HOW TO PREVENT VACCINE INJURY

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By Byron J. Richards, CCN

 

April 10, 2008

 

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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.

 

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