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  • Toxicologist Mom: How I Became Anti-Vaccine.

    For several years, I was unsure. I felt caught between different sources of conflicting information that I thought to be credible. But I knew too much to believe what we were always told – that vaccines were “safe and effective”. 
    This article has been excerpted from ThinkLoveHealthy. Written by Ashley, a dedicated mother, wife and toxicologist with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Environmental Toxicology from the University of California at Davis.
    I will also add that I am a scientist. Specifically, a toxicologist – someone who determines the level at which a particular substance is toxic or deadly. (Please don’t attempt to remind me that “the dose makes the poison”. This applies to substances that are not toxic at the lowest levels we can measure.) I know how to read, understand, and interpret scientific research. When it comes to vaccines, I search for proof. For solid scientific evidence. It was and still is, of utmost importance to me, to see the research, and only then, come to an informed decision. And in the end, the overwhelming amount of unbiased historical and scientific evidence – was against vaccines. 

    I do not take this issue lightly. 

    The debate about vaccines is so volatile, simply because we all CARE so much, about children, about our families. People on both sides of this debate – the majority of them are truly GOOD people. The difference between us is that you believe the benefits of vaccination outweigh the risks. And after years of research and/or witnessing our children suffer vaccine injury, we do not. 

    There is passion and frustration on both sides, and we are coming from the same place with that frustration. We simply disagree on how to best protect our children. (quote from post via Facebook) 

    I chose a delayed and selective vaccine schedule for my son. I was torn between the risk of a “preventable” disease and the risk of vaccine injury. I didn’t know as much as I do now.

    The first time he received vaccines, at 4 months of age, he was somnolent for 4 hrs following the shot – awake but out of it. I was worried, because it wasn’t like him to be awake and not fully alert… but I felt some relief when he seemed to be back to himself later that day.

    A month later I went in to get him two more shots (Prevnar & Hib). 

    It was then that I found out the nurse had given him a vaccine for which I did not give consent. I was livid. At the previous appointment I had requested a DTaP-only shot. The nurse said it was available but scoffed and rolled her eyes at me for not wanting to give him the rest of them, and tried to pressure me to give him the rotavirus vaccine. 

    She ended up giving him Pediarix – DTaP, Polio, HepB in one shot – while my husband and I sat there believing she was administering DTaP.
    Pediarix contains high levels of aluminum and I had intended to avoid it.

    Three days after that second set of vaccines, my son started showing signs of having neurological damage – he developed some kind of head tic, which looking back, appears to have potentially been non-febrile seizures (no fever). I didn’t connect it to the vaccines at the time.

    I didn’t know that both Prevnar (pneumococcal) & Hib contain aluminum. I didn’t know that aluminum has been linked to tics in scientific studies. I didn’t know that aluminum reduces the concentration of magnesium in the central nervous system, which can lead to tics, nor that it destroys nerve cells in the brain – and that this was happening to my 5 month old son. But I know now.

    I was still naive, ignorant, and fearful of diseases for the next year of my son’s life. I was caught in between the risks of the diseases and the risks of the vaccines. I was concerned about whooping cough, so he received two more doses of DTaP. 

    But as he got closer to two years of age, I started getting more and more concerned about his development. He had several symptoms of being on the spectrum. Language and speech delays, gross motor delays, cognitive delays (for example, he couldn’t understand how to answer a yes or no question until after he was 2 years old), he had sensory processing issues, he refused to let anyone, even me, hug or kiss him, he would bang his head on the couch and into people, sometimes the floor…

    He would rarely look me in the eye or smile for pictures, when his younger cousin would immediately make eye contact and smile. He had a pretty vacant expression much of the time. There were many indicators, and I was honestly terrified as he grew older, that it would become more and more obvious to everyone else that he was not a neurotypical child. I don’t think anyone in my life knew how much anxiety this brought me.

    At that point I chose to stop vaccinating him altogether and I started focusing on getting him eating well. 

    …

    Then my daughter was born and my son finally started being able to speak more than two syllables at a time. I found I had the ambition to dive head first into reading anything and everything I could find on vaccines, disease, and health, so I embraced it. I was obsessive about reading scientific studies from both sides and looking into the history and statistics of disease and disease mortality. I’ve never been so consumed with anything like I was with this. It was my sole focus besides being with and caring for my children. I spent hours – every spare moment – every day – reading. I’m not exaggerating.

