The hardest thing to get rid of is the brainwashing that conventional wisdom has instilled into the modern American.

People have asked me how hard it is to cure cancer or diabetes. These are actually two of the easiest “incurable” diseases to rid your body of. The hard part is to change one’s way of thinking. The hardest thing to get rid of is the brainwashing that conventional wisdom has instilled into the modern American.

Eating right is simple, but it’s not easy. Not for most people. When I tell people what foods to avoid they say, “But that’s everything I eat!”

Yeah, and that’s exactly why you’re sick!

If you eat mostly raw, fresh organic vegetables and fruit and avoid refined foods, you will rid the body of nearly every disease. We need to stop thinking of disease as some bug that attacks us, some microscopic evil creature that comes into our bodies and takes over. A health body and a healthy immune system do not succumb to disease. Most of the diseases people fear these days are simply caused by the body breaking down. Microscopic organisms that prey on us are actually preying on decaying matter. Disease is a symptom of an unhealthy body, not the cause.

Though eating right is easy, learning how to eat right is extremely difficult for most people. And taking the time to properly prepare food rather than pop in a microwave dinner, an impossible challenge. Just because it’s in the health section or it has a green wrapper or is “made with organic ingredients” doesn’t mean it’s healthy. Learning to eat for the sole purpose of nourishing the body at its cellular level is such a paradigm shift for most people, the hard part is not what to do, but how to do it.

Medications are toxic chemicals that suppress symptoms while damaging the body at a cellular level. Many of them damage the immune system. This is a foreign concept if you’ve taken a pill for every ache and pain for thirty years.

Instead of investing in disease with your time and money, why not invest in health? Instead of medical insurance and over the counter and prescription drugs, co-pays, and sick days, what if you invested your time into learning about the best supplements? What if you spent your money on healthy food? What if you spent time preparing food and truly being involved with what fuels and nourishes you? What if what went into your body to nourish and heal you was one of the most important things in your life?

Does it seem like a radical concept? It is for most people. But consider this – would you rather take the time to learn about nutrition now? To gain the knowledge and the appreciation of how our bodies actually work? Or would you like to spend even more energy later on in life learning about your new disease and all of the drugs and allergies that come along with it?

I have been asked how I shop, what I eat, and what people can do to eat healthy on a budget. I wrote this blog to address all of these issues.

Here is what I do for my family, three adults who all eat a lot:

In the morning we have a smoothie with strawberries, banana, fresh apple juice, kale and a raw egg. I also put in total nutrition powder, and UDO’s oil with DHA. The smoothie is delicious and will give you all of the nutrition you need for your whole day. Never ever eat raw eggs unless they are organic. I don’t mean free range, or cage free, they must be organic, or they are dangerous. Raw organic eggs are extremely good for you. Raw eggs are a super food, and a great way to get very easily digestible protein. Once you cook them they lose almost all of their value.

For lunch we have a big salad. I found a huge bag of organic spinach for $3.99 at my local farmers market and I get a bunch of other stuff too, like kale, rainbow chard, bok choy, beets (fresh beets are soooo good, but the canned kind, yuk!), carrots, onions, etc. I make my own salad dressing which I found saves me money and I found very cheap all natural sheep feta cheese I put into the salad sometimes, but not always.

Get to know your local farmer’s markets! Click here for a farmer’s market directory.

Read 80% Raw Food Diet for the salad dressing recipe and other information.

For dinner, three times a week, I try to make a new raw foods recipe. Since money is very tight for me I only experiment with one new recipe a week. I always spend more when I try something new, so I don’t do as much experimenting as I’d like. Some things on this week’s menu include raw pesto pasta (zucchini shredded for pasta), coconut curry pasta with Annie’s brown rice pasta, and a veggie stir fry with rice. I also make beens and rice a few times a week.

About 80% of my diet is raw, and about 70% or more (depending on availability) is organic. I snack on fruit and some raw nuts during the day (when you eat nuts and seeds they should be unpasterized and soaked).

As I said, whenever I try a new recipe, or change the menu, I spend more, every time. But then, if I buy the same kind of stuff, it gets cheaper and cheaper (practice). You start noticing what will work for less the more you get used to eating a certain way.

I spend about $160 to $180 a week, sometimes $200. I am lucky to have a local farmers market that has really good deals. I also get small apples instead of big ones, and I look for the sales, but I’ve never once used a coupon (I don’t know why, but . When I can’t make it to the farmers market and I choose Whole foods I can drop $300+ with thesame shopping list that would have cost me $180 or less at the farmers market. When I shop at Kroger the cost may be about $260.

This week I noticed that strawberries where 50% more but grapes were on sale. This week I am making my smoothies with grapes. If you have not been spending the last 6 months paying attention these kind of price fluctuations, it’s difficult to catch this kind of thing and make the adjustments.

