Peanut Allergies and Vaccines

I could not have imagined that there would ever be a time when a child could not bring a peanut butter and jelly sandwich to school for lunch. Eating peanut butter as a child is a rite of passage. But the world we live in today has done such an extensive job in violating Natural Law that we now have generations of children whose once perfect bodies are now scarred in the wake of medical dogma and bad science. Nut free zones are now acceptable and mainstream.  

 

Before we point the finger at vaccines as a cause of peanut allergies, we first need to understand some digestive physiology. When we eat protein, it is broken down into its constituent amino acids. Amino acids are allowed to pass through the intestinal wall and enter our blood stream. These amino acids are transported all over the body and dropped off where ever they are needed. It is at this cellular level, outside the blood stream, where the amino acids are reconstituted into whole proteins once again. Whole proteins are not supposed to be in the blood. If they are detected there, they are recognized as a foreign invader and the body calls on the immune system to create antibodies. Foreign protein in the blood creates a sensitivity and future exposure is a confirmed prompt for an allergic reaction.

Now let’s see if there is a means by which there would ever be an opportunity for undigested peanuts to be detected in the blood stream. Part of the recipe for a vaccine includes excipients. An excipient is an added substance mostly used as a preservative but can also have a role as a buffer, solvent, emulsifier, or stabilizer. In the mid-1960s, peanut oils were introduced as vaccine excipients. The oil was thought to act as a time release capsule and presumptively enhance the vaccine’s life span through its pilgrimage into the depths of our anatomy. By 1980 peanut oil had become the preferred excipient in vaccines. 

We all know that vaccines are not administered intravenously. However, vaccine injections are delivered intramuscularly where this concoction of bad science and physiological ignorance floods capillary beds and extracellular space. It is here, at the sight of injection, where intact whole proteins from the peanut oil can infiltrate our blood stream and create a systemic immune response. 

In the early-mid 1970s, after research began showing the dangers of peanut oil excipients, vaccine manufacturers were allowed to hide ingredients from the public. This was deemed proprietary information. 

In 1980 the mandated childhood vaccine schedule had 20 vaccines. There are now 68 and counting. And the peanut allergy epidemic continues to grow right along with it. Manufacturers will claim that the peanut oil is “scrubbed” clean, disinfected, sterilized, and proteins are all removed. Of course they would. But the FDA disagrees:

www.fda.gov/downloads/food/labelingnutrition/foodallergenslabeling/guidancecomplianceregulatoryinformation/ucm192048.pdf

As science searches for answers to the rise in peanut allergies, they forget the 800 pound gorilla sitting in the corner. This is just one more reason why vaccines, propagated through the stranglehold of dogma, are a bad idea.  

Natural Remedy for an Ear Infection

Otitis media (ear infection) is the most common illness affecting young children and infants and it has become the number one reason for pediatric office visits. Chronic ear infections are the second most common reason for surgery in children under two years of age (behind circumcision). 

The typical treatment is a round of antibiotics even though tests are rarely, if ever, done to determine whether the infection is viral or bacterial as antibiotics do not kill viruses. If that does not remedy the infection, another round of antibiotics is given and another and another.  Finally, there is the recommendation for surgery (tubes in the ears). Surgery requires general anesthesia which is never a minor issue when a small child is involved. 

The antibiotic therapy comes with its own trail of destruction. It destroys the good bacteria needed in the gut to create a strong immune system, properly digest food, and synthesize nutrients. Antibiotics also facilitate the genesis of drug-resistant super bugs. 

There are two questions inherent in this prologue.

1. How can we prevent ear infections in our children in the first place?

2. How can we remedy ear infections without using speculative and precarious drugs and surgery?

Fortunately, one answer will apply to both situations.

We must understand that bacteria are living organisms and as such can only live in an environment that supports their existence. That is to say, conditions must be just right for their growth. This is true for all living organisms and is why polar bears live in Alaska but not in Florida, rattle snakes live in Texas but not in Greenland, and palm trees grow in Arizona but not in Canada. Life grows only in conditions that support it.

Dehydration, acidic pH (caused by eating too much pasteurized dairy, sugar, processed carbs, and  industrial red meat), poor nerve stimulation, decreased blood flow, and nutritional deficiencies are the culprits responsible for creating a hospitable environment for bacterial infections (infections of any kind for that matter.) I have also never seen a breast fed baby with an ear infection. All of the cases I have worked on have had an element of baby formula associated with them.

For our tissues to support good bacteria and health they need to be hydrated, alkaline (except for the skin and stomach), and have proper blood flow to remove toxins, deliver oxygen, vitamins, minerals, and nutrients. That’s not to say breast fed babies are immune from other factors that can cause ear infections. It is but one piece of the puzzle.

Perhaps the most misunderstood element to curing ear infections (and I believe the most important) comes from the chiropractic adjustment. Misaligned bones in the upper cervical spine can pull on connective tissue and cause the Eustachian tube to become stretched, stressed, and/or pinched off thereby obstructing proper drainage. There can also be nerve stress which will inhibit normal physiology. Without nerve supply, we have paralysis. With stressed nerves, we have what I call “half-paralysis” or dysfunction. Body parts cannot work properly and be healthy if there is nerve stress involved. And know this; the birth process is more than enough trauma for a child’s delicate cervical spine to become misaligned.

