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energy.” This consumption of cellular be conquered. The mechanism is mild VACCINATION AND VIOLENCE
energy often occurs in a person whose hypoxia (lack of the biochemical use Published in 1990, Dr. Harris Coul-
cells are already struggling to meet of oxygen in creating cellular energy ) ter's book Vaccination, Social Violence
energy demands. I have seen hundreds affecting the limbic system and brain- and Criminality provides one of the
of patients for whom these commodi- stem. When this happens the limbic most powerful critiques ever written on
ties are the cause of their symptoms. system (which is an obvious computer the subject of vaccination damage. In it
Of course, it depends on the individual that automatically organizes our emo- he predicted a wave of violence in our
sensitivity. I saw a polysymptomatic tional and physical ability to adapt to schools.
woman who drank two cups of coffee a our environment) becomes much more The mechanism which he discussed
day. I asked her to stop. She said, "That reactive. Since this is the part of the in detail was a certain type of brain
is absurd, my husband drinks seven cups brain that produces our emotional re- damage known and acknowledged to
and he is fine." I said, "Well, you will flexes—monitored and advised by the be caused by vaccination: sub-acute
never know unless you try it," and she cortex and higher centers—a "nursed encephalo-meningitis. This condition
did. During the next forty-eight hours grievance" in a grade school boy can, I was known to cause inflammation of
an extremely severe headache kept her believe, explode in violence, perhaps the the base of the brain, which affects
in bed. The headache cleared and after secret of school shootings. Nobody has personality and behavior.
that her symptoms disappeared. I admit looked at this possibility. I consider it to This was no mere theoretical exer-
that this was unusual but since we never be an urgent necessity. An experiment cise. As one of America's most creative
know the individual biology, how many was done in healthy human subjects medical historians, Coulter did exten-
people suffer without anyone suggesting in 1942 by giving them an artificially sive research to reveal that encephalitis
the possibility? I have seen hundreds of produced thiamine deficiency diet. was an acknowledged medical reaction
patients with PMS and 90 percent were They all developed typical so-called to all (or nearly all) vaccinations and that
addicted to chocolate and coffee. With psychosomatic symptoms, including a very mild form left in its wake serious
withdrawal of the offending substances quarrelsome behavior, headaches and personality distortions and disorders. A
and the addition of a few vitamins, the abdominal pain. review of the "epidemics" of infectious
PMS invariably disappeared. The point is that we are still a encephalitis that swept America and
Sweet tasting junk is responsible for relatively primitive animal. All animal Europe in the 1920s reveals that those
producing the "walking sick" in millions brains are built on the same principle. who survived such a condition would
because the empty calories produce a We still have the primitive brain, some- suffer from various conditions that we
relative deficiency of vitamins, thia- times called the “reptilian system” and recognize today but were exceedingly
mine in particular. I have compared it our higher brain centers have evolved rare at that time. These conditions in-
to a choked car engine where gasoline to monitor and “advise” the cave man clude ADD, ADHD, autism, Asperger's
is burned inefficiently and proved the that lies within us all. We all know that syndrome, allergies, anorexia, bulimia,
issue by performing a blood test called alcohol will upset this physiological impulsive violence, stuttering, mental
“erythrocyte transketolase,” a superb balance and it is well known that thia- retardation, dyslexia, sudden infant
and highly accurate test for thiamine mine deficiency is an associated factor. death syndrome (crib death), processing
deficiency that is affecting millions. Sugar in all its different and widespread disorders, the inability to feel empathy
Doctors still do not take much forms also produces relative thiamine (seen in autism spectrum disorders but
notice of diet in their patients and they deficiency, thus inducing a mild degree also in criminal behavior), bed-wetting,
are missing the very obvious symptoms of oxidative inefficiency. Tourette's, seizures and many other
that have long been forgotten, those due Derrick Lonsdale, MD, FAAP, CNS conditions which, it must be repeated,
to classic vitamin deficiency disease Strongsville, Ohio seemed to come out of nowhere (or
that modern medicine has assumed to rarely occurred) in those times.
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