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Anti-Vaxers, Are You Baby Killers?

3/31/2015

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WOULD you kill a baby today? Would you put him through horrific pain? Would you take away his oxygen and let him suffocate to death?

Claire Harvey says that if you choose not to vaccinate your children you are doing all of those things, and are even personally responsible for the death of Riley Hughes. 

Really?!?!

I can not imagine the agony of losing a child. My heart breaks for those parents, the ones that lost Riley and the ones that lost the other 12 mentioned in the article. My heart also breaks for Baby Zane (pictured above) and for his parents. Baby Zane died from the DTaP vaccine (along with Prevnar)...the very vaccine that Claire demands everyone get because she believes it would have prevented Riley's death. I can not think of anything worse than watching my children suffer and then die...But did I really murder them?

According to this article,  "The Department of Health says it does not know how the child (Riley Hughes) contracted the respiratory disease, also known as pertussis. Whooping cough is part of the routine vaccination schedule for babies at two months, four months and six months of age." 


In order for it to be the fault of a parent for not vaccinating their child, the child affected would have to be exposed to pertussis from another unvaccinated person.  However, the evidence that there was another unvaccinated person in direct contact with him seems to be non-existent.  Since 92% of his surrounding population is fully vaccinated, it’s far more likely that Riley came in contact with someone who recently received the DTaP vaccine.  It is a well-known fact that pertussis can be spread from anyone who has been recently vaccinated.

Another issue I have with Claire’s article is that she emphatically states that vaccines do not cause autism.  Let’s examine this briefly.  Here is a portion of the MMR package insert written by the manufacturer, disclosing a small portion of potential side effects of the vaccine:
Nervous System
Encephalitis; encephalopathy; measles inclusion body encephalitis (MIBE) (see CONTRAINDICATIONS); subacute sclerosing panencephalitis (SSPE); Guillain-Barré Syndrome (GBS); acute disseminated encephalomyelitis (ADEM); transverse myelitis; febrile convulsions; afebrile convulsions or seizures; ataxia; polyneuritis; polyneuropathy; ocular palsies; paresthesia.  


While these known and admitted side-effects do not directly disclose “autism”, a few of them are, by definition, symptoms of autism.  For example, encephalopathy, includes irritability, twitching, seizures, headaches, mental impairments, poor feeding, confusion, personality changes, and can lead to coma/death depending on the severity of the reaction.  About 1/3 of the autistic also have seizure disorders with symptoms like I just listed.  A rose by any other name is still a rose.  Symptoms of autism under the guise of any other name are still symptoms of autism. Vaccines are, without a doubt, associated with autism.

Is there enormous weight of scientific evidence that vaccines eradicated diseases? How about Polio? It did not.  Tetanus or Diptheria? Nope.  Cholera? Again, no.  The United States actually has the HIGHEST infant mortality rates in wealthy countries and one of the most stringent vaccine programs. Compare that to Japan, with one the most relaxed vaccination schedules and the lowest infant mortality. 

So why DO people opt out of vaccinations? Is it true as Claire declares, that it is because we are selfish, ignorant, and don't care about anyone else? In America, the most common groups of people to refuse vaccinations are the most educated, so there goes the ignorant theory. As far as selfish and not caring about anyone else...did we answer this in a poll I missed out on taking? Probably not. Through our quest to be most educated about the subject we do not believe that vaccinating our children will protect them, or anyone else's. Nor do we believe that by everyone else vaccinating that ours are protected by errant "herd immunity".  In fact, most parents that I know that opt out of vaccines as a means to protect our children and because of the opposition it may pose to our faiths (like Christianity), seek to inform as many other parents as possible so that they can avoid grief of the parents of 493,323 people are now suffering since 1990 (Wow, this doesn't even include the Cutter Incident that infected tens of thousands!). 


