In regard to my series of articles critical of flu vaccination posted at an online blogger writes: “Bill Sardi doesn’t know what it is like to have a family member die of the flu.” That is precisely my point here. The public assumes the vaccines prevent death. Vaccines may reduce symptoms and prevent infection, if the vaccinee is able to generate sufficient antibodies, and if the vaccine contains a strain of the virus currently in circulation (not so in this year’s seasonal flu vaccine), and if the dosage is correct (many need two inoculations to develop immunity), and if there is no treatment resistance, and if, and only if, nutritional status is adequate to avert a fatal outcome.
There is only contrived evidence vaccines prevent death. There is incontrovertible evidence that a shortage of vitamin C, emanating from poor diet, smoking, overuse of alcohol, aspirin, or vitamin-depleting drugs (the very drugs they treat flu patients with – steroids, antibiotics, etc.), is likely the primary cause of flu-related mortality.
If overuse of aspirin during the 1918 Spanish flu was the primary cause of flu-related death as Dr. Karen Starko contends, then modern medicine has missed a large lesson on how to prevent flu-related death – that it was aspirin-induced scurvy that heightened mortality during this worldwide flu pandemic, maybe not the flu itself. If this hypothesis is true, then preventable mortality continues today. Many hundreds of thousands have needlessly succumbed to a vitamin C deficiency induced by self-treatment with aspirin and/or modern medicine’s continued failing to practice nutritional medicine. It is not like vitamin pills could have averted the vitamin C-related deaths then.
PABA Not a B vitamin itself, but a co-factor. Deficiency results in Skin conditions, such as Vitiligo (loss of skin pigmentation), Eczema or irritability and Depression. PABA appears to be involved in the metabolism of Amino Acids and red blood cells and is part of the structure of folic acid. May have protective use against UV radiation, but only when applied to skin in sun lotions. Best sources: Liver, eggs, Wheatgerm and molasses.
In the case of vitamin E, large doses of the fractionated form (alpha-tocopherol) pull vitamins and minerals from the bones. Supplementation of the synthetic, alpha-tocopherol form of vitamin E showed harmful effects, including 18 percent higher incidence of lung cancer, more strokes, more heart attacks and an 8 percent increase in the overall death rate.9 Research also verifies that using just a fraction of vitamin A actually increases the risk of cancer. On the other hand, the whole food vitamin A, and foods containing vitamin A, has the opposite effect.
