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Hey Doc, What about Aluminum?

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This post was prepared with essential input from my friend, Katie Walker.

Ask your pediatrician these 10 questions, report back to me, and I will buy you dinner!

(Disclaimer, prepare for an awkward meeting with your doctor because most do not know the critically important answers, which are listed below.)

1. What is the amount of aluminum considered, but not proven, to be safe to inject into an infant per FDA guidelines?

2. What is the amount of aluminum injected into children’s bodies via vaccines? And which vaccines contain aluminum?

3. What is the main purpose of having aluminum in vaccines?

4. Is aluminum neurotoxic?

5. Has the amount of aluminum contained in the current CDC recommended vaccine schedule been tested for safety?

6. Are there long-term studies demonstrating the safety of aluminum in vaccines?

7. Which ingredient in vaccines allows the blood brain barrier to be penetrated by aluminum?

8. Can an abundance of neurotoxins in the body cause neurological damage?

9. Is Autism proven to be caused by neurological damage?

10. What is the current rate of Autism in the United States?

Answers…

1. 25 mcg for an infant for aluminum in an IV.[1][2][3] The limit for vaccines has been arbitrarily established at 850 mcg.[4]

2. 250-800 mcg per vaccine. Aluminum containing vaccines: Hepatitis A, Hepatitis B, DTaP (Diphtheria, Tetanus and Pertussis), HPV, Polio, Pneumococcal, and Meningococcal B.[5]

3. To elicit an immune response. [6]

4. Peer reviewed studies from NIH confirm the neurotixicty of aluminum. [7][8][9][10]

5. No [no citations because no citations exist to demonstrate safety of the current recomended vaccine schedule].

6. No [no citations because no citations exist on the longterm safety of aluminum]. Damage from aluminum exposure has been cited.[11][12]

7. Polysorbate 80, an ingredient in vaccines.[13] Glyphosate is another. Glyphosate is the main active ingredient found within Monsanto’s “Roundup,” a herbicide which is now ubiquitous and has been implicated in neurological damage of both ASD and Alzheimers.[14]

8. Peer reviewed studies from NIH confirm yes [15]

9. Peer reviewed studies from NIH confirm yes [16]

10. 1 in every 59 children have been diagnosed as ASD. This data comes from a 2018 CDC report which investigated children born in 2006 and represents exponential growth.[17]

Please take some time to research the topic of Aluminum in vaccines… You can begin by reading all the cited research papers in the footnotes. No parent, no doctor desires to harm a baby. Yet, if we haven’t fully explored aluminum impact on the body, we may be doing just that.

Author: Becky Hastings, wife, mother, grandmother, passionate follower of Jesus and truth. As a breastfeeding counselor for over 23 years Becky is devoted to helping parents make wise decisions for the long-term health and wellbeing of their babies. As a member of a Vaccine Safety Education Coalition, Becky writes and speaks on the topic of vaccine safety.

[1] “The aluminum content of large volume parenteral (LVP) drug products used in total parenteral nutrition (TPN) therapy must not exceed 25 micrograms per litre ([micro]g/L).” https://www.accessdata.fda.gov/scripts/cdrh/cfdocs/cfcfr/CFRSearch.cfm?fr=201.323

[2] “Aluminum may reach toxic levels with prolonged parenteral administration [this means injected into the body] if kidney function is impaired . . . Research indicates that patients with impaired kidney function, including premature neonates [babies], who received parenteral levels of aluminum at greater than 4 to 5 micrograms per kilogram of body weight per day, accumulate aluminum at levels associated with central nervous system and bone toxicity [for a tiny newborn, this toxic dose would be 10 to 20 micrograms, and for an adult it would be about 350 micrograms]. Tissue loading may occur at even lower rates of administration.” [Department of Health and Human Services, Food and Drug Administration, Document NDA 19-626/S-019, Federal Food, Drug and Cosmetic Act for Dextrose Injections.]