I have to agree with one thing she said, but not about anti-vaxers. I have been accused of going too far by likening forced vaccination to terrorism. In order to be a terrorist, you need to force a substance on a group of people against their will that could cause injury and death. People that do not vaccinate are not the ones spreading disease. You actually have to have it to spread it. My children are never sick, they have never had a disease, and they have never spread one. Terrorism is an act of will. If some child contracted whooping cough from his vaccine and spread it to others I would not accuse him or his parents of being terrorists. Who do I think are the terrorists? The ones who seek to take away the rights of parents and individuals to refuse an injection of toxins, bacterias, and viruses against our will, our religious objections, or our beliefs about what we have studied regarding vaccine safety and efficacy regardless of the popularity of the information are the terrorists. Anyone who wants to punish me, jail me, fine me for not vaccinating and then force me to allow the injection of aluminum, polysorbate 80, formaldehyde, aborted fetal tissue, various animal DNA, thimerosal, and a host of other toxins that has been proven to cause disabilities and death to others is a terrorist. 

In the years following the study linking MMR to bowel disease (the one Claire blames the "quack doctor" for starting the concerns) it has been confirmed by studies done around the world that one of the conditions associated with autism is bowel injury linked to vaccines. In addition, had Dr. Wakefield's study been nothing but lies he would have gone to jail. Here he is, brilliantly discussing the issue of vaccines if you want to her him first hand.

What about the immunocompromised that can not be vaccinated, such as those with leukemia? Leukemia usually shows up after the age of 1 and peaks from 2-5, after children have had all of their vaccines if they so desired. It seems more likely that the carcinogens contained in the vaccines (formaldehyde, polysorbate 80, etc.) would be causing cancer than an unvaccinated child suffering from cancer being at risk of exposure to an unvaccinated person with a disease. 

Who exactly is it that we are trying to protect when we are driving campaigns that would eliminate children from playing with other children if they had not been vaccinated? Most children old enough to play with other children have already been vaccinated which should give them immunity if vaccines actually provide it. Even the vaccinated get ill, and in my own observation (and this published study) do so far more often than unvaccinated children. Would it be appropriate for all of the parents to bring our children's medical record history to playdates for parents to pass around and review before deciding which children they can interact with? No! The truth is that when anyone else's child gets their live Flu Shots and boosters they shed the live viruses, they are putting every child at risk, vaccinated and unvaccinated - because the vaccinated still contract the diseases for which they were vaccinated for. Even the CDC acknowledges vaccine shedding.

Claire Harvey, if you are so certain that vaccines are right and safe I want to challenge you. I suppose that you side and agree with vaccine zealots like Paul Offit who said that newborns could withstand 10,000 vaccines at one time. I challenged him in a blog article a while back and hopefully someday he and a dozen colleagues, and now you, will take this challenge: Go on live national television (the news, any one of our celebrity doctor shows in America, 20/20, etc) and get 10,000 vaccines injected in the same sitting. If you survive it, I want you to show us with regular health screenings over a year or two that you do not have brain damage, bowel or bleeding disorders, diabetes, Guillaine-Barre syndrome, debilitating arthritis, cancer, or any other number of life-altering side-effects. If you did and remained healthy, that would probably go a long way to convince the anti-vaxers that they were wrong all this time.   

This is our future. If there is a grain of truth to the claims of vaccine damage our future society is in dire trouble. It is estimated that if we continue on this path, by 2025 half of all United States children will be autistic. Who will run the government? Who will serve the military? Who will take care of them as they age if the other half of society doesn't go into nursing and behavioral care? The life-span of the conditions that result in other reactions are often shorter and come with disability. These often life-long conditions are far more threatening than a week long rash or 3 days of diarrhea or a cough, which all come with life-long immunity. If we are talking about protecting our society we might want to stop and think about what it will look like if we continue on this path, which has hundreds more vaccines in the pipeline that will also come with mandates.



So please, in honor of baby Zane, please, think twice before you vaccinate. Educate, and don't have the same regret his parents do.

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What About Polio?

