PDF David Brownstein, MD
October 20, 2011
David Brownstein, MD
Fall is the time to consider whether you and your loved ones should get a flu shot. I see the advertisements in the pharmacies stating, “Flu shots given here.” So, let me present some data for you to decide if you should get a flu shot. Some of this article comes from my newsletter, “Dr. Brownstein’s Natural Way to Health.” More information about this newsletter can be found on my website homepage (www.drbrownstein.com).
The CDC recommends that all children aged six months and older should get the flu vaccine. However, a review of over 51 studies involving 290,000 children reported, “…no evidence that injecting children 6-24 months of age with a flu shot was any more effective than a placebo. In children over two years, it was effective only 33% of the time in preventing the flu. Stated another way, the flu vaccine was useless for two-thirds of the children that received it. Another study found that the Flumist vaccine “…did not provide any protection against hospitalizations in pediatric subjects, especially children with asthma. On the contrary, we found a {300%} increased risk of hospitalization in subjects who did get the Flumist vaccine.”
You would think that the flu vaccine would be effective in preventing the elderly from getting the flu. A review of 75 studies found that vaccinating the elderly was ineffective at preventing the complications from the flu. In fact, the researchers commented that the available evidence supporting the use of the flu vaccine in the elderly is of such poor quality the studies provide no guidance on the safety of the flu vaccine.
Before you vaccinate for the flu, you should understand what is in the vaccine. The flu shot contains a mixture of egg proteins including bird contaminant viruses. It also contains polysorbate 80 (associated with infertility in animals), formaldehyde (a known carcinogen), Triton X100 (detergent), sucrose (sugar), and thimerisol (50% mercury by weight). The multi-dose flu vaccines still contain mercury which is the third most toxic item known to mankind. You should not ingest or inject any mercury containing products. Looking at this cornucopia of toxic ingredients should make it clear that it is best to avoid injecting the flu vaccine in any living being.
Flulaval, the most commonly prescribed flu vaccine on the market, contains 25ug of mercury per dose along with formaldehyde. Formaldehyde, as stated above, is a known carcinogen. In fact, this dose of thimerosal exceeds the EPA’s safety limit of mercury exposure by over 250 times. Mercury is a known neurotoxin and is the third-most toxic element known to mankind. Injecting mercury into any living being should be outlawed.
How can you prevent becoming ill from the flu? Maintaining adequate vitamin A and D levels helps the immune system fight viral infections. Furthermore, ingesting daily amounts of vitamin C (2-5,000mg/day) can also help. Finally, drinking adequate amounts of water to maintain hydration helps the immune system ward off infection.
David Brownstein, M.D. is a Board-Certified family physician and is one of the foremost practitioners of holistic medicine. He is the Medical Director of the Center for Holistic Medicine in West Bloomfield, MI. Dr. Brownstein has lectured internationally to physicians and others about his success in using natural hormones and nutritional therapies in his practice. Dr. Brownstein has authored nine books.
Polysorbate is used in drug targeting in some injections. It renders the blood-brain barrier more porous and facilitates passage of for example psychiatric or chemo drugs through the barrier into the brain tissue.
In vaccines this property of polysorbate is obviously undesirable. It facilitates passage of eg neurotoxic mercury through the barrier into the brain tissue where it will accumulate.
Small children and fetus are extra vulnerable because it is believed that they have underdeveloped blood-brain barriers. This is yet one more reason for extreme caution regarding vaccination in connection with pregnancy.
I recently took a Flu Shot from Target in Milpitas, California on 10/21/2011 and had a seizure episode in next 72 hours. Is that normal?
I know that the vaccine doesn't protect you against any class of virus but what the scientists predict is going to be a popular virus. Is it true?
How did you pass Medical school? The stupid hurts my brain
you are an idiot
A tip: please post references specific to your statements – it is near impossible for anyone to come to their own conclusions regarding this. Especially when you state that you want people to come up with their own conclusions
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I have taken flu shots in the past and i couldn't tell that they realy helped. They did mak me feel bad in a few hours aferwards. I have a sister that is or was a nurse practioner she is retired now . She is a firm beliver in alternative medicine and she also says that you are what you eat so eat healthy foods, Here is one thing people need to know and i never have read it any where. most all oe the so called soft drinks have sodium benzoate added as a preservative.Here is the bad news ,when mixed with vitamine c it turns into benzene which causes cancer of your kidneys.I have a niece that her and her husband would grab a pepsi instead of coffee in the morning and drank several ever day ,he died with kidney cancer and she had to have part of one kidney removed.(cancer) I have anothe niece that has a daughter that had to have a kidney removed because of cancer and this girl seemed to always a cigarete in one hand and a drink in the other,she is on diallis. I will never take another flu shot after finding what is bein put in them.
I never get a flu shots and i never sick
I want to ask to dr David Brownstein, what he think about the shot flu to pregnat???? Here in portugal the doctors says that the shot flu is save to pregnat. I think the flu shot is not save to pregnat or childrem and is not effective, I think is dangerus for pregnat take any vacine. I agree 100% with this article. Here in portugal don´t exit this information about vacine.