Solar Cycles and Streptococcal Infections
Some scientists believe that during solar minima, weakened interplanetary magnetic fields allow for the evolution of new microbes which can contribute to the development of new diseases. Other lines of research indicate that severe influenza outbreaks are correlated with solar maximums when solar storms are highly active.
Streptococcus pyogenes has not been studied in terms of solar cycles, but it has been studied in terms of its ability to withstand UV radiation to determine that strep bacteria can repair UV damage overnight. And based on the timing of major streptococcal outbreaks, it seems that severe streptococcus outbreaks may be more common during the transition period between solar minimum and solar maximum, particularly during the part of the transition that’s near the solar maximum plateau (both rising and falling transition phases).
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Of course, Streptococcus infection is an ever-present threat all the time, but environmental changes involving season, solar storms, UV radiation, and Malinkovitch cycles (long-term variations in Earth’s orbit and tilt that drive ice ages and climate shifts) may play a role in its virulence.In the Medieval Era, between 1346 and 1353, the Black Plague swept across Europe. The end of the solar cycle just following the Black Plague corresponds to roughly to our current position within solar cycle 25 (the current solar cycle). This post-COVID time period is at a particular phase in the solar cycle that corresponds roughly to the phase that we’re currently at today in 2026. This time period, between 1346 and 1353 is known (in solar-science) as the “Medieval Maximum”. The early 1300s were a time when the earth was starting to cool down after a period of relatively warmer weather that’s part of a predictable cycle. The time period between 1300 and 1900 was known as The Little Ice Age. Between about 1500 and 1700, the “Maunder Minimum” was the coldest period of time during The Little Ice Age.
About 10 years after the Black Plague, in 1374, there was an outbreak of St. Vitus Dancers which today is known as Sydenham’s chorea, a disease caused by Streptococcus pyogenes. Streptococcus pyogenes is the pathogen that causes strep throat as well as psoriasis and eczema among many other diseases. Back in those days, before Streptococcus pyogenes had been studied and observed for hundreds of years, the only way to cure St. Vitus Dancers of their constant, fidgeting movements and involuntary laughter was to go to a church with St. Vitus relics, thus the name of this disease which, at the time, was believed to be caused by St. Vitus. St. Vitus dancers were quarantined at the Chapel of St. Vitus in Zabern (Saverne), France to recover, but some of them were forced to dance until they died as a part of their “treatment”.
Some sources say that the St. Vitus dance was caused by ergotism. Of course, this is possible, but other sources acknowledge that the same pathogen that causes strep throat and scarlet fever (Streptococcus pyogenes) in the modern world (as well as Sydenham’s chorea, a disease that resembles certain symptoms of ADHD and autism) may have caused the dancing. Streptococcal infection, after all, is common and it can cause very strange symptoms of disease.
Iron-deficiency anemia is a common symptom of a streptococcal infection because the Streptococcus pyogenes bacteria essentially “eats” red blood cells leaving too few red-blood cells behind in our blood supply to feed our own basic needs. In this way, Streptococcus infection can, in some cases, resemble malaria as well as chronic diseases. When iron levels are too low, the body gets jittery and “squiggly”. A person with anemia may not be able to sit still. Our skeletal muscles twitch and fidget in an effort to divert red blood cells their way. Our organs are hungry for iron-rich red blood cells too. The anemic body just doesn’t have enough. So patients with strep infection or a colony of streptococcal pathogens living somewhere in the body chronically will have a hard time resting or sleeping. The body is tired – exhausted, in fact – yet it is constantly moving when it really needs to rest in order to rebuild the blood supply.
Rest, as it turns out, can cure disease. Resting, of course, is much more difficult than it seems. Video footage of doctors putting a 9 to 10 year old child with Sydenham’s chorea for 6 weeks provides powerful proof that this treatment can cure the disease, but certainly it was no small feat to keep the child in bed for 6 weeks.
Back when Thomas Sydenham labeled Sydenham’s chorea, in the early 1500s, he believed the issue was caused by “boiling blood” or ebullition. He felt that there was a connection between this issue of “boiling blood” and the sun, but the information wasn’t available to him at that time to confirm his suspicions. So we revisit that idea here. Dr. Sydenham used a model of medicine that viewed disease in relationship to four “humors” that could become imbalanced to produce various symptoms. This model of the four humors is archaic, but that doesn’t mean that it’s wrong and in fact, for readers who are here at our site because conventional medicine has failed them, it might be valuable to explore the four humors a bit more as food for thought.
Sydenham was not a fan of medical schools and he advocated that healers should instead be attentive to their patient and use intuition, not just book-learning to find solutions to health problems. This was a brave statement to make at a time (in the early 1500s) when the use of intuition could be viewed as witchcraft. In the 1500s, the population of the world was trying to develop a logical Consensus Reality despite the fact that most of the population of the world could not read or write, but even at that time, Consensus Reality could be restrictive and limiting rather than pointing out a direction to take in terms of problem solving.
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Today, we live in a world where most people are not only literate, but they have access to almost any piece of data that they could want at any time using smart phones. So while 1500s era humans had little to no access to logical data, people living during the 21st century, modern man, have access not just to written content, but videos and images as well. Yet, even though we have all of this information and even AI bots with which we can discuss and consider all of the data, medicine remains a mystifying field. An AI bot is not the same as a doctor. And as Sydenham noted at a time long before AI when doctors relied on their schooling, without intuition and actual care for the patient, doctors were ineffectual.There are many models of medicine, but none of them can be robotically applied to a human being to cure disease. One of the advantages of the Model of the Four Humors is that it regards the imbalances of the humors in regard to both psychological-emotional imbalances as well as physical-biological imbalances. In other words, a slight imbalance in the humors might produce a mental health issue while a more pronounced imbalance in the humors might produce a physical health issue.
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The 1500s were a time when religion and politics were heavily intertwined. Ideas about separation between church and state hadn’t been developed yet. So the Four Humors Model easily regarded the human experience more holistically too. After the Reformation and the Scientific Revolution, the U.S. was poised to develop a government that took the problem of spirituality mixed with politics and attempted to resolve it. At the same time that the government evolved into a compartmentalized ideal, medicine became compartmentalized as well. And humans began to regard themselves as two separate things: mind and body. We separated our physical body into different parts. And we developed technologies to separate ourselves from the environment more and more.But let’s consider the possibility that Dr. Thomas Sydenham was correct in his view that the sun caused a certain uptick in streptococcal infections. We have the technology now to look more closely at things like solar storms and other astronomical data to better understand some of the material that doctors who specialized in the Four Humors weren’t able to consider.
One strep infection is not identical to the next. Bacteriophages (viruses) that infect streptococcal bacteria cause this bacteria to continue to evolve and change its strategy in human infection (and colonization). It’s ironic that the 1500s were a time when colonization of native cultures hit a feverish pitch. The strep bacteria evolved from a pathogen that caused serious, abrupt infection that could kill an adult or a small child within days in the 1500s to become the disease that today most often causes chronic states of “autoimmunity” and mental health issues like ADHD or depression (through colonization of the body that produces low-level anemia, for example). Humans evolved in a similar manner as individuals who would decimate their own kind through witch burnings and Inquisitions and then later, colonization of the planet and a take-over of the Old Systems of the World (mostly old shamanic systems) that had been working to humanely keep people alive and well for centuries.
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