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Maintaining Health (Homeostasis)

To truly understand vaccines, it is imperative to have at least a basic understanding of
how the body maintains health and the body’s relationship to toxins. Our body is
designed to maintain homeostasis. In an extremely basic definition, homeostasis is
the body’s ability and nature to regulate itself and maintain balance. Disease and
illness are not a natural state for the body. We are plagued by so much illness in our
nation that it is the norm to think that the body is supposed to become ill on occasion;
that this is perfectly normal and acceptable. While illness is commonplace, and our
medical establishment would like you to believe it is unavoidable; it is not a normal,
natural function of the body. Because of this, it is actually possible to avoid illness by
giving the body the components it needs to maintain homeostasis. The body needs
proper nutrition in the form of fresh organic produce, proper exposure to sunlight,
purified water, good air quality, proper sleep, and proper exercise to maintain its
balance. The needs of the body are actually very basic. Unfortunately, it is not so easy
in our society to obtain what the body needs. In fact, it can be a constant struggle.

Toxins

This is where the relationship to toxins comes into play. A toxin is a substance that is
poisonous in the body and when present, has the capability of producing disease. Our
body is designed with many great defense mechanisms that allow it to handle a fairly
exceptional amount of toxins without illness or disease necessarily being produced.
Basically, this goes back to our body’s design. Our body wants to maintain
homeostasis and be disease free, so it will tolerate and try to rid itself of anything that
comes in jeopardy of disrupting this state. When our body is filled with so many toxins
that it can’t keep up, this is when illness and disease occur. The world we live in is
extremely toxic to the body. For the beginner, it is truly hard to contemplate the enormity
of things that are toxic to the body. From the clothes we wear to the furniture we have to
the things we eat to our cosmetics and personal care products to the water we drink to
the way our houses are constructed to the air we breathe. All these things have toxins
in them that our bodies have to deal with. Most toxins come in the form of chemicals. I
approach all chemicals with caution as if none of them are good for the body, and why
shouldn’t I? Since World War II, there have been somewhere in the vicinity of 80,000
chemicals created. Only approximately 3,000 of them have undergone any sort of
testing whatsoever. Yet, these chemicals never tested for safety in humans appear in
many common products that we use every day. This is an entirely separate topic
covered under our toxin free parenting section.

Vaccines As Toxins

So, where do vaccines fit into all of this? Vaccines have some of the most toxic
substances known to man in them. Many of the substances in vaccines have never
been tested for what they actually do in the human body. When the body is injected full
of toxins, the body is in a weakened state as it tries to deal with the toxins. This is
when it becomes vulnerable. The bottom line is that good health can only be obtained
by giving the body what it needs and trying to stay away from what it doesn’t need.
Good health is no accident. If your body is given what it needs, it will be strong enough
to resist illness as it is designed to do. When the body is capable of resisting illness,
there is no need for vaccines. This is a very simplified version. In my mind, this is
where the debate should end. However, it doesn’t, so we’ll continue.

Immune System Injury

Some people who assume vaccines do what they are supposed to do in the body
(which is to prevent illness) are willing to take the risk of the toxicity of the vaccine in
order to gain immunity. In later sections, I shed light on why this is problematic
thinking, but it is proper to address this issue here as well. Not all toxins are created
equal. There is a wide variance between individual thresholds of toxicity. There are
also considerations of the state of a person’s current health and a toxin’s particular
toxicity. With these variables in place, it is not a good idea to risk getting a vaccine and
hoping for the best. There is no way to predict how the body will react in each
individual. There is no way to determine genetic variances, immune system strength,
the body’s present toxin load, etc. Not many parents would risk their children’s health
in this way if they truly understood. Vaccines are toxic and unsafe for every person at
any age, which is why delaying vaccines, but giving them to a child at a later age, is
also an unwise choice.

There has been increasing evidence of the damaging effects on the immune system
do to vaccines. Many researchers feel that once the integrity of the immune system is
compromised, as in the case of a vaccine, it will never again function as optimally as
originally intended. Researchers are only just beginning to understand how the
immune system truly works. No one knows yet! We don’t have it all figured out.
Conventional wisdom arrogantly assumes all the time that we have all the answers,
but we don’t. New research shows we are wrong about previous assumptions all the
time. With this in mind, it is completely plausible that we could be doing damage with
vaccines that we have yet to realize.

When toxic substances and viruses are injected directly into the bloodstream, all the
body’s natural defenses are bypassed. This forces the body’s immune system to
respond unnaturally. It also hampers the body’s ability because the immune system
now must try to function with a limited amount of its defenses. This confuses the body
to say the least. It is thought by some researchers that this causes the immune
system to begin failing to recognize “self” from “not self”. This is a vital function of the
immune system. This is where conditions such as cancer and autoimmune diseases
can begin. More heavily vaccinated populations also have a smaller (atrophied)
thymus gland compared to poorly or non-vaccinated populations. The thymus gland is
a key component of the immune system.

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