Aluminum

Buckle in guys, because this post is likely to blow your mind! I know that sounds all braggy and what-not because I’m the one that wrote it, but really I’m just regurgitating what the scientific literature says. And the scientific literature says A LOT about aluminum in vaccines.

If you’ve read my post about Vaccine Ingredients, you know that aluminum is an ingredient in many vaccines, notably the DTaP, Hib, Hep A, Hep B, Meningococcal, Pneumococcal (PCV) and Gardasil (HPV) vaccines.

Why is there aluminum in vaccines? Most vaccines use weakened and/or killed viruses and bacteria which are not virulent enough to build a significant antibody response to the pathogen (bacteria/virus) on their own. Aluminum is added to these vaccines as an adjuvant – a substance that enhances the body’s immune response to a pathogen – to create the strong antibody response needed. Aluminum is able to create this strong antibody response because the body perceives it as an extremely toxic substance (because it is) which then attacks the virus/bacteria in the vaccine.

Aluminum is undoubtedly toxic to the human body. In fact, aluminum is the only material known to man to have absolutely no function for any living creature. According to Dr. Chris Exley, one of the world’s leading experts on aluminum, “there is no scientific evidence that any organism uses aluminum for any biological purpose” and “aluminum is both acutely and chronically toxic in humans.” 1

It is a well known fact that aluminum is a neurotoxin, 2 and any time nerve tissue is being damaged, impaired or destroyed, health problems are sure to follow. So, let’s discuss some of these aluminum induced health problems, shall we?

Aluminum and Macrophagic Myofaciitis (MMF): Source: 3 Abstract: 4

MMF is a muscle disease that is caused by aluminum in vaccines. Half of the patients with MMF had chronic breathing difficulties and cognitive alterations that affected their memory and attention. 77% of MMF patients reported suffering from disabling chronic fatigue that lasted longer than 6 months. 89% of patients had chronic diffuse myalgias (muscle pain throughout the body). 15%-20% of MMF patients developed an autoimmune disease, primarily: multiple sclerosis, Hashimoto’s thyroiditis, neuromuscular diseases and Gulf War Syndrome.

Aluminum in the central nervous system (CNS): toxicity in humans and animals, vaccine adjuvants, and autoimmunity 5

This article discusses how the aluminum in vaccines has been shown to cause chronic, debilitating and often even fatal diseases such as alzheimers, ALS, Gulf War Syndrome, autism, and autoimmune disorders. Here are several quotes from this article:

Alzheimer’s Disease

“The first case of Alzheimer’s disease was reported in Frankfurt, Germany, about 20 years following the initial widespread use of aluminum products.”

“A rare disease as late as the 1920s, Alzheimer is now one of the most prominent neurodegenerative disorders and a leading cause of dementia, impacting some 24.3 million people worldwide.”

“The data show that aluminum-injected motor neurons are undergoing programmed cell death (apoptosis).”

Autism (BBB stands for Blood Brain Barrier)

“autism incidence appears to have increased dramatically in the last few decades, and this increase is strongly correlated with an increase in the number of required pediatric vaccinations, most of which contain some form of aluminum.”

“Aluminum is known to damage the BBB and can increase its permeability”

“The data sets, graphed against each other, show a pronounced and statistically highly significant correlation between the number vaccines with aluminum and the changes in autism rates.”

Autoimmune Disorders

“aluminum in vaccines has been linked to serious neurological impairments, chronic fatigue and autoimmunity.”

“It is of interest to note that a typical vaccine formulation contains all the necessary components for the induction of an autoimmune disease.”

“aluminum adjuvant nanoparticles, taken up by monocytes after injection, first translocate to draining lymph nodes, then travel across the BBB and eventually accumulate in the brain where they can cause significant immune-inflammatory adverse reactions.”

Also discussed in this article is the fact that the amount of aluminum added to vaccines was never based on safety, but rather how much aluminum was required to create the antibody response necessary to induce “immunity”.

“The FDA sets an upper limit for aluminum in vaccines at no more than 850 lg (microgram)/dose; however, this amount was selected from data showing that aluminum in such amounts only enhanced the immunizing power of the vaccine. The FDA does not appear to have done any testing on the toxicological and safety issues of aluminum in vaccines.”

