Vaccines did not stop childhood diseases; plumbers and healthy nutrition did | Dr. Lee Merritt

One of dr. Merritt's pediatric professors said during her first year of medical school in 1976, "Vaccines didn't stop childhood diseases; plumbers [and diet] did." Adequate sanitation and nutrition are crucial for health and to protect against disease.

People with malaria tend to have deficiencies in B-vitamins. If they supplement with adequate doses of the vitamins, the malaria tends to go away.

In the statistics of kids dying of so-called measles, they include malnourished African kids. If these kids have adequate vitamin A and D, they don't tend to die from measles.

NB: Apart from the discussion on whether certain diseases in third world countries are infectious, the main conclusion by myself and others is further reinforced: If we truly want to help these people, we should do so by helping them get a healthy diet and environment, NOT through vaccines. Even if the diseases are infectious and even if vaccines are safe and effective, vaccines do not have anywhere near the highest possible health benefit per dollar invested as adequate sanitation and diet.

All the pox diseases (smallpox, chickenpox, monkeypox, etc.) are the body's endeavor to get rid of toxins. The people at increased risk of these diseases tend to have a potassium deficiency.

The smallpox outbreaks in the 18th century coincided with famines. Dr. Edward Jenner, who developed the smallpox vaccine, concluded that milk maids did not get smallpox due to their exposure to cowpox.

However, a much simpler and more likely explanation is that the milk maids were not as undernourished, because they drank the cow's milk. Their better nutrition status protected them from disease, not their exposure to cowpox viruses.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Jenner

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