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COVID-19 mRNA Vaccines Reduce a Major Beneficial Bacteria, Gut Biodiversity: Research
Epoch Times ^ | 10/27/2023 | Marina Zhang

Posted on 10/29/2023 4:06:57 AM PDT by george76

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To: george76

I don’t know if this is true or not. but I do know ...stress and anxiety breakdown gut bacteria. And Lord knows there was a lot of that alone floating around.


21 posted on 10/29/2023 9:24:58 AM PDT by EBH (America Blackmailed, The True Story of the World War...Coming Soon (1/21-))
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To: george76

Day by day, more evidence piles up against these experimental, virtually untested, so-called vaccines.


22 posted on 10/29/2023 9:29:37 AM PDT by citizen (Put all LBQTwhatever programming on a new subscription service: PERV-TV)
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To: rarestia

If you’re worried about your own microbiome, you can buy Bifobacteria online from numerous sources, including, of course AMZ. And no doubt at local health stores.
It’s also in a lot of food, including sauerkraut and yogurt.


23 posted on 10/29/2023 9:32:32 AM PDT by Veto! (FJB Sucks Rocks)
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To: entropy12

You are a sample size of one. I credit the actual hundreds, perhaps several thousand, unique FR posters who testify to problems experienced by them, their family, friends, acquaintances and coworkers.


24 posted on 10/29/2023 9:44:09 AM PDT by citizen (Put all LBQTwhatever programming on a new subscription service: PERV-TV)
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt
”Some unpublished data found that Bifidobacteria levels are negligible in vaccinated people..”

Interesting... unpublished data. Usually, people who are trying to scientifically unsupported concepts write a scientific-looking paper and post it on a pre-print site, since that is the only way they can get the paper out where people can see it, since it would never pass the peer-review process. This claim apparently doesn't even warrant the placement of an unpublishable article on a pre-print site.

The most I could find is this blog article COVID-19 mRNA Vaccines Reduce A Major Beneficial Bacteria, Gut Biodiversity: Research..

According to this blog, the "proof" of Covid vaccine impact on gut health is the following:

In her research, she came across a pair of siblings enrolled in the COVID-19 vaccine clinical trials.
“One sibling got a placebo, and one got the vaccine. The one sibling that got the vaccine got harmed… and she has no Bifidobacteria bacteria. Her brother, who got the placebo and was not harmed, has this Bifidobacteria,” she told The Epoch Times.

There are also rare cases where patients’ Bifidobacteria population increases. Dr. Hazan spoke about a patient’s Bifidobacteria population more than doubling a month after vaccination. However, at six to nine months postvaccination, the patient’s number of Bifidobacteria had fallen to zero.

Hmm. No one would ever call observations of three patients a "study." At most, this is a case report. And there are a lot of problems with this even as a case report. The first question I would ask is whether their test reagents/protocols are sufficient to detect gut biota by species. And then I would ask whether other factors could have been responsible the change in one species of gut flora.

As of May 2023, 81% of the population had at least one dose of Covid vaccine and 69.5% had received the primary series. The numbers are higher now, since a few months have passed. COVID-19 Vaccinations in the United States. With the majority of the population being vaccinated, it would be easy to find people who lost gut microbiome diversity. After all, they would constitute the majority of the population by now. So where are all the peer-reviewed articles in the medical literature about the problem?

(I will also point out that The Epoch Times is not and has never been a credible source of scientific information. It purports to be a conservative media outlet, but I question that, given its complicity in spreading antivax and other misinformation regarding the Covid pandemic. It is clear that such misinformation has been targeted to conservatives, and the result has been that Republicans are around 7% more likely to die from Covid than Democrats. Why would an outlet that purported supports conservative values tell conservatives propaganda that kills them?)

Oh, this little gem at the bottom of the original post says everything:

The absence of Bifidobacteria microbes is linked to chronic diseases, including diabetes, cancer, and autoimmune diseases.

Some studies have shown that the administration of probiotic Bifidobacteria can help improve diabetic conditions and help fight cancer...

Dr. Hazan is trying to sell stuff! That's what those two sentences are all about. Progenabiome - All Products.

25 posted on 10/29/2023 10:48:06 AM PDT by exDemMom (Dr. exDemMom, infectious disease and vaccines research specialist.)
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To: george76
In fact, products containing Bifidobacteria make up trillions of dollars in the market share of the probiotic market.

I joined a direct-marketing company that focuses on nutritional supplements based on mannose, aka, cactus juice. When working as contract programmer I took them regularly and showed up for work every day. Can't say that for the employees I worked with, though. It takes an income to re-order, and I faded from using them when I retired.

They have a few products that address gut bacteria. -see Mannatech

26 posted on 10/29/2023 10:49:05 AM PDT by RideForever (Damn, another dangling par .....)
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To: george76
From all that I read, mRNA vaccinations are not provably safe and dubiously effective. (And they make you feel icky).