Oh yeah, and that argument I’ve heard a hundred times that we consume far more aluminum through the food we eat than we ever would in vaccines, so the aluminum in vaccines is OBVIOUSLY safe? Well, sorry, but that’s just not backed up by facts. “In the case of aluminum, only *0.25% of dietary aluminum is absorbed, while aluminum hydroxide (the most common form of aluminum used in vaccines) when injected may be absorbed by the body at nearly 100% efficiency over time.”

Aluminum-Induced Entropy in Biological Systems: Implications for Neurological Disease 6 (Aluminum is often referred to as Al)

The last article I would like to present discusses how aluminum in vaccines causes Central Nervous System (CNS) toxicity and neurological disease. Instead of breaking it down, I just want to share a few quotes from this article that I found both intriguing and highly concerning:

“Irrefutable research evidence shows that Al exposure is harmful. It is counterfactual for researchers to argue that Al is universally safe or beneficial even in trace amounts.”

“Al in all of the forms studied, produces harmful effects in living organisms: it especially harms the CNS.”

“repeated doses of Al hydroxide are “insidiously unsafe,” especially in closely spaced challenges presented to an infant or a person with damaged or immature blood brain or cerebrospinal fluid barriers.”

“cumulative Al from repeated doses in vaccines can produce the cognitive deficits associated with long-term encephalopathies and degenerative dementias in humans.”

“Al-induced injuries tend to be expressed as abnormalities in the CNS trending toward ultimate fatality.”

“Al hydroxide has been shown to linger at the injection site for many months, although it eventually is transported into brain by macrophages.”

Aluminum “is associated with anaphylaxis and sudden death.”

“Toxic effects of Al and its compounds thus tend to proliferate. Interactive results involving immune functions, for instance, make the impact worse than if only one system were involved. Of course, the dose-response of Al and its compounds must be considered, but even at low doses, especially with repeated exposures, Al can have cumulative deleterious effects that can be extreme and even fatal.”

Aluminum damages the body from the molecular to systemic level. Personally, it’s not something I want injected into my body or my children, especially when the scientific literature uses the words “death” and “fatality” to describe how this element interacts with our bodies.

Lastly – and this is important, so if you read nothing else about aluminum, please read this: the FDA allowable limit of aluminum is 5 micrograms (mcg) of aluminum per kilogram (kg) of body weight per day. Every newborn in America (unless the parents don’t allow it) is given a Hepatitis B vaccine within a few hours of birth. We have to do a little math, but let’s just say a newborn baby is 7 pounds. According to this Hep B vaccine insert, 7 the Hepatitis B vaccine contains .25 mg of aluminum hydroxide, which is 250 micrograms converted. A 7 pound baby is about 3.2 kilograms. So, if we times 3.2 by 5, we get 16. So 16 mcg of aluminum would be the allowable limit for this newborn baby. The Hep B vaccine contains 250 mcg of aluminum, which is 234 mcg, or 15.6 times more aluminum than the allowable limit for a 7 pound baby.

The amount of aluminum injected into babies only gets worse with consecutive and combination vaccines. Based on the CDC recommended schedule, a 2 month old infant would receive 6 doses of vaccines with a total of 975 micrograms of aluminum. The average weight of a 2 month old child is 11.8 pounds (5.4 kg). We do the math again and see that 27 mcg would be the allowable limit for a 2 month old child. So, at their 2 month appointment, they are being injected with 36 times the amount of aluminum considered “allowable”. Said differently, a person would have to weigh 425 pounds to “safely” handle this massive dose of aluminum.

The science is irrefutable: aluminum is toxic, even in small amounts, and accumulates in the body over time causing numerous types of long-lasting chronic illnesses. Is it possible that through vaccination we have traded short term, usually mild childhood illnesses for long-term, chronic, and often fatal ones? Is injecting aluminum for perceived safety from “vaccine preventable diseases” really worth the risk? Well, that’s a decision you’ll have to make for yourself. I would urge you though, please read the science. Please read through all the links I’ve provided in this article, and don’t stop there. Keep reading, keep researching. The information is out there, you only need to look for it.

1. https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007%2F978-1-4614-1533-6_105
2. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24779346
3. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3623725/#R36
4. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20882368
5. https://vaccinesafetycommission.org/pdfs/14-2013-Immunol-Res-Shaw.pdf
6. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4202242/
7. https://www.gsksource.com/pharma/content/dam/GlaxoSmithKline/US/en/Prescribing_Information/Engerix-B/pdf/ENGERIX-B.PDF