Think your SIGG bottle is BPA-free? Think again!!

Think your SIGG water bottle is BPA-free? Think again.

Think your SIGG water bottle is BPA-free? Think again.
by Savannah Mayfield

If you spent almost $20 on a SIGG water bottle for your child, thinking it is free of toxins, you are going to want to read this article.

Our friends at ZRecs alerted us to an alarming finding. SIGG water bottles (you know those really cute, pricey ones that parents buy when they want to be sure their child is not absorbing toxins in their drink) made before last summer have an epoxy lining that contains the hormone-disrupting chemical bisphenol-A.

If you are wondering which bottle you have, the old one containing BPA or the secretly replaced new one, just visit the ZRecs story for informative photos that will help you identify which bottle your child (or other family member) has been using.

The good news? Take your SIGG water bottle with the old liner to your local New Seasons Store. I just got off the phone with them and they will exchange it for one with the new, safe, BPA-free liner. How much do we love our New Seasons?

PS: Be sure to shop while you are there!

Savannah Mayfield

It’s official!! No more yucky supplement juice!

I’ve been hesitating on writing this since since I did not want to jinx it, but Nicholas no longer has to drink his supplements!! He is now swallowing all of his capsules like a champ!!!

I am using a capsule filler and have been mixing his day’s worth of doses, since I have some caps and some powders, and re-capsuling them in the big “00” capsules. Giving him fewer big capsules instead of a bunch of tiny ones has been one of the best moves I have made yet. Making my own capsules is a bit time consuming, but it’s not nearly as bad as I thought it was going to be.

As of today, there are only 3 supplements I have to mix with juice (and he doesn’t even flinch at these being in his juice – thank goodness!) – and that’s until they run out for the most part. His Nordic Naturals complete omega 369, Vitamin C and one of his gelcaps is a little on the HUGE side.
Oh wait, forgot about liver life and his micellized vitamin a – I just put those in a cup with a tsp of juice and he swallows it with no problem.

Just in case you are wondering where I got the capsule filler from, here are the links:
Capsule Fillers
Empty Capsules
(Code TUM744 at iherb.com for $5 off)

Set your DVR’s: Dr Wakefield and Thoughtful House on Dateline NBC with Matt Lauer!

NJ TV Schedule for Channel 4 WNBC:
Friday, August 28, 2009: 7:00 – 10:00am Today Show
Saturday, August 29, 2009: 6:30pm NBC Nightly News
Sunday, August 30, 2009: 6:30pm NBC Nightly News
Sunday, August 30, 3009: 7:00pm Dateline NBC *If you can only record/watch one, this is the one to watch.

Thoughtful House on NBC News
Story Scheduled to be Broadcast this Weekend

August 25, 2009

Dear Friends,

As some of you may have already heard, the NBC television network is producing a special on Thoughtful House and Dr. Andrew Wakefield. We are sending along this note to make you aware of the extent of coverage on various programs and the scheduled broadcast date. First, though, we thought it was important to help everyone understand our decision to cooperate with the reporter, Matt Lauer, and his producer, Ami Schmitz. In our estimation, there has not yet been any fair coverage in the mainstream media of Dr. Wakefield or the work of Thoughtful House. While we have a large community of supporters that know Dr. Wakefield’s credibility and the accomplishments of Thoughtful House and our excellent physicians and clinicians, including Dr. Bryan Jepson, Dr.Arthur Krigsman, and Kelly Barnhill, CN, CCN, many of us in the Autism Advocacy Community
spend most of our time communicating with people in similar situations.

Our challenge has always been to reach out to a greater population that might not know or understand what is happening with regard to the autism epidemic and the lack of government research into potential causes, which includes looking at vaccine safety. We thought that if we ever were able to communicate with a fair-minded journalist working at a media outlet with both credibility and reach then it was likely to be worth the risk trying to tell our story.

We have taken that chance with NBC. While we initially declined their invitation for a story, we were persuaded to move forward when Matt Lauer was proposed as the correspondent. His reputation for being objective and thorough prompted us to reconsider and ultimately to open our doors. In March, TV crews from The Today Show, Dateline, and NBC Nightly News began gathering material at Thoughtful House in Austin. This involved taping long interviews with Drs. Wakefield, Jepson, and Krigsman, some of our therapists, administrators, and, more importantly, a few of our families. The crews traveled to London to report on the Lancet controversy and interviewed many of the central figures relevant to that part of our story. They also taped interviews, presentations, and families in attendance at the Atlanta DAN conference. Dr. Wakefield was flown to New York by the network and received what he described as a “tough but fair” interview in a one-on-one with Today Show host Matt Lauer. The person we have dealt with throughout the course of this project is Mr. Lauer’s producer, Ami Schmitz. Ami has a long resume as a medical journalist and was formerly Dr. Timothy Johnson’s producer at ABC News. In our assessment, she has been thorough and diligent in gathering information, documents, and asking the kind of detailed questions that have been glossed over or conflated in previous reporting. We believe, based upon hours and hours of working with Ami, she is writing an even-handed report, which will be narrated and hosted by Mr. Lauer.

Nothing is certain, of course, so we are taking a risk. However, we believe the potential reward is worth that risk; it’s entirely possible this will be the first time this subject matter (autism, Wakefield, Thoughtful House, vaccine safety research) has been considered objectively in mainstream media. If that is the case, we have the possibility of communicating with millions of people and that will be nothing but positive for those of us dealing with autism in our own families. We will find out this Friday, August 28. A portion of Mr. Lauer’s interview with Dr. Wakefield will be broadcast in an 8-10 minute segment on The Today Show. Either Saturday or Sunday, the NBC Nightly News Weekend will also broadcast a lengthy piece on Thoughtful House and vaccine safety. Coverage will culminate on Sunday night, August 30, at 7 pm EST, with an hour-long broadcast hosted by Mr. Lauer on Dateline NBC. This is scheduled to be adjacent to the Sunday night NFL football game on NBC, which means there is the potential for a large audience. In fact, the cumulative audience for all of these programs means there are likely to be no less than 5 million people who learn about autism and Thoughtful House and, quite possibly, as many as 20 million viewers will see the various broadcasts.

