Terrain Paradigm, Germ Theory, Hygiene, and How I Actually Discern Health Advice

Healing Octopus Radio · Jan 25, 2026 · 24m

This episode is a replay from the first live Terrain Q&A call I hosted in December 2025.

I walk through some of the most common questions I get from people who are new to terrain-based thinking, including why I use the term terrain paradigm instead of terrain theory or model, and what that distinction actually means to me.

Topics covered in this episode:

Why I frame this as a paradigm, not a theory or model

Germ theory vs terrain, and why I think that framing is too small

Hygiene and hand washing, and why it still matters even if germ theory is unproven

What Semmelweis does and doesn’t prove…