Chiropractic adjustments for infants are far removed from the traditional adult adjustment. They are more akin to pressure than the twisting popping associated with an osseous adjustment. They are very safe indeed. Find a chiropractor with experience in adjusting infants and children. You can do this with a simple phone interview to the doctor’s office or you can go to www.icpa4kids.org and locate a pediatric specialist in your area.

For further investigation on the relationship between chiropractic adjustments and ear infections, I will refer you to www.chiro.org/research/ABSTRACTS/Otitis_Media.shtml where you will find links to a dozen research articles justifying this therapy.

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The Simple Genius of a Lemon

Squeezing a lemon wedge into your glass of water is one of the simplest ways to add beneficial nutrition and health to your daily regimen. It contains no saturated fats or cholesterol. It is low on the glycemic index which makes it a better choice for diabetics. The lemon offers vitamins A and C which help with vision and eye health, support the immune system, fight infection, help wounds heal, and prime the heart and arteries. 

Lemon’s puckering ability is due to citric acid. Citric acid feeds the brain helping to sharpen one’s focus. Citric acid is important to a healthy muscle metabolism and efficient energy production. It can help ward off fatigue. As a live food, lemon’s enzymes aid digestion.

A lemon is a powerful anti-oxidant. Vitamins A and C, flavonoids such as carotenes, xanthins, and lutein, and phytochemicals such as naringenin scavenge harmful inflammatory free radicals from the blood and reduce their damaging effects to the DNA in our cells. Free radicals can cause premature aging and degeneration. 

Lemon is also a good source of B-complex vitamins such as pantothenic acid (B5), pyridoxine (B6), and folate (B12). B5 helps in preparing healthy brain chemistry and is essential to fend of anxiety and depression. B5 regulates cholesterol and helps in controlling the blood pressure. It plays a role in healthy skin and hair. B5 stimulates adrenal hormones, assists liver in metabolizing toxic substances, and it fuels cell division and DNA reproduction.

 B6 prevents blood clots, heart attacks, and strokes. It plays a role in the synthesis of serotonin and norepinephrine and in the formation of the myelin sheath around nerves. Vitamin B6 reduces the level of homocysteine in the blood. Pyridoxine is effective for treating premenstrual syndrome and other problems related to dysmenorrhea. 

Folate (B12) is essential for proper development of a fetus’s spinal cord and brain. It is a vital component in the production of healthy red blood cells. B12 keeps the heart healthy, helps in depression, and has emerged as an important nutrient in preventing colorectal and cervical cancers as exert its power over cancer by helping to prevent damage to DNA.

Lemons have minerals like iron, copper, potassium, and calcium in them. Iron (in the red blood cell) carries oxygen to our cells (especially the brain which uses 20% of the oxygen in our blood) and is vital for muscle health and contraction. Copper has anti-microbial properties, is needed for strong bones, and proper function of the thyroid, adrenal glands, cardiovascular system and the brain. Potassium and calcium play vital roles in muscle contraction, healthy bone formation, electrolyte balance and proper nerve function. 

Though lemons are acidic, they digest leaving an alkaline ash thereby helping to maintain a healthy pH in the body. With all this packed into a lemon, why wouldn’t you squeeze a wedge into every glass of water that you drink? It’s simplicity with incredible pay back. Drink up.You need the water anyway!

Why I am a Doctor of Chiropractic

That spark of life, originating in the hands of God, flowing from above to down and from inside to outside is consigned to the structures we call the nervous system. This very framework enables us to hear the purr of a kitten, view a rose bedecked with dew, and feel the wet sand from the shoreline slip between our toes. It coordinates the senses so we can walk up the stairs, put a spoon to our mouth, and tell us when it is time to go to the bathroom. The nervous system is the greatest magician on earth as it can recast a green pepper into human life by merely tickling the digestive system with action potential. 

This anatomy we call the nervous system is responsible for accepting the Creator’s inspiration for perfection and transforming it into physical existence. We hold this anatomy accountable for directing the orchestra of our lives. It tells the heart to beat, the kidneys to filter, and the blood vessels to constrict and dilate. It tastes the sour berries and feels the warmth of the sun on our faces. It sparks our legs to ambulation. It balances blood chemistry and pressure. The nervous system allows you to swing a bat, catch a ball, and skate on ice. 

The nervous system is responsible for controlling and coordinating EVERY function of our bodies. This precious entity that we call the nervous system is the interface that moves human experience. Chiropractic is a healing art that dances with that part of our anatomy in which the very force of life is transformed into matter. It is our breath, our thoughts, our passion, our life. It is the modality that speaks both languages of spirit and body. Our nervous system is the metaphor that transforms and binds spirit and heaven into matter and earth.  

