Natural Immunity - The Instinctive Mother

The human body, like the bodies of all other animals, has a natural immune system that protects it when it is invaded by pathogens. This immune system does its job effectively as long as it is supported by such things as:

breastfeeding
delayed cord clamping
bedsharing
fresh air and sunlight
adequate sleep
organic whole food
avoidance of toxins (e.g., in skincare products, cleaning products, clothing materials, etc.)

In spite of the fact that bodies have effective natural immune systems, the pharmaceutical industry has tried to convince people that technological medical products need to be injected into healthy bodies. They have succeeded in convincing many people of this, through a massive campaign of propaganda and false information.

You’ve no doubt heard it said that vaccines are both safe and effective and have saved millions of lives.

That’s the official narrative, sponsored by the pharmaceutical industry – that doesn’t, of course, make it true.

Here are the questions about vaccines that are addressed below:

What’s in them?
How are they tested?
Do they cause harm?
How effective are they?
What is the Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System?
Do vaccines cause autism?
What’s life like as a person who declines or questions vaccines?
Where can you read more information?

What’s in vaccines?

Many people, including some doctors, believe vaccines contain two ingredients: the antigen(s) for the diseases the vaccine is meant to protect you from (e.g., measles, pertussis, chickenpox), and water.

In fact, if you ask your doctor what’s in the vaccines they inject into your child, you’d be surprised how little most of them know.

The actual list of ingredients used to be available, under the title Vaccine Excipient & Media Summary on the CDC’s website, but they removed it in late 2024, saying they no longer maintain it.

(If you want, you can ask your pediatrician for the manufacturer’s vaccine package insert. If you do, ensure it’s not the one- or two-page “information sheet” they often hand out. You need to specify that what you want is the manufacturer’s vaccine package insert, which is many pages long.)

Fortunately, a version from February 2020 is available here. It’s not 100% up-to-date (for example, the CDC began removing references to aborted foetal cells shortly after that), but it’s enough to show you the type of ingredients they put in vaccines, which include:

aluminium hydroxide (to stimulate an immune system response)
chick embryo cell culture
foetal bovine serum
formaldehyde (which is carcinogenic)
guinea pig cell cultures
human embryonic lung cell cultures
lactose
Madin Darby Canine Kidney (MDCK) cell protein and DNA
MSG
MRC-5 diploid fibroblasts (MRC-5 is the code for the 14-week-gestation male foetus who was aborted to provide cell lines for some vaccines)
neomycin
polysorbate 80
streptomycin
sucrose
thimerosal (which is almost half mercury although it’s in multi-dose vials only)
WI-38 human diploid lung fibroblasts (which come from lung tissue obtained from an aborted three-month-gestation female foetus)

The official narrative says that the quantities of these ingredients in vaccines are too small to cause any problems, but if there’s enough of those ingredients to cause the effect they desire, then how do they know it’s not enough to cause harm?

There’s no evidence that any of the ingredients in vaccines have been tested to determine what the safe injectable limit is.

For example, aluminium is in many vaccines these days, but:

there’s no experimental scientific evidence of any kind that proves the amount of aluminium (which is a known neurotoxin) used is safe to inject.[i]
according to Professor Christopher Exley (who is one of the world’s leading experts in aluminium toxicity), “There are no aluminium adjuvants that have been approved for intramuscular or subcutaneous injection into humans. There are no requirements for their approval; they are only ‘approved’ as part of vaccine preparations.”[ii]

How are vaccines tested?

The gold standard when testing new medical products is the placebo-controlled double-blind study. This means that:

Nobody, including both those who administer the product and those who receive it, knows who gets the product being tested and who gets the placebo.
The control group should receive a placebo, which is defined as “a treatment that looks like a regular treatment, but is made with inactive ingredients that have no real effect on patient health”.[iii]

However, although the vaccines on the CDC childhood schedule say they were tested against placebos, the “placebos” they use are either other vaccines or some of the more questionable vaccine ingredients (e.g., aluminium).

They claim it’s scientifically OK to test a new vaccine against one that has already been “proven safe”. However:

Since none of the vaccines your children receive were tested against a true placebo, they have no basis on which to say the new vaccine is safe. (They are also sometimes “tested” for as few as five days, which is nowhere near long enough to evaluate anything other than immediate risks.) [iv]
A new vaccine is, by definition, different to any existing one, so they would still need to account for those differences by doing additional testing.

Without a true placebo, there is no way to evaluate the risk profile of a new vaccine.

And a Dr. Kroger from the CDC admitted over seven years ago that “there were no true placebos in vaccine trials, the schedule has never been studied, and there are no studies on the synergistic effects of toxins in vaccines.”

There are other tests you might expect the manufacturer to perform (or the FDA to require) for all vaccines, but which aren’t performed. Section 13 on most package inserts specifically states that the vaccine “has not been evaluated for carcinogenic or mutagenic potential or impairment of fertility.”

Despite the CDC and FDA advising pregnant women to receive various shots, including COVID-19, Influenza, RSV, and TDaP, many of the package inserts specifically advise against administering the vaccine to pregnant females.

