The common wisdom is that those who don’t get the Swine Flu Shot put us all at risk for the disease. But what if those who have poor nutrition put us at risk even MORE? Well, it could very well be true. Those who have poor nutrition not only put themselves at risk for swine flu because of their decreased immunity, but their decreased immunity actually allows the flu virus to change into an even MORE deadly disease.

The research to back this started with a surprising finding in children with heart disease in the province of Keshan in China. It has been found that an ‘epidemic’ of heart failure in children was due to a deficiency of selenium in the soils of the area. Prompt supplementation of the inhabitants curbed this heart failure epidemic. But small numbers of people continued to get heart failure and researchers found that those who died from this Heart Failure From Selenium Deficiency- now called Keshan disease- actually had a viral infection that had attacked their heart.

When researchers studied those who died of natural causes, they were found to ALSO have the virus in their hearts but it did not affect them. Studies on mice exposed to the same virus found that selenium deficient mice exposed to the NON VIRULENT virus, died of heart failure too. The surprise came when it was found that the VIRUS actually CHANGED into a killer when selenium was deficient!

The Implications of this are Huge

This important finding has since been repeated with the Selenium and Influenza as well. And the findings were the same. A non-virulent flu virus, when exposed to a host with different varied nutritional deficiencies, will mutate and change into a more virulent virus. Not only that, but the NEW more virulent virus was able to sicken those who were previously IMMUNE to the old virus!

While the research that proved the genetic mutations was done on mice, there is no reason to believe that these findings don’t apply to humans. And we have several examples of this in nature. The first is the example of Keshan Disease that was mentioned earlier; another example was an ‘epidemic’ of a virus that caused optic and peripheral neuropathy. Neuropathy is a nervous system disorder that causes pain and decreased sensation in the affected areas. This virus was one of the Causes of Peripheral Neuropathy that affected over 50,000 people in Cuba between the years 1991 to 1993.

Interestingly, the CURE for both Keshan disease and this neuropathy in Cuba is NOT antiviral medications or vaccinations… but VITAMINS. Keshan disease is not only PREVENTED, but CURED by the administration of selenium. And the viral neuropathy in Cuba was, likewise, cured by MULTIVITAMIN SUPPLEMENTS- and it was prevented in the majority of the population of Cuba simply be handing out High Quality Multivitamin Supplements to the population!

This information should be trumpeted around the world. Poor nutrition allows viruses to mutate and change and puts us all at risk of diseases and epidemics. But this information has quietly been ignored in favor of ‘herd immunity’ through an attempt at vaccination of the total population. Those who refuse vaccinations are vilified as a threat to the rest of us. But these findings suggest that the REAL threat comes from those who have poor nutrition and allow these illnesses to mutate and change in their bodies, bringing a worse form of the disease to the rest of the population. While the nutritional deficiencies affect the immune system, a weakened immune system ALSO makes pathogens more virulent- allowing them to spread back to a population who was previously immune to them. There is no way that ‘Herd Immunity’ from any Swine Flu Shot program will be able to keep up with that, as much as the pharmaceutical companies may try.

Kerri Knox, RN- The Immune Health Queen
Functional Medicine Practitioner
Easy Immune Health.com

There is a story going around about the 1919 Influenza Pandemic and how to ward off the Swine Flu. But it can’t POSSIBLY be true, so don’t be fooled! Here’s the 1919 Mythological Influenza Story.

“In 1919 when the flu killed 40 million people there was this Doctor that visited the many farmers to see if he could help them combat the flu. Many of the farmers and their families had contracted it and many died.
The doctor came upon this one farmer and to his surprise, everyone was very healthy. When the doctor asked what the farmer was doing that was different the wife replied that she had placed an unpeeled onion in a dish in the rooms of the home, (probably only two rooms back then). The doctor couldn’t believe it and asked if he could have one of the onions and place it under the microscope. She gave him one and when he did this, he did find the flu virus in the onion. It obviously absorbed the virus, therefore, keeping the family healthy.
Now, I heard this story from my hairdresser in AZ.. She said that several years ago many of her employees were coming down with the flu and so were many of her customers. The next year she placed several bowls with onions around in her shop. To her surprise, none of her staff got sick. It must work.. (And no, she is not in the onion business.)
The moral of the story is, buy some onions and place them in bowls around your home. If you work at a desk, place one or two in your office or under your desk or even on top somewhere. Try it and see what happens. We did it last year and we never got the flu.“
 
While this is a nice little story about the 1919 flu, it is JUST that, a story. It cannot possibly be true because you can’t see the flu virus with a microscope! Even the best oil immersion compound microscopes today can only see a particle about 1/2 micron in size, and the flu virus is approximately one micron- that would have been a HUGE feat for emerging technology at that time. And the electron microscope, which CAN see the flu virus was only invented in 1933!


In fact, in the book The Great Influenza: The story of the deadliest pandemic in history one of the top researchers of the flu virus at that time had become an epidemiologist because he had a microscope and most of the other medical students did not- and if you wanted to USE a microscope in medical school, you had to have your own!
Also in the book, much of the stories of the several scientists working on creating a flu vaccine centered around their frenzied attempts to identify the causative agent behind the pandemic. The researchers just KNEW that it was caused by some sort of microorganism, but using all of the resources of the top universities and laboratories of the time, they could not identify it. At one point, they were able to filter out a liquid that made ferrets sick with a flu-like illness when they injected it into them. And bingo, they had the beginnings of the first flu vaccine.
But at that time, no one had SEEN the flu virus. Only until later during the epidemic did someone come up with an advanced staining technique that allowed the virus to be seen, but this was still a complicated hit-and-miss technique that a rural doctor with a hand-held microscope and an onion could not have POSSIBLY been able to accomplish.
 
So, maybe an onion in the house DOES work to ward off the swine flu, I don’t know, but I DO know that the farmer and the onion story of the Influenza Epidemic of 1919 is officially a myth.
 
Want some better ways to ward off the flu? Take a look at why these strategies could be beneficial:
Garlic for the Flu
Selenium and Influenza
Vitamin D for the Flu
 


Kerri Knox, RN- The Immune Health Queen
Functional Medicine Practitioner
Easy Immune Health.com
 
 


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