To begin, I will let the numbers do the convincing, and by the end, I can only hope that it is you who sets out to convince others. Autism has increased from one in every 2,500-10,000 to one in every 150-166; ADHD is up 400%; Asthma is up 300%; and Allergies are up an equally impressive 400%. Doctor Bock, the author of this book, claims that these numbers are presenting in epidemic proportions and I have been forewarned by some readers that these numbers have only gotten worse. An argument is sure to arise in any individual, whether afflicted or not, but whose argument is a bit weighty on false claims and whose is undeniably intriguing.
All four of these disorders, especially ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies, have become extremely common in society. Autism has also become exceedingly common, but I do not believe it has become as “normal” as the other three. I was diagnosed when I was younger with asthma and I also entertain a few allergies. It would be quite difficult for me to identify a single person I know who does not fill the criteria for any of these disorders. Almost everyone has been touched by these devastating disorders, yielding yet another societal norm, shielded by a ‘they have it, you have it, we all have it’ mentality.
Dr. Bock points the finger at four very interconnected reasons for how this came to be so normal today. They are:
Toxicity
Nutrition
Vaccinations
Methylation/Sulfation.
TOXICITY
Whether we choose to permit them or not, toxins can gain entry into our bodies and they can even fester from within almost at a bombarding rate. Metabolism’s role is to breakdown ingested substances and use them to replenish the energy and materials that are constantly being utilized to rebuild our bodies. In with the new and out with the old (wastes) is a well-known and highly cherished motto sported by our bodies.
Hormones, ammonia (protein breakdown), acetaldehyde (alcohol breakdown), and various other substances have the potential to build up and overwhelm our body’s metabolism and defense mechanisms though. This allows for another infantry of toxins such as microorganisms, contaminants, drugs, alcohol, and even food additives to wreak further havoc within our bodies.
Microorganisms can enter your body unbeknownst to you or they can rise up when your body is failing to defend itself properly. We cannot always defend their entrance into our bodies—metal, pesticides, insecticides, and pollutants have become commonalities and almost unavoidable nowadays—but we can fight to promote an environment in which we are the only survivors.
Many of these microorganisms and contaminants are in plain sight, it is therefore not an awareness issue but rather an effortless laze. Many of us are guilty of exposing our bodies to these otherworldly toxins that have been specifically manufactured by our very own hands (usually machines in reality), including drugs, alcohol, and food additives. These substances also get the finger point from Dr. Bock because of their seemingly limitless abilities to overwhelm our health and natural defense mechanisms.
DETOXIFICATION
According to Dr. Bock, we can promote the phases detoxification and rid this madness from our bodies.
First, we must keep these items in the gut and promote a fast transit. If these items leak from our GI tract or even get absorbed into circulation, the rest of our body will have to enter the equation. Toxins are like ticking time bombs and the longer they exist within you, the greater the odds are that you will be the blast-zone.
Next, the liver takes these substances and usually makes them water soluble so that they can be more easily excreted. Getting them moving is part one, but if the process is slow, your odds are still high.
Thirdly, there are specific nutrients that can attach to these toxins and promote complete elimination. Fiber and fluids, as well as sulfated phytochemicals, are the recommendations of Dr. Bock. We know where to find fiber (not in a canister) and fluids (not soda), but what are phytochemicals? Some examples include garlic and cruciferous vegetables such as broccoli.
Lastly, Dr. Bock recommends promoting an alkalinic environment by increasing the amount of green vegetables we consume while decreasing meat and sugar.
NUTRITION
Whether it is how those with autism have vision issues (avoiding eye contact) due to low levels of vitamin A or the troubling numbers that have sensitivities to food, especially wheat, dairy, and yeast, nutrition has shown to be an extremely vital part to the curative process. Yes, those affected have shown dramatic results when their nutrients have been restored (including normal eye contact) and their sensitivities removed.
These diseases and disorders offer an interesting dilemma, one that is only curtailed by medications. By the majority, medications are used to treat the symptoms but lack the ability to heal the problem at its root, as is the case with asthma when bronchial dilators and steroids are used to prevent and treat inflammation rather than the trigger of that inflammation. Although these drugs can be life-saving in a time of crisis, the false comfort provided is just that, comfort without treatment. There was one child mentioned within the text who had asthma and an extreme allergy to peanuts. Eating food one day from a trusted source, she was exposed to peanuts and later died—medications failed to save her.
