Flu, my favorite subject!

I despise all ads about medication in general but the flu vaccine ads actually makes my heart beat a little faster and I get angry! Yes, I get angry.. they are painting up this picture that the flu is the worst illness in your life and that you just HAVE to get vaccinated to be responsible. You have to protect your family, your co-workers, and others... or you are not a good citizen!

On top of that they say that getting the vaccine is really the ONLY way you can be safe and flu free for yet another year. They even have a dot-Gov website for promoting it!

What happened to the "eat right, exercise, get enough sleep, get fresh air, take some supplements, stay clean" idea?! I bet we are a few people that can prove that it works pretty good! In fact, I think we can prove that by going about it the natural way we will be able to build up our OWN immune system and if we get the flu anyway, it would be easier handled by our body. With every flu you actually get your immune system will build up immunity to that flu for a LIFETIME - not just a year like the vaccine.. Now, isn't that a better deal?!

No artificial injections, no money paid, no possible side effects, and immunity for a life time. Who can beat that?! Not this stupid vaccine, that's for sure.

Off course, getting the flu sucks, I am not going to deny that - I have had it in the past and it is a pest.. but just like a regular cold, it passes.

I wonder what would happen if people just stopped getting this vaccine, would the world collapse? Would we loose so much tax money from all of these paid shots, would people loose jobs, would we all walk around and be sick all the time? Yeah, this flu is dangerous alright.. just not in the way you would think.

Did I ever mention Vitamin D?

Dr. Mercola is explaining it for us... it is really just this simple - I promise
To get the full story posted with this video go to:
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2009/12/03/How-to-Prevent-the-Flu-Easy-as-1-2-3.aspx

Dr. Mercola also shares this:
According to the CBS News study, when you come down with chills, fever, cough, runny nose, malaise and all those other "flu-like" symptoms, the illness is likely caused by influenza at most, 17 percent of the time, and as little as 3 percent! The other 83 to 97 percent of the time it's caused by other viruses or bacteria.

My simple and short answer for what is causing a cold or flu has always been that it’s due to an impaired immune system. That’s still true. However, research has confirmed that “catching” colds and flu may be a symptom of an underlying vitamin D deficiency! Less than optimal vitamin D levels will significantly impair your immune response and make you far more susceptible to contracting colds, influenza, and other respiratory infections.Although there are many ways you might end up with a weakened immune system, the more common contributing factors are:

• Vitamin D deficiency, as previously mentioned
• Eating too much sugar and too many grains
• Not getting enough sleep
• Insufficient exercise
• Inadequately managing emotional stressors in your life
• Any combination of the above 

In order to prevent the flu, children and adults need 35 IU of vitamin D per pound of body weight. So, for example, a child weighing 57 pounds would need 2,000 IU a day of vitamin D.

Adults typically need an average of 5,000 IU per day—but some adults have to take 20,000 to 30,000 IU daily to get their vitamin D level up to optimal levels. Exactly how adults absorb and process vitamin D so differently is still somewhat of a mystery, so the only way to know if your vitamin D level is therapeutic and nontoxic is by having your blood tested.

Thank you Dr Mercola!!!

Proud to be a Swede?

This article is scary to me... but I have seen the debate first hand. I have watched TV shows and online papers and blogs. I have seen this Mrs Linde with my very own eyes - she is convincing and calm and if you don't know what to think you most likley will believe her. Doctors has even been told not to speak their own oppinion if it goes against the national guidelines regarding the swine flu vaccine in some states... I thought Sweden was a democtaric country?!

Like it is said in the article - Sweden is up for a medical scandal... I am sure this does not only happen in Sweden, but I am embarassed to say that it is happening. I have seen some of the propaganda used here in the US too though, like: "Think about your loved ones - get vaccinated"

Fifth "swine flu" vaccine death in Sweden - vaccinations still go ahead as planned!
By Johan Niklasson at http://www.theflucase.com/


Media in Sweden is having a tough time maintaining the propaganda as more and more people question the reasons for the mass vaccination. Now, authorities say that if not "80% of the population takes the shot, we risk 100 deaths from the swine flu". Most Swedes know that a normal flu season see several thousand dead from complications from the seasonal flu so the proportions of the propaganda coming from media and the government has caused a growing revolt against the massive attempts to scare people to take the poisonous injection.

We have earlier reported on the first death, the second death (also here), the third death and the fourth death in Sweden from the poisonous Pandemrix vaccin shot.

Today, Svenska Dagbladet reports that over 350 cases of side effects from the Pandemrix "swine flu" shot, has been recorded so far. It has also become clear that this shot contains the most deadly mix of substances of all the known vaccines manufactured against the so called "swine flu" H1N1 influenza. The official number of deaths from the "swine flu" vaccine is now five. And that is only those who have strong immediate reactons, the long term effects are usually never even investigated. If you would die from the shot two weeks after you took it, your death would not be considered to have anything to do with the vaccination. Severe health problems years after will of course be very hard to link to the poisonous injection. Even if these five official cases died within days, the official story is of course as expected: "none of these deaths has been confirmed to be linked to the vaccine".

