Vax Attacks

People who get any vaccine this early in the game are guinea pigs, hence the girls dying or having severe reactions from the HPV vaccine. It's just not a necessary vaccine. It only protects against a very small portion of the HP virus that could contribute towards cervical cancer. It won't prevent cervical cancer, just possibly decrease your child's chances of getting it from a few kinds of the hp virus. I won't be getting it for any of my kids, boy or girl. Girls can be smart with sex, when they're even of age, and boys, they can be smart, too. Inject them with ingredients that have killed people, caused seizures and other issues, just so oral sex doesn't cause a problem? I will pass. Don't blindly listen to doctors, read the fine print and give it time. Even the FDA is seeing problems with it. And check out the cost, no wonder pharm companies want so many to get it. Your child isn't worth the risk, someone has to be that percentage of kids who suffer from side effects.

There's never been any proof that the MMR vaccination causes autism but when you see multitudes of children one way the night before a vaccine and never the same within hours after, that should mean something. I dont think the MMR jab is causing autism but vaccines need an overhaul with no garbage in them like aborted fetal cells, aluminum, ether & formaldehyde. Rising vaccines and rising autism rates, the two have to have something in common. There is no such thing as a genetic epidemic.

I think people need to research the vaxs before they shoot their children up. I have too many friends who don't even know what is in the vaxs and don't seem to care...As for me, my son is 2.5 years old, I still have not given him any vax except DTAP. I am worried about all the illegal foreigners that are comming into our country because they are the ones who will spread a new or old disease and make our times hard. But for now, I still don't risk the reactions for the vax.

Two scary encounters in the past week: I am no vaxx. My son, born at 36.5 weeks -- no NICU -- has his 2 month shots, but I was VERY torn, so I split them up, two and two. He had bad reactions to both. Nothing out of the ordinary, just high fever, huge red, hot bump at injection site, etc. Normal, textbook reactions. Well, these "normal" reactions completely freaked me out. Why am I being "forced" to inject toxins into my child? And why are we being led to believe all of these studies that "prove" there is no link between autism and the vaccines when, if we were to look into the funding of these studies, I guarantee that a large portion of them are funded by the same pharmaceutical companies who have a very large financial stake in seeing that childhood vaccination continues -- business as usual. My problem is this -- if the vaxx schedule was the same as when I was a child, a mere 32 :) years ago, it would just be the status quo and I might not have questioned it. But, the number, frequency and chemical make-up of these vaccine "cocktails" now required have cause to be questioned. If medicine, healthcare, nutrition and preventive care continue to increase over time, why then don't we see a parallel decrease in the number, frequency and amount of vaccines required? And, more importantly, if these vaccines truly do their job, why then, do studies show that only one of the required childhood vaccines has any measurable increase (and it is slight)in the number of vaccinated children who do not contract the disease when exposed to it, as directly compared to their un-vaccinated counterparts. For EVERY vaccine, but one, the unvaccinated children showed equal ability to either fight off or suffer the diseases as their vaccinated playmates.

Back to my two horrific encounters last week -- after the two month shots, I chose not to vaccinate my now three year old son. Labor day weekend he was hospitalized for asthma. In trying to find a local pediatrician to see him for a follow up last week, I had a ped office say to me, "we will not see any child who is not vaccinated." I replied that I have the religious exemption and I was told, "our doctors feel so strongly in favor of vaccines that we will not take on any new patients who choose otherwise." A.) they are in complete violation of the hippocratic oath and B.) I believe this constitutes religious discrimination, and if not, it certainly reeks of something

I did find an office that will see my poor little "carrier monkey", however, a nurse stated to me over the phone that no public school in our area will accept the religious exemption form. We will cross that bridge when we get to it, however, I happen to know there is a supreme court case in our state that disallows any health department to question the religious grounds upon which one seeks the religious exemption. They are in the business of healthcare, not religion, it is not their place to "judge." Therefore, I would assert that under the same reasoning, it is not a school's place to question one's religion either. They are in the business of education, not religion. Hopefully, I won't have to take this to court to prove or disprove my analogy.

I listened to Dr. Nancy Snyderman and Matt Lauer this a.m. on the "worries" of unvaccinated kids. Why would any mother who vaccinates worry about the unvaccinated ones bringing illnes? Aren't vaccines supposed to protect? This is ridiculous. The same show featured kids who have trouble learning and super head lice. Hmmm. Any connection??? Perhaps immune systems, nervous systems have been affected by the injection of toxins??? I always advocate NO VACCINES. The acquisition of childhood illnesses, properly cared for (not medicated!), will actually build the immune system, not destroy it. Vaccines are only about one thing...money. Connie Newcome

I'm curious. Will public schools allow unvaccinated kids to attend? Is there now some kind of waiver? I have a college age daughter, and this was pretty much a non-issue when she was in elementary.

As a father of a six year old son who has autism, this issue is not only clearly a hot button issue for the medical community, but also an issue that hits at home with us as parents of our son. We have had Braeden (our son) evaluated by a biomedical doctor and it is apparent that there are chemicals in his system from both the environment as well as from vaccines that he has had in the past.

Having said this, we are not of the belief that the pendulum must swing to the far right in favor of a conservative approach to vaccines by choosing not to vaccinate. This reaction has many negative ramifications in terms of contracted diseases that could have been stopped had vaccines been issued. Our approach has been that everything must be done in moderation. Are vaccines evil? I am not quick to take on this approach, however what we as a family have chosen is to vaccine in gentle increments instead of flooding the body with intoleable amounts of foreign entities.

The reaction of insisting not to vaccinate is a natural reation that our culture assumes. Everything must be done in moderation and with proper education and awareness.

The following is from the site Age of Autism.
The author has stated it can be passed along.
It is long but needs to be read

September 15, 2008
An Autism Mom's Open Letter to Dr. Paul Offit
By Julie Obradovic

Dear Dr. Offit,

I am writing in regard to your new book, Autism’s False Prophets: Bad Science, Risky Medicine and Finding a Cure.

It would be premature to say for sure, but I am willing to bet I would be considered a “False Prophet” in your eyes. I am a mother who witnessed her daughter regress into Autism, and I am a mother who believes it was because of her vaccines. I dedicate much of my time to helping other parents who experienced the same thing with their own children.

I also make it a point to encourage parents to research vaccine safety carefully before blindly subjecting their children to it. In fact, I can count at least 10 children under the age of 3 right now who have been spared the one-size-fits-all approach to administering vaccines because of my advice. They are undoubtedly part of any decrease in vaccination rates.

