A Different Look At Vaccines

Happy New Year to all of you readers out there!  I apologize for the two-week hiatus, but the deadly combination of being sick and the Holiday festivities going on lately really took the energy out of me.  Luckily, a steady supply of garlic, raw honey, green tea, probiotics, homemade broth, and rest have gotten me back up to full speed.  And with my returning health, I have found the inspiration for a new post.  The topic today: vaccines.

Dr. Mercola published a great interview/article today on his wonder website (www.mercola.com).  The interview was with Dr. Shiv Chopra, who apparently use to be a “drug company insider”.  Dr. Mercola provides a better explaination of all Dr. Chopra’s qualifications in the interview, but to put things matter-of-fact-ly, the man knows his stuff when it comes to viruses/vaccines.

Many of you may not be familiar with the negative perspective Dr. Mercola and Dr. Chopra share when it comes to vaccines.  The vast majority of Americans have been raised believing vaccines are crucial medical tools towards preventing life-threatening diseases such as Polio, Hepatitis, Small Pox, etc…  A belief that increasingly looks to be wrong.  (But not to the fault of the everyday American.)

While it may be true that a very small number of  vaccines used today may actually help prevent some of these deadly diseases, Dr. Chopra strongly advocates that the majority of the vaccines so commonly used today are not only not necessary, but could actually complicate the vaccine recipient’s health considerably more than aid it.

If any of you are wondering where you have heard this topic before, famed Playboy model Jenny McCarthy  -yes, that’s right, Jenny McCarthy of all people- has brought some fame towards the issue.  She claims the vaccines she gave her son when he was 15 months old lead him to develop autism.  She claims that the mercury in the vaccines, which is usually put in as a filler or chelating agent, was what caused her son to become autistic.

Now, when it comes to vaccines, my knowledge is pretty limited.  But from the little I know about vaccines, the more I have to side against the use of them.  I believe that a healthy individual who eats a diet optimal for his/her health (I’m not talking about cheeseburgers and pizza obviously) will be much more capable of defending itself against these diseases than a vaccinated person.  We are exposed to disease-causing viruses and bacteria everyday.  A healthy body can fight these off through it’s own natural defenses.

To be honest, that’s a pretty heavy statement.  But a statement that I am finding out to be more and more true the more I learn about vaccines.  Dr. Chopra says in the interview that injecting a protein directly into a human body goes against everything nature has evolved to be.  Never before in nature has a protein been directly placed into the blood stream.

Now some of you may be wondering why I chose to say “protein” instead of “virus”.  From my understanding from the interview, this is because a virus cannot be isolated. Viruses work by feeding off an organism they attach themselves to.  This means that the protein and the virus have to be injected together into the human body for the vaccine to potentially work.

Proteins are never suppose to reach our blood streams.  Why is that?  Because proteins are suppose to be broken down into amino acids while you are DIGESTING whatever food you ate that contained those proteins!  It’s common sense, right?  Foods contain proteins that are broken down throughout our digestive systems into amino acids, which than are used as building materials for the rest of our body.  The only time proteins (not already-broken-down amino acids) do not get digested and are able to get into the blood stream is when you have a nasty condition called Leaky Gut Syndrome.  Leaky Gut can lead to allergies and auto-immune diseases because these proteins that are leaked out from the gut into the blood stream get attacked by the immune system.  While I’ll get into more detail about Leaky Gut in a future post, the fact of the matter is, proteins in the blood stream just don’t result in good things the majority of the time.

But the decision is still tough, nonetheless.  For all of us out there who don’t know as much as they would like when it comes to issues like vaccinations, it’s something that can cause a lot of stress in our lives.  We’re stuck in a Catch-22; you may think vaccines are not great for you or your child, but the threats of diseases like small pox, meningitis, etc…that are perpetuated by doctors, the media, and the government may be enough for you to wilt under the pressure.  It’s all very tough.

Thus the name of this blog: The Frightened Enlighten.  The more we learn about things that have been purported for so long to be good for us- low-fat diets, vaccinations, and so on – but turn out to be crippling towards our health, can really give us a rough time over deciding what is right.  We have the choice of further seeking out the truth, or just accepting reality and continue living out our lives the way the majority of us do (think Neo in The Matrix here).

Anyways, if you are interested in listening to Dr. Mercola’s awesome interview, check it out here:

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2010/01/05/An-Expert-Explains-the-Flu-Vaccine-Deception-and-the-Swine-Flu-Hoax.aspx.

It’s a lot more informative, as well as interesting than the ramblings in this post .

Take Care,

E.M.R