Health-Essentials.info Newsletter | December 2008

Greetings again from Lincoln, Nebraska.  I hope that your holiday season is filled with joy, despite the stresses we're seeing in the economy and elsewhere.  Christmas can be such a great time, reminding us of how we should value and treat one another every day of the year.

I wanted to get this newsletter out to you more quickly than usual because of a couple of specials that are running.  I don't think of my newsletters as primarily promotional, so I wanted to give you something of value along with the special offers.

Hope you find something worth your time here.

 

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The Emasculating Effect of Common Chemicals

It's a simple fact of life: As men age, their testosterone levels drop; and, with this loss of testosterone, comes the loss of so much that defines men as men.  Men may experience:

• The loss of sex drive,
• Impotence or erectile dysfunction (ED),
• Reduction in muscle mass and strength,
• Feminization of the body,
• Higher risk of prostate cancer, heart disease and diabetes,
• Weight gain, especially around the middle,
• Bone loss and a higher risk of osteoporosis,
• Lowered immune function,
• Memory loss,
• Accelerated aging.

But, the problem isn't just the lowering levels of testosterone.  What makes this really ugly is the increase of estrogen.  The fact is: many men actually have more estrogen than testosterone in their systems.  They are slowly being — essentially — chemically castrated.

The reason for this rise in emasculating estrogen levels is the prevalence of estrogen-mimicking chemicals in the environment.  These chemicals are in:

• The air that you breathe,
• The water you drink, and
• The foods you eat.

In a recent government study, testing municipal drinking water in several major cities, researchers found 11 birth control and hormone supplement compounds in every city's water.  Meat and poultry producers pump our food full of estrogen to make the steers, pigs, sheep and chickens grow faster.  And, our environment is loaded with petrochemicals, used for fertilizers, pesticides, herbicides, fungicides, cleaners and more.  All of these work their way into the soil and water, and linger in the air.

As a result of this, it has become increasingly common that, with couples having problems conceiving a child, the trouble is with the man.  These estrogen-mimicking chemicals (or xeno-estrogens) are overloading men with estrogens, triggering feminizing hormonal responses and lowering the sperm counts.  (See Stop the Assault with Gender-Bending Chemicals.)

Another interesting — and alarming — effect of this chemical poisoning is that, in rat studies, when male rats were exposed to a pesticide/fungicide, they could not get noticed by female rats.  (And you thought it was just your aftershave …  Actually, it could be your aftershave.)  But, it's more serious than that: This inability to generate sexual interest in females was passed along to the offspring, indicating that there is some sort of physiological effect at the genetic level.  The researchers speculated that this could have something to do with the dropping birth rates in Europe.  (See The Real Reason She Ignores You.)

Think about it, at this season of "family": For thousands of years, marriage-and-family was the defining element of adulthood.  But, in the last generation, we've seen more and more of a trend toward career first and delayed families.  Obviously, many factors are at play here; but, could the relative diminishing of this innate drive for a family be linked to the increase of these enviro-toxins?  Could it be as much physiological as sociological?

Whatever the case may be, there are things you can do to correct this imbalance in hormones.  The first step is to lower your exposure to enviro-toxins.  You can find some helpful tips here and here (there is some overlap of ideas in these articles).  The second step is to clear these substances from the body.  Dr. Al Sears has an excellent product called EstroCleanse, but the same ingredients — bioDIM and indole-3-carbinol — can be purchased at Vitamin Research Products.  Other products that would be helpful in clearing these enviro-toxins from your system are the Stat homeopathic remedies from Energique, especially AddaStat, ChemStat, EnviroStat and LipoStat.

 

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What your Doctor Isn't Telling You about Vaccine Safety

The following article is something of a follow-up to Could it possibly be flu season again?, in my last newsletter.  That article raised questions about the safety and effectiveness of the flu vaccine.

I have been accumulating information on vaccines for over a year now, hoping to get an article written for this newsletter.  I knew it would be a daunting task, because of the amount of information and the complexity of the issues involved.  Still, at first, I entertained vain thoughts of presenting this material in a relatively brief format.  I know better now.  The best I can do here is to tie up a few points, as best I can, and link you to a fuller treatment of the material.