[3] “A single vaccine given to a six-pound newborn is the equivalent of giving a 180-pound adult 30 vaccinations on the same day. Include in this the toxic effects of high levels of aluminum and formaldehyde contained in some vaccines, and the synergist toxicity could be increased to unknown levels. Further, it is very well known that infants do not produce significant levels of bile or have adult renal capacity for several months after birth. Bilary transport is the major biochemical route by which mercury is removed from the body, and infants cannot do this very well. They also do not possess the renal (kidney) capacity to remove aluminum. Additionally, mercury is a well-known inhibitor of kidney function.”–Boyd Haley Ph.D.

[4] “The 850 μg of aluminum per vaccine FDA amount was derived from data that demonstrated that this amount of aluminum per dose enhanced the antigenicity and effactiveness of the vaccine [9,10], but does not include safety considerations.” Reconsideration of the immunotherapeutic… (PDF Download Available). Available from: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/323653092_Reconsideration_of_the_immunotherapeutic_pediatric_safe_dose_levels_of_aluminum [accessed May 15 2018]. Lyons-Weiler, J, and Ricketson, R.A. (2018, March).  Reconsideration of the immunotherapeutic paediatric safe dose levels of aluminum.

[5] Aluminum amounts:
Hib (PedVaxHib brand only) – 225 mcg per shot
Hepatitis B – 250 mcg
DTaP – depending on the manufacturer, 170 to 625 mcg
Pneumococcus – 125 mcg
Hepatitis A – 250 mcg
HPV – 225 mcg
Pentacel (DTaP, HIB and Polio combo vaccine) – 330 mcg
Pediarix (DTaP, Hep B and Polio combo vaccine) – 850 mcg
At birth, most children are given the hepatitis B vaccination. The amount of aluminum in the Hepatitis B vaccine alone is almost 14 TIMES THE AMOUNT OF ALUMINUM THAT IS FDA-APPROVED. A baby who receives all recommended vaccines will be injected with 4,925 mcg of aluminum by 18 months.

[6] “An adjuvant is a substance that enhances the antigen-specific immune response, induces the release of inflammatory cytokines, and interacts with Toll-like receptors and the NALP3 inflammasome. The immunological consequence of these actions is to stimulate the innate and adaptive immune response. The activation of the immune system by adjuvants, a desirable effect, could trigger manifestations of autoimmunity or autoimmune disease. Recently, a new syndrome was introduced, autoimmune/inflammatory syndrome induced by adjuvants (ASIA), that includes post vaccination phenomena, macrophagic myofasciitis, Gulf War syndrome and siliconosis.”

[7] G., Kroum, R., E., G., Jerome, F., & J. (2015, January 08). Biopersistence and Brain Translocation of Aluminum Adjuvants of Vaccines. Retrieved from https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fneur.2015.00004/full

[8] A “ToxGuide” for aluminum published by the US Department of HHS. Please notice no mention of aluminum as an injected component of vaccines. But notice, “The most sensitive target of aluminum toxicity is the nervous system…” Yet the only exposure mentioned is via inhalation, ingestion and skin contact. https://www.atsdr.cdc.gov/toxguides/toxguide-22.pdf

[9] Khan, Z., Combadière, C., Itier, V., Lux, F., Exley, C., Mahrouf-Yorgov, M., . . . Cadusseau, J. (2013, April 04). Slow CCL2-dependent translocation of biopersistent particles from muscle to brain. Retrieved from https://bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/1741-7015-11-99

[10] Scientific research continues to validate that aluminum is in fact causing Alzheimer’s disease: Thinklovehealthy. “Aluminum in Vaccines: History and Toxicity.” An Evidence-Based, Heartfelt Blog., 25 Apr. 2018, thinklovehealthy.com/2017/06/22/aluminum-in-vaccines-history-and-toxicity/.

