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you have done. Are you the first to have made this connection?
FM: I don’t know. As far as I know, I’m the first person who has connected immobilization and restraint as reasons why vaccination seems to be so frequently associated with neurological dam- age. As mentioned, many people have talked about eye and mouth problems from vaccines. I don’t know if other people made the connection that vaccinations affect all the cranial nerves, but the restraint and immobilization ideas came from studying Stephen Porges, who is the cre- ator of Polyvagal Theory.3 He offers an expla- nation of the human body’s response to stress.
Interestingly, the female response to stress is remarkably different than the male response. As a scientist put it, besides pregnancy and childbirth, the single characteristic that most distinguishes between female versus male is the female response to stress. I believe the reason why autism is so disproportionately associated with males over females is because the female response to stress is markedly different than the male response. Females do not create the aggres- sive signaling for white blood cells to the dorsal vagal complex while under stress. I explain it more thoroughly in my book. That’s my think- ing as to why females seem to have less frequent neurological damage from vaccinations.
HG: That is fascinating. You also say in your book and videos that it isn’t just autism. Auto- immune disorders and some other neurological conditions may also be rooted in this aluminum invading other parts of the body. Is that right?
FM: Unfortunately, I believe the answer is yes. I would love for this not to be true. I can’t emphasize this enough: I have nothing to gain from this being true aside from perhaps the ability to solve this problem and find a better way to promote health among our population. From the amount of research my wife and I have done, we’re fairly certain that aluminum is capable of creating what are called “intracellular bacterial infections.” An intracellular infection is one where the bacteria are stripped of their cell wall, and they actually begin to replicate inside the white blood cells. My understand-
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ing of this came about through our research trying to understand what causes Crohn’s disease. Bacteria have a cell wall, and certain things, like antibiotics, can strip the cell wall. That is how a lot of antibiotics actually kill bacteria. They strip the cell wall of the bacteria, and this prevents them from replicating. However, some bacteria actually thrive under these conditions and proliferate.
Let’s say you have a kid with an infection, and you give them penicillin- family antibiotics. It actually turns the bacterial infection into an intracel- lular infection. Your body ends up having a really difficult time getting on top of this infection. I believe that PANDAS (Pediatric Autoimmune Neuropsychiatric Disorders Associated with Streptococcal Infections) should be associated with penicillin or any penicillin-family antibiotic, as that is the source of the problem. The strep by itself does not cause PANDAS. The administration of the antibiotic turns the infection into an intracellular infection, and your body has a very difficult time getting on top of it. You can see it with Crohn’s disease, by the location where Crohn’s disease starts. It is the location where aluminum tends to ac- cumulate in the intestines.
HG: Going back to what you said about antibiotics brings to mind some- thing that Dr. Natasha Campbell-McBride said recently. She said that we give antibiotics for every cough, sniffle and sneeze. Are we cultivating some of these issues in children or ourselves because of the overuse of antibiotics? What do you recommend? Should they not take antibiotics?
FM: I would definitely not suggest that. Although I’m about as anti- vaccine as you’ll meet, I’m not as “anti-antibiotics” as some people are. I think there is a time and a place for them, but, like anything, there is also a cost. Everyone knows of someone who took an antibiotic, and it completely wrecked their gut for weeks. People have been near death from them. We know that antibiotics can cause problems. But we’re starting to learn which antibiotics don’t work well with certain bacteria. Unfortunately, this is a field of study that most doctors or nurses have no clue about. If you have a strep infection, they wouldn’t think twice about giving you amoxicillin or some other penicillin-family antibiotic, even though anyone who spends more than five minutes reading about this would tell you not to administer a penicillin-family antibiotic for strep. This is a known problem. It will cause it to go intracellular and run rampant. You have a kid who starts with strep and a sore throat. They’ll get a course of penicillin, and then they’ll have rectal strep. It will work its way through their entire gastrointestinal tract. You have to look into this and learn which antibiotics are safe for which bacteria. Unfortu- nately, it is an understudied part of immunology because it is difficult to study intracellular bacteria. They don’t stain well. They don’t show up on microscopes as easily as we would like. But people recognized intracellular bacteria a hundred years ago. No one has taken the time to study it thoroughly. There are a couple of people like my wife and me, and other people like Royal Rife and Edward Rose. There are scientists from seventy years ago who knew about it even though they didn’t understand it. It needs to be studied.
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