Consequently, you see the reason we decided to cooperate with NBC. The program might just be a game changer in the conversation we are all having in our communities with our governments, health care providers, insurance companies, and overall policies within our culture that marginalize families dealing with autism. We all started off several years ago on what many of us believe is the correct course for treatment and research and it has led us to this moment, and we believe we’ve made the right decision.

We would like to ask all of you that are active in the autism community to hold all judgment and wait to see the final broadcast. NBC has dedicated substantial time and resources to this story and the producer has made every effort to interview people from all points of view. Our hope is that a fair story will be told and you may submit feedback to the network after the shows have aired. Please do not attempt to contact them prior to the broadcast.

Please share this information with your friends, and if there are any last minutes changes, which we are told is always possible in the news business, you can rely on us to bring them to your attention.

Sincerely,
Anissa Ryland
Director of Operations
Thoughtful House Center for Children

Started L-Carnosine

I started Nicholas on L-Carnosine today. I made sure I gave zinc and Vitamin E along with it. We’ll see if we see any good come from this one…..

This is the one I bought:
Now Brand L-Carnosine 500mg Vcaps
(Love iherb.com – if you’ve never ordered from them before, TUM744 gives you $5 off your first order.)

Added October 23, 2009 – saw a nice boost in language with L-Carnosine. We’re going to keep it on board and see if the gains continue.

Update January 27, 2010 – this really did provide us with a nice boost in language. One that did not fade after we stopped giving it. I eliminated it from his daily regiment and waited a while, added it back and got an additional boost. I removed it a couple of weeks ago, once again with no loss in language. Perhaps we’ll revisit it again in the future.

A MUST READ: Brilliant response to Chris Mooney in the LA Times

Responding to Chris Mooney in the LAT
By Ginger Taylor

http://www.ageofautism.com/2009/08/responding-to-chris-mooney-in-the-lat.html

My letter in response to the LA Times article: Bringing science back into America’s sphere on Chris Mooney’s book “Unscientific America”

Lori, Chris and Sheril,

I am an autism parent with an MS is Clinical Counseling from Johns Hopkins University and a contributor to Age of Autism. I maintain my own blog at Adventures in Autism.

I saw Lori’s piece today and would like to point out a few things that seem incredibly obvious from where I am sitting, but you genuinely don’t seem to have on your radar (from what I could tell from the article), in regards to why America is not embracing “science” as you think they should. I hope you will be open to hearing from me for a moment, because there is a problem, but the problem may not be the public.

I feel like you may have confused actual hard “Science” with “things that most scientists think”, as there seems to be a denial of the fact that scientific consensus has quite often been (and most assuredly still is in many places) wrong.

Chris and Sheril wrote: “…today this country is also home to a populace that, to an alarming extent, ignores scientific advances or outright rejects scientific principles.”

I would put it to you that it may not the “scientific principles” that are being rejected, but the principles of the scientists.

When my son regressed into autism following his 18 month shots and I spent a year trying to reconcile all of the contradictory positions of my own pediatrician, the AAP, the CDC, HHS, the “science” you say exonerates vaccines from autism causation, the whole of the research out there and the facts of my own son’s case, what I found was a ridiculous mess.

What you keep referring to as “science” is making contradictory statements all over the place. It resembles nothing like the thing that “Science” is actually supposed to be, the methodical study of phenomena to figure out what is ACTUALLY, TRULY happening.
Yet the statements that scientists make claiming that all the vaccine/autism questions have been answered, that all the possibilities have been explored and that people should just kill what intellectual curiosity and concern for child safety that they have left and move on? How is that “Science”? How is that not laughable?

Case in point from Lori’s article: “science has come in and we can’t detect the correlation between a rise in autism diagnoses and use of childhood vaccines. And study after study has been done.”

Yet “science” has never done a simple study that took a large group of vaccinated children and a large group of children whose parents chose not to vaccinate them, and compared them for autism incidence! Yet you suggest that it is time to let the vaccine/autism question go? The FIRST study that “science” should have done, still has never been done! And it may take an act of congress to actually make “science” do something it apparently really does not want to do. And that is only the beginning of the studies that have not been done.

Not to mention the fact that “study after study” is picked apart by other researchers, and even by lay parents, but those critiques are ignored by people like you who don’t want to follow the actual scientific method. This same bizarre conversation is carried out over and over:

Mainstream science: “Here is a study… look no vaccine/autism connection”.

Autism community: “Hey… look here… you guys forgot to carry the 3. Wait… half of our kids’ medical histories are in the exclusion criteria!”.

Mainstream science (now with their back to the autism community and facing the microphones): “Awww…. poor desperate, scientifically illiterate parents looking for someone to blame. At some point they really have to let go.”

There are about a thousand questions on the vaccine/autism connection that neither scientists nor research has ever addressed, and the medical establishment won’t even allow to be asked in their “pulpits” because “science” is the new religion and their dogma cannot be questioned. Scientists are the priests, and those who diverge from the cannon are branded heretics. Vaccines are inherently “good” and cannot be “bad”. The research that points to vaccines causing autism is treated like the evidence that priests were molesting young boys… ignored, buried and those who dared call attention to it are bullied into silence. And yet you have a problem with the suppression of discussion of evolution in churches? Again…. from where I sit, the hypocrisy of your statements are stunning.