Some critics call me an irresponsible anti-vaccine zealot for this. Frankly, I am baffled by that; I am simply advocating for more independent and relevant research into their safety and administration. I am also simply telling parents to do their homework; any decision they make not to vaccinate is theirs.

I have serious, unanswered questions about the current state of vaccination, and the bullying, fear-mongering, and hateful discourse spewed towards someone like myself does nothing to squelch my concerns, or more important, the concerns my family, friends and neighbors having children right now.

These people know that I am a rational, logical, courageous, highly educated, intelligent mother who pulled her own child out of the depths of Autism. They saw with their own eyes the descent of my perfectly healthy baby girl at birth until 6 months of age into the lost, sick state of Autism by age 2. It’s not me telling them a version of what happened; they saw it for themselves.

They also saw us claw our way out of that hell-hole. They witnessed our family do what-ever it took for however long to get our little girl back. Despite the terrible odds against us, we got her. My daughter no longer qualifies as having Autism.

With 1 in 20 families now being affected by Autism, and thousands of those families recovering their children as we did, you can only imagine this trend (of parents not trusting you) growing. You continue to tell these family members, friends and neighbors that what they witnessed wasn’t real. That doesn’t sit well with most people I know, including you. If I’m not mistaken, the real reason for your book is because you don’t like it when people call you a liar. It goes both ways.

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Instead of critics thanking me for preventing one more person from being dependent on the state for the rest of her life, thus saving them thousands of tax dollars in lifetime care, I am portrayed as an irresponsible parent who just couldn’t accept that she is genetically flawed. Worse, I am now using my denial to hurt other children and society as a whole by scaring parents away from vaccinations.

For starters, I find it interesting that encouraging parents to research and question vaccines, including their ingredients and administrative protocol, is threatening. If there truly is nothing for parents to be afraid of, then what is the problem with telling them to look into it for themselves? The idea that overwhelmingly the medical community would rather parents not question anything in this area, thereby “just trusting us”, gives them reason to pause.

I trust my financial adviser, but I certainly won’t let him do whatever he wants with my money before researching it first. And I trust my child’s teacher, but that doesn’t mean I don’t participate in obtaining the learning outcomes desired for my child. Certainly you can understand that when it comes to a parent’s baby, they are going to be involved in the decision making process of the most important thing that baby has…her health.

Perhaps your resentment of educated parents stems from the fact that there are legitimate unanswered questions about vaccines that research fosters….like what is the safe amount of aluminum that can be injected into a tiny baby and how do you know that? (A biological study that has never been performed and a question that has never been answered.)

When a parent objects that you would subject their child to such an experiment, you are frustrated. Why? Because it appears to be safe for the general public, and that should be a good enough answer?

It would be a blatant lie to say these concerns are only fostered by desperate parents giving bad information and promoting bad science on the internet, but you perpetuate that myth none-the-less. It’s easier to paint us as silly fools than to admit that you don’t have all the answers. You probably find it shocking that of those 10 children I mentioned, 3 of them have parents who are physicians trained in evidence-based medicine. These are not stupid people.

As such, they can’t help but be suspicious of someone like you who claims “I don’t get paid to talk about vaccines” and “vaccines are the safest thing you can put in your body” knowing you just sold a patent for one worth $182 million dollars (a vaccine that as one version had to be pulled because it actually killed some children).

They can’t help but question you when they learn that millions of dollars have been paid out to people hurt by vaccines in a special “vaccine court” designed to protect vaccine manufacturers.

They can’t help but wonder what you are talking about when they read the list of ingredients in a vaccine for themselves, or when they realize those ingredients have never been independently tested for safety.

They also can’t help but wonder about your sanity when you crazily suggest a child could get 100,000 vaccines in one day, no problem. (Would 100,000 traces of thimerosal still be considered a trace?)

And they certainly can’t help but wonder why someone so confident about his knowledge about what does not cause Autism has actually never treated someone with it.

Coupled with the fact that you refuse to debate any Autism specialists, journalists, parents or scientists in person, you end up being as credible as a used car salesman.

*****

In light of their research, and not just with regard to Autism, more and more parents are growing skeptical of vaccines for other reasons as well. Much of it is due to the current state of children’s health in our country.

You don’t have to have a child with Autism to know something is wrong: We have the most vaccinated children in the world, and the sickest. That may or may not be related, but it certainly warrants investigation. An epidemic of immune system dysfunction taking place in kids who are given more vaccines to provoke their immune systems at an earlier age than ever is disturbing, isn’t it?

Right now, 1 in 5 children is in Special Education; allergies and asthma plague millions; diabetes and other chronic diseases are at an all time high; speech delay, learning disabilities, ADHD, and occupational needs continue to soar; and certainly 1 in 64 boys being diagnosed with Autism is beyond comprehension.

In spite of these shameful statistics, medical authorities are doing their best to pretend this is all normal. They just can’t figure out whether or not this is a problem (is it better diagnosis or not?), thereby continuing to deny calling this what it is: An epidemic.

We all know, however, that epidemics can never be genetic; something environmentally must be triggering the problem. This is becoming obvious enough that even the CDC is claiming to look for that trigger (which begs the question, why look for a trigger of an epidemic you claim doesn’t exist?). It will add to the others that have also been conducted.

In one study, they found it could be the television causing Autism.

In another, they suggested dog shampoo could be doing it.

And now, as Dr. Harvey Karp mentioned on Larry King Live!, they are even looking into the flame retardant used in children’s pajamas and their mattresses.

The sad thing about these studies is how truly insulting and wasteful they are. I have yet to meet or read about one parent of a child with Autism who says, “You know, I turned on the television one day, and wouldn’t you know it, my baby got non-stop diarrhea everywhere!”

Or, “By golly, we washed the dog, and the next day, she stopped looking me in the eye!”

Or my favorite, “I put my child in new pajamas, and I swear he regressed right into Autism!”

Yet thousands upon thousands of parents all have the same story: They vaccinated their babies, and something happened….chronic illnesses began, gastro-intestinal stress started, tantrums ensued, seizures took place and their sensory perception changed (among many other problems).

Still, the authorities refuse to make it a priority to look first and foremost at the chemicals INJECTED INTO THEIR BODIES as being the probable cause. No, instead, we’re looking at their pajamas.