With packaged processed foods that most people buy the prices don’t fluctuate. Thanks to subsidies and spoilage, organic fresh raw produce is typically much more expensive then a packaged processed dead food (ironically, it costs more to grow conventional, but subsidies have screwed up prices).

I also suggest you keep your receipts. When you need to go grocery shopping again take a look at the old receipt and figure out what you liked and what you didn’t finish, etc. This will not only save you money buy showing you what not to purchase and how much of certain items to buy, but it will also help to put you remember what the prices were on your last trip.

I hope this helps. It’s a tough issue, and there aren’t too many easy answers.

Be sure to check out Organic on a Budget

I grew up believing vaccinations were safe – well, almost safe. Once my neck and jaw swelled up and we were pretty sure I had the mumps, except for the weird sore on my mouth. Turns out, I had scratched my smallpox vaccination then re-inoculated myself by scratching my lip. This time the infection had entered my lymph glands rather than my bloodstream. I recovered within a few days.

I’ll never forget the shock I felt when it came time to vaccinate my first child. I held the vaccination form in my hand, reading about the rare but possible outcomes—life threatening illness, crippling disease, death. I wanted to run away. Every instinct in me said, “Protect this baby! Don’t do this!” But the doctor convinced me I had no real choice; after all, vaccination was the law. My child couldn’t go to daycare or to school without his shots.

I’ll never know if my son’s symptoms of pervasive childhood development disorder (autism—a mild-to-moderate case), his ADHD, or his learning disabilities were caused by those shots. He was an infant when his symptoms first appeared.

In later years, when fully inoculated, both of my sons caught whooping cough and passed it on to me. “Must have been a bad batch of vaccine,” the doctors said. But my kids had been vaccinated in Georgia and the outbreak was in Washington State (others caught it, too.) Obviously, it wasn’t the batch. The shot didn’t work.

I believe vaccinations are contaminated. I know the industry has lied to us, covering up the fact that they have used our children as guinea pigs; they don’t even know the efficacy of their vaccinations because many of these illnesses were already on the decline when we started vaccinating for them. I believe the industry is driven by greed and I don’t believe these people have our best interests at heart.

There is no question in my mind that today’s vaccinations are unsafe and that our children are subjected to too many shots. There is no question in my mind that the link between autism and vaccinations is very real, though I do not know if the cause was thimerosal (mercury) which has been removed from many BUT NOT ALL of the childhood vaccinations.

And yet, I can’t seem to let go of that niggling fear that shots are necessary. Do vaccinations work at all? I don’t know. And I don’t know if we have the evidence to prove it one way or the other. I’d love to see a panel discussion with the top minds on this issue, pro and con, to hear a real debate with the strengths and weaknesses of the research revealed.

We were told vaccinations would make us immune to diseases, just as surely as if we had contracted these diseases and recovered. But true immunity is lifelong. Now we come to find all those shots we had as children no longer protect us. Adults are supposed to get booster shots, though many of us don’t. Yet, somehow we aren’t all keeling over with diphtheria, whooping cough, and measles. Why is that?

In 1997 Raw Chef Dan stepped up to the challenge of bringing raw foods to the masses. He knew that to win people over, raw food had to be better than palatable; it had to be mind blowing and the dining experience had to be exquisite. Late in 1999, Quintessence’s doors opened to a waiting audience… and the rest is history!

rawchefdan.com

Soy Sauce

If I understand correctly, soy sauce is not raw, and for other reasons, not healthy. Do you have a replacement for the taste of soy sauce for raw foods dishes?

~ James

RAW CHEF DAN ANSWERS: Nama Shoyu Soy Sauce by Ohsawa is Raw. Nama is the Japanese word for raw and shoyu is the Japanese word meaning soy product. Therefore, Nama Shoyu literally translates to “raw soy product.” Live active probiotic cultures ferment the soy, breaking down the phytoestrogens and complex proteins. There is no pasteurization so the active cultures are still live. Nama Shoyu by Ohsawa is an age-old product produced by hand from 100% GMO-free organic soy beans. It is made as it’s been made for centuries in a mountain monastery by Buddhist monks. It is a high quality, very spiritual product.

Soy Sauce was originally the byproduct of miso. Tamari comes from a Japanese word, tamaru, which means to accumulate or to collect, which is what exactly this was: the liquid collected or accumulated on top of the miso kegs during the preparation of miso. It was poured off and saved as a garnish to food at the dinner table. As its popularity grew, so did the demand and methods to produce the sauce.