The chiropractic adjustment is a telescopic connection to the Big Picture. Removing nerve stress by adjusting misaligned vertebrae restores life not by replacing with implants, controlling with machines, or chemically altering with drugs, but rather by allowing, freeing, and innately accepting the ability of the body to regulate itself. The chiropractic philosophy is hopeful of possibilities and pursues what is right within the body, not fearful of probabilities searching for what is wrong within the body. 

Exalting the Hippocratic tradition of “first do no harm,” chiropractic exercises the body’s wisdom in contrast to exorcizing the body’s failures. Chiropractic moves by experience, intuition, and spirit, not by scientific dogma and outdated tradition for the miracle of life cannot be truly explained scientifically. One cannot dissect love, grow the breath in a laboratory, or capture the sunshine in a test tube. Chiropractic focuses on health not disease, the whole body not parts, and promotes life rather than avoids death.  

Why am I a Doctor of Chiropractic? 

Because I honor the inborn potential of everyone to be truly healthy. 
Because I desire to help the newborn, the aged, and those without hope. 
Because I choose to care for the patient with the disease, not the disease. 
Because I wish to assist rather than intrude, to free rather than control. 
Because I seek the cause, not the effect. 
Because I know doctors do not heal; only the body can heal itself. 
Because I have been called to serve others. 
Because I want to make a difference. 
Because every day I get to witness miracles.
Because I know it is right.
 

 

 

Do Your Vitamin Supplements Really Work?

I must first acknowledge that if we lived in perfect stress free world with no high fructose corn syrup, Aspartame, hydrogenated fats, processed, pasteurized, irradiated, or fast food, GMOs, and we only ate 100% organic produce, nuts and seeds, all complementing our grass fed beef, pastured chickens, and fish caught from a clean ocean, we would not need vitamin supplements.  OK…back to reality.

There are two types of supplements: Those made from whole foods and those created in a test tube. “The body doesn’t know the difference” remains the mantra of the synthetic vitamin companies. However, laboratory made, synthetic, lifeless, inert, fractionalized, isolated, chemicals can never be passed off as whole food complexes complete with live enzymes, co-factors, trace minerals, antioxidants, and activators. The wisdom of the human body is infinitely more intellectual and transcendent than man’s finite ego-based book knowledge and very certainly does know the difference. 

Strike one: Synthetic molecules can never function like a whole food complex. 

Ascorbic acid is commonly thought of as vitamin C. It is not. Synthetic vitamins are “pieces” of a once dynamic food matrix. Ascorbic acid is the outer layer of molecules that keeps the inner vitamin C complex from oxidizing.  It is the Tupperware® that keeps vitamin C mosaic from spoiling. Vitamin C is instead is a network of nutrients which includes flavonoids (a complete biochemical matrix in and of itself including rutin, quercetin, epicatechin, flavones, isoflavones, flavins with their own subgroups, and anthocyanidins.) Let’s not leave out tyrosinase, an enzymatic form of organic copper essential for proper adrenal function, as well as P, K, and J factors. Pretending ascorbic acid is vitamin C is classic reductionism (Newtonian physics). It is bad science from an outdated paradigm. The carrot has over 200 known nutrients and phytonutrients in it. Are you satisfied with a synthetic beta carotene laced supplement or would it be a more nutritionally sound choice to have a supplement made from carrots? We can say the same for d-alpha tocopherol posing as vitamin E. 

Strike two: The sources of these lifeless chemicals will make you think twice.

Most synthetic vitamins are petroleum extracts and coal tar derivatives. Other chemicals used to create these imposters include methanol, benzene, ammonia, and formaldehyde. Ascorbic acid is made by hydrogenated corn sugar, acetone, and hydrochloric acid. It’s toxic sugar. Corn products in this country (unless grown organically) are genetically adulterated through Monsanto’s GMO program. Genetically altered food is dangerous and comes with inherent health risks.

The giant pharmaceutical company Hoffman LaRoche, in the mid-1940s, started manufacturing d-alpha tocopherol (synthetic form of vitamin E) from turpentine, acetone, and acetylin. Any relationship of this man-made vitamin E to a natural food based vitamin E was perhaps chemical but hardly biological. Through prestige and power in the marketing industry, they were able to force this bad science through regulatory channels as the chemical industry standard.

Strike three: The molecules that make up a synthetic vitamin are optical isomers

They are mirror images. Because these structures are reversed, a left handed molecule cannot take part in a chemical reaction meant for a right handed molecule. Try as a mad scientist might, he has not been able to create a molecule in a lab that will “spin” in the “natural” direction. Physiologically speaking, these counterfeit pseudo-vitamins cannot work despite million dollar TV commercials.

Synthetic vitamins can only function like all other man-made pharmaceuticals. They alter chemical reactions in the body so we perceive or sense a different outcome. They stimulate and never feed the body. The effect of a synthetic vitamin is palliative at best and never curative. At worst, these counterfeit supplements can impair bodily functions by contributing to biochemical imbalance. When choosing a supplement, be sure the ingredient label reads like a garden and not like a chemical text book.