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Originally posted by BitRaiser
You mentioned curing asthma as being "easily curable via natural means".
No amount of homopathy can cure asthma. Anyone who suggests otherwise has been a crook when I've investigated.
The vast majority of these people selling their books are no better than the Pharma-Corps. They're crooks trying to make money off of people's fears and ignorance. What's worse is that often they turn people away from medical paths that could save their lives.
Again, I'm into eclectopathy. This means all things within reason and in their place. Anyone who tells you to dismiss any path is full of crap.
Because I can't produce my own drugs and antibiotics.
Or rather I could, but it's not a very good idea.
I am responsible for my own general heath and wellness.
I go see the doc when nasty little bugs have managed to overpower my immune system (usually when it's been beaten down by stress, over work, or doing something stupid) and have begun running rampant through my system. The doc will know if there's been similar cases in the local area and will be able to proscribe the proper toxins that will kill those little bugs while just making me feel a bit icky.
BTW, if you want a really good system flush after being on antibiotics
Originally posted by Jazzerman
1. Small amounts of Ethylmercury in human infants can be comparable to adults with the same levels related to age. In fact, the consumption of fish and shellfish by a pregnant mother pose a much higher risk as the woman is consuming organic mercury in the form of Methylmercury. This type of mercury does bioaccumulate as the actions of bacteria on the sea floor convert the inorganic mercury into its more potent form. When a mother consumes the fish tissue containing Methylmercury the rates of exposure are quite higher than they would ever be with exposure to vaccine Ethylmercury. In fact, some recent studies I am aware of show that the the body's own ability to detoxify itself of Ethylmercury (even in infancy) is 5.8 times greater than the rate at which organic Methylmercury is able to be disposed of. Even more staggering is the fact that the half-life of inorganic Ethylmercury exposure is only 6 days as compared to the 19 day half-life of Methylmercury.
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Both ethyl mercury and Hg2+ are very neuro toxic
compounds. However, ethyl mercury is more rapidly partitioned into the
hydrophobic (fatty) tissues of the central nervous system and is a
more potent neuro toxin than Hg2+ based on this "partitioning factor".
It is this partitioning factor that makes organic mercurials such as
dimethyl mercury so neuro toxically lethal (this is the compound that
caused the death of a Dartmouth University chemistry professor after
she was exposed to a drop or two on her gloved hand). The concern with
organic mercurials, such as thimerosal, is that such compounds can be
perceived as "pro toxicants" just as certain pharmaceuticals can be
classified as "pro drugs". This means that the original compound, e.g.
thimerosal, is less reactive giving the compound time to partition
into certain areas of the body before it breaks down releasing the
ethyl mercury and then further releasing Hg2+. However, while
attaching ethyl mercury to thiolsalicylate makes the ethyl mercury
less reactive it most likely allows increased partitioning into the
central nervous system before the ethyl mercury is released and
thereby, increases the neuro toxicity per unit ethyl mercury involved.
Considerable caution must be taken when stating what is the "toxic
level" of mercury and any mercury containing compound.
www.generationrescue.org...
The mercury received in a vaccine is no greater than in a can of tuna. Eating a can of tuna has certainly never caused autism.
This myth has received a lot of publicity because it offers an analogy anyone can understand and makes the mercury-autism connection appear trivial.
We can start by comparing a 200-pound male adult consuming tuna with the infant who receives a single vaccine on their first day of birth (since day-old infants don't eat tuna). On the first day of birth an infant receives the Hep B vaccine with about 25 micrograms of ethlymercury - this does approximate the 30 micrograms of methlymercury in an average can of tuna. Since the average infant weighs about 7 pounds, the weight equivalent number of cans of tuna for an adult would be 28 cans. (The adult male weighs 28x more than the infant.)
If you take those 28 cans of tuna and distill it down to mercury content, you would have 840 micrograms of mercury (30 micrograms per can). Keep in mind that the stomach successfully absorbs and excretes about 90% of any mercury ingested through food, leaving only about 10% of the mercury to be absorbed into the bloodstream. Since the mercury in vaccines is injected directly into the bloodstream where 100% of it can be absorbed by the organs, you would need an additional 252 cans of tuna to get the equivalent amount of mercury into the bloodstream for a total of 280 cans of tuna and 8,400 micrograms of methlymercury.
Also, remember that a developing brain is far more sensitive to toxins than an adult brain. Current estimates say mercury is 5-10x more toxic for a developing brain. We'll use the low end of that range, so multiply the 280 cans of tuna by 5 and you get 1,400 cans of tuna.
So, receiving the Hep B vaccine with Thimerosal on the first day of birth is the equivalent of a 200-pound adult male consuming 1,400 cans of tuna in a single day. One final adjustment: the adult male in the analogy needs to have no capacity to excrete mercury. As Boyd Haley, Ph.D. notes, "it is very well known that infants do not produce significant levels of bile or have adult renal capacity for several months after birth. Bilary transport is the major biochemical route by which mercury is removed from the body, and infants cannot do this very well."
So, a 200-pound male who consumes 1,400 cans of tuna in a single day and has their ability to excrete mercury severely diminished is the same as a day-old infant receiving the Hep B vaccine. Now the analogy is fair.
