Vaccines, Autoimmunity, and the Changing Nature of Childhood Illness

Vaccines, Autoimmunity, and the Changing Nature of Childhood Illness

Vaccines, Autoimmunity, and the Changing Nature of Childhood Illness

Vaccines, Autoimmunity, and the Changing Nature of Childhood Illness

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Overview

One doctor’s surprising answer to the epidemic of chronic disease and essential reading for everyone concerned with the health of the next generation

"Dr. Cowan intelligently educates us on the complicated and beautiful workings of our immune system [and] charts the clear, concise path to healing, offering a better, healthier life for us, our children, and the planet."—Lindy Woodard, MD, Pediatric Alternatives

Over the past fifty years, rates of autoimmunity and chronic disease have exploded. Currently:

  • 1 in 2.5 American children has an allergy
  • 1 in 11 has asthma
  • 1 in 13 has severe food allergies
  • 1 in 36 has autism.

While some attribute this rise to increased awareness and diagnosis, Thomas Cowan, MD, argues for a direct causal relationship to a corresponding increase in the number of vaccines American children typically receive—approximately 70 vaccine doses by age eighteen. The goal of these vaccines is precisely what we’re now seeing in such abundance among our chronically ill children: the provocation of immune response.

Dr. Cowan looks at emerging evidence that certain childhood illnesses are actually protective of disease later in life; examines the role of fever, the gut, and cellular fluid in immune health; argues that vaccination is an ineffective (and harmful) attempt to shortcut a complex immune response; and asserts that the medical establishment has engaged in an authoritarian argument that robs parents of informed consent. His ultimate question, from the point of view of a doctor who has decades of experience treating countless children is: What are we really doing to children when we vaccinate them?


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781603587778
Publisher: Chelsea Green Publishing
Publication date: 08/14/2018
Pages: 192
Sales rank: 300,606
Product dimensions: 5.60(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Thomas Cowan, MD, has studied and written about many subjects in medicine, including nutrition, homeopathy, anthroposophical medicine, and herbal medicine. He is the author of Cancer and the New Biology of Water; Vaccines, Autoimmunity, and the Changing Nature of Childhood Illness; and Human Heart, Cosmic Heart; principal author of The Fourfold Path to Healing; and coauthor (with Sally Fallon) of The Nourishing Traditions Book of Baby and Child Care. Dr. Cowan has served as vice president of the Physicians’ Association for Anthroposophic Medicine and is a founding board member of the Weston A. Price Foundation. He also writes the “Ask the Doctor” column in Wise Traditions in Food, Farming, and the Healing Arts (the Weston A. Price Foundation’s quarterly magazine), has lectured throughout the United States and Canada, and is the cofounder of two family businesses, Dr. Cowan’s Garden (drcowansgarden.com) and Human Heart, Cosmic Heart (humanheartcosmicheart.com). He has three grown children and currently resides in San Francisco with his wife, Lynda Smith.


Sally Fallon Morell is the founding president of the Weston A. Price Foundation and author or coauthor of many acclaimed books, including Nourishing TraditionsThe Nourishing Traditions Book of Baby & Child Care, and Nourishing Broth.

Table of Contents

Foreword ix

Introduction 1

Part I The Origins of Autoimmunity

1 The Changing Nature of Childhood Illness 11

2 Fever and the Nature of Acute Disease 17

3 Our Immune System(s) 23

4 Autoimmunity and the Gut 30

5 What Is Autoimmunity? 39

6 Rethinking Cell Biology 48

7 Spatial Orientation, Autism, and Autoimmunity 60

Part II Vaccine Fallacies: Three Case Studies

8 The Chicken Pox Vaccine: A Case of (Un)intended Consequences 75

9 The Polio Vaccine: A Case of False Cause 83

10 The Measles Vaccine: A Case of Oversimplification 96

Part III Treatment and Recovery

11 Basic Autoimmune Treatment Protocol for Children and Adults 107

12 The Cowan Autoimmune Diet 125

Conclusion 136

Appendix A Don't the Scientific Studies Prove That There Is No Causal Connection between Autism and Vaccines? 141

Appendix B Components of Common Vaccines 146

Recommended Resources 155

Notes 158

Index 168

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