[11] Vera-astra, O., Medina, G., Cruz-Dominguez, P., Jara, L. J., & Shoenfeld, Y. (2013, April). Autoimmune/inflammatory syndrome induced by adjuvants (Shoenfeld’s syndrome): Clinical and immunological spectrum. Retrieved from https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23557271

[12] Dangers of aluminum uncovered in this detailed documentary on the longterm impact of aluminum in the body as explored by three individuals and the doctors trying to find the cause of their debilitating illness, known as MMF: MPH, M. T. (2017, July 26). Aluminum Dangers Uncovered in Documentary on “Mysterious Illness” Linked to Aluminum-Containing Vaccines. Retrieved May 15, 2018, from http://info.cmsri.org/aluminum-and-your-health-blog/dangers-of-aluminum-uncovered-in-documentary-on-mysterious-illness-lined-to-aluminum-containing-vaccines

[13] Polysorbate 80 allows neurotoxins to permeate BBB: “Polysorbate 80 allows neurotoxins (like the aluminum in vaccines) and nano particles (both noted separately in the study) to permeate the rBMEC’s (rat brain microvascular endothelial cells), otherwise known as blood brain barrier, at lower levels than the neurotoxin or the nano particle alone. So, in itself Polysorbate 80 is not neurotoxic, but when combined with known neurotoxins, it creates a pathway for brain penetration.”
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/m/pubmed/21348312/

[14] http://www.collective-evolution.com/2017/09/23/study-shows-what-glyphosate-aluminum-operate-synergistically-to-destroy-the-human-brain/

[15] Intramuscular injection of aluminum hydroxide containing vaccines shows both longterm persistence of aluminium hydroxide and ongoing local immune reaction: Gerard, R. K. (2001). Macrophagic myofasciitis lesions assess long-term persistence of vaccine-derived aluminium hydroxide in muscle. Brain,124(9), 1821-1831. doi:10.1093/brain/124.9.1821

[16] One example of what aluminum does in the brain, body and central nervous system: Kalahari, Masahiro, and Midori Kato-Negishi. “Link between Aluminum and the Pathogenesis of Alzheimer’s Disease: The Integration of the Aluminum and Amyloid Cascade Hypotheses.” Advances in Pediatrics., U.S. National Library of Medicine, 8 Mar. 2011, www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3056430/.

[16] Tomljenovic, L., & Shaw, C. A. (2011, November). Do aluminum vaccine adjuvants contribute to the rising prevalence of autism? Retrieved from https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22099159/

[17] https://www.cdc.gov/ncbddd/autism/new-data.html

 

If I could get vaccine proponents to read just one thing…

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Aluminum in vaccines. How much? How safe?

[For an auditory reading of this blog] Edit 30 August 2023. Just realized the video my friend and fellow activist to help educate parents on vaccine reality, has been removed. Must be really really good, helpful, lifesaving information! Glad to report the blog is still here and available to read for yourself.

These basic questions should cause most parents, doctors, nurses, and grandparents to begin asking serious questions about the vaccines recommended for babies and children, especially in light of a remarkable paper just published in March 2018 which evaluates safety standards for aluminum in vaccines.[1]

Some things to note:

The DTaP shot on its own contains 170 – 625 mcg of aluminum depending on the manufacturer. You can get the exact amount from the vaccine package insert (vpi) for the brand your doctor is using. It is recommended that babies receive the DTaP at 2, 4, 6, 18 months and another shot at 4-6 years – for a total of 5 shots. Do the math: 5X the number you find in the vpi.

Some doctors like to give a combined shot like Pediarix or Pentacel because ‘it causes baby less distress to have less needles at once’ or something like that. Please note that the amount of aluminum in these shots is 850 mcg and 330 mcg respectively. Do the math if this combined shot is recommended for more than one dose for your baby.

Hepatitis B is given routinely on the first day of life – before breastfeeding is well established – and is followed up with 2 more doses for a total of 750 mcg of aluminum. Researching this disease and the history of this vaccine reveals concerning information.

Note how many doses of Hib and Pneumococcus are going to be given to your baby and do the math for those shots too.

PLEASE. Add up the total amount of aluminum that will be injected into your baby if you follow the doctors’ schedule. Do this mathematical exercise BEFORE you agree to any shot. Ask your doctor to do the math. Your doctor was not taught about the toxicity of aluminum or how it impacts the baby.