    … I would open my mouth to speak, and my husband would say, “Is this about vaccines?”

    It was a rough time because he could not relate to my passion for the subject and he was trying to focus on supporting our family. He didn’t really have time to hear about every new detail I was piecing together. 

    The aluminum, the mercury, the aborted fetuses, the chicken embryo cells, fetal bovine serum, casein (milk protein), monkey kidney cells (“vero cells”)… Then there was the constant flow of stories from mothers and fathers about their vaccine injured children. The stories about how their pediatricians refused to acknowledge that vaccines could have been a factor in the sudden decline of their child’s health, even though their child was perfectly healthy and happy prior to shots, and only hours after began screaming inconsolably for days – then suffered developmental delays, digestive issues, recurring ear or respiratory infections, food allergies (e.g. to casein, eggs, peanuts), etc.

    There were way too many stories of infants dying shortly after vaccines and their deaths being labeled “SIDS” by blind medical professionals who had no clue about the ingredients in vaccines, nor would they give credit to the fact that genetic mutations can make children susceptible to vaccine injury and death.

    There were so many stories of children getting a “measles -like” rash and a fever, shortly after receiving the live-virus measles/mumps/rubella vaccine… so many doctors refusing to diagnose measles, AS MEASLES, after the child was injected – with the live measles virus! Most parents don’t know that live virus vaccines can “shed”, like in the case of rotavirus or varicella (chicken pox) – or maybe they’ve been told that shedding is a myth. Yet, the MMR vaccine insert [page 5] states that live rubella virus can be swabbed from the nose of vaccinated individuals for 29 days post-vaccination. It’s been documented in the case of one vaccinated two-year-old, that it’s possible for a vaccinated person to carry and shed (and contract!) vaccine virus-associated measles five weeks after receiving the live-virus vaccine. But the one that takes the cake is the story of the man who shed the vaccine version of the polio virus for almost 30 YEARS.

    Then there are the news stories and studies of  disease outbreaks in fully-vaccinated populations… Like this outbreak of whooping cough, and this outbreak of mumps. The efficacy of most vaccines is questionable at best. Merck is even being sued for greatly exaggerating the efficacy of their MMR vaccine.

    …

    I keep learning new things each day. Still. To this day. Because I READ STUDIES – Studies that never see the light of day because the media will never report on it. And it amazes me how utterly brainwashed we have been to believe we can inject “health” – especially when these injections contain toxic levels of aluminum and mercury. It’s amazing that we think we know how to out-smart our biology, physiology, biochemistry, etc. That we think injecting pregnant women and babies with what reads like something out of a witches brew of ingredients – is NORMAL.

    There is more, so much more and Ashley’s journey and the decision making resources she used can be found at ThinkLoveHealthy.

    This article originally appeared at: https://thinklovehealthy.com/2016/08/01/how-i-became-anti-vaccine/.

  • Vaccine Fraud Putting Our Children at Risk

    Drug companies creating U.S. vaccines are GUILTY of fraud. Why is it when these companies say vaccines are ‘safe and effective’ – we still believe them? Our due diligence as parents should be to question those whose lies benefit their pocketbooks by billions of dollars and listen to the parents whose warning comes from a place of research, loss and lacks financial gain. Marcella Piper-Terry summarized the vaccine manufacturers fraud and trickery in this recent post. 

    • Merck. The company that manufactures the MMR. They are being sued in federal court over falsifying the efficacy data on their mumps vaccine. 
    • The CDC whistleblower says he falsified data on their MMR/Autism study. 
    • Merck. The company that manufactures Gardasil. It is the most compensated vaccine for injury behind the flu vaccine.
    • Merck. The company who manufactured Vioxx before it was pulled off the market due to its heart attack and stroke risks, which they denied.
    • Merck. The company who also manufactures Fosamax, Januvia, and Propecia, all which faced lawsuits due to their side effects.
    • Merck. The company named in 4 lawsuits between 2007 and 2016 for all manner of questionable business practices.
    • Merck. The company who also manufactures vaccines for chickenpox, shingles, pneumonia, Hep B, Hep A, Rotavirus, and Hib.

