can You Catch A Cold? Untold History & Human Experiments answers these questions by delving into the historical records, investigating past pandemics, exploring human psychology, and reviewing more than 200 contagion studies. With over 1,000 citations, no stone has been left unturned in the pursuit of unravelling this age-old mystery.

“The claim that colds and flu are contagious may be one of the greatest ever blunders of medical science. Prepare to be shocked as this book brilliantly brings to life the buried data that can no longer be ignored”.
- Dr Mark Bailey Co-author of The Final Pandemic: An Antidote to Medical Tyranny

“An incredible, thorough exploration of history that will make you question everything you thought you knew about infectious diseases, health, and the human condition. This well-researched book, with over 1,000 references, provides valuable insights to help piece together the intricate puzzle of why we experience illness. A paradigm-shattering, must-read for those trying to determine the truth and acquire a healthier and happier life!”
- Roman Bystrianyk Co-author of Dissolving Illusions: Disease, Vaccines & Forgotten History

“How many of us go through life claiming we know something without having ever given it any critical thought? Proverbs 18:3 says, ‘If one gives an answer before he hears, it is his folly and shame’. Daniel Roytas set aside his ‘common knowledge’ to truly explore the premises and history surrounding contagion, and came out with a completely new outlook on the subject. Anyone interested in developing a richer understanding of this topic owes it to themselves to read this book”.
- Dr Jordan Grant Physician & Educator
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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Daniel Roytas (March 23, 2024)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 460 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1763504409
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1763504400
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.7 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 6 x 1.04 x 9 inches
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Chris Radford
5.0 out of 5 stars Should be submitted as a scientific publication to a journal
Reviewed in the United States on April 25, 2024
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This book summarises the current evidence for contagion in relation to symptoms known most as the common cold and influenza and finds it to be woefully lacking with most experiments failing to follow the scientific method and almost all studies relying upon natural modes of "transmission" showing zero transmission of cold and influenza symptoms. It also provides alternative explanations which make sense such as nocebo and psychological effects.

The only thing that could be improved is a more detailed commentary on each study listed in the appendix and why it doesn't follow the scientific method, as opposed to a general commentary about key studies within the book text as the present format provides an easy reference for those who wish to argue contrary to the authors' conclusions using studies which on the surface appear to have demonstrated contagion but in reality failed to follow the scientific method in one or more aspects of the study and as a consequence do not support the claims being made by the authors.
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Sidney Vaello
5.0 out of 5 stars Important question
Reviewed in the United States on April 26, 2024
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An informative and beautifully written book that asks a question that could change our world. Do we want a world based on fear and violence or a world that acknowledges our connection to the environment and its effect on our health? Part 3 of the book defines our choice.
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ronin
5.0 out of 5 stars This book poses many important questions
Reviewed in the United States on April 10, 2024
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There are many things in life that we've learned to take for granted, and this book has done an excellent job at asking the right questions and provoking important thoughts. Thoughts regarding what we know or think we know about colds and flu. This book is well researched and documented.

When we are children, there is a point in each of our lives when we all begin asking 'why' about everything, and it is one of life's biggest mistakes when we 'grow out of it.' So with child-like curiosity, and academic rigor, we can all ask 'Can You Catch a Cold?'
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stephen rasch
5.0 out of 5 stars Too expensive
Reviewed in the United States on May 8, 2024
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Good book but with shipping way too expensive
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Derelict
5.0 out of 5 stars Groundbreaking research on a very understudied topic
Reviewed in the United States on April 17, 2024
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Well done Daniel! This may be the very first book of its kind and you’ve done an exceptional job covering all the bases. I’ve been waiting for a book like this for a long time.

Much appreciated.
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Natalia
5.0 out of 5 stars Learn the ultimate truth about contagion
Reviewed in the United States on April 11, 2024
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This is a piece of real scientific investigation from someone who does not get compensated by any government or pHarmaceutcal moneys.
This is a source of truth and true investigation that everyone needs to know.
Deepest gratitude to the author
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paulina
5.0 out of 5 stars Fantastic Read!
Reviewed in the United States on April 6, 2024
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Quite a ride! Highly informative and intuitive.
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Wayne Lusvardi
1.0 out of 5 stars Needs Constructive Criticism - "We Have Met the Enemy and the Enemy is Us" - Pogo
Reviewed in the United States on April 9, 2024
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It is with great reluctance that I attempt a constructive critical review of Daniel Roytas’ Terrain Theory interpretation of his epic compilation of research “Can You Catch a Cold?” It deserves more than a five-star rating but instead I intentionally give it one-star, so this review will perhaps fall into the category of “best critical review” to stimulate dialogue and return criticism. It should be noted that Roytas’ book is apparently intended for others in the Professional Class and is not a self-help book about how NOT to “catch” a cold.