The scientific community overstates the benefits of vaccination and understates the risks. And of course they do, vaccination is their baby. Yet they don’t seem to have the insight to understand that there is a conflict of interest there. Last year the AAP sent a representative to a Defeat Autism Now! conference to evaluate the state of their science into autism/vaccine causation. They sent Louis Cooper of the Sabin Vaccine Institute, one of the inventors of the Rubella vaccine. Seriously? Lou Cooper is the objective guy that is going to return to the AAP and declare, “You know what guys… I think the vaccine I invented and that is my greatest accomplishment in life may be playing a role in an epidemic of lifelong and deadly neurological disorders that are striking around 1 in 100 kids! I think we may have caused an epidemic!”????

I don’t think that you have fully grasped what has happened in the vaccine/autism wars. A very large group of parents, physicians and researchers have made the accusation that mainstream medicine, the scientific community and public health authorities have created one of the largest iatrogenic epidemics of all time via an overzealous and under researched vaccine program. A very serious charge. Your community has responded to that charge by doing a minimal amount of shoddy research, in most cases paid for and carried out by the pharmaceutical companies that made the products in question and the agencies that made the policies that put these products into almost every tiny body in this country regardless of their risk factors, while simultaneously mocking those making the charge.

You have declared that YOU HAVE INVESTIGATED YOURSELVES AND FOUND THAT YOU ARE NOT GUILTY ON ALL CHARGES! And the policy makers among you have made sure that no appeal can be filed in an actual court where your accusers can bring evidence against you, compel you to testify under oath, or compel you to turn over internal documents, as you have passed legislation exempting yourselves from any liability or litigation. You claim innocence and just tell us that we have to take your word for it, as if “smart” also mean “honest”, “incorruptible”, “omniscient” and “looking out for the best interests of the public and all individuals”.

Why in the world do you think that your reputation should be on the rise?!

What is happening is denial on a scale far grander than what transpired during the initial Semmelweiss Reflex. You want the public to embrace science, even the science that they don’t want to face? You go first!

I started to write more on all of the corruption that is going on in the medical and scientific industries, but who has that much time.

Yes… to solve the problem that you want solved, reportedly that you want mainstream American to embrace “science”, “Scientists are going to have to have a culture change.”

But the change you suggest is the wrong one. You don’t need more scientists (or more nerds rapping about super colliders), you need the scientists you already have to have a come to Jesus moment. The scientific community needs to understand that their hubris, arrogance, devaluing of the individual, ethical problems, legal problems, widespread conflicts of interest and constant denials of any evidence that is inconvenient to the advancements of their “scientific” agenda is the problem, and has to come to an end.

The scientific community need a big dose of humility, and needs to consider the fact that their critics and those ignoring them, might have a few good points.

They need to listen to, and be able to cogently address their critics, instead of marginalizing and maligning them. And if they don’t have an answer, they have to offer informed consent to the public and admit that they don’t have an answer.

People see right through condescending BS. People have a tenancy to treat you with the same dismissal with which you have treated them. What you are seeing may not be a “deep-seated streak of anti-intellectualism” but a deep-seated distrust of self-proclaimed “intellectuals” who openly disdain the unwashed masses, then wonder why their scientific pronouncements have no sway with them.

Take minute and go read any autism/vaccine post on Orac’s blog, as he is the rock star of the “woo” bashing ‘skeptics’ in your universe. Now pretend that you are a parent who has learned that thimerosal at nanomolar amounts causes mitochondrial dysfunction so severe that it can cause the cell to self destruct, and that HHS has conceded that in the Poling case mito dysfunction + vaccination = autism symptoms. And pretend that one of your questions are that if vaccines are known to cause Guillian-Barre, an autoimmune disorder where the immune system attacks the central nervous system, then why can’t they cause autism, an autoimmune disorder where the immune system attacks the central nervous system? And pretend that you want to understand that if one vaccine contains enough adjuvant to stimulate the immune system sufficiently to put it on a search and destroy mission for viruses, then why do docs give five shots at once and claim it couldn’t possibly overstimulate the immune system in some into a search and destroy mission for its own tissues; and cause the autoimmune state and neuroinflammation found in autism. And then pretend that you are confused by the stance of “science” that a fetus contracting Rubella is a known cause of autism, but that that a one year old being given a live virus rubella vaccine couldn’t possibly cause autism; while remembering that VICP has ruled that Baily Banks would not have had ASD if not for his MMR.

And pretend you saw Julie Gerberding go on CNN and say that vaccines can cause autism and cannot cause autism.

And then pretend that you spend untold hours on pubmed and in chat rooms and on HHS/CDC/AAP web sites and you can’t find any cogent answers for the questions you have. And pretend that your own pediatrician just got annoyed with you for asking questions he couldn’t answer and then just stopped returning your calls.

And then go read Orac again (or any ‘skeptic’ blog or even your own article in the LAT) and ask yourself… ‘why would any thinking person want to listen to us when we can’t answer their questions and instead treat them with contempt to cover the fact that we can’t answer their questions’?

Your ‘skeptic’ community’s message to the public and parents like me? “You are an idiot and we have nothing but contempt for you. Now think what I tell you to think and do what I want you to do, even if it doesn’t make sense”.

Treat your audience like crap, and they will leave. Claim to be a scientist and spout completely unscientific and illogical statements (mean ones at that), and no one will care what you say.

Chris, when your own suggestion on how to fix the problem that you have defined is to lean more about the people who are resisting your message, not so that you might learn from them as to where you might have gone off the tracks, not even so that you might enter into a mutually respectful relationship with them where you are on the same level (what with you being “super smart”, “highly educated” and “doing great stuff” while they are way behind you on some imaginary starting point), but so that you might condescend to where they are in order to manipulate them into believing what you want them to believe… can you see that you can’t even see what the real problem is?

It is clear from this article that those you target, you do not consider your equals.

“Smart” is not the only virtue, and it may not even one of the most important virtues. Look back at the people who have done the most damage to humanity through out history. You will be hard pressed to find a dummy among them.

Ginger Taylor

HOW MUCH LONGER?