Here’s what the Journal of American Physicians and Surgeons (Volume 21 Number2 Summer 2016) had to say about vaccine testing:

“The safety of CDC’s childhood vaccination schedule was never affirmed in clinical studies. Vaccines are administered to millions of infants every year, yet health authorities have no scientific data from synergistic toxicity studies on all combinations of vaccines that infants are likely to receive. National vaccination campaigns must be supported by scientific evidence. No child should be subjected to a health policy that is not based on sound scientific principles and, in fact, has been shown to be potentially dangerous.”

Do vaccines cause harm?

Yes, and even the US government admits that this is the case.

The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) maintains a document called the Vaccine Injury Table that lists illnesses, disabilities, and injuries that they admit can be and are caused by vaccines (subject to specific criteria). Examples include:

anaphylaxis
chronic arthritis
death
encephalitis[v]
encephalopathy
Guillain-Barré Syndrome
Intussusception
paralytic polio
shoulder injury related to vaccine administration (SIRVA)
thrombocytopenic purpura

Merck too states that “Encephalitis is inflammation of the brain that occurs when a virus directly infects the brain or when a virus, vaccine, or something else triggers inflammation.”[vi]

Note, though, that if your child is injured or killed by a vaccine that is on the CDC childhood schedule, you can not sue the manufacturer or the person who administered the vaccine(s).

You used to be able to until the 1986 National Childhood Vaccine Injury Act was passed. This act gave vaccine manufacturers legal indemnity from being sued. Instead, you have to apply to a government program called the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program.

This was intended to be a no-fault system where parents could receive timely compensation for injuries or deaths caused by vaccines.

In practice, this has not been the case, and more than half of all claims are denied.

Should a family have their claim approved, the compensation comes from a tax that is placed on all vaccines. (Note that it is not the manufacturers who pay any compensation!) Currently, the tax is $0.75 per vaccine (which means the MMR shot, for example, has a tax of $2.25 because it contains three vaccines – for measles, mumps, and rubella).

As at the time of writing this article, over $4.7 billion has been paid out to claimants.

Further to the type of harm discussed above, vaccines can also cause the very problem they’re meant to protect against.

For example, if you look at the package insert for the M-M-R® II vaccine, you’ll see, in Section 6, Adverse Reactions, that one of the first adverse reactions listed is atypical measles.

Compared to regular measles, atypical measles:

has a different rash pattern to regular measles, starting on the extremities rather than on the face
may last longer
often presents as pneumonitis
has other, unique symptoms, such as abdominal pain and liver malfunction
tends to be more severe

How effective are vaccines?

The official narrative is that vaccines have:

saved millions of lives
eradicated smallpox[vii]
eradicated polio[viii]

However, the truth is not that simple.

Firstly, the number of lives claimed to be saved is the result of complex modelling based on various estimates and assumptions. After all, you cannot prove that an individual would have died without a vaccine.

Their claim is closer to correlation than causation, which is ironic given that this is the argument they use to reject what those who question vaccine safety and efficacy say.

You also need to be careful with some of the statistics they quote. For example:

When the CDC cites how many influenza cases there are per year, they include pneumonia in those figures, and it’s those cases that account for the majority of the total.
When they cite information about measles, they often refer to worldwide statistics, and not the USA’s. This is important because in Africa, for example, where children are often malnourished, diseases tend to be more severe than they are in the USA or UK.

It’s also important to realize that there have been plenty of outbreaks (e.g., of measles and mumps) in populations where almost everybody has been vaccinated (i.e., above the recommended herd immunity threshold).

And not all vaccines were even designed to prevent infection or transmission. The pertussis (or whooping cough) vaccine is a case in point: what this vaccine tries to do is protect you from the toxin that is released by the pertussis bacteria – but it does not protect against that bacteria itself.

In fact, the FDA did a study that showed people vaccinated against pertussis spread the disease. And even the CDC said that “public health experts cannot rely on herd immunity to protect people from pertussis”.

Finally, the decline in deaths from infectious illness and the introduction of vaccines doesn’t even correlate: the decline in mortality happened before the vaccines were introduced as a result of improved nutrition, improved breastfeeding rates, a reduction in toxin exposure, lifestyle improvements, and the fact that doctors stopped routinely removing children’s tonsils, which are important to the immune system. When the vaccines were introduced, there was no effect on the mortality rate. All of this can be confirmed by looking at the raw data. Any claim to the contrary is pharmaceutical propaganda.

What is the Vaccine Adverse Events Reporting System?

The VAERS is a passive system for reporting adverse events following vaccination.

The goal is to allow scientists to look for safety signals and then investigate whether vaccines can cause the reported adverse events.

Just because an adverse reaction is recorded on the VAERS database does not mean (nor is it meant to mean) that the vaccine necessarily caused that event.

Sadly, according to a government-funded study, it’s estimated that no more than 1% of adverse reactions are ever reported.

Doctors are obliged to record some adverse events, but few do. Some aren’t even aware of the VAERS, while others refuse to because they say there is no evidence the vaccine caused the adverse event.

