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While vaccinations supposedly prevent childhood infectious disease, they do a far better job of causing many health issues increasingly prevalent in our society like autoimmune disease, asthma, allergies and cancer.
I have heard many times that vaccines cause problems with one's immune system but never found a good explanation for exactly how this happens. Now I present to you the grim realities of vaccines and how they are likely causing more health issues, disease and deaths than they are preventing.
The Issues
Did vaccines really eradicate disease? A 1999 study from JAMA, the Journal of the American Medical Association, looked at the death rate from infectious disease since 1940. (1) What's clear is that the death rate went down by 90% before vaccines were introduced. Other careful studies, such as that by J.B. and S.M. McKinlay, show that the vaccine-related diseases such as tuberculosis, diphtheria, smallpox and others were declining before vaccination came along. (10)
So there's a question of whether vaccines were actually responsible for eradicating disease. Even the CDC, the Centers for Disease Control, admits it was simply improved hygiene, improved sanitation like indoor plumbing and better nutrition that reduced disease. (14)
Do vaccines work? Whenever there's an outbreak or an epidemic, at least half of the people who contract the disease were partially or fully vaccinated. In fact, the death rates in one study were twice as high for children that contracted the disease against which they were vaccinated. (3)
There have been many outbreaks of whooping cough in recent years. Of the children that contracted the disease, estimates run as high as eighty percent that had been vaccinated against it. (6) Clearly some children are protected, while many are not. The strains in many vaccinations may no longer protect as new strains have emerged. (11)
Vaccines contain neurotoxins. The adjuvants required in vaccines to stimulate the immune response include mercury, formaldehyde and aluminum, which are known neurotoxins. Preservative-free vaccines may not have mercury, but there has been no public outcry against formaldehyde, aluminum and many others, so these remain in vaccines as adjuvants.
Additionally, a study from Kobe University, which showed that vaccines reliably induced autoimmunity, did not include any toxic adjuvants or preservatives such as mercury, aluminum, or formaldehyde normally used in vaccines. (13) This negates the more safely perceived practice of vaccinating with preservative-free vaccines.
Vaccines cause chronic immune system dysregulation. The changing of our immune system is the most concerning issue in regards to vaccines. Our immune systems, after the changes induced by repeated vaccines, can lose the ability to respond properly in the face of illness, causing a specific set of diseases that have become more prevalent since the introduction of vaccines.
Epidemiological studies (statistical surveys) show poorer long-term health is more common among the vaccinated who survive without serious injury than children who are not vaccinated. (3, 4, 8, 9) This is the issue we will focus on in this article.
How Our Immune System Works
Allow me to illustrate exactly how vaccines throw our immune systems off track. Humans have two different arms of our immune system. One is called cell-mediated immunity and the other is called humoral immunity. During the normal course of an infection, both arms of the immune system are involved.
Let's take the chickenpox virus as an example. You get infected with the virus. Then you make a cell-mediated reaction and are sick for 2 weeks. Then your humoral immunity kicks in and you make antibodies so that if you are ever exposed to the chickenpox again, you will tag it and your immune system will destroy it before it infects your cells and you won't become sick. That's how the immune system works - both aspects are always involved.
Cell-mediated Immunity
Cell-mediated immunity entails the system of white blood cells that attack if you unfortunately pick up a virus. And because you've never encountered this virus before, the virus will infect, or get inside, different bodily cells. For instance, it will infect the cells of your respiratory tract. Now your white blood cells attack these infected cells and kill them. This whole process releases substances called cytokines, which produce the ill effects you feel when you get sick.
What we call being sick - fever, flu, mucus, cough, rash, etcetera is because of our cell-mediated immune system. The virus does not create the symptoms you experience; they are compliments of your immune system. This is demonstrated clearly when you suppress somebody's cell-mediated immune system with steroid drugs like prednisone and then infect them with a virus. They don't get 'sick.' They might even die from the infection, but they won't get what we normally refer to as sick.
On the other hand, if you give somebody the chemicals (cytokines, etc.) of their cell-mediated system, you can stimulate a cell-mediated immune response without any infection at all - no virus, no bacteria, no nothing. You merely stimulate their cell-mediated immune system and they get sick. They have a cough, fever, rash and mucus and all the rest. So that which we call being sick is a cell-mediated response.
You may not want to go around boasting how you never get sick. This is very likely because your cell-mediated immunity is repressed so that you don't release cytokines and then suffer with colds and flus. However, this doesn't mean that you don't have these viruses in your body causing harm. It just means your immune system and body are too depleted, overwhelmed and tired to respond.
This is exactly what is happening when individuals receive too many vaccinations, which at some point represses their cell-mediated immunity and their body's ability to respond to new invaders. They then become susceptible to countless diseases.