How much longer, President Obama, do we have before the hope for America’s Children fades completely?
How much longer, FDA, will you allow America’s children to be the guinea pigs?
How much longer, CDC, before you advocate for safe vaccines?
How much longer, Tom Insel & National Institutes of Health (NIH), before you adequately fund environmental research?

The National Autism Association has created this campaign, which I just love. You cannot get any more simple and direct than this – HOW MUCH LONGER?????

HOW MUCH LONGER, NIH?

HOW MUCH LONGER, FDA?

HOW MUCH LONGER, OBAMA?

HOW MUCH LONGER, CDC?

On 09-09-09, the National Autism Association is launching a mass faxing, mailing, calling campaign that will cover community-wide autism issues — click here for more information.

Added on 8/25/2009: How much longer DOE?

If you are FORCED to take a Swine Flu Vaccine

Dr Blaylock’s Solutions To Help Those Forced To Take An A/H1N1 Vaccine Stay Healthy
http://clareswinney.wordpress.com/2009/08/03/dr-russell-blaylock-talks-about-natural-solutions-to-help-if-you-are-forced-to-take-ah1n1-vaccine/

By Clare Swinney

This report provides practical information on how to protect yourself if you are unlucky enough to be forced to take an A/H1N1 vaccine.

Dr Blaylock
Dr Russell L. Blaylock, a highly-respected neurosurgeon, who has authored three books on nutrition and wellness, including Health And Nutrition Secrets That Can Save Your Life, recently spoke with Dr Bill Deagle, MD of The Nutrimedical Report about some proven natural, readily accessible solutions that may help deal with the toxic effects of A/H1N1 vaccines. The excellent hour-long interview is available at YouTube at the link HERE or can be downloaded from HERE from the GCN archives dated July 31, 2009 (hour 1). In addition, there is a transcript of the interview posted at Dr Deagle’s site at this link.

Dr Blaylock’s List of suggestions on How to Reduce the Toxic Effects of the A/H1N1 Vaccine, is as follows:

1. Number one on the list says Dr Blaylock, is to bring a cold pack with you and place it on the site of the injection as soon as you can, as this will block the immune reaction. Once you get home, continue using a cold pack throughout the day. If you continue to have immune reactions the following day, have cold showers and continue with the cold press.

2. Take fish oil. Eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA), one of the omega 3 fatty acids found in fish oil supplements, is a potent immune suppressant. If you take high dose EPA you will be more susceptible to infections, because it is a powerful immune suppressant. However, in the case of an immune adjuvant reaction, you want to reduce it. Studies show that if you take EPA oil one hour before injecting a very powerful adjuvant called lipopolysaccharide (LPS), it would completely block the ability of the LPS to cause brain inflammation. Take a moderate dose everyday and more if needed to tame a cytokine storm.

3. Flavonoids are third on the list, namely curcumin, quercetin, ferulic acid and ellagic acid, particularly in a mixture. The curcumin and quercetin in particular have been found to block the ability of the adjuvants to trigger a long-term immune reaction. If you take it an hour before the vaccination, it should help dampen the immune reactions says Dr Blaylock.

4. Vitamin E, the natural form that is high in gamma-E will help dampen the immune reactions and reduces several of the inflammatory cytokines.

5. An important ingredient on the list is Vitamin C at a dose of 1000 mg, taken four times a day between meals. It is a very potent anti-inflammatory and should be taken in a buffered form, not as absorbic acid, says Dr Blaylock.

6. Also use astaxanthin as it’s an anti-inflammatory. According to Dr Blaylock, fatal reactions to vaccines in aboriginal and African children occurred in those who were deficient in carotinoids, like astaxanthin. It is a good protection against the toxic effects of the vaccine.

7. Likewise, it was found that children who were deficient in zinc had a high mortality rate. Zinc is very protective against vaccine toxicity. (Do not use zinc mixed with copper however, as copper is a major trigger of free-radical generation according to Dr Blaylock).

8. Ensure you avoid all immune-stimulating supplements, such as mushroom extracts, whey protein and beta-glucan.

9. Take a multivitamin-mineral daily – one that does not contain iron. This multivitamin-mineral is to make sure your body has plenty of B vitamins and selenium. Selenium, said Dr Blaylock, is very important for fighting viral infections and it reduces the inflammatory response to vaccines.

10. Magnesium citrate/malate 500 mg of elemental magnesium two capsules, three times a day. (This was not mentioned during the show, but was posted at Dr Deagle’s website, ClayandIron.com).

11. What is very important is vitamin D3, which is the only ‘vitamin’ the body can manufacture from sunlight (UVB). It is a neural hormone, not really a vitamin says Dr Blaylock and helps if you are over-reacting immunologically by cooling down the reaction. Similarly, if you are under-reacting, it helps to boost your immune response. In addition it also protects against microorganism invasion.

Black people and those in colder climates are particularly deficient, so they will almost certainly require supplementation.

Dr Blaylock recommends that following vaccination it will help to keep the immune reaction under control if:

i) All children get 5,000 units a day for two weeks after the vaccine and then 2,000 a units a day thereafter;

ii) Adults get 20,000 units a day after the vaccine for two weeks, then 10,000 units a day thereafter;

iii) And with that adults should take 500-1000 mg of calcium a day and children under the age of 12 years should take 250 mg a day, as vitamin D works more efficiently in the presence of calcium.

12. Ensure you avoid all mercury-containing seafood or any other sources of mercury, as the heavy metal is a very powerful inducer of autoimmunity, is known to make people more susceptible to viral infections and will be in H1N1 vaccines.

13. Avoid the oils that significantly suppress immunity and increase inflammation – such as corn, safflower, sunflower, soybean, canola and peanut oils.

