For many discoveries in the health field, the benefits are great, cutting-edge, amazing, and life-saving. However, over time and with the abuse and overuse, the original beauty and quality that made them special is gone, and the financial incentives and profits become first priority; even over patient health.
Vaccines
Vaccinations, now mandatory for children in California, are at the center of major controversy. In pharmacy school we learned that vaccinations were a good idea. Scientist were able to take a disease-causing virus or bacteria, and alter it in a way that would cause it to trigger an immune response without triggering the disease. Once the immune response is triggered the immune system starts working away to create a solid defense which takes approximately two weeks to build. So if the body is then exposed to the disease causing virus or bacteria, you are protected as your body will be prepared to fight off the disease.
However, now vaccinations are over-marketed, and have become a major profit center for doctors and pharmacists. Additionally, there are very toxic ingredients that are also administered with each shot, including aluminum, formaldehyde, and Vero (monkey kidney) cells, among many others, with more and more evidence of vaccinations causing long-term problems such as autism. Additionally, 20 years ago, there were 16 vaccines recommended for children between birth and 18 years of age. Now there are 64 recommended vaccines, each with added toxic ingredients. Finally, do flu vaccines really work? Are the chemists really able to find the next years’ strain of flu virus and then isolate and create a vaccine in time to sell for flu season? Are you going to be exposed to that exact same virus? Maybe, but I doubt it. But you will be exposed to the extra toxic ingredients in a flu shot.
Antibiotics
Penicillin, the first antibiotic, was discovered by accident in 1928. When antibiotics were first on the market they were lifesaving, helping soldiers with wounds who would otherwise die from infections.
Antibiotics were also able to help people with diseases such as pneumonia and tuberculosis. In fact, there was so much confidence in the discovery that in 1969, the then US Surgeon General, William Stewart, boldly told the US Congress “… The time has come to close the books on infectious diseases.”
That didn’t turn out to be quite the case. Now we have overuse and over marketing of antibiotics. People are using antibiotics for scratchy throats and for any other reason. The results: resistance.
Simple antibiotics no longer treat the infections they used to. People are getting wounds that do not heal or are dying from resistant strains of bacteria. Additionally, every time an antibiotic is prescribed good bacteria is also killed and eliminated from the body. And finally, there are antibiotics (fluoroquinolones) with side effects so toxic that they disabling people with tendonitis, neuropathy, and myasthenia gravis.
GMOs
Genetically Modified Organisms are now found in most of the foods sold in many grocery stores. In the beginning they modified a species of corn, for example, so it would not be susceptible to a certain bug. The results, more and more of healthier and healthier crops. But then let’s make the corn bigger and brighter. And let’s make it so it can grow in various weather conditions.
Corn has been the same for thousands of years. Then one genetic modification after another, at one point it is no longer food that our body can recognize.
Compare to plastic surgery. In the beginning a little nip, tuck, or lift can make someone feel younger and fresher, and could be great for anyone. However, it can be addicting. A person can get things nipped and tucked so much then at one point they stop looking like a human.
GMO’s are similar. At one point a body doesn’t recognize it or know how to respond to it, and then the body treats it as a foreign invader and produces an immune response against it, or an allergy, or lab mice start getting huge tumors.
So my point?
Vaccinations, Antibiotics, GMO’s and plastic surgery all started as great discoveries. But with our profit-driven capitalistic society, good discoveries often devolve to become major profit centers first and foremost.
Vaccines are ok for only a few serious diseases. Sixty-four vaccines for children before age 18 is an insane amount. Parents should be very choosy when deciding. Antibiotics should only be used if absolutely necessary. If the body is able to fight off infections without major complications or death, then let it. And there’s no need for GMO’s. Clean, organic food that has been around for thousands of years is healthier and more easy for the body to process than any GMO.
Technology for computers and for smart phones is great, but when it comes to health, going back to basics is the way to go.
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