I finished Dr. Cowan’s book last night, and am in awe. He’s what a real doctor should be. If you want to know why you have bad joints and how to how to heal them, or any other autoimmune illness, this book will tell you. I have read a lot of books on vaccines and knew how damaging the mercury, aluminum and chemicals can be, but he explains how vaccines also cause immune system problems now or later in life. The very nature of vaccines causes imbalance in the immune system and allergies, asthma, and autoimmune illnesses we see so much now. Dr. Cowan describes our use of DDT and of sugar laced with arsenic to poison our children and bring on polio in the 40s and 50s, but we are now poisoning them with toxic vaccines. Yes, this is a human rights issue. We need more books like this to provide the information that our general media insists on blocking. This book is not only factual and educational, but his personal information makes it especially interesting to read.

I wanted this because my friend is so against vaccines.. I don't think that all these things should be given at once to a newborn baby... I personally will be waiting. This book is good its not what I thought but its okay.

I feel VERY ambivalent about this book. I have a son with asthma and he has the flu vaccine every year because there is nothing scarier than a kid who cannot breathe. Cowan's premise is that we have two immune systems, a cell mediated system and a humoral system. When a virus strikes the cells are the first responders and once the body has almost recovered the humoral system makes antibodies to the virus. According to Cowan vaccines only target the humeral system. They do this by overstimulating the immune response which also happens in autoimmune disease. Cowan's argument is the incredible rise in autoimmune disease is due to vaccines.
The chapter on chicken pox in children was interested. Chicken pox may be protective against heart disease and brain cancer. Children’s chicken pox also provides adults with exogenous boosting to protect them from shingles. When I got to the chapter on autism I thought - isn’t this horse dead already? I was interested in his treatment of immune compromised patients through diet and low dose LDN.
At this point we don’t have an alternative to vaccines it seems pretty irresponsible to choose not to vaccinate out of fear of autoimmune dysfunction when death could be the alternative.

Interesting read about vaccines, I am pro vaccine but definitely feel like they should be spaced out.

This is a very real topic for parents these days. We recently finished a march on the capital to give parents the right to choose whether or not to vaccinate.

A topic that sparks much debate among the medical community and among parents. And both sides present strong opinions and a lot of misinformation.

With this book Dr. Cowan delves into the whys and hows of immunity, culture and spirituality. He explores why the government vigorously pushes vaccines and who it helps.

I'm sure this debate will rage on for a long time but the most important thing we can do is educate ourselves on what we are doing to our children and what are the long term effects of those decisions on our own children and the children around us.

A very interesting and well researched source of information.