Could these stupid studies be necessary because actually finding the real trigger may be too frightening? As Dr. Bernadine Healy eloquently stated on the CBS Evening News, there is an expressed concern that finding that answer would jeopardize the vaccination program.

This means there are people in great positions of power who could investigate this issue thoroughly and instead have clearly stated, “We don’t want to know if vaccines are causing Autism because the ramifications of that answer are too huge.”

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I assume your response would be two-fold: One, that you think Dr. Healy is misinformed as you stated at the AAP Press Conference (it’s interesting how everyone who disagrees with you is misinformed); and Two, that this question has been answered and re-answered: Vaccines have nothing do with it.

You will probably support this belief by referencing studies that supposedly exonerate not only vaccines, but their ingredients as well, from playing any part.

Unfortunately, I know from years of being involved in this debate that the average person doesn’t have a clue about any of these studies. Instead, they hear a prominent physician like you referring to them on the nightly news or NPR and believe they must be true.

What they don’t realize is that these studies in fact do very little to determine the role vaccines or their ingredients play in the Autism epidemic.

*****

To “prove” that vaccines don’t cause Autism, physicians like you have compiled studies they believe put the issue to rest. Most of these studies are population in nature.

The paradigm supported by their compilation is that epidemiological studies would confirm if vaccines were indeed implicated in Autism; the fact that they repeatedly do not allows them to close the book on the subject. In other words, because they haven’t found the association in the general population, the debate is over.

There are 4 major flaws with this.

1. Study Bias

These studies are done by the people who have the most to lose if the outcome is a bad one.

Your paradigm assumes that these compiled studies are independent studies that are not trying to generate a desired outcome.

I do not believe there is a conspiracy in the vaccines-causing-Autism controversy (a common tactic used to discredit my character). That would mean I believe from the very beginning, someone purposely set out to hurt my child. I do not.

But I am not naïve either. It is appropriate to be skeptical of certain scientists’ objectivity, especially when one considers the consequences of what their oversight may have caused (a foreign policy nightmare, lowered vaccination rates and a possible collapse of the vaccination program, law suits, billions in lost revenue, criminal charges). One needs only look at the tobacco industry as an example of the lengths people will go to protect themselves. This issue dwarfs tobacco.

Not only is there is high level conflict of interest on part of many of the authors, but in most instances, they are employees of vaccine manufacturers and/or work for the CDC (an organization responsible for keeping vaccination rates high). This clearly makes them biased.

As an example, consider the Taylor article published in the Lancet (1999). As a response to the Wakefield study (1998), this article attempts to exonerate the MMR from being involved with regressive Autism. The study was performed by several members of the UK Immunization Division of the Public Health Department. In the discussion of their study, they state:

“We hope that our results will reassure parents and others who have been concerned about the possibility that MMR is likely to cause Autism and that they will help to restore confidence in the MMR vaccine.”

A good scientist doesn’t set out to “reassure” anybody of anything with his or her hypothesis. They simply want to find the truth.

Only scientists who are truly independent can be trusted with this important research, which is why there is federal legislation currently pending for such action.

2. Poor Study Design

The methodology employed in these studies is not properly structured to test the hypothesis it is trying to.

You mention bad science as being a part of the problem in this debate; you even mention it in your book title. In this regard, we couldn’t agree more. Over and over and over, studies that set out to test one hypothesis actually end up being irrelevant or inconclusive for finding it out if it’s true, but get reported as conclusive none-the-less.

Consider these examples.

In 2002, Pinichero et al. performed a study to test for thimerosal safety. He reasoned that exposing children to typical thimerosal containing vaccinations and then collecting blood, stool and urine samples would verify its rapid excretion, thus proving its safety.

For starters, the study is limited it to only 40 children; provided Autism affects 1 in 150 children, it is highly probable his sample size was too small. Regardless, the author could still only account for a small percentage of the mercury injected into the children. To explain this, he assumes the rest of it was excreted when he didn’t catch it. However, thimerosal is now documented as entering tissue quickly, including the brain. Without a biopsy of these children’s organs, it is impossible to know where all the mercury went.

Even more, he fails to explain why the two month old baby who received half the amount of thimerosal as the others had the highest percentage blood concentration of mercury. This would seem to fit the theory that not all children have the same detoxification abilities, but this fact is ignored.

None-the-less, this study is widely quoted as proving thimerosal is safe.

Another example of this problem, and perhaps the most important of them all, is the CDC population study conducted in the United States on the role of thimerosal exposure in the development of Autism and other developmental disorders.

Of primary concern, the CDC should have never been allowed to conduct this study in the first place. In perhaps the first instance of its kind, the CDC was investigating a health outcome that they may have caused.

People accused of a crime do not have the luxury of investigating themselves to find out if indeed they are guilty. From the get-go, ethical and responsible researchers should have identified this conflict and given the task to someone on the outside. They did not.

Even after being redone 4 times before publication, noting the correlation “just won’t go away”, the study could still only report finding a “neutral” association between the two.

This neutral association was present in spite of the fact that a child’s cumulative exposure to thimerosal was not accurately tabulated. Flu shots, Rhogam shots given to their mothers while pregnant, and other thimerosal containing vaccines were eliminated from being used to tabulate their total exposure. (Which is odd, isn’t it? If you want to see if it’s having an effect, why not include all of it?)

And now, the original data sets have been lost, destroyed (both punishable as a Federal crime) or stored in off-shore accounts where they cannot be accessed for replication.

Interestingly, Dr. Julie Gerberding, Head of the CDC, recently declared the study “useless” and not helpful in ruling out an association between the two.

Provided this study was a large part of the Institute of Medicine’s 2004 ruling that thimerosal did not play a causal role in the development of Autism, and no longer warranted further study, it is fair to say that their ruling no longer stands. A “useless” study can certainly not support such a position.

The list of examples I could site with this kind of methodology flaw used to exonerate vaccines or their components goes on and on. In fact, there is not one study in your compilation that isn’t subject to this scrutiny, including the recently released study on the MMR.

Because of this, I’m thinking about writing a book too. I’m going to call it, Autism’s False Offits: Biased Science, An absence of Medicine, and No Attempt to Find a Cure.

3. Irrelevant Findings

The studies used to exonerate vaccines from causing Autism are extremely focused, although the question is a broad based one that hasn’t been sufficiently addressed.

Once again, the theory behind vaccines triggering Autism is that there is a genetically susceptible group of individuals who upon exposure to vaccination regress into Autism.