14. Drink very concentrated white tea at least four times a day. It helps to prevent abnormal immune reactions.

15. Pop parsley and celery in a blender and drink 8 ounces of this mixture twice a day. Dr Blaylock says the parsley is very high in a flavonoid called apigenin and that celery is high in luteolin. Both are very potent in inhibiting autoimmune diseases, particularly the apigenin, so go and plant some parsley in your garden now.

Info I have compiled about the Swine Flu/Vaccine

Hi everyone. I hope you are all doing well and enjoying the summer. Since FLU season is looming, I wanted to send you some information in case you have not been following the swine flu news – and also wanted to share information regarding both the H1N1 Swine FLU and the vaccine should you be wondering whether or not this is something you want to risk getting. I have done an enormous amount of research on this, especially with NJ mandating the flu shot for school aged children last year – and have shared many of the details for you below. I am happy to answer any questions you have – and welcome you to forward this to your friends, colleagues and family. Actually, I hope you forward it to everyone in your address book. What I hope comes from me sharing this information is awareness. We all need to make our own decisions regarding our body and what we put into it and I have found that in many cases, we are never supplied with complete information regarding medical procedures and medicines so we are able to make an informed decision. This is going to be a long, long email that’s taken me hours and hours to compile… that’s right, I wrote this all out – this isn’t a typical email forwarded around and around — but it’s all important information that I wanted you to have – and it’s really important that you read it and follow the action items at the end.

We are always told that our children need to be vaccinated in order to go to school or daycare. In many cases and in almost all states, this simply is not true. However, we are never told that there are exemptions available to us. To find out your state’s available exemptions, click here: http://www.nvic.org/Vaccine-Laws/state-vaccine-requirements.aspx
(If anyone needs help with a religious exemption for New Jersey, please feel free to contact me. In NJ, schools cannot question religious exemptions, so if you have been led to believe otherwise, this also is not true. Provide a copy of this letter to your school should they question you: http://www.state.nj.us/health/cd/documents/religious_exemption.pdf )

The H1N1 swine flu is believed by many to have come out of a laboratory. It is not killing people right and left as many people would like for you to believe. Those who have died, died because they had other health issues which resulted in their deaths and in many cases, this fact has gone unreported by mainstream news media. This FLU has been milder than the regular seasonal flu. Yet, the WHO (World Health Organization) has it registered as “pandemic status” – which would lead many to falsely believe it has the possibility of being as deadly as the plague. The WHO’s current definition of pandemic is: “An influenza pandemic can be defined as a global epidemic of influenza and it occurs when a new influenza virus (i.e. an influenza virus subtype that is not circulating widely in human beings) emerges and starts spreading in a similar way to normal influenza – through coughing and sneezing. Because the virus is new, the human immune system will have little or no pre-existing immunity. People who contract pandemic influenza are thus likely to experience more serious disease than that caused by normal influenza.” This is the definition which I looked up today, August 4th, 2009. Interestingly enough, the WHO recently changed their definition of pandemic so that this swine flu would fall under the definition of pandemic. (well, the current definition.) However, it would not have fit under the former definition.
“In order to make this disease fit the definition of a global pandemic, WHO changed the definition from ‘a life-threatening disease which spreads between humans, and to which they have little or no immunity” to ‘a minor disease which spreads between humans, and to which they have little or no immunity’. Since the consequences of a declared Level 6 pandemic are primarily economic and political, we see this as a decision mediated by those considerations, not public health ones.” http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/?p=2851

As of August 4th, 2009 there are 162,380 people who have been estimated to have had this flu and 1154 people who have died. By doing the math here, you can certainly see that this is not something we need to be overly worried about nor is it something that should have anyone running to be vaccinated for. In addition, as of August 4th, the world’s population is 6,775,487,059 according to http://www.census.gov/main/www/popclock.html – so how could 162,380 cases and 1154 deaths be cause for such grave concern — especially given the mildness of this flu.
(Pandemic H1N1 2009 – August 4th Update from WHO: http://www.who.int/csr/don/2009_08_04/en/index.html )

Since the WHO has declared this a pandemic, the FDA has been granted special powers to fast track vaccines through the usual approval process so that they can be mass manufactured and given without going through the usual process. This means that there will be very little testing done before this vaccine is administered on a massive scale. Five days of testing, which is not even remotely enough. What I have also been reading is that the vaccines that will be used for testing will not contain the adjuvants that the regular vaccines will have. This alone is a massive problem as it is the adjuvants that can cause major health problems for anyone being injected with them and I will explain the adjuvants and the issues with them below. So doing testing using vaccines without the adjuvants will conceal any issues that those adjuvants would cause.

The US federal agency responsible for conducting clinical trials has revealed that there will be no official tests of the “swine flu” vaccine of five manufactures who already produce US-licensed seasonal vaccine, including Baxter, Novartis and GSK. Baxter, Novartis and GSK will conduct their own trials on the vaccine under secret contract with the HHS Department. The National Institute for Allergies and Infectious Diseases, NIAID, has revealed that the five official government clinical trials to evaluate the safety of the “swine flu” vaccine will involve two candidate vaccines from Sanofi Pasteur and CSL from Australia – and not the candidate vaccines from the major suppliers Baxter, GSK or Novartis in spite of the growing controversy over the safety record of these vaccine manufacturers.
Read the whole article here:
http://www.swinefluupdate.us/baxter-novartis-gsk-%E2%80%9Cswine-flu%E2%80%9D-vaccines-will-not-be-part-of-official-clinical-trials-in-the-us-%E2%80%93-only-two-vaccines-without-adjuvants-from-csl-and-sanofi-pasteur-will-be-te.php

Swine flu vaccine to be cleared after five-day trial: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/health/article6690010.ece
Swine flu Vaccine Fast-tracked to September? http://www.webmd.com/cold-and-flu/news/20090717/swine-flu-vaccine-fast-track