Originally posted by bsl4doc
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They key is that the glutathione deficiency pointed out in your study is GENETIC, not caused by vaccinations. This deficiency makes them more prone to heavy metal poisoning. This means the direct cause of autism may be glutathione deficiency.
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Originally posted by Files
I used to get the Flu shot almost every year since I was a kid. I stopped getting them last year back with found out it contained 90% mercury.
Originally posted by Gregarious
And 'common sense'? When did the common sense ever get anything right?
Originally posted by Gregarious
And yes, I do get tetanus shots, as I too often get poked with rustys.
Eibl, M.M.; at al Abnormal T-Lymphocyt subpopulations in healthy subjects after tetanus booster immunization. NEJM, 1984; 310/3:198-9
In order to study the effect of vaccination on the T-lymphocyte helper/suppressor ratio, 11 healthy persons were given a tetanus booster shot. A significant decrease in the T4/T8 ratio was observed. In 4 of the patients the ratio even fell temporarily to 1 or lower. This is a situation often observed in AIDS-patients or in persons at risk for the condition.
Prophylaxis against tetanus raises serious theoretical and, above all, practical questions, since the disease itself is known not to induce immunity. It the disease cannot induce protection, how can a vaccine?
Antibody levels do not rise until 4 days after vaccination, so vaccination at the time of injury is of no use.
Passen, E.L.; Andersen, B.; Clinical tetanus despite a protectlve level of toxin-neutralising antibody. JAMA, 1988; 25519:1171-3
Originally posted by Gregarious
Incidentally, there are many types of flu, and they keep changing. There is never any guarantee that the type you are exposed to was in your vaccine.
A recent study (Safety of Trivalent Inactivated Influenza
Vaccine in Children 6 to 23 Months Old) was published in the Journal of the American Medical Association touting the safety of flu vaccine. Nine of the studies authors had stated financial ties to vaccine manufacturers, and an additional four authors worked for the CDC. The study also stated: "It is also important to note that there is scant data on the efficacy and effectiveness of influenza vaccine in young children."
On October 27, 2006, the British Medical Journal published an article also questioning the efficacy of the flu vaccine. The article noted: "Evidence from systematic reviews shows that inactivated vaccines [flu vaccines] have little or no effect on the effects measured. Little comparative evidence exists on the safety of these vaccines. Reasons for the current gap between policy and evidence are unclear, but given the huge resources involved, a re-evaluation should be urgently undertaken...The optimistic and confident tone of some predictions of viral circulation and of the impact of inactivated vaccines, which are at odds with the evidence, is striking."
Originally posted by BitRaiser
Originally posted by RogerT
No I missed neither of those. What does that have to do with my response to your post?
I was hoping to see you respond to Jazzerman's post, actually.
Originally posted by RogerT
OK, I've had a bit of time to look into this.
Whilst Jazzerman's post initially seems to be extremely authoritative, well balanced, scientific and conclusive, there is definitely contradictory research out there:
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For the layman, report says that monkeys injected with ethylmercury (mercury in Thimerosal) had twice the amount of inorganic mercury in their brains compared to methylmercury (environmental mercury).
Originally posted by Long Lance
The bottom line is that there's really no reason to willingly swallow anything from people who are willingly putting thiomersal into strangers (still, think flu shots) while alledgedly declining vaccines for themselves and their relatives more often than any other single group. if someone could confirm that last point it would be greatly appreciated.
For example 5 percent of nonpediatricians would not use the Hib vaccine for their own child. Their reasons for declining the use of Hib for their own children included a lack of concern about the disease and the desire to reduce vaccines to a minimum. Similarly almost 5 percent of physicians did not use the MMR vaccine in their own children. According to the authors the reasons for vaccine refusal included "the wish to avoid the trivalent combined vaccines because of safety concerns, the preference for infection-driven rather than vaccine-induced immunity, and the conviction that homeopathic treatment allows a benign outcome of measles, mumps, and rubella." Almost 10 percent of nonpediatricians would delay the initiation of DTaP vaccination beyond 6 months and 15 percent would not give the first dose of measles or MMR before 2 years of age.
Posfay-Barbe KM, et al. How do physicians immunize their own children? Differences among pediatricians and nonpediatricians. Pediatrics 2005 (Nov); 116:e623-e633.
Researcher and author Neil Z. Miller reports that approximately 66% of pediatricians and obstetricians refused the MMR shot in one study.[1] An equal percentage of doctors refused the Hepatitis B shot, mostly citing safety concerns because of rumors of animal DNA contamination in the shots.[2] The American Medical Association's (AMA) Archives of Pediatrics and Adolescent Medicine cite a 1994 study where approximately 1/3 of doctors were working without mandatory flu vaccines.[3]
1) JAMA 1981 Feb 20;245(7):711-3 "Rubella vaccine and susceptible hospital employees. Poor physician participation."
2) Mendelsohn, Dr. Robert, “The Drive to Immunize Adults,” Herald of Holistic Health Newsletter, Sept.-Oct. 1985.
3) Archives of Pediatric & Adolescent Medicine, Dec. 1996. (AMA).