To properly test this theory, multiple studies have yet to be conducted. A study of the never vaccinated versus the vaccinated would help determine if vaccines were indeed implicated, but not necessarily explain why. Additional study of the children with these health impairments is prudent. They need to be tested for vaccine strain viruses that may have not properly cleared the body and/or left behind damage (immediately following regression preferably); they need to be tested for heavy metal toxicity, which may have sparked the problem to begin with; and they need to be tested for any and all evidence that may demonstrate how all of these issues are related.

But we don’t have these studies yet. Instead, what we have are studies that have suggested, not proved, that thimerosal ALONE does not cause Autism in the general population (no longer admissible) and current studies that suggest the MMR ALONE does not either.

Claiming the debate over whether or not vaccines are involved in Autism based on this is irresponsible. We don’t have a study on the effect of the combination of the two, or on all of the other vaccines given in combination. Considering there are now dozens of routine childhood vaccines, the causal possibilities are numerous.

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None-the-less, let’s assume that all of that science is actually perfect. Let’s assume that none of the authors, whether or not they are vaccine patent holders like you, or employees of vaccination companies, or members of the CDC are unethical in any capacity. Let’s say that each and every individual conducting these studies has the highest professional standards and would not compromise something so important in any capacity. And let’s assume that all of the studies were designed and methodically carried out to the tee.

They still don’t prove Autism isn’t caused by vaccines.

4. Epidemiology can never prove causation.

While population studies are useful for identifying large-scale problems, they are not useful in identifying genetic susceptibilities, and again, can never stand alone in proving something did or did not happen in an individual.

Suppose I have a grove of multiple kinds of fruit trees, and every time I spray the grove with pesticide, my orange trees get sick but none of the other trees do. If I study the entire grove over and over again and don’t come up with an association between the pesticide and the sick orange trees, I still can’t rule out that it was the pesticide that did it to them.

That doesn’t mean my study of the fruit trees was wrong, and it doesn’t mean the pesticide is bad for all the trees; it just means my study was irrelevant to the question at hand. At best I know most of my fruit trees are fine when exposed to this chemical. It doesn’t change the fact something’s still wrong when my oranges are, or that I still don’t know why.

Provided none of the Autism studies touted exclusively studies the children who did regress after their vaccines, it is baffling that medical professionals are so willing to claim the issue is closed for debate.

Ethical and compassionate physicians would make it a priority to say, “Although I don’t understand why this is happening to these children, and although some studies are telling me it didn’t happen to the general population of children (Thank God!), I have an obligation to find out why it did to this child. Why did this child regress after his vaccines, and what evidence does he show me that it was or wasn’t causal?”

This is a substantially different take from saying “Population studies told me it didn’t happen, therefore it didn’t. Case closed.”

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Those physicians who do feel obligated to look beyond epidemiology are conducting such research. Together they and scientists from prestigious universities like Harvard and Colombia have compiled significant scientific evidence demonstrating that indeed vaccines may be involved.

Evidence

1. Anecdotal

Hundreds of thousands of parents globally all have the same story: They vaccinated their children and something happened. In some instances, the something happened immediately. In others, it happened slowly over time and got worse with each series of vaccines. Regardless, they all subscribe to the same story. They witnessed their children’s health deteriorate after vaccines, and subsequently their children were diagnosed with Autism.

While this is not conclusive as being causal, it certainly is valid. Anecdotal evidence is revered as being scientific and the fact that so many parents are telling the same story should raise red flags everywhere. Instead, parents are irresponsibly dismissed as imagining it or remembering things inaccurately.

Furthermore, the timing of the onset of Autism and vaccines is identical. This too makes it highly plausible they are involved.

2. Epidemiological

Multiple studies done, including those sponsored by the CDC, prove that there has been a substantial increase in Autism and other developmental disorders in the last 2 decades. This increase starts precisely when the Hepatitis B shot was administered at birth, beginning in the late 1980’s.

Many doctors have written this increase off as an indication of better diagnosis. However, the better diagnosis belief would mean that about 97% of cases of Autism in 1985 and prior were missed. In other words, 1 in 64 40 year old males is walking around right now with Autism and doesn’t know it.

Finally, no wide-scale study has been done on the vaccinated versus never vaccinated children of this country (a study that also has legislation behind it). It is absolutely impossible to know the true differences in health outcomes between them. In this case, it is a lack of epidemiology that is hurting our kids.

3. Biological

Incredibly, the symptoms of mercury poisoning and Autism are identical. They aren’t kind of similar, or sort of the same, they are identical. The idea that we are actually debating whether or not injecting kids with mercury can cause the symptoms of mercury is ridiculous.

I’ve included a table in case you are one of those ignorant physicians often quoted who only know mercury toxicity in the form of Acrodynia or Minimata Disease and fail to understand the other ways it may manifest. There is no doubt the comparison of mercury toxicity to Autism is stunning.

*Borrowed from Changing the Course of Autism (Jepsen)