If you cannot have wheat, the alternative would be a wheat-free Tamari; though I have yet to find one that is raw, both Soy and Tamari by Ohsawa are organic and GMO free. There are also Braggs Liquid Aminos and Dr. Bronner’s Mineral Bullion, but then again, neither is raw or 100% organic. If you really can’t do with any of those, I have used the brine from good quality olives or capers or you can just use good old sea salt, Himalayan crystal salt, celery salt, or many others.

Good luck,

Raw Chef Dan

Nonstick Cookware

I love omelets! I’ve read that nonstick Teflon pans are not good for you, and I am considering throwing mine out. What is the best alternative for a good non-stick pan? I’d prefer something light, so I can do the flip.

~ Mike

RAW CHEF DAN ANSWERS: Well now. You know what I’m going to say, but I’m going to say it anyway. STOP EATING EGGS!

There I said it. Do you know where they come from? Do you know what’s in them? I won’t attach the picture that goes with it, sparing you that image. You can go to the Peta website for that, or go to http://www.goveg.com/whatsWrong.asp. Though nutritionally speaking, if taken in moderation (2 or 3 times a month), eggs do provide some rather beneficial elements—omegas and some good (HDL) cholesterol—but only if you eat them raw. Once cooked, they become acid forming in the body. The fats and cholesterol have deformed under the heat, changing the good fats and HDLs to rancid fats and LDLs.

Unless you buy organic eggs, the greater problem is the added hormones, steroids, and antibiotics. That’s not even mentioning how the animals are treated and the fact that the eggs are formed inside a stressed, diseased creature.

As for the pans, most nonstick pans are no longer actually Teflon since the discovery of its contribution to Alzheimer’s. The newer versions, still coined Teflon, emit high levels of toxic gasses when heated. See these links for the long awful truth:

New Health Concerns… and Non Stick Coatings, and Birth defects from non-stick cookware.

Copper pans have good reports. They’re a little costly, but worth it in the long run. A less costly choice is a copper core stainless steel. If I were to cook again, then copper would be my choice. The best price that I know of is at Amazon.com. Search the All-Clad Cop-R-Chef 8” Frying Pan. Tell them RawChefDan-20 sent you!

Enjoy,

Raw Chef Dan

Going Raw

I’m looking to go all “raw.” I’m wondering if you cook anything, and if so, what are the rules? Is there a certain temperature I cannot go above? Do you ever use your stove?

Thanks!

RAW CHEF DAN ANSWERS: First let me commend you on your goal. It is quite an undertaking and takes commitment, though not as much of one as some might think. I know plenty of people who went raw overnight. The real trick is education. The more you know, the fewer cooked foods you’ll want to eat. The more you know, the better decisions you’ll make in the future. Knowledge is power.

Start by finding all the things you can eat, instead of focusing on all the things you can’t.

Look for new places to shop. It’s an adventure, a discovery to find the amazing varieties of fruits, vegetables, nuts, and seeds. Go online and order some of the unknown: Gojie berries, Cacoa, Maca, Chia seeds, Mesquit, Toco Triennials. I will provide you with some links later. Also, get involved in classes, potlucks, and online raw food groups. Watch videos and DVDs and get yourself a book or two like Raw in Ten Minutes and Living in the Raw. There really are no rules for such a change other than to go at your own pace. Don’t stress over it, but try not to rubberband (to go all raw for a month then binge). Smooth and easy is the best. Remember: the more raw food you eat in a day, the less room there is for other stuff. If you do eat cooked food, eat it early in the day so you have the rest of the day to digest it.

Oh yeah, I don’t have a stove.

Here’s where to shop:

• Live-Live.com
• Raw Food.com
• EatRaw.com
• Naturalzing.com
• AlissaCohen.com
• Macaweb.com
• Highvibe.com

Just to name a few. Good luck.

Raw Chef Dan

Picky Eater

I have a 1 yr old who refuses to eat meat and eggs and veggies. She is iron deficient and is on a supplement. Is there anything besides beans and rice or dairy to get her protein and iron?

~ A Worried Mom

RAW CHEF DAN ANSWERS: First of all, this is a very dangerous situation. A child in her growing stages should not be living on rice, beans, and dairy. That’s enough to kill an adult, let alone a child. The starch intake is harmful by itself and dairy is full of hormones, steroids, and fats. Then there are the added antibiotics, formaldehyde, and a plethora of other disgusting things depending on the product. Now this is not necessarily a “chef” question and I am not really qualified to tackle such an issue, but what I can tell you is you will have to experiment.

Children are fussy and it’s hard to get them to eat what is best for them, but the search must begin ASAP. I would start with blended soups, using a variety of veggies. They are tasty and the variety of flavors is endless. I don’t know what your child’s tastes are, so you will just have to try many things. Soups are loaded with vitamins, minerals, essential fatty acids, amino acids, and are high alkaline
while being easy to digest. By adding things like Tahini or hemp seeds, you can boost the protein levels tremendously.

