Disease

As we move into autumn and then to winter, we will be encouraged to have a variety of vaccinations ‘to protect us from infection, reduce pressure on the health service and protect those around us’. This mantra has been repeated so often it is very widely accepted without question. However, I am going to question it because it is not true. A vaccine cannot protect us from infection; the only thing protecting us from infection is our immune system. Details are essential in all areas of medicine. The best thing a vaccine can do is to educate our immune system to recognise a particular pathogen and create antibodies to attack it, if and when it appears in the body.

How much a vaccine may help us depends on how well our individual immune systems are functioning. This is clearly true from the number of elderly people who die from a flu infection each winter despite having had a ‘flu jab’. According to the British Medical Journal there were almost 15,000 excess deaths in the UK during the winter of 2022-23 caused by influenza. These people were susceptible to the disease because they were elderly with poor immune systems. We deteriorate in old age because a variety of our bodily processes become damaged and less efficient, including our immune system. A vaccine does not, and cannot, protect us from infection because if we had no functioning immune system a vaccine would be completely useless.

I am not entirely against the concept of vaccination, but I am concerned by the excessive hype they receive, the ever-expanding number of vaccines made available, the inclusion of toxic adjuvants and the lack of safety studies on both the adjuvants and the vaccines. It is a far better idea to concentrate on improving our immune systems, which can be achieved in the same way we improve all our metabolic processes. Improved nutrition and reduced stress are the important things to look at. The claims made for the elimination of diseases by vaccines are severely exaggerated as shown by this diagram. (Credit to LearnTheRisk.org)

Deaths from infectious diseases were considerably higher in the 1890s and early 1900s. They had declined considerably long before vaccines were introduced, and some diseases declined without having a vaccine. These sharp declines happened when cities introduced proper sanitation and clean water supplies; the poorest people in society earned a little more money and could afford better food; and people became better educated about health. The decline had nothing to do with vaccination and everything to do with sanitation, education and nutrition. (Reference below.)

When humans are metabolically healthy, well fed and live in clean conditions our immune systems are able to function as they should and protect us from disease. We have an innate immune system we are born with, and an acquired immune system, which remembers previous infections. It is a wonderfully complex and whole-body system which has evolved over millions of years. The diagrams below show the various structures and cell types involved in our immune systems. Do you really believe that a commercial product injected in your arm will save you from disease, while this system cannot?

The Pharmaceutical Industry makes an enormous amount of money every year. A lot of people are prescribed and take their drugs every day. The most perfect product from a drug company point of view is one that everybody needs to take whether they are ill or not. The invention and promotion of vaccines has turned every person on the planet into a potential customer for a small group of companies. The proliferation of vaccines has steadily increased along with the profits of vaccine manufacturers. I read recently that drug companies spend more money on marketing than they do on research. Some of that money is spent on doctors and political lobbying, which has successfully convinced the vast majority of people that we all need regular vaccines and boosters to save us from severe disease. If you do an internet search about vaccines you will find pages of ‘expert’ endorsements and you will struggle to find the information I showed at the beginning about diseases declining before the use of ‘jabs’.

If you agree with my premise that the most important defence against infection is a healthy and robust immune system, you may still think the antibodies generated by a vaccine are a bonus which will help to protect to you. This argument makes sense as long as the injection does not cause something else which is harmful. I will give just two examples of harm caused by heavily promoted vaccines.

1. Everyone will remember the extreme response to the respiratory infection known as Covid-19. A great many people were threatened with losing their jobs if they did not have the rapidly produced ‘vaccine’. It was so rapidly produced that it was given ‘emergency use authorisation’ meaning that it could be given without going through the usual multi-year trials. They called it a ‘vaccine’ but it was not a vaccine; it was an experimental gene therapy involving viral genetic code (mRNA). I am not going to cover all the problems with it here but, for those interested, I have references at the end of this piece. I will simply show you a graphic of the VAERS report (Vaccine Adverse Event Reporting System) and remind you we were constantly told it was ‘safe and effective’ and anyone questioning the narrative was a labelled a ‘covidiot’.

2. In 1998, Dr Andrew Wakefield published a paper about the correlation he had discovered between the MMR vaccine and the incidence of autism in children. He did not say the vaccine caused autism; he said there was a correlation which needed to be investigated further, which is an entirely appropriate thing to say because of the small sample size in his study. When this gained publicity he was vilified, hounded and struck off the medical register. He was ‘proven’ wrong, but by whom? People employed by the Pharmaceutical Industry were the ones who ‘proved’ him wrong. But is he wrong? He has recently produced a film called ‘Protocol 7’, which highlights the cover-ups involved in vaccine research and marketing. The chart below shows the increase in recommended childhood vaccines in America.