Anyone can file a report, but you may need information that you can only get from your doctor.

It’s also worth knowing that anyone can search the VAERS database, via:

For example, here’s a report from MedAlerts.org, showing how many deaths were reported following vaccination for each type of vaccine.

Do vaccines cause autism?

This is a controversial topic, but the autism rate continues to increase while it is still claimed that vaccines do not cause it.

Let’s start with the usual scapegoat, Andrew Wakefield. Here’s what you should know about the so-called Lancet paper:

He was not its only author– there were a dozen co-authors
It never claimed that the MMR vaccine caused autism
In fact, they only recommended that further research be done to investigate whether there was any link between the MMR vaccine and autism, as was reported by the parents of the children involved in this case series
What the results did indicate, that there is a connection between autism and gut dysfunction, has been confirmed by subsequent studies

With that out of the way, you’ve probably heard the claims that vaccines do not cause autism.

But has this been proven?

Actually, no.

Here’s a quote from investigative reporter Jeremy Hammond, which he posted on 18 December 2024 in response to a claim that vaccines don’t cause autism:

“Show me a study designed to test the hypothesis that vaccines administered according to the CDC’s schedule can contribute to the development of autism in susceptible children.

“It hasn’t been done.

“Therefore, the claim ‘Vaccines don’t cause autism’ is disinformation.”

Then there is this article, Why the Claim ‘Vaccines Don’t Cause Autism’ Is Disinformation, also by Jeremy Hammond.

It’s also worth noting that the National Vaccine Injury Compensation Program has paid out compensation for autism caused by vaccines, as was the case with Hannah Poling and Porter Bridges.

You’ll find other articles on this topic in the Recommended Reading section, below.

What’s life like as a person who declines or questions vaccines?

Once you start questioning vaccines, you should be prepared for a trip down a rabbit hole that will never end because once you start digging into vaccines, you’ll uncover many related topics.

Many natural parents find it wise not to discuss their children’s vaccination status with family members and friends. If you do choose to become vocal about the issue, you should be prepared for:

friends and family to shun you and your children
negative comments on social media, which can range from name-calling and ridicule to suggestions you should be in prison (or worse)
“refutations” to every fact you share, often with calls for you to provide peer-reviewed studies (see below)

With regard to peer-reviewed studies, check out these two quotations:

Marcia Angell: “It is simply no longer possible to believe much of the clinical research that is published, or to rely on the judgment of trusted physicians or authoritative medical guidelines. I take no pleasure in this conclusion, which I reached slowly and reluctantly over my two decades as an editor of The New England Journal of Medicine.“
Richard Horton (editor of the Lancet): “The case against science is straightforward: much of the scientific literature, perhaps half, may simply be untrue. Afflicted by studies with small sample sizes, tiny effects, invalid exploratory analyses, and flagrant conflicts of interest, together with an obsession for pursuing fashionable trends of dubious importance, science has taken a turn towards darkness.“

The mass indoctrination that is based on fear is so bad that, when asked in a survey, “Which would you rather yourself or a loved one suffer? Permanent injury or death caused by a measles vaccine or a temporary fever, cough, runny nose or rash caused by a benign measles infection?“ 34% (i.e., over one third) of respondents said they would rather suffer permanent injury or death than get measles.

This is what you will be faced with – people who have no idea about vaccines or the diseases they’re meant to protect you from, all because they spend too much time unquestioningly watching the TV news that does not tell you the truth because it is sponsored by the pharmaceutical industry.

So, if you choose to share information about vaccines, it’s important to:

make sure you’ve fact-checked what you post (i.e., don’t just share something you saw without making sure it’s true)
stick to one fact at once, rather than inundating people with lots and lots of information

And if it’s any consolation, an MIT study noted that “vaccine hesitancy is ‘highly informed, scientifically literate’, and ‘sophisticated’”.

Closing thoughts

Your doctor or pediatrician will not tell you most of what’s been discussed above, primarily because they weren’t taught this at medical school (where substantial funding comes from the pharmaceutical industry).

And you won’t hear it from the mainstream media either because they receive about two thirds of their revenue from that same industry.

An industry, by the way, that, according to Violation Tracker, has paid out $122,763,032,518 in penalties since 2000 (as at the time of writing this).

As Daniel Wolfert of Mentagenesis has said, “Always keep in mind pharmaceutical companies answer to shareholders who measure the success of the company by how much money it makes, and not by how many people are healed of sickness and disease.”

Given that they wield such power, over the media, the medical profession, and the government (they spend hundreds of millions of dollars on lobbying each year), it’s wise not to trust anything published by any of them.

Instead, you should read up on anything and everything that might affect your child, including but not limited to vaccines, other medical products (e.g., antibiotics), food and drink, healthcare products, skincare products, household cleaners, and more.

Your child relies on you to keep them safe, and there are too many stories of parents who did what they thought was best (because they trusted their doctors, for example), only to regret those decisions later.

Remember, you can never unvaccinate your child!

Recommended reading

As well as the endnotes at the foot of this article, here are a few more resources that you’ll find informative: