Every winter we are bombarded by messages telling us to vaccinate against the flu or other illnesses. Government agencies and big pharmaceutical companies usually lead the charge. This year, even faith-based groups are being pushed to promote vaccinations. In a U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) recent news letter they state:
“As you know, faith and community leaders play an integral role in helping to keep their communities and congregations healthy, especially during flu season. As trusted messengers, you are able to spread important information about healthy practices and the need for vaccination.”
HHS is not alone, The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommends that every person 6 months and older receive an annual flu vaccine. They also spend tons of money on vaccine awareness each year.
One of the more outrageous examples of government support for vaccines is from the Texas Governor and Republican Presidential candidate Rick Perry, who signed an executive order in 2007 to mandate all teen age girls to take the HPV vaccine! I am of the opinion that forced medication is very immoral.
In addition, your work and local drug store encourage yearly flu shots.
Is this government focus on vaccines based on genuine concern for citizens? Or due to the politicians and government agencies close ties to the pharmaceutical companies who profit by pumping out yearly vaccines?
In this article, I will attempt to make the reader aware of two things: vaccines are not universally safe and effective, and there are safer and more effective alternatives to staying healthy.
Do vaccines work?
Keen readers may have asked themselves, if vaccines work then why do I have to get one year after year? It must be because the flu strains change every year, right? Not according to a recent AP article.
“This year's flu shot will be a duplicate of last year's because the same flu strains are still circulating. So some experts say young, healthy people may have enough protection from last season's vaccine to skip getting it again this fall.
"For healthy people, it can't be said to be necessary," said Dr. Robert Couch, a flu vaccine expert at the Baylor College of Medicine.
Still, government health officials are urging nearly everyone to get this fall's flu shot. They say a vaccine's protection can fade significantly after several months — especially for those who are frail and elderly.”
Here is CDC's explanation from their web site:
“The second reason that annual vaccination is recommended is that a person’s immune protection from vaccination declines over time and annual vaccination is needed for optimal protection.
The decline in protection against the flu that occurs after vaccination or after flu infection may be influenced by several factors, including a person’s age, the antigen used in the vaccine, and the person’s health situation (for example, chronic health conditions that weaken the immune system may have an impact).This decline in protection has the potential to leave some people more vulnerable to infection, illness and possibly serious complications from the same influenza viruses a year after being vaccinated. So, for optimal protection against influenza, annual vaccination is recommended regardless of whether the viruses in the vaccine have changed or not since the previous season.”
So we need to get vaccines every year because they stop working after a few months. According to the CDC, vaccines supposedly work because: “About 2 weeks after vaccination, antibodies that provide protection against the influenza viruses in the vaccine develop in the body.”
Here is the punch line, antibodies last a whole lifetime! They do not wear off after a few months! Europeans who came to America gave Native Americans small pox. Why didn’t Europeans get small pox? because they had built up a natural defense over generations. They did not need vaccines every year, once they had the antibodies they were set for life (so were their children, and their children’s children).
Now let’s examine some recent findings on the safety of the flu vaccine and two recently popular vaccines, HPV and H1N1 (Click on the titles for the article link).
- This web site is dedicated to bringing to light the adverse side effects of all vaccines. Here you can find story after story of people whose health has been hurt by vaccinations. http://thevaccinesideeffects.com/
Mercury found in vaccines:
- “CDC's Vaccine Committee Whitewashed Toxic VaccineComponent, Says National Autism Association (NAA)”
H1N1
HPV
- HPV vaccine that contains HPV! “SANE Vax Inc. Discovers Potential Bio-hazard Contaminant inMerck’s Gardasil™ HPV 4 Vaccine”
Alternatives – Immune yourself naturally!
There are safe and alternative ways to protect yourself from the flu that do not involve injecting some unknown substance into your body that is mass produced by pharmaceutical companies. It’s called vitamins!! Of course, the best place to get your vitamins is fruits and vegetables. Today, there are many different and easily accessible super foods that can severely benefit your health. Spirulina and Chlorella happen to be my favorite super foods, but there is an entire list of these one-of-a-kind miracle foods. Super foods have such a dense nutrient profile that help to protect you from disease. Your body has the ability to naturally protect and heal itself from diseases if you allow it. To do this you need to supply your body with lots of vegetables and fruits. The easiest way to do this is “juicing” or making smoothies. If you replace your breakfast cereal for a smoothie full of fruits and vegetables and avoid processed foods throughout the day you will experience positive benefits immediately. You will feel more full, have increased energy, and get sick less often (or never).
Vitamin D might be the most powerful of all vitamins and it can work magical for your immune system. If your body is full of high doses of vitamin D your body will produce its own antibodies naturally. If you are really concern about getting the flu this season, supplement with vitamin D. (Check out our vitamin D page for more information.) Plus, when you are not vaccinated, you encounter the real virus and build your own natural defense, rather than receiving some weak form of the virus in a vaccine.
At the very least I hope this article will motivate you to do some research and serious thinking before the next time you shoot up.
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