This next chart shows the prevalence of autism in America. The correlation shown here does not prove that children’s vaccines cause autism. For proof we need a mechanism by which one thing causes the other.

Have you ever asked for a full list of the ingredients in the injection going into your arm or your child’s arm? Apart from the attenuated virus, the majority of childhood vaccines also contain an aluminium compound, which is there to stimulate the immune system into action and promote the production of antibodies. However, aluminium is well-known to be toxic, especially to brain tissue and especially to young developing brains. Multiple injections containing aluminium compounds which can travel to the brain provide an entirely plausible mechanism for vaccine-induced autism. If you want to know more about this, there is a link to a well-referenced explanatory article below.

Two final points:

1. It is well-known that the immunity granted by a previous infection is superior to that obtained from a vaccine. It is better, therefore, for healthy younger people to catch a virus and recover from it than to be vaccinated against it.

2. Respiratory viruses enter the body through the mucosal membrane, which is the wet skin on the inside of your mouth, nose, throat and lungs. This membrane has its own immune cells which are an important first line of defence. A vaccine for a respiratory virus injected into your arm bypasses the most important immune cells for resisting such a virus.

References

Dietary components of a healthy immune system

This website has over 3,500 published scientific papers on people harmed by the ‘safe and effective’ Covid jab. Published Science Database – React19

International scientists have found autism’s cause. What will Americans do? (substack.com)

Did diseases decline because of vaccines? Not according to history… – Learn the Risk

Vaccine Roulette: Quality Control, Contamination, and Negligence. (substack.com)

Protocol7 – Home

Our immune system evolved over millions of years and it is a complex, integrated whole-body system. Like everything else in our body, its ability to function at peak performance depends on how healthy and well-nourished we are. There are specific nutrients which are vital to our immunity and our susceptibility to disease can be increased if we are deficient in those nutrients. They include Vitamins A, C, and D and the minerals magnesium, zinc and selenium among others.

Many people have Vitamin D deficiency in the winter, which is when seasonal viruses like the common cold, influenza and Covid are more prevalent. This study, among many others, shows that those with the lowest level were far more likely to die of Covid19 than those with optimum levels. This study shows that vitamin D is important for the prevention of both flu and Covid. Supplementation is cheap and readily available and is a wise precaution during the winter. There is no downside to having optimum levels of vital nutrients. People have died of Covid because of Vitamin D deficiency. (During the summer of 2020 when official advice was rampant, we were allowed to exercise outdoors but we were not allowed to sit in the sunshine, even when alone. This prevented the accumulation of vitamin D stores. Why would they do that?)

Vitamin A: This study shows the importance of adequate levels of vitamin A for correct lung function and therefore the resistance of respiratory viruses. Vitamin A Deficiency and the Lung. This highlights the many benefits of Vitamin A

Both of these vitamins are fat soluble and likely to be low in people on a low-fat diet. They can also be low in people on a vegetarian or vegan diet because the best sources are in animal-based foods:

Of course, the best source of vitamin D is from sunlight on our skin (without sunscreen). However, during a British winter, it is not possible to get enough sunshine to create adequate amounts of this essential substance and we have to get it from our diet. It is worth remembering that it is a cholesterol molecule that is converted to vitamin D in the skin. Eating a lot of plant sterols (or taking statins) will reduce levels of cholesterol and potentially lower our immunity.

Vitamin C has an important part to play in our immune system. It improves the ability of immune and epithelial cells to function properly. Vitamin C and Immune Function

Diabetes During Covid and winter flu many of the fatalities were among people with diabetes. This study shows why that may not be a coincidence. Glycolytic control: A mechanism to regulate influenza viral infection

This is a quote from the Abstract of the study: “As new influenza virus strains emerge, finding new mechanisms to control infection is imperative. In this study, we found that we could control influenza infection of mammalian cells by altering the level of glucose given to cells. Higher glucose concentrations induced a dose-specific increase in influenza infection.”

A low-carbohydrate diet, as recommended on this site, has many more benefits than just weight loss and reversal of type 2 diabetes.