Her case represents the severity located at one end of the spectrum, I urge you to not be comforted by this. My trigger for asthma while growing up was cat dander and whenever I had a respiratory infection. Cat dander and random illnesses can be avoided, and by doing this, I have not had a wheezing attack for many years now. Hers was literally one of life or death in the acute sense while the majority retain a life or death scenerio in its chronically compacting form.
TRIGGERS/FOODS TO AVOID
In the asthma section he mentions the importance of avoiding additional food allergens including: saturated fats (processed foods) and salt (pro-inflammatory). To counteract the allergens and promote a healthy immune system, he advocates for probiotics (restore our systems natural bacteria) and an intake of essential fatty acids (potent anti-inflammatory agents). Dr. Bock also promotes a gluten-free (wheat protein) and casein-free (milk-protein) as the beginning point diet for most of his patients (ADHD, Asthma, Autism, & Allergies).
According to Dr. Bock, the four worst foods for autistic kids are:
Dairy
Chocolate
Yeast – exacerbates/causes intestinal candidiasis
Combo of gluten and casein.
GENESIS OF ALLERGIES
Next, he goes into how allergies are created: nutritional factors, immune factors, and inflammation:
Intestinal hyperpermeability gets some of the blame and it is caused by yeast, alcohol, medications, lingering viruses, bowel dysbiosis, coffee, and food additives, all of which can be easily avoided. When undigested substances leak from our intestinal tract and gain unauthorized access into our circulation, thus being labelled foreign invaders (antigens), allergies are the result. Our body goes into defense and seeks to destroy these antigens while simultaneously creating a databank of these invaders in case they ever decide to return—your body is essentially more prepared next time and will mount a bigger attack, involving much more inflammation and resulting in a more noticeable allergy.
Vaccinations – Measles Example: those who actually got measles had 50% less atopic diseases, including food and inhalant, than those who got vaccinated.
As for inflammation, Dr. Bock focuses on resolving gut inflammation initially because it tends to cause much of the distally located inflammation. An overwhelmed and failing immune system is what generates this distant inflammation. With a failure to thrive, our weakened immunity succumbs to the whims of allergens and additional toxins, granting them access to the rest of the body. This is a gradual process, one that can be be easily inhibited with a decision to do so.
DIETS
GLUTEN-FREE & CASEIN-FREE
Dr. Bock has several diets that he has found to be quite successful among his patients, especially the gluten-free and casein-free diet. Here is a list of things that often improve while on this diet:
Poor language skills
Bowel disorders
Mood disorders
Fatigue
Metabolic disorders
Hyperactive behavior
Skin problems
Insomnia
Cognitive disorders.
That short list is quite remarkable and has been shown to be effective in changing and even saving the lives of many.
So why does a diet free of gluten and free of casein show so much promise? Dr. Bock provides several interesting points. First, we have to understand how our body interacts with these two proteins. Gluten breakdown (casein is very similar) starts with the failure of an enzyme and continues with the creation of partial proteins similar to opiates much like our endorphins. These pseudo-endorphins promote feelings of spaciness or intoxication, feelings that can become pleasurable and worthy of an addiction to obtain them—this vicious cycle damages the methylation process which removes toxins and maintains neurotransmitter levels.
Apparently we did not eat wheat until about ten thousand years ago (advent of agriculture) and this was preceded by millions of years of fruits, vegetables, and meat. Nowadays, celiac disease is present in 1 in every 250—“Celiac disease, however, may be even more common than this, and may exist in a milder form among a much larger segment of the population.” The symptoms of celiac disease are very similar to those of ADHD and Autism, and this role of gluten may be causing misdiagnoses and prompting inappropriate treatment protocols.
Dr. Bock on how we became so entangled with milk: “Aggressive marketing campaigns of dairy industry’s wholesome and harmless health food.” For his dietary section, he first recommends removing casein (3 weeks for body to eliminate) and gluten (three months for body to eliminate). If this diet does not help the children, he allows them to decide whether or not to continue with it. It is extremely vital for them to remain absolutely casein & gluten free though, because even small amounts can have lasting effects.
