|
It is a colossal failure on
the part of our government to not warn parents of the
actual risks associated with vaccines. The blind
insistence that vaccines are safe and effective is not
supported by science, at least for a significant number of
our children. There are now 25,000 children per year
developing autism (1 in 150), a problem that has expanded
in direct proportion to the increase in vaccinations. How
do you know if your child is at risk?
The government’s primary
goal appears to be to prevent parents, en masse, from
refusing to vaccinate their children. To prevent such a
“run on the public health bank” all caution is being
recklessly thrown to the wind. American children are now
the most vaccinated people in the world. What are we
actually doing? The vaccination problem needs to be
objectively solved so that public health is maintained,
yet needless vaccine injury is avoided.
It should not be of any
great comfort to parents that scientists hardly understand
how the immune system works. The simplistic idea that
vaccines offer protection against disease has an element
of truth and a significant element of risk. This article
explores the risk in greater depth. I will first explain
what is known about the nature of the risk and follow with
some natural options that can really help out.
Vaccine Adjuvants
– A Double-Edged Sword
Giving a fully active virus
as a vaccine would obviously cause the disease. On the
other hand, a weakened or deadened form of the virus may
not produce much of an immune response thereby making the
vaccine worthless. This problem has been “solved” by
combining the weakened disease with an immune activator
called an adjuvant.
An adjuvant does not
contain the disease; rather it is intended to initiate the
first step in fighting an infection – the inflammatory
response. This is like giving a general wake up call to
the immune system. This can be done with an irritant or a
more specific toxin the immune system is likely to
recognize based on eons of exposure.
In the irritant category
the most common adjuvants used in vaccines your child will
get are salts of aluminum (aluminum phosphate and aluminum
hydroxide). The safety of aluminum salts has been called
into question following the poor health of many Gulf War
Veterans who received multiple aluminum adjuvant
vaccinations. Many scientists consider that their poor
health was caused by the adjuvants in the vaccines they
were given. In 2003 French researchers identified
aluminum hydroxide vaccine adjuvants as the cause of a
new disease consisting of pain and chronic fatigue; noting
similarities to problems in Gulf War soldiers.
In a recent study mice were
given aluminum hydroxide at doses comparable to Gulf War
soldiers. Extensive testing was done of their cognitive
ability as well as analysis of the nervous system upon
sacrifice. The results showed that aluminum hydroxide
caused
nerve-related motor defects. Analysis of brain tissue
showed 255% increase in inflammatory markers along with
35% loss of motor neurons.
It has been over a year
since this study was published. Why isn’t the CDC doing
the same experiment with the adjuvant load from their
recommended vaccine schedule? Any substance that is
adversely neurotoxic in an adult is likely to be more
neurotoxic in the evolving nervous system of a baby. Not
following up on this is gross negligence on the part of
the CDC.
Another common adjuvant is
bacterial endotoxin (the outer membrane of the cell wall
of Gram-negative bacteria), also known as
lipopolysaccharide or LPS. Since we have been battling
bacteria since the beginning of our evolution, our immune
systems recognize LPS as an invasion – setting off a
powerful inflammatory immune system reaction. The
toxicity of any bacterial infection relates to LPS.
Scientists at the
National Institutes of Health freely acknowledge that
the proinflammatory effects of adjuvants in vaccines
“underlie many of the observed toxic effects.” What the
new science shows very clearly is that all the
inflammation that is generated by adjuvants is actually
not necessary for activating the immune response.
This means that our
government is sticking by a vaccine program that relies on
firing a toxic shotgun at the immune system even though
they know a laser-guided approach would have much less
risk of vaccine injury from direct toxicity. The problem
for our government is that they don’t currently have the
ability to make safer vaccines; thus they blindly defend
the safety of a very crude approach and refuse to conduct
tests that would easily show the current vaccine program
is not safe. It is quite clear that an
inflamed nervous system is an undeniable feature in
autism.
What Does NF-kappaB
Have to Do With It?
Nuclear Factor kappa-B is
the “brain” residing within every cell of your body,
including cells of your nervous system. It is a gene
transcription factor, meaning that it tells your cells how
to behave depending on what is happening. When everything
is running smoothly, NF-kappaB has its feet up on the lawn
chair in a relaxed mode of operation. Under stress NF-kappaB
initiates survival strategies. NF-kappaB is the main
regulator of all inflammatory and immune responses, and is
intimately involved with the healthy function of your
nervous system. NF-kappaB is an active intelligence
within your cells. The last thing you would ever want to
do is mess up NF-kappaB.
Adjuvants, due to their
intentionally inflammatory mode of operation, activate NF-kappaB.
This is done to ramp up the immune system so it can “see”
the weakened virus in the vaccine. The million dollar
question is: “How much NF-kappaB activation can a child
take before their NF-kappaB system overheats and sets a
fire in their brain called autism?” When NF-kappaB
overheats it generates large amounts of inflammatory
immune system messengers (like TNFa and IL6) and massive
numbers of free radicals that damage nerve cells.
If a child is already
acutely inflamed then the NF-kappaB pump has already been
primed and the risk for vaccine injury is greater. Acute
inflammation is caused by illness, injury, surgery, poor
diet, and stress at home. This problem is magnified if
the child had a history of inflammation while in the womb,
was born prematurely, or had health struggles during the
first few years of life. Even a previous round of
vaccines can prime the inflammatory NF-kappaB pump.
Environmental toxicity is another factor that cannot be
ignored, as is the health of the mother prior to and
during pregnancy. A mother’s obesity and eating habits
have a significant effect on the nerve health of her
child.
The main point to
understand is that if the NF-kappaB system is already on
the edge of overheating due to other factors, then the
intentional pushing of this system with vaccines poses a
serious risk to the child. Multiple vaccines given at one
time, with multiple pro-inflammatory adjuvants, obviously
increase the risk. Any person objectively reviewing the
science on this issue could reach no other conclusion.
The issue of NF-kappaB is
so important that the
next generation of vaccines will utilize it in an
attempt to make
less toxic vaccines (the laser-guided approach rather
than the shotgun). While NF-kappaB-targeted vaccines will
be less blatantly toxic, making them free of adverse side
effects is another story altogether. Manipulating NF-kappaB
is playing with the essence of the life force of a cell.
At any given time there are numerous ons and offs relating
to how NF-kappaB is naturally working to maintain health.
The new vaccines will turn on the inflammatory aspect of
NF-kappaB – which could easily upset the applecart in some
other needed aspect of health.
No matter how good research
scientists are at developing new vaccines, there will
always be a percentage of at-risk-already-inflamed
children who are likely to respond in a poor manner.
Vaccine safety is not just about better vaccines; it’s
also about protecting those who are most likely to poorly
react to them. It is not possible to have a good public
health policy for disease prevention that fails to take
this fact into account.
Nutrients that Can
Help
Mother Nature has provided
an array of NF-kappaB modulating compounds. Unlike drugs,
nutrients are far more compatible with genes as we evolved
using nutrition to assist survival. When we provide our
cells needed nutrients, NF-kappaB seems to know what to do
with them. It is very clear that NF-kappaB uses nutrition
to help cool itself off – like a tall glass of ice water
on a hot day.
A diet rich in fresh fruits
and vegetables is the foundation for NF-kappaB
anti-inflammatory nutrition. When a mother eats this way
during pregnancy and while nursing she is passing
tremendous benefit to her child. It is now clear that
such good health habits are passed along, a type of
fetal programming of the taste system, wherein the
child is now more likely to eat healthfully and
consequently have better function of NF-kappaB.
On top of a good diet there
are certain “super nutrients” that significantly help NF-kappaB
behave in a healthy manner. These help NF-kappaB not get
overheated or too bent out of shape. The following list
of nutrients is by no means complete; I’ve selected them
because I’ve used them for years and I know they work.
There is plenty of science to support their common sense
use, for young and old.
Such extra nutrient support
can be used as needed to:
1) Calm down nerves from existing life stress or a pattern
of wear and tear,
2) Calm down nerves following an inflammatory event, such
as vaccinations,
3) Stabilize nerves that are struggling,
4) Generally improve cognitive function and nerve
development.
The five nutrients I’ve
selected for discussion are the tocotrienol form of
vitamin E, the herb silymarin, grape seed extract, lipoic
acid, and acetyl-l-carnitine. This is a treasure trove of
NF-kappaB modulating nerve and energy support nutrients.
Tocotrienols are a special
form of vitamin E with unique antioxidant properties that
are in many ways superior to plain vitamin E. For
example, a recent study showed that tocotrienols offered
superior protection to the nervous system from
methylmercury – a potent nerve toxin. It is very
clear that tocotrienols work by
modulating NF-kappaB, are a superior
brain protecting nutrient, and are also helpful for
inflammation in the
circulatory system by reducing NF-kappaB.
Silymarin or Milk Thistle is an herb that is commonly used
to protect the liver as well as to help the liver clear
toxins. Silymarin also works by
modulating NF-kappaB to turn down inflammation. One
study showed it was able to stop the
LPS induced toxicity in brain cells. Another study
showed it stop the
autoimmune-driven damage to nerves (demyelination)
while reducing inflammation.
Grape seed extracts contain
proanthocyanidins that have also been shown to directly
turn off
LPS toxicity by turning down NF-kappaB. Taking the
extract before damage to the nerves, as from alcohol
consumption, helps
prevent brain damage. Taking the extract after damage
to nerves is already in progress helps
stop the damage. Grape seed extracts are another top
choice for nerve protection.
R-Alpha Lipoic Acid and
Acetyl-L-Carnitine work synergistically to restore
mitochondrial energy production in nerve cells. It is
now believed that one factor involved with vaccine injury
is poor mitochondrial function. Lipoic Acid is another
nutrient now proven to
lower NF-kappaB and reduce the inflammation associated
with
LPS toxicity. Acetyl-l-Carnitine has been extensively
studied for its role in memory and cognitive function. It
also exerts powerful
nerve protection by a variety of different mechanism.
As you can see, there is
plenty of science to support the use of nutrition to help
out the brain – and this is just a sample of some of the
better options. These nutrients are typically quite easy
to mix into juice, apple sauce, or yogurt. The
tocotrienol oil can be squeezed from the softgel capsule
directly into the mouth. Powders can be mixed in water
and administered with a dropper during nursing. Moms can
take any of these nutrients which will transfer in her
milk.
Nutrition excels at the
safe and natural regulation of inflammation, including
nerve inflammation, primarily by helping NF-kappaB work
normally.
Related article:
CNN Helps Autism Debacle Blow Up in Government’s Face
|
