Vitamin D proven far better than vaccines at preventing influenza infections

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Vitamin D proven far better than vaccines at preventing influenza infections

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Note that the dose of Vitamin D given was 1200 IU per day. How much

more effective, do you suppose, a dose of ~10,000-15,000 IU per day might

be? Vitamin D3 is perfectly safe (for adults) at over 25,000 IU per day.

50,000 IU/day can be taken for a week or so.

Alobar

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*Vitamin D proven far better than vaccines at preventing influenza

infections*

Thursday, September 16, 2010

by Mike , the Health Ranger

Editor of NaturalNews.com (See all

articles...)<http://www.naturalnews.com/index-HRarticles.html>

(NaturalNews) If scientists discovered something that worked better than

vaccines at preventing influenza, you'd think they would jump all over it,

right? After all, isn't the point to protect children and adults from

influenza?

A clinical trial led by Mitsuyoshi Urashima and conducted by the Division of

Molecular Epidemiology in the the Department of Pediatrics at the Jikei

University School of Medicine Minato-ku in Tokyo found that *vitamin D was

extremely effective at halting influenza

infections<http://www.naturalnews.com/infections.html>in children

*. The trial appears in the March, 2010 issue of the *American Journal of

Clinical Nutrition* (Am J Clin Nutr (March 10, 2010).

doi:10.3945/ajcn.2009.29094)

The results <http://www.naturalnews.com/results.html> are from a randomized,

double-blind, placebo-controlled study involving 334 children, half of which

were given 1200 IUs per day of vitamin

D3<http://www.naturalnews.com/vitamin_D3.html>.

In other words, this was a " rigorous " scientific study meeting the gold

standard of scientific

evidence<http://www.naturalnews.com/scientific_evidence.html>

..

In the study, while 31 of 167 children in the placebo group contracted

influenza <http://www.naturalnews.com/influenza.html> over the four month

duration of the study, only 18 of 168 children in the vitamin D group did.

This means vitamin D was responsible for an absolute reduction of nearly *8

percent*.

Flu vaccines <http://www.naturalnews.com/vaccines.html>, according to the

latest scientific evidence <http://www.naturalnews.com/evidence.html>,

achieve a *1 percent* reduction in influenza symptoms (

http://www.naturalnews.com/029641_v...<http://www.naturalnews.com/029641_vaccine\

s_junk_science.html>

).

This means vitamin D appears to be *800% more effective than vaccines* at

preventing influenza infections in children.

To further support this, what really needs to be done is a clinical trial

directly comparing vitamin D supplements to influenza vaccines with four

total groups:

Group #1 receives a vitamin D placebo

Group #2 receives real vitamin D (1200 IUs per day)

Group #3 receives an influenza vaccine injection

Group #4 receives an inert injection

Groups 1 and 2 should be randomized and double blind while groups 3 and 4

should also be randomized and double blind. The results would reveal the

comparative effectiveness of vitamin D versus influenza vaccines.

Unfortunately, *such a trial will never be conducted* because vaccine

pushers already know this trial would show their vaccines to be all but

useless <http://www.naturalnews.com/useless.html>. So they won't subject

vaccines to any real science that compares it to vitamin D.

Vitamin D <http://www.naturalnews.com/Vitamin_D.html> also significantly

reduced asthma <http://www.naturalnews.com/asthma.html> in childrenGetting

back to the study, another fascinating result from the trial is that if you

remove those children from the study who were already being given vitamin D

by their parents, so that you are only looking at children who started out

with no vitamin D supplementation before the trial began, the results look

even better as *vitamin D reduced relative

infection<http://www.naturalnews.com/infection.html>risk by nearly

two-thirds

*.

More than six out of ten children who would have normally been infected with

influenza, in other words, were protected by vitamin D supplementation.

Also revealed in the study: *vitamin D strongly suppressed

symptoms<http://www.naturalnews.com/symptoms.html>of asthma

*. In children with a previous asthma diagnosis, 12 of those receiving no

vitamin D experienced asthma attacks. But in the vitamin D group, only 2

children did.

While this subset sample size is small, it does offer yet more evidence that

vitamin D prevents asthma attacks in children, and this entirely consistent

with the previous evidence on vitamin D which shows it to be a powerful

nutrient for preventing asthma.

Vaccine pushers aren't followers of real scienceNow, given that vitamin D3

shows such a powerful effect in preventing influenza -- with 800% increased

efficacy over vaccines -- shouldn't CDC officials,

doctors<http://www.naturalnews.com/doctors.html>and health authorities

be rushing to recommend vitamin D before flu season

arrives?

