Call Toll Free:
877-985-2695
SEARCH:
Sign in
|
Join
|
Help
Home
Products
Newsletter
Health Blog
Healthy Pets
Communities
Jobs
My Clinic
Contact Us
FREE Subscription
Loading Please Wait
The World’s Most Popular Natural Health Newsletter
ARTICLE TOOLS:
Current Newsletter
Share Your Comment
Print this Page
Podcasts
My saved Articles
Save as Favorites
Submit My Story
Newsletter Feed
Health Blog Feed
TRANSLATE THIS PAGE:
Aging
Allergies
Alzheimers
Arthritis
Artificial Sweeteners
Asthma
Autism
Back Pain
Book Reviews
Brain/Memory Health
Cancer
Cardiovascular Health
Children’s Health
Cholesterol
Chronic Fatigue
Conflict of Interest
Conventional Medicine
Corporate Greed
Death And Dying
Diabetes
Digestive Disorders
Digestive Health
Drug Companies
Drugs
EFT
EMF
Emotional Health
Energy Support
Entertainment
Environmental
Exercise and Fitness
Fats
Fibromyalgia
Finances
Food
GMO
Government Abuses
Health Concerns
Health Support
Healthy Aging
Healthy Recipes
Heart Diseases
Hormones
Immune Support
Infectious Disease
Internal Special Report
Iron Excess/Hemochromatosis
Joint Support
Looking and Feeling Younger
Men’s Health
Mental Health
Obesity
Online Tests
Osteoporosis
Pain Management
Personal Development
Personal Improvement
Pet Health
Pets
Raw Food
Seizure Disorders
Senior Health
Sexual Health
Sleep/Insomnia
Smoking
Soy
Spiritual Health
Substance Abuse
Sugar
Sunlight
Supplements
Swine Flu
Technology
Television
Thyroid Disease
Toxicity/Detoxification
Toxins/Pollution
Vaccines
Vision Health
Water
Weight Management
Women’s Health
Share this article
Previous Article
Next Article
Please
or
to continue
.
Save Options
Private Favorites
(This will appear on your saved articles for later viewing)
Shared Favorites
(This will appear on your profile as one of your favorites)
Invite Your Friends
Invite Your Friends
Mercury In Vaccines Was Replaced With Something Even MORE Toxic
Posted by:
Dr. Mercola
January 27 2009 |
79,557
views
The short, eye-opening eBook linked below is titled
Aluminum in Vaccines -- a Neurological Gamble
, by Neil Miller, director of the Thinktwice Global Vaccine Institute. It documents the hazards associated with aluminum-laden vaccines. Children are receiving high concentrations of aluminum in their shots. This well-documented neurotoxin may be more dangerous than mercury.
Vaccines containing high concentrations of neurotoxic aluminum were added to the child immunization schedule when several vaccines containing mercury were removed. Two-month old babies now receive 1,225 mcg of aluminum from their vaccines -- 50 times higher than safety levels! Although the FDA, CDC and World Health Organization are aware of the dangers, they expect parents to play Russian roulette with their children.
Sources:
Aluminum in Vaccines -- a Neurological Gamble (PDF)
Dr. Mercola's Comments:
When mercury was removed from many vaccines (except the flu vaccine) years ago, it was under the false guise that finally vaccines were now safe. What health agencies did not want you to know is that there are many other toxic additives still in vaccines, and one of them is aluminum.
Aluminum has not received the widespread media attention that mercury has, therefore many people don’t realize it’s a health risk.
“Aluminum is not perceived, I believe, by the public as a dangerous metal. Therefore, we are in a much more comfortable wicket in terms of defending its presence in vaccines,”
said Dr. John Clements, WHO vaccine advisor.
Notice he said that aluminum is “not perceived” by the public as a dangerous metal … he couldn’t say simply that aluminum is safe, because this would be a lie.
Why is Aluminum Added to Vaccines?
Every vaccine has two components, the agent that you’re seeking to elicit an immune response to, such as a measles virus, and an immune adjuvant, which enhances the immune response and is typically made from a variety of highly toxic compounds including aluminum compounds, MSG, and mercury. The purpose of immune adjuvants is to boost your immune system, or to make it react as intensely as possible for as long as possible.
Unlike a natural immune boost that would come from, say, eating healthy and exercising, artificial immune adjuvants can be dangerous in and of themselves. Says Dr. Russell Blaylock, M.D., a board-certified neurosurgeon and author:
“Studies have shown that these adjuvants, from a single vaccine, can cause immune overactivation for as long as two years. This means that the brain microglia remain active as well, continuously pouring out destructive chemicals.
In fact, one study found that a single injection of an immune activating substance could cause brain immune overactivation for over a year. This is very destructive.”
