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At age 52, I’ve never had a flu shot and it would take a Marine and at least four burly wrestlers the size of Jesse Ventura to hold me down and give me one.

I don’t think toxic chemicals and virus strains grown on living tissue belong in the human body, even when they’re packaged in sterile vials.

Since my family and I don’t rely on doctors anymore, I don’t have access to an insert that reveals the composition of this year’s flu vaccine, but I did find some general information at the Concerned Parents for Vaccine Safety website home.sprynet.com /~gyrene, where I learned about some of the ingredients used to make vaccines.

I do not want any of the following vaccine constituents in my bloodstream:

• Ethylene glycol (antifreeze)
• Phenol, also known as carbolic acid (this is used as a disinfectant, dye)
• Formaldehyde, a known cancer-causing agent
• Aluminum, which is associated with Alzheimer’s disease and seizures and is also cancer producing in laboratory mice (it’s used as an additive to promote antibody response)
• Thimerosal (a mercury disinfectant/preservative), which can result in brain injury and autoimmune disease
• Neomycin and Streptomycin (used as antibiotics), which have caused allergic reactions in some people

Vaccines are grown and strained through animal or human tissue like monkey kidney tissue, chicken embryos, embryonic guinea pig cells, calf serum and human diploid cells (the dissected organs of aborted human fetuses, as in the case of rubella, hepatitis A and chickenpox vaccines).

I refuse to put any of the above in my body and I hope when your doctor starts telling you it’s time for your annual “shot” that you’ll require her to defend the injection. Have him or her read you the insert that comes with the vaccine.

Then have her explain why it makes sense to inject toxic chemicals into the human body and how such substances can aid the delicate immune system. Chances are she’ll fall back on questionable statistical and demographic explanations that the medical establishment has used for decades to justify immunization. Try to engage your doctor in a non-confrontational discussion, because this is an opportunity for her to actually give some serious thought to what she’s injecting into patients–day after day.

A Personal Journey

Many traditional doctors who haven’t studied diet and lifestyle aren’t going to change unless we help educate them as to what drugs and vaccines may really be doing to people long-term.

I want to speak from personal experience, specifically 1990, a time period before my family turned to natural methods of building health. In February of 1990, right after my wife’s major cancer surgery in January, her doctor recommended a flu shot. Almost immediately after the injection my wife started feeling ill.

Overnight she came down with the worst case of the flu she’d ever had. She went to bed and literally didn’t get up again for more than a few hours at a time for years afterwards! Only now, over a decade later, is she finally regaining full health and energy.

I don’t have space or enough heart yet to tell my wife’s entire story.

Once I stoped buying into the big medical lies about the medical drug, cut and burn system, I questioned all of it. And when I dug into the vaccine history (check out the swine flu vaccine if you want a real horror story) and scientific research (especially in Europe), it became apparent that nobody really knows what these toxic stews of chemicals and microorganisms do in the human body.

I’m a realist. So if I was still thinking traditionally, part of me would almost buy into the typical rationale for flu vaccines, that so many people are spared the annual flu and only a few die or have their lives ruined after being injected. I’d buy into that if I were convinced that injecting a filthy substance into the body actually made sense.

A few medical professionals have called me a simple-minded dolt on more than one occasion, but since 1993 I’ve approached the yearly flu shot hype with the understanding that if I eat and live properly, I won’t catch the flu. The “vaccine” I use, eating and living as close to nature as I can, actually works. Not only that, but it doesn’t cost me or the taxpayers anything and will not have my life ruined because of a “bad batch” of vaccine that triggers some mysterious autoimmune disease, which is what happened to my wife.

You say you don’t want to eat and live close to nature. Okay, my next question would be, “Which is better? Some rest time with the flu or having toxic chemicals injected into your bloodstream?” Seriously, before I got healthy I almost looked forward to a yearly bout with influenza because it meant that I could go to bed and get some rest instead of working practically every waking moment of my life. (I haven’t missed more than two consecutive days of work for an illness for almost five years, so a non-vaccine approach does work.)

This non-drug approach has resulted in a level of health that continually amazes me, especially when I see other people my age who are miserable and without energy, men and women who spend their time drifting from doctor to doctor in endless pursuit of solutions that don’t get to the cause of their problems: diet and lifestyle.

Source: Reprinted with permission from Chet Day’s Health & Beyond.

Source: alive #221, March 2001