Friday, January 11, 2013

by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger

Editor of NaturalNews.com

(NaturalNews) The USA is in an official flu pandemic panic right now, with Boston declaring a public health emergency and hospitals setting up flu treatment tents as if cities were war zones. The CDC says it’s the worst flu pandemic in a decade, and it’s of course urging everybody to get injected with flu vaccines.

But here’s the dirty little secret the vaccine industry doesn’t want you to know:

Most people getting the flu right now are the same people who were vaccinated with the flu shot.

The CDC refuses to release any statistics on this, of course, because then the total hoax of the flu shot would be exposed. But I’ve been making phone calls to a large network of friends and professional contacts, and they’re all telling me the same thing: Of the people they know who are getting sick, about two-thirds routinely get flu shots!

Check with your own friends, family members or co-workers on this point. Ask the ones who got sick: Did you get a flu shot? See if the answers you get are about the same as mine: Two-thirds.

If this holds true across a larger data set, it means that flu shots actually make you MORE susceptible to the flu. That’s because far less than two-thirds of the U.S. population takes flu shots. So if two-thirds of those getting the flu this year are the same people who got flu shots, mathematically it can only mean that flu shots INCREASE vulnerability to the flu.

In this way, people who get flu shots are acting irresponsibly because they increase their risk of spreading the flu to others. Instead of taking care of their health with nutrients like vitamin D, they act with neglect and seek out a flu shot that poses a very real increased risk to public health and safety.

The CDC openly admits that vaccines contain a toxic cocktail and metals and synthetic chemicals that we all know cause neurological damage. Those include aluminum and mercury.

These metals and chemicals also suppress the immune system, and that’s the primary purpose of vaccines: To actually cause an epidemic so that more people rush out to buy more vaccines. The whole point is to sell more vaccines, not to improve public health. And the fastest way to sell more vaccines is to make sure the vaccines themselves contain chemicals and metals that make people more vulnerable to infection.

What, you don’t believe me? You think Big Pharma is a collection of compassionate, loving angels who care about the people more than they care about profits? Wake up and smell the chemicals. Vaccine manufacturers are, on the record, criminal organizations that are repeatedly found guilty of felony crimes — everything from price fixing to the bribery of doctors and the commission of marketing fraud.

Drug companies have zero ethics. They kill children to test their vaccines. They conduct medical experiments on prisoners and mental patients. Do you honestly think they wouldn’t use vaccines as a way to make people sick and create an infectious disease scare that sells more vaccines?

If you really want to stay healthy this flu season, the answer is pretty simple. It all starts with the top three nutrients for flu prevention:

1) Vitamin D

2) More vitamin D

3) And yet more vitamin D

If you’re not taking at least 5,000 IUs of vitamin D each day during the winter flu season, you’re probably vitamin D deficient and that’s making you a sitting duck for influenza.

In addition to vitamin D, there are all sorts of other herbal remedies, trace minerals (like zinc), and superfood nutrients that can help protect you.

And, of course, don’t suppress your immune system with flu shots, chemotherapy or prescription medications. All those things make you more vulnerable to infection and makes you a repeat customer for the “sick care” cartels that profit from human suffering.

Learn more:

http://www.naturalnews.com/038648_flu_pandemic_vaccines_shots.html#ixzz2HhDpbpPA

Dr. Stephanie Maj has a thriving family practice in the heart of Chicago. Her clinic is located at 1442 W. Belmont Ave., 1E, Chicago, IL 60657. 773.528.8485.

Dr. Stephanie Maj has a thriving family practice in the heart of Chicago. Her clinic is located at 1442 W. Belmont Ave., 1E, Chicago, IL 60657. 773.528.8485. Chicago Chiropractor

Are you leaving loved ones at home…suffering?

I just had a long time patient come in this morning for a specific adjustment to help her perform at optimal function.   She has a demanding job as a Chicago Police Officer.  On her way out she was telling me about her husband who has asthma and is suffering because they had mold at home.  She was even concerned about the molds affect on her daughter’s health!

My initial reaction was complete shock:

1. That after more than a year of coming to appreciate what it is we do at our office, that she didn’t know Chiropractic would help her husband overcome asthma naturally, without meds!
2. That she didn’t know we could help kids, too!