When I initially became vegan, I still had some cravings, but very few compared to my earlier years of food addiction. As time progressed, I completely disconnected myself from food and I no longer feel the urge to eat something because it is in front of me and nor do I feel that I have to eat a certain way. “Kids will miss their favorite sauces and complicated concoctions at first, but the human appreciation of good food is notably flexible.” Our taste preferences do indeed change and Dr. Bock notes how we now begin to associate wheat and dairy with insomnia, diarrhea, and agitation, after finding relief in naturally nutritious foods.
EXCITOTOXINS
Excitotoxins are substances that can over-stimulate the nerves within our bodies, especially within the brain. Two examples of excitotoxins are MSG and Aspartame. We have all consumed them at sometime in our lives and maybe even today.
This is why it is extremely important to understand the hieroglyphic-like words found on food labels, and sometimes they are hidden. Avoid eating these substances and avoid future problems that only come to public light when enough people have been affected.
OTHER DIETS
The author has also utilized three other diets amongst his patients. All of his diets are mixed and matched in order to find the best results for each individual patient.
The Hypoglycemic Diet
High protein and fiber
Low calorie low starch veggies
Avoiding sweets
Limiting grains
Limiting fruits (especially tropical)
Limiting caffeine
Avoiding fruit drinks
The Specific Carbohydrate Diet
Eliminate all processed, artificial, and additive food items
This diet also eliminated all grains including quinoa
The Oxalate Diet (not much research done on this diet)
Removing oxalate which is found in many foods, for example: chocolate drinks, nuts, fruits, bread, starches, veggies, and condiments.
VACCINATIONS
Vaccinations are used in order to induce immunity within our bodies—we can get our immunity a few different ways: our natural immunity, immunity from our mother (breast milk), immunity from direct exposure to the agent, or immunity from a prick in the arm. I have had all my ‘required’ shots and I have always thought that the parents who were against immunizations were indeed a bunch of quacks. The media portrays them this way and I believed it. I am not walking around with measles or polio, I am living and breathing while they seem to be complaining because they are…?
Today (11/01/11) I asked my mom about my immunizations when I was younger. As mentioned earlier, I was diagnosed with asthma when I was much younger, but I was also an introverted individual when I was in pre-school and I still consider myself introverted at times. I wanted to know what their feelings were when I was younger. Did they think I had any developmental problems or did my doctors ever bring it up? Nope, according to them I was just an introverted child growing up and I showed no signs of autism.
I next asked my mom if I had any strange reactions to the immunizations. My mom said she was very careful and almost always paranoid about them, opting to never take me to get them when I was sick. When I did get them though, I would always have pre-seizure fevers and start shaking afterwards for some time. I have a history of febrile-seizures that led to a hospitalization one time when I was much younger. I also have a history of having no bowel movements for a stretch of eleven days and a ton of ear infections.
According to my mom, she had a few ear infections when she was younger and my dad cannot recall any. While in nursing school, I learned that ear infections were to expected among infants and I almost got the feeling that they were welcomed. I understood the anatomical theory and how that leads to more infections, but should multiple ear infections ever be considered normal (I do not think so)? We are born as very needy little creatures, but are we beyond fragile? Are we born crippled?
Back to my health history, I had no bowel movements for eleven whole days! The doctors said I was fine and I did eventually pass one. As for my ear infections, I was being blasted with antibiotics, so much so that my parents had to step in and stop it because they were not working, but rather making things worse. A potential hypothesis: I was immunized and exposed to heavy metals, it affected my body (especially my gut), my gut became overwhelmed and resulted in an ileus (intestinal obstruction), I developed ear infections and febrile seizures, my gut became even more overwhelmed by an overuse of antibiotics as evidenced by my parents, and I was diagnosed with asthma in the near future.
WHY THEY ARE NOT QUACKS
These parents are not a bunch of quacks. Quacks is actually a term used to describe dentists who used quicksilver (called quacksilver) for fillings. Quacksilver consisted of a silver/mercury combination and it guaranteed the patient would be constantly exposed to heavy metals. Those dentists who kept using it were deemed quacks and long story short, many years later, we still use heavy metals to preserve vaccinations.