3/26/2015

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What about Polio? 
No one can deny how amazing that vaccine was for the world, right? Not so much when you really understand the history of polio:


Most people really don't realize the true history of polio, we are only familiar with what we saw on TV when the media promoted the vaccine- such as photos of paralyzed children in iron lung who later died. The Merck manual says that more than 90% of polio cases simply resembled the stomach flu, another 5% had abortive polio which included a sore throat, and another 3% had non-paralytic polio which includes some limb weakness and numbness. This 98% of people infected with polio had a complete recovery (and have life long immunity) and the symptoms resolved within 10-14 days. Slightly less than 2% had paralytic polio. This 2% can be divided into 3 sub-categories. Among those 3 sub-categories 50% had a complete recovery rate. The other 50% contained a mixture of results - some had a longer recovery and some did not fully recover. This who did not fully recover suffered from some paralysis and sadly, some also died. Less than .04% of the people that contracted polio ha Bulbar Polio which is the horrific kind most people think of when they hear the word "polio".

Charts show a decline from the peak of polio in 1954, before vaccine trials began on April 12, 1955. After the vaccine trials started, an increase in Polio cases was reported in Vermont (up 266%), Rhode Island (up 454%) and Massachusetts (up 643%). Idaho and Utah even banned the vaccine because prior to the vaccine trials there had never been a case reported in those states and once they started vaccinating, people were getting infected. 
In June of 1955, just weeks after massive vaccination started, 2 of 8 lots of vaccines were administered which released live virus, infecting 40,000 people with polio - 164 were permanently paralyzed and 10 died. (Am J Hyg. 1963:29-60)

Why were reports showing the vaccines helped? Because it would have been embarrassing for the CDC to admit it was a failure! They would have also taken a hit financially. So they changed diagnosis parameters of polio and the definition of epidemic. Prior to 1954 an epidemic was defined as 6/100,000 diagnosed, after 1955 it was changed to 35/100,000 diagnosed. Also, in the beginning limb weakness lasting 3 days was diagnosed as polio. It was later changed to symptoms lasting 60 days, instead of 3. Since 98% of cases recovered within 10-14 days (according to the Merck manual) then the majority of cases were no longer being diagnosed, but the vaccine was applauded has having been very effective. I guess it is easy to make it look that way when you change the diagnosis parameters, and change the definition of epidemic. By the time Sabin's vaccine for polio came out in 1961, the disease had almost been eradicated.

The United States has been polio-free since 1979 - with the exception of cases resulting from the vaccine. WHO certified the Western Hemisphere Polio-free sine 1994, after no cases were reported since 1991. Surgeon General David Satcher, MD MMWR 1994; 43:720-2

Why are we still giving our kids 5 doses of polio vaccine starting at 2 months of age???


On National Vaccination Day about 430,000,000 people are vaccinated worldwide and it is reported that 1 case per million vaccinated contracts Polio from the vaccine. The country with the highest incidence of Polio is Nigeria, with 178 cases reported as of 2003 and they now refuse the vaccine. Why? Because that number is insignificant compared to the number of people dying of malnutrition, dirty water, and lack of housing. They said that if people want to bring in $$$$, bring it to help their needs like clean water and food, etc. (Not for a disease that 98% of people recover from in 10-14 days)

Other Factors In The Decline of Polio:
Polio is a butt-to-mouth disease. It was most common in children. Children are more likely to have polio than adults because they lack the inhibitions adults have. If a child has an itch, there is nothing to stop them from sticking their hand right down their pants to scratch it. Within minutes, their hands are in their mouths. Polio is spread from feces to mouth. Right around the time the vaccine was introduced, the United States was also improving plumbing and water supply for sanitary hand-washing and sewage removal. Completely unrelated to vaccines or disease in any way, the show "Filthy Cities" gives amazing insight into the living conditions that were present prior to adequate plumbing and sanitization, and unintentionally reveals how pivotal the introduction of such sanitization was changing the course of disease!

Another factor was DDT. This insecticide had widespread use in the 1940's and we later learned that is was causing harm to humans, animals, and our 
environment. The symptoms people were experiencing were nearly identical in some cases to Polio. Since Polio was only diagnosed clinically, it is more than likely that many cases of DDT poisoning were misdiagnosed as Polio. The regulations of DDT started in the late 50's and early 60's, also coinciding with the decline of Polio cases.