As a non-medical professional, I concur with the author’s proof of his thesis that “germs” and “coughing, sneezing and contact” do not cause people to get sick during the cold weather season. But, so what, since cold and flus are self-clearing diseases in 3 to 10 days for 98% of the population by fasting, hydration, electrolytes, sunlight, boosting cholesterol for the Innate Immune System, and bedrest. Thus, the folk medicine proverb “starve a fever” because the liver cannot concurrently filter food and toxins and will take food first, thus spilling toxins into the bloodstream to the lung to eliminate them in a process called “vicarious elimination” which can self-trigger deadly pneumonia (Henry Beiler, MD, Food is the Best Medicine, 1975). We are co-producers of our own disease.

Roytas’ book does not address the vulnerable 2% of the population with diabetes, obesity, cirrhosis of the liver, kidney stones, or lowered immunity from prescribed drugs, that are described as the most likely victims of the mysterious bugaboo COVID-19. That is beyond the limited scope of his book. Thus, Roytas doesn’t adequately describe how colds and flus can be self-generated by overloading the liver with toxicity, infection, and food. To be fair, Roytas’s makes it clear his book is not about COVID-19 but merely about catching minor colds. But many of his many uncritical reviewers infer the implications of his book can also apply to COVID-19.

Conventional Medicine, and its Germ Theory ideology, considers bacteria a pathogen (think Strep Throat), ignores parasites altogether, asserts that respiratory diseases are caused by bacterial infection, uses fungal based antibiotics to kill infectious bacteria, and relies on immunizations against invisible viruses. Conversely, Alternative Medicine, and its Terrain Theory ideology, believe that bacteria and fungi are solely cleansers and digesters, parasites are compartmentalizers of toxins and metals in our bodies, there is no such thing as viruses, and the timing and intensity of colds and flus can be controlled or avoided by hydration and elimination.

Neither of these two ideologies have anything to do with the stark reality of COVID-19 as hospital-created Sepsis and antibiotic resistance. According to Jean-Louis Vincent, MD, PhD, Belgium, COVID-19 cannot be distinguished from Sepsis. Moreover, the French medical lab Bio-Force (bioMerieux) reports that 100% of COVID-19 non-survivors had Sepsis and “viral infections do not generally cause sepsis”. If this is so, then COVID-19 is a bacterial infection, not some bugaboo virus, and its origin is a hospital, not a lab leak or cross species transmission from a bat to humans. For clarification, COVID-19 is an institutional, not microbial disease having little to do with this book.

The notable Dr. Jennifer Daniels, MD, in an online video “Murder by Medicine” dated January 15, 2013, describes that there is a “virus” that causes Sepsis, but it is bacterial. She explains that harmless Staphylococcus bacteria on our skin (and C. Difficile bacteria in our gut) can morph into a Plasmid to protect itself from infusions of killer antibiotics. This results in an uncontrollable blood infection called Sepsis. Or if a catheter or breathing tube punctures a blood vessel allowing to Staph to enter, it can also cause deadly blood poisoning. Infection is not merely dying or sick cells that bacteria or exosomes remove. Rather, it is an overgrowth that causes a dangerous gut microbe imbalance. This microbial turf war does not fit either Germ Theory or Terrain Theory explanations.

Plasmids only form in bacteria, not other human cells. Antibiotic induced Bacteria Plasmids are virus-like microbes that invade host cells, can replicate, spread, can produce airborne spores, and can form a “mutant” or hybrid bacteria that can cause infection (Mary E. Wilson, Antibiotics: What Everyone Needs to Know, 2019). Plasmids are not imaginary biological artefacts and bacteriophages are their host. Plasmids are what biology calls an “obligate” parasite that can’t occur in isolation and hides inside host cells and have been photographed inside bacteriophages. We know Bacterial Plasmids are real because of the deadliness of their interaction with fungal antibiotics and other bacterial strains.

Germ Theory is based on a strategy of vaccinating the fish if there is a polluted tank, while Terrain Theory is based on a strategy of cleaning the tank. But metaphorically there can be clean fishbowl water and vaccinated fish, but nonetheless a deadly microbial turf war can occur between, say, predator and non-predator fish. Neither theory accurately describes the Turf War between bacteria and fungus and are ideologies that serve vested interests.