My practice is filled with families, young and old.  I was surprised to see that even though patients have been immersed in my practice and have seen my philosophy for years, they sometimes forget to send their own families in.

I’m begging all of you NOT to take that road.  Everyone should be checked for subluxations in the nervous system to allow for optimal function.  Can you imagine going to a dentist only when your teeth hurt?  You probably wouldn’t even go until you were 40 years old.

There is a better way folks…natural care first, and it starts with kids.  40% of all babies are born by c-section, so almost half of our kids are born with spinal and nerve deficiency because of the trauma from birth.  Let’s not forget about the thousands of falls kids take while learning to walk, and the plethora of antibiotics and vaccines trashing their immune systems.

Then there are the medications for headaches, sports injuries, asthma, ADHD, ADD, the list goes on.   As kids get into adulthood,  they are given drugs to concentrate, to sleep and to help them get through college, then more prescriptions start in the 30′s and 40′s for high blood pressure, cholesterol, thyroid problems…where do I stop?

Chiropractic FIRST!! That’s what I am saying.

Dr. Stephanie Maj has a thriving family practice in the heart of Chicago. Her clinic is located at 1442 W. Belmont Ave., 1E, Chicago, IL 60657. 773.528.8485. www.communitychiropractic.net

This article in news caught my interest.  It was written by Helen Branswell in the Canadian Press.  I have reprinted it below.

TORONTO – A strange vaccine-related phenomenon spotted at the start of the 2009 flu pandemic may well have been real, a new study suggests.

Canadian researchers noticed in the early weeks of the pandemic that people who got a flu shot for the 2008-2009 winter seemed to be more likely to get infected with the pandemic virus than people who hadn’t received a flu shot. Five studies done in several provinces showed the same puzzling and unsettling results. But initially research outside of Canada did not, and the effect was dismissed as “the Canadian problem.”

News of the unexpected findings broke at a time when countries in North America and parts of Europe were getting ready to start vaccinating their populations against the pandemic virus.

Some jurisdictions were also trying to figure out whether to offer the seasonal flu vaccine they had purchased — similar to the 2008-2009 shot — along with the pandemic vaccine, in case the seasonal flu viruses continued to circulate. Quebec opted not to offer the seasonal vaccine because of the concerns raised by the studies.

Many people in the flu research and public health communities found the whole event unhelpful, and many rejected the findings. Some suggested if there was a problem, it might have been with the flu vaccine used in Canada, because the problem wasn’t seen elsewhere.

But a new study suggests the findings may indeed have been real.

A group of Canadian researchers recreated the event in ferrets, the best animal model for predicting how influenza will act in humans. They worked with animals because it would have been unethical to subject people to the health risks the work entailed.

The findings of the ferret study were presented Sunday at ICAAC, a major international infectious diseases conference taking place this year in San Francisco. (ICAAC stands for the Interscience Conference on Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy.)

Lead author Dr. Danuta Skowronski outlined the work at a webcast press conference. Skowronski, an influenza expert at the B.C. Centre for Disease Control in Vancouver, also led the first study that spotted the apparent interaction between 2008 flu shots and pandemic flu infection.

She and her colleagues worked with 32 ferrets, giving half the 2008 seasonal flu shot and the remainder a placebo injection. The work was blinded, meaning the researchers didn’t know which ferrets received which shot. Later, all the ferrets were infected with the pandemic H1N1 virus.

The ferrets in the vaccine group became significantly sicker than the other animals, though all recovered.

“The findings that we show are consistent with the increased risk that we saw in the human studies,” Skowronski said.

She said that in the time since the pandemic, researchers in other countries have reported a similar interaction.

The reason for the effect is unclear, and Skowronski urged other research groups to take up the question. She said it is important to get to the root of what happened, before the next pandemic.

But in the meantime, Skowronski insisted the findings should not deter people from getting seasonal flu shots.

“I do think it’s important to clarify that our findings are unique to the pandemic,” she insisted.

“Pandemics are infrequent occurrences, but seasonal influenza recurs on an annual basis. It’s a substantial cause of morbidity and mortality,” — science’s term for illness and death — “and the seasonal vaccine substantially protects against that severe outcome due to seasonal influenza.”

