Finally, it is vital that anyone
undergoing vaccination should start nutritional supplementation and adhere
to a healthy diet before vaccination occurs. Vaccine complications are far
fewer in individuals with good nutrition and good health.
My comment : Based on what's
presented on the video, It's also important to avoid giving sick baby a
vaccination .
By Russell L. Blaylock, M.D.
Advanced Nutritional Concepts, LLC
www.russellblaylockmd.com
Source :
http://mercola.com/2004/may/12/vaccination_dangers.htm
After 30 years of intensive research, much
has been learned about how brain cells work and what goes wrong when
disease arises. One of the great enigmas has been the connection between
vaccinations and certain brain disorders such as:
- Autism
- ADD
- ADHD
- Gulf War Syndrome
More common neurodegenerative diseases
(Parkinson’s disease, Alzheimer’s dementia and ALS)
As we learned more and more about how
brain cells should work, we discovered that often normal processes, such
as metabolism, could result in the accumulation of powerful chemical
byproducts, called free radicals, that have the capacity to destroy these
cells.
Free radicals, basically, are very
reactive particles that bounce all around the cell damaging everything
they touch. Most originate during the process of metabolism but can also
arise from toxin exposure, irradiation and toxic metals. Because they are
so destructive, cells have a network of defenses designed to neutralize
them. This antioxidant network is composed of numerous components that
include vitamins, minerals and special chemicals called thiols
(glutathione and alpha-lipoic acid).
What Causes the Free
Radicals
The idea that free radicals play a major
role in all of the conditions listed above is now proven--the big question
is why are so many free radicals being generated? In the case of autism,
ADD and ADHD many came to support the idea that mercury derived from
vaccines was the source of the radicals. And it was known that mercury
could cause free radicals to be generated in large numbers within the
brain. Evidence connecting mercury to the autism spectrum disorders,
neurodegeneration and the Gulf War Syndrome is strong, but not exclusive.
Interestingly, all of these diseases also
share another common event--over activation of a portion of the immune
system.
It is important to appreciate that only a
certain part of the immune system is overactive, because other parts, such
as cellular immunity, are actually diminished. In some instances, as with
the childhood disorders, the problem is congenital and in others it
develops as a result of many factors such as aging, toxin exposure, poor
nutrition and excessive vaccination itself. Mercury can impair immune
function as well.
How Vaccines are Made
Basically, vaccines contain either killed
viruses or bacteria, germ components, toxic extracts or live organisms
that have been made less virulent--a process called attenuation. To
stimulate an enhanced immune reaction against these organisms,
manufacturers added powerful immune-stimulating substances such as
squalene, aluminum, lipopolysacchride, etc. These are called immune
adjuvants.
The process of vaccination usually
required repeated injections of the vaccine over a set period of time. The
combination of adjuvants plus the intended organism triggers an immune
response by the body, similar to that occurring with natural infections,
except for one major difference. Almost none of these diseases enter the
body by injection. Most enter by way of the mucous membranes of the nose,
mouth, pulmonary passages or GI tract. For example, polio is known to
enter via the GI tract. The membranes lining these passages contain a
different immune system than activated by direct injection. This system is
called the IgA immune system.
It is the first line of defense and helps
reduce the need for intense activation of the body’s immune system. Often,
the IgA system can completely head off an attack. The point being that
injecting organisms to induce immunity is abnormal.
Because more and more reports are
appearing citing vaccine failure, their manufacturers’ answer is to make
the vaccines more potent. They do this by making the immune adjuvants more
powerful or adding more of them. The problem with this approach is that in
the very young, the nutritionally deficient and the aged, over-stimulating
the immune system can have an opposite effect--it can paralyze the immune
system.
This is especially prevalent with
nutritional deficiency.
An early attempt to vaccinate Africans met
with disaster when it was discovered that many were dying following
vaccination. The problem was traced to widespread vitamin A deficiency
among the tribes. Once the malnutrition was corrected, death rates fell
precipitously.
Another problem we see with modern
vaccines is that the immune stimulation continues over a prolonged period
of time.
This is because of the immune adjuvants.
They remain in the tissues, constantly stimulating immune-activating
cells. With most natural infections the immune activation occurs rapidly,
and once the infection is under control, it drops precipitously. This, as
we shall see, is to prevent excessive damage to normal cells in the body.
What Happens to the
Brain With Vaccination?
It seems the brain is always neglected
when pharmacologists consider side effects of various drugs. The same is
true for vaccinations. For a long time no one considered the effect of
repeated vaccinations on the brain.
This was based on a mistaken conclusion
that the brain was protected from immune activation by its special
protective gateway called the blood-brain barrier. More recent studies
have shown that immune cells can enter the brain directly, and more
importantly, the brain’s own special immune system can be activated by
vaccination.
You see, the brain has a special immune
system that operates through a unique type of cell called a microglia.
These tiny cells are scattered throughout
the brain, lying dormant waiting to be activated. In fact, they are
activated by many stimuli and are quite easy to activate. For our
discussion, activation of the body’s immune system by vaccination is a
most important stimuli for activation of brain microglia.
Numerous studies have shown that when the
body’s immune system is activated, the brain’s immune cells are likewise
activated. This occurs by several pathways, not important to this
discussion. The more powerfully the body’s immune system is stimulated the
more intense is the brain’s reaction. Prolonged activation of the body’s
immune system likewise produces prolonged activation of the brain’s immune
system.
Therein lies the danger of our present
vaccine policy.
The American Academy of Pediatrics and the
American Academy of Family Practice have both endorsed a growing list of
vaccines for children, even newborns, as well as yearly flu shots for both
children and adults. Children are receiving as many as 22 inoculations
before attending school.
What Happens When the
Brain’s Immune System is Activated?
The brain’s immune system cells, once
activated, begin to move about the nervous system, secreting numerous
immune chemicals (called cytokines and chemokines) and pouring out an
enormous amount of free radicals in an effort to kill invading organisms.
The problem is--there are no invading organisms. It has been tricked by
the vaccine into believing there are.
Unlike the body’s immune system, the
microglia also secrete two other chemicals that are very destructive of
brain cells and their connecting processes. These chemicals, glutamate and
quinolinic acid, are called excitotoxins. They also dramatically increase
free radical generation in the brain. Studies of patients have shown that
levels of these two excitotoxins can rise to very dangerous levels in the
brain following viral and bacterial infections of the brain. High
quinolinic acid levels in the brain are thought to be the cause of the
dementia seen with HIV infection.
The problem with our present vaccine
policy is that so many vaccines are being given so close together and over
such a long period that the brain’s immune system is constantly activated.
This has been shown experimentally in numerous studies. This means that
the brain will be exposed to large amounts of the excitotoxins as well as
the immune cytokines over the same period.
Studies on all of these disorders, even in
autism, have shown high levels of immune cytokines and excitotoxins in the
nervous system. These destructive chemicals, as well as the free radicals
they generate, are diffused throughout the nervous system doing damage, a
process called bystander injury. It’s sort of like throwing a bomb in a
crowd.
Not only will some be killed directly by
the blast but those far out into the radius of the explosion will be
killed by shrapnel.
Normally, the brain’s immune system, like
the body’s, activates quickly and then promptly shuts off to minimize the
bystander damage. Vaccination won’t let the microglia shut down. In the
developing brain, this can lead to language problems, behavioral
dysfunction and even dementia.
In the adult, it can lead to the Gulf War
Syndrome or one of the more common neurodegenerative diseases, such as
Parkinson’s disease, Alzheimer’s dementia or Lou Gehrig’s disease (ALS).
A recent study by the world-renowned
immunologist Dr. H. Hugh Fudenberg found that adults vaccinated yearly for
five years in a row with the flu vaccine had a 10-fold increased risk of
developing Alzheimer’s disease. He attributes this to the mercury and
aluminum in the vaccine. Interestingly, both of these metals have been
shown to activate microglia and increase excitotoxicity in the brain.
Direct Effect of the
Cytokines
Various cytokines have been used to treat
cancer patients as well as other common diseases.
Studies of the effects of these cytokines
on brain function reveal some very close parallels to the diseases we have
been discussing. For a more in-depth study of these effects I suggest you
read my article appearing in the Journal of the American Nutriceutical
Association (volume 6 [fall], Number 4, 2003, pp 21-35) and in the summer
issue 2004 of the Journal of the American Association of Physicians and
Surgeons.
