Flu Vaccine by Dr. Mayer Eisenstein, M.D.
In 1976, when I just started in my medical practice, one of the great experiments in “modern” medicine took place. The Center for Disease Control predicted a devastating flu epidemic, the “Swine Flu” epidemic. They predicted that thousands of people would die from this strain of flu just as in the flu epidemic of 1918 which caused the deaths of millions of Americans. In order to “protect” the American people from this “certain death” the government made the Swine Flu vaccine available free of charge to the public and began administering it at “government vaccine centers”. I asked my professor, the late Dr. Robert Mendelsohn, “what should I recommend to my patients, if the government makes this vaccine mandatory?” His response was, “Tell your patients to line up at the back of the line and pray that they run out of vaccine material before your patients reach the front of the line.” After just a few weeks, almost 100 people died shortly after being injected with the Swine Flu vaccine and more than 500 people developed Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) (see explanation following). The government immediately abandoned the Swine Flu vaccine program. As for the prediction that thousands of people would die from the flu, the total number of cases of Swine Flu was less than 10. This is not the first time that the government and our medical establishment have tried to scare the public into accepting unproven medical treatments. The argument is always the same, the medical establishment says, “If you do not follow my advice, very bad things will happen to you. Trust me, I am your doctor.” The time has come to say, “show me the evidence, show me that the treatment is safer than the disease.”
It is my interpretation, according to medical statistics, that the flu vaccine of today is no safer than the Swine Flu vaccine of 1976. The only difference is that in 1976 the flu vaccine was administered to thousands of individuals at government vaccine centers and the data relating to the side effects was readily available. Today, the vaccine is administered in thousands and thousands of doctors offices, work places, drug stores, and grocery stores, with no uniform methodology for reporting accountability or follow up data easily available.
Last year the same scare tactic of massive death rates was used with the alleged coming of the "bird flu" epidemic. Just like the "swine flu" epidemic, the "bird flu" epidemic has still not come.
Why would anyone in their right mind (or wrong mind) take a flu vaccine when the latest studies published September 24th, 2007 in the journal, Lancet Infectious Diseases found that ......
§ Influenza vaccinations don’t reduce flu-related mortality rates in elderly adults in the United States, and prior reports of the vaccine’s efficacy in this population have been exaggerated,...
§ Although flu vaccination rates in the United States have increased from 15% to 65% since 1980, recent mortality studies cannot confirm any decrease in flu-related deaths in adults aged 70 years and older, wrote Lone Simonsen, Ph.D. and colleagues, of George Washington University, Washington,(Lancet Infect. Dis. 2007.)
The great increase in flu vaccination rates can only be explained by the gullibility of the American public. However, more and more parents are questioning and refusing to vaccinate their children. At the same time the government is increasing its efforts to force vaccinations of children by prosecuting parents who refuse to vaccinate their children, as is currently happening in Maryland.
Effective Alternative to the Flu Vaccine
Probiotics
Probiotics are living microorganisms (bacterial or yeast) which, upon ingestion in certain numbers, exert health benefits beyond inherent basic nutrition.
There is a long history of health claims concerning living microorganisms in food, particularly lactic acid bacteria (lactobacillus). In a Persian version of the Old Testament Genesis 18:8, “and he (Abraham) took curd and milk,” Abraham may have owed his longevity to the consumption of sour milk. In 76 BC the Roman historian, Plinius, recommended the administration of fermented milk products for the treatment of gastroenteritis.
We know that the intestine, besides being a digestive organ, affects the immune system. The over 500 trillion friendly bacteria that live in our intestine communicate with each other, modulating many of the functions of our body. A decrease in the number of these bacteria, either because of antibiotic use (antibiotics will destroy healthy bacteria as well as pathogenic bacteria) or from lack of food containing healthy bacteria (all processed food is sterilized and pasteurized, killing all bacteria including friendly bacteria).
In the past, food preservation was accomplished through fermentation, a process that adds a host of beneficial microorganisms to food. However, fermentation is an inconsistent process; therefore, commercial food processors developed techniques like pasteurization (which kills all microorganisms), to help standardize more consistent yields.
Scientific studies have demonstrated that a lack of healthy bacteria can be one of the causes of a weak immune system that can lead to medical problems such as: food allergies, bacterial vaginosis of pregnancy, irritable bowel syndrome, urinary tract infections, yeast infections, intestinal infections, allergy, asthma, genital infections, elevated blood pressure, (all lactobacilli have ace inhibitor properties, thereby lowering blood pressure), elevated cholesterol levels, recurrent ear and bladder infections, antibiotic associated diarrhea, and protection of the newborn against atopic disease. The scientific literature has documented that many of these problems can be reversed with the use of probiotics.
Therefore, by strengthening your immune system by taking probiotics you can lower your probability of getting flu and if you get the flu it will lower the serious side effects.