Ed Gaffert shares how his wife, because of the benefits she was receiving from training at the Martial Arts Center for Health in Altamonte Springs, persuaded him to try it as well. Ed suffered with Diabetes, neuropathy and arthritis, but because of the specific movements he is learning, now feels better than he did ten years ago.

The Canadian government has approved the unadjuvanted monovalent H1N1 vaccine, but not for toddlers and pregnant women, as we had been told they would. Instead, the 1.8 million shots of squalene-free vaccine will be given only to healthy adults and children age 10-65. Many parents who had been holding out for the unadjuvanted version seem to be under the mistaken impression that this is what is now being offered to their children. I wonder who will actually be receiving the ‘special batch’? Will it be available on a first-come-first-serve basis, or only to a privileged group, as is the case in Germany? This is yet to be seen. The combination of squalene and Polysorbate 80 (surfactant) has been shown in animals to open the blood-brain barrier, giving neurotoxins such as mercury direct access to the central nervous system. While we are often reminded of how small the quantity of mercury in the vaccine is, I have never heard it mentioned that it will be given free access to our children’s brains, thanks to the adjuvant. Monovalent vaccine package insert: not recommended for children under 3: www.gsk.ca Cochrane Review: Effectiveness of inactivated vaccine was similar to placebo in children 6 months to 2 years: www.cochrane.org Study describing how adjuvant can open blood-brain barrier: “Some studies of EAE (experimental allergic encephalomyelitis) in rodents report that peripheral injections of complete Freund’s adjuvant (CFA), which contains heat-inactivated Mycobacterium …

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