From Gut-Brain Secrets. Important: This section written between 2014 and 2018.

History of modern vaccination

Before the modern era of vaccination, ancient Egyptians, Chinese, Arabs and Danish were believed to have used various methods of inoculating people to give them immunity against disease. More recently, Polish, Scottish and English healers are said to have done the same. One such technique is blowing the dried powder of a “pock” into a person’s nose in an attempt to stimulate an immune response.

Then, in 1791–1796, Edward Jenner, an English apothecary barber/ surgeon, is generally credited with inventing modern vaccination. As the story goes, he heard rumors amongst dairy maids that people who contracted cow pox somehow were protected against getting smallpox (a potentially fatal disease). To test his theory, he took fluid from a cow pox pustule and injected it into the arm of James Phipps, a healthy 8-year-old boy.

Phipps contracted cow pox as expected and got over it. Eight weeks later, Jenner injected Phipps with smallpox fluid. When Phipps did not come down with smallpox, Jenner proclaimed his theory correct: immunity can be induced through inoculation with an agent related to the disease (in this case, to a similar disease). Jenner vaccinated his own son multiple times, and re-vaccinated Phipps twenty times. Sadly, Phipps and Jenner’s son both died from tuberculosis, age 20 and 21, respectively. Researchers today suspect there’s a link between the smallpox vaccine and tuberculosis.

Fast forward almost a century to Leicester, England, around 1885: 95–100% of the town’s population were vaccinated against smallpox, yet the town suffered terrible epidemics of smallpox anyway. Outraged, 80,000 residents protested the town’s mandatory vaccination laws, which persuaded town leaders to stop vaccinating. Instead, they cleaned up their dairies. They cleaned up their streets. They installed plumbing. They focused on nutrition. And within several years, smallpox outbreaks had gone down by 80%.

Conclusion: Jenner’s theory is the entire premise upon which the paradigm of vaccination rests. However, no convincing evidence has ever been proffered to support the notion that vaccination gives you immunity that’s anywhere near as strong, or as long-lasting, as naturally-acquired immunity. Vaccine experts agree on this.

How naturally acquired immunity works

When you come down with a disease “organically,” two sides of your immune system get activated: your “innate” immune system, which is non-specific, and your “adaptive” immune system (aka “acquired” immune system), which is specific.

Your innate immune system is like a shot gun in its approach to extinguishing infections. It has no intelligence built into it. It doesn’t remember past infections. And it doesn’t selectively go after certain invaders and not others. It just attacks and kills everything that it deems to be foreign to the body. Most important in understanding the innate immune system, it behaves exactly this way for all future infections and threats. So it doesn’t learn, and it doesn’t adapt, as its regular process. However, it does have one special talent: It’s very good at distinguishing your own cells from ones that don’t belong to you. For this reason, your innate immunity is not primarily responsible for autoimmune reactions.

On the other side, your adaptive immune system, works like a rifle in its approach to targeting pathogens. The first time your immune system encounters an enemy that it doesn’t recognize, it learns which microbes are the bad guys, and it tags them with “antibodies.” The adaptive immune system then clones an army of fighter “B-cells” (called “Effector” cells), specifically made to seek out and destroy just that pathogen. B-cells produce antibodies that help the immune system kill pathogens in three ways:

1. Tagging. B-cells pump out masses of tagging molecules called antibodies that stick to pathogens, identifying them as the enemy for immune cells to attack.
2. Receptor site clogging. Antibodies swarm the virus particle and block its receptor sites so the virus can’t bind to your cells.
3. Clumping. Antibodies cause viral particles to clump together, limiting their mobility so they’re sitting ducks for your immune cells.

The immune system response reaches full strength after a few days. The invasion is suppressed. Or you die. Then, after the invasion is defeated, your active fighter cells commit suicide, leaving only a skeleton crew of “Memory” B-cells behind to call the immune system into action, should the pathogen ever return.