Humoral Immunity
After your cell-mediated immune system clears a pathogen, your humoral immunity - the antibody system - remembers what happened. In about 4 to 6 weeks you have your very own immunity to the pathogen in question. Next time you are exposed to the same pathogen, you can manufacture antibodies in your defense. You clear the cold before it infects your cells. The cell-mediated immune system never needs to get involved and you don't get sick.
There has never been until the 1940's a situation where you have the stimulation of one part of the immune system without the other. That's what happens with vaccines - the whole point of a vaccine is to stimulate the humoral immunity. The humoral antibodies are stimulated without a prior cell-mediated response.
This type of unnatural stimulation of our immune system is unprecedented. When you get the chickenpox vaccine, the whole point is to stimulate antibodies. If a vaccine stimulated a cell-mediated response, parents would likely not be as motivated to get their kids vaccinated. So by definition, a vaccination program is the attempt to stimulate the antibodies without a cell-mediated response.
This is the problem. The immune system is improperly trained by vaccines and chronic immune system dysregulation for life is the result.
Diseases Caused by Vaccines
When people are subject to repeated vaccines, they predictably simulate a situation of suppressed cell-mediated immunity and heightened antibody responses. Why? Because that's the goal of vaccination.
If you make a list of the diseases that are characterized by suppressed cell-mediated immunity and heightened humoral immunity, you're talking health conditions like asthma, allergies, eczema and autoimmune diseases including Crohn's, Vitiligo, Multiple Sclerosis, Sjogren's syndrome, Hashimoto's, etcetera.
We cannot and will not eradicate all disease with vaccines. We have merely traded acute illnesses from which most recover for chronic illnesses for which modern medicine has no cure.
Ask your grandparents or parents how many children did they know in 1940's or '50's who had allergies, and the answer is basically none. Now, it's anywhere from 20 to 40% of children have some sort of chronic illness. Fifteen percent of children suffer from asthma. (2) Something is wrong with this picture.
So how did we get here? Many of today's chronic diseases are characterized by excessive antibody production. How did we get that? Well that was the point of the vaccination program. That's the goal. Why would you expect anything else to happen? Many of you may respond, "This has never been proven."
Actually, the fact that vaccines produce more illness has been proven. Longitudinal survey studies comparing the health of vaccinated versus unvaccinated children have repeatedly shown statistically significant vaccinosis - illness produced in an individual after receiving a vaccine.
In a 1997 study in New Zealand, 1265 children were surveyed. Twenty-three percent of the vaccinated children experienced asthma and thirty percent suffered from allergies, while the unvaccinated children did not have a single incident of these illnesses. (8)
In a 2004 British Study of 30,000 children, vaccinated children had a 5.04 increased risk of asthma, while the unvaccinated only had a .36 percent prevalence. (9)
In a 2011 German Study of 8000 children, vaccinated children had at least two to five times more diseases and disorders than unvaccinated children.
In patients with an autoimmune disorder, the immune system can't tell the difference between healthy body tissue and antigens that need to be attacked. The result is an immune response that destroys normal body tissues. This response is a hypersensitivity reaction similar to the response in allergic conditions. Vaccinations have been shown to induce autoimmune disorders.
Interestingly, there's a study out of Kobe University in Japan where they took mice and put them on a rigorous vaccination program. They wanted to see if they could develop excessive antibodies as seen in autoimmune disease. And they found that at a certain threshold they could consistently and reliably induce autoimmune disease by simply giving enough vaccinations. (13)
The Kobe University study authors concluded:
Systemic autoimmunity appears to be the inevitable consequence of over-stimulating the host's immune 'system' by repeated immunization with antigen to the levels that surpass the system's self-organize criticality.
In other words, they found that, not only is vaccination a possible or even probable cause of autoimmune disorders, but that chronic diseases are the inevitable result of vaccinations!
This study was done with mice. This begs the question, 'Has this been replicated in humans?' Unequivocally yes. This experiment has been done and it's called the last 70 years.
Autoimmune diseases have increased in quantity and variety as the number of vaccinations has increased over the last 70 years. There are over 100 autoimmune diseases. Studies with monogenetic twins have revealed that genetic influences only account for 25-40% of the disease risk making environmental influences the predominant factors. (7) Regardless of genetic vulnerability, one's environment determines whether genes for autoimmunity are expressed.
There is a reason the fastest growing subset of diseases in the US and the world are autoimmune diseases. This is because we're producing them. It's a growth industry. As vaccines have increased in number, so have the number of cases of autoimmune disease.
Currently, there are over 70 vaccines on the recommended schedule, with even more in some US states. There are many more vaccines in development. I predict a worsening epidemic of allergies, asthma, autoimmune and other diseases caused by an atrophy of the cell-mediated immune response as more vaccines are added to the vaccine schedule. We are only seeing the tip of the iceberg with vaccine-induced reactions and disease.
