Childhood Vaccinations – Necessary or Overkill?

Hmmm. Vaccinations....Anecdote time:
My mother died of polio in 1952 - two years before Salk's vaccine came out. My grandmother (other side of the family) died of typhoid in 1923 - before an effective vaccine. Both were in their thirties. Those didn't have to happen.I'm in North Carolina on vacation this week. The state has some outbreaks of whooping cough among schoolkids - one of the schools about half a mile from my son's house. My bet is that unimmunized kids are the ones suffering - the outbreak further east is at a Mennonite school, and I'll bet they are more antivaccine that the public at large.I had measles at age 12 or so - before vaccine - and I remember it 45 years later as the sickest, most miserable two weeks of my life.I vaccinated my kids.

Aspirin is the synthetic alternative to salicylic acid - willow bark extract, if you wish. The latter is the one with all the side effects, like bleeding stomachs. That's why Herr Doktor Bayer spent so much time on aspirin.Why do you think that a new prescription drug - any new prescription drug - takes years of investigation by the maker to discover side effects? How much of that testing does a "nutritional supplement" have to undergo? If you don't even look for it, the odds are good you might not find it!

Begging you pardon here, PD, but "synthetic ethanol" is very likely much purer than the moonshiner's version. Any fermentation-derived alcohol will, of necessity, have traces of stuff like acetaldehyde in it. A lot of stuff like that is standard yeast-poop byproducts. Distillation will get the majority of these contaminants out - but ethanol from natural gas won't even contain them in the first place! And for that matter, natural gas is more "natural" than the corn they grow in Iowa to make "natural" ethanol from - it's not the result of 8000 years of genetic manipulation and selection by humans.AbE: Ephedra stems? Who sang "I'm down to seeds and stems again, too?"Edited by Coragyps, : No reason given.

The juice of the opium poppy seed capsule - its fruit - isn't real safe in any significant quantity. Same with Jimsonweed, mistletoe, jasmine, nightshade, yew, elderberry.....Just because it's a "natural" product doesn't mean it's good for you.

Like, say, grapefruit juice interacting with a pretty wide range of prescription drugs: Ask IFAS: Page Not FoundThat tells me that "all-natural, organic" grapefruit juice will also interact with quite a few other "all-natural organic" herbs and such. Some of those interactions will be unfavorable. And the folks peddling all that stuff haven't studied those possible interactions at all.

And what other benefits do you get from Black Cohosh? None, apparently: Popular herbal treatment ineffective at easing menopauseAnd the study was funded by the National Institute on Aging and the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine - people who, if they had a bias, might be expected to lean toward the "alternative" side.