How to Boost Your Immunity

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Avoid the Swine Flu Vaccine — And Boost Your

Own

Immunity

 

By Len Saputo, MD and Stacia Lansman, MD

with Byron Belitsos

Our nearly seventy combined years of practicing medicine has taught us this, if

anything: Be wary whenever “big pharma” is part of any health campaign from

which it stands to profit. And this is all the more true when it comes to emergency

immunizations like the coming swine flu vaccine. Like most everything else in

modern medicine that concerns pharmaceuticals, the swine flu scare is surrounded

by worrying signs of questionable science, corporate-dominated politics, and

obvious conflicts of interest—in this case on a global scale.

The first and cardinal point to understand is that, at the moment, the current

strain of swine flu is not more dangerous than the average flu; in fact, if corrected

for seasonal variation, far more people die from

 

regular

influenza virus every day.

About 100 people on average die daily from the ordinary flu in the U.S. according

to Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) statistics. Yet this number is

more than ten times the rate of death from H1N1

 

 

worldwide

since its outbreak in

April. (1)

Further, there is no firm evidence that a more virulent strain of H1N1 is likely

to evolve. And even if such a new strain

 

 

does

emerge, the current vaccine soon to

be distributed worldwide will most likely be useless against it. That scenario

would require the creation of a new vaccine to fight this new strain. Manufacturing

and distributing such an updated vaccine, even under emergency conditions, would

take at the very best four months. This doesn’t even take into consideration the

safety issues with a vaccine that is hurried into use without sufficient testing.

Thus, for these and other reasons we detail below, we counsel readers—as we

do our patients—to avoid participating in the vaccination program soon to be

under way, even when it is directed at your children. Further, in light of the

outbreak that is expected this fall, bear in mind that the best Rx for preventing or

dealing with any sort of infection is to follow well-known guidelines to boost

one’s own immunity, as indicated later in this article. As you begin to confront the

decision to get immunized against the H1N1 virus, get yourself and your family to

peak health, do your own research, and ask probing questions of public health

officials and the media before getting inoculated with these largely untested

vaccines.

 

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DOUBTS ABOUT THE SAFETY OF SWINE FLU IMMUNIZATION

Among the questions we all need to ask is: Is it possible that the new H1N1

vaccine now in production may be more dangerous than the swine flu itself? One

thing is for sure: By the time it is administered in October, we will not have had

sufficient time for adequate clinical trials. We can also be sure that the vaccine will

contain potentially dangerous “adjuvants” (such as squalene) that manipulate the

immune system to boost its potency.

In statements made to health professionals in late August, the CDC openly

admitted a significant safety problem: It told them to assume that one in every

100,000 vaccine recipients will suffer serious side effects, resulting in as many as

30,000 serious or potentially lethal adverse reactions to the H1N1 vaccine.(2)

Warnings like this bring to mind a chilling precedent: During the great swine

flu scare of 1976, 46 million Americans took the vaccine offered at the time, and

over 4,000 ended up seeking damages which amounted to $3.5 billion. The

situation that led to this shocking scenario in 1976 is eerily similar to the current

scare. In those days, the CDC pushed for nationwide inoculation while yet

admitting there were no confirmed cases of the flu. The program was suspended

after it became clear that the vaccine was far more dangerous than the threat of the

flu itself; only one person died from the flu, while 25 people perished because of

the vaccine, and hundreds suffered from a debilitating type of paralysis known as

the Guillain-Barre Syndrome. (3)

The current mass campaign is even more ambitious than the ill-fated 1976

effort. In the coming weeks, health officials will almost certainly deploy the

setting of local schools as the locus of swine flu vaccination for Americans,

beginning with children. The last time such a drastic nationwide immunization

program occurred was in the mid-1950s, when the Salk vaccine was introduced.

This is a truly historic moment in public health.

The problem is that we can’t completely trust public health officials.

Dr. Len Saputo’s new book,

 

A Return to Healing: Radical Health Care Reform

and the Future of Medicine,

 

 

documents how pharmaceutical companies routinely

profit off of unsafe and ineffective products—usually with complicity from

government officials, who are easily manipulated. And now Congress is doing it

again. It gave $1 billion to swine flu vaccine makers in May, while granting them

an exemption from the normal FDA licensing process. Pharma has learned lessons

 

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from numerous class action suits, so it also made sure that the swine flu legislation

grants it immunity against liability for side effects from the new vaccine. The

result is that these vaccine makers stand to make between $10 and 20 billion in the

global market for swine flu vaccines, with no responsibility for tens of thousands

of likely casualties! Increased sales of Tamiflu will also no doubt result from the

scare tactics used by World Health Organization (WHO) and the CDC.