Vaccinate or Not Vaccinate?
Children do die of vaccine-preventable diseases. However, many vaccinated children acquire the very diseases against which they are vaccinated - from the vaccine itself.
But many millions more suffer and die later in life due to the diseases vaccines induce by dysregulating the immune system. What to do? You must do a cost-benefit analysis and risk assessment for you personally as an individual and for your family.
Some mothers could never live with themselves if their child died of a preventable disease, which does happen. Most don't know or believe that vaccines can cause disease in the future for their child. Some parents are highly risk averse and must vaccinate due to this facet of their personality.
Others operate out of fear, are pressured by their pediatrician or do not understand that they can get a vaccination exemption. Everyone is different, as are his or her reasons to vaccinate or not.
In making your decision, you have to think of the potential of the vaccine efficacy versus the risk of injecting your child with a known neurotoxin and an immune-shifting drug. There's not a question about whether that's going to happen - it does happen.
You cannot repeatedly vaccinate somebody and not expect a change in their immune system. Given these facts, you have to decide which makes more sense to you.
I think it's a rational decision for somebody to say, "Yes I know that giving my child a polio vaccine will shift them more towards allergies, autoimmune disease and even cancer. I know it will create some neurotoxicity, but I'm not willing to live with the chance of them getting polio." Fine.
What I don't like is the status quo thinking "Get a vaccine, my doctor says they are perfectly safe, there's no downside." This is a fairytale.
I personally see the ever-increasing risk of autoimmune disease (5-8 in 100), allergies (1 in 10), asthma (8 in 100) and cancer (1 in 2-3) as far more prevalent diseases in our society and the bigger threat against which I want to protect my child. So, I am taking steps against these threats by NOT vaccinating.
I am willing to accept the far far smaller risk of my child contracting an infectious disease against which vaccines supposedly aim to eradicate. Others are not. You have to make this decision for yourself.
Vaccines do Damage
You can always choose to vaccinate, but you can never undo harm from a vaccine. I don't believe vaccines by themselves cause autism - it has multifactorial causes - but in vulnerable children, vaccines can be the straw that broke the camel's back. Vaccines do damage in vulnerable populations.
In vulnerable children, vaccines cause autism, seizures, mental retardation and so many other health issues. One must also take into account the fact that for every severe reaction, vaccines provoke less acute effects like confusion, language difficulties, memory issues, irritability, mood alterations, combativeness, difficulty concentrating and behavioral problems. (12). This sounds very much like ADD and ADHD, which are sweeping the child population in epidemic proportions.
The larger issue is that almost no one knows if their child is a member of this vulnerable population. Perhaps they know if their child is very sickly or already has a disease. This I would consider amongst the vulnerable population. Most symptoms of learning delays and other signs do not manifest until a child is around 2-3 years old. By this time a child has typically received a large number of vaccines.
If You Must Vaccinate
If you do choose to vaccinate or vaccines are mandated in your state or country, an ideal strategy is to delay vaccination. You will have far better outcomes than vaccinating from birth.
One study showed that children who delayed immunizations had less of a shift in their immune systems. (5) The damage at least can be minimized. Certainly, if your child suffers from illness, allergies, compromised immunity or is ill, you should seriously reconsider giving vaccinations.
This was reprinted from Nourishing Traditions of Baby and Childcare by Sally Fallon Morell and Dr. Thomas Cowan. For details on why these are wise suggestions, I recommend reading this wonderful baby book.
- Delay vaccinations until age two.
- Give no more than one vaccine every six months.
- Never give more than one vaccine at a time. This means avoid the 3 in 1 vaccines and opt for single vaccines.
- Avoid live virus vaccines.
- Never give a vaccination to a sick child. Vaccines are much more dangerous if your child has a compromised immune system.
- Avoid vaccines containing thimerosal, which is 50% mercury, found in flu vaccines. Single-vial vaccines are more likely to be thimerosal free. Avoid flu shots from community vials dispensed at hospitals or drug stores, which usually contain thimerosal. However, today the larger threat is neurotoxic aluminum in vaccines, not mercury.
- Supplement with extra cod liver oil, vitamin C, B12 and sulfur-rich foods such as liver and egg yolk before each vaccine. This will help your child as these nutrients play a key role in regulating the immune response.
- Do NOT give a child acetaminophen, Tylenol or paracetamol following a vaccine to reduce fever. You use up all of a child's protective glutathione dealing with this fever reducer that is needed to deal with the neurotoxins in the vaccine. This is a grave mistake following a vaccine that can have disastrous consequences.