Mercury Toxicity Autism
Biochemistry Biochemistry
• Binds SH groups; blocks sulfate transporter in intestines and kidneys
• Reduces glutathione availability, inhibits enzymes of glutathione metabolism; glutathione needed in neurons, cells, and liver to detoxify heavy metals; reduces glutathione peroxidase and reductase
• Disrupts purine and pyrimidine metabolism
• Disrupts mitochondrial activities, especially in the brain • Low sulfate levels
• Low levels of glutathione; decreased ability of liver to detoxify xenobiotics; abnormal glutathione peroxidase activity in erythrocytes
• Purine and pyrimidine metabolism errors lead to autistic features
• Mitochondrial dysfunction, especially in the brain
Immune System Immune System
• Sensitive individuals more likely to have allergies, asthma, autoimmune-like symptoms, especially rheumatoid-like ones
• Can produce an immune response in CNS, causes brain/MBP autoantibodies
• Causes overproduction of Th2 subset; kills/inhibits lymphocytes, T-cells, and monocytes; decreases NK T-cell activity; induces or suppresses IGNg & IL-2 • More likely to have allergies and asthma; familial presence of autoimmune diseases, especially rheumatoid arthritis; IgA deficiencies
• On-going immune response in CNS; brain/MBP autoantibodies present
• Skewed immune-cell subset in the Th2 direction; decreased response to T-cells mitogens; reduced NK T0cell function; increased IFNg & IL-12
CNS (Central Nervous System) structure CNS Structure
• Selectively targets brain areas unable to detoxify or reduce Hg-induced oxidative stress
• Accummulates in amygdale, hippocampus, basal ganglia, cerebral cortex; damages Purkinje and granule cells in cerebellum; brain stem defects in some cases
• Causes abnormal neuroanoal cytoarchitecture; disrupts neuronal migration, microtubules, and cell division; reduces NCAMs
• Progressive microcephaly • Specific areas of brain pathology; many functions spared (area 36)
• Pathology in amygdale, hippocampus, basal ganglia, cerebral brain stem defects in some cases
• Nauronal disorganization; increased neuronal cell replication, increased glial cells; depressed expression of NCAMs
• Progressive microephaly and macroephaly
Neuro-chemistry Neuro-chemistry
• Prevents presynaptic serotonin release and inhibits serotonin transport; causes calcium disruptions
• Alters dopamine systems; peroxidine deficiency in rats resembles mercurialism in humans
• Elevates epinephrine and norepinephrine levels by blocking enzyme that degrades epinephrine
• Elevates glutamate
• Leads to cortical acetylcholine deficiency; increases muscarinic receptor density in hippocampus and cerebellum
• Causes demyelinating neuropathy • Decreased serotonin synthesis in children; abnormal calcium metabolisjm
• Either high or low dopamine levels; positive response to peroxidine, which lowers dopamine levels
• Elevated norepinephrine and epinephrine
• Elevated glutamate and aspirate
• Cortical acetylcholine deficiency; reduced muscarinic receptor binding in hippocampus
• Demylelination in brain
Neurophysiology Neurophysiology
• Causes abnormal EEGs, epileptiform activity, variable patterns, e.g., subtle, low amplitude seizure activities
• Causes abnormal vestibular nystagums responses; loss of sense of position in space
• Results in autonomic disturbance: excessive sweating, poor circulation, elevated heart rate • Abnormal EEGs, epileptiform activity, variable patterns, including subtle, low amplitude seizure activities
• Abnormal vestibular nystagmus responses; loss of sense of position in space
• Autonomic disturbance: unusual sweating, poor circulation, elevated heart rate
Psychiatric Disturbances Psychiatric Disturbances
• Social deficits, shyness social withdrawal
• Repetitive, preservative, stereotypic behaviors; obsessive-compulsive tendencies
• Depression/depressive traits, mood swings, flat affect; impaired face recognition
• Anxiety; schizoid tendencies; irrational fears
• Irritability, aggression, temper-tantrums
• Lacks eye contact; impaired visual fixation, problems in joint attention • Social deficits, shyness social withdrawal
• Repetitive, preservative, stereotypic behaviors; obsessive-compulsive tendencies
• Depression/depressive traits, mood swings, flat affect; impaired face recognition
• Anxiety; schizoid tendencies; irrational fears
• Irritability, aggression, temper-tantrums
• Lacks eye contact; impaired visual fixation, problems in joint attention
Speech and Language Deficits Speech and Language Deficits
• Loss of speech, delayed language, failure to develop speech
• Dysarthria; articulation problems
• Speech comprehension deficits
• Verbalizing and word retrieval problems; echolalia, word use and pragmatic errors • Loss of speech, delayed language, failure to develop speech
• Dysarthria; articulation problems
• Speech comprehension deficits
• Verbalizing and word retrieval problems; echolalia, word use and pragmatic errors
Sensory Abnormalities Sensory Abnormalities
• Abnormal sensation in mouth and extremities
• Sound sensitivity; mild to profound hearing loss
• Abnormal touch sensations; touch aversion
• Over-sensitivity to light; blurred vision, loss of color perception
• Under-sensitive or over-sensitive to pain • Abnormal sensation in mouth and extremities
• Sound sensitivity; mild to profound hearing loss
• Abnormal touch sensations; touch aversion
• Over-sensitivity to light; blurred vision
• Under-sensitive or over-sensitive to pain
Motor Disorders Motor Disorders
• Flapping, myoclonal jerks, choreiform movements, circling, rocking, toe walking, unusual postures
• Deficits in eye-hand coordination; limb apraxia; intention tremors, problems with intentional movement or imitation
• Abnormal gait and posture, clumsiness and incoordination; difficulties sitting, lying, crawling, and walking; problem on one side of body • Flapping, myoclonal jerks, choreiform movements, circling, rocking, toe walking, unusual postures
• Deficits in eye-hand coordination; limb apraxia; intention tremors, problems with intentional movement or imitation
• Abnormal gait and posture, clumsiness and incoordination; difficulties sitting, lying, crawling, and walking; problem on one side of body
Cognitive Impairments Cognitive Impairments
• Borderline intelligence, mental retardation-some cases reversible
• Poor concentration, attention, response inhibition
• Poor visual and perceptual motor skills; impairment in simple reaction time
• Deficits in understanding abstract ideas & symbolism; degeneration of higher mental powers, sequencing, planning and organization • Borderline intelligence, mental retardation-some cases reversible
• Poor concentration, shifting attention
• Poor visual and perceptual motor skills; impairment in simple reaction time lower performance on timed tests
• Difficulty in carrying out complex commands
• Deficits in understanding abstract ideas & symbolism; degeneration of higher mental powers, sequencing planning and organizing
Unusual Behaviors Unusual Behaviors
• Self-injurious behavior, head banging
• Inability to focus or concentrate; hyperactivity
• Agitation, unprovoked crying, grimacing and staring spells
• Sleep disturbances and impairments
• Self-stimulatory behaviors
• Obsessive compulsive behaviors • Self-injurious behavior, head banging
• ADHD traits
• Agitation, unprovoked crying, grimacing and staring spells
• Sleep disturbances and impairments
• Self-stimulatory behaviors
• Obsessive compulsive behaviors
Physical Disturbances Physical Disturbances
• Hyper or hypotonia; abnormal reflexes; decreased muscle strength; especially upper body; incontinence; problems chewing and swallowing
• Rashes, dermatitis, eczema, itching
• Peeling skin (hands and feet)
• Diarrhea; abdominal pain/discomfort, constipation, colitis
• Anorexia, nausea, vomiting; poor appetite, restricted diet
• Lesions of ileum and colon; increased gut permeability • Hyper or hypotonia; abnormal reflexes; decreased muscle strength; especially upper body; incontinence; problems chewing and swallowing
• Rashes, dermatitis, eczema, itching
• Diarrhea; abdominal pain/discomfort, constipation, colitis
• Anorexia, nausea, vomiting; poor appetite, restricted diet
• Lesions of ileum and colon; increased gut permeability

It is impossible for a parent like myself, who witnessed her daughter regress into Autism more and more with each set of vaccines she received, to believe that it is a coincidence that she was repeatedly injected with mercury (including at birth), and then developed the symptoms of mercury poisoning.

