A strong immune system starts at birth, and even before. I preach a very simple principle which is this:  the further you get from living a natural lifestyle, the more out of balance you become and the more likely you are to develop health problems. Nature has figured out many things about how to live. It has figured out how to create sex drive so that a child is conceived. It gives a woman intuitive wisdom about how to give birth. And It has created the most perfect food for the infant—human milk. This milk contains not only the nutrients needed for the baby’s development but also the immune factors needed to protect from disease.

Why has medicine gone and tampered with every aspect of what should be a natural process. Child birth is not an illness! The death rates from home births are lower than from hospital births. People in out culture have lost touch with their instincts and most women would rather not experience the pain of childbirth. Medicine comes in and says, ‘we will make sure you feel no pain’. Unfortunately, studies have shows that the pain killers that women take for labor pains make the child ‘drunk’ and interrupt the bonding between mother and child that happens when childbirth is experienced without the numbing effects of drugs.

And then milk formulas came along so that mothers can avoid the inconvenience of nursing. All of this compromises the child’s immunity as well as their emotional development. The emotional effects of a long bonding process with mom through nursing may have an even larger immune benefit than the nutritional aspect of drinking nature’s formula. And thus begins the departure from Nature and living by natural principles.

As has become well known by now is the often horrendous consequences of vaccination. These are destroying children’s immune systems with the mercury and additives in these cocktails. Vaccination makes no sense and is not backed with solid science. Why take a vaccination for polio and small pox which no longer exist? Why take a shot for chicken pox which is a harmless four day childhood illness that you get only once? Why get a tetanus shot after stepping on a rusty nail? The nail has a 1 in 1000 chance of having tetanus. What makes anyone think that the sensible treatment for this is to give you a shot which has a 100% chance of having tetanus after the fact? Why give a newborn a Hepatitis B vaccine when Hep B is a disease of intravenous drug users? How hard can an infant party? Why get an MMR vaccine when the autism rate has skyrocketed since the MMR came out?

In my office I check nursing mothers, through muscle testing (kinesiology), for the foods to which their baby is allergic. By the mother avoiding these foods the baby will continue nursing usually for a long time.  Call for a complementary evaluation in my Santa Barbara holistic chiropractic office located in one of Santa Barbara’s most beautiful.

In the next blog I’ll discuss maintaining a strong immune system through childhood.