What about safety? What's the harm in just getting the vaccine "in case"?
Here are the ingredients we give to American children in IPV: 2-phenoxyethanol, formaldehyde, neomycin, streptomycin, polymyxin B, monkey kidney cells, Eagle MEM modified medium, calf serum protein, Medium 199

"The most common contaminant virus found in bovine serum is a member of the pestivirus family called bovine diarrhea virus (BVDV). All commercially available bovine (cow) serum is thought to be contaminated with this virus. Vaccines grown on contaminated cells may, in turn, have viral contaminants in the final product. The animal viruses can combine with viruses in the vaccine and become an active, unique disease." REF:J Infect Dis. 1996 Dec;174(6): 1324-7. Contamination of commercially available fetal bovine sera with bovine diarrhea virus genomes: implications for the hepatitis V virus in cell cultures. (Via Saying No To Vaccines, by Dr. Sherri Tenpenny)

Besides the fact that we all know formaldehyde is a carcinogen (cancer-causing agent), the original vaccine contained SV40 monkey virus linked to cancer. We could dissect the other ingredients on the list, but we'll just move on. Would I risk cancer which now is at an astonishing rate of 1/2.5 people over a disease that is not around and for which 98% of people recover in 14 days? NO! How many cancer patients recover in 10-14 days? NONE!
This is an excerpt from the IPV package insert: 
"deaths have occurred in temporal association after vaccination of infants with IPV."
I would never risk cancer or death from a vaccine overhear of a disease I will never be exposed to. Who would???



*Note, special thanks to the work of Dr. Sherri Tenpenny who presented much of this information in her amazing and must-see video "Vaccines: The Risks, The Benefits, The Choices"

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Natural Remedies That Harm #8: Lard

3/15/2015

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Apparently, this is for real. We have come full-circle as a holistic culture that now is excited about lard, of all things, for it's health benefits (and grass-fed butter, which is not any bit better than lard). Yes, lard - we're talking pig fat here.


WHY?!?!?!
Here are some of the more legitimate-seeming reasons natural bloggers are boasting about lard:


1. High in oleic acid. 
But olive oil, has almost twice as much as lard


2. High in Vitamin D, offering about 1000 IU per tablespoon.
According to a link in this interesting site, I need to spend an hour per day outside to get the same. You can calculate your own with the same link and the info in the site I linked up is helpful to do so. However, to get the full daily allowance of Vitamin D, one would need to consume 1/2 cup of lard daily. For therapeutic vitamin D, I prefer this D3 with 10,000 IU per capsule. If you really do want to supplement with foods, try wild salmon, while still somewhat acidic, it is far healthier than lard and offers about the same amount of D, depending on what kind you eat.

3. Lard is extremely high in cholesterol, and that is good for you.
In New Biology(TM), we do view cholesterol as your friend because it protects your delicate blood vessels from over-acidic blood. Just the slightest drop in blood pH will kill you, but within the survivable range, anything lower than 7.365 is dangerous and will harm your vessels. Cholesterol protects your blood vessels from harmful, acidic blood. When your body has to make cholesterol, it will rob other parts of your body from what it needs. It is interesting that there is some buzz about cholesterol rich foods being good for you so that your body does not have to manufacture it, but not needing it would be best. Keep your blood and tissues at the perfect pH by eating from the guidelines on this food chart and you won't need cholesterol rich foods at all. Having the ideal blood pH through an alkaline lifestyle and diet is far healthier than coating your vessels with cholesterol in order to protect them from acidic foods - such as lard (and butter and all other animal products).

The other reasons to eat lard were not compelling at all as far as health benefits - taste, heat stable, traditional (partially true, but even if some cultures have eaten for a long time in no way makes it healthy...there are a lot of "traditional" practices that I'm really glad we've gotten far away from), I even read that we should eat lard because it is similar to breast-milk, God's perfect food. While that is true for infants, adults should not be consuming breast-milk and if we are going to bring God into the discussion, He traditionally told His people not to eat it. Our permission to eat whatever we want now doesn't mean it is healthy for the body, it means that we are no longer condemned spiritually for doing so.     