Secondary response: Any time your immune system encounters that pest in the future, the recognition, replication and eradication processes are shortcutted by the secondary response. This allows it to respond faster and stronger than the first time – most of the time wiping it out before you even notice you were exposed. This is called acquired immunity.

Now, problems arise when B-cells don’t mature properly. When things are working well, B-cells are good at recognizing friendly cells from foes. But when things go haywire, mistakes are made in the recognition, replication, and/or eradication processes. Autoimmune conditions, hypersensitivities, and vulnerabilities happen as a result of B-cells mistaking your own cells for foreign ones. The immune system is far more complicated than that, but you get the point.

Vaccination circumvents the body’s natural defenses

Your skin, digestive tract, and immune system are supposed to serve as front-line defenders against invading microbes and pathogens. But when you inject substances such as vaccines directly into the bloodstream, you bypass your body’s primary defense systems, including skin, stomach acid, gut flora, gut lining and GALT (Gut Associated Lymphoid Tissue).

Once inside, bacteria, viruses, foreign DNA, adjuvants, preservatives and gross stuff in vaccines then have unhindered access to organs and tissues before the immune system has a chance to respond. Like a Trojan horse scenario, when foreign material is injected directly into the bloodstream, it doesn’t have to fight its way through multiple defensive lines.

Rather, it gains immediate access to almost anywhere in the body that it wants to go (e.g., the wrong side of the blood-brain barrier is a big one for GAPS people). And it does so at full strength, without being weakened in battle, or reduced in numbers. To Average Joes, that means vaccines present much greater danger to organs, tissues, and the immune system than through environmental exposure.

Formulating vaccines is a gross manipulation of Nature

First, you take a virus or bacteria and weaken it so that it’s strong enough to create an immune response, yet weak enough to not cause the full-blown disease. The pathogen must be weakened, incapacitated, or otherwise altered to the point that the immune system produces antibodies, but can still keep the pathogen under control. The sweet spot is somewhere in the middle.

The secret potency standard that vaccine manufacturers target is 20%. If greater than 20% of vaccinated children have nasty side effects after getting a shot, they’ll make it weaker. Less than that, and the formulation is considered safe enough to use on people. Unfortunately, it’s hard to test formulations or batches on real people, because they can’t exactly inject kids with live, potent viruses just to see what happens. So they must release it first (sans liability) and keep their fingers crossed.

To formulate a viral “starter culture” from which vaccine batches are mass-produced, you have to first find and grow a “virus” in the lab. Then you weaken it (called “attenuation”) – usually by growing the culture in foreign host tissue, like that from another species. At that point, it’s referred to as a “viral agent” due to the fact that it’s been altered. That viral/bacterial agent can then be added to a growth medium such as chicken embryos or bovine serum (derived from cow’s blood) to make starter cultures for mass production.

Mass manufacturing of vaccines is even more gross

The way vaccines are made is a clumsy process that’s highly susceptible to contamination. Experts say contamination is unavoidable. I think we can all agree: it’s disgusting. Reader discretion is advised:

They take raw chicken eggs and fertilize them. They let the embryos grow in an incubator for a few days. Then they kill the embryo. They mash it up to form the growth medium. They add the viral agent(s) from the process described above. They let the “soup” culture grow. They manually suck the fluid from underneath the cell culture into a laboratory syringe called a pipette. Then the unwanted substances larger than a virus are filtered out. What’s left is the minimally purified viral agent, called a “substrate.” Other ingredients are added to provoke an immune response (e.g., formaldehyde), preserve it (e.g., aluminum), and so forth. That’s basically how vaccines are made.

Problems with these techniques

First, any biological products that can reproduce are greatly amplified by the culturing process. Second, there’s no way to remove or neutralize the toxic, non-biological substances that find their way into the finished vaccine. Cellular debris from chicken embryos or monkey kidneys are two of the more unpleasant contaminants often found in vaccines. In fact, many experts say there’s no way for vaccine makers to remove or disable viral contaminants from their vaccines because it would neutralize the viral agent being grown. They can’t test for DNA contamination either. Both can’t be done with current technology.

