{"id":67410,"date":"2026-09-30T17:48:25","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T07:48:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=67410"},"modified":"2026-09-30T17:48:25","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T07:48:25","slug":"the-body-doesnt-just-get-sick-it-gets-poisoned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=67410","title":{"rendered":"The Body Doesn&#8217;t Just Get Sick. It Gets Poisoned."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-67411\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Sayer_Ji_and_Leila_Centner.jpg\" alt=\"Sayer Ji and Leila Centner\" width=\"549\" height=\"308\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Sayer_Ji_and_Leila_Centner.jpg 549w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Sayer_Ji_and_Leila_Centner-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 549px) 100vw, 549px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Sayer Ji and Leila on terrain, detox, fluoride, the grassroots wins, and why the body\u2019s intelligence comes first.<\/strong><br \/>\nI was a sick infant. Antibiotics before I could walk. Epinephrine injections to keep my bronchial tubes open. Surgeries I no longer believe I needed.<\/p>\n<p>Then at seventeen I removed one food and the asthma stopped in three days. Nobody had ever asked me what I was eating. Not once, across a childhood of interventions.<\/p>\n<p>That single question changed the trajectory of my life. It led me to a health food store in Southwest Florida, then to PubMed, then to 100,000 peer-reviewed studies cataloged on <a href=\"https:\/\/substack.com\/redirect\/53334882-83ad-4c63-b64c-082bb124f0fb?j=eyJ1IjoieWg4YXcifQ.P5dd96yeNjsZvqxez43LWKLeQBPn8oqoUB630mF8gtY\">GreenMedInfo<\/a>, free, for anyone [Note: we passed 400,000 studies indexed this month!]<\/p>\n<p>In this conversation with Leila we go deep: terrain theory, the nocebo effect, what Tylenol actually does to your liver and your capacity for empathy, why antiparasitics worked when nothing else did, fluoride removal in 30 Florida counties, the geoengineering bill in Tallahassee, 600 calls a minute shutting down the Congressional phone system, and the grassroots movement that made all of it possible.<\/p>\n<p>Your body already knows how to heal. The question is whether anyone ever told you that.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Go deeper:<\/strong> This conversation is the story. The evidence is in my investigative series <em>Poisoned, Not Infected<\/em>, where I lay out the full case across toxicology, terrain, extracellular vesicle signaling, and the exposome, with every claim sourced.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/sayerji.substack.com\/p\/poisoned-not-infected-an-investigative\">https:\/\/sayerji.substack.com\/p\/poisoned-not-infected-an-investigative<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sayer Ji and Leila on terrain, detox, fluoride, the grassroots wins, and why the body\u2019s intelligence comes first. I was a sick infant. Antibiotics before I could walk. Epinephrine injections to keep my bronchial tubes open. Surgeries I no longer believe I needed. Then at seventeen I removed one food and the asthma stopped in &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=67410\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Body Doesn&#8217;t Just Get Sick. It Gets Poisoned.&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67410","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-health-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67410","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=67410"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67410\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67412,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67410\/revisions\/67412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67410"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67410"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67410"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}