Quest for Real Immunity
Cilla Whatcott
Available on Vimeo
When discussing or dealing with health issues, one of the most common reactions is fear. We declared war on cancer in the early 1970s, but clearly, we haven’t beaten it, and we still fear it. We also fear more benign diseases that used to be shrugged off as a normal part of growing up. Many believe we must have vaccines for childhood diseases like chickenpox, measles and mumps. There are new diseases that didn’t exist fifty years ago, and they bring more fear.
As a people, we are under the thumb of the health care industry more intensively than ever before. Television, magazines and the Internet bombard us with health advice. Spending on health care is skyrocketing. Government is bankrupting the country trying to provide health care to everyone. We are cranking out new vaccines at an increasingly frantic pace. Yet even after all of the health care “advances” of the last hundred years, we face just as many or more health challenges, and we are not healthy. Why not?
“The science is settled” is the common mantra of a closed mind. We are assured in all these different ways that scientific (allopathic) medicine has the answer—or will soon. But does health or immunity come from a needle, knife or pill? The evidence overwhelmingly suggests that the answer is “no,” and people are starting to notice.
In Quest for Real Immunity, a number of thoughtful experts—including Cilla Whatcott, Andrew Wakefield, Dr. Tom Cowan and Jeanne Ohm—explain that the popular (allopathic) paradigm has failed miserably. There are better ideas. We are not made up of just a wide variety of human cells but also of microbes, viruses, fungi and parasites that are necessary for health. Attacking, cutting, poisoning or killing any part of the overall organism is reckless at best and often deadly.
This film explains—in one simple sentence—why there is so much fear. Where there is no understanding, there is fear. People fear germs because they do not understand them. People fear cancer because even most experts don’t understand it or know how to deal with it. People fear chickenpox because they do not understand the relationship between childhood illness and adult immunity. Interestingly, when I was young in the 1960s, we did not fear chickenpox, measles or mumps. Maybe we understood them better? Maybe we are getting dumber? My thumb is UP. Don’t be afraid.
This article appeared in Wise Traditions in Food, Farming and the Healing Arts, the quarterly journal of the Weston A. Price Foundation, Winter 2018
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Barbara Schibly MD says
People don’t fear germs because “they don’t understand them”. We fear germs because we DO understand them. Infectious diseases have been the main killer of mankind throughout human history. Even in wartime, infectious diseases kill more soldiers than wounds obtained on the battle field. They are our “predators”
Karen says
Spoken like a doctor trained by conventional medical schools and big pharma. Actually, I had pneumonia and my Chinese doctor treated it with herbs and it was gone in less time than the antibiotic would have taken. When I was young and on birth control pills I asked my doctor if I could be having a reaction because I thought the pill was making me high-strung – he offered a renewable prescription for Valium (which I trashed) and stopped the pill and I returned to normal. Much later I was told that the Ortho-Novum 360 that I was prescribed was way too high a dose, and the big pharma was now producing it with about a 5th of the amount of active ingredient. Fortunately, we have herbs and foods that are active against antibiotic resistant strains of bacteria. Now, if we can beg big pharma under control and at the same time get the big Farma under control so they will quit eroding the quality of our soil and foods, we might be healthy. I’m not an advocate for throwing the baby out with the bath water – meaning, use whatever method is necessary to treat a solider who has just been partially-blown up (and don’t even get me start on that topic), but as a routine medicine … I’m trusting Nature!!!
andrea says
What you should fear is your lack of immune system that is unable to handle the germs. it’s not the germs that are the problem, it’s the modern society- vaccine, pesticide, herbicides, glyphosates, pollutions, factory-farming, over use of antibiotics, the lack of gut microbiome diversity, etc. – these things are the problem. They destroy your immune system, which has worked as a protector from “germs” and the like for tens of thousands of years (perhaps longer).
Suzanne Stapler says
If vaccine records are eventually attached to our driver’s licenses, passports, etc. would Homeoprophylaxis be allowed to take the place of vaccines? Probably not because most people don’t even know what it is (let alone any medical employees like doctors, Big Vax, etc). I just had to ask.
Chef-doctor Jemichel says
Thank you Tim!
The central premise that you present here regarding the film is truly worthy of our consideration. Immunity is most certainly worthy of our attention and with a very bold underscore regarding “Real”. It appears that general public has been overwhelmed by the continual propaganda generated by big pharma and to an amazingly successful degree based on the unfathomable amounts of profits that soul-less industry has generated. Consequently the people who have been “overwhelmed” do not understand what real immunity is and probably don’t possess it as well. Fear is most definitely the card be played here. I am confident that knowing the truth regarding all the factors involved in the grand matrix of our immune systems will free us from the quintessential fear of the microbial world and help us to accept the fact that our life depends on a right relationship with this world!
Chef-doctor Jemichel says
P.S. What nurses and other people (especially the patients) “understand” about “germs” comes from their fear-based indoctrination and beliefs that doctors and the rest of the whole entire pharmaceutically-supported medical industry insists is true.
One really excellent example is the anti-raw milk position. There is practically no real understanding offered from the medical community in this instance. If understanding were to be genuinely offered it would have to start with the whole truth regarding the two major types of raw milk: one that is intended for the pasteurizer and the other that is intended for people. These two milks are qualitatively different one from the other. The raw milk that is intended for people has it’s own immune system and retains that as long as the milk is not pasteurized. Ideally the milk should come from animals feeding their natural diet, i.e. cows on green pastures. The other milk intended for the pasteurizer has to be pasteurized because the animals are essentially sick and consequently require antibiotics from feeding on an unnatural diet that overburdens their digestive system where it breeds the wrong kind of bacteria.
Doctors certainly don’t teach this. They are prohibited from knowing and therefor can’t tell the truth that drinking raw grass-fed milk restores people’s immune system. If they knew and told the truth of this then the individual would know and understand more than the vested medical interests want people to know. People are deliberately kept in the dark and consequently people do not really understand germs. They only believe they understand germs because their doctor (and everyone else) told them (on one hand) to essentially to fear the “germs” (and on the other hand) to completely trust the doctor and whatever “medicine” he/she prescribes.
Suzanne says
I agree with you, Chef-doctor Jemichel. The worst thing about most MDs (except the smart ones who went further on in school to learn nutrition) is that they don’t know nutrition science. RDs aren’t much better as most of them are paid for by BigFood.