For more solid foods, try some of the raw food “granola bar” type snacks. The nuts and seeds are full of protein and many of these snacks have boost nutrients like Spirulina or Cacoa. Salads with the right dressing may do the trick (it’s all in the dressing). Watch for additives. You may want to make your own. And make smoothies, again adding hemp seeds, Spirulina, etc. The thing is to get a wide variety of veggies in and to stay away from dense proteins like meats, dairy, and even too many nuts. Starch should be avoided as much as possible. It’s tough to get kids to eat what you want them to, but when they’re hungry they’ll eat. To close, I will give you two last pieces of advice. Go to all the “Raw Food” websites and look over the free recipes. Read what’s on the sites and buy some of the books. Join myspace.com. The raw food group’s bulletin boards are full of people willing to help you with questions. Ask others like Dr. Gabriel Cousins www.treeoflife.nu; David Jubb, 508 East 12th Street, New York, New York, 212-353-5000; or Jeremy Saffron www.lovingfoods.com. They all can help you out a lot.

Good luck.

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGzOtIHJlDA

If you were to leave a kernel of spelt, hard red winter wheat, rye, barley, or any other grain on your dining room table for the next five years, it wouldn’t rot or decompose. Grains were found  in the pyramids. Not only were they intact after two thousand years, but when water was added, some of the kernels grew. There is a reason why grains don’t easily decompose. Grains, seeds, tree nuts, and most beans, contain a live, biochemical agent called an enzyme inhibitor. Enzyme inhibitors stop enzyme activity until the right conditions exist for germination. This is nature’s way of preserving the life force in a seed so it can reproduce.

Foods with enzyme inhibitors are very difficult to digest, and they slow down the naturally occurring enzyme activity in your body. Every time you eat regular pasta, bread, cake, cereal, and all other grain products, or nuts, seeds and beans, you are slowing down the communication processes throughout your entire body and suppressing your body’s ability to function at peak performance. Ingesting enzyme inhibitors causes obesity, lethargy, gas, bloating, high blood pressure, gastrointestinal difficulties, an enlarged pancreas, diabetes, destruction of the body’s own natural production of enzymes, and an overall general condition of poor health.

Enzyme inhibitors make meat protein more difficult to utilize, while causing animal fats to concentrate, and cholesterol and triglyceride levels to rise.

So does this mean we should eliminate all of these foods because they’re bad for us? Absolutely not! All we have to do is to prepare them correctly to release the enzyme inhibitors. Once the enzyme inhibitors are gone, grains, seeds, tree nuts, and beans are some of the most perfect foods. They are very high in assimilable amino acids (proteins) and extremely rich in the exact kinds of enzymes
our bodies need to keep us in good physical condition.

So, how do you get rid of enzyme inhibitors? The answer is simple. Sprouting! Water unlocks enzyme inhibitors. Soaking these foods in water sends them into “sprout mode” and starts the germination process.

Put sunflower seeds in a sprouting jar, add water, and let them soak. Empty the water at the end of 8 hours and place the jar out of direct sunlight. Prop it at a 45 degree angle so it can drain. Rinse your seeds twice during the next 12 to 16 hours. To allow for air circulation, be sure the seeds do not cover more than half of the jar lid. After 24 hours, drain your seeds well and spread them on unbleached paper towels on a cookie sheet and let them dry. The enzyme inhibitors will be gone and your seeds will be bursting with flavor!

Sprouting not only eliminates enzyme inhibitors, it also turns acidic grains, nuts and seeds into alkaline foods.

Only eat breads and pasta made from sprouted grains. Soak and sprout your seeds, nuts, and beans. A great book with charts on germination times for various foods is Dining in the Raw by Rita Romano.

Recommended Supplements:

• Systemic Enzymes
• Digestive Enzymes

Human glyoxalase I. Two zinc ions that are needed for the enzyme to catalyze its reaction are shown as purple spheres, and an enzyme inhibitor called S-hexylglutathione is shown as a space-filling model, filling the two active sites.

There are several different kinds of enzymes. The ones I focus on typically are digestive enzymes and systemic enzymes.

Digestive enzymes like hydrochloric acid and pepsin are the primary things you need in your stomach to help digest proteins and minerals. They also help to sterilize the stomach and kill parasites, bacteria, mold, micro spores, etc. Ideally your stomach is the only place in your body that’s acidic, and it should be extremely acidic. After the mouth the stomach is the beginning of all chemical and digestive reactions in your body. You need all the atomic energy in there to break up the molecules and to get things ready and assembled for digestion. If you put protein like meat in water it will just set there; it won’t break down. Put the same protein in a strong hydrochloric acid and it will dissolve relatively quickly, and that’s what you want to have happen. You want things to dissolve relatively quickly. You don’t want food just sitting there rotting in your stomach. That’s the reason you need to avoid drinking fluids during your meals. They will dilute the acids. As you can imagine, taking antacids while you are trying to digest foods pretty much puts a stop to everything.