Our government has released the pharmaceutical companies who are making Swine Flu Vaccines from any liability – so for them it’s all profit and no liability. So if you suffer an adverse reaction, you will have no recourse. No right for medical care. No death benefits. Nothing.
Legal Immunity set for swine flu vaccine makers: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090718/ap_on_he_me/us_med_swine_flu
Glaxo may reap $2.53 billion in swine-flu linked revenue in the next six months: http://www.rep-am.com/News/429183.txt
Who is making a profit from swine flu? http://www.prisonplanet.com/who-is-making-a-profit-from-swine-flu.html

In case you were not aware, the Vaccine Compensation Fund had paid out over $2 Billion Dollars to date and is nearly bankrupt. Over ½ of the cases are thrown out due to poor documentation by doctors and nurses, so just imagine if those cases were not thrown out. 75 cents from the sale of each vaccine is put into this fund. http://www.hrsa.gov/Vaccinecompensation/table.htm

It has been reported that the H1N1 Swine Flu Vaccine will be a series of 3 vaccines (in addition to 2 recommended FLU shots). Patrick Jordan (meta-analyst and vaccine researcher) reported belief that the first injection will be for the purpose of turning off the victim’s immune system. The second injection will be for the purpose of loading people with deadly organisms. And the third injection will be to turn the immune system back on for the purpose of creating a cytokine storm that will most likely deal a lethal blow to the body.
It is Official: WHO Recommends Mandatory Injections to Almost Two Hundred Countries: http://www.naturalnews.com/026723_health_vaccines_immune_system.html

They are recommending this vaccine to pregnant women. An untested vaccine for pregnant women with no regards to the effects this vaccine or any of its ingredients would have on the fetus – and in case you did not know – the regular FLU vaccine has NEVER been tested on pregnant women. As a matter of fact, this is what the insert for the flu vaccine says in relation to pregnancy “Safety and effectiveness of Fluzone have not been established in pregnant women or nursing mothers or children <6 months of age.” Link: http://www.fda.gov/downloads/BiologicsBloodVaccines/Vaccines/ApprovedProducts/UCM123704.pdf
Please feel free to check the vaccine package inserts for all FLU vaccines: http://www.fda.gov/BiologicsBloodVaccines/Vaccines/ApprovedProducts/ucm093830.htm
If you know someone who is pregnant or trying to get pregnant, please warn them – there are precautions that they can take so that they either don’t get the virus or get over it quickly in the event that they do.

For one FLU season alone, the average person would be getting 5 flu shots this coming year. Hugh Fudenberg, MD, an immunogeneticist and biologist with nearly 850 papers published in peer review journals, has reported that if an individual had five consecutive flu shots between 1970 and 1980 (the years studied), his/her chances of getting Alzheimer’s Disease is ten times higher than if they had zero, one, or two shots. Dr. Boyd Haley, Professor and Chair of the Department of Chemistry at the University of Kentucky, Lexington has done extensive research in the area of mercury toxicity and the brain. Haley’s research has established a likely connection between mercury toxicity and Alzheimer’s disease. In a paper published in collaboration with researchers at University of Calgary, Haley stated that “seven of the characteristic markers that we look for to distinguish Alzheimer’s disease can be produced in normal brain tissues, or cultures of neurons, by the addition of extremely low levels of mercury.” Does this prove that the mercury contained in the influenza shot can be directly linked to Alzheimer’s? No, absolutely not. But further research in this area is critically needed because the absence of proof is not the “proof of absence.” http://drtenpenny.com/should_flu.aspx

Each Fluzone multi-dose vial contains 25mcg mercury in each 0.5mL dose. (http://www.fda.gov/downloads/BiologicsBloodVaccines/Vaccines/ApprovedProducts/UCM123704.pdf)
The EPA says that the daily allowable limit of mercury is 0.1mcg per kilogram (or 2.2 pounds) of body weight. For 25mcg to be an appropriate dose, the person would have to weigh 550 pounds. Now, imagine getting 5 of these during one flu season.

For a vaccine to be effective, it needs an adjuvant so that the immune system has a reaction intense enough to the injected antigen so that it creates enough antibodies to that antigen. Adjuvants are used to elicit an early, high and long-lasting immune response. They are also used so that less antigen can be used to still achieve the desired immune response and reduce vaccine production costs. However, adjuvants are foreign to the body and can cause adverse reactions.

If you have enough antibodies, the theory is that you should have immunity to that virus/bacteria. However, the immunity from vaccines is not long lasting – and does not last as long as real immunity. This is why children are given booster shots. (By the way – DO NOT EVER allow your child’s pediatrician to give your child a booster shot without running simple blood work FIRST to check for antibodies. In many cases, you will see that one shot was sufficient and they did not need to be revaccinated. Your child’s pediatrician can run boosters by writing Measles IgG, Mumps, IgG, etc on a script for you to take to a lab. Please also have him/her write ‘quantitative’ on the rx so that YOU can see the actual numbers for yourself and not be given a blind yes/no answer. Make sure you actually see the results for yourself – this is very important. Pediatricians try to use any excuse not to run these. Insurance covers them – and also let’s not forget if they write an Rx for blood work they are not able to bill your insurance company for the vaccine that they just needlessly injected into your child.)

