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Posted on 11/13/2009 8:44:59 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
It's emblazoned across the front page of USA Today, just underneath a subhead declaring Michael Jackson was, indeed, killed by a drug overdose: "Flu could infect half of USA." The article goes on to describe the predicted number of deaths expected in the U.S. (30,000 - 90,000 Americans) as well as the actions being taken by the government to protect Americans from the coming swine flu pandemic.
That advice reads sort of like a comic book of health care advice for kindergarteners: Wash your hands, cover your mouth if you cough and let "the grownups" take care of the rest by injecting you with a vaccine. Curiously absent from all the health advice being handed out on the swine flu by the White House, the CDC, the WHO and even the FDA is any mention of Vitamin D or other natural remedies that offer enormous protections from influenza infections.
The absence of this information from virtually all the advice being handed out to the American public is increasingly suspicious. If a pandemic flu is, indeed, threatening to infect half the U.S. population, and if most of the population is deficient in a nutrient known to strongly prevent influenza infections, wouldn't it make good sense to make a few announcements encouraging Americans to raise their vitamin D levels throughout the coming winter?
It is a well-known medical fact, of course, that influenza always gets worse during the winter months North of the equator and the summer months South of the equator (which are really called their "winter" months). This is because as sunlight hours lessen during the winter, the people living there become vitamin D deficient and are susceptible to influenza infections of all kinds.
The information resources backing this are easy to find. Even our own NaturalPedia.com website reveals a large amount of information on natural defenses against influenza (http://www.naturalpedia.com/influen...). NaturalNews.com, of course, offers a wealth of articles on Vitamin D (http://www.naturalnews.com/vitamin_...).
In the realm of peer-reviewed medical literature, searching Google Scholar for "influenza" and "vitamin D" returns tens of thousands of results (http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q...). In particular, one study appearing in these search results is entitled Epidemic influenza and vitamin D. It was published in 2006 in the journal Epidemiology and Infection (2006, 134:6:1129-1140 Cambridge University Press) and its abstract reads as follows:
In 1981, R. Edgar Hope-Simpson proposed that a 'seasonal stimulus' intimately associated with solar radiation explained the remarkable seasonality of epidemic influenza. Solar radiation triggers robust seasonal vitamin D production in the skin; vitamin D deficiency is common in the winter, and activated vitamin D, 1,25(OH)2D, a steroid hormone, has profound effects on human immunity. 1,25(OH)2D acts as an immune system modulator, preventing excessive expression of inflammatory cytokines and increasing the 'oxidative burst' potential of macrophages. Perhaps most importantly, it dramatically stimulates the expression of potent anti-microbial peptides, which exist in neutrophils, monocytes, natural killer cells, and in epithelial cells lining the respiratory tract where they play a major role in protecting the lung from infection. Volunteers inoculated with live attenuated influenza virus are more likely to develop fever and serological evidence of an immune response in the winter. Vitamin D deficiency predisposes children to respiratory infections. Ultraviolet radiation (either from artificial sources or from sunlight) reduces the incidence of viral respiratory infections, as does cod liver oil (which contains vitamin D). An interventional study showed that vitamin D reduces the incidence of respiratory infections in children. We conclude that vitamin D, or lack of it, may be Hope-Simpson's 'seasonal stimulus'.
Beats the hell out of mercury poisoning.
very interesting
That and the junk food diet.
But the whole thing is suspicious. Mercury actually weakens immune function as well as damaging neurons and the brain.
I take 2,000 IU of D a day... I have for awhile...
So far, 3900 deaths in the US from swine flu - in the last six months
A bit over the 4000 deaths of the US servicemen in Iraq over the past eight years!
Yet, our government remains concerned (ah, sorry, is not the word) about the total breakdown of vaccine deliveries; even as the US Gov’t knew how many manufacturers were able to incubate so many eggs in so much time with a calculated yield, on a defined time schedule.
Why don’t I read about this debacle in the NYT??? Why isn’t this compared to losses in the war in Iraq??
There are a number of supplements that can be taken that prevents one from the flu. D-3 is just one of many. My oh my...guess we are just little kids with this nanny state who knows best.....gezzzz....
Cheers!
EVERYTHING I have seen the “government” do so far regarding the swine flu H1N1 thing is suspicious.
All the doctors me and my friends have talked to will not give the vaccination to their family.
placemark for later reading.
IN case anyone is wondering:
How to Read the Influenza Virus Vaccine Formula
(What’s in there):
1. A/New Caledonia/20/99 (H1N1)
2. Virus strain / Country, city or state the virus was cultured from... the number of hosts it was cultured from (pig, monkey, sheep or human)
3. The year it was cultured
4. (H1N1) are your protein subtypes See the list below...