In Aftonbladet, Jan Liliemark from The Swedish Institute for Infectious Disease Control (SMI) says: "- Nothing points to a connection. There will be more deaths. We are looking for a pattern, if the cases have something in common. We have so far not found any clear connections between them yet." Officially 198 cases of confirmed "swine flu" exist in Sweden today among a population of over 9 million. How these cases have been tested and determined is not clear.

As always with statistics like this, historically we know that very few of all real side effects are actually reported. Optimistically, up to ten per cent would be reported. It is also highly likely that deaths are being kept secret by the authorities so that the massive and hugely expensive vaccination program will not come to a complete stop. Too many have put their job, reputation and title at stake for the truth to be reported and published.

So far, three people have been reported dead from complications from getting the H1N1 virus. Five dead from the flu shot before the real vaccination campaign has even started should be an indication to question the vaccine and the strategy chosen but the authorities have so much prestige invested that it is unlikely it will ever happen - no matter how many will die from the poisonous injections.

The Swedish public are being kept in the dark about the most simple facts about the vaccinations. The questionable protection against the virus will only be for this present strain - any new mutations would immediately require a new vaccine for that strain. The new second wave of the new mutation is exactly what authorities warn about and use as an argument to take the poisonous injection.

Authorities are running out of arguments and completely idiotic arguments have been published the last week in Sweden. "There is less mercury in the shot than you get from eating mercury contaminated fish", "You might get sick from the vaccine but you should take that risk to ´save" someone who could die from getting the H1N1 infection from you", "It would be like killing someone to not take the shot out of solidarity" and "Mercury is not dangerous and also squalene is not dangerous, there is nothing called the Gulf War Syndrome and if there is, it has nothing to do with squalene because there was no squalene in the vaccines the US troops got", "German politicians will not get a different flu shot than the rest of the German population".

The number of flat out lies are so many, it is hard to keep track of them all.

The chief of The Swedish Institute for Infectious Disease Control (SMI), Annika Linde, says in the article: "- The Vaccine is principally natural to the body. The mercury was necessary but the amounts are very small. There are many who have been making statements without qualified knowledge. It is of course good that this type of matter is debated but some of the reporting is rather devastating for the possibility to vaccinate the whole population." You are welcome Mrs Linde.

The official line in Sweden is bordering to madness and the biggest medical scandal in the history of the nation has just started.

Johan Niklasson

Influenza Vaccine - Don't do it!

Dr Mercola posted this on his blog last week and as I am a big NO to vaccine of this kind I wanted to send it out to reach some more people.

Why You Should NOT Vaccinate Your Children Against the Flu This Season
By Dr. Mercola
September 18 2009


This year it is more important that you protect your children and loved ones from the flu vaccines than influenza itself. Here are the reasons:

1. This flu is simply another flu. It is not unusually deadly.

2. This is the first time both season and pandemic flu vaccines will be administered. Both seasonal flu and swine flu vaccines will require two inoculations. This is because single inoculations have failed to produce sufficient antibodies. This is an admission that prior flu vaccines were virtually useless. Can you trust them this time?

3. Adjuvants are added to vaccines to boost production of antibodies but may trigger autoimmune reactions. Some adjuvants are mercury (thimerosal), aluminum and squalene. Why would you sign a consent form for your children to be injected with mercury, which is even more brain-toxic than lead?

4. This is the first year mock vaccines have been used to gain FDA approval. The vaccines that have been tested are not the same vaccines your children will be given.

5. Over-vaccination is a common practice now in America. American children are subjected to 29 vaccines by the age of two. Meanwhile, veterinarians have backed off of repeat vaccination in dogs because of observed side effects.

6. Modern medicine has no explanation for autism, despite its continued rise in prevalence. Yet autism is not reported among Amish children who go unvaccinated.

7. Researchers are warning that over-use of the flu vaccine and anti-flu drugs like Tamiflu and Relenza can apply genetic pressure on flu viruses and then they are more likely to mutate into a more deadly strain.

8. Most seasonal influenza A (H1N1) virus strains tested from the United States and other countries are now resistant to Tamiflu (oseltamivir). Tamiflu has become a nearly worthless drug against seasonal flu.

9. Public health officials are irresponsible in their omission of any ways to strengthen immunity against the flu. No options outside of problematic vaccines and anti-flu drugs are offered, despite the fact there is strong evidence that vitamins C and D activate the immune system and the trace mineral selenium prevents the worst form of the disease.

Vitamin D, LCHF and Swine Flu

Today at work everyone received an email about the swine flue; stating different things to think about when trying to prevent getting infected by it, but what they also said was "Do not self-medicate" and I wrote a response to their contact email. I am not expecting to see an answer, or an action based on what I wrote, but I was unable to keep quiet. So after sending it to them I thought I could send it to all of you, so I can educate more people than only those reading that email:

Hello,

First of all I would like to thank you for constantly updating us on the Swine flu issue; and as we are reaching fall and winter season soon information like this should increase, helping people to remember some easy avoiding techniques.