DISTURBING QUESTIONS REMAIN

The WHO has labeled the H1N1 virus “unstoppable” and calls the threat a Level 6

pandemic, its highest possible classification; it is in fact the first influenza

pandemic since 1968. But the term

 

pandemic only refers to prevalence

, that is, the

spread of the virus to multiple countries and regions. Unfortunately, the

phenomenon of the rapid spread of H1N1 has led many to overlook a key

distinction: the difference between the threat posed by the appearance of a disease

in multiple locations, and its severity. It would be terrifying if this pandemic was

causing widespread morbidity and mortality; however, it appears that WHO and

the CDC are tracking an illness that is no more severe than an ordinary cold!

Clinical experience also raises questions: Dr. Stacia Lansman, MD, a pediatric

integrative specialist, describes this swine flu as one of the mildest she has seen in

years. She states, “the children I have seen with swine flu this summer are just not

that sick. To consider a mass vaccination program aimed at children is dangerous

and misguided. The safety of this vaccine is not proven and children, with their

developing brains and organ systems, are among the most vulnerable when it

comes to vaccinations. I wouldn’t give it my children or recommend it to my

patients.”

Many have charged that this mandatory vaccine is a thinly veiled attempt to

exaggerate and capitalize on a relatively innocuous pandemic in order to enrich the

coffers of US pharmaceutical and security corporations. While not necessarily

supporting such allegations, we once again invite Americans to stand back and

question the prevailing government line.

Nor would we entirely dismiss internet rumors that point to the possibility that

the swine flu is a genetically engineered virus. This virus continues to be an

unprecedented enigma for virologists. In the April 30, 2009 issue of

 

 

Nature

, a

virologist was quoted as saying, ‘Where the hell it got all these genes from we

don’t know.’” Extensive analysis of the virus has revealed that it contains the

original 1918 H1N1 flu virus; the avian flu virus (bird flu); and two new H3N2

virus genes from Eurasia—a rather unlikely blend of elements.

Last but not least is the issue of the safety of Thimerosal, a mercurycontaining

compound used to keep multiple-dose vials of swine flu vaccines

 

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SWINE FLU PREVENTIVE MEASURES

FOR CHILDREN AND ADULTS

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Dr. Lansman has had excellent results in preventing and managing flu

symptoms with a range of vitamins, supplements, herbs, and homeopathic

preparations. Her basic recommendations include 400 IUs of vitamin D each

day for infants and toddlers, and 800 IU daily for older children. She also

recommends Elderberry once daily and one dose of homeopathic

Oscillococinnum each month. Dr. Saputo’s recommendations for adults

include the following:

 

Adopt a healthy lifestyle: adequate sleep, good diet, regular exercise,

avoid stress

 

 

Get plenty of sunshine, or supplement to keep vitamin D levels

adequate

 

 

Wash your hands frequently with water

 

Consider boosting immunity with vitamin C, beta glucans, echinacea,

vitamin A, maitake and shitake mushroom extracts, minerals such as

selenium and zinc, certain herbs such as olive leaf extract and garlic,

and homeopathic remedies.

 

FOOTNOTES

(1) See current statistics and official background information on H1N1 at the Centers

for Disease Control and Prevention website at this link:

http://www.cdc.gov/H1n1flu/update.htm

(2) Herb Newborg, “CDC States H1N1 Vaccine May Maim and Kill 30,000 Americans,

FDA Requires Minimal Efficacy,”

 

Global Research

 

, August 28, 2009.

 

http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=14950

(3) For the whole story, watch this video of a 1979 episode of

 

60 Minutes

 

:

 

http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2009/07/16/Major-Expose-on-Swine-

Flu-by-60-Minutes.aspx

(4) Declan Butler, “Swine flu goes global: New influenza virus tests pandemic

emergency preparedness,”

 

Nature

 

458, 1082-1083 (April 29, 2009).

 

http://www.nature.com/news/2009/090429/full/4581082a.html

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ABOUT THE AUTHORS

Len Saputo, MD, a graduate of Duke University Medical School, is founder and director

of the Health Medicine Center, Walnut Creek, CA (

 

www.HealthMedicineForum.org

 

),

 

 

 

A Return to Healing: Radical Health Care Reform and the Future of

 

 

(Origin Press, 2009). See www.AReturnToHealing.com

 

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www.pediatricalternatives.com

 

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