One can see:
- Confusion
- Language difficulties
- Disorientation
- Seizures
- Memory problems
- Somnolence
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- Low-grade fevers
- Irritability
- Mood alterations
- Combativeness
- Difficulty concentrating
- A host of other behavioral problems
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In the child, brain immune over-activation
has been shown to be particularly damaging to the amygdala and other
limbic structures of the brain. This can lead to unusual syndromes such as
the loss of "theory of mind" and " Alice in Wonderland syndrome." It has
also been shown to damage the executive functions of the frontal lobes.
In essence, what is lost is that which
makes us social human beings, able to function in a complex world of ideas
and interactions.
Several studies have indeed shown elevated
levels of cytokines in autistic children. It is also interesting to note
that these cytokines, especially interleukin-1ß and tumor necrosis
factor-alpha (TNF-a) dramatically increase the damage produced by
excitotoxins. So, what we see is a viscous cycle of immune activation,
excitotoxin and cytokine excretion, and free radical production. The
latter starts the cycle all over again.
The Role of
Autoimmunity and Viral Persistence
Studies in autistic children have shown
that a state of immune attack on the brain is occurring. Similar findings
are seen with neurodegenerative diseases and the Gulf War Syndrome. It
must be appreciated that this autoimmunity was triggered by the
vaccinations and by organisms contaminating the vaccinations. Once
started, the immune reaction cannot stop, thus triggering all the
destructive reactions I have discussed.
Dr. Garth Nicolson has shown a direct
connection between mycoplasma contamination of vaccines and the 200
percent increased incidence of ALS in Gulf War veterans. The disorder is
produced by the same mechanism described above.
Another, even more common, problem is the
use of live viruses in vaccines. The reason live viruses can be used is
that they are weakened by passing them through a series of cultures--a
process called attenuation. These attenuated, non-disease-causing viruses
are then injected in hopes of stimulating the body to produce an immune
attack.
The problem with this idea is two-fold.
First, we now know that in far too many
cases these viruses escape the immune system and take up residence in the
body--for a lifetime. A recent autopsy study of elderly individuals found
that 20 percent of the brains contained live measles viruses and 45
percent of the other organs contained live measles viruses. Similar
findings have been described in autistic children and the measles virus is
identical genetically to the one used in the vaccine.
The second problem is that most of these
viruses were found to be highly mutated. In fact, different mutations were
found among viruses in various organs in the same individual.
This has been a secret kept from the
public.
These attenuated viruses undergo mutation
brought on by the presence of free radicals in the tissues and organs and
they can mutate into virulent, disease-causing organisms. Recent studies
have confirmed this frightening finding. In fact, a large percentage of
Alzheimer’s disease patients have live viruses in their brain as compared
to normal individuals.
Once these live viruses are injected, they
cannot be removed. Because the viruses stay in the body, they will be
under constant free radical exposure, which can increase during times of
stress, illness, exercise and with aging. It is the free radicals that
cause the virus to mutate.
In essence, the viruses can exist in the
brain, or any organ, either silently and slowly producing destruction of
the brain or spinal cord or producing sudden disease once the virus
mutates to a highly lethal form.
Conclusions
We have seen that the policy of giving
numerous vaccinations to individuals, especially infants and small
children, is shear idiocy.
A considerable number of studies have
shown conclusively that such a practice can lead to severe injury to the
brain by numerous mechanisms. Because the child’s brain is undergoing a
period of rapid growth from the third trimester of pregnancy until age 2
years, his or her brain is at considerable risk from this insane policy.
We have also seen that live-virus vaccines
and contaminated vaccines hold a special risk in that the viruses tend to
persist in a substantial number of individuals and that free radicals can
cause the latent viruses to transform by genetic mutation into
disease-causing organisms later in life.
It is vital that anyone scheduled for
vaccination follow a schedule that allows no more than one vaccine every
six months, allowing the immune system time to recover.
Live-virus vaccines
should be avoided.
This was recently illustrated by the
switch from the live polio vaccine to the killed virus. All cases of polio
after the introduction of the vaccine, in the developed world, came from
the vaccine itself. This was known from the beginning.
Finally, it is vital that anyone
undergoing vaccination should start nutritional supplementation and adhere
to a healthy diet before vaccination occurs. Vaccine complications are far
fewer in individuals with good nutrition.