Digestive enzymes work in the stomach to digest food, while quality systemic enzymes are enterically coated to prevent contact with the stomach acid. This way they pass through the stomach into the intestines where they are absorbed by the body.

We are born with the ability to produce a certain amount of systemic enzymes. Systemic enzymes fight
inflammation, fibrosis (scar tissue), and viruses; modulate the immune system; and cleanse the blood. These enzymes are a kind of scavenger hunter. They go after foreign protein, things that shouldn’t be there. They’ll go after scar tissue, a cyst, bacteria, parasites, viruses. Virtually anything that doesn’t belong in your body is like food to these enzymes. We’ve even seen systemic enzymes kill heartworms in cats. And when you are young you can bump into things, fall, scratch yourself, and your body healed easily, and quickly, often not leaving a scar when you thought it would. You
didn’t have aches or pains, you healed so easily. But as they get older, the typical person does not ingest enough systemic enzymes and the body realizes it’s running out of them. So it begins to ration them, because if you completely run out, you can’t survive. Three days after you run out of enzymes you are dead. Your body always needs enough in reserve for the unexpected.

So you get into your 20’s and you don’t heal as quickly. You get into your thirties and you notice you scar more easily. You may even be developing permanent aches and pains. The reason you are running out of
these enzymes and not replenishing them is because you are not doing what you used to do, what all other animals do in nature, you aren’t eating living things.

When you pick an apple off of a tree, you get enzymes. When you eat an apple fallen from the tree a few days ago, you’re getting fewer enzymes. If you eat an apple off the shelf at the grocery store, well, you get the idea. It’s not rotten, it may have everything else you need, but the enzymes are gone.

Fish eat other fish, giraffes eat leaves, lions eat living prey, and we eat dead food. And we don’t heal like we should and we don’t digest our food like we should. We need these enzymes.

In Germany and Japan, two countries with the best healthcare in the world, you would be given systemic enzymes for almost any treatment. If you had kidney problems, they would include these enzymes in your treatment. If you were in an auto accident driving on the autobahn and sustained a spinal cord injury they would give you a retention enema with the equivalent of about 300 enzyme capsules to save you from major damage and reduce the possibility of major paralysis.

Dr. Kelly recommends Betaine HCl and Pepsin from Thorne for digestive enzymes and Vitälzym X for systemic enzymes.

ALERT Canadians: Toxic Ingredients in the Arepanrix H1N1 Vaccine Harm Your Health

Health Canada has authorized the sale of Arepanrix™ H1N1 vaccine based on no conclusive clinical testing. The authorization is based on the Health Canada review of available data on the quality, safety and immunogenicity of similar vaccines, which established the benefit/risk profile in favour of inoculating the Canadian population.

Read the Notice of Decision issued by Health Canada. The decision by the Health Minister was based on a belief (not qualified or informed) that immediate action is required to deal with the H1N1 risk. The assertion that the decision is based on limited clinical testing is being misapplied. There have been NO conclusive results from any clinical trials on the Arepanrix H1N1 vaccine.

This report is designed to inform you how the risks outweigh the benefits of the vaccine. It will demonstrate how the Health Canada assessment is flawed and contradictory to established research on the detrimental health effects of the vaccine ingredients contained in Arepanrix.

Swine Flu Vaccine Description and Composition

Arepanrix™ H1N1 (AS03-adjuvanted H1N1 pandemic influenza vaccine) is a two-component vaccine consisting of an H1N1 antigen (as a suspension), and an AS03 adjuvant (as an oil-in-water emulsion). The virus is inactivated followed by formaldehyde treatment and disrupted with sodium deoxycholate.

Preservative content:

5µg (micrograms) Thimerosal USP per 0.5mL dose or 2.5 micrograms organic mercury (Hg) per 0.5mL dose

Adjuvant:

The AS03 adjuvant system is composed of DL-α-tocopherol, squalene and polysorbate 80 in a 3mL vial:

DL-α-tocopherol: 11.86 milligrams/0.5mL dose

Squalene: 10.69 milligrams/0.5mL dose,

Polysorbate 80: 4.86 milligrams/0.5mL dose

Analysis of Ingredients

Formaldehyde

According to the Australian National Research Council, fewer than 20% but perhaps more than 10% of the general population may be susceptible to formaldehyde and may react acutely at any exposure level. More hazardous than most chemicals in 5 out of 12 ranking systems, on at least 8 federal regulatory lists, it is ranked as one of the most hazardous compounds (worst 10%) to ecosystems and human health (Environmental Defense Fund).

