Articles by Dr. Erdman are for informational purposes, and are not to be taken as specific medical advice.
As we continue to look at the science of the immune system,
we will see why immunizations are not a normal part of the process, and why
they have no part in keeping you healthy.
Your body recognizes a shot for what it is, a poisonous invader, yet the
response is completely different from a naturally acquired invasion of the same
disease.
Did you know that 80% of your immune system is in your gut?
All of the bacteria in your body are called the Bionome. You can control the
80% in your gut; the other 20% is beyond your control, for good or bad. As
science learns more about our defense mechanisms, they are realizing that
antibodies to disease are but a small part of our lines of defense.
Unfortunately, antibody titers are all that conventional medicines approach to
disease control cares about. A TH1 response occurs in reaction to naturally
obtained infectious diseases. A TH2
occurs with vaccines and with a few other areas of body responses, like toxin
and allergy mediation.
You want a TH1 response for most insults to your immune
system. What is involved in a TH1 response? It includes the first, second and
third lines of defense. The first line of your body’s defense of itself is
actually any barrier that blocks invasion at a portal of entry (mouth, nose,
ear, eye, etc.) This line of defense limits access to internal tissues. It is
your skin, secretions of eyes, mouth and mucous membranes. It really isn’t a
part of the immune system, per se, because it doesn’t involve recognition and
response, just barriers to entry. This is where your bionome is important. It’s
like a yellow alert to your system.
The second line of defense is white blood fluids causing
inflammation and microbe seeking cleanup cells called phagocytes. This line is
quick acting once the first line is breached, and is in constant contact with
the nervous system. It is the orange alert.
So the first two can be simplified to the body using
mechanisms that say “stay away” to microbes at first, then once breached,
alerts go to all other defense zones to get prepared to fight something.
The third line of defense is acquired on an individual basis
as each foreign substance is encountered. This is our circulating nervous
system and incorporates centuries of experience coded in our DNA. This provides
long term immunity. When this stage is needed, it is red alert for your body.
The whole process takes 5-7 days to build up to a complete
expulsion of a microbe. That’s why it has always been known as an incubation
period. It’s your body revving up a response. Once you see the spots of chicken
pox, you are already practically over it. The body has done its job and is
externalizing the threat.
As you probably know, I’m not a fan of immunizations, any of
them. Not only is the science behind them all wrong, but their supposed
positive effects on your immune system are completely wrong?
Just to review from last article, a TH2 response, humeral or
temporary protection, deals with gaining high antibody titers, and is short
lived, needing regular ‘boosters’ to keep the titers high. A TH1 response is a
cell mediated response offering lower titers, but a lifetime of protection. We
need both responses to adequately defend our bodies, but a TH1 response is a superior,
longer lasting protection.
So why does medicine want everyone to be vaccinated and have
a TH2 response? Well, vaccines cause an internalization process where you do
not outwardly express a disease, so you don’t give it to anybody else. You have
no symptoms, which benefits the greater good, right?
Here is where your choice as a parent lies. Do you want to
vaccinate for the ‘greater good’, to the detriment of your child’s health, or
do you want to allow your child to acquire a lifetime immunity, expressing
symptoms and possibly allowing others to contract the disease.
If you are concerned about others getting the disease, just
keep your child home for a spell. Throw a party, have like-minded people come
over and expose themselves to the disease and pass on centuries of learned DNA
responses to keep all of us healthy. Yeah, you read that right! Don’t keep your
kids away from people with a normal childhood disease, send them over to play.
That’s how it is supposed to work. Sure, you may get spots all over as a kid,
but you won’t get shingles later in life, if you keep coming in contact with
chicken pox every so often as an adult.
If your child’s immune system is already compromised, such
as with chemotherapy or some other serious auto-immune disease, the party thing
may not be the best for your situation. Granted, some children can get
extremely ill with these diseases, but the majority of normal, healthy children
easily overcome them.
Next time, I’ll be talking directly to pregnant women who
wish to give their babies the best possible start to life. Shouldn’t that be
all of them? You’ll be surprised at how foolish medicine has become regarding
prenatal care and the birthing process.