Personally, I thought vaccinations were made in order to preserve health and sustain life, not to be preserved themselves by a poisonous substance. Thimerosal is the mercury preservative that has gotten all the attention. According to the news today, it is a myth that flu vaccines, or any vaccines, are unsafe or contain any toxic chemicals. No studies have been done, as reported by the story, but there is an epidemic of diseases and disorders that did not exist before these vaccinations. It also brings light to the fact that thimerosal is only found in multi-dose vials (not nasal, not single-dose vials), and best of all, it is using the ethyl-mercury version, not the methyl-mercury version (thank god!).
I obviously had reactions when I was younger, and many others had even more severe reactions, but vaccinations apparently have nothing to do with it? Mercury is known to be extremely toxic and we as a human race have decided to process it into different forms (ethyl, methyl, etc…) and then let it loose within our circulatory system. Oddly enough, this is just like the foods many consume on a daily basis. I do target the pharmaceutical companies and food industry due to their lack of integrity. Money is not everything and that is why Dr. Bock shares this enlightening study: one in twenty pediatricians withheld vaccinations from their very own children.
So how much mercury were we receiving when the doctor swabbed our arms with alcohol before the ‘friendly’ prick…? At birth, the amount of mercury given was 36x too much! That is absolutely insane. Two groups, both religious, did not get any vaccinations. Neither group had developed any cases of autism and only limited numbers of ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies. Group one consisted of the Amish in Pennsylvania and the government claimed that their genetic links with each other provided the protection. That is a possibility, and not worthy of writing off just yet. The second group consisted of home schooled children in Chicago, a group that had no genetic links. There were 35,000 children in the Chicago study and there was no autism and no epidemic.
Another common debate is the use of live vaccines. The MMR (measles, mumps, and rubella) is a live vaccine. Some believe that something live can cause harm and some enforce (government) that it is safe. With a healthy body and an intact immune system, we are built to handle infections that may come our way. With a battered immune system from poor nutrition, pollution, toxins, and even immunizations, we are left without a proper defense. We should not be kicked when we are down, should we?
The Hib vaccine has also been linked to 2,000-4,000 new cases of type 1 diabetes each year.
METHYLATION/SULFATION
I touched on this briefly in the nutrition section, but once again, this is the body’s natural process whereby it removes toxins. A buildup of toxins leads to problems throughout the body, as seen with asthma, ADHD, autism, and allergies.
CONCLUSION
We do control our bodies, we can control our environments, and we can prevent further epidemics. These parents are not a bunch of quacks and they truly do have a more than valid argument about whether or not immunizations are safe. I urge to seek the natural and avoid the avoidable. I urge you to not fall victim to the reckless biases of the media. I urge you to understand that epidemics do not typically occur out of thin air, let alone in bundles as did these four.
MARCH 17, 2012 UPDATE: A good friend of mine recently introduced me to a very convincing publication that lists studies of all sorts and aims to debunk the MMR, Thimerosal, and the Administration of Simultaneous Vaccines links floating around the public domain. After reading the article in its entirety, my opinion is that you should also do the same. I have read Dr. Bock’s book and I understand how his treatment method has helped so many of his patients, but if you fail to intertwine his successes with the gravity of this publication, I feel you are doing yourself a severe disservice.
Read it and incorporate it into your understanding of the disease process and whether or not your believe there is any link. Although there a few cracks here and there, the publication debunks these claims extremely well. Regardless of these cracks, I do not feel there is any evidence of a direct link between vaccinations and ADHD, Asthma, Autism, and Allergies. However, it would be beyond perverse for me to discredit and discount Dr. Bock’s work to present date.
It would be even more perverse for me to discount my personal reactions to these vaccinations when I was younger and also my development of asthma years later. The perversity would only continue if I were to separate what I had already known about the human body and contributors of disease from this newly gained knowledge. I have been on both sides of this crisis—first believing these people were quacks and later feeling intrigued and very agreeable to their claims. I now reside at a point based on my personal experiences and the knowledge I was able to gather up to present date. I reside with a notion to avoid vaccinations, because I do believe there is a contributing relationship between how the disease process becomes activated and vaccines.