Those who say bacteriophages are not pathogenic do not address hidden Plasmids and the lethality of Antibiotic Resistance. Those who use a compost pile analogy to describe the action of bacteria as purely to remove or eat dead or dying matter, fail to discuss that compost piles can also develop Plasmids. Unlike the bugaboo virus, bacteriophages can be seen by the human eye and can be simply isolated from pond water by use of a cone filter and a spatula (Dr. Sabrina Green, PhD).

I also take issue with the author’s Terrain Theory environmentalist ideology that “abolishing toxic, man-made chemicals, environmental pollution, and ultra-processed foods” will make humans “happier, healthier and wealthier”. For one, I would direct readers to Dr. Bruce Ames’, PhD, definitive studies which show that 99.99% of pesticides and toxins we consume in our diet are from natural pesticides in organically grown plant foods and rodent waste presumably from food storage, which is 10,000 times more than from other industrial chemical exposures (Bruce Ames, Margie Profet, and Lois Gold, “Dietary pesticides 99.99% all natural PNAS 87: 7777-81, Published: October 1990). So organic and unprocessed plant food like oxalate-laced Spinach can be toxic. Oxalate is a natural plant pesticide to protect plants from predator insects or worms. Or even vitamin C and beneficial Aspergillus fungus can combine in our liver to internally produce oxalate kidney stones, breast cancer fibrins, arterial plaques, and arthritic crystals. No bad germs or industrial-polluted terrain needed. Roytas includes a fascinating overview of how the pH acidity of outdoor air may be associated with influenza. But the author did not attempt to explain why cigarette smokers were the least affected group from the bugaboo COVID-19.

I don’t relish having to write this critical review of an author who has done an amazing job of research and is not an enemy of the people.

I suggest readers not to expect this book to be a refutation of Germ Theory or vindication for Terrain Theory vis a vis COVID 19. Hopefully, this review will deflect any unjust criticism from the author. Buy the book, it is a classic.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Outstanding summary of the lack of evidence for the germ/contagion hypothesis!
Reviewed in Canada on May 14, 2024
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Mr. Roytas has done humanity a wonderful blessing by collating his painstakingly detailed work into this must read. So many historical facts that demonstrate how much of a fraud the entire contagion model is (which of course leads to seeing vaccines as useless and dangerous). Daniel covers many different elements of the contagion hypothesis, and points out alternative explanations for supposed contagion. Excellent excellent read!!!
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Neil
5.0 out of 5 stars deeply researched and well crafted
Reviewed in the United Kingdom on May 10, 2024
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Boy, has this guy done his homework. meticulously researched and well written, this book dispels all the myths surrounding the contagion argument. a must have for anyone who is truly interested in their health and the health of those around them
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Martin Kieser
5.0 out of 5 stars Ett steg i rätt riktning, äntligen!
Reviewed in Sweden on April 16, 2024
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Boken är välgjord, välskriven och känns autentisk från början till slut. Här idisslas inte vad andra sa och skrev. I den här boken berättas den delen av vår historia som gärna sopas under mattan och det är av enormt värde att så mycket information kunde samlas på ett ställe. Nu äntligen kan utomstående få en mer nyanserad (läs: realistisk) bild av vad som försiggår i och runt omkring oss. Tack Daniel Roytas!
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Chrissy
5.0 out of 5 stars How a Biased Egoic Society Led Us Down the Garden Path
Reviewed in Australia on May 15, 2024
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I felt it in my bones for years and years, the manipulation and the unholistic ways of my entire generation left me astounded and always looking for answers. You know something is not right and yet the entire story is missing crucial pieces. Thank goodness for the information age or I would still be in the dark and not knowing any way to make sense of this senseless world. This book and those that have stuck their necks out to have broad based open discussions are nothing short as heroes in my life. Thank you Daniel and thank you to those who have tirelessly over the decades tried to bring reason and common sense to us to only have proven real unbiased results published for our own perusal, hidden, ridiculed and much worse, it must have been pure torture to those who really truly understood what is a baffling subject to most of us. Those of us who were and to some degree are Science illiterate and unable to voice our concerns to those in white coats we can begin a journey to uncover what has always been there for us in all its organic and natural glory we can and will take charge of our own bodies and do away with such folly how did we ever call ourselves a civilized society, the last 4 years has been a very dark age and now we are seeing the real light and this movement towards empowerment has a long way to go but undoing and relearning we must for our children and ourselves, I salute you all who take on this journey in wonderment and honor those who have gone before us.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent book!!!
Reviewed in Canada on April 7, 2024
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Arrived before it was supposed to.🙂
I'm loving it! It's a great read!
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