Formalyn a 37 percent solution of gaseous formaldehyde which includes methano (used in vaccines as a tissue fixative) is considered a hazardous compound, and its vapor is toxic. In the body, formaldehyde can cause proteins to irreversibly bind to DNA. Laboratory animals exposed to doses of inhaled formaldehyde over their lifetimes have developed more cancers of the nose and throat than are usual, as have workers in particle-board sawmills… Formaldehyde is classified as a probable human carcinogen by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and as a known human carcinogen by the International Agency for Research on Cancer.

Sodium Deoxycholate

Sodium Deoxycholate is a water soluble ionic detergent/bile salt which causes cell death and symptoms such as burning, redness, and swelling. It has been shown to weaken the blood-brain-barrier (BBB) and subsequently activate seizures. It has demonstrated synergistic toxicity with antifungal drugs.

Detergents and emulsifiers promote tumors and cause cells to leak or explode by weakening their walls, with no mechanism for regulating destructive activity. These chemicals are not completely purified out of the final vaccine product, so they enter the body at the time of injection.

Detergents are used extensively in cell research precisely because of their ability to break cells open for further analysis. This catastrophically mimics the membrane attack complex (MAC). Detergents hit cells at random and continue destroying cells regardless of which call off the attack.

Sodium Deoxycholate is completely foreign to the relationships that define and make up the delicate balance of the immune system. It systematically disrupts these relationships to negate the optimal function and design of immune responses.

Thimerosal

Thimerosal has powerful and damaging effects on cells of the nervous and immune systems in mammals including humans. Its effect may vary depending on the dose, the genetics of the individual, and the timing of exposure. The mercury dose from thimerosal produces acute and often deadly ethylmercury blood levels.

Organic forms of mercury are well-known neurotoxic agents and far more dangerous than inorganic mercury sources. Exposure to organic mercury produces predominantly central nervous system (CNS) effects that are commonly severe and can induce prolonged unconsciousness, coma, and death. (See: Acta Chim. Slov. 2004, 51, 361-372)

After only 2 hour exposures, thimerosal at micromolar concentrations causes neuronal membrane damage and alterations leading to cell death in immune T-cells. Thimerosal alters the functioning of critical neurotransmitters necessary for proper brain functioning.

Thimerosal causes DNA fragmentation of neuronal cells and disrupts neuronal growth factor signaling at micromolar and even nanomolar concentrations. It also causes DNA methylation and attentional pathways at nanomolar concentrations, leading to alterations in brain function.

• 75 Studies Demonstrating the Toxic Effects of Thimerosal and Mercury
• National Center For Biotechnology Information
• Toxicity of Thimerosal
• Poisoning of Thimerosal
• Adverse Effects of Thimerosal

Squalene in AS03 adjuvant

Too dangerous for human use, Squalene is not officially licensed for use in the United States or Canada. Oil adjuvants like squalene have been ordinarily used to inflict diseases in animals – for experimentation and study. According to anthrax vaccine expert Gary Matsumoto and other reliable sources, the US military used an unlicensed, experimental anthrax vaccination laced with squalene, with disastrous consequences, including Gulf War Sydrome.

“There are now data in more than two dozen peer-reviewed scientific papers, from ten different laboratories in the US, Europe, Asia, and Australia, documenting that squalene-based adjuvants can induce autoimmune diseases in animals, observed in mice, rats, guinea pigs, and rabbits. Sweden’s Karolinska Institute has demonstrated that squalene alone can induce the animal version of rheumatoid arthritis. The Polish Academy of Sciences has shown that in animals, squalene alone can produce catastrophic injury to the nervous system and the brain. The University of Florida Medical School has shown that in animals, squalene alone can induce production of antibodies specifically associated with systemic lupus erythematosus,” writes Matsumoto.

Oil-based vaccination adjuvants like squalene have been proved to generate concentrated, unremitting immune responses over long periods of time according to a 2000 article in The American Journal of Pathology. The study demonstrated that a single injection of the adjuvant squalene into rats triggered a chronic, immune-mediated joint-specific inflammation, also known as rheumatoid arthritis. The researchers concluded the study raised questions about the role of adjuvants in chronic inflammatory diseases.