Here we go …

As our country moves more toward universal health care, the already urgent calls for universal vaccination are going to come even more loudly.  Even today, children are being vaccinated contrary to their parents' wishes, and parents are going to jail for failure to submit their children to vaccinations.  There are cries that parents who don't vaccinate their children are menaces to public welfare, are abusing their children, and should be banned from society — if not outright killed.  This hysteria — and attendant loss of essential freedoms — is understandable.  For, to conventional medicine, screening for major diseases and vaccinations are pretty much the sum-total of preventive health care, and with a twisted view of the concept of "herd immunity", it is felt that no one is safe unless everyone is safe.  That safety comes with vaccination.

But, there is a serious debate raging about the safety and efficacy of vaccination.  I'm not a scientist or a doctor, but my feeling is that vaccines are not all that effective (as many studies have shown), and that anything that puts that much mercury into your system can't be good.  But, I've collected here a number of articles on the subject, so you can decide for yourself.

A couple of points to consider here, first:

1. In 1986, Congress set up a fund to recompense parents for injuries caused to their children by vaccines.  To date, billions of dollars have been paid out to parents, despite the fact that it is very difficult to get any payments at all.  No such fund has been set up for any other medication or medical device.  That should speak volumes, in and of itself.
2. Vaccine makers have lobbied for and won exemption from lawsuits filed because of injury caused by vaccines.  No such exemption has ever been given to another medication or medical device.

So, if vaccines are safe and effective, why did Congress need to set up this fund, and why do vaccine makers need this protection from lawsuits?

 

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Why Vaccines Aren't Safe

Barbara Loe Fisher, of the National Vaccine Information Center, gave a 45-minute video presentation that includes some very important news about vaccines.  Here are some of her main points.

With the addition of annual flu vaccines for all children up to age 18, recommended by government health officials, children are now subject to 69 doses of 16 vaccines.  Of those, 48 are given in the first six years of life.  We're told that doing this to our children will keep them healthy.

But, the medical community has lost perspective, and abandoned a concern for the truth.

• It does not care that there is more mercury in a flu shot than is allowed to be taken in liquid waste to the average garbage dump.
• It does not care that a two-month old baby can be injected with four times the amount of aluminum in vaccines on one day than is considered safe when non-vaccine aluminum exposures are measured.
• It does not care that a lethal toxin, still bioactive in Pertusus vaccine, has been used for half a century to reliably induce brain inflammation in lab animals, or
• That there were no large-scale studies conducted to prove the safety of giving 12-hour old babies Hepatitis B vaccine.

In 1992 and 1994, the National Institute of Medicine acknowledged that vaccines could damage the brain and immune system, but noted large gaps in our knowledge of what vaccines could do in the human body.  Despite this, there has never been a large-scale study conducted in the US to compare the long-term immune and brain function between those who have been highly-vaccinated and those who have had no vaccines at all.  As a result, no one knows the true background rates of an unvaccinated child population for seizures, learning disabilities, ADHD, asthma, autism, diabetes, juvenile rheumatoid arthritis, inflammatory bowel disease, peanut allergies, bipolar disorder and so many more health issues that are increasing at alarming rates among out children. 

But, even with what we know — and what we don't know — about vaccines, public health officials are still insisting that children should get three times as many vaccinations as their parents received.

Vaccines and the natural development of immunity

The human immune system knows how to deal with infections from birth.  When challenged by a virus or bacteria, the body's first line of defense is for the cellular — or innate — part of the immune system to mount an inflammatory response, which then signals the humoral — or learned — part of the immune system to mount an anti-inflammatory response, that resolves inflammation and produces antibodies, so healing can take place and resistance to future infections is established.