NOTE: They don’t call it “pig” it is called porcine pancreatic hydrolysate of casein
Question: Why are PER.C6 cells (human retina cells) in vaccine? Is anyone willing to answer this question?
LIST OF VACCINE FILLERS:
Officially administered by design
with every vaccine provided to the public
This data is available via: mercola.com
In addition to the viral and bacterial RNA or DNA that is part of the vaccines, here are the fillers:
aluminum hydroxide
aluminum phosphate
ammonium sulfate
amphotericin B
ANIMAL TISSUES: pig blood, horse blood, rabbit brain,
dog kidney, monkey kidney, chick embryo, chicken egg, duck egg
calf (bovine) serum
betapropiolactone
fetal bovine serum
formaldehyde
formalin
gelatin
glycerol
human diploid cells
(originating from aborted human babies)
hydrolized gelatin
monosodium glutamate (MSG)
neomycin
neomycin sulfate
phenol red indicator
phenoxyethanol (antifreeze)
potassium diphosphate
potassium monophosphate
polymyxin B
polysorbate 20
polysorbate 80
porcine (pig) pancreatic hydrolysate of casein
residual MRC5 proteins
sorbitol
sucrose
thimerosal (mercury)
tri(n)butylphosphate,
VERO cells, a continuous line of monkey kidney cells
washed sheep red blood cells
These additives are given without public knowledge or consent.
Merck, a pharmaceutical giant in the US produces the vast majority of vaccine supplies & are protected from prosecution by Federal Statutes imposed under the former Bush administration.
Analysis of vaccine fillers:
1) ALUMINUM (two variants) - directly linked to Alzheimer’s Disease
2) AMMONIUM SULFATE - an inorganic chemical compound used a fertilizer and “protein purifier”; known to cause kidney & liver damage, gastrointestinal disfunctions
3) AMPHOTERICIN B - an “antifungal disinfectant”, damages the urinary tract, bowels, heart functions
4) RE-CYCLED ANIMAL TISSUE (multiple) - the building blocks of Mad Cow Disease
5) FORMALDEHYDE - used as “a preservative & disinfectant”, known to cause cancer, chronic bronchitis, eye irritation when exposed to the body’s immune system
6) MSG - now known to cause cancer in humans
7) PHENOL - a highly toxic disinfectant dye, attributed to liver, kidney, heart & respiratory damage
8) PHENOXYETHANOL (ANTIFREEZE) - proven to have extreme neurotoxic side effects
9) THYMEROSAL (MERCURY) - This additive alone was the catalyst for another recent Class Action Lawsuit organized by mothers of children born with Autism & the many related behavioral disorders associated with it. Autism is now occurring at levels never seen before in history, 1 in 67. The average used to 1 in 20,000.
I’ve been taking 5000 iu of Vit D3 daily for some time.
Can’t say it’s made me feel better. But it’s not made me feel worse. And who knows what good it may be doing inside?
**Curiously absent from all the health advice being handed out on the swine flu by the White House, the CDC, the WHO and even the FDA is any mention of Vitamin D or other natural remedies that offer enormous protections from influenza infections.**
Additionally, I read an article that gargling with warm salt water and swabbing your nostrils with a Q tip dipped in warm salt water would also kill the bacteria.
Ples wash your hands and keep your hands off your face.
Also cough into your sleeve rather than into your hand.
Also, keep up with other H1N1 update stories on this thread: H1N1 flu victim collapsed on way to hospital [Latest H1N1 updates downthread] thanks to DvdMom and others.
In your knowledge, has the FReeper community created a thread to note the natural precautions and remedies other than D3 such as elderberry and selenium, etc.? TIA.
Heya, glock — RE selenium, Brazil Nuts are chuck-a-block with it. HOWEVER, beware — a little selenium goes a long way, and too much selenium (which you can get just by eating a handful of Brazil nuts a day for a couple of months, as I did) can be seriously debilitating. I love Brazil nuts and discovered the big bags of them at Trader Joes and embarked on averaging probably two dozen or more Brazil nuts a day for months ... I’m a pig with no discipline when it comes to eating stuff I love ... and the result was that I made myself so sick I was about ready to go to the emergency room until I looked up Brazil nuts on the internet, discovered they have loads of selenium AND barium, and then looked up the symptoms of selenium poisoning. My symptoms matched exactly, all the way down to a change in my fingernails. I stopped eating Brazil nuts, and within less than a week had recovered so I didn’t feel like hammered catsh*t anymore, but felt healthy and normal as usual. I now limit myself to one or two Brazil nuts per day, and am fine. Just a head’s up on the selenium thing. :^)
vitamin D is made naturally by sitting in the sunlight.
It is this year’s fad as cure all.
Alas, if it was that good, why is the flu so fatal in the tropics, including the Caucasian Aussies and those living in Florida?
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