This is the equivalent of someone saying that they went into the sun for 2 hours on a sunny day and got the symptoms of a sun burn, but the sun didn’t do it because everybody else they know always gets a tan, (and they better not treat themselves or tell anyone what happened because the sun is good). It is completely and totally illogical to believe such a thing.

Further evidence to support a toxicological base in Autism comes from studies that demonstrate higher rates of Autism among children who live near coal-burning plants; a study that demonstrates glutathione levels (a substance necessary for detoxification) being 68% lower in children with Autism than their nuerotypical peers; and a study on mice with a predisposition for auto-immune conditions that shows a markedly different response to thimerosal exposure than the mice who did not.

Then there are the studies that show thimerosal causes mitochondrial dysfunction, the exact same condition the Dept. of Health and Human Services (in a medical decision, not a legal one) just said caused Hannah Poling’s symptoms of Autism after receiving 9 vaccines at once.

Not to mention, the very first cases of Autism ever diagnosed in the world or anywhere in medical literature were done shortly after thimerosal was introduced on the market. Among those cases, many of them had parents who worked with or lived near ethyl mercury, the same kind of mercury used in thimerosal.

In fact, there is so much evidence against thimerosal that an entire book was written on it by an award-winning journalist in 2005: Evidence of Harm, by David Kirby.

At a minimum, this evidence substantiates ruling out mercury toxicity in all children with Autism. That was my purpose when finding a qualified specialist to test my daughter.

Why wouldn’t I rule it out as a possibility? Because one flawed epidemiological study done by those who would be held accountable told me maybe it happened, maybe it didn’t? Because vaccines save lives and questioning them is wrong? How irrelevant! How irresponsible! My daughter was injected with mercury and subsequently developed the symptoms of what it causes! How could I not test her?

Naturally, when it was confirmed she was mercury toxic, I was outraged. Well first, I actually vomited.

I don’t believe anyone tried to poison my daughter, but they did. As a result, her entire life and what she will be able to do with it has been permanently altered.

More urgent, she needed to be treated. Under a doctor’s care, using only medication approved for mercury poisoning, she was.

Today, I’m thrilled to report; she no longer has mercury poisoning….or Autism.

*****

Dr. Offit, time limits my ability in this letter to list each and every study that supports evidence that children with Autism have substantial health problems, including but not limited to their immune system, their central nervous system, and their gastro-intestinal system. They have severe nutritional deficiencies; tolerate horrific yeast overgrowth in their guts coupled with leaky gut syndrome and dysbiosis; are in a constant state of battling viruses and infection; have lowered detoxification capabilities and suffer from heavy metal toxicity; and live daily with intense pain, inflammation, and sensory issues.

All of these health issues are well-documented in the medical literature. All a responsible physician has to do is look.

But instead, they are told not to because according to physicians like you, all of it is garbage. Somehow only the studies done by those who have the most to lose, the CDC, the AAP, and the vaccine manufacturing companies, are actually quality.

According to your (and their) logic:

It’s a coincidence that Autism didn’t appear in the medical literature until right after thimerosal came on the market. (It’s been around for centuries, we just never bothered to document it.)

It’s a coincidence the symptoms of Autism and mercury poisoning are the same. (Sometimes these things happen.)

It’s a coincidence that as children are being treated for their medical problems they are losing their diagnosis. (It’s both a lifelong genetic condition and something people spontaneously recover from.)

It’s a coincidence that these children are regressing into Autism at the same time they are getting their vaccines. (Unfortunate timing.)

It’s a coincidence that four times as many boys have Autism than girls, even though we know mercury is synergistic with testosterone. (Mercury has nothing to do with Autism.)

It’s a coincidence that the rate of Autism and other developmental disorders has sky-rocketed as we added more vaccines to the schedule. (We have gotten better at diagnosing, that’s all.)

It’s a coincidence parent after parent has the same story. They vaccinated and their child shortly developed Autism thereafter. (It’s the internet’s fault.)

At the same time, you perpetuate the myth that thimerosal is a safe substance and that it is no longer in vaccines; you even state that in trace amounts it is the equivalent of being exposed to the mercury that we breathe or eat. I certainly hope I am misunderstanding that you believe breathing or eating a substance is the same as having it injected into your body. They most certainly are not.

We both know that if you ever tried to convince a parent that injecting their child with just a little bit of lead, simply because lead is in a pencil they use or in the food they eat, the parent would run fast and far away from you. Yet mercury is 500 times more toxic.

Additionally, you know that thimerosal has never been tested for safety. It is labeled as poison and the bottle clearly states that exposure may result in neurological harm. It is so toxic that it was banned from over-the-counter products in 1982 and form animal vaccines in 1991. It’s so toxic that when put on the umbilical cords of 7 babies in a hospital in 1977, they all died.

Still, it inexplicably remains in human vaccines to this day. Despite claims to the contrary, it was never “removed”. To date, no one has verified that indeed it is no longer on the shelves of doctor’s everywhere. At best, it is only in smaller amounts, not zero amounts. Even worse, it is now recommended that all pregnant women and children get a flu shot, which has the full dose of 25 micrograms in it (unless they know to ask otherwise).

Considering the argument has always been there is a genetic susceptibility to this substance, it is irresponsible to claim that less of it would automatically be less dangerous to such a person. A person with a peanut allergy only needs 1 peanut to go into anaphylactic shock, not a bowl full, and sometimes less than that.

*****

By continuing to promote to this coincidental and toxicological non-sense, you are denying the right to medical care for millions across the globe, a human right’s violation.

Our children are perhaps the sickest children on the planet, and yet they are shamefully not given medical care. Instead, they are told to go home with their parents where they should get behavioral therapy alone, and worse, look into an institution. They are written off from society as being hopeless causes and a burden to their families.

This is the equivalent of a parent whose child has cancer being told to just forget about treating them and go buy a burial plot.