Good health requires an equal balance of cellular and humoral immune responses.  But, vaccines by-pass cellular immunity, in favor of humoral immunity.  However, with this atypically manipulation of the immune system, some individuals get stuck in the inflammatory response mode, leading to auto-immune or brain disorders, like seizures, asthma, severe allergies, diabetes, inflammatory bowel disease, thyroid disease, rheumatoid arthritis, Lupus, chronic fatigue syndrome and more.

 

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How Vaccines Can Damage Your Brain

Autism was virtually unheard of before vaccinations; its emergence precisely parallels mass vaccination programs.  ADD and learning disorders in children are also now being traced to childhood vaccinations.  Furthermore, all vaccines are immunosuppressive.

Vaccines, Depression and Neurodegeneration After Age 50

In America today, an estimated 40 million adults suffer from a major depressive and/or anxiety disorder.  While long considered the result of a deficiency of certain neurotransmitters, there is growing evidence that the primary cause is low-grade, chronic brain inflammation.  Other ways this inflammation is expressed are Parkinson's disease and Alzheimer's disease.

Here is a short version of how this works:

Vaccines and the body's immune response

Vaccines contain an adjuvant, which stimulates the immune system, making it react as intensely and for as long as possible.  But, the brain has its own immune system, which is intimately connected to the body's.  When the body's immune response is activated by a vaccination, the inflammatory response triggered in the body is paralleled in the brain.

When the body is invaded by a normal pathogen, this immune response relatively short-lived, and the brain can readily repair itself.  But, even in the case of a single vaccination, the brain might remain in a state of immune overactivation for as long as two years, during which time the brain remains in a state of inflammation, continually destroying brain cells through the release of toxic chemicals.  If the immune system is again activated by a vaccine too soon, the results can be devastating.

Aluminum and mercury: Making a toxic brew all the more dangerous

Not only is there danger in overstimulating the brain's immune response with adjuvants, most vaccines contain other substances, as well, that exaggerate the effect even more.

• Most vaccines contain aluminum, a powerful brain toxin that primes the brain's immune system to overreact.  Then, the next vaccine acts to trigger the exaggerated inflammatory reaction, releasing the damaging excitotoxins, glutamate and quinolinic acid.
• Many vaccines also contain mercury.  There really is no safe level of mercury; but the amount of mercury in the flu vaccine, for example, is greater than what is considered safe for a person weighing more than 550 pounds.  This mercury can inhibit the brain's ability to regulate glutamate levels, triggering excitotoxicity, increasing free radicals and lipid peroxidation products in the brain while inhibiting antioxidant activity and impairing DNA repair.  And, when the mercury is combined with the aluminum, it is infinitely more toxic.
• Up to 60% of vaccines are contaminated with foreign viruses or viral components, which can enter the brain, residing there for a lifetime, causing a smoldering destruction of tissues, often without any obvious symptoms of infection, and trigger brain inflammation and degeneration that is most often attributed to old age or heredity.

 

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Adverse Effects of Adjuvants in Vaccines

Injecting any foreign substance straight into the bloodstream will only cause anaphylactic (sensitization) reactions.  Data collection on reactions to vaccines is only paid lip service; and, the obvious ineffectiveness of vaccines to prevent diseases is glossed over.  Also, the fact that natural infectious diseases have a beneficial effect on the maturation and development of the immune system is ignored or deliberately suppressed.

The author cites a study of 750 nurses who were subjected to a series of vaccinations in short succession.  Of those, three died.  The author states that systemic lupus erythematosus is "one of innumerable recognized side effect of a number of vaccinations."

A study of various adjuvant ingredients follows, as well as a study of antibody response.  Read her article at Adverse Effects of Adjuvants in Vaccines.

 

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The Danger of Excessive Vaccination During Brain Development

The Case for a Link to Autism Spectrum Disorders (ASD)

Today, before children start school, they receive 360% more vaccines than in 1976.  And, we are told, it is completely safe to give these 36 vaccines at one time.  However, there is no scientific evidence of the safety of vaccines and, in over 60 years of use, there has never been a single study on the safety of thimerosal (a preservative used in vaccines that is over 49% mercury).