Dr. Bock provides a modified vaccination schedule in his book and I urge you to be cautious about vaccinations and to take them seriously. The gravity of this publication is beyond convincing, but our disdain and emergence away from the natural and practical must be carefully considered. We can and do deny direct links, but we cannot deny the epidemic trending of disease. We can and do play with our environment and lifestyle in a scary and manipulative way, and unfortunately, our failure to find direct links has not converged us in finding a cure, but rather ejected us astray.
My final thoughts as of this update: I do not encourage vaccines because I do not believe in playing with the environment nor the body. I know, and I hope you know too, that almost nothing good comes from playing with the basics of life, and I am not sure if ‘almost’ should even precede ‘nothing.’ I feel diseases are too well hidden by the duration of life and that our inability to see how one “fix” seems to always necessitate another slew of “fixes” in an ongoing pattern contributes to our very downfall. I see the pattern of no direct links, but do you see the pattern enmeshed within that very same pattern?
We all contribute to a certain extent, I am just choosing to contribute as little as possible.
Parents Against Vaccines: A Bunch of Quacks?
After reading: Healing the New Childhood Epidemics: Autism, ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies: The Groundbreaking Program for the 4-A Disorders By: Kenneth Bock, M.D. & Cameron Stauth
UPDATED MARCH 17, 2012 – SEE END OF ARTICLE
To begin, I will let the numbers do the convincing, and by the end, I can only hope that it is you who sets out to convince others. Autism has increased from one in every 2,500-10,000 to one in every 150-166; ADHD is up 400%; Asthma is up 300%; and Allergies are up an equally impressive 400%. Doctor Bock, the author of this book, claims that these numbers are presenting in epidemic proportions and I have been forewarned by some readers that these numbers have only gotten worse. An argument is sure to arise in any individual, whether afflicted or not, but whose argument is a bit weighty on false claims and whose is undeniably intriguing.
All four of these disorders, especially ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies, have become extremely common in society. Autism has also become exceedingly common, but I do not believe it has become as “normal” as the other three. I was diagnosed when I was younger with asthma and I also entertain a few allergies. It would be quite difficult for me to identify a single person I know who does not fill the criteria for any of these disorders. Almost everyone has been touched by these devastating disorders, yielding yet another societal norm, shielded by a ‘they have it, you have it, we all have it’ mentality.
Dr. Bock points the finger at four very interconnected reasons for how this came to be so normal today. They are:
TOXICITY
Whether we choose to permit them or not, toxins can gain entry into our bodies and they can even fester from within almost at a bombarding rate. Metabolism’s role is to breakdown ingested substances and use them to replenish the energy and materials that are constantly being utilized to rebuild our bodies. In with the new and out with the old (wastes) is a well-known and highly cherished motto sported by our bodies.
Hormones, ammonia (protein breakdown), acetaldehyde (alcohol breakdown), and various other substances have the potential to build up and overwhelm our body’s metabolism and defense mechanisms though. This allows for another infantry of toxins such as microorganisms, contaminants, drugs, alcohol, and even food additives to wreak further havoc within our bodies.
Microorganisms can enter your body unbeknownst to you or they can rise up when your body is failing to defend itself properly. We cannot always defend their entrance into our bodies—metal, pesticides, insecticides, and pollutants have become commonalities and almost unavoidable nowadays—but we can fight to promote an environment in which we are the only survivors.
Many of these microorganisms and contaminants are in plain sight, it is therefore not an awareness issue but rather an effortless laze. Many of us are guilty of exposing our bodies to these otherworldly toxins that have been specifically manufactured by our very own hands (usually machines in reality), including drugs, alcohol, and food additives. These substances also get the finger point from Dr. Bock because of their seemingly limitless abilities to overwhelm our health and natural defense mechanisms.
DETOXIFICATION
According to Dr. Bock, we can promote the phases detoxification and rid this madness from our bodies.