How Aluminum Can Harm Your Brain
When you or your child is injected with a vaccine, the aluminum compounds it contains accumulate not only at the site of injection but
travel to your brain and accumulate there
. In your brain, aluminum enters neurons and glial cells (astrocytes and microglia).
Studies have shown that aluminum can activate microglia and do so for long periods, which means that the aluminum in your vaccination is priming your microglia to overreact.
The next vaccine acts to trigger the enhanced inflammatory reaction and release of the
excitotoxins
, glutamate and quinolinic acid, Dr. Blaylock points out.
Meanwhile, if you come down with an infection, are exposed to more toxins, or have a stroke or head injury of any kind, this will magnify the inflammatory reaction occurring in your brain due to the vaccines. Research has shown that the more your immune system remains activated, the more likely it is you’ll suffer from a neurodegenerative disease.
The aluminum hydroxide used in many vaccines, including hepatitis A and B, and the Pentacel cocktail for diphtheria, pertussis, tetanus, polio, and meningitis, has been clearly linked to symptoms associated with Parkinson"s, ALS (Lou Gehrig"s disease), and Alzheimer"s.
Scientists discovered the link after injecting mice with an anthrax vaccine developed for the first Gulf War. After 20 weeks, a fifth of the mice developed a skin allergy, and memory problems increased by 41 times compared to a placebo group. Also, inside the brains of mice, 35 percent of the cells that control movement were destroyed.
There is overwhelming evidence that chronic immune activation in your brain, as discussed by Dr. Blaylock above, is a major cause of damage in numerous degenerative brain disorders, from multiple sclerosis Alzheimer"s disease, Parkinson"s and ALS, which may explain the link between aluminum-containing vaccines and these diseases.
Late last year a team of scientists also found that vaccination involving aluminum-containing adjuvants could
trigger the cascade of immunological events
that are associated with autoimmune conditions, including chronic fatigue syndrome and macrophagic myofasciitis, a condition that causes profound weakness and multiple neurological syndromes, one of which closely resembles multiple sclerosis.
Even a
study in Pediatrics
, the official journal of the American Academy of Pediatrics, admitted that:
“Aluminum is now being implicated as interfering with a variety of cellular and metabolic processes in the nervous system and in other tissues.”
This has led some experts to suggest that aluminum in vaccines may be linked to autism.
Just How Much Aluminum Could Your Child be Exposed To?
If you are a parent of a young child I highly recommend you read the entire eBook linked above, as it spells out very clearly just how much aluminum will be injected into your child if you follow the Center for Disease Control’s (CDC) vaccine schedule.
In short, babies who follow the recommended vaccination schedule are injected with nearly 5,000 mcg (5 mg) of aluminum by the time they are just 1.5 years old.
The FDA considers levels of aluminum up to 0.85mg to be “safe,” so you do the math on the risk involved here.
For parents, the issue of what to do about these risks can be very confusing. So please do take your time to thoroughly research the risks of vaccinations before making up your mind. Dr. Blaylock’s article,
The Danger of Excessive Vaccination During Brain Development: The Case for a Link to Autism Spectrum Disorders
, is an excellent starting point that I highly recommend.
If you’re looking for a more sensible,
“user-friendly” vaccination schedule
that may present fewer risks than the CDC’s “one-size-fits-all” schedule, Dr. Donald Miller advises the following:
1. No vaccinations until your child is 2 years old.
2. No vaccines that contain thimerosal (mercury).
3. No live virus vaccines.
4. The following vaccines should be given one at a time (not as a combination vaccine), every six months, beginning at age 2:
a. Pertussis (acellular, not whole cell)
b. Diphtheria
c. Tetanus
d. Polio (the Salk vaccine, cultured in human cells)
And that would be pretty much it as far as vaccinations. Your pediatrician will not like this schedule, but if you have reviewed the evidence and still feel your child should be inoculated to a certain degree, this is a far safer alternative to the standard vaccination schedule. If your pediatrician doesn’t agree, or isn’t open to discussing this issue with you, it’s high time to find a new one who will understand your concerns.
Related Links:
The Truth Behind the Vaccine Coverup
Mercury isn't the Only Toxic Item in Vaccines
Tell the Truth About Vaccines -- or Keep Away From my Children
Share this article
Previous Article
Next Article
Loading Please Wait
Community Comments (78)
Post Your Subcomment
(2000 Characters only.)
Characters remaining:
* Please enter your comment!
Edit Your Comment
(2000 Characters only.)
Characters remaining:
* Please enter your comment!
Comment deleted violating the aspect of our terms of use
Thanks for sharing your feedback! If your feedback doesn't appear right away, please be patient as it may take a few minutes to publish - or longer if the blogger is moderating comments.
Share this article
Previous Article
Next Article
Would you like to republish this article?