Shoot'em up?

I don’t believe in vaccines. I believe they are harmful and unnecessary. I believe that if a child is breastfed, eats healthy, exercises and is loved their natural immunity will take care of most things. The Creator designed our wonderful bodies to be able to heal and endure many things. Neither of my sons were vaccinated and they get sick MUCH less than the children around them who are and other than certain food allergies they don’t have any medical issues. If an adult chooses to get vaccinated that is one thing but because all the issues, risks, side effects and hype surrounding them I would never suggest any parent get them.

To me it’s just a matter or nature:
Breast milk is healthier than formula
Organic is healthier than genetically altered
Pure water is healthier than chemically filled water
Natural immunity is better that vaccine
Etc.
I have sited some sources but feel free to explore the subject on your own and please share you opinion.
http://www.tuberose.com/Vaccinations.html
http://www.southbaytotalhealth.com/Vaccinations.htm#IMMUNITY

Statistics have shown that when presented with a new and different, challenging idea, 96% of the people will spend their time and energy defending their current beliefs and only 4% will embrace the idea as something to seriously consider. When you research vaccination and the vaccine industry, you will find that your “foundation beliefs” regarding vaccines will be seriously challenged. When you begin to study the negative effects - both actual and theoretical - that vaccines have on the immune system, you will likely become a part of the 4% who understand that “truth” about vaccines is not really “The Truth” and that the mandatory vaccination policies currently being enforced must change. http://allnaturalhealth.us/june_russell_vaccinations.htm

Natural Immunity
The human species and our ancestors have existed on this planet for about a million years, possibly longer. For virtually all of that time we did not have anti-biotics, vaccinations, nor any of the other modern medical "advances" that are now deemed necessary to be healthy. During all this time of our history, if we did not have the basic ability to defend ourselves against simple infections, our species could not have survived. The serious epidemics and infectious illnesses which prompted the move to develop vaccinations were caused by poor sanitation and nutrition, in other words, by living in un-natural manners. It was a return to clean natural living and hygiene which were the most significant factors for the eradication of these illnesses and not the introduction of un-natural vaccines.

Natural Immune System Development.
To better understand how are immune systems protected us for all those millennia, lets take a closer look at the natural process of birth and development. When a mother is pregnant, the placental barrier keeps most things from leaving the blood supply of the mother and entering the separate, independent blood supply of the fetus. This includes most immunoglobulins, the immune "flags" produced by our white blood cells to identify pathogens to the rest of our immune system. When the infant is born many organs are not fully developed nor fully functioning. Growth from birth to puberty involves not only increasing the size of our organs, bones and tissues, but also some organs need to finish developing.

Whereas most muscles and bones are present at birth and only need to increase in size, our immune system, especially the Thymus gland, does not have the ability to fully function at birth. The thymus gland is responsible for "training" our white blood cells how to perform the crucial function of identifying our own cells (Self) from the cells of a harmful invader (Non-Self). It is certain types of our white blood cells which produce the immunoglobulins which are a vital part of our immune system. The thymus for most people is not fully developed until sometime around the age of somewhere between 3-7 years. Hence, giving vaccinations, which are intended to provoke an immune response from our white cells, prior to that time will be largely ineffective for many people.

In the natural immune process, infants obtain all there immunoglobulins via mother's milk. This is one of many reasons why breastfeeding is so important (There are many nutritional reasons as well all emotional bonding reasons to support breastfeeding rather than formula feeding of infants). The immunoglobulins obtained from the mother will persist in the infants blood for 6-12 months beyond the time of weaning. So, if the infant immune system won't be fully developed until age 3 at the earliest breastfeeding for at least 2 years is crucial for the normal, safe development of the child.

It is shortly after the immunoglobulins provided by the mother begin to wane, around age 3-5, that most "childhood diseases" begin. This period is typically finished by puberty, around the age of 13-14. Virtually all of the childhood diseases only reside in the human population - no other species suffers from the mumps, for example. In nature, this type of symbiotic relationship usually only persists if it is beneficial for both species. The period of childhood illnesses is therefore a vital part of the "education" of our body's immune system, so that when the child becomes an adult after puberty and enters the reproductive years, they will be able to defend themselves from illness and be able to care for their own children.

Another major factor affecting natural immunity is nutrition. If a child's (or adult's) diet is rich in all the Essential Nutrients (vitamins, minerals, trace elements, essential fatty acids, and essential amino acids), and low in immune suppressive foods such as sugar and bad fats, that individual is likely to have a strong immune system. Diets low in essential nutrients and high in immune suppressive foods (sugar, processed foods and junk food), that individual is likely to have a weak immune system.

Natural Infection Process.
When exposed to a possible pathogenic organism, most infection of childhood diseases takes place through the transmission of fine droplets which get on the child's skin. The classic example is a child with a disease in the contagious phase will sneeze on their own hands and then touch an object such as a table or chair. Another child will also touch that surface, get the moisture on their own hands, and possible wipe their own nose or eat some food without washing their hands.

This foreign pathogen then begins to stimulate the child's immune system at each of four levels in order: the skin, the internal mucous membranes in the respiratory tract or GI tract, the Lymph nodes and finally the blood. The bloodstream is considered to be the deepest and most serious level; once a disease makes it to the blood it is considered to have become "Systemic" - and can be transmitted throughout the body almost instantly. Furthermore, children are generally exposed to only one pathogenic organism at a time. Those pathogens that are strong enough to make it past the body's outer defenses and enter the bloodstream are weakened when they get there, and the body's immune defenses were fully activated at each level.

The vaccination process, however, bypasses all the body's outer defenses of the skin, mucous membranes and lymphatic system and injects pathogenic organisms directly into the bloodstream. To make matters worse, most modern vaccinations are multi-valent; that is, they consist of multiple pathogenic organisms, which arrive in the body's bloodstream, at full strength, with NONE of the levels of the immune system activated. These pathogens have the full run of the body until the immune system can respond, which can be days, weeks or even longer, since these vaccinations may have taken place at such an early age that the immune organs needed to mount the response are not fully developed! Furthermore, most of these vaccines contain various preservatives and other contaminants, such as the poison mercury, which can cause their own health problems.