The Body – Life, Liberty & Cooties

by Dr. Robert Kleckner

It’s back to school time when kids of all ages need to be thinking about those free agents known as infectious diseases and our commonly agreed way to combat them: Immunizations.

Diseases are hardly hostile. Humans and infectious microbes have coexisted for as long as there has been life on earth. The human immune system long ago developed a way to combat viruses, parasites, and bacteria; its first line of defense is an innate system response of inflammation to surround the intruder and contain it. This inflammation then signals the immune system to produce anti-inflammatory chemicals and, more importantly, antibodies which then resolve the inflammation and triggers the healing process. This is such a basic part of our body chemistry that happens constantly everyday whether we are aware of it or not.

There happens to be an astonishing lack of basic scientific knowledge about how viral and bacterial vaccines, given in combination, act to disrupt the brain and immune-system function in the human body at the cellular and molecular levels. In addition, there have never been any large, prospective, long-term studies comparing the long term health of highly vaccinated individuals versus those who have never been vaccinated at all. You see, policy makers in the medical community rely on the clinical evidence that vaccines have the ability to stimulate antibody production in the recipient, this is a fact. But what is not clear, however, is whether or not this antibody production constitutes immunity. A clear example of this is A-gamma globulin-anemic children who are incapable of producing the precious antibodies, and yet these children recover from the same infectious diseases almost as quickly as other children who are able to produce antibodies.

You know how natural breast milk is good for babies? So are natural infections. Not only are the most infectious diseases rarely dangerous, they can actually play a vital role in the developing a strong, healthy immune system. The vast majority of the time childhood infectious diseases are benign and self-limiting. The natural infection process imparts lifelong immunity, whereas the new chicken pox vaccine has an effectiveness estimated at 6-10 years. Natural immunity avoids the risk of infection in adulthood when the disease is more dangerous, and provides the benefits of an immune system strengthened by the natural disease process.

So what’s really in these immunizations? For starters, gastrointestinal toxins, liver toxins, reparatory toxins, neurological toxins, cardiovascular toxins, blood toxins, reproductive toxins, and developmental toxins, to name a few of the known dangers. Chemical ranking systems rate many vaccine ingredients among the most hazardous substances, and they are heavily regulated. The FDA estimates that as few as 1% of serious adverse reactions to vaccine are reported, and the CDC admits that only 10% such events are reported. In other words, 97.5% of vaccine related deaths and disabilities go unreported there. These findings suggest that vaccine deaths and serious injuries actually occurring may be from 10 to 100 times greater than the number reported.

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It is worth noting that outbreaks in recent years have recorded more disease cases in vaccinated children than in unvaccinated children. In 1985, the CDC reported that 87% of the cases of polio in the US between 1973 and 1983 were caused by the vaccine, and later declared that all but a few imported cases since were caused by the vaccine, and most of the imported cases occurred in fully vaccinated individuals. Jonas Salk, inventor of the IPV, testified before a senate subcommittee that nearly all polio outbreaks since 1961 were caused by the oral polio vaccine.

The documented long term effects of vaccines include chronic immunological and neurological disorders such as autism, hyperactivity, attention deficit disorders, dyslexia, allergies cancer, and other conditions, any which barley existed before mass vaccination programs. Medical literature has a surprising number of studies documenting vaccine failure. Measles, mumps, small pox, pertussis, polio, and Hib outbreaks have all occurred in vaccinated populations. Food for thought: In the mid 1970s Japan raised their vaccination age from two months to two years; their incidence of SIDS dropped dramatically—they went from infant mortality ranking from 17 to first in the world. (Japan had the lowest infant death rate when infants were not being immunized.) In 1989 the country of Oman experienced a widespread polio outbreak six months after achieving complete vaccination.

The vaccination safety movement is really part of a larger health care revolution that is moving away from exclusive reliance on the allopathic medical model. There has been a rising interest in going back to basics —better nutrition, less emotional baggage, more exercise, more natural ways of maintaining health and well being. With this interest in a more holistic, healthier lifestyle there has also been a growing interest in alternative health care options: chiropractic, homeopathic, naturopathic, acupuncture, and so on. This movement is really part of a new paradigm shift, in which there is less reliance on drugs, vaccines, and surgery, and a return to less invasive ways of maintaining health.

A 1998 survey found that 39 million Americans made more than 600 million visits to alternative healthcare practitioners in 1997, more than to primary care medical physicians. These patients paid most of the 21.2 billion dollar costs out of pocket when insurance plans would not reimburse them, citing a desire to “prevent future illness from occurring” and “maintain health and vitality”. Healthcare professionals including chiropractic, naturopathy, homeopathy, acupuncture, and other modalities offering a drug free way to maintain health are becoming more popular as people realize they are healthier when they take fewer drugs and more personal interest in their own health.

Once you have gathered all the information you can find out about infectious diseases and vaccines and have spoken to one or more healthcare professionals, you will know what to do. Once you have made a vaccination decision, don’t second guess yourself. You have made a conscious choice, and no matter what happens, you have done your best in making an informed decision. You are free to choose.

Dr. Kleckner is the owner of Sonoran Wellness Center in Glendale, AZ. He is a graduate of Sherman College of Chiropractic and holds a Master’s degree in Biochemistry from the University of Colorado.