An adjuvant which is going to be used in the H1N1 Swine Flu Vaccine is MF59, a potentially debilitating adjuvant. MF-59 is oil-based and composed of squalene, Tween 80 and Span85. All oil adjuvants injected into rats were found to be toxic. All rats injected developed a disease similar to multiple sclerosis which left them crippled and dragging their paralyzed hindquarters across their cages. (Kenney, RT. Edleman, R. “Survey of human-use adjuvants,” Expert Review of Vaccines, 2003 p171). Squalene causes severe arthritis (3 on a scale of 4). Squalene in humans at 10-20 parts per billion leads to severe immune responses, such as autoimmune arthritis and lupus. (Matsumoto, Gary. Vaccine A: The Covert Government Experiment That’s Killing Our Soldiers and Why GI’s Are Only the First Victims of this Vaccine, New York: Basic Books. P54) Squalene has been tied to Gulf War Syndrome and a whole host of other health problems. It was same one used in the Anthrax vaccine that has been convincingly associated with Gulf War Syndrome, even in those who received the vaccine and were never deployed. This is a big issue for anyone who already has an autoimmune disease (such as diabetes, arthritis, fibromyalgia, lupus, etc) and are therefore more vulnerable to the effects of squalene. These are the very people who are being targeted by the government push as those who need the vaccine the most. Additionally, the media has always focused on mercury (thimerosal) being the only questionable ingredient in vaccines, but this is FAR from the truth. Don’t close your eyes to the rest of the ingredients.

Squalene: The Swine Flu Vaccine’s Dirty Little Secret Exposed: http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2009/08/04/Squalene-The-Swine-Flu-Vaccines-Dirty-Little-Secret-Exposed.aspx
Mercury isn’t the Only Toxic item in vaccines: http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2006/04/11/there-are-more-toxins-in-vaccines-than-mercury.aspx
HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius is talking to school superintendents around the country, urging them to spend the summer planning what to do if the government decides it needs their buildings for mass vaccinations and the vaccinations of children first. (CBS News, June 12) http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hbs-FO8lE3ZraaOV7CtTQuSuaVigD98RUDC00

Two questions I have not been able to find an answer to is “Will we be notified of in-school vaccination before it happens so we can plan accordingly or will our children just be lined up to be vaccinated whether or not we want them to be? Will religious, philosophical or medical exemptions apply or will they be ignored because of this being considered a pandemic?

CNN is reporting that the U.S. military is gearing up to get involved in the H1N1 swine flu outbreak widely expected to strike the U.S. this fall. As CNN reports, “The U.S. military wants to establish regional teams of military personnel to assist civilian authorities in the event of a significant outbreak of the H1N1 virus this fall, according to Defense Department officials.” When it comes to the U.S. military, the word “assist,” of course, could mean almost anything. Typically, the U.S. military offers assistance at the end of a rifle. This “assistance” could mean assisting with quarantines, assisting with rounding up infected people or assisting with arresting and imprisoning people who resist vaccine shots.
Military to Deploy on U.S. Soil to “Assist” with Pandemic Outbreak: http://www.naturalnews.com/026732_military_pandemic_outbreak.html

This is not the first time that a Swine Flu vaccine was created. In 1976, people suffered adverse reactions and died from the vaccine.
Learning From the 1976 Swine Flu Outbreak: http://www.usnews.com/articles/news/2009/05/06/learning-from-the-1976-swine-flu-outbreak.html60 Minutes segment from 1976: http://www.dailymotion.com/relevance/search/cbs+60+minutes,+swine+flu+vaccine/video/x9mh9f_swine-flu-1976-propaganda_webcam
The last great swine flu epidemic: http://www.salon.com/env/feature/2009/04/28/1976_swine_flu/

Baxter Intl shipped FLU vaccines contaminated with the Avian FLU virus to several countries prior to the Swine Flu outbreak. One country tested the flu shots in ferrets, who should not have reacted to the human flu. When all of the ferrets died, it was discovered that there was Swine Flu virus mixed in with those vaccines. With the security these companies need to follow, there is no way this happened accidentally. http://www.naturalnews.com/025760.html
Swine Flu vaccine a boon for Baxter: http://www.chicagotribune.com/business/chi-biz-baxter-earns-bax-july16,0,4264807.story

Also, Baxter filed a patent for many swine flu strains a year before this all happened.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=14430

Our government has given each state money to be used to send people door to door to vaccinate everyone: Health Care Bill Will Fund State Vaccine Teams to Conduct ‘Interventions’ in Private Homes: http://www.cnsnews.com/public/content/article.aspx?RsrcID=51115
If this information concerns you, as it should, we need the ability to self-quarantine as with this new vaccine, there is no doubt we will see a surge of people getting ill and dying. The likeliness of hearing whether or not those who have gotten sick or died were vaccinated is slim.

Nowhere in any of the hype and fear mongering has been any mention of taking Vitamin D. Most Americans are Vitamin D deficient. If you have an upcoming doctor’s appointment, request that your doctor run this test: 25-hydroxyvitamin D
And then supplement Vitamin D3 accordingly. This is especially important if you are pregnant, when your immune system is under higher stress. The recommended daily allowance set by the government is merely enough to prevent rickets, but not for your body to work properly. Researchers are finding that the correct dosage is likely 1000 iu per 25 lbs. At least 5000 iu per day for adults (around 2000 for kids) . This is especially for those who do not get out into the sun, and for those in northern climates. With the flu (any flu), Vitamin D protects your lungs and makes your immune system work smart. If you do get H1N1 flu (or WHEN you get it, because if you are not getting the shot, we will be exposed to the H1N1 flu eventually) a medicinal dose of Vitamin D is recommended at 2000 iu per kilo of body weight for day per day for the course of the illness. But if you are have good vitamin D levels to begin with, illness can be mild or not at all.
Epidemic Influenza and Vitamin D: http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/51913.php

Also, the homeopathic flu remedy Oscillococcinum from Boiron… has shown promise in alleviating the swine flu if you do catch it. Olive Leaf Extract (found at any vitamin or health food store) is an excellent anti-viral. (One we are never without in this house.)
Homeopathy Successfully Treated Flu Epidemic of 1918: http://www.naturalnews.com/026148.html

Tamiflu, the medication which is being recommended for swine flu, has many, many problems on it’s own. Should you be rx’d it, please research this before you make a decision to take this medication. If we’ve ever had this discussion, you already know that I am not fond of cipro and Tylenol. Well, you can add tamiflu to that list. And by the way parents, NEVER and I mean NEVER give your child Tylenol before or after receiving any vaccination. Should your child spike a fever, use motrin – and not Tylenol. Tylenol reduces glutathione which helps the body detoxify the toxins found in the vaccine for approximately 3 weeks. With the recent news about Tylenol, you really should throw it away.