Minerals Some trace minerals have a profound effect on the integrity of our immune systems. Three of the most important ones are thought to be Zinc, Iodine and Selenium. They only occur in decent amounts in whole, unprocessed foods. Processing greatly reduces the mineral content.

Zinc is quite well-known for fighting the common cold. It is found in meat, shellfish, lentils and beans, nuts, dairy and eggs.

Iodine is essential for thyroid function and the thyroid is important for immunity. There are few good sources of iodine but the best include cod, tuna, shrimp, eggs, dairy, iodised salt and seaweed!

Selenium is an antioxidant that we require in trace amounts. Too little causes problems but so does too much. It is better to eat healthy foods than take supplements that may provide too much. The best sources of selenium are Brazil nuts, pork, beef, chicken, cottage cheese, eggs, mushrooms and spinach.

Good metabolic health, weight, blood sugar and an excellent immune system all come from eating the diet we evolved to eat: a low-carbohydrate diet of mainly animal-sourced protein and fat. What we eat can definitely improve our chances of fighting off the worst effects of any infection. Why do the NHS, Government and Chief Medical Officer never tell us this?

I have worked for most of my life as a Pharmacist. However, I left my profession earlier than I had intended to because I was frustrated and disillusioned. I was seeing so many people who took their medication but never got better. They had metabolic diseases and their drugs were treating the symptoms, but not the root cause, of the illness. Type 2 diabetes, heart disease, hypertension, obesity and insulin resistance are the components of what is known as metabolic syndrome. These are all lifestyle-induced abnormalities and the most significant root cause of them all is a bad diet.  

In the UK there are more than 20 million obese people, and at least 4 million have type 2 diabetes. Why has this happened when there is so much advice available on ‘healthy eating’? After a lot of research, it became clear to me that the advice we are being given is wrong. Since 1983 the NHS has been promoting the consumption of carbohydrates in place of dietary fat. Saturated fat has been vilified despite the fact there is no scientific evidence that saturated fat is harmful. The relentless weight gain and prevalence of diabetes is driven by insulin resistance, which is caused by eating too much carbohydrate. I was appalled at the realisation that the diet recommended by the NHS, and many nutritionists, is causing all our metabolic malaise.

The Government response to the SARS-Cov-2 virus has involved the most draconian restrictions ever imposed on healthy people. In March we were told a three-week Lockdown was necessary to save the NHS from being overwhelmed. Nine months later we are still severely restricted. ‘Saving the NHS’ has been a constant theme along with social distancing, masks and quarantine. This implies there is nothing else to be done while waiting for a vaccine. When Government agencies, like Sage, are telling us what to do I always pay attention to what they are not saying. They have never suggested anything with which we could boost our own immunity. Surely, if we all had a potent immune system that would reduce demands on the health service.

Covid19 is a nasty viral disease, which, sadly, has hastened the death of many people. Why do Johnson, Hancock, Whitty and Vallance never mention the fact that 95% of the people who have died had at least one pre-existing metabolic condition?

The health service, which they are so keen to save, is constantly under pressure from all the millions of people who have diet-induced diseases. The real health emergency in the UK is not a coronavirus; it is metabolic syndrome. The Government has spent a staggering £350 billion on one virus. Imagine if they had put all that money, time and effort into tackling what really ails us. They could have improved the health and well-being of tens of millions of people, slashed the NHS bill for years to come, whilst also preventing a great many Covid deaths. Chris Whitty is the Government’s Chief Medical Officer and Patrick Vallance is its Chief Scientist. Throughout their tenures, they have both failed to tackle the diseases which cause hundreds of thousands of premature deaths every year.

They have failed to mention a recent study from Spain which measured the blood sugar levels of hospitalised Covid patients. Those with the highest blood sugar were 50% more likely to die from the virus than those with the lowest levels. We are told to base our meals on carbohydrate rich foods like bread, rice, pasta and potatoes. These are all known as starches but our digestive system breaks them down into simple sugars. The elevated blood sugar that follows can have drastic effects. Someone with uncontrolled type 2 diabetes may suffer from kidney damage, blindness, nerve pain, gangrene leading to amputation, dementia, heart disease and increased susceptibility to infections. A study in 2011 showed that raised blood sugar hampers our innate immune system. Healthy immune cells have a variety of functions including the ability to recognise certain molecular patterns, which identify bacteria and viruses as pathogens. High levels of blood sugar were shown, in the study, to diminish the ability of immune cells to recognise infectious agents. If we cannot recognise a virus, we cannot initiate the response we need to eliminate it.