One example of bacterial contamination is uncomfortably common: Some eggs are contaminated with campylobacter jejuni (a fairly common bacteria infecting chickens and causing food poisoning in humans). Some experts strongly suspect that campylobacter contamination in the chicken egg growth medium is what causes Guillain-Barré Syndrome in rare cases of vaccination injury. That’s because campylobacter infection is known to cause Guillain-Barré on occasion. That’s where your immune system is unable to distinguish between the insulation around your nerves and campylobacter cells. It attacks them both and causes varying degrees of nerve destruction, paralysis, and even death.

Fueling the quality control debate further, many vaccines are made in China, with essentially no regulatory oversight or enforcement capabilities by the USFDA. Talk about a national security threat. If an evildoer wanted to sneak extremely harmful substances into vaccines that were impossible to get rid of, and hard to trace potentially years after the fact, this is one way it could be done. Moreover, the USFDA is only able to “inspect” Chinese manufacturing plants once every 13 years. However, they’re not allowed in the building. They can only visit their offices and inspect their paperwork. In contrast, vaccine makers in the US may get a visit from the USFDA every couple of years.

For many drug companies, laws were meant to be broken

Here are the twenty largest civil and criminal settlements reached between the US Department of Justice and pharmaceutical companies. Note how many companies are repeat offenders. (Imagine how often they didn’t get caught, compared to this list.)

Source: Wikipedia.

At the same time, these companies are excused from all liability for vaccines on the childhood schedule. You can’t sue them when your child is hurt by a vaccine. Most important, no one goes to jail when their illegal activity is uncovered. Basically, they have a free pass, because government agencies have got their back legally and financially. Large criminal fines are strictly business to them. The net effect: Vaccine companies have no incentive to make their vaccines safe. Just as bad, they have very little incentive to make sure their vaccines are effective. So they can do pretty much whatever they want and get away with it.

Conclusion

Did vaccines really eradicate diseases?

Health experts claim that vaccines wiped out many serious diseases that used to cause major epidemics. But, when you look at statistics honestly from the first half of the 20^th Century, you see mortality rates had been dropping well before vaccines were ever introduced. Mortality from measles, scarlet fever, typhoid, whooping cough, and diphtheria all decreased between 60%–95% before vaccines for them were ever introduced. How did that happen?

Improvements in nutrition, sanitation such as purifying water and pasteurizing milk, education, and public healthcare were the real reasons that infection and mortality rates went down. And that was pre-1950. We’ve made even greater strides since the 1950s improving environmental conditions that cause health problems. And we find even more proof, looking further back in history.

Hundreds of years ago, lots of people died of scurvy, bubonic plague, tuberculosis, scarlet fever and yellow fever. In fact, populations throughout history have been hit with run-of-the-mill epidemics to biblical-style plagues in city ghettos, confined ships and even hospitals. But infection and mortality from these diseases largely vanished before vaccines were ever created. However, when you massage the reporting of historical events, you can make it seem like vaccines deserve the credit where no credit is due.

Remember, prior to the second half of the 1800s – before Pasteur made up with his germ theory – doctors knew nothing about germs, and they didn’t wash their hands before doing medical procedures (after shoveling shit and milking cows). They didn’t have clean, running water. They used outhouses (or worse). They lived in crowded quarters. And most people ate poorly, when they ate at all.

Bottom line: Plagues of old, including bubonic plague, scarlet fever, and yellow fever went away not through vaccination, but by reducing exposure to infectious agents, and by creating more healthful conditions that strengthened the body’s ability to fight disease. In fact, government statistics show death from disease declined steadily from 1900 to the early ‘70s. They bottomed out between 1976 and 1986. Then, after 1986, mortality rates started to climb as vaccination programs ramped up. The trend continues to this day, with countries promoting the most bloated vaccine schedules suffering the worst infant mortality rates and chronic diseases in adults.

The industry’s definition of “effective” is seriously flawed

When people hear industry reps say that vaccines are “effective” they assume that means a vaccine will prevent them from getting the full-blown disease. The average person thinks that they can’t get the disease or spread it. But that’s not at all what “effective” means in their book.

