germs are real but they're not what makes you sick
our treatments conflate the symptoms with the sickness, so you think the runny nose and coughing is the cold
so yeah you're body is detoxing. The interesting theory I've heard is that our body naturally does this every so often, and that's why there's a flu season. When you're around someone detoxing and you have some gunk in your system too, you'll think you "got sick" from them but it has to do with your bodies magnetic fields and is similar to women having periods at the same time