http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2008/2/26/how-vaccines-can-damage-your-brain.aspx
Vaccines,
Depression and Neurodegeneration After Age 50: Another Reason to Avoid the
Recommended Vaccines.
By Russell L. Blaylock, M.D., CCN
It has been estimated that 14.8 million
Americans suffer from major depressive disorder and of this number 6
million are elderly. If we include anxiety disorders, which commonly
accompany depression, the number jumps to 40 million adults.
Depression later in life tends to last
longer and be more severe than at younger ages. It is also associated with
a high rate of suicide. Previously, it was thought that major depression
was secondary to a deficiency in certain neurotransmitters in the brain,
particularly the monoamines, which include serotonin, norepinephrine and
dopamine.
While alterations in these important
mood-related neurotransmitters is found with major depression, growing
evidence indicates that the primary culprit is low-grade, chronic brain
inflammation.
This exclusive article will review in
detail the functions and impact of various agents on depression and
neurodegeneration, including:
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The impact of MSG on your brain and mood
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The link between elevated brain
glutamate and inflammation
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The connections between pesticides and
neurological disorders such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease
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How vaccinations cause brain
inflammation
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The impact of an expanding vaccine
schedule for the elderly
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The shocking truth, linking brain
inflammation to neurodegenerative diseases
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How vaccine additives such as mercury
and aluminum impact your brain health
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The real danger of live virus vaccines
Current recommendations by the CDC for
adult vaccinations include a total of 14 separate inoculations with
infectious agents and powerful immune adjuvants.
According to CDC recommendations, multiple
vaccinations for a single disease are separated by no more than 4 weeks,
which is close enough together to trigger a smoldering process of brain
inflammation and excitotoxicity that can not only result in depression,
anxiety and high suicide rates, but can increase your risk of developing
one of the neurodegenerative diseases as well.
We have also seen that in many cases a
person will be injected with several vaccines during a single office visit
and this means that their body is exposed to a very large dose of immune
adjuvant. Compelling studies, using many animal species as well as humans,
have shown that this overactivates brain inflammatory mechanisms that can
last for years.
I urge you to
read Dr. Blaylock’s full-length article, Vaccines,
Depression and Neurodegeneration After Age 50: Another Reason to Avoid the
Recommended Vaccines,
a Mercola.com exclusive, for
a fascinating in-depth look at how neurodegenerative diseases are created,
and how to protect yourself from what many consider to be simply side
effects of the ravages of time -- but are anything but a natural byproduct
of aging.
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Dr. Mercola's
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First, I’d like to thank
Dr. Russell Blaylock for his highly informative article on this vital
issue. He is one of my main contributing editors, and a valued
colleague and friend. As a board-certified neurosurgeon who has
written over 30 papers published in peer-reviewed scientific journals,
Dr. Blaylock is an expert in the field of excitotoxicity. His papers
on the connection between excitotoxicity and fluoride neurotoxiocity,
and autism and the Gulf War Syndrome have received praise from leading
authorities in each of these areas of research.
I realize that
the issue of vaccination is quite
controversial and is one of the bedrocks of "prevention" in
conventional medicine and that anyone who opposes them is viewed as a
dangerous quack and threat to the public health. I understand this
because this was precisely the view I had when I graduated medical
school.
However, after more
than two decades of practice, I encountered hundreds of vaccine
casualties that spurred me to carefully review the evidence, and I
came to a completely different conclusion.
Those at Greatest
Risk are Getting the Most Vaccinations
Both infants and the
elderly are high-risk groups when it comes to
the destructive impact vaccines can have on their health. And yet,
these are the two groups targeted with the most recommended vaccines –
often being given multiple shots at a time.
I strongly encourage
you to review the evidence before you expose yourself or your children
to these potentially dangerous injections. I am convinced that their
questionable benefits are far outweighed by their dangerous side
effects.
As Dr. Blaylock
explained in detail above, vaccinations are highly neurotoxic, and are
associated with many neurological disorders, such as:
Degenerative Brain Disorders |
ADD |
Autism |
Epilepsy and convulsions |
Mental Retardation |
Depression and Anxiety |
Central Nervous System Disorders |
Paralysis |
Guillain-Barre Syndrome |
Nerve Deafness |
Blindness |
SIDS |
For example, autism
was virtually unheard of before vaccinations; its emergence precisely
parallels mass vaccination programs. ADD and learning disorders in
children are also now being traced to childhood vaccinations. Brain
damage, at any age, is by far the most common adverse reaction
associated with vaccinations, although their actual numbers are not
often reported correctly.
Don’t Trade the Flu
for Dementia
Vaccines, ALL
vaccines, are immune suppressing, meaning they lower your immune
functions. The chemicals and
adjuvants in the vaccines depress your
immune system; the virus present depresses immune function, and the
foreign DNA/RNA from animal tissues depresses immunity -- that is the
trade-off you are risking.
The medical thought
is that it’s okay to trade a small overall immune depression for
immunity to one disease. However, this trade is not at all in your
favor when you consider the fact that you’re trading a
TOTAL immune system
depression, which is your main defense against ALL known disease --
including millions of pathogens, for a temporary immunity against just
one disease. And that’s optimistic; many vaccines simply do not work
and offer no immunity whatsoever.
There are alternate
and vastly safer methods of protecting yourself and your children
against disease, and it all begins with a truly healthy diet, as
outlined in my eating plan.
Of course,
drug manufacturers and
the governments they have purchased
don't want you to believe that the foods you consume, and the
lifestyle habits you adopt are the PRIMARY SOLUTIONS to establishing
immunity to diseases and living longer.
Avoiding vaccinations of all kinds
tends to look like the better choice the more you know about the
subject, and doing your research could literally mean the difference
between life and death.
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