Articles by Dr. Erdman are for informational purposes, and are not to be taken as specific medical advice.
Here is part two of the flu shot article we started two
weeks ago. These two articles are all
the proof you need to show your medical doctor why you will not be taking the
flu shots again. If you want the
specific citations of the research presented, you can email me for them. They are mostly from mainstream, peer
reviewed medical journals and other professional sources. Continuing with her paper, she writes...
Aside from the collective study done in 2010, The Cochrane
Collaboration also recently conducted a study that was published online in
August 2012. This study concentrated on how the flu vaccine protected and
affected certain age groups. The study concluded that “in children under the
age of two, the efficacy of inactivated vaccine was similar to placebo”
(Smith). Placebo is a substance given in place of an actual medicine; it is
used in order to test the effectiveness of the actual medicine. By
administering placebo, which has no effect, it is possible to narrow down what
symptoms are caused by the actual medicine and what symptoms are simply mental
side effects, since the person participating in the study does not know which
they are consuming. Knowing how placebo works, the fact that influenza vaccine
worked only as well as placebo is telling. The Cochrane Collaboration also
discovered that there was “very little information … found on the safety of
inactivated vaccines, the most commonly used vaccine in young children”
(Smith). The vaccine industry pushes for young children to receive influenza vaccinations
every year in order to protect them, but the efficacy and safety of these
vaccines has little or no data to support their administration
.
One more area in which the flu shot industry distorts the
facts in order to push the vaccine is in morbidity and mortality rates
associated with influenza. “The CDC has been telling the public for nearly a
decade that there are more than 200,000 estimated hospitalizations and 36,000
estimated deaths from influenza in the U.S. every year” (Fisher). However, the
U.S. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality published a report stating that
there were only 37,000 Americans hospitalized for influenza in 2004 (Fisher).
Since the CDC has been using the figure of 200,000 on average for over 10
years, 2004 should have been no exception. But 37,000 is much less than
200,000. The reason for the difference in estimates lies behind what exactly
was being counted. The CDC counts not only influenza-related hospitalizations,
but also other situations such as respiratory, circulatory, cardiac, and
pulmonary conditions “they thought might have been associated with influenza”
(Fisher). The influenza vaccine industry is lying straight to the public’s
face, pushing a vaccine that has not been proven to work, has not been proven safe,
and has not been proven necessary.
But even though the flu vaccine is unnecessary and does not
provide protection against influenza, a solution is available: vitamin D. A
recent study lead by Dr. Adit Ginde discovered that vitamin D plays “an
important role … in prevention of common respiratory infections, such as colds
and the flu.” This prevention begins in the immune system, where vitamin D is
actually the substance that initiates attacks on foreign pathogens. If certain
cells in the immune system cannot find enough vitamin D in the blood, the
attack on foreign pathogens will not even begin (Liu). Some scientists, such as
Dr. John Cannell, theorize that vitamin D deficiency may actually be an
underlying cause of influenza, which would help explain its apparent benefits
as a flu-fighter.
Another study performed in 2010 and published on the website
of the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition also concluded that vitamin D is
a highly effective way to avoid influenza. Two groups of 167 children, ages
6-15, were given either vitamin D or placebo for four months. In the group
receiving placebo, 31 children contracted influenza. In contrast, only 18
children contracted influenza in the group that received vitamin D. Although
the children were only given relatively small doses of vitamin D, influenza
rates were reduced by 42 percent. Taking larger doses of the vitamin has the
potential to offer even more protection against the flu.
In a video on YouTube, Dr. Mercola explains why flu season
occurs during the fall and winter months:
One of the reasons why we have such an increase in these
upper respiratory infections in the fall and winter is because the sun exposure
really is minimized. For most of us the sun’s incidence of the rays coming
through the atmosphere is such an angle that even if you were to go out without
any clothes on for the entire day on a sunny day you wouldn’t get any
significant ultraviolet radiation to increase your vitamin D levels. So
essentially it’s physically impossible to get it from the sun during the winter
for most of us. So that’s probably one of the major reasons why there’s this
massive increase in these infections in the winter.
Dr. Mercola also offers advice on how to avoid influenza,
especially during flu season. Because “vitamin D can help minimize risk of
infection,” it is important to take vitamin D supplements to increase vitamin D
levels in the blood. However, there is another way to increase these levels.
“You can replicate the sun’s rays with a safe tanning bed. And by safe tanning
bed I mean a tanning bed that doesn’t have a magnetic ballast which generates
these dangerous EMFs.” Although “sun would clearly be better,” Dr. Mercola
states that a safe tanning bed is an effective option for receiving vitamin D.
Whichever way the vitamin D is introduced to the immune system, it will
drastically reduce the chances of catching influenza.
In light of this information, it is safe to conclude that
influenza vaccinations, while they may offer minimal protection certain years,
are not nearly as effective or necessary as the flu shot industry wants the
public to believe. Much safer and more effective approaches to influenza
protection exist naturally, as with vitamin D. Before receiving a flu shot, or
allowing a child to receive one, face the facts. Vitamin D is safer than
influenza vaccines, more effective, and all-natural. The key to eliminate is
not to vaccinate. The key is vitamin D.