Their definition: Health officials from the FDA, CDC, and NIH call a vaccine “effective” when the immune system produces antibodies. That’s it. However, an antibody response does not at all mean that you’re protected against that disease. It does not mean you won’t come down with the disease, or even that you have increased resistance to it. It simply means the immune system is doing something, anything, in response to the vaccine. Antibodies are their measurement of success when they talk about “effectiveness” in public statements, literature and legislation.

When challenged on this issue, they say it’s unethical to expose people to live diseases, so they can’t study it in a direct, meaningful way, such as placebo controls. In any case, we do know that studies show you can vaccinate an animal, their immune system will make antibodies, yet they can still contract the disease when exposed to it. So, no, there are no studies that show the presence of antibodies will protect you in the real world from acquiring a disease. Furthermore, some elderly or immune-compromised people will not even generate antibodies because their immune systems are so weak. So vaccines make them worse off than before.

Vaccines turn trivial childhood ailments into serious diseases

Prior to the 1990s, most childhood diseases were trivial. They came and went without incident. Virtually everyone got them, and it was no big deal. You got infected, you felt crummy for a week or two, and you got over it with no lasting effects. Your reward was lifetime immunity. You couldn’t catch it again, and you couldn’t spread it.

Chicken pox is the ultimate example. Chicken pox was so common and harmless to children, that neighborhoods actually had chicken pox parties, where parents would purposely expose their children to an infected child, just so they could get it over with while they’re young and it was extremely unlikely to cause problems. On the other hand, chicken pox can be far more harmful to get as an adult. It’s not uncommon for adults to need hospitalization. Plus, you’re much more likely to contract real chicken pox when you’re older using the vaccine approach, because vaccine-acquired immunity is weaker and temporary.

By their own admission, health authorities claim most vaccines “work” for about five years, and you need booster shots periodically to maintain that immunity. Some vaccines “work” for 10 years. A few, as much as 15 years. And there are many newer ones that are believed to work for two years or less. In contrast, naturally-acquired immunity lasts a lifetime for a good many diseases. So, to our disservice, vaccines create health risks and health problems than didn’t exist before. For instance, the incidence of shingles is rising sharply because people’s immune systems are not being periodically boosted by re-exposure to children who have the natural form of chicken pox, thus preventing shingles. Bottom line: The chicken pox vaccine offers moderate-to-high risk for minuscule benefit.

Know the risks before you vaccinate

Nearly everyone that receives the standard vaccine schedule today is being harmed chronically. In fact, over half of our children today have at least one chronic disease, if not many (not including obesity); 21% are developmentally delayed. There is a reason, and vaccines are a big part of it. You can thank vaccines for laying a lot of the foundation for modern disease to occur in much of our population. At the root of the problem is repeated vaccination leaves people susceptible to genetic and environmental vulnerabilities that would otherwise remain dormant, given appropriate immune response and healing capacity to spare. Three categories of injury:

1. Lowered immunity. Almost everyone receiving the CDC’s full vaccine schedule will experience lowered immunity to all infections for many years to come.
2. Degradation of brain function. The majority will suffer not-so-obvious, ongoing damage to brain cells from the release of neuro-destructive chemicals such as cytokines and glutamate, along with prolonged inflammation of the brain’s special immune cells: microglia.
3. Serious complications. A tiny minority will suffer serious reactions to the viral/bacteria agent in the vaccines (antigen), substances added to stimulate the immune system (adjuvants), and/or contaminants such as campylobacter bacteria in the growth medium.

These effects are caused by multiple circumstances aligning to cause over-activation of the immune system and prolonged hypersensitivity. Guillain-Barré Syndrome is one such extreme outcome. In short, virtually everyone that gets the recommended shots, at the recommended times, will be dumbed down a little to a lot. Most will be hit harder, and more frequently, by illnesses throughout their lifetime. An unfortunate few will be left dead, permanently disabled, or dysfunctional in some way. And a small minority will escape unharmed.