    “As the largest single purchaser of childhood vaccines (accounting for more than 50 percent of all vaccine purchases), the United States is by far the largest financial victim of Merck’s fraud,” according to the 2010 False Claims Act complaint.

    Listen to this medical doctor’s concern over the flu vaccine

    He says: “Dr. Geier points out how ridiculous it is spend billions of dollars on a vaccine that might, at its best, save about 50 lives a year, when there are far more serious problems causing death that are more worthy of that kind of expenditure.”

    Should we be concerned? Every US Manufacturer/supplies of pediatric vaccines has pled GUILTY to fraud within the last 5 years.

    * Merck Accused of Fraud, Deceit and Negligence in US Gardasil Case

    * Read more: Merck Accused of Fast Tracking a Vaccine for Financial Gain

    PRINTABLE FRAUD FINDINGS for Each Vaccine Manufacturer
    US Vaccine Manufacturers as listed by the CDC

    MERCK: 

    “Merck has been involved in a long federal lawsuit with allegations of fraud over the mumps portion of the MMR vaccine, in a case filed back in 2010 by two whistleblowers, virologists who worked for Merck. Merck has apparently tried hard to get this case thrown out of court, and keep this news out of the media, but late in 2014 a federal judge finally ruled that the case is to move forward.” more , United States of America vs. Merck (2:10-CV-04374-CDJ) is a current case in which former virologists, now whistleblowers, allege Merck falsified data with regards to the efficacy of the MMRII vaccine. Original Court Documents: 

    Pennsylvania Eastern District Court, Case No. 2:10-cv-04374-CDJ

    District Judge C. DARNELL JONES, II, presiding

    GlaxoSmithKline 

    Dept of Justice Press Release: GlaxoSmithKline to Plead Guilty and Pay $3 Billion to Resolve Fraud Allegations and Failure to Report Safety Data : Largest Health Care Fraud Settlement in U.S. History <source document>

    Sanofi

    FBI Reports:Sanofi U.S. Agrees to Pay $109 Million to Resolve False Claims Act Allegations of Free Product Kickbacks to Physicians 

    US Senate Committee on Finance Reports: 

    *Fraud in Clinical Trial of drug

    * Sanofi Accused Of Fraud In Clinical Trial Of Drug

    *FBI reports: Two Former Pharmaceutical/Medical Technology Executives Sentenced for Their Roles in Insider Trading Scheme 

    Sanofi-Aventis US LLC is facing a consumer fraud class action lawsuit kickbacks and over billingNY Times reports:

    MEDIA REPORTS

    Wall Street Journal: Did Merck Unfairly Monopolize the Market for a Mumps Vaccine?

    “The ultimate victims here are the millions of children who, every year, are being injected with a mumps vaccine that is not providing them with an adequate level of protection,” the lawsuit filed by the virologists states. And while federal health officials have said the disease was supposed to have been eradicated by now, “the failure of Merck’s vaccine has allowed this disease to linger with significant outbreaks continuing to occur.” Meanwhile, the mumps vaccine was ringing the register at Merck, which reported that sales reached $621 million last year, when including both the MMR II vaccine – which is mumps, measles and rubella – and the ProQuad vaccine, a combination product that is also used to thwart chickenpox, according to a filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
    UNITED STATES OF AMERICA et al. v. MERCK & CO.

    Merck Created Hit List to “Destroy,” “Neutralize” or “Discredit” Dissenting Doctors

    USAToday Drugmakers Health Fines

    How much damage is caused..4 Billion and counting

  • Fight Cancer While Enjoying Your Cruciferous Stir-Fry

    A good stir-fry is serious comfort food and has reportedly has health benefits, too. And if your stir-fry contains cruciferous vegetables like broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage or kale, are you doing your body as good a turn as you otherwise could if you steamed those sulfurous veg? The core cancer-fighting property in cruciferous vegetables is called “glucosinolate” and is a natural phytochemical that makes them such anti-cancer superstars. 

    Well, good news. Stir-frying beats boiling and deep-frying for preserving glucosinolates.

    A recent study revealed that stir-frying the vegetables, even at the highest temperatures and longest durations, did not deplete them of their glucosinolates – including glucobrassicanapin, the most abundant form.

