From http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2008/2/26/how-vaccines-can-damage-your-brain.aspx
How Vaccines Can Damage Your Brain
Russell L. Blaylock, M.D., CCN
Mercola.com
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
It has been estimated that 14.8 million Americans suffer from major depressive disorder and of this number 6 million are elderly. If we include anxiety disorders, which commonly accompany depression, the number jumps to 40 million adults.
Depression later in life tends to last longer and be more severe than at younger ages. It is also associated with a high rate of suicide. Previously, it was thought that major depression was secondary to a deficiency in certain neurotransmitters in the brain, particularly the monoamines, which include serotonin, norepinephrine and dopamine.
While alterations in these important mood-related neurotransmitters is found with major depression, growing evidence indicates that the primary culprit is low-grade, chronic brain inflammation.
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This exclusive article will review in detail the functions and impact of various agents on depression and neurodegeneration, including:
- The impact of MSG on your brain and mood
- The link between elevated brain glutamate and inflammation
- The connections between pesticides and neurological disorders such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease
- How vaccinations cause brain inflammation
- The impact of an expanding vaccine schedule for the elderly
- The shocking truth, linking brain inflammation to neurodegenerative diseases
- How vaccine additives such as mercury and aluminum impact your brain health
- The real danger of live virus vaccines
We have also seen that in many cases a person will be injected with several vaccines during a single office visit and this means that their body is exposed to a very large dose of immune adjuvant. Compelling studies, using many animal species as well as humans, have shown that this overactivates brain inflammatory mechanisms that can last for years.
I urge you to read Dr. Blaylock’s full-length article, Vaccines, Depression and Neurodegeneration After Age 50: Another Reason to Avoid the Recommended Vaccines, a Mercola.com exclusive, for a fascinating in-depth look at how neurodegenerative diseases are created, and how to protect yourself from what many consider to be simply side effects of the ravages of time -- but are anything but a natural byproduct of aging.
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Anti-depressants taken by thousands of Brits 'do NOT work', major new study reveals
FIONA MCRAE
UK Daily Mail
Tuesday, February 26, 2008
Anti-depressant tablets taken by millions of Britons may be a waste of time and money, research shows.
An analysis of dozens of studies involving thousands of patients revealed that some of the most widely-prescribed anti-depressants work little better than dummy pills.
The drugs studied - including Prozac, Seroxat and Efexor - were little more effective than placebos in improving the mental health in the majority of cases, the University of Hull research showed.
Only in the most extreme depression did the tablets, which are taken by around two million Britons and have been linked to a host of sideeffects including suicide, prove substantially superior in improving mental health.
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Dr Tim Kendall, of the Royal College of Psychiatrists, described the results as "fantastically important".
He added that one of the study's strengths lay in the inclusion of data which drug companies had chosen not to publicise - perhaps because it was less favourable than they would like.
The study, published in the respected journal PLoS Medicine, suggests hundreds of thousands of Britons are needlessly taking powerful - and potentially dangerous - drugs.
As well as suicide and suicidal thoughts, side-effects associated with the drugs studied and other SSRI (Selective Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor) anti-depressants range from self harm to anxiety, insomnia, nausea, headaches and vomiting.
Seroxat alone has been linked to at least 50 suicides - both adult and child - in the UK since 1990.
The research comes as prescriptionsfor anti-depressants are at record levels, with 31million written in 2006 at a cost to the NHS of almost £300million.
Around half of these were for Prozac, Seroxat, Efexor and other SSRIs.
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