Fall into Health

Before you avid flu shot participants get offended let me explain!  The first vaccine was an amazing scientific discovery that changed the way we look at health care even today.  The ancient Chinese knew that once a person had small pox they were no longer threatened by the disease if they survived.  Those affected would get lesions on the skin that would then scab over.  The Chinese would then take these scabs, grind them up and then sniff the substance infecting them with a more mild form of small pox and thus preventing them from getting the more severe form of the disease.  The real magic of vaccines was discovered in the late 18th century (nearly 200 years after it hit Europe) when Edward Jenner asked some nearby milkmaids why they were never infected with small pox.  Their conclusion was because they were routinely infected with cowpox a more mild virus that created similar blisters on the hands of the maids.  Jenner believed so much in their theory that he inoculated his own son with fluid from a cow pox blister and later followed with the deathly small pox fluid.  His son never got ill!  This amazing discovery lead to what is believed to be the first grant towards medical research which would be equivalent to millions of dollars today.

To make a long story short Louis Pasteur (a friend of Jenner) later developed a vaccine for Rabies, and another colleague later developed many more vaccines that saved 100’s of lives, he also cost some lives as well, by accidentally infecting recipients with the very microbes they were supposed to prevent.  And aren’t we glad!  Or are we glad?

The following picture has caused an uproar on Facebook and between health care providers world wide.

Have we gone too far?  Many of you reading this don’t even recognize the list from 1983 unless you had children during this time.  Still, even more of you remember when the chicken pox vaccine came out.  We thought this was ridiculous back then!  Now, it’s just a minor requirement for getting into kindergarten.  The important thing to remember is that you and your children have rights.  You can refuse all or some of these vaccines without being told you have to home school…at least in the state of Colorado…. for now.

Today, not only are kids the target but EVERYONE including pregnant women are more than encouraged to partake in the flu shot.  Is it really because these pharmaceutical companies truly care about the spread of illness in our country or because they can make one heck of a profit off us lowering our immune system.  Remember the original vaccines?  They first caused and immune reaction to a similar virus before protecting against a bigger threat.  I get it, no one likes getting the flu, no one likes taking a week off work because their child has chicken pox, but what’s a bigger risk here?  Once we are inoculated artificially against such pathogens our immune system no longer has to work at protecting us against various sicknesses.  We often hear that one person complaining about how she got a flu shot and got deathly ill shortly after?  Well, the main reason behind that, is because she was probably infected with the flu before the vaccine was administered, as it takes approximately two weeks before the vaccine becomes affective.  She could have already had a lowered immune system, or the fact that the vaccine is only geared toward a certain strain of the flu which is probably no longer even in existence from the time it was created was null and void.  Yes, you read that correctly folks!  The flu vaccine is made months before flu season even begins, how well can they guess the strain of virus that will evolve by the time it hits your neighborhood?  The amazing thing about biology is that it isn’t stupid.  Bacteria can change it’s state in order to better survive in certain conditions, meaning, in a dry vs. wet, a hot vs. cold, a place with or without oxygen bacteria AND viruses can ADAPT to such areas to better survive!  They can do that in a host body as well.  If I get the flu from a patient that virus will have to alter it’s functioning state in order to survive in my body as opposed to the person I obtained the virus from.  Ever wonder why that one person in the office never gets sick while their neighbor seems to catch everything?  Some bodies are more hospitable to infection than others.  Those high in sugar and lower in pH (more acidic) tend to be a hotel for microbes, as it’s easier to live here.  Those who are regularly detoxed due to a good sweat a decent diet and regularly flushed with water tend to not be as appealing for these little critters and therefore they don’t stick around for very long.

Finally take a look at this most updated chart directly from the CDC website that lays out the vaccine schedule as recommended today.  We are not saying not to get vaccinated but to consider the affects AND the disease before lining up to pay $30 for some sub-par research.