This is a subject ex-Christian Scientists need to face, head on.
Perhaps you could read Dr Joseph Mercola’s round up of peer-reviewed articles about the entire topic of vaccination. I have followed Dr Mercola’s webpages since 2003. (www.mercola.com) He is an evidence based medical doctor who had a general practice for decades. He emphasized diet and exercise with his patients. He got such good results that 20 years ago he announced his whole practice would be based on diet, exercise and chosen supplements. Guess what, he lost 75% of his practice, immediately. But, he persevered and today is probably the leading alternative voice in medical practices and “Let Food Be Thy Medicine” on the internet.
I am also aware of the other most famous medical alternative doctor, Dr. Andrew Weil, and have a number of friends who were/are in his private practice. But Dr.Weil is basically a conciliatory voice. An apologist who knows how to make the medical experience somewhat better. But, except for psychedelics, I think he has taken a timid point of view. He does sell expensive vitamins and supplements on his website, too.
A brief review of Mercola vs. Weil. When I look a condition up on Dr Mercola’s pages, it is always dealt with in a thorough fashion including relevant biology and chemistry. In contrast, regarding statins, Dr Weil’s first article explains what they are, and says many fewer people need them than than previously thought, but he does not discuss the fact that statins destroy CoQ10. Dr Mercola does. When you read about statins in his web pages, you can actually learn a lot about them and how they work (as well as how many people per hundred are actually helped by statins). The most common side effect of statins is muscle aches and pains. Weil does not discuss them in his lead article on the subject, yet aches and pains are the direct result of low levels of CoQ10. That is an evidence-based fact and Mercola has at least 50 Govt and peer-reviewed articles to back him up. So why take a statin when it destroys CoQ10? a compound people with heart issues really need? And one can usually get enough of it in the diet- except for a lot of people don’t get enough CoQ10 in the diet to overcome the side effect of the statin. So, many doctors, like Dr Weil does, recommend you take CoQ10 as a supplement when taking a statin. It is quite expensive in a bottle. OR. How about quitting the statin and eating right, like giving up all kinds of sugar, especially high fructose corn syrup (HFCS)? Dr Mercola also explains how the body processes HFCS, which is different than glucose is processed. I won’t explain it to you now because I have another item on my agenda- it was just an example to let you know he is usually more correct than the average doctor when it comes to commonly prescribed medicines.
Is compulsory vaccination necessary? Mercola also has an opinion on compulsory vaccination- he doesn’t like it because the vaccines themselves are often worse than the disease, for a large percent of children. Not only do they still have mercury in some vaccines, they also use aluminum, a substance never designed to be injected into human bodies. They often contain egg residues, although eggs are a huge source of food allergies to a lot of kids and therefore the source of a lot of reactions.
Vaccine Effectiveness. I am not going to discuss the other questionable ingredients in most vaccines or the lack of R and D in the vaccine world to improve the non-active parts of all vaccines, I am just going to raise the question of the effectiveness of most vaccines kids must receive. It has already been discovered that vaccinations do not last and many vaccinated populations experience outbreaks of disease where 97% and more have been at least partially vaccinated. I am talking about the breakouts of mumps among highly vaccinated populations. Here I will turn you over to Dr Mercola briefly to tell you what has happened. Please note, he is discussing an article in the New England Journal of Medicine; it does not get more evidence-based and peer-reviewed than that.
By Dr. Joseph Mercola
Recently published research in the New England Journal of Medicine1 investigated the reasons behind, and potential solutions, for mumps outbreaks reported to the CDC during the past several years. According to the authors, widespread use of the MMR vaccine had reduced the annual incidence of mumps in the US by more than 99 percent by 2005.
But then, suddenly, something changed.
In 2006, a large outbreak was reported among highly vaccinated populations in the US, and two additional outbreaks occurred during 2009 and 2010. The latter two occurred in American Orthodox Jewish communities in and around New York City.
In 2009, more than 3,500 people got sick, and the overwhelming majority of them – 89 percent – were children, who had received the CDC recommended two doses of the measles-mumps-rubella (MMR) vaccine. Another eight percent had received one dose, putting the total numbers of students vaccinated at 97 percent!
Matters were much the same for the 2010 outbreak. Of the more than 1,000 people who contracted mumps that year, 77 percent had received two doses of the MMR.
From <http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2012/11/13/mmr-vaccine-ineffectiveness.aspx>
(I highly suggest you read the article before you come over here and lambast me, tilde b. It really is interesting and factual, and carries far more weight than the fellow you quoted from some un-peer-reviewed blog, but holds the same opinion as you do.)
Ineffective Vaccines over time. A lot of the vaccines children get are ineffective over time. Even when vaccinated repeatedly, immunity only lasts a brief time -a few years or less. Most vaccines seem to be in that category. I remember in the Navajo Nation of the 1950’s, we all had to get typhoid shots every year. Or maybe it was typhus. I do know we all got so sick the school always sent us all home early on that day. We got fevers, ached and wow was that arm sore! But, we were safe from The “T” disease for another year.
I think Smallpox and Polio vaccines last a lifetime, but most do not. Remember the measles outbreak at Disneyland? Most of the sick people WERE vaccinated and possibly even the carriers were too, because the vaccine wears thin after a while, but you have no clue it has happened until you get sick from a disease for which you already had the vaccine.