In an even crueler twist of fate, our children can’t tell us what is wrong or where it hurts because their ability to speak has been taken from them. To communicate sometimes, they scream and hurt themselves and throw tantrums. They have chronic gastro-intestinal distress and unimaginable pain; are overly sensitive to everything; often can’t ever get a good night’s sleep; and sometimes can’t even tolerate being touched as their parents try to comfort them. All the while they are expected to learn or behave properly. Can you imagine their hell?

And now parents are being told by ignorant members of society that their precious kids are simply brats who don’t know how to behave in public. Supposedly they are just putting on act because their fathers have disappeared or their mom doesn’t know how to discipline. I suppose if I weren’t an insider I would tell myself that too; the idea that this is real is enough to scare anyone into rationalizing it away.

Make no mistake, the torture of watching your child succumb to this disease and being told that there’s nothing you can or should do; well frankly, it is enough to drive some people over the edge. It should not be surprising parents of children with Autism are killing themselves and their children, jumping with them off bridges, drowning them, and suffocating them.

It doesn’t get any more real than that.

*****

Dr. Offit, there is a generation of children who are on fire right now. Their health is in flames, and rather than doing everything in your power to put them out, you have chosen to debate about whether or not there really is a fire; if and how it started; and whether or not there is any real reason to put them out.

Worse, you have taken it upon yourself to ridicule and criticize those of us parents who have decided to douse our children in water, despite your inaction. You criticize the kind of water we are using, where we are getting it from, how much we are using, who is helping us get it, and have the audacity to suggest that us attempting to put out the flames is more irresponsible than letting them burn.

In an even more despicable twist, you go so far as to accuse us of actually wanting and causing other children to get hurt because we warn parents about how our fire started; it’s easier to blame us rather than acknowledge your pitiful display of incompetence as being the real reason for the spark. How dare you.

I love my children more than anything in the world. I also love the children of my family members, my neighbors, and my friends. I would lie down in traffic for any one of them if that’s what it took to save their life. For anyone to suggest that I would recklessly put their lives or other people’s children at risk because I encourage them to research vaccine safety is pouring salt on a gaping wound.

The pain I feel about what happened to my middle child is often times intolerable, and I’m one of the lucky ones. I got her back. There isn’t a day that goes by that I don’t wish I didn’t believe vaccines hurt her. I’ve lost faith in my government, my media, and my medical institution (but am hopeful it can be restored). To top it off, I am subjected to the vile of anonymous bullies and threatened physicians who are angry that my experience differs from what they think it should have.

The saddest thing is we’re both on the same side. We both want children to be protected, except I believe we can and have to do better. To be sure though, I would not wish what happened to my daughter on my worst enemy, even them.

Can you imagine what it feels like to hold your child down to be poisoned at the hands of people you trusted; to watch her suffer in silence unable to communicate her pain and fear; to confirm she was poisoned after wasting years of time; and to live with the never-ending pain of not knowing what irreparable damage was caused or who she was meant to be…Only to be told that what you lived wasn’t real; that trying to help her is irresponsible; and that by speaking out about it and trying to prevent it from happening to another child you are recklessly putting society at risk?

Let’s get something straight: my daughter is the victim here, not the medical community. And as for society, our debt has been paid a thousand fold.

When I followed the rules….When I listened to the advice of my doctors and showed up at their doorstep exactly on the day my baby was scheduled to receive her shots, something horrible happened.

I don’t know why it happened to my daughter and not my son. I don’t know why it happens to some children and not others. I don’t have those answers, Dr. Offit, but I do know this: It happened.

I’m sorry that makes you defensive. I’m sorry you have chosen to take it personally rather than admit you don’t have all the answers. I’m sorry you cannot acknowledge the existing studies have their limitations and that you, being a vaccine patent holder are probably not the best person to be promoting or dictating your version of vaccine safety.

But I am not sorry that I have chosen to speak out about it. I am not sorry that those 10 children I mentioned earlier, including my own, will no longer be subjected to blindly following along a path that so many have for so long. I am not sorry that parents everywhere are beginning to think for themselves and are demanding answers.

And I absolutely will not apologize that I have the courage to stand up and ask you if in the name of good we have inadvertently swapped infectious disease for chronic disease. No responsible person wants a resurgence of vaccine preventable diseases, but no responsible person wants chronic disease to be the cost of preventing them, especially if it is our children who are making that payment.

We have been vaccinating human beings for decades now, and we have yet to take a step back and look at any unintended consequences we may have caused. We have a responsibility to humanity to study that possibility, no matter how unpleasant the answer may be.

And no, despite your claim to the contrary, we haven’t.

Sincerely,
Julie Obradovic

Julie Obradovic is the mom of a recovered

Hi.

After seeing a normal child develop pertussis, (basically became a "vegetable"), at the age of 3 months after the 3 in one measles, mumps and rubella vaccination, I never again had my children vaccinated for anything! There are homeoepathic options available too.

My grandson, Robert, turned from a bright, sweet, patient, loveable boy to a screaming monster almost overnight. FROM HIS 2ND SET OF DPT SHOTS at 18 months. We have searched all the cures we could find from the day his new behavior was diagnosed as Autism. He was NOT born autistic, his development was that of a high level achiever, he was not in an accident. It was the shot.
Robert will never be able to function on his own. The day is approaching when he will have to be placed in a care facility as he is 16 now and his parents have aged with him. As much as we all love him, we can't live forever.
From what I have learned, along with the rest of the family who has researched Autism is; If you wait until the child's stem cell is well developed, the chance of getting Autism from a shot is greatly reduced. I would like to see the results of a study of children who receive their vaccinations just before starting school, and see if it's still 1 in 5 or if the rate drops to 1 in 10,000 as it was when Robert got his shots. (Or even better results, I'm guessing). I think the awful increase in Autism is from shots that have multiple serum incorporated into one shot. Some of the shots now have 5… 8 …types of vaccine in them. Too much for ONE IN FIVE little people to handle. If you must vaccinate early have your doctor give single serum shots. Get the D… then the P, then the T separate (example).
My advice is, keep your children home with you for the first 4 years, then decide if you want to start their shots. You have time before they can start school. That’s what more and more of my friends are doing, and not one of their children are Autistic and not died of some childhood disease before they received their shots.

sometimes it's not autism... sometimes it's systemic candida... if you look at the symptoms, they explain many of the behavoirs of children who have been classified as having autism.

eg:

numbness/tingling/ weakness in legs - toe walking
numbness/tingling in arms and hands - hand flapping
concentration issues and short term memory - would explain the learning issues

and the list goes on.

years ago the shots were spread out, today a kid gets held down and blindsided with the shots all at once, i can't be convinced the shots have nothing to do with autism, not when a chilsd is doing well then suddenly it all changes , everything they were , everything they knew is gone , saddest thing to see, and your pretty much in alone insurances don't help. spread the shots out thats it.