Of course they should. But they won't. Because for them, it's not about

actually preventing influenza and it never has been. The vaccine pushing

camp is primarily interested in using influenza as an excuse to vaccinate

more people regardless of whether such vaccines are useful (or safe).

Even if vitamin D offered 100% protection against all influenza infections,

they still wouldn't recommend it.

Why? Because they flatly don't believe in nutrition! It runs counter to

their med school programming which says that nutrients are useless and only

drugs, vaccines and surgery count as real

medicine<http://www.naturalnews.com/medicine.html>

..

The vaccine pushers, you see, aren't followers of real science. You could

publish a hundred studies proving how vitamin D is many times more effective

than vaccines and they still would never recommend it.

They are promoters of *medical dogma* rather than real solutions for

patients. They promote vaccines because... well... that's what they've

always promoted, and that's what their colleagues promote. And how could so

many smart people be wrong, anyway?

But that's the history of science: A whole bunch of really smart people turn

out to be wrong on a regular basis. That's usually how science advances, by

the way: A new idea challenges an old assumption, and after all the

defenders of the old (wrong) idea die off, science manages to inch its way

forward against the hoots and heckles of a determined dogmatic resistance.

This attitude is blatantly reflected in a quote from Dr Oxford, a

professor of virology at Queen School of Medicine in London, whose

reaction to this study was: " This is a timely study. It will be noticed by

scientists. It fits in with the seasonal pattern of flu. There is an

increasing background of solid science that makes the vitamin D story

credible. But this study needs to be replicated. If it is confirmed we might

think of giving vitamin D at the same time as we vaccinate. " (

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/ne...<http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/\

scotland/article7061778.ece>

)

Did you notice his concluding remark? He wasn't even considering the idea

that vitamin D might *replace* vaccines. Rather, he's assuming vitamin D

only has value if given *together* with vaccines!

You see this in the cancer industry<http://www.naturalnews.com/industry.html>,

too, with anti-cancer herbs and nutrients. Any time an anti-cancer nutrient

gains some press (which isn't very often), the

cancer<http://www.naturalnews.com/cancer.html>doctor will say things

like, " Well, this might be useful to give to a

patient after chemotherapy... " but never as a replacement for chemo, you

see.

Many mainstream doctors and medical scientists are simply *incapable* of

thinking outside the very limiting boxes into which their brains have been

shoved through years of de-education in medical schools. When they see

evidence contrary to what they've been taught, they foolishly dismiss it.

* " The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that

it is not utterly absurd; indeed in view of the silliness of the majority of

mankind, a widespread belief is more likely to be foolish than sensible. " * -

Bertrand

Medical journals as guardians of ignoranceMedical journals largely function

not as beacons of scientific truth but as *defenders of pseudoscientific

dogma*. To have your paper <http://www.naturalnews.com/paper.html> published

in most journals, your paper must meet the expectations and

beliefs<http://www.naturalnews.com/beliefs.html>of that journal's

editor. Thus, the advancement of scientific knowledge

reflected in each journal is limited to the current beliefs of just one

person -- the editor of that journal.

Truly pioneering research that challenges the status quo is almost always

rejected. Only papers that confirm the presently-held beliefs of the

journal's editorial staff are accepted for publication. This is one reason

why medical science, in particular, advances so slowly.

Studies that show vitamin D to be more effective than vaccines will rarely

see the light of day in the scientific community. It is to the great credit

of the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, in fact, that it accepted the

publication of this paper by Mitsuyoshi Urashima. Most medical

journals<http://www.naturalnews.com/medical_journals.html>wouldn't

dare touch it because it questions status quo beliefs about

vaccines and influenza.

Medical journals, you see, are largely funded by the pharmaceutical

industry. And Big Pharma doesn't want to see any studies lending credibility

to vitamins, regardless of their scientific merit. Even if vitamin D could

save America billions of dollars in reduced

health<http://www.naturalnews.com/health.html>care costs (which it

can, actually), they don't want vitamin D to receive

any scientific backing whatsoever because *drug companies can't patent

vitamin D*. It's readily available to everyone for mere pennies a day.

In time, it will be recognized as superior to vaccines for seasonal flu, but

for now, we must all suffer under the foolish propaganda of an industry that

has abandoned science and now worships a needle.

*Sources for this story include:*

http://www.ajcn.org/cgi/content/abs...<http://www.ajcn.org/cgi/content/abstract/\

ajcn.2009.29094v1>

http://www.naturalnews.com/029760_vitamin_D_influenza.html