An excellent diet not only prevents modern, non-communicable diseases but also helps us to fight infections. We need to eat a diet which keeps sugar, and therefore insulin, levels low. Good health comes from a low-carbohydrate, high-fat diet, which is the opposite of official advice. A robust immune system also requires certain critical nutrients to function properly. One of those is selenium, which is needed to produce infection-fighting T cells, B cells and antibodies. Zinc is another trace mineral which is important for maintenance and development of immune cells. Lymphocytes and natural killer cells do not form properly, nor function properly, unless there is an adequate supply of zinc. Studies have shown that people with optimum levels of zinc are far less likely to die from Covid than those who are deficient. The best sources of selenium and zinc include salmon, tuna, beef, chicken, free-range eggs, mushrooms, sardines, nuts and dairy products.

Vitamin D has a wide range of benefits in the human body. An optimum level of Vitamin D has previously been shown to reduce the severity of an Influenza infection. Knowing this, some researchers tested the vitamin D status of hospitalised Covid patients and found a clear relationship: the lower the Vitamin D levels, the worse the outcome. Properly controlled trials have now been conducted which confirmed these observations. We make Vitamin D, from cholesterol molecules, when the sun shines on our bare skin but during the winter we need to eat oily fish, eggs, liver and beef to obtain a sufficient supply. Supplement tablets are also available.

I am not suggesting that an optimum level of these nutrients is a cure for Covid, but, if you become infected, your chances of a severe illness are considerably greater if you are deficient. Why have Whitty and Vallance never mentioned this when there is no downside to having an ideal intake of essential nutrients? It is important to note that the great majority of foods containing selenium, zinc and vitamin D are of animal origin and high in fat. We are frequently told we need to reduce our intake of meat. This message is driven by dogma and not by science. Red meat is the most nutrient-dense food humans can eat. We evolved into the dominant species on the planet because, for over a million years, our ancestors chased after, and ate, animals.

Large sections of the population are unwell because we are fed by a food industry that pays little attention to our health and treated by a drug industry that pays no attention to our food. Pharmaceutical companies do not want you to believe you can keep yourself healthy with the right diet and lifestyle, because if we all did that, their profits would plunge.

References:

Meta-analysis of prospective cohort studies evaluating the association of saturated fat with cardiovascular disease – PubMed (nih.gov)

Insulin Resistance – PubMed (nih.gov)

Coronavirus: 95% of victims in England hospitals had underlying health conditions | UK News | Sky News

Admission hyperglycaemia as a predictor of mortality in patients hospitalized with COVID-19 regardless of diabetes status: data from the Spanish SEMI-COVID-19 Registry — COVID-19 Research Collaborations (elsevierpure.com)

Dietary sugars inhibit biologic functions of the pattern recognition molecule, mannose-binding lectin (scirp.org)

Selenium in the Immune System | The Journal of Nutrition | Oxford Academic (oup.com)

Zinc in Human Health: Effect of Zinc on Immune Cells (nih.gov)

Vitamin D and the immune system – PubMed (nih.gov)

Nutritional composition of red meat (wiley.com)

There are about 4 million people in the UK who have been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes and there are probably millions more who are not yet diagnosed, or who have pre-diabetes and will soon have the full disease. It has become so common, I worry that some people may be slightly too relaxed about it but it is an awful disease and nobody should be blasé. Most people would say that diabetes is too much glucose in the bloodstream. It is true that diabetics have too much sugar in their blood but that is not really the disease: it is a symptom of the disease. The real disease is Insulin Resistance, which can also be referred to as Carbohydrate Intolerance.

If you have diabetes, it will degrade your blood vessels. The tiny capillaries in your kidneys and the retina of your eyes can become so damaged that you need kidney dialysis and may go blind. Diabetes also greatly increases the risk of heart disease and stroke and this is the major cause of death in diabetic people. Some of your nerve fibres can be damaged causing neuropathic pain, which is a nagging pain that normal pain killers do not control. The damaged blood vessels in your legs reduce the blood flow to your feet and this leads to ulcers that will not heal. These ulcers can develop gangrene and then you will have to have your toes, feet or legs amputated. In England alone, 120 diabetics have part of a limb amputated every single week

A healthy adult circulation contains about 10 pints of blood with one teaspoon (or 5 grams) of glucose dissolved in it. The level of glucose is very strictly controlled. When it falls too low, the hormone glucagon is released and glucagon brings glucose out of storage and into the blood. If the level rises too high, the hormone insulin is released and insulin transports glucose out of the blood and into the cells. If the cells don’t need any more glucose and the storage area is full, insulin gets the liver to convert the extra glucose into fat and stores it in the fat cells.