Two theories exist about what might have been behind the effect, said Skowronski, who favours the first.

That theory relates to the fact that the 2008 vaccine protected against an H1N1 virus that was related to — but not similar enough to — the pandemic virus to generate antibodies that would neutralize it. The thinking is that might actually have facilitated infection with the pandemic virus.

Skowronski likened the mechanism to what happens with dengue viruses. People who have been infected with one subtype of dengue don’t develop immunity to the other three. In fact, they are more at risk of developing a life-threatening form of dengue if they are infected with one of the other strains.

Skowronski called the second theory the infection block hypothesis. Having a bout of the flu gives the infected person antibodies that may be able, for a time, to fend off other strains; flu shots only protect against the strains they contain. So under this theory, people who didn’t have flu in 2008 because they got a flu shot may have been less well armed against the pandemic virus.

If the first theory is right, the strange effect seen in 2009 might only occur in a pandemic in which the new virus was related to a circulating human flu virus, Skowronski admitted.

If that’s correct — and she stressed it’s only a theory — a virus with a hemagglutinin protein that humans haven’t been exposed to before might not trigger this type of phenomenon. (The hemagglutinin is the protein on the exterior of a flu virus that gives it the H number in its name.)

“My own opinion, my own feeling would be that if you have a completely different hemagglutinin like H5 or H7 … you may not see that,” Skowronski said.

“But who knows, frankly? The wise man knows he knows nothing when it comes to influenza, so you always have to be cautious in speculating.”

Dr. Stephanie Maj has a thriving family practice in the heart of Chicago. Her clinic is located at 1442 W. Belmont Ave., 1E, Chicago, IL 60657. 773.528.8485. www.communitychiropractic.net

Histamine is one of the few central nervous system neurotransmitters found to cause consistent blood-brain barrier opening.

The earlier literature was unclear, but studies of pial vessels and cultured endothelium reveal increased permeability mediated by H2 receptors and elevation of [Ca2+]i and an H1 receptor-mediated reduction in permeability coupled to an elevation of cAMP.

During the intra-osseous phase of tooth eruption, the proportional increase in the number of mast cells in the lamina propria and osteoclasts indicates that mast cells could be involved in the bone resorption and, thereby, in the establishment of the eruptive pathway.

Activated mast cells degranulate and thereby release several inflammatory mediators and growth factors, including histamine.

References:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/10696506

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7982064; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2687937

http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1469-7580.2010.01249.x/full

Dr. Stephanie Maj has a thriving family practice in the heart of Chicago. Her clinic is located at 1442 W. Belmont Ave., 1E, Chicago, IL 60657. 773.528.8485. www.communitychiropractic.net

The other day my friends kids and I were playing an educational game called Noun or Verb? During the game, my friends son noticed that some words could be both a noun and a verb like water, step and love. That was when we decided to think of as many noun-verbs as possible. After the kids went to bed, I started thinking about a phone call I had with a chiropractor in New Jersey last week where we had been discussing the definitions of many words, including the word health.

Most people define health mainly as the absence of some form of dis-ease. Darkness is not the presence of something, but it is in reality the absence of light energy. Coldness is not the presence of something, but the absence of heat energy. Similarly, any manifestation of dis-ease (whether pain, spam, inflammation, cancer or ANY other “illness”) is not the presence of something; it is simply the particular and specific way that a decrease in the expression of your Life Energy has shown up in your body.

Having now reviewed this idea with you, I would like to take it a step further. In school, you may have learned about the word homeostasis. This describes how our bodies are constantly adapting in order to deal with changes in our environment and keep functioning at a normal level. The word homeostasis can be misleading because of the “stasis” part. Stasis literally means to stay. But the definition talks about how we are constantly changing. The truth is that health is not the absence of something; in fact, it isn’t a physical state at all!

Health is the ability to adapt to most of the stresses you encounter each day and maintain your NATURAL state of EASE.

This discrepancy between the word homeostasis and its commonly accepted definition has led to one of the world’s biggest misconceptions about health; namely that it is actually possible to be either healthy or sick. The truth is that we are continually dealing with changes in our internal and external worlds, and we are never the same from one moment to the next.

