[NVIC] Staying Healthy By Playing With Germs

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BL Fisher Note:

Occasionally we like to forward letters from our E-News subscribers to our

whole list. This one is from a farmer who points out that natural exposure

to germs in childhood does not automatically result in death and disability

but, rather, can lead to long term good health. If federal health officials

would spend a little time studying wellness instead of being obsessed with

killing infectious microorganisms with the mass use of multiple vaccines,

they might discover our children don't need 48 doses of 12 vaccines to be

strong and healthy. They might find out less is more.

May 23, 2006

Dear NVIC,

Living on the farm all of my life and having raised nine children on the

same farm I realize the benefit of exposure.

As kids we used to run around in bare feet most of the time and a common

practice was to grab a cows tail and slide through the manure while at the

same time attempting to stay standing.

More often then not and to our mothers dismay we ended up going bottom over

teakettle, suffering scraped knees and elbows etc. not to mention being

plastered in you know what.

We simply brushed ourselves off with some hay or washed ourselves off with a

hose and continued on. We did not acquire any infection nor were we worried

about it.

Forty years latter or three years ago while sawing lumber on the table saw I

accidentally cut off the end of my thumb.

While in emergency after having refused their offer of antibiotics and

tetanus vaccine, a litany of doctors and nurses in their attempt to convince

me that I was making a serious mistake ended up walking away shaking their

heads.

My explanation to them was that I was healthy, that I heal well and that I

wasn't about to have my immune system compromised by their chemical and

biological toxins.

The surgeon stitched up what was left of my thumb and I thanked her for a

job well done.

I did not develop any of the dreaded infections that they stated were

possible.

Sincerely,

Ken

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> BL Fisher Note:

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> Thank you, Dr. Crain, for putting it so very well!

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> http://www.planetc1.com/cgi-bin/n/v.cgi?c=1 & id=1148138624

> Chiropractic News

> May 20, 2006

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> Medicine, Worms and Dirt

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> By Darrel Crain, DC

>

> Your prescription is ready Mrs. , fresh intestinal whipworm eggs

> straight from the pig!

>

> This type of medicine may sound rather unorthodox, but scientists testing

> this unusual treatment on six human patients with inflammatory bowel

disease

> found that it helped every one of them.

>

> Take two tablespoons of dirt and call me in the morning. That may sound

like

> a bit of a stretch, but then again, mud pies may one day be squeezed into

> the five food groups. The hygiene hypothesis is gaining ground, folks, so

if

> you think your health is worth fighting for, get ready to fight dirty!

>

> Modern medicine has always held that we get sick because of something we

> catch, or something we ate, inhaled, or were exposed to in some other way.

>

> Of course, this is the popular germ theory which states that germs cause

> disease. Those of us brought up on the germ theory know to constantly wage

> war on germs. Kill everything! Disinfect! Sanitize! Good. Now go wash your

> hands.

>

> American industry answered our war cries by inventing at least 739

bazillion

> ways to massacre germs using antibacterial soaps, lotions, cleansers,

> sprays, toys, mattresses and even computer screens. Warnings in the

medical

> literature that these products do nothing to reduce infection, but only

> contribute to new and scary strains of drug-resistant bacteria, have been

> lost in the germ war frenzy.

>

> The hygiene hypothesis is a fairly new school of thought that turns the

fear

> of germs on its proverbial head. We should, instead, get friendly with

> microbes and let them go up our collective noses, in this approach.

>

> This view argues that early exposure to a wide variety of microbes is a

good

> thing, permitting a growing child's immune system to develop and build up

> immune response " muscle. "

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> If the germ theory leads down a white, sterilized hallway, the hygiene

> hypothesis seems to lead down a dusty old dirt road.

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> Researchers have long noticed an important difference in children who

attend

> daycare at a very young age, as well as children who live with many

brothers

> and sisters, or on a farm. All of them develop less asthma, hay fever,

> allergies, eczema, and other atopic diseases than do other children.

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> " Sickness is the vengeance of nature for the violation of her laws, " wrote

> .

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> But a lack of exposure to germs is only half the problem, leaving as it

> does, one leg of our immune system without enough to do, while the other

leg

> gets too much stimulation. This chronically triggers an inappropriate

> response of the immune system to produce all the allergy stuff, such as

> histamines, mucus floods and inflammation.

>

> Tragically, several common medical practices seem to be substantial

> contributors to this problem. Antibiotics, antipyretics (fever-lowering

> drugs), and even some vaccines have been shown to significantly raise the

> risk of asthma and the other atopic disorders.

>

> Autoimmune responses, such as multiple sclerosis, rheumatoid arthritis,

> inflammatory bowel disease and even Type I diabetes are on the list of

> disorders that may be caused, at least in part, by exposure to common

> medical interventions.

>

> A recent study from Sweden published in the medical journal Lancet found

> that children in the families they studied who avoid antibiotics and

> vaccinations have fewer allergies than do other children.

>

> " Half the modern drugs could well be thrown out the window, except that

the

> birds might eat them, " wrote Fischer.

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> In our zeal to treat acute symptoms, we have become effective at

suppressing

> robust expression of immune responses to normal childhood illness,

including

> all the uncomfortable but productive symptoms of a healing crisis that

would

> otherwise yield permanent immunity.

>

> The hygiene hypothesis leads to some intriguing, perhaps shocking

> conclusions. Do you suppose nature intended all those kids to get all

those

> colds at daycare and have all those fevers?

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> One might conclude that Mother Nature herself wants us all to have a bout

of

> chicken pox, the measles, and yes, even the mumps while we're still young.

> In return we get permanent and non-toxic immunity. We also get to pump up

> our immune muscles and promote appropriate immune responses.

>

> I have personally observed the scraped knee of a three-year-old heal just

as

> quickly and well as the knee of a Harvard-trained medical practitioner

with

> 42 years of practice under his belt. It comes as no surprise to me that

> nature's plan for our immune systems avoids many of the pitfalls

> unintentionally created with manmade medical interventions.

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> " Soap and education are not as sudden as a massacre, but they are more

> deadly in the long run, " wrote Mark Twain.

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> The hygiene hypothesis forces us to face an important question never asked

> by medicine. Namely, " Which is preferable, expression, or suppression? "

This

> basic question needs to be asked of every medical intervention, given the

> knowledge that many standard medical practices may come with a hefty price

> tag of chronic health disorders.

>

> Perhaps the current outbreak of mumps in highly vaccinated adult

populations

> is an opportunity to ask these kinds of hard questions. It wouldn't be the

> first time we needed to bury accepted standards of medical care in the

> compost heap of history after their underlying theories crumbled to dust.

>

> I guess everything eventually goes back to the dirt. As the old saying

goes,

> " Eat right, exercise regularly, die anyway. " However, I believe that Mark

> Twain had the last word about all health opinions that get published,

> including those in newspapers: " Be careful about reading health books. You

> may die of a misprint. "

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> Dr. Darrel Crain

> Family Chiropractor

> Natural Health Writer

> President, CCA San Diego County District

> 619-445-0100

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