NUTRITION
Whether it is how those with autism have vision issues (avoiding eye contact) due to low levels of vitamin A or the troubling numbers that have sensitivities to food, especially wheat, dairy, and yeast, nutrition has shown to be an extremely vital part to the curative process. Yes, those affected have shown dramatic results when their nutrients have been restored (including normal eye contact) and their sensitivities removed.
These diseases and disorders offer an interesting dilemma, one that is only curtailed by medications. By the majority, medications are used to treat the symptoms but lack the ability to heal the problem at its root, as is the case with asthma when bronchial dilators and steroids are used to prevent and treat inflammation rather than the trigger of that inflammation. Although these drugs can be life-saving in a time of crisis, the false comfort provided is just that, comfort without treatment. There was one child mentioned within the text who had asthma and an extreme allergy to peanuts. Eating food one day from a trusted source, she was exposed to peanuts and later died—medications failed to save her.
Her case represents the severity located at one end of the spectrum, I urge you to not be comforted by this. My trigger for asthma while growing up was cat dander and whenever I had a respiratory infection. Cat dander and random illnesses can be avoided, and by doing this, I have not had a wheezing attack for many years now. Hers was literally one of life or death in the acute sense while the majority retain a life or death scenerio in its chronically compacting form.
TRIGGERS/FOODS TO AVOID
In the asthma section he mentions the importance of avoiding additional food allergens including: saturated fats (processed foods) and salt (pro-inflammatory). To counteract the allergens and promote a healthy immune system, he advocates for probiotics (restore our systems natural bacteria) and an intake of essential fatty acids (potent anti-inflammatory agents). Dr. Bock also promotes a gluten-free (wheat protein) and casein-free (milk-protein) as the beginning point diet for most of his patients (ADHD, Asthma, Autism, & Allergies).
According to Dr. Bock, the four worst foods for autistic kids are:
GENESIS OF ALLERGIES
Next, he goes into how allergies are created: nutritional factors, immune factors, and inflammation:
DIETS
GLUTEN-FREE & CASEIN-FREE
Dr. Bock has several diets that he has found to be quite successful among his patients, especially the gluten-free and casein-free diet. Here is a list of things that often improve while on this diet:
That short list is quite remarkable and has been shown to be effective in changing and even saving the lives of many.
So why does a diet free of gluten and free of casein show so much promise? Dr. Bock provides several interesting points. First, we have to understand how our body interacts with these two proteins. Gluten breakdown (casein is very similar) starts with the failure of an enzyme and continues with the creation of partial proteins similar to opiates much like our endorphins. These pseudo-endorphins promote feelings of spaciness or intoxication, feelings that can become pleasurable and worthy of an addiction to obtain them—this vicious cycle damages the methylation process which removes toxins and maintains neurotransmitter levels.
Apparently we did not eat wheat until about ten thousand years ago (advent of agriculture) and this was preceded by millions of years of fruits, vegetables, and meat. Nowadays, celiac disease is present in 1 in every 250—“Celiac disease, however, may be even more common than this, and may exist in a milder form among a much larger segment of the population.” The symptoms of celiac disease are very similar to those of ADHD and Autism, and this role of gluten may be causing misdiagnoses and prompting inappropriate treatment protocols.
Dr. Bock on how we became so entangled with milk: “Aggressive marketing campaigns of dairy industry’s wholesome and harmless health food.” For his dietary section, he first recommends removing casein (3 weeks for body to eliminate) and gluten (three months for body to eliminate). If this diet does not help the children, he allows them to decide whether or not to continue with it. It is extremely vital for them to remain absolutely casein & gluten free though, because even small amounts can have lasting effects.
When I initially became vegan, I still had some cravings, but very few compared to my earlier years of food addiction. As time progressed, I completely disconnected myself from food and I no longer feel the urge to eat something because it is in front of me and nor do I feel that I have to eat a certain way. “Kids will miss their favorite sauces and complicated concoctions at first, but the human appreciation of good food is notably flexible.” Our taste preferences do indeed change and Dr. Bock notes how we now begin to associate wheat and dairy with insomnia, diarrhea, and agitation, after finding relief in naturally nutritious foods.
EXCITOTOXINS
Excitotoxins are substances that can over-stimulate the nerves within our bodies, especially within the brain. Two examples of excitotoxins are MSG and Aspartame. We have all consumed them at sometime in our lives and maybe even today.
