Kids are vitamin D Deficient, Not Vaccine Deficient

It's exciting to see scientific research confirming what I've believed all along - that our natural environment gives us everything we need to live healthy lives. We are meant to co-exist with the constant circulation of bacteria and viruses in our environment because our extraordinary bodies are designed with a powerful innate immune function. We don't need to mess with this perfection using synthetic drugs and vaccines; we just need to better understand it and take steps to optimize this phenomenal potential.

A randomized, double-blind, placebo controlled trial of school children shows vitamin D prevents the flu. They also found that asthmatic children on placebo had six times more asthma attacks than did children on vitamin D.

The study was published in The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition:
http://www.ajcn.org/cgi/content/abstract/ajcn.2009.29094v1

Read more about the evidence that vitamin D reduces the risk of influenza and pneumonia:
Vitamin D and Influenza

Vitamin D Triggers and Activates the Immune System

In addition, scientists have discovered that Vitamin D is crucial to activating the immune response. Without sufficient levels of vitamin D, the killer cells of the immune system - T cells - are not able to fight off serious infections.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/7379094/Vitamin-D-triggers-and-arms-the-immune-system.html

Are Flu Vaccines as Safe and Effective as Vitamin D?

An independent analysis of worldwide flu vaccine studies published in the British Medical Journal concluded there is little scientific proof that flu vaccines are safe and effective. The report concluded that too few clinical trials have been conducted to prove vaccine safety and current evidence indicates that use of flu vaccine has only a modest or no effect on preventing influenza in the children and the elderly.

http://www.healthychild.com/flu-vaccine/studies-fail-to-demonstrate-safety-or-effectiveness-of-influenza-vaccine-in-children-and-adults/

http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/333/7574/912

Our children's bodies have no inherent physiological requirement for repeated injections of live or killed viruses or bacteria mixed with toxic preservatives and adjuvants. They can live remarkably healthy lives without vaccines. But they cannot be healthy without adequate levels of naturally-occurring vitamin D.

The body manufactures the perfect amount of natural vitamin D3 when exposed to sunlight. It's absorbed by our skin and then converted to a hormone that is needed for many different functions, including activating our natural immunity against disease. This happens with zero side effects since it's the way our body is designed to function. And it even has its own built-in mechanism to stop making vitamin D to prevent toxicity.

Compare this with a vaccine made of toxic synthetic substances that is injected directly into the muscle and then taken into the bloodstream. Our bodies were never meant to deal with this type of assault, especially small, developing infant bodies. No wonder there are so many adverse effects with vaccines. Vaccines are incompatible with our bodies' natural processes. Side effects or bad reactions may show up when synthetic substances not meant to be injected, absorbed, or ingested by the human body are forced into the system anyway. The body then has to deal with this.

Vitamin D has always been provided by the sun, but science is just now beginning to affirm the profound effects this has on our bodies. For many years, we've been told to block the sun with chemical sunscreens. It seems that we've been blocking our most effective means of preventing and healing disease.

It's estimated that over half the people in the US are vitamin D deficient. Kids are vitamin D deficient because of the very low government nutritional recommendations of 200-400 IUs, which are ridiculously low, and the insane practice of slathering sunscreen on them all day every day in the summer months. Many doctors are now in agreement that vitamin D levels should be above 50 ng/ml year-round, in both children and adults. You simply can't get there with the current recommendations.

See info about toxicity of sunscreens and how to get enough sun to produce vitamin D without burning.

When the body is nurtured and fed properly, its natural innate immunity is capable of producing a full, complete, powerful immune response. This is always better than simply creating an antibody response, which is all vaccines are meant to do. And now it seems that without adequate vitamin D to activate an immune response, a vaccine may be useless!

We Need a Change in Public Health Policy

There's no real health care reform until public health policy changes to recommend what works instead of what brings in more profits for the pharmaceutical industry.

If our government is serious about public health and well-being, they should reconsider the strategy of recommending an expensive pharmaceutical-based, questionable mode of prevention that has associated health risks when a natural, inexpensive, no-risk preventive has been proven effective.

In the meantime, we parents can implement our own health care reform and provide our babies and children with optimal vitamin D levels, extended breastfeeding, good whole foods nutrition, a positive emotional and non-toxic environment, as well as other natural immune enhancers to keep our kids safe and healthy.

Interview with Dr. Cannell about vitamin D deficiency in babies and children:
http://www.healthychild.com/immune-system-support/vitamin-d-deficiency-in-pregnancy-babies-children/

Vitamin D Levels and Supplementation:
http://www.healthychild.com/supplements-for-children/vitamin-d-levels/

Pregnancy and Vitamin D Deficiency:
http://www.healthychild.com/pregnancy/pregnancy-and-gestational-vitamin-d-deficiency/

Info on toxicity of Sunscreens
http://www.healthychild.com/sunscreen/sunburn-prevention-are-sunscreens-safe/

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Call for safer vaccines, not avoidance
written by Mark, November 25, 2010

The dramatic reduction in child and infant mortality in the last 60 years is directly attributable to the advent of vaccines. Call for better oversight and the use of safer media to carry the vaccines, but to counsel parents to forgo them is dangerous and irresponsible. Yes, everything you suggest would lead people to healthier and happier lives, right up to the point that they or their child contracted a fatal illness that could be prevented by vaccines.

To state that we are "meant" to coexist blissfully and peacefully with dangerous pathogens is ludicrous. Our bodies are amazing, but they aren't unassailable fortresses that will be impervious to illness if we will only eat right and avoid industrial pollutants. That's crazy talk.

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written by Jane, November 25, 2010

I'm providing people with facts. Vitamin D has been proven safe and effective for preventing flu whereas flu vaccines have not. To say that all children should be injected with unproven toxins is, as you say "crazy talk".

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written by Walter, December 20, 2010

Hey Mark,

You better get your head out of the sand. Mortality from childhood infectious disease had declined by virtually 90-95% before the advent of mass vaccinations. Vaccines did NOT save us...better public health policy (sanitation, more nutritious food) did!! Once you understand that, the vaccine mythology is easily seen to be just that.

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Have your vitamin d levels checked out
written by Cha, April 05, 2011

Hi

Thanks for such an informative article. A friend informed me of the absolute need of vitamin d levels especially for black people whose skins do not absorb vitamin d as quickly as lighter toned skins.

As a community, most of us had our levels checked and they were dangerously low.

Daily exposure to the sun is crucial where possible. Otherwise supplement with vitamin d3.

Have your kids levels checked and you will note that there will be a reduction in flues and running noses

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