. Autism isn't the only issue with vaccines, many of the ingredients cause problems that are reported and many are left unreported, but are there none the less, including diabetes, brain damage, seasures, peralisis, scoliosis, autoimmune disorders, dead immune systems and death.
Every parent needs to research DEEPLY and not just skim the serfice of the manufactures. It's a hard choice, but please make a smart one and not just follow blindly

"There are too many factors in kids getting sick, it's impossible to point the finger at any one thing. I think the media is making this into a sensational story, blowing it out of proportion when, let's face it, 131 cases isn't even 1% of the population, it's a drop in the bucket." -- firstkid4me

SURE IT'S LESS THAN 1%, BUT IT'S 131 CHILDREN..THAT'S A LOT OF PEOPLE TO THINK OF BEING INJURED. LET'S HOPE YOU ARE NEVR IN THAT >1% HUH?

Here is something to consider. The environment. Autism could be caused by some pollution!

I come from a large family. We all recieved the vaccines. Not a problem.

My oldest brother contracted Polio, when he was 3 years old. I know he would tell you to let your children get the vaccines.

The benefits out weigh any risk. Measels cause DEATH!

I have questioned the necessity of all these vaccinations for some time now. There are so many children with allergic reactions to this, that and the other thing. We are continuously being presented with implemented vaccinations and shooting our kids up with this, that and the other thing because a group of busniesses and so called doctors tell us what is best for our children but when presented with our children becoming sick more often with simple things such as a cold they are getting sicker than ever with it and why?

When I was a kid a cold was a cold, not much to worry about but now with my kids I am so worried they will go from a simple cold to pnemonia ... again not a common thing that happened when I was growing up but it is today.

I was told that if I didn't present my son's up to date vaccination card that he could not start JK this year ... so I was forced to get him his vaccinations.

My son has asthma but very seldom has he really had any problems with it, he does have 2-3 rough days at the beginning of each season and then he is fine. He has had 1 real cold that had turned into borderline pnemonia and had to go to the hospital when he was about a year old but he came through it and no major issues since then and he is 4 yrs old now. Other than that my son is a very strong and healthy boy. Lets see how many times he gets sick now that he was forced to get his vaccinations and with what.

Now that I think about it most of my families illnesses has evolved from allergies - lactose, asthma enduced by allergies (environmental), environmental allergies (tress, grass, ragweed, dogs, cats, lilacs), smoke, perfumes and one daughter that has an allergy to penicillan which no one has ever been allergic to in my family.

I have always been and I will continue to be a mother that has tried home remedies before running to the doctor for a prescription. I am a firm believer that if you don't need to take a pill / med to fix it then why take it.

My father was a major pill taker ... he would invent aches and pains and his doctor would give him pills to "fix it". When my father was forced to go to another doctor because his retired it was the best thing that could have happened to him. The new doctor evaluated the situation each time my father would call upon him and he would ask my father to first of all rate his pain, he would also ask what he had been eating, what he had being doing and so forth, then he would suggest several things he could do to possibly help relieve his pain without pills / meds.

My father would return within a short period of time, saying he tried everything the doctor suggested but nothing had changed and that the pain had gotten much worse. So his doctor would give him something to relieve the pain. My father would after a several weeks of taking his meds, if he felt the dose wasn't big enough, return to his doctor and say that things were a little better but still quite painful.

Tests were run in the mean time so then they would go over the test results and the doctor would always suggest that my father just bare with it for 3-4 more weeks so the pills / meds could take effect because his dose would usually be quite high at this point.

Guaranteed my father would be back within 3-4 weeks complaining the pain was now unbarable and that the doctor had to do something about it. Finally the doctor would suggest a new med after talking to my mother about the pain my father was in and what has been done at home about it (the changes the doctor suggested). I came to found out, much later in my life, that my father was was given a "sugar pill" at a very low dose and every time my father would miraculously feel so much better. Amazingly enough!

Some people feel that they need a pill / meds to feel better but in reality some just don't need any at all. In other words it is a mental state we put ourselves into to feel better.

Me ... I refused to take a pill / meds unless I have tried everything possible to correct my issue ... and then reluctantly I may take a pill / meds. I have seen me in bed with such terrible pain in my right knee straight up to my hip that I would be nearly in tears but I didn't want to be popping pills / meds if I really didn't have to. Most times my pain would disapate in time once I put my leg up and kept it warm with a blanket for an hour or so. I would keep it moving at a limited amount until the pain subsided somewhat. I still do that now but yes I have taken a Tylenol or Advil when necessary but never before I have tried taking care of it in the usual manner ... keeping it up and warm for about an hour. I have arthritis in that knee and I have had it since I was a kid. I remember my grandmother rubbing my knee with Rawleigh's Liniment when I would wake up in the middle of the night crying in pain. Without fail I would be back to bed and asleep within 15-20 minutes.

My mother's body was riddled with arthritis from head to toe ... her doctor told her that she had about 4-5 years of walking and then she would be in a wheelchair. Mom was 36 yrs old when her doctor told her that. My mother had the most muscular calves I have ever seen in my life and she kept them until a month or so before she passed away, as she was bed ridden for the last 4 weeks of her time with us.

Mom had several surgeries on both knees during the time she was first diagnosed until her knee replacement, so that was about 21 years beyond her doctors prediction. Hmmm. My mother used a scooter for her bad days to retrieve groceries and long distance travels around town for the last 3 years of her life and when she passed away she was had just received a knee replacement 8 months before that. My mother was a very strong and determined person and refused to belief that she would end up in a wheelchair without a good fight and she stayed active right down to her last several weeks with us.

Yes, she did take pills / meds for arthritis but she strongly believed that if it wasn't for her mother rubbing her legs down with lavendar lotion each night and staying so active that she may not have been so mobile. I intend to have the same attitude my mother had because it got her through many situations and she came out on top.

Our bodies can only take so much so we need to take the best care of our bodies as possible ... not just in respect to pills / meds but also in respect to how we treat our body food wise, exercise, and such.

So remember what you give your body, your body will give back to you. Ask questions and get informed. Remember to be kind to your body and live well.