MSG has been shown to:
Aspartame has been linked to:
This is why it is extremely important to understand the hieroglyphic-like words found on food labels, and sometimes they are hidden. Avoid eating these substances and avoid future problems that only come to public light when enough people have been affected.
OTHER DIETS
The author has also utilized three other diets amongst his patients. All of his diets are mixed and matched in order to find the best results for each individual patient.
VACCINATIONS
Vaccinations are used in order to induce immunity within our bodies—we can get our immunity a few different ways: our natural immunity, immunity from our mother (breast milk), immunity from direct exposure to the agent, or immunity from a prick in the arm. I have had all my ‘required’ shots and I have always thought that the parents who were against immunizations were indeed a bunch of quacks. The media portrays them this way and I believed it. I am not walking around with measles or polio, I am living and breathing while they seem to be complaining because they are…?
Today (11/01/11) I asked my mom about my immunizations when I was younger. As mentioned earlier, I was diagnosed with asthma when I was much younger, but I was also an introverted individual when I was in pre-school and I still consider myself introverted at times. I wanted to know what their feelings were when I was younger. Did they think I had any developmental problems or did my doctors ever bring it up? Nope, according to them I was just an introverted child growing up and I showed no signs of autism.
I next asked my mom if I had any strange reactions to the immunizations. My mom said she was very careful and almost always paranoid about them, opting to never take me to get them when I was sick. When I did get them though, I would always have pre-seizure fevers and start shaking afterwards for some time. I have a history of febrile-seizures that led to a hospitalization one time when I was much younger. I also have a history of having no bowel movements for a stretch of eleven days and a ton of ear infections.
According to my mom, she had a few ear infections when she was younger and my dad cannot recall any. While in nursing school, I learned that ear infections were to expected among infants and I almost got the feeling that they were welcomed. I understood the anatomical theory and how that leads to more infections, but should multiple ear infections ever be considered normal (I do not think so)? We are born as very needy little creatures, but are we beyond fragile? Are we born crippled?
Back to my health history, I had no bowel movements for eleven whole days! The doctors said I was fine and I did eventually pass one. As for my ear infections, I was being blasted with antibiotics, so much so that my parents had to step in and stop it because they were not working, but rather making things worse. A potential hypothesis: I was immunized and exposed to heavy metals, it affected my body (especially my gut), my gut became overwhelmed and resulted in an ileus (intestinal obstruction), I developed ear infections and febrile seizures, my gut became even more overwhelmed by an overuse of antibiotics as evidenced by my parents, and I was diagnosed with asthma in the near future.
WHY THEY ARE NOT QUACKS
These parents are not a bunch of quacks. Quacks is actually a term used to describe dentists who used quicksilver (called quacksilver) for fillings. Quacksilver consisted of a silver/mercury combination and it guaranteed the patient would be constantly exposed to heavy metals. Those dentists who kept using it were deemed quacks and long story short, many years later, we still use heavy metals to preserve vaccinations.
Personally, I thought vaccinations were made in order to preserve health and sustain life, not to be preserved themselves by a poisonous substance. Thimerosal is the mercury preservative that has gotten all the attention. According to the news today, it is a myth that flu vaccines, or any vaccines, are unsafe or contain any toxic chemicals. No studies have been done, as reported by the story, but there is an epidemic of diseases and disorders that did not exist before these vaccinations. It also brings light to the fact that thimerosal is only found in multi-dose vials (not nasal, not single-dose vials), and best of all, it is using the ethyl-mercury version, not the methyl-mercury version (thank god!).
I obviously had reactions when I was younger, and many others had even more severe reactions, but vaccinations apparently have nothing to do with it? Mercury is known to be extremely toxic and we as a human race have decided to process it into different forms (ethyl, methyl, etc…) and then let it loose within our circulatory system. Oddly enough, this is just like the foods many consume on a daily basis. I do target the pharmaceutical companies and food industry due to their lack of integrity. Money is not everything and that is why Dr. Bock shares this enlightening study: one in twenty pediatricians withheld vaccinations from their very own children.
