Posted on 10/30/2001 11:32:46 PM PST by Verax
By Chet Day
Every year about this time, quite a few people write me and ask, "My Doctor tells me to get my annual flu shot. Should I do it?"
Well, I don't diagnose or prescribe, and what you do with your body remains entirely up to you and your doctor (if you still go to a doctor), but I'll gladly tell you what I do regarding flu shots...
I avoid them like the plague.
In fact, at age 52, I've never had a flu shot, and it would take a Marine nurse and at least four burly wrestlers the size of Jesse Ventura to hold me down and give me one.
Perhaps you already sense I have strong feelings about flu shots?
These feelings stem from personal opinion, reading, and dramatic personal experience.
First off, I don't think toxic chemicals and virus strains grown on living tissue belong in the human body, even when they're packaged in sterile glass vials.
Since my family and I don't rely on doctors anymore, I don't have access to an insert that reveals the composition of this year's flu vaccine, but I did find some general information at the Concerned Parents for Vaccine Safety web site, where I learned about some of the ingredients used to make vaccines.
Do you want any of the following vaccine constituents in YOUR bloodstream?
Vaccines are also grown and strained through animal or human tissue like monkey kidney tissue, chicken embryo, embryonic guinea pig cells, calf serum, and human diploid cells (the dissected organs of aborted human fetuses as in the case of rubella, hepatitis A, and chickenpox vaccines).
Well, I refuse to put all of the above in my body, and I hope when your doctor starts telling you it's time for your annual flu shot that you'll require him to defend the annual injection. You or your insurance company's probably paying eighty bucks for a visit, so get your money's worth.
Have your doctor read you the insert that comes with the vaccine.
Then have him/her explain why it makes sense to inject toxic chemicals into the human body and how such substances can aid the delicate immune system.
Chances are he/she will fall back on questionable statistical and demographic explanations that the medical establishment has used for decades to justify immunization.
Try to engage your doctor in a non-confrontational discussion because this is an opportunity for him/her to actually give some serious thought to what he/she is injecting into bodies of patients day after day after day.
Many traditional doctors who haven't studied diet and life style aren't going to change unless we help to educate them to what drugs and vaccines may really be doing long-term to people.
Okay, to speak from personal experience for a moment, let's look over our shoulders to 1990, a time period before the Day family turned to natural methods of building health.
In February of 1990, right after my wife's major cancer surgery in January, her doctor recommended a flu shot.
Not too many days after having the injection, my wife started feeling ill, and she came down with the worst case of flu she'd ever had.
She went to bed and literally didn't up again for more than a few hours at a time for years afterwards. Only now, almost a decade later, is she finally regaining full health and energy.
I don't have space or enough heart yet to tell my wife's entire story, though I'll do it one of these days, but if you'll click here, you can read an article written by another CFIDS sufferer, an article that shows the cause and effect connection between flu vaccines and terrible immune disorders.
Okay, I'm a realist so if I were still thinking traditionally, part of me would almost buy into the typical rationale for flu vaccines, that so many people are spared the annual flu and only a few die or have their lives ruined after being injected.
I'd buy into that if I were convinced that injecting a filthy substance into the body actually made sense.
Unfortunately, once I stopped buying into the big medical lies about their drug, cut, and burn system, I started questioning all if it.
And when one digs into the vaccine history (check out the Swine Flu vaccine if you want a real horror story) and scientific research (especially in Europe), it quickly becomes apparent that nobody really knows what these toxic stews of chemicals and microorganisms do in the human body.
Well, readers and a few medical professionals have called me a simple-minded dolt on more than one occasion, but since 1993 I've approached the yearly flu shot hype with the understanding that if I eat and live properly, I won't have to worry about catching the flu.
The flu vaccine I use -- eating and living as close to nature as I can -- actually works.
Not only that, but it doesn't cost a dime, and nobody's going to have his/her life ruined because of a "bad batch" of vaccine that triggers some mysterious autoimmune disease that lays a person out of commission for years.
But let's say you don't want to eat and live close to nature.
Okay, I can understand that, but my next question would be "Which is better? Some rest time with the flu or having toxic chemicals injected into your bloodstream?"
I mean, seriously, before I got healthy I almost looked forward to a yearly bout with influenza because it meant I could go to bed and get some rest instead of working practically every waking moment of my life.
I might add that I haven't missed more than two consecutive days of work from an illness for almost five years, so a non-vaccine approach does work for me. This non-drug approach has resulted in a level of health that continually amazes me, especially when I see other men and women my age who are miserable and without energy. Men and women who spend all too much of their time drifting from doctor to doctor in endless pursuit of solutions that don't get to the cause of their problems -- diet and life style.
Thinking about taking a flu shot?
Do yourself a favor and think twice, and before taking that jab in the arm, review some natural approaches to building health by clicking here and then clicking here.
And if you want to do more research, visit the sites below.
Click here and learn how biological intrusions are limiting human potential.
Then click here to read the heart-wrenching story of a man whose health was ruined by getting his flu shot.
Click here to learn more about the flu vaccine -- is it really safe and effective?
For the status quo rationale for why the vaccine must be taken every year, courtesy of the Center for Disease Control, click here.
Finally, click here to read how a major physicians group has called for a moratorium on all government-related vaccines.
The decision regarding a flu shot is yours to make, but I urge you to make that decision from a position of strength and knowledge.
Do your homework before you agree to a flu shot.
All fine if you are young and healthy. Not a good idea if you are in your sixties or prone to lung disease, as my wife is. I could and have done without them from time to time. Last year we did not get our shots and my wife nearly died, so we will get ours this year. As far as the ingredients, check a cereal box or any food and see what is in them. We, as a nation, have been imbibing that stuff and it has had the detrimental effect of changing our lifespan from 40 to 76 since we started adding poisions to our food. Most of these health nuts do not live any longer than the general population. But they usually look older.
Since a case of the flu could easily kill me, I'll go with the shots. I haven't had any adverse reaction to them for years, nor have I gotten the flu.
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