I just got my NovaVax (protein-based) booster two days ago, and aside from a minor injection site discomfort and minor (barely detectable) fatigue for about a day, I feel fine.

Do your own DD, but I suspect the mRNA shots to be (to many unsuspecting folks) poison in a syringe.

27 posted on 10/29/2023 10:49:10 AM PDT by Seaplaner (Never give in. Never give in. Never, never, never...in nothing, great or small...Winston ChurchIill)
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To: exDemMom
”Some unpublished data found that Bifidobacteria levels are negligible in vaccinated people..”
exDemMom :”Hmm. No one would ever call observations of three patients a "study."
At most, this is a case report. “
“According to this blog, the "proof" of Covid vaccine impact on gut health is the following: “

I m so glad that you caught the very first line of that posting , specifically:
“The effect of the covid vaccine on gut microbes in the gastrointestinal tract (an unpublished medical report, therefore no peer review yet “ ) (Emphasis mine)

Was it just such an observation that brought about Pasteur's invention of pasteurization and the further study of microbes ?
Was it just such an observation that Marie Curie discovered both radioactivity and the radioactive elements of polonium and radium ?
An observation nothing more than an invitation to further inquiry, in this case, a medical inquiry into whether or not the covid vaccine impacts on the human gut biome
The purpose of this post was to provide general information about the covid vaccine, and not to 'nit pick' the observation of a supposedly 'safe and effective' biologic injection,
which replaces the human natural immune system.
The human intestinal-gut biome system is a significant part of that immune system which protects us and which remains yet to be investigated.
There is no “Proof” of Covid vaccine impact on gut health, only an observation of that appears to be a corellation
which begs to be medically and gastro-intestinal further studied .

Furthermore, I didn't relize that “Dr. Hazan is trying to sell stuff! “ and had written this report, which credit is given to the author Marina Zhang .

28 posted on 10/29/2023 12:42:39 PM PDT by Tilted Irish Kilt ( )
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To: citizen

You are off by 265 MILLION American jabbed.
99.7% are healthy and America is functioning.


29 posted on 10/29/2023 7:19:12 PM PDT by entropy12 (Career politicians like Desantis build wealth. Trump sacrificed his wealth to serve people. GO TRUMP)
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To: entropy12

Bla bla bla. You have been saying the crap for 2+ years. Your Superman.


30 posted on 10/29/2023 8:10:08 PM PDT by wgmalabama (Censored )
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To: Tilted Irish Kilt
I m so glad that you caught the very first line of that posting , specifically: “The effect of the covid vaccine on gut microbes in the gastrointestinal tract (an unpublished medical report, therefore no peer review yet “ ) (Emphasis mine)

In my previous post, I explained in a lot of detail several reasons why this is an unpublished observation which will remain unpublished. I use the word "observation" not report, since there is currently no evidence a report exists. I actually don't even know if an observation exists.

As far as I can tell, Dr. Hazan is a gastroenterologist who has experience in gut microbiome research. Specifically, she examines gut microbiome diversity using molecular biology techniques. She actually did publish a paper with other researchers hypothesizing that loss of Bifidobacterium and other bacteria genera prior to or during Covid infection leads to more severe Covid disease.

Lost microbes of COVID-19: Bifidobacterium, Faecalibacterium depletion and decreased microbiome diversity associated with SARS-CoV-2 infection severity. [This paper is behind a paywall, meaning that I can't actually read it to see their methodology, the exact mechanisms they propose for gut microbiome disruption, etc.]

This does not make the claim that Covid vaccines lead to loss of Bifidobacterium plausible. Vaccines and pathogens have vastly different mechanisms of action in the body. Vaccines are passive while pathogens actively attack and damage the body. Both cause the immune system to activate. The immune system can't tell the difference between an antigen or an actual pathogen. The adaptive immune response--production of T-cells, B-cells, and antibodies--is the same either way.

What this means is that every adverse effect following vaccination is caused by the immune system's normal function, not the passive vaccine. It actually does mean that the immune response to the SARS-CoV-2 can target microbes of the gut microbiome if they have proteins with areas of homology to spike protein. But that is not what Dr. Hazan allegedly said to The Epoch Times. The claim was that vaccine directly causes depletion of just one out of the over 1,000 bacterial species of the gut microbiome. And that claim is biologically implausible. Maybe Dr. Hazan does, in fact, have evidence that antibodies against the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein do cross-react with certain bacterial antigens--but that would just be another example of how a serious immune-mediated consequence of viral infection is sometimes observed in mild form following vaccination.

The purpose of this post was to provide general information about the covid vaccine...