    Researchers stir-fried red cabbage and bok choy in sunflower oil – using pan temperatures ranging from 160 to 250 degrees Celsius, and cooking times ranging from one to eight minutes. 

    Earlier studies showed that boiling cruciferous vegetables in water actually leached out water-soluble glucosinolates.Similarly, deep-frying cruciferous veg can cause up to an 84 percent loss of those powerful glucosinolates. Sorry, tempura lovers. 

    Bring on the cauliflower curry and beef and broccoli! 

    So how do glucosinolates fight cancer?

    • Protect cell DNA against potentially cancer-causing mutations, and to cause apoptosis – or programmed cell death – in cancer cells.
    • They detoxify and neutralize carcinogens in the body, while inhibiting angiogenesis – the cancer-promoting growth of blood vessels that nourish tumors.
    • Reduce inflammation
    • Reduce bloog sugar
    • Support cardiovascular health
    • Promote weight loss

    Ample studies have been conducted about the must-have health benefits cruciferous vegetables. We recommend getting at least 5 servings per week as a foundation to your cancer-protection routine.

    Here are a few recipes to get you going!

    Healthy Chinese Chicken Stir-Fry

    DIY Turmeric Sauerkraut

    Cauliflower “Mashed Potatoes”

    Sesame Garlic Broccolini

  • Disease Prevention: A Case Study of Homeoprophylaxis in India

    You may have wondered about the use of homeopathy in the prevention and remediation of disease. This excellent review from the Weston A. Price Foundation does the subject justice.The article can be read in its entirety at Weston A. Price Foundation’s website. It’s an excellent read for education and disease prevention for you and your family! 

    Excerpts: 

    Medical doctors are frustrated! Their hands are tied, and they can no longer practice medicine in the way they originally intended. With the advent of electronic records and innumerable insurance company requirements, doctors’ eyes are glued to the computer screen instead of free to look their patients in the eyes. Pharmaceutical companies have overtaken public media by advertising drugs for every symptom imaginable, drugs that are often accompanied by dire side effects. What happened to “First, do no harm,” and what’s happened to modern medicine?

    Actually, one nontoxic and inexpensive form of medicine is alive and well. Homeoprophylaxis, also known as HP, is a safe and effective form of immune education to protect from infectious disease. In countries such as India, where HP is sanctioned by the government, doctors are able to administer HP openly and achieve outstanding results. Homeoprophylaxis costs less than pennies per person due to the fact that very little source material can produce enough HP for thousands, if not millions, of people.

    HOW HOMEOPROPHYLAXIS WORKS
    Homeopathic practitioners use HP in the context of both short-term prevention during epidemic disease outbreaks as well as long-term prevention of contagious infectious diseases. Samuel Hahnemann, MD, the founder of homeopathy and the very first to use homeoprophylaxis, viewed epidemics as cases of disease that “attack many people and present with very similar suffering from the same causes.”1 In epidemic situations, homeopaths often apply a principle called genus epidemicus (GE) when the epidemic has a similar and characteristic nature in multiple patients. The GE—a homeopathic medicine individually selected for a particular outbreak of an epidemic2—addresses the common symptoms of the disease.

    In the case of scarlet fever (also known as scarlatina), for instance, the common symptoms might include fever, red rash and headache. Hahnemann used HP very successfully during a 1799 epidemic of scarlatina.2,3 Homeopathic Belladonna either prevented the disease altogether or, if contracted, reduced the severity significantly and prevented complications, easing recovery and alleviating any post-epidemic symptoms. Homeopathic Belladonna proved so effective that the King of Prussia mandated its use to curtail or alleviate subsequent outbreaks of scarlet fever.

    A second method of achieving prophylaxis is through the use of homeopathic “nosodes” of the targeted disease. Nosodes are made in the same manner as all homeopathic medicines. Beginning with a source material—either plant, animal, mineral or disease itself in the case of nosodes—serial dilution and succussion (vigorous shaking) is applied until no molecules of the original substance remain. A dilution of 1:99 repeated twelve times results in a solution devoid of any molecules. This is labeled as 12C, referring to the potency. A high potency such as 10M repeats the dilution and succussion process ten thousand times.