But, we have enough scientifically and logically compelling evidence that vaccines can be linked to autism to call a halt to the recommended vaccine program, and ban any level of mercury in vaccines.  Consider this:

• In 1983, children received 10 vaccinations before attending school, and the autism incidence was 1 in 10,000.
• Today, children are receiving 24 vaccines in their first year, and 36 by the time they attend school, and the autism rate is 1 in 150.
• For every fully autistic child, there are ten times that many with lesser degrees of impairment.

Medical "experts" have provided no other viable explanation for this, yet they dismiss the link to vaccinations.  While they cite genetics, better diagnosis or epidemiological studies (not actual science), the reality on the ground is that these cannot explain what we are seeing today, in the explosion in numbers of autism.

The fact is: The alarming increase in the incidence of autism spectrum disorders (ASD) — and other neurodevelopmental disorders — has its strongest link with changes in the vaccine programs of the US and other countries, including the dramatic increase in the number of vaccines given at a very early age.

Mercury, found in most vaccines, is part of the problem; however, a number of studies in neuroscience literature indicate that excessive — and especially repeated — immune stimulation, resulting from vaccination, can persist for decades, causing severe disruption of brain development, and even neurodegeneration.  It should also be noted that this type of immune activation includes an inflammatory response, along with the release of a flood of damaging free radicals and other neurotoxic chemicals.

Another adjuvant used in vaccines is aluminum.  The FDA has approved a low dose for vaccines; the problem, however, is that aluminum does not clear the body readily, and can infiltrate the tissues of the body — including the brain — where it will linger for years.  With the number of vaccines recommended by the CDC, the level of aluminum in the body can be 36 times the level approved by the FDA.  Aluminum also enhances the toxicity of mercury, and increases inflammation in the body.

Also, for those susceptible to autoimmune disorders, exposure to vaccines triggers an autoimmune response, which can then lead to ASD-like behaviors, due to damage to brain structures.  However, autoimmune disorders are not the result of excessive activation of a normal immune system, but of a dysfunctional immune system.  While vaccines themselves can damage the immune system of children, leading to a higher incidence of autoimmunity and abnormal brain development, mercury is also known to induce autoimmunity, in a high percentage of those exposed.

This autoimmune disorder (where the body essentially attacks itself) is accompanied by a suppressed immunity, leaving the child more susceptible to infections, such as measles or chickenpox.  This immune suppression greatly increases the number of severe complications associated with these infections, which means that should your child be exposed to measles or chickenpox, he/she is more likely to suffer neurological damage, seizures or other systemic disorders.

The MMR vaccine contains live measles virus, which suppresses immunity in a profound way, that last as long as six months.  This makes the vaccinated child more susceptible to other naturally-occurring infections, and severe complications — even death — would be more common, as well.  The risk is even greater in households with several children, or for children in schools or daycares.  The MMR vaccine also increases the risk of measles virus persistence in the brain, and can leave a child susceptible to cytomegalovirus.

With the recommended schedule of vaccination, a child will receive 24 inoculations in his/her first year, and 36 by the time he/she enters school.  Most of these inoculations will be spaced within one month of each other, meaning that the priming and activation of the brain's immune response (including inflammatory cells) will be continuous.  These vaccines also include full doses of thimerosal (which is more than 49% mercury), which doesn't clear from the brain and other tissues.

It is also known that women who are infected with the flu during pregnancy are significantly more likely to give birth to an autistic or schizophrenic child, depending on when the infection occurs, due to the mother's immune reaction, which causes injury to the baby's developing brain.  A policy of recommending the flu vaccine to pregnant women, and so stimulating excessive immune stimulation, is absolutely insane.

It is also important to keep in mind that immune activation with vaccination differs from natural immunity, in that it persist much longer — even for years following a vaccination.  This does not allow the brain time to repair itself, either in the mother or in the unborn child.

 

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Vaccinations: The Hidden Truth

Think about this: When the truth is told, doctors are among the least vaccinated people in our population.  There seems to be something really counterintuitive with this. 

