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With anti-vaxers taking over the major health agencies, infectious diseases in children are going to explode.



Food (supply chain) and supplement safety will tank too.


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Two minutes of research would have saved you the embarrassment of making that comment.

> Formaldehyde is essential in human metabolism and is required for the synthesis of DNA and amino acids (the building blocks of protein). Therefore, all humans have detectable quantities of natural formaldehyde in their circulation (about 2.5 ug of formaldehyde per ml of blood). Assuming an average weight of a 2-month-old of 5 kg and an average blood volume of 85 ml per kg, the total quantity of formaldehyde found in an infant's circulation would be about 1.1 mg, a value about 1,500 times more than the amount an infant would be exposed to in any individual vaccine.

https://www.chop.edu/vaccine-education-center/vaccine-safety...

> While infants receive about 4.4 milligrams* of aluminum in the first six months of life from vaccines, they receive more than that in their diet. Breast-fed infants ingest about 7 milligrams, formula-fed infants ingest about 38 milligrams, and infants who are fed soy formula ingest almost 117 milligrams of aluminum during the first six months of life.

https://www.chop.edu/vaccine-education-center/vaccine-safety...


Is there a difference between injected aluminium/formaldehyde and ingested aluminium/formaldehyde?


Not in a way that matters here.

As alluded to by the source in my last comment, formaldehyde is produced in a variety of ways inside the human body, including literally inside our cells, in the mitochondria. It is also used as an input in other biological processes. These processes collectively result in formaldehyde being continually present in the bloodstream in quantities more than a thousand times higher than the residual amount potentially present in a single vaccine dose. Therefore, one vaccine dose would not have a measurable effect on the amount of formaldehyde already in the blood, let alone inside cells and elsewhere. The body is very good at maintaining formaldehyde homeostasis. If it were not, we would be poisoned by our own cellular processes and typical diets.

> The continuous generation and degradation of formaldehyde in the body serve to maintain the homeostasis of formaldehyde metabolism. A common mechanism of formaldehyde generation is located in the mitochondria by the action of serine hydroxymethyltransferase 1 and 2…

> The main source of exogenous formaldehyde in healthy individuals may be through various fruits, vegetables, meat and alcoholic beverages…

> Formaldehyde in human fluids and tissues maintains the metabolic balance of formaldehyde through the continuous action of formaldehyde‐metabolizing enzymes through multiple metabolic pathways…

https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8184665/

Regarding aluminium, the link I cited in my previous comment addresses this.

> Once aluminum ends up in the blood, its source does not matter, meaning that our body processes it the same way regardless of how it arrived in the blood…

> Once the aluminum associates with one of these new partners, it is carried to the kidneys, where about half of it is removed from the body within 24 hours. Half of the remainder is removed by the next day, etc…

> Although the relative quantity of aluminum introduced on a vaccination day may be significantly greater than that introduced by food on that day, over time, we are exposed to more aluminum from food than from vaccines because the exposure from food occurs daily. If you consider that half of the aluminum in the blood is removed from the body every 24 hours, you will realize that each day additional aluminum is introduced through food. As such, over time, most of the aluminum in the blood could be traced back to that source…


You have an argument for formaldehyde, but “over your life more aluminum ends up in your stomach than you get injected into your bloodstream as a newborn” is pretty weak logic


Look everyone, a brave antivaxer here to spread misinformation.


It’s completely factual to say that newborns are being injected with aluminum & pharmaceutical companies are legally invulnerable to what happens as a result of that. But I’m sure this comment will be flagged regardless because this is a community of free thinkers.




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