The reason obesity is so closely linked to diabetes is because, if insulin didn’t convert excess glucose to fat and store it away, you would become diabetic whenever you ate too much starchy food. (Starch is just a lot of glucose molecules joined together.) Putting on weight is the body’s way of avoiding diabetes. Eventually though, the body cannot cope anymore and the system breaks down and blood sugar goes up. Obesity and diabetes are linked because they are both symptoms of insulin resistance. Obesity doesn’t cause diabetes: they are both caused by too much sugar.

What causes insulin resistance? Insulin does. The carbohydrates you eat are converted to glucose which raises your blood sugar and increases insulin production. Over the years, an excess of insulin in the blood makes your cells resistant to it and then it cannot do its job. Blood sugar goes up, which stimulates more insulin production, leading to more resistance and, suddenly, you have type 2 diabetes.

These are some of the common symptoms of diabetes: increased thirst; frequent urination; dry mouth; unexplained weight loss; feeling tired and weak; blurred vision with headaches; and recurrent infections, especially thrush. If you go to your doctor with any of these symptoms, you will be given some tests and if you have high levels of blood glucose, you will be told that you have type 2 diabetes. It is very likely that you will also be told that diabetes is a progressive, incurable disease. You will be given medication which either increases sensitivity to insulin or increases insulin production. You will also be told to control your diet. Unfortunately, the dietary advice you are likely to get will make your diabetes worse. The standard advice is to eat plenty of fruit, vegetables and whole grains and to reduce the amount of fat you eat, in a mistaken attempt to lose weight. If you want to avoid diabetes, or make it go away if you already have it, you should completely ignore the official dietary advice.

Diabetes is a disease of too much insulin but when the tablets no longer work, they will inject you with insulin. The only food group that does not stimulate insulin is fat and they want you to avoid it. Fruit and whole grains have high levels of carbohydrate which raise your blood sugar and insulin. If you follow the official advice, you will discover that what they told you told is true; diabetes is progressive and incurable. If you ignore the official advice and eat a low-carbohydrate, high-fat (LCHF) diet, you will avoid diabetes and quite probably reverse it if you already have it. Please note, if you are taking medication for diabetes and you change to a low-carbohydrate, high-fat diet you must tell your doctor and monitor your blood very closely because your sugar levels will fall and the medication may precipitate a hypo.

There are dozens of different cancers: some are more serious than others but all of them are to be avoided if we can. There are also many possible causes including smoking, air pollution, and a wide variety of toxic chemicals used in the manufacture of everyday items. For many years, people have thought cancers were driven by genetic mutations but evidence is growing that cancer is a metabolic disease. The toxic substance that disrupts our metabolism the most is sugar.

A German doctor, Otto Warburg, discovered that cancer cells use a different energy metabolism compared to healthy cells. He won a Nobel prize for his work in 1931. He found that malignant tumors rely entirely on glucose as a source of energy, while healthy cells can use fat molecules instead. Cancer cells use glucose at 10 to 12 times the rate of normal cells and Warburg suggested that cancer might be starved of energy by reducing sugar intake. It is important to remember that all carbohydrates, when digested, become sugar molecules.

Whenever blood sugar levels rise, the pancreas produces insulin to lower them. Insulin, however, does a lot more than this. It is a master hormone with many effects in the body, including the stimulation of cell growth. A tumour is a mass of rapidly dividing, and growing, cells: an excess of sugar will feed those cells and the inevitable increase in insulin will stimulate their growth.  Breast cancer, which is one of the most common types, has been linked to sugar intake. Breast tissue contains a lot of insulin receptors.

Obesity is known to be associated with a large increase in the risk of cancer. People become obese because they eat too much carbohydrate, and sugar, which is stored as fat by the hormone insulin. Their risk for cancer increases because they spend years with elevated blood levels of both sugar and insulin. While it is impossible to be so precise as to say, ‘sugar causes cancer’, we can be confident that eating a low-carbohydrate diet reduces the chances of getting cancer and improves the odds of recovery should we develop it.