Major premise: Vaccines are critical for protection against disease,
Minor premise: Doctors, by the nature of their work, are exposed to many diseases, on a daily basis,
Conclusion: Doctors should be the most highly vaccinated group in our population.

But, that is not what we see.  Why?  It could be that, after listening to so many babies cry all day, doctors have built up an aversion to needles.  It could be that doctors are just better at dishing out the pain than receiving it (they also make lousy patients, too, or so I'm told).  Or maybe they make such terrible bosses, they just don't trust the nurses they work with with needles.  Or, just maybe, it's because they know — at some level — the things that follow in this article.

Vaccinations and rates of infections: Can vaccination be shown to have really saved lives?

Claims that vaccination has saved lives are simply false.  In fact, there is not only evidence that vaccinations do not work, there are also indications that they are counterproductive.

• Even before any vaccines were introduced, deaths from all infectious diseases had dropped by 90%.  The introduction of vaccination did not accelerate the rate of decline.
• While there is no vaccine for scarlet fever, the incidence of scarlet fever has dropped off, parallel to the rate for whooping cough and polio.
• Small pox vaccination only seemed to slow the rate of decline that had already been occurring.  In fact, during an epidemic of small pox in the Philippines, it was clearly demonstrated that those who were vaccinated faired worse than the unvaccinated, with far more cases of small pox among the vaccinated than among the unvaccinated.
• Analysis of outbreaks of infectious diseases shows that the vaccinated are not any more protected than the unvacinated.  In fact, epidemics among vaccinated populations are the rule, rather than the exception.
• By the time the whooping cough vaccine was introduced, the death rate had dropped by nearly 80%.  The vaccine seems to have actually slowed this rate of decline.  In fact, for several years before Texas mandated whooping cough vaccination for school entry, there had been a steady decline in the incidence and death rate from whooping cough.  When vaccination was mandated in 1978, the rates went up by 300%.
• In Europe, measles had been dying out. Then, a vaccination program was instituted, and the incidence of measles started to rise again.
• The Swiss — who had no immunization policy for measles — had a mortality rate per 10,000 that was only 10% that of the US.

A careful study of the data clearly demonstrates that vaccination has not had a positive effect on either the infection rate or mortality rate of infectious diseases.  The dramatic decline we have seen were, instead, the result of improvements in the general health of the population, due to improved sanitation measures and better nutrition.

Tweaking the data, to achieve desired results

But, what about the dramatic decreases in the incidence of polio, since the Sabin oral vaccine was introduced?  Doesn't that prove the effectiveness of vaccines?

No; because that "decrease" was achieved by dramatically re-defining what polio was.  Most cases (which previously would have been counted) were simply "discarded" from the records.  The same thing happened in South America.  Officially, the rate of polio declined dramatically, while the actual incidence of polio was increasing at an alarming rate.

Vaccination and the increase of antibodies

The basic concept governing vaccines is the production of antibodies.  However, the idea that antibodies mean protection against the disease was never really true.  This is most clearly demonstrated for us with the AIDS epidemic: Antibodies, instead of meaning protection, meant that you were doomed.

This has forced people to change their whole concept of antibodies, demonstrating in another way that the use of vaccines is not based on good science.

Vaccination short-ciruits immune development

In the body, there are numerous outer layers of defense that protect its vital organs.  As a virus enters the body through the normal pathways (eyes, mouth, nose, tonsils, skin or mucous membranes), it activates the process of developing immunity to that germ.  However, by injecting vaccines, we are — ironically — bypassing these crucial processes, preventing immunity from even being achievable, and increasing the risk of harm.

Other serious problems with injecting vaccine into the body

When you inject an animal virus into the human body, introducing it into an unrelated species as a vaccine, it can convert into something that people would have no protection against it.  But, vaccines introduce more than animal viruses into the system; they can be contaminated with unlimited — and unknown — DNA fragments — from animals, bacteria and viruses.  These can be incorporated into the human genome, changing the human DNA structure.  So, theoretically, humans are changed. DNA structure is added.  Extra genes are added.