    HOMEOPROPHYLAXIS IN INDIA
    India has a population of 1.3 billion and is governed under a parliamentary system. There are twenty-nine states and seven union territories. Homeopathy in India is under the control of the Ministry of Ayurveda, Yoga and Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homeopathy (AYUSH).4 In addition, the Central Council for Research in Homeopathy (CCRH) functions as an autonomous organization within India’s government.5 The CCRH oversees standardization, clinical research and trials, training of homeopaths and public awareness.

    In response to the persistence of infectious disease as a major problem, India has employed HP effectively for cholera, the H1N1 influenza virus (“swine flu”), conjunctivitis, chickenpox and mosquito-borne viral diseases such as Japanese encephalitis, dengue fever and chikungunya. Researchers at the Government Homoeopathic Medical College in Thiruvananthapuram (the capital of the state of Kerala) surveyed families during threatened dengue and chikungunya epidemics from 2003–2006 to assess the protection provided by HP.1 Of one thousand and five families surveyed in 2003, almost nine in ten took HP for prevention of dengue; of those taking HP, only 14 percent (123/869) went on to contract dengue. In a follow-up study in 2006 of the prophylactic efficacy of HP for chikungunya, the college found a comparable 82 percent efficacy.

    The state of Kerala also has used HP to great effect in Alappuzha, an area full of backwaters and coconut lagoons. Though beautiful, living conditions in this area are difficult due to poor sanitation, low socioeconomic status, lack of education, limited health awareness and poor infrastructure. Epidemics can take hold and flourish due to inadequate health care facilities. Narrow canals through mangrove swamps are the roadways, so in 2013 the government started a floating homeopathic dispensary.6 This boat provides free treatment, HP and health education. The program has been such a success that two more boats were launched in 2014 and 2015!

    As another example of HP’s acceptance in India, in 2016, in direct response to two cases of swine flu in Hyderabad in the state of Andhra Pradesh, India’s Homoeo Times published the following news statement:

    The state government has…directed “all the people to take homoeopathy medicines in order to avoid the attack of swine flu.” The medicine is available for free at all dispensaries. The patients who already have swine flu should take homoeopathy medicines under prescription.

  • Vaccine Education Facts & Resources

    Vaccine Education Facts & Resources

    The most important thing you can do for your child is to arm yourself with information and facts.  If you have already decided that as a parent you believe vaccinations are not right for your child you can find information below on how to admit them into public school.  If you are currently researching vaccines and are unsure whether or not they are safe, or whether or not they make sense for your family, our best advice to you would be to hold off.

    Don’t continue vaccinating your child until you are 100% sure it is the right thing to do.  You can always continue vaccinating at a later date, but you can never, ever, take away the experience of injuring your child through dangerous chemicals and toxins being injected into their bloodstreams.   

    Here are some articles to start your research:

  • High-dose vitamin C reduces inflammation in cancer patients, study shows

    High-dose vitamin C reduces inflammation in cancer patients, study shows

    The value and impact of a daily vitamin C supplement as well as high, concentrated doses for acute illnesses is becoming increasingly clear. Studies have already shown the efficacy of liposomal vitamin C in treating infections and as an anti-cancer therapy.  Now, another study is confirming its effectiveness against inflammation in cancer patients, one of the primary markers.

    Over the past 35 years, the Riordan Clinic has had quite a bit of experience in administering extremely high doses of vitamin C to cancer patients. These tests for vitamin C have been conducted due to its proven value as a therapeutic and preventative measure.

    Markers of inflammation such as pro-inflammatory cytokines and C-reactive protein tumor markers showed a positive response to vitamin C treatments, with inflammation reduced significantly. This improvement correlated with reduced tumor size and the hindrance of the cancer’s ability to metastasize.

    This research was conducted by Riordan Clinic scientists and published in the Journal of Translational Medicine. When supplementing with liposomal vitamin C orally for major health issues, 10,000 to 12,000 mg per day should be taken. This dose can be taken in 2,000 to 4,000 mg doses gradually throughout the day to aid absorption.

    Editor’s note: Our advise remains the same.  Whenever dealing with a life-threatening condition, like cancer – always consult a trusted, medical professional to help guide you in the recovery process.

    Read the rest of the article at: http://www.naturalhealth365.com/vitamin-c-inflammation-2045.html