Babies
are born with very little active immune system function and are
entirely dependent on mother’s milk for their immunities to environmental
challenges. This information is not new and is available to doctors
and immunologists and even policy makers and yet vaccinations for
Hepatitis B are routinely given to newborn infants at birth in the
hospitals. The question needs to be addressed: “How can a vaccine
stimulate an immune system that is not yet functioning?”
The
immune system of a child grows and matures at a steady rate but
is not completely functioning until age 6. Nevertheless, most children
are given multiple doses of an ever-increasing number of different
vaccines during their first few years without regard to what is
happening to the developing immune system. These vaccines carry
genetically engineered DNA and viruses along with a multitude of
toxic materials (stabilizers) into the deepest recesses of the child’s
body. Could this possibly be why we are seeing a tremendous increase
in chronic disease patterns in children?
Vaccinations
are a violation of the body’s natural boundaries. Dietrich Gumbel
in his book Principles of Holistic Therapy with Herbal Essences
writes that a person “experiences himself as an inner world and
an outer world. He can have his inner world be influenced by the
outer world or the environment, but also vice versa, he can influence
the outer world, the environment by his inner world, he can mold
it. The skin is the boundary membrane between two worlds, separating
an inner world in biological body function from the outer world”.
As a culture we are so careful as to how our children are touched
and yet we never question this particular violation or even identify
it as a violation at all.
Inflammation
is a natural body process. It is the process through which the immature
immune system learns what to do and how to do it. Millions of years
of evolution have brought us to the point as a species where we
have what used to be known as common childhood illnesses. These
illnesses have the potential to strengthen the child and allow the
child to build up a well-functioning immune system. Now diseases
that were once considered commonplace and instrumental in strengthening
immune function (measles and mumps for example) are considered to
be dangerous and life-threatening - to be avoided at all cost. (It
will be interesting to watch what happens to chicken pox in the
media during the next few years now that the chickenpox vaccine
is available to the general public. It is sure to become much more
‘dangerous’ and has already been linked with deaths in the news
since the vaccine was put on the market)
Vaccinations
have the potential to produce serious short- and long-term side
effects. As a culture we have collectively denied this because we
have accepted that vaccines are a form of preventive health care.
Recent research questions the connection between overuse of vaccines
and the increase in attention deficit disorders, hyperactivity,
minimal brain dysfunction, as well as a host of chronic physical
conditions including childhood arthritis, diabetes, chronic ear
infections, decreased immune function and childhood leukemia. There
is also evidence to suggest that vaccines might interrupt the proper
development of the brain, particularly the process of myelinization
of the neurons and axons, a process that is nowhere near complete
at birth. This possibility has led some researchers to believe that
vaccines could be a direct cause of autism! (See Harris Coulter’s
“Vaccination, Social Violence and Criminality: The Medical Assault
on the American Brain”.)
Because
vaccines inject toxic substances deep into the body they disrupt
the internal ecology of the body. The developing immune system does
not necessarily know how to process these substances. The natural
way of exposure to viruses and bacteria is through the respiratory
or digestive systems of a child or through the surface skin via
cuts and abrasions. The child’s body then responds to these challenges
with an intricate and multilevel system of protection through the
mucous membranes, lymph, thymus, and all the components of the immune
system. When a vaccine is injected directly into the bloodstream
or muscle it bypasses the natural screening process whereby the
body will often eliminate or neutralize the foreign substance.
On
a personal level, the child may have an experience of not feeling
well or have fever or inflammation as a “normal” reaction to the
shot. As the child grows and has language to understand what is
happening the message that is integrated on a fundamental level
is “I must suffer to be well”. Most children (and mothers for that
matter) have an experience of violation. Regardless of the belief
in the efficacy of the vaccines there is usually a gut feeling that
something is not right. Most mothers and children would much prefer
never having to experience this procedure. Intuition and instinct
are generally swept aside in favor of the “greater good of society”.