And, since vaccines are cultured in cells from animal organs, when a vaccine is given, foreign animal protein is directly injected into the bloodstream.  When we eat animal protein, our bodies do not absorb a foreignsubstance; that protein is broken down into amino acids, which our bodies use to rebuild our own proteins.  But, by injecting things that were never meant to be in the bloodstream directly into our bloodstreams, we can set up an autoimmune type response.  We are not only bypassing our bodies' natural defenses, we are wrongly activating other body defenses.

And, of course, there is the issue of injecting some very toxic substances into the body, such as formaldehyde, mercury and aluminium.

This is what we are injecting into our children 36 times before they enter school.  As a result, we are subjecting them to possible death, brain damage and damaged immune system, leading to general chronic ill health, recurring ear infections, bronchitis, diarrhea, allergies, etc.

 

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Why do Drugmakers Still Defend the Use of Mercury in Their Vaccines?

In the February 24, 2007 issue of Medical News Today, it was reported that the CDC continues to recommend mercury-containing flu vaccines for pregnant women, infants and children.  In formulating this recommendation, the CDC relied heavily on the presentation given by Dr Jay Lieberman.  The problem is: Dr Lieberman is not an unbiased source.  He has been a consultant to all of the leading vaccine makers, Merck, GlaxoSmithKline and Sonafi-Pasteur, and is on their speakers' bureau.

In reaching his conclusions about the safety of vaccines for these groups, Dr Lieberman ignored the bulk of peer-reviewed research, which states that thimerosal, the mercury-laden preservative commonly used in vaccines, has harmful effects on the immune, metabolic and nervous systems — especially of the sensitive populations targeted by the CDC recommendation.  Instead, he focused on a small number of highly criticized and flawed epidemiological studies (the most unreliable of all studies for this purpose) that have found no harmful associations.

It should be carefully noted that the majority of flu shots contain 25 mcg of mercury, an amount considered unsafe for anyone weighing less than 550 pounds.

 

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The Myths and Truths of the Mercury / Autism Connection

While much of the focus autism's cause has been on mercury — especially that found in vaccines — researchers have consistently found a combination of other conditions in those with autism, such as an imbalance of intestinal flora, systemic fungal and viral infections, mineral deficiencies, abnormal serotonin levels and an abundance of toxic substances, including pesticides, other chemicals, mercury and other heavy metals.

Donna Gates believes that autistic children are suffering from a gut and brain infection — which includes the systemic fungal and viral infections — that creates the neurological dysfunction, and that the missing piece to this puzzle is found in the walls of the intestines.

Gates claims that autism is not mercury-based, but begins in utero, with a fungal infection and the inability to detoxify, and makes the following points about what parents can do:

• In the six months to two years before conception, both parents-to-be should eat a nutrient-dense, anti-fungal diet, like the Body Ecology Diet.
• Parents-to-be should also engage in a cleansing program, to eliminate toxins and heavy metals from the body before conception.
• Once born, take steps to establish the child's intestinal ecosystem.

Gates states firmly that autism is not a genetic condition, and that it can be prevented and treated, if the multiple causes of the "systemic failure" are understood and corrected.  She then gives some specific recommendations for parents (see The Myths and Truths of the Mercury / Autism Connection).

While I believe that Donna Gates has important information to add to this subject, many of the things addressed in Russell L. Blaylock's articles (above) support, amend and augment her position.  Blaylock's position is that the inflammatory response created by vaccines sets the stage for this imbalance of the gut's ecosystem, lack of immunity and more.  And, while possibly not the whole answer for autism, the Body Ecology Diet Recovering Our Kids (BEDROK) program would be a great tool to use.

 

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U.S. Government Concedes That Mercury Causes Autism

In February 2008, the US Court of Federal Claims ruled that a 9 year old girl's autistic symptoms were triggered by thimerosal, a preservative that is 49.6% ethylmercury, and is present in vaccines.  According to US Division of Vaccine Injury Compensation, the shots "significantly aggravated an underlying mitochondrial disorder", resulting in a brain disorder "with features of autism spectrum disorder (ASD)."