Also, if you are planning on traveling out of the country, you should be aware of each country’s stance on this vaccine. Greece has mandated this vaccine to be administered to everyone. Ireland has said no vaccine.
Greece to Enforce mandatory Swine Flu Vaccination: http://www.prisonplanet.com/greece-to-enforce-mandatory-swine-flu-vaccinations.htmlIreland: “The chief medical officer Dr Tony Holohan said they would not be recommending the vaccine to any group unless the balance of risk is in favour of them being vaccinated.” http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2009/0801/1224251858317.html

For more information on the Swine Flu, here is some recommended reading:

Dr. Sherri Tenpenny’s Swine Flu Hype Center: http://drtenpenny.com/swine_flu_hype.aspx

Ten Things You’re Not Supposed to Know about the Swine Flu Vaccine: http://www.naturalnews.com/026717_swine_flu_flu_vaccine_swine_flu_vaccine.html

Are the new FLU shots TOXIC enough? http://wholefoodusa.wordpress.com/2009/07/03/are-the-new-flu-shots-toxic-enough/

Homeless people die after bird flu vaccine trial in Poland: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/poland/2235676/Homeless-people-die-after-bird-flu-vaccine-trial-in-Poland.html

Safety Questions over swine flu jab: http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-families/health-news/safety-questions-over-swine-flu-jab-1751547.html

US to hold emergency meeting on Swine Flu Vaccine: http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5i-9dOta4eNmaJb3FmA8tgYlUmcWA

WHO to stop tracking Swine FLU cases: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/17/world/17flu.html?_r=3

CDC: School kids may have to get up to 4 flu shots in the fall: http://www.palmbeachpost.com/business/content/business/epaper/2009/07/15/0715swineflu.html

Should H1N1 be feared, or those that claim to have the answers? http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/view/110467

Solutions for forced vaccinations and flu pandemics: http://www.naturalnews.com/026538_vaccination_vaccinations_homeopathy.html

Swine FLU vaccine: Will we have a choice? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlDjDAFW1Ck

Children and Pregnant Women targeted in US Swine FLU Mass Vaccination Program: http://www.naturalnews.com/026590_swine_flu_vaccines_viruses.html

The FIVE best anti-viral products to beat influenza, Swine FLU, Bird FLU and SARS: http://www.naturalnews.com/report_Anti-Viral_Remedies_Influenza_0.html

Swine Flu shot may rely on emergency use of additives (a more accurate word would be EXPERIMENTAL); http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=alZncUEvwtIM

Nurses oppose mandatory vaccination: http://www.bizjournals.com/albany/stories/2009/07/20/daily49.html

Is this a ‘Swine Flu’ pandemic or a ‘vaccination’ pandemic?: http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/view/111480

US Reported in “Panic” After Chemtrail Planes Forced down in India, Nigeria http://www.fourwinds10.com/siterun_data/environment/humans/chemtrails/news.php?q=1246309936

SwineFluUpdate.us: http://www.swinefluupdate.us/

Natural Solutions Foundation: http://www.healthfreedomusa.org/

ACTION ITEMS

Tell Legislators you want the right to self-quarantine in the event of a pandemic, not forced vaccination: http://salsa.democracyinaction.org/o/568/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=27275

And while you’re at it — Click here to tell US House of Representatives to protect your health freedom: http://www.democracyinaction.org/dia/organizationsORG/healthfreedomusa/campaign.jsp?campaign_KEY=11344

IF YOU ARE FORCED INTO BEING VACCINATED – here is what you need to know. (Note: please do not take the risk of getting vaccinated thinking it’ll be okay with this information – this is information that is helpful should you be FORCED to.)

Dr Blaylock’s Solutions To Help Those Forced To Take An A/H1N1 Vaccine Stay Healthy
http://clareswinney.wordpress.com/2009/08/03/dr-russell-blaylock-talks-about-natural-solutions-to-help-if-you-are-forced-to-take-ah1n1-vaccine/

Round 47: Complete

Just keeping count
(This was a short round due to fever – possibly from the High Dose Vitamin A protocol we completed on Thursday)

High Dose Vitamin A Protocol – 2nd Round

This week, we did the 2nd Round of the High Dose Vitamin A Protocol. On both Wednesday and Thursday, Nicholas took 400,000 IU of Klaire’s Micellized Vitamin A on each day. We did this approximately 6 month ago and have been giving him 25,000 – 30,000IU of it a day in between.

Friday morning, Nicholas seemed to wake up with a fever, but I thought it was because he was sleeping under a big, heavy, warm blanket – upon him getting out from underneath the blanket, he cooled down quickly. Later that evening, his fever came back and a croupy sounding cough started. He woke up in the middle of the night (when I had to give him something for his cough) – and the eye contact was like nothing we have ever seen before with him. His eye contact has gotten so much better, but this was just unbelievable. He was so “on” – and despite the fever and cough, you would have never known he wasn’t feeling well. Even with his congestion and labored breathing – he was still not showing any signs of being sick at all – no crankiness, etc.

Friday night, I kept him in bed with me, just to make sure he didn’t cough himself into throwing up in his sleep — and at one point, he turned to me and said, “Mommy, you’re my best friend. I love you” – I have never heard him use the term best friend and we’re not even sure where he may have gotten it from. He kept handing me the blanket and even gave me his special blanket so I would be warm – it was so sweet.

But, whatever it was is gone now, fever is gone – and he’s doing really well. So glad I did a 2nd round of this. My plan is to keep going with the daily maintenance dose of 25,000IU and repeat in another 6 months. It’s definately doing something!

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