However, I think it is horribly wrong to tell people “Do not self-medicate” as there are numerous of findings out there telling us to what benefits we can receive from adding Vitamin D3 to our daily diet.

Vitamin D has been known for many years as the bone health vitamin only. Luckily we know much better today – as there are Vitamin D receptors on almost every cell in the body (Dr. E. Owings). Vitamin D is also referred to as the sunshine-vitamin as we receive most of our Vitamin D levels from skin exposure to the UVB light from the sun. As a matter of fact the skin can make up to 50,000 IU of Vitamin D in one day, even though 20,000 IU is more common (Dr. E. Owings).

Vitamin D is technically not a vitamin, but a hormone. And at enough vitamin D levels in the blood, vitamin D is known to prevent from: 17 different cancers, heart disease, stroke, hypertension, autoimmune diseases, diabetes, depression, chronic pain, osteoarthritis, osteoporosis, muscle weakness, muscle wasting, birth defects, periodontal disease (Dr. J. Cannell). And as well as improving many diseases Vitamin D gives us substantial protection from viral infections, including influenza and the swine flue (Dr. W. Davis).

As the US government recommendation stays at a low 200 IU per day – experts are calling for much higher dosages: Children are recommended to take 1000 IU per every 25 pounds of body weight and the recommendation for adults is 5000 IU or more if over weight. A recommended blood level of vitamin D should stay in between 50-80 ng/mL (125-200 nM/L) (Dr. J. Cannell) and this can be tested through a test called: 25-hydroxyvitamin D test at your doctor’s office.

So how do we obtain an efficient level of Vitamin D? Either we can spend most of our days outside in the sun with as little clothes as possible, right?! Well wrong – it is impossible, in the winter, for those who live above the 37th parallel to get enough vitamin D from sunlight. The 37th parallel would represent a line starting in Santa Cruz (south of San Francisco) California continuing on the northern border of Arizona, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Arkansas, Tennessee, and North Carolina… And still the people on the southern side of this border people are not getting enough Vitamin D by sun exposure (Dr. E. Owings). Why? Well air pollutant, sun block, fear of skin cancer, skin color – the lighter skin the better we can absorb the vitamin D from the sun, and age – the older we are the less effective is the vitamin D metabolism in the skin.

So what else contains vitamin D3? Milk – an adult would have to drink 50 glasses in a day to obtain these levels, and this is off course not something anyone should do. But the proper way of supplementing vitamin D3 is by food supplementation that can be found in many local stores such as CVS or GNC.

Why Vitamin D3 and not just Vitamin D. Well if you go to your doctor and ask for vitamin D he will simply give you D2. D2 is called Ergocalciferol and is made from irradiated mushrooms and is not a human form of vitamin D as vitamin D3 (Cholecalciferol) is. D3 is extracted from wool in an animal friendly way. The reason why most doctors gives you D2 is based on pharmaceutical industry marketing and not concern for what is healthiest or most natural (Dr. E. Owings). D2 is not only unnatural to us humans, but not even nearly as efficient as D3. To reach the same levels as 5,000 IU of D3 you need to supplement with 15,000 IU of D2 (Dr. W. Davis). Also, Vitamin D3 does not come with all the side effects that D2 has.

So what does Vitamin D3 do to prevent the swine flue? Well it boosts the immune system better than anything out there. It boosts both the innate and the immediate immune system (Dr. J. Cannell) giving you the best protection ever recorded (Dr. E. Owings).

Off course there are other things we can do to boost our immune system but most people will think I am crazy when saying this: Stop eating, or at least decrease your intake of highly inflammatory carbohydrates (bread, pasta, potatoes, chips, rice, cake, breakfast cereals…) and start eating more natural cheeses, butter, animal fat, avocados, cream and so on. Never look at a “low fat” or “non fat” product ever again! If you are still dead set on that carbohydrates being healthy for you, please start supplementing with some Omega 3 as you are getting too many unhealthy omega 6 from your daily carbohydrates…

A low carbohydrate diet contains of 10 gr per day and a mediate intake contains of 50 gr per day. Levels over this should be avoided for a better health, along with eating high levels of natural fat.

I would be very happy if you could distribute at least a little note to our employees about the benefits of supplementing with Vitamin D3 over the fall-winter-spring season as it is known to fight many unwelcomed diseases and illnesses. I would be more than happy to be a contact person for people with questions regarding this, but I understand if this is a legal matter too.

To read some of the references please click on the links below:
http://www.vitamindcouncil.org/
http://www.ehealthdiscoveries.com/vitamind.html
http://heartscanblog.blogspot.com/search/label/vitamin%20D

With my warmest regards,