Aluminum has been considered GRAS (generally regarded as safe) and necessary – because without it there will not be the same level of blood titer increase. However, dosing for aluminum in vaccines was not worked out for safety according to the baby’s body weight. The amount of aluminum considered to be acceptable in vaccines is based on studies of INGESTION of aluminum in animals.[1]

If parents are concerned about hepatitis infections, diphtheria infections, tetanus infections, hib infections, meningitis, and pertussis infections for their brand new baby, there is a multitude of information that can help you understand and treat these illnesses in our modern day. Most of these diseases decreased in numbers and severity long before the vaccines were introduced. Similar infectious illnesses for which no vaccine was made, also decreased. Studying accurate graphs of the incidence of these infectious illnesses show that the decrease in all of them had more to do with clean water, improved sanitation practices, and better nutrition than with the vaccine. Not all doctors recommend vaccines.

You may find this latest analysis of aluminum safety in vaccines as interesting and shocking as I did.[1] I find encouragement that there are honest scientists seeking honest answers regarding the safety of aluminum in vaccines.

For more detailed information go to Reconsideration of the Immunotherapeutic Pediatric Safe Dose Levels of Aluminum by James Lyons-Weiler and Robert Ticketson, published in the Journal of Trace Elements in Medicine and Biology in March 2018. Thanks to HighWire with Del Bigtree for bringing this information to my attention and to James Lyons-Weiler for researching and presenting this information.

If after reading this, you still want to inject your baby or yourself with vaccines, please read this first as it outlines ways to prepare that could possibility mitigate some of the adverse side effects of vaccines.

Becky Hastings, blogger, wife, mother, grandmother, passionate follower of Jesus and truth. As a breastfeeding counselor for over 23 years, Becky is devoted to helping parents make wise decisions for the long-term health and wellbeing of their babies. As a member of a Vaccine Safety Education Coalition, Becky writes and speaks on the topic of vaccine safety, health, and wellness.

[1] Lyons-Weiler, James, and Robert Ricketson. “Reconsideration of the Immunotherapeutic Pediatric Safe Dose Levels of Aluminum.” Journal of Trace Elements in Medicine and Biology, Urban & Fischer, 8 Mar. 2018, www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0946672X17300950.

Is anyone investigating the safety of aluminum in vaccines? YES!

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Please watch and share the following 2 minute video where Dr Chris Shaw explains what his team found in experiments of injecting aluminum in amounts equivalent to vaccines into rodents. They found a great deal of harm, particularly to the brain.

As you can see, this great Youtube was removed from YouTube. Here is a different 4 minute video containing an explanation from Dr Shaw on some of the issues of aluminum when injected. Dr Shaw is followed by Dr Exley discussing his findings after bisecting brains of individuals who had died with a diagnosis of autism.

Foremost aluminum research Dr Chris Exley discusses in this 2 minute video provides a brief explanation of the value of aluminum as a metal but the lack of safety testing for use in injecting it into the body.

The most profound and disturbing aspect of this published scientific research is the complete silence by those promoting vaccines – Pharma and regulatory agencies. Complete silence. They had no rebuttals. They had no proof to offer on the safety of aluminum. They have no defense. They continue to choose to willfully ignore the harm caused by injecting aluminum into babies. Parents, grandparents — ALL thinking people — need to inform themselves. Your doctor may also be ignorant. The CDC chooses to continue recommending vaccines despite knowing the harm.

Author: Becky Hastings, wife, mother, grandmother, passionate follower of Jesus and truth. As a breastfeeding counselor for over 23 years Becky is devoted to helping parents make wise decisions for the long-term health and wellbeing of their babies. As a member of a Vaccine Safety Education Coalition, Becky writes and speaks on the topic of vaccine safety.

Protect Your Baby’s Brain

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As a parent your number one priority is the health of your child.

As a government organization the CDCs number one priority is to maintain their vaccine schedule – at all costs. You could call this self preservation. Their careers, income, reputation and much more are at stake. To them, the lives of a few children, or the robust health of many children are not as important as maintaining their point of view, their reputation, their existence as a government organization.

These two priorities conflict. Parents desperately need the facts.