Measles. A lot of people were angry about the so-called unvaccinated people who brought the measles to Disneyland 2 or so years ago, but those people could have been vaccinated some years ago and had no clue they had lost the immunity until they got sick. We never did hear that completely unvaccinated people brought the disease in- after the early claims– probably because they realized there weren’t any unvaccinated people, except the baby. If the baby was nursing from a mother who actually had the measles as a kid, the baby would have been completely protected by the mother’s antibodies . If the carrier had ever had the measles, they would never have been a carrier. Then, they did find that the people who got sick were often vaccinated!
This problem is common, but not well known, because the vaccine industry has the total attention of Homeland Security and is working with the Center for Disease Control to eventually force all required vaccines upon everyone regardless of proved effectiveness.
The panic about the measles was ridiculous. The measles is not ebola. Less than a percent of all kids with measles ever died of measles in the old days, but when they died, it was from other complications, like pneumonia, which can easily be avoided today, by our warm draft free houses and comfortable beds. It was mainly poor children that died of measles’ complications. There is no need for complications if the measles-stricken person goes to a unstressful clean, warm, bed for a week with low lights and lots of broth and sponge baths for comfort. The measles is no big deal. And a loving attentive parent is all a kid needs, AND THEN you have a lifetime immunity, which no vaccine can give.
Be skeptical of the claims of patent medicines. I really want ex-Christian Scientists to be skeptical of medicine as they learn how to deal with the system. There is a lot of corruption that leads Drs to prescribe unneeded pills, like statins.And a lot of information about vaccine ineffectiveness over time is being mostly ignored by the powers that be.
Another comment about a completely different disease: Zika virus. It has been proved by the Brazilian authorities and others, that Zika virus does NOT produce microcephely. The bug spray to kill the mosquito larvae in that particular state in Brazil was the cause of the microcephely, not the virus. Many cases of Zika have occurred outside that area, but no small heads anywhere but where the spray was used. Where have you read that fact? Probably nowhere. I read it on Mercola’s website, looked at a reference or two, and saw he was correct.
Don’t be afraid. My point is- do not fear childhood diseases- the vaccines are often far worse -especially for a few people. Though most people can tolerate them, they are stressful, which can allow bad responses by itself. It is really too bad someone claimed vaccines cause autism, because that remark has undermined everything else negative that vaccines are known to do, for years. Many kids have had bad reactions, though not autism- which is a condition that was forming in the womb from multiple stresses and insults, not to mention the probable genetic components. Autism may be triggered by stress, but the stress, even from vaccines, is not the cause of that complex problem. Yet that one remark has not yet been cancelled out by the things that vaccines do cause.
I know the polio vaccine is dangerous, too, but the benefit lasts a lifetime- it is worth the risk for most kids. The smallpox isn’t even given anymore because the vaccine was so effective, it virtually caused the extinction of the disease.
Personalize Vaccinations. I think that vaccines should be a huge area of research and development before they are made mandatory in all cases with all vaccines for children. I wish that vaccinations were given according to personal algorithms, which could vary greatly from the “one size fits all” thing that is occurring now.
There will always be ways for vaccine-mongers to get rich, but let us require they not take blanket approaches in giving vaccines, but tailor each child’s vaccine schedule to its own needs and to allow the active seeking of better vaccines, given by a better method.
Open up the idea of looking for new approaches and some Millennial autistic genius will think up something brand new. (You should read the articles about the genius a few autistic people become, and I mean genius.)(And that was not caused by vaccines, LOL)
Fungi. That last sentence made an interesting thought pop up in my non-autistic mind.How about developing vaccine materials in fungi (like mushrooms) specifically designed to grow the antibodies? then given in food form. I just learned that a special, patented, fungi can be fed to insects that turns the bugs into fungi, which in turn benefits the earth. Paul Stamets http://www.fungi.com/host-defense.html. This Fungi-Master (look at his TED talks) has a patent to do the latter, (which Monsanto is ignoring). And the provided link indicates fungi can deliver immunization benefits as well. I guarantee you will be impressed by this man.
Why not?
As Christian Scientists you guys were thinking outside the usual box, even if it was in its own box with thick walls. Now, you do not have to think inside the medical box, either. You are bringing a fresh clean eye to medicine and do not need to join the results of political influences on vaccine and patent medicines.
Remember. statins are patent medicines- until they become generic.They are chemicals, usually derived from the chemical equivalent in some plant, ignoring all the other compounds that grew in synergy with the extracted chemical. If you still believe in some kind of Principle or Order to the Universe, then obviously fungi and plants belong to that Principle far more than man’s primitive groping with simple chemical compounds taken or copied from plants. Plants are part of the Principles the Universe is based on. We ultimately need plants to live healthily -as do our choices of meat. For the purposes of this article, I include fungi as plants, although they almost aren’t. Whatever they are, they are the magic that holds the forest together as a self-communicating entity. Ponder that for a while. Go to Stamets’ site if you do not intuitively grasp what I mean. You will never see Life the same way again, once you include fungi in your consciousness. Life is still a Principle of the Universe, even if you leave MBE behind.
And fungi can still save the material world from most of its worst ecological disasters.
From Dr Mercola to fungi, I think this is the most important post I have made on this blog, so I am going to follow up with more on plants and fungi as opposed to Monsanto and Roundup ready plants, which would face extinction anytime we turn to fungi to help grow healthy, mostly insect free, plants. Bugs are like wolves, they only go after the weakened ones. In fact, the kind of bugs plants get often tell you what’s weak about the plant. The fact is that plants growing in chemical fertilizers with no organic additives put on the land, will be far more prone to bugs than plants living in soil with lots of added manure and other natural ingredients. The few bugs that do come do not devastate the crop because they like only the weak as a first choice -and chemically grown plants are ALL weak.
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