• Squalene Adjuvant Toxicity in Animals
• National Center For Biotechnology Information
• * Toxicity of Squalene
• * Adverse Effects of Squalene

Polysorbate 80

Polysorbate 80 is similar to Sodium Deoxycholate in its ability to increase cell permeability, damage, and bursting. After injection it can rapidly metabolize into sorbitol and ethylene oxide which is much more toxic than the original chemical. When Polysorbate 80 breaks down there are 20 moles of ethylene oxide for every mole of sorbitol. These polysorbates have been shown to cause dangerous, sometimes fatal effects, when given through a needle. Changes in heart function can occur immediately. The blood-brain-barrier (BBB) can be weakened and penetrated, followed by seizures and even death. Polysorbates demonstrate synergistic toxicity with a wide range of chemicals.

Polysorbate 80 has been found to negatively affect the immune system and cause severe anaphylactic shock which can kill. According to Annals of Allergy, Asthma, and Immunology, Volume 95, Number 6, December 2005 , pp. 593-599(7), “it is of current relevance as a ‘hidden’ inductor of anaphylactoid reactions”, and “Polysorbate 80 was identified as the causative agent for the anaphylactoid reaction of nonimmunologic origin in the patient. The study included a pregnant woman who suffered anaphylactic shock after being given a IV drip of multi-vitamins containing polysorbate 80.

In addition to this, there have been studies in Food and Chemical Toxicology which showed that Polysorbate 80 causes infertility. Baby female rats were injected with polysorbate 80 at days 4-7 after birth. It accelerated the maturing of the rats and caused changes to the vagina and womb lining, hormonal changes, ovary deformities, and degenerative follicles.

According to the World Intellectual Property Organization, which is part of the United Nations, scientists from the organization are developing vaccines specifically to damage fertility as a method of contraception. A suggested ingredient for the vaccine is Polysorbate 80 (also known as tween 80). As it is a preferred ingredient, scientists are obviously aware of its ability to cause infertility.

National Center For Biotechnology Information

• Toxicity of Polysorbates
• Poisoning of Polysorbates
• Adverse Effects of Polysorbates

Discussion

There are currently NO clinical trials or results which have validated the long-term safety and efficacy of the Arepanrix H1N1vaccine and its integrated AS03 adjuvant. Regulatory health agencies are refusing to acknowledge this fact or the nature of toxicity levels associated with Arepanrix and its ingredients. The well documented toxicity evidence for each ingredient presented above is simply being ignored.

A simple search on the ClinicalTrials.gov website shows that three “Rapid Evaluation” studies for Arepanrix H1N1vaccine have not even initiated recruiting as of the date this article was published.

One of the most critical elements which defines the toxicity potential of any vaccine are its pharmacokinetic properties. GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) and Health Canada do not consider the study, analysis or evaluation of the pharmacokinetic properties of any vaccine including Arepanrix. This means that the bodily absorption, distribution,= metabolism and excretion of ingredients within the Arepanrix vaccine are not known or even considered in safety assessments. This in itself is a highly suspicious and negligent behavior which leaves many questions on the credibility and reputability of GlaxoSmithKline and Health Canada and their motives for marketing this vaccine to the Canadian population.

Adults Aged 18-60 years:

Dosage recommendations of 0.5ml are based on very limited clinical evidence of safety and immunogenicity data available from two 3-week studies. Neither study has validated the long-term immunogencity, safety, toxicity, or pharmacodynamics of the vaccine based on any dosage. Clinically, the shortest acceptable period to study the side effects of any vaccine is 6-8 weeks. The accepted studies noted by GSK and Health Canada are half this period.

Elderly (>60 years):

No clinical data are available for Arepanrix H1N1 in this age group including the effects of the AS03 squalene adjuvant. There is no data to justify any safe dosage in this age group.

Children and Adolescents aged 10-17 years:

No clinical data are available for Arepanrix H1N1 in this age group including the effects of the AS03 squalene adjuvant. No exact dosing recommendations can be made.

Children aged from 6-35 months:

No clinical data are available for Arepanrix H1N1 in this age group including the effects of the AS03 squalene adjuvant. No exact dosing recommendations can be made.

Pregnancy and Lactation

No data have been generated in pregnant or breast feeding women with Arepanrix nor with the AS03 adjuvant.

Fertility & Sterility

GSK suggests animal studies have not demonstrated harmful effects with respect to fertility which directly contradicts several scientific studies which show that Polysorbate 80 causes infertility.

Interactions With Seasonal Flu Vaccines

GSK claims that no data is available on the concomitant administration of Arepanrix H1N1 with other vaccines, including seasonal influenza vaccines.

A study based on research in British Columbia, Ontario and Quebec, has shown that people who received the seasonal influenza vaccine last year are at greater risk of contracting the H1N1 flu this year.

Adverse reactions may be intensified with co-administration with other vaccines.