No. The purpose of the blog piece published in The Epoch Times has nothing to do with providing vaccine information. Its intent is to use big words and scientific concepts that take an advanced education to understand to scare people--specifically conservatives--into refusing to get vaccinated. I noticed early on that conservatives were being specifically targeted by the antivax/anti-science professional charlatan community with this rhetoric. Prior to the pandemic, there was not such a concerted effort to target medical misinformation at people because of their politics, but now there is. The reasons would be to discredit Trump, to discredit conservativism by painting us as a bunch of ignorant kooks and to get us to die off so that there aren't enough of us to vote and prevent socialists from winning the elections. The medical misinformation campaign against conservatives is a resounding success for the charlatans. We've lost elections that should have been slam-dunks (goodbye, second Trump term). And Republicans are dying from Covid at a significantly higher rate than Democrats, which became more pronounced when vaccines became available: in an analysis of Covid deaths by political party in Florida and Ohio, 7.7% more Republicans are likely to die than Democrats in Florida and Ohio. Excess Death Rates for Republican and Democratic Registered Voters in Florida and Ohio During the COVID-19 Pandemic. Other studies have shown similar results.

...and not to 'nit pick' the observation of a supposedly 'safe and effective' biologic injection, which replaces the human natural immune system.

Wow, replacement of the entire human immune system. That's a new one on me. Biologically, it's hard to even fathom how one would go about replacing the human immune system. It's called a "system" because it has so many components which are entwined with so many organs and tissues throughout the body. Exterior surfaces of your body, especially the mucus membranes, contain enzymes that are intended to kill any foreign RNA and DNA that might land on your body (usually in the form of pathogens, but even naked DNA and RNA can float in the air). Your blood contains a complex network of interacting proteins called "complement" which have some antimicrobial activity on their own, but serve primarily to augment the activity of antibodies. The lymphatic system exists to remove foreign particles from the blood and deposit them in the lymph nodes. Those foreign particles include bacteria, viruses, and vaccine components such as recombinant antigens or mRNA encapsulated within nanolipid microsomes. The lymph nodes are responsible for the adaptive immune response; they analyze those foreign particles and develop a targeted T-cell, B-cell, and antibody response. This is not a complete list of immune system components.

And a simple vaccine is going to replace all of that? How? With what?

An observation nothing more than an invitation to further inquiry, in this case, a medical inquiry into whether or not the covid vaccine impacts on the human gut biome

In both of your examples, the scientists involved built on existing knowledge and scientific theory in order to advance the knowledge in their respective fields.

Louis Pasteur, for example, had a body of microbial research reaching back 200 years to draw on. He was able to develop the process of pasteurization because he already knew that heat kills microbes. His goal was to develop a process to heat kill pathogens in milk while preserving the flavor (since boiled milk tastes terrible). Similarly, he used the body of existing knowledge compiled by generations of scientists to develop the rabies vaccine. By his time, the smallpox vaccine was decades old, so he was already well aware of how vaccines work.

The situation was similar with Pierre and Marie Curie. While they did not discover radiation--the credit for that goes to Wilhelm Roentgen, who discovered it completely by accident when he was studying uranium ore--they did build considerably on this discovery. And, unfortunately, poisoned themselves with radiation in the process (at the time, no one knew the dangers of radiation).

The fact that Dr. Hazan is trying to sell stuff is, in fact, a red flag, regardless of the blog authorship. Charlatans commonly post real and fake scientific studies on their websites in order to convince people to buy what they have for sale. Joseph Mercola, for example, is a notorious charlatan who has built a snake oil empire based on all kinds of ludicrous medical claims posted on his website. He has attained a net worth of over $100 million dollars just by scamming people. [How much net worth do you think a scientist like me has? Hint: it's not close to even a million dollars.] The bottom line is that I am highly suspicious whenever I see that someone is trying to sell stuff.

31 posted on 10/30/2023 8:50:06 AM PDT by exDemMom (Dr. exDemMom, infectious disease and vaccines research specialist.)
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To: exDemMom

How much net worth do you think a scientist like me has? Hint: it’s not close to even a million dollars.]

That must mean that even with Big Pharma paying you by the word, they’re still getting ripped off.

All those years as a government PhD and you couldn’t even save a million?

Dingbat.


32 posted on 10/30/2023 11:03:40 PM PDT by grey_whiskers ( The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: george76

pong


33 posted on 11/02/2023 11:38:45 AM PDT by dennisw (Never attribute to incompetence-stupidity, that which is adequately explained by malice.)
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To: wgmalabama
He's 81 years old and lifts 5-lb weights on the treadmill.
34 posted on 11/04/2023 12:32:50 PM PDT by grey_whiskers ( The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change without notice.)
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To: grey_whiskers

I have dealt with elderly relatives that have delusions of the best in their life …. I’m glad they have a good attitude but the insufferable BS is annoying.


35 posted on 11/04/2023 1:41:17 PM PDT by wgmalabama (Censored )
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