In This Issue:
- The Flu Vaccine <#article_1>
- Prevention <#article_2>
- Treatment <#article_3>
Martin Pytela
The Flu Vaccine
Flu from the holistic health perspective: when your body becomes overwhelmed by a viral infection, it attempts to burn it off by raising its own temperature. The body survives, but the viruses do not. There could be other symptoms associated with your body's immune system trying to overwhelm the invaders with all kinds of unpleasant weapons. Excess fluids, mucus, phlegm, etc. If you'd like to read a well researched paper on the topic, Dr William Wong has done a fine job when he wrote about enzymes and virus infection
B.C. man paralyzed after flu shot warns of risks A New Westminster man is raising a warning flag after he contracted a rare and debilitating condition linked to the flu shot that left him paralyzed for almost five months. Every fall, health care workers across Canada distribute 10 million influenza vaccinations, and for the vast majority of people, the flu shot causes no major problems. Within two weeks of getting his annual flu shot in 2007, however, Richard Ryan, 44, went from being happy and healthy to being in excruciating pain. At first, Ryan thought he had injured his back, and he checked into the local hospital emergency room, he told CBC News on Wednesday. But Ryan was also suffering some numbness, and when a neurologist tested his reflexes, he found Ryan had none, he said. "The doctor asked me what was going on in my life. And as soon as I said I was feeling ill after getting a flu shot, he said, 'Stop right there, I know what you have,'" Ryan said. Guillain-Barré syndrome linked to vaccine
The neurologist diagnosed Ryan with Guillain-Barré syndrome, an autoimmune disease that attacks the nervous system. According to the B.C. Centre for Disease Control, the chance of developing that particular disease from a flu shot is one in a million. But as Ryan learned the consequences can be severe. By the time the emergency room exam was over, he was unable to get up. He spent the next 10 weeks recovering in hospital, including three weeks in intensive care, barely able to breathe or eat for himself. "My face was paralyzed. I had no feeling inside my mouth. I couldn't feel my tongue. My left eye wouldn't close so it had to be taped shut to sleep," he said. The illness progressed into a lifelong condition known as chronic inflammatory demyelinating polyneuropathy (CIDP), and a year later he remains heavily medicated, unable to work, and has memory problems. Although the disease is in remission, he is not expected to make a full recovery, and the chronic condition could return at any point in the future. Worth the risk?
Now Ryan is concerned that public health officials are promoting the flu vaccine while most people are not fully aware of the risks. However, Dr. Danuta Skowronski, an epidemiologist at the B.C. Centre for Disease Control, says the benefits of the flu vaccine still outweigh the risks for the vast majority of people. "Nothing is completely risk-free," she told CBC News. "It is always a matter of weighing the benefits and the risks." Medical information provided with flu shots does mention the one-in-a-million chance of getting Guillain-Barré syndrome. But it is especially important for people with heart and lung problems, the elderly and the chronically ill, to get the influenza vaccine because it could save their lives, Skowronski said. "Influenza itself can be life threatening, and it's those groups that we want to make sure are not put off from receiving influenza vaccine unnecessarily," said Skowronski. There are more than 2,000 flu-related deaths in Canada every year. Seniors, people with weak immune systems and some children are at highest risk. More common possible side-effects of vaccinations can include fever, muscle pain and weakness. For his part, Ryan maintains that he's a good example of the fact that the benefits of the vaccination don't always outweigh the risks. "I think if people knew how serious the illness is, they would think twice about the flu shot," he said.
Prevention
The cellular terrain will sustain viruses only if it is acidic enough for them to survive. So how does it become acidic? The list is almost comical - the description of our modern lifestyle: stress, lack of sleep, coffee, cigarettes, fried food, refined food (sugar, flour, salt, fat), cooked proteins (roasted and fried meat, and surprisingly also baked grains). Oh, and one more: lack of exercise. What does that leave you to live on? Salads, smoothies, stir fries. Plenty of variety, really. The most alkalizing things you can do: drink the juice of a freshly squeezed lemon every morning, make your salad dressing with apple cider vinegar or lemon juice, take alkalizing baths, add alkalizing minerals to your drinking water. If you are already in trouble, you may need a water ionizer, or an ionic foot spa, or perhaps both. We write about these lifestyle choices in our Health Education
Treatment
There are several things you need to do if you are already feeling the symptoms: Realize it is too late for Prevention, it is time for Action. We stock several products we know that work, and you need to have them within reach when you need them: viral block with FluStop, viral disruption with Ionic Silver Spray, viral suppression with Topically Every Pain with Goldenseal, and the ultimate viral decloaking with Lecithin.FluStop works great on influenza type A, which includes the latest swine flu. The product should be renamed to Viral Terminator. It probably will have to be, because one is not supposed to use the name of a medical condition in the product name. But who can blame the formulator's enthusiasm? He found the cure for the flu, after all! It is really simple. You spray this water based herbal mist into your nose or throat as directed, and the flu just does not develop. Why? Apparently there is a way to inhibit the reproductive mechanism of the flu virus using fairly common herbs. This is a big deal - it stops the flu viri (see I can speak Latin) from hitting the exponential multiplication phase that puts you in bed for a week. The product is safer than the flu shot (if you would even consider such a thing - I won't), and it does not care which viral strain is going to reproduce the fastest this year. Flu-Stop shuts down all influenza A and B viruses, including the ever-hyped bird and swine flu. So if you are worried about a world pandemic conflagration, you better stock a few of these for yourself and your loved ones. If you are at all susceptible to the flu, or if you are planning an air plane trip or any kind of travel, you ought to have a bottle with you. You would not want to wreck your holiday with a flu ... Read about FluStop
- Can you afford to be sneezing at the important presentation?
Do you want to spend a miserable week on a beach somewhere?
Do you enjoy working with a headache and a drippy nose?
I did not think so. The other thing that works really well is Ionic Silver. You have no doubt heard about colloidal silver and its ability to disrupt viral, bacterial and even protozoan infections. I could go into the long explanation here, but instead will say this: it works like a charm. You can go to our website to read the details. Know this: you need to have one on hand when the flu hits, not three days later. You can't order it and and hope to get it in time to make a difference. By the time you'd receive it, the flu would be in full bloom. Read about Ionic Silver
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