Vaccine Adjuvants: The Stealth Health Threat

by Heidi Stevenson

25 January 2010

Chronic disease rates are rising. Asthma has become pandemic in children. New neurological disorders are being described. They all have one thing in common. They're the result of immune system overactivity and dysfunction. Substances that should be seen as normal in the body are perceived as threats and attacked.

What's going on?

The Immune System

The immune system's job is to recognize a foreign biological molecule and destroy it. Antibodies specific to that molecule are developed, so that a later invasion will be recognized and combatted.

A biological molecule is identified as foreign when it's different from other molecules found in that part of the body. Viruses are always seen as foreign, since they're not normally found anywhere in the body. No matter where they're found, the immune system recognizes that they don't belong.

The immune system does not make judgemental distinctions. It doesn't ask, "Is this a friendly foreign molecule?" It's only concerned with whether it's foreign. If a molecule is in the wrong place, then it's seen as foreign and antibodies are created to mark later invasions for destruction.

Autoimmune Disorders

Collagen is a benign substance that's critically important for life. It's part of the connective tissue and forms 25-35% of the body's protein. If a molecule of collagen is in a joint, where it's supposed to be, the immune system pays no attention—normally.

However, if collagen is found in the wrong place, it's not recognized. It's treated as an enemy. The immune system attacks it and forms antibodies so that it can be recognized and destroyed later—anywhere in the body.

An autoimmune disorder is the result of an immune system in disarray. One's own tissues are seen as foreign and destroyed. Rheumatoid arthritis is an autoimmune disorder.

Inducing an Autoimmune Disorder

The fact that an autoimmune disorder can result simply by introducing a natural biological substance into the wrong place is well known. It's used to create disease in lab mice so that potential treatments for the same human disease can be investigated.

Rheumatoid arthritis is studied by injecting collagen, a substance normally found in all living creatures, into mice. The result, adjuvant arthritis, is indistinguisable from human rheumatoid arthritis. A normally benign substance, collagen is sought out and destroyed by the immune system simply because it's been injected into the body.

A new neurological disorder has been found in pig slaughterhouse workers. Inhalation of microscopic particles of pig brains caused by high-speed equipment results in a debilitating and painful degeneration of the nervous system. There is no infectious agent. Nerves are attacked by their own immune system.

Bits of pig brain proteins, called prions, are similar to those found in humans. When they're inhaled, the immune system sees them as foreign because they're where they don't belong. So, antibodies are developed, and the immune system proceeds to attack its own body's nerves.

Just as in adjuvant arthritis in mice, substances that are naturally found in the body are suddenly perceived as enemies to be destroyed when they've entered the wrong way.

Vaccine Adjuvants

The greatest risk in vaccines may not be the obviously toxic agents. The ones of greatest concern are those that we're assured cannot possibly harm us because they're naturally found in the human body. That, though, is the reason they should be feared.

We're already living in the midst of a massive increase in autoimmune disorders. Rheumatoid arthritis—Multiple sclerosis—Crohn's disease—Diabetes—Graves' disease—Guillain Barré syndrome—Lupus—AIDS—and a host of others are becoming more and more common. How much of this is the result of vaccination adjuvants?

The massive vaccination programs are playing with fire—and the problem is about to become much worse. A host of new vaccines is being rolled out. The norovirus vaccine is the first of a new generation that will be delivered by inhaling a powder directly into the lungs. The powder itself includes a substance critical to cellular function, inositol. The adjuvant, GlaxoSmithKline's MPL, contains a substance similar to one that's involved in the autoimmune system itself.

The slaughterhouse workers who've developed a neurological disorder from breathing natural bits of pigs' brains are proof that inhaling a substance normally found in the human body can result in catastrophic autoimmune disorders. It's beyond comprehension that the same method of delivery of other substances necessary to life is being marketed as safe.

The effects of autoimmune disorders often take years to become apparent—but 20 years takes a child whose inoculations are just being started into the beginning of adulthood. What will the newest generation be facing as they grow up? Children and young adults are already living with pandemics of asthma, autism, diabetes, and Crohn's disease. Will the newest generation be entering adulthood with even worse? Perhaps the equivalent of AIDS?

Is there no limit to BigPharma's deception and greed in its quest for profits?