Despite the suggested evidence in unpublished studies that seasonal flu vaccines can increase the risk of H1N1 flu, Canadian provinces are recommending co-administration of both vaccines in as little as 60 days. This highly irresponsible recommendation by public health officials could potentially devastate the health of millions of Canadians. An example of the schedule of shots in Ontario is listed in the chart below released in a leaflet to all Ontarians in early October 2009.

Timing	Vaccination	Targeted Individuals
October 2009	Seasonal Flu	Ontarians 65 and over
November 2009	H1N1 Flu	All Ontarians
Dec/09 – Jan/10	Seasonal Flu	Ontarians under 65

The people in Ontario need to call the ServiceOntario INFOline at 1-800-476-9708 and request information as to why Ontario is contradicting studies which demonstrate the risks of administering both the seasonal flu and H1N1 vaccine within short periods.

In addition, the Government of Ontario (and Canada) need to respond to direct queries from the public to justify why and how recommendations are being be made to administer the H1N1 vaccine to those receiving the seasonal flu vaccine, when the studies that test the safety and efficacy for the “Rapid Evaluation of Pandemic H1N1 Influenza Vaccine in Adults Receiving Seasonal Influenza Vaccine” have not yet started as of late October 2009 (with no participants even being recruited).

Adverse Reactions

Solicited adverse reactions were reported more frequently in the H1N1+AS03 group compared to the H1N1 group based on 2 studies which evaluated the safety of another AS03-adjuvanted vaccine containing HA derived from A/California/7/2009 (H1N1)v-like (Pandemrix) in healthy subjects aged 18-60 years.

Since 48.6 of the 50.4 million doses of Arepanrix ordered by the Canadian government contain the AS03 adjuvant, we will focus on those adverse reactions
documented which are as follows:

• Pain
• Redness
• Swelling
• Fatigue
• Headaches
• Arthralgia (joint inflammation)
• Myalgia (muscle inflammation)
• Shivering
• Sweating
• Swollen lymph nodes
• Fever
• Vomiting
• Tingling or numbness of the hands or feet
• Shortness of breath
• Vasculitis (inflammation of the blood vessels)

Serious adverse reactions are as follows:

• Blood and lymphatic system disorders (lymphadenopathy)
• Psychiatric disorders (insomnia)
• Nervous system disorders (dizziness, paraesthesia, inflammation of the central nervous system, inflammation of nerves, autoimmune disorders affecting myelin sheaths of nerves such as Guillain-Barré Syndrome)
• Ear and labyrinth disorders (vertigo)
• Respiratory, thoracic and mediastinal disorders (dyspnoea)
• Gastrointestinal disorders (nausea, diarrhea, abdominal pain, vomiting, dyspepsia, stomach discomfort)
• Skin and subcutaneous tissue disorders (pruritus, rash)
• Musculoskeletal and connective tissue disorders (back pain, musculoskeletal stiffness, neck pain, muscle spasms, pain in extremity)
• General disorders and administration site conditions (bruising, asthenia, chest pain, malaise)
• Disturbing Concentrations of Squalene

The average quantity of squalene injected into the US soldiers abroad and at home in the anthrax vaccine during and after the Gulf War was 34.2 micrograms per billion micrograms of water. According to studies, this was the cause of Gulf War syndrome in 25% of 697,000 US personnel at home and abroad.

The soldiers developed a cascade of reactions including arthritis, fibromyalgia, lymphadenopathy, rashes, photosensitive rashes, malar rashes, chronic fatigue, chronic headaches, abnormal body hair loss, non-healing skin lesions, aphthous ulcers, dizziness, weakness, memory loss, seizures, mood changes, neuropsychiatric problems, anti-thyroid effects, anaemia, elevated ESR
(erythrocyte sedimentation rate), systemic lupus erythematosus, multiple sclerosis, ALS, Raynaud’s phenomenon, Sjorgren’s syndrome, chronic diarrhea, night sweats and low-grade fever.

The AS03 adjuvant in the Arepanrix H1N1 vaccine contains 10.69mg per dose. This corresponds to approximately forty times more squalene per dose than the anthrax vaccine.

How much more evidence is necessary to convince public health officials that the risks of the Arepanrix H1N1 vaccine exceed any benefits?

Please do not play roulette with your health. Do not listen to the Public Health Agency of Canada or any public health or medical official that advises you to protect yourself from the flu with this vaccine. Its design and toxicity will only destroy your health.

This article has been reprinted with permission from PreventDisease.com

Dave Mihalovic is a Naturopathic Doctor who specializes in vaccine research, cancer prevention and a natural approach to treatment. Article is reprinted with full permission of PreventDisease.com

Reference Sources www.novaccine.com, www.gsk.ca, www.hc-sc.gc.ca, www.nvic.org  October 26, 2009