Chapter 2The Purpose of Gut Intuition

“Intuition will tell the thinking mind where to look next.”

—Jonas Salk

One of my Turtle friends still suffers from partial paralysis after having been infected with the polio virus as a child in the early 1950s. Polio was the biggest killer of children in those times, and many who didn’t die were left paralyzed.

The whole world looked to science for a cure. Researchers had identified the virus in 1908, but for more than four decades, a cure remained elusive. So it was an important event on April 12, 1955, when Jonas Salk announced the results of the first clinical trials of a promising treatment. His polio vaccine was effective and powerful.

Most of the other polio researchers had been working on vaccines ...

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