Vaccine Resources
Concerned parents spend a significant amount of time researching the issue of vaccines before deciding whether or not to proceed with the government recommended immunization schedule. This process can be incredibly frustrating because there is so much conflicting information. Many health care practitioners and family members consider you crazy if you even toy with the idea of not vaccinating.
I thought it would be helpful to pass along a list of references that I recommend. They are a good place to start building a foundation of knowledge regarding the vaccine controversy rather than blindly following your pediatrician's advice, which will almost always be to vaccinate.
Nvic.org (National Vaccine Information Center)
Vran.org (excellent Canadian site)
Recommended Reading
Vaccines, Autoimmunity, and the Changing Nature of Childhood Illness by Dr Thomas Cowan.
One doctor's surprising answer to the epidemic of autoimmunity and chronic disease.
Over the past 50 years, rates of autoimmunity and chronic disease have exploded: Currently, one in two-and-a-half American children has an allergy; one in 11 has asthma; one in 13 has severe food allergies; and one in 36 has autism. While some attribute this rise to increased awareness and diagnosis, Thomas Cowan, MD, argues for a direct causal relationship to a corresponding increase in the number of vaccines American children typically receive - approximately 70 vaccine doses by age 18. The goal of these vaccines is precisely what we're now seeing in such abundance among our chronically ill children: the provocation of immune response.
Dr. Cowan looks at emerging evidence that certain childhood illnesses are actually protective of disease later in life; examines the role of fever, the gut, and cellular fluid in immune health; argues that vaccination is an ineffective (and harmful) attempt to shortcut a complex immune response; and asserts that the medical establishment has engaged in an authoritarian argument that robs parents of informed consent. His ultimate question, from the point of view of a doctor who has decades of experience treating countless children, is what we are really doing to children when we vaccinate them.
Vaccines: The Risks, the Benefits, the Choices is written by Dr. Sherri Tenpenny D.O. A comprehensive overview of very real vaccination risks, the potential benefits to immunization and various options parents can choose based on their individual situation.
Miller's Review of Critical Vaccine Studies by Neil Z Miller. Many people sincerely believe that all vaccines are safe, adverse reactions are rare, and no peer-reviewed scientific studies exist showing that vaccines can cause harm. This book -- Miller's Review of Critical Vaccine Studies -- provides the other side of the story that is not commonly told. It contains summaries of 400 important scientific papers to help parents and researchers enhance their understanding of vaccinations.
Dissolving Illusions By Dr Suzanne Humphries and Roman Bystrianyk. Not too long ago, lethal infections were feared in the Western world. Since that time, many countries have undergone a transformation from disease cesspools to much safer, healthier habitats. Starting in the mid-1800s, there was a steady drop in deaths from all infectious diseases, decreasing to relatively minor levels by the early 1900s.
The history of that transformation involves famine, poverty, filth, lost cures, eugenicist doctrine, individual freedoms versus state might, protests and arrests over vaccine refusal, and much more.
Today, we are told that medical interventions increased our lifespan and single-handedly prevented masses of deaths. But is this really true?
Dissolving Illusions details facts and figures from long-overlooked medical journals, books, newspapers, and other sources. Using myth-shattering graphs, this book shows that vaccines, antibiotics, and other medical interventions are not responsible for the increase in lifespan and the decline in mortality from infectious diseases. If the medical profession could systematically misinterpret and ignore key historical information, the question must be asked, "What else is ignored and misinterpreted today?"
Perhaps the best reason to know our history is so that the worst parts are never repeated.
Vaccinations: A Thoughtful Parent's Guide: How to Make Safe, Sensible Decisions about the Risks, Benefits, and Alternatives by Aviva Jill Romm. Discusses how to weigh vaccine benefits and risks and make informed vaccine choices, including examining alternatives to vaccination.
What About Immunizations? Exposing the Vaccine Philosophy: This amazingly well-sourced book includes 21 answers to the most popular questions about vaccination along with a quiz you can take which will help you discover your personal wellness philosophy - invaluable in helping you forge the decision path that is right for your family. Numerous scientific references back up every assertion that is made.
Vaccine Free is a book with over 100 stories of unvaccinated children. Choosing not to vaccinate is not what the media portrays. Stories have the ability to cut through propaganda very effectively. A very powerful book that will, if nothing else, change your mind about people who choose not to vaccinate.
Vaccine Epidemic focuses on the searing debate surrounding individual and parental vaccination choice in the United States. Featuring more than twenty experts from the fields of ethics, law, science, medicine, business, and history, Vaccine Epidemic urgently calls for reform. It is the essential handbook for the vaccination choice movement and required reading for all people contemplating vaccination for themselves and their children. Louise Kuo Habakus and Mary Holland edit and introduce a diverse array of interrelated topics concerning the explosive vaccine controversy
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