The fact that we are changing in every single moment means that it is not possible to be either healthy or sick! The truth is that in every single moment, you are either getting stronger and moving toward health, wellness and wholeness; or you are getting weaker and moving away from them. And, in order to continually get stronger and move in the direction of health and the full expression of Life, you need three things;

1) A Deliberate Focus on moving toward what you want (as opposed to trying to move away from what you don’t want).

2) A Healthy Lifestyle that supplies all of your cells with everything they need to function properly, heal and continue growing.

3) A Clear Neurological CONNECTION between you and your body. Because your nerve system is surrounded by and intimately connected to your spine, it is necessary to keep your spine aligned and functioning properly to allow this clear neurological connection. This is the true purpose behind a program of regular chiropractic care – to keep you fully connected!

There is one more noun-verb that we need to look at in order to tie this all together; the word is LIFE. Most people believe that life is a noun – a thing; but the truth is that all of life is continually changing – Life is a verb! And, since all of life is constantly changing, and because health is a PART OF life, that means that HEALTH is also a verb! Make sure you are taking care of all three things necessary to keep moving toward the full expression of Life, and always be ready to express your Light. That way you’ll always be ready to write, direct and star in your own life story…lights…camera…ACTION!

Dr. Stephanie Maj has a thriving family practice in the heart of Chicago. Her clinic is located at 1442 W. Belmont Ave., 1E, Chicago, IL 60657. 773.528.8485. www.communitychiropractic.net

INGREDIENTS:                                                                                                                     SPICES: 2-3 T. coconut oil               1 bunch of asparagus                                                          Salt                            Mild green salsa 1 dozen eggs                         1-2 handfuls cherry  tomatoes                                        Pepper                      Baking powder 1 onion or leek                    1 handful  fresh spinach                                                     Basil 1-2 cloves  of garlic           1 handful mushrooms                                                        Italian seasonings 1 bunch of broccoli           Parmesan or Asiago cheese                                             Chili powder 1 red pepper

SERVES 6-8

DIRECTIONS:

Use a 3-4” deep non-stick pot, preferably one that will go from stove-top to oven.  Saute onions (or leeks) and garlic in coconut oil (medium heat).  Start chopping your veggies into small to medium chunks while onions cook slowly.   This is a great time to recruit hungry family members to help chop and stir.  Add broccoli, asparagus,  and red pepper to pot and stir until hot.  Do not overcook.  Add chopped spinach, give a quick stir.  Put 1 dozen eggs, salt, pepper, basil, Italian seasonings, chili powder, ¼ tsp. baking powder, and whatever spices you like in the blender for a about 1 minute.  Poor egg mixture into pot on stove-top, still on medium, and stir all together.  Let egg/veggie mix cook several minutes until the bottom and sides start to set.  Then loosen egg/veggie mix from the sides with a spatula, lift the mixture slightly from the bottom of pan and tilt pan, allowing the runny egg from the top to flow to the bottom of the pan.  Repeat all the way around until the top of mixture is not runny.  Put sliced tomatoes and mushrooms on top and add more spices if you like.  Add Parmesan or Asiago cheese.  Bake at 375° for 30 minutes.  The more veggies you use and the smaller your pot, the longer it will take.  Serve with green salsa as desired.    If you do not have a pot that will survive the oven, you can add egg mix to sautéed veggies and bake in casserole dish for approximately 1 hour instead.

This dish is great because it is fast and easy, a great source of high quality protein, and loaded with healthy fresh veggies and anti-oxidants.  It also gives you multiple meals, great for breakfast, lunch or dinner.  I make this the beginning of every week, and my husband and I eat it for days.  It tastes great re-heated too.  Use whatever vegetables you like.      Note:  While you’re at it, chop extra onions, garlic and maybe some celery and onions, and cook with lentils or a pot of beans to go with the egg bake for several great meals.  Make the most of your time in the kitchen.

Dr. Stephanie Maj has a thriving family practice in the heart of Chicago. Her clinic is located at 1442 W. Belmont Ave., 1E, Chicago, IL 60657. 773.528.8485. www.communitychiropractic.net