This would align more closely with the terrene (terrain) theory of disease. The theory posits that it is problems in the body and the balance of your body are what cause diseases. If that is so, then your body never has a lack of petroleum based chemicals in it but an imbalance in the inputs or internal hormones and vitamins. They are two different ideas on the cause of disease, and there are others, too.

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Another Texas Child Dies after Recovering from Measles

i hypothesize that these viral particles are mostly endogenous from the human genome and in periods of severe metabolic and nutritional stress we produce the viruses ourselves and shed these malformed rna and dna particles. 

we call them viruses as if they are external and infecting "us" but really we are the sources of viral particles

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41564-024-01825-4