But, there may be another component in vaccines that is causing this damage.  For instance, according to Donald W Miller, Jr, MD:

Another important factor, with regard to mercury on the mind, … is synergistic toxicity — mercury's enhanced effect, when other poisons are present.  A small dose of mercury that kills 1 in 100 rats and a dose of aluminum that will kill 1 in 100 rats, when combined, have a striking effect: all the rats die.

Doses of mercury that have a 1% mortality will have a 100% mortality rate if some aluminum is there.  Vaccines contain aluminum.

Now, thimerosal was taken out of most childhood vaccines around 2001.  In a 2006 study of two government databases, it was found that, as thimerosal was increased, autism rates went up; when it was removed, autism rates declined.  But, Time magazine reported that autism rates have continued to climb; however, that story did not factor in the CDC recommendation for annual flu vaccines for children under two years of age.  Flu vaccines still contain thimerosal.

It is also important to consider the timing of vaccines.  Multiple vaccines, given too close together, over-stimulate the brain's immune function and, via the mechanism of "bystander injury", destroy brain cells.

 

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Related stories:

Do Flu Shots Work?  Ask A Vaccine Manufacturer

The simple fact is: the effectiveness of flu vaccinations has been terribly exaggerated.  In fact, they have little or no effect in reducing the number of hospital stays, time off work or deaths.  But, there are a number of serious risks associated with vaccination, including Alzheimer's disease, autism, joint inflammation and arthritis, allergic reactions and Guillain-Barré syndrome, a paralytic autoimmune disease.

Blast from the Past: Vaccination Does Not Prevent Smallpox, by Alfred Russel Wallace

Published in 1904 as a pamphlet by the National Anti-Vaccination League, this article argues very well that statisticians, not doctors, are best at judging the effectiveness of vaccination programs.  It is a fascinating article that traces the history of the small pox vaccine, and basically demonstrates that vaccination only served to slow the eradication of small pox.

Smallpox Vaccine Has the Pox

The premeditated ineffectiveness of tracking systems to monitor vaccine injuries, chronic diseases and death is designed to obscure the unscientific foundation of the entire concept of smallpox vaccination.  The very basis of the smallpox vaccine is fundamentally flawed.  This article details just how bad it really is.

FDA Reports 1 death per month related to Gardasil

In the article by Peter J Smith (LifeSiteNews.com, July 3, 2008) entitled, "Controversial HPV Vaccine Causing One Death Per Month", the author noted an FDA report citing 140 "serious" adverse reactions, including 27 "life threatening" cases, 10 spontaneous abortions and 6 cases of the debilitating Guillain-Barre Syndrome reported since January 2008.  That's one death per month.  See the whole story at Controversial HPV Vaccine Causing One Death Per Month.

 

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Mercury Present in Many FDA-Regulated Drugs

Currently, mercury is present in at least 45 prescription or OTC drugs, including eye ointments, nasal sprays and vaccines.  And, in a 1999 internal FDA e-mail, an official wrote that the agency's failure to properly evaluate the effects of mercury in medicine would " … raise questions about FDA being 'asleep at the switch' for decades", because they would be allowing a "potentially hazardous compound" to remain present in medications.

In August 2006, a group filed a lawsuit against the FDA, asking that the FDA to be forced to comply with the law by providing proof of the safety and efficacy of mercury in drugs.  The FDA responded by defending the use of mercury in medications, but with no supporting evidence of its safety or efficacy.

Accidental Deaths Due to Prescription Drugs on the Rise

According to the CDC, deaths resulting from prescription drugs have risen to become the second-largest cause of unintentional deaths in the United States, topped only by car accidents.  Almost half of states reported an increase of 100% or more, with West Virginia reporting an increase of 550%.

 

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Well, that's all for this time.  Believe it or not, I cut down the length of this newsletter quite a lot; but I hope that it will give you some valuable information.

I hope that your holiday season will be filled with the joy, light and life of Him who became flesh and dwelt among us.

Until next time,

Tom

Tom Anson | Health-Essentials.info
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