When thinking about the health of your child, the most important thing you need to consider is how best to protect your baby’s developing brain. Our world is full of toxic assaults, so we need to be as wise as possible in reducing potential harm to our children’s brains. When thinking about vaccines, your primary question should be, ‘What are the ingredients in this, and how can they impact my baby’s brain?’

I am trying to say this in a loving gentle way, as if each one of you were one of my adult children.

Many parents and grandparents ask questions along the lines of “If you had to choose just the ‘good’ vaccines which ones would you choose?” or “If I’m going to delay and just selectively give ‘some’ vaccines, which ones are really important to give?”

My question to you, is, if the mechanism of the function of vaccines is flawed, is it not flawed across the board? If the basic understanding of the immune system is flawed, if our understanding of how injecting neurotoxins and other harmful chemicals into an infant’s system is flawed, then would there be one vaccine that might be the exception?

Car Seat 2It’s like you are saying, mostly I reject ‘hocus pocus potions,’ but in the case of a couple of big bad diseases, I am sooooo terrified of them that I need to use a hocus pocus potion just for those.

Since pharmaceutical companies have no (zero, nada, nothing) liability for their vaccines, they have no incentive for improving safety and efficacy. The safety studies required for vaccines is significantly less than what is required for pharmaceutical drugs – and we all know at least some of the horror stories of drugs that were approved for use, but later recalled for the harm, or death, they caused. We have all heard of at least one of the many lawsuits and cases brought against pharmaceutical companies for one reason or another. Most of them have paid incredibly large fines for admissions of guilt. All these facts combined, yet we still trust these companies? We still support their products and believe they are only going to provide what is good for our precious babies?

When we decide to give our child a ‘delayed’ or ‘selective’ vaccine schedule, is it because, in this case, in this one instance for this one disease, I’m sure they’ve made a good product; I am sure that this vaccine I am choosing to voluntarily inject in my baby or child will safely deliver the protection I desperately seek?

Please examine the logic in this. Here are some searching questions:

  • Is this a response of overwhelming fear that has hit me as a result of the media hype, or my social circle hype? Any action prompted by fear should be carefully examined.
  • Am I basing my decision on facts and available evidence?
  • Do I understand exactly how the immune system develops? (see Dr Suzanne Humphries brilliant lectures which thoroughly examine the science of the infant’s immune development.)
  • Have I read the latest science that shows the amazing link between the gut and the brain, microorganisms and health, etc.?
  • Have I fully read every package insert for all the shots I am considering? Have I concluded that the potential benefit outweighs the risk, or am I merely going on the advice of my ‘very nice doctor‘, or a ‘very pushy’ family member?
  • Do I know all the ingredients in the shot that I am considering for my child?
  • Have I researched these ingredients and the impact they could have especially on my baby’s brain?
  • If my child were to develop the illness I fear, is there a safe, effective, non harmful treatment option?

Dr Nils Bergman, pioneer of Kangaroo Mother Care, emphasizes that the most important role of parents is to protect the brain of their baby. The parent alone is the primary steward of the infant/child brain. Your number one job is to protect your baby’s brain from all outside attack. Pregnant women spend nine months carefully protecting their unborn baby from all types of potential harm. Wise parents don’t allow a stranger to hold their baby. Someone without experience of a brand new baby often doesn’t understand the important of supporting an infant’s head and neck. That’s why we are so careful. We carefully monitor when our older children want to hold the new baby. Also, a parent would never knowingly allow anything into the mount of their baby that could harm the brain.

Parents spend hours researching car seats because they want to make sure baby’s brain will be protected in the event of a crash. Parents insist their children wear bike helmets to protect their brain while biking!

In the same way, make sure you have done a thorough job of understanding the impact of every single vaccine you think about injecting into your baby. Think especially about the impact it could have on your baby’s brain.

Becky Isaac 11 months

Author: Becky Hastings, wife, mother, grandmother, passionate follower of Jesus Christ and truth seeker, especially in the areas of health and children. Facing a world quite different from the one in which I grew up, I seek to research and understand the true route to health, freedom and joyful family living!