So how much mercury were we receiving when the doctor swabbed our arms with alcohol before the ‘friendly’ prick…? At birth, the amount of mercury given was 36x too much! That is absolutely insane. Two groups, both religious, did not get any vaccinations. Neither group had developed any cases of autism and only limited numbers of ADHD, Asthma, and Allergies. Group one consisted of the Amish in Pennsylvania and the government claimed that their genetic links with each other provided the protection. That is a possibility, and not worthy of writing off just yet. The second group consisted of home schooled children in Chicago, a group that had no genetic links. There were 35,000 children in the Chicago study and there was no autism and no epidemic.
Another common debate is the use of live vaccines. The MMR (measles, mumps, and rubella) is a live vaccine. Some believe that something live can cause harm and some enforce (government) that it is safe. With a healthy body and an intact immune system, we are built to handle infections that may come our way. With a battered immune system from poor nutrition, pollution, toxins, and even immunizations, we are left without a proper defense. We should not be kicked when we are down, should we?
The Hib vaccine has also been linked to 2,000-4,000 new cases of type 1 diabetes each year.
METHYLATION/SULFATION
I touched on this briefly in the nutrition section, but once again, this is the body’s natural process whereby it removes toxins. A buildup of toxins leads to problems throughout the body, as seen with asthma, ADHD, autism, and allergies.
CONCLUSION
We do control our bodies, we can control our environments, and we can prevent further epidemics. These parents are not a bunch of quacks and they truly do have a more than valid argument about whether or not immunizations are safe. I urge to seek the natural and avoid the avoidable. I urge you to not fall victim to the reckless biases of the media. I urge you to understand that epidemics do not typically occur out of thin air, let alone in bundles as did these four.
MARCH 17, 2012 UPDATE: A good friend of mine recently introduced me to a very convincing publication that lists studies of all sorts and aims to debunk the MMR, Thimerosal, and the Administration of Simultaneous Vaccines links floating around the public domain. After reading the article in its entirety, my opinion is that you should also do the same. I have read Dr. Bock’s book and I understand how his treatment method has helped so many of his patients, but if you fail to intertwine his successes with the gravity of this publication, I feel you are doing yourself a severe disservice.
Read it and incorporate it into your understanding of the disease process and whether or not your believe there is any link. Although there a few cracks here and there, the publication debunks these claims extremely well. Regardless of these cracks, I do not feel there is any evidence of a direct link between vaccinations and ADHD, Asthma, Autism, and Allergies. However, it would be beyond perverse for me to discredit and discount Dr. Bock’s work to present date.
It would be even more perverse for me to discount my personal reactions to these vaccinations when I was younger and also my development of asthma years later. The perversity would only continue if I were to separate what I had already known about the human body and contributors of disease from this newly gained knowledge. I have been on both sides of this crisis—first believing these people were quacks and later feeling intrigued and very agreeable to their claims. I now reside at a point based on my personal experiences and the knowledge I was able to gather up to present date. I reside with a notion to avoid vaccinations, because I do believe there is a contributing relationship between how the disease process becomes activated and vaccines.
Dr. Bock provides a modified vaccination schedule in his book and I urge you to be cautious about vaccinations and to take them seriously. The gravity of this publication is beyond convincing, but our disdain and emergence away from the natural and practical must be carefully considered. We can and do deny direct links, but we cannot deny the epidemic trending of disease. We can and do play with our environment and lifestyle in a scary and manipulative way, and unfortunately, our failure to find direct links has not converged us in finding a cure, but rather ejected us astray.
My final thoughts as of this update: I do not encourage vaccines because I do not believe in playing with the environment nor the body. I know, and I hope you know too, that almost nothing good comes from playing with the basics of life, and I am not sure if ‘almost’ should even precede ‘nothing.’ I feel diseases are too well hidden by the duration of life and that our inability to see how one “fix” seems to always necessitate another slew of “fixes” in an ongoing pattern contributes to our very downfall. I see the pattern of no direct links, but do you see the pattern enmeshed within that very same pattern?
We all contribute to a certain extent, I am just choosing to contribute as little as possible.
Vaccines and Autism: A Tale of Shifting Hypotheses
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