Besides the fact that I have shown we don't need lard whatsoever to improve or enhance our health, I also need to point out that meat, especially that coming from pigs, is one of the most acidic and pathogenic filled foods we could possibly consume.  All meat is acidic and contains extremely high levels of pathogens, but the fat from animals even more so because many of the acids gets stored in the fat as a protective mechanism for the animal. Pig fat is toxic and acidic. If you eat it because you just love the taste and can not possibly get yourself to stop putting it into your mouth, know that it is NOT good for you. It will contribute to the acidification of your body and thus the breakdown. There is so much bacteria in it that if you could see your live blood after consuming lard you would see the millions of bacteria jumping around your blood that are breaking down your cells and tissues. 


Do you eat lard to improve your health?
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Top 10 Natural Remedies That Harm #7: Bone Broth

3/12/2015

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So, if you have been following this series of posts on Remedies That Harm, I am covering some holistic practices generally thought to improve health, enhance the immune system, and provide natural cures. The ones I have chosen to discuss are remedies that may be highly praised, but in light of New Biology (TM) and the study of Live Blood as a pH Miracle Certified Nutritional Microscopist, I am choosing to break the bad news on some things you may have been doing or consuming to improve your health that is actually harming your health. So far we have covered Coffee Enemas, Honey, Apple Cider Vinegar, Probiotics, Algae, Fungus, and now today...Bone Broth. In the last year or so I have seen more and more blog articles pop up praising bone broth and even passed on from people I greatly respect. SO, what is up with Bone Broth?

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Top 10 Remedies That Harm, #5 and #6: Fungus and Algae

3/5/2015

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I am by no means a fungi expert and I know our planet needs fungi to continue, but a lot of people are eating fungi and not just because they enjoy the taste of mushrooms. They are trying to improve their health by consuming them. In some cases, people even take them encapsulated in a quest to receive the health benefits. They are boasted to have numerous health benefits, but looking at them through the lens of New Biology (TM), we see something altogether different.

What are people trying to achieve by eating mushrooms?
Everything from weight loss, improved immune system, increased Vitamin D, and even a natural attempt to cure cancer. As we have now discussed several times and will continue to revisit throughout this series, improving the immune system is often misunderstood. Yes, the immune system kicks things into high-gear upon the consumption of fungus, but not because it is energized or revitalized. It is because there is so much filth to clean up it has to call in the troops for a massive sanitization launch. In my Herbal Studies coursework we even studied how some mushrooms are used as an alternative to chemotherapy, killing cancerous cells. Just like every other form of chemotherapy, this is also toxic and will destroy the good with the bad.  

Why are mushrooms acidifying to the blood and tissues? Well, as I said, I am not an expert on fungi, but simply put they consume dead bodies and feces. They clean up the world by breaking down dead plants, animals, and poop. It actually almost sounds good at first glance: they could clean up our bodies then, right? Nope. They just break down our bodies causing an acidic chain of events that leaves the blood looking like a toxic wasteland. Mushrooms can actually be alkaline, as can algae, but there is an acidic chain-reaction that takes place upon consumption. Algae is very similar in how in impacts the blood. Doing some research online, there actually doesn't seem to be an abundance of knowledge about this fascinating stuff. It is important to our world, but just like mushrooms, wreaks havoc on our blood and bodies. It would appear to me that algae does in water what mushrooms do on land, clean up by consuming what is breaking down. Just like mushrooms, people boast of health benefits of algae, even correctly stating it contains chlorophyll. It does, yes, but it will not build healthy blood because it causes far more damage that the chlorophyll it provides. As with mushrooms, I am no algae expert, but the blood doesn't lie and we can see immediately the harmful impact all forms of fungus and algae have on the blood (including blue-green algae, chlorella, spirulina, and all "healthy" mushrooms). 
Truth: the most disgustingly filthy blood I ever saw I observed after someone was trying to improve their health by using a scoby for a few weeks. Technically, a scoby is a yeasty fungal mess that would be in the mushroom class and not the algae group, but since it was growing in her fridge in water I wonder if there is also an element of algae involved.   
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