Is Feeding Birds Harmful? Should we really do away with our feeding stations?

Or are RSPB's recent concern another example of our incorrect perspective on health, and how we maintain it - both in humans, other animals, and even plants?

The Royal Society for the Protection of Birds (RSPB) has recently said that their long-time recommendation to provide feeding stations to provide additional food for birds is not necessarily a good thing. This link takes you to their article, and a video, that explains their new position.

          “Research has shown a worrying decline in some of our much-loved garden birds due to a disease called trichomonosis. This is a highly contagious disease and can spread where birds gather in large numbers such as at bird feeders”.

And this is the BBC’s slant on their new policy, typical of how it has been covered in the mainstream media, warning that “putting up bird feeders in your garden may seem kind but it could be putting some species at serious risk”. And they continue with this warning.

          “Trichomonosis is caused by a parasite that affects the mouth, throat and upper digestive tracts of birds and can make it hard for them to eat, drink or breathe”.

My problem with this new guidance is that it is based on conventional medicine’s understanding of the cause of infectious disease.

Natural health therapies and conventional medicine take a different approaches to health and the causes of illness and disease. Whilst natural therapies focus on the central importance of our immune system (we all have one, humans, birds, and plants) and the way it protects us, conventional (drug based) medicine focuses of the danger of germs, the transmission illness (via germs) from one individual to another, and the need to protect ourselves from them.

• So do bird feeders cause disease? They might do.

• Do diseases picked up from feeders pass from bird to bird? They might do.

• And do we need to spend more time on the hygiene of bird stations? It would do no harm. But do we need to obsess about it?

Natural medical therapies would suggest that only those birds whose immune system is weak, or compromised, are at risk.

It is broadly accepted that there are three main reasons for the immune system to become weak or compromised.

1. Poor or inadequate nutrition.

2. Insufficient rest, too much stress.

3. A lack of exercise.

(Personally, I would add a fourth reason for humanity - the consumption of pharmaceutical drugs).

So lets consider each of these, and consider how they apply to birds.

1. Exercise

It is difficult to believe that the decline in bird populations, and any susceptibility to disease, is the result of a lack of exercise! They can fly anywhere they want, whenever they want, and they appear to do so! They do not have sedentary jobs! They do not spend hours watching television, or playing on mobile phones! Their food is not provided for them, so they have to search for, and find each and every morsel they eat. So their survival depends on exercise - not least when they are feeding their young.

2. Stress

It is likely that being a bird is stressful! They have lots of predators, ranging from hawks, to domestic cats, to motor cars, to out EMF transmission, and much more. Each day they have to be concerned about where the next meal is coming from.

Yet, on the other hand, birds probably have a lifestyle that provides them with more rest-time than we humans allow ourselves. They find a place of safety and take time to roost, that is, they spend a sizeable proportion of their time resting and sleeping.

However, the regular and ongoing loss of suitable habitats is now an increasing issue for most bird species. This is recognised as a key issue underlaying the decline in bird populations. I remember once removed a bush in my garden that had a Robin’s nest. In horror I watched the distress of the parent birds, which continued for several days.

3. Nutrition

Alongside this loss of habitat, and linked with it, nutrition is an important problem faced by many bird species. It is not just the constant need to the search for food, it is a problem exacerbated by human activity.

Flies. The fly population has been decimated in recent years, largely through the profligate human use of insecticides on farms, gardens, et al. No wonder populations of fly-eating birds are dwindling.

Seed. For many birds seeds are an important source of nutrition. Yet much seed is now grown using cultivation methods that require of herbicides? How much toxic residue do birds now consume when foraging for seed? This recent USA article highlights this threat.

So birds do face many problems that might affect their immune system, many of them man-made. Indeed, initially this is why bird feeding stations were introduced, and why so many of us spend large sums of money feeding birds in their gardens. We have been led to believe, for decades now, that this provides an important supplementary food source for them.

These problems can undoubtedly cause damage to the immune system of birds. And this would make them susceptible to germs. These germs can accumulate in feeding stations. And so some compromised birds might be susceptible to diseases like trichomonosis.

Yet for natural medicine the problem is not the germ, it is the harm being caused to the immune system that causes susceptibility to the germs.

So the solution is not to focus on bird diseases, and how bird feeding stations might generate them. We can certainly keep the feeders cleaner, as the RSPB suggest. But we should not be persuaded that our feeders are the main, or even a significant problem to the health and survival of bird populations.

Just as with humans, birds with a strong immune system will survive. We all live with ‘germs’ every moment of the day.

Yet in order to maintain a strong immune system they need our help. Not by removing our feeding stations, or not feeding them during the warmer months - but by ending pesticide use - by controlling domestic cats - by maintaining their habitat - by allowing them to get on with their lives - and yes, by augmenting their feed.

The RSPB’s new approach to feeding birds suffers from the same mistaken belief most people have about ill-health - that there are germs are out there, waiting to pounce, ready to attack us, eager to make us ill. For humans, good health does not come from a bottle of pills, or a vial of vaccine. Nor does good health for birds come from obsessively clean feeding stations!

Good health comes from within - both for us, for all other animals, including birds, and plants too. The best protection against disease for all of us is to look after our immune system - and like us birds can do this quite well for themselves! They can even be trusted to know when, and in what seasons of the year, they need to augment their diet at feeding stations.

The Immune System is the only mechanism we have that keeps us well, and can make us well when we fall sick.

Understanding the Immune System helps us understand health and wellness issues. Conventional medicine has jettisoned it. Natural medical therapies embrace it. It's the main difference between them.

The main problem with Pharmaceutical (or Conventional) Medicine, for most people, is that its treatments (notably its drugs and vaccines) are (i) largely ineffective, and (ii) often positively harmful. Yet this is actually a secondary problem, and it arises largely from its most basic problem.

The fundamental problem with Pharmaceutical medicine is that it has forgotten/discounted/jettisoned the one and only mechanism that keeps us well, and makes us well again when we fall sick.

Pharmaceutical medicine has successfully installed two very disempowering beliefs, as described in this Substack article by Embodying Homeopathy:

Embodying Homeopathy (my big "f you" to allopathy)

1. Symptoms of illness means that you are broken and need fixing.
2. Your body is not smart enough to fix it; so you need fixing from the outside.

          “It’s a really good way to keep people sick and dependent. And whether that was the intention or not isn’t up to me to say - but regardless of intention, the impact is all around us. These beliefs put a massive obstacle to cure smack dab in the middle of your healing journey because they reinforce a very core idea that your body is not capable of healing”.

I agree. The Conventional Medical Establishment is just plain wrong in its attitude to health and well-being. The human body has everything it needs to keep itself healthy, and to get better when it gets sick - with one proviso - we need to look after our immune system.

THE IMMUNE SYSTEM

From whatever vantage point we take to view pharmaceutical medicine this neglect of the immune system becomes apparent.

• Pharmaceutical drugs (the pain ‘killers’, the ‘anti-’ drugs, the ‘blockers’, the ‘inhibitors’, et al) all seek to force the body to do something it would not normally do. They kill pain (temporarily); they fight germs, they block and inhibit natural bodily processes. What they do is described in the name!

• Vaccines seek to fight germs, artificially, from the outside, trying to do what the body’s immune system does naturally. And it does so on the arrogant belief that the pharmaceutical industry knows best.

Yet it is worse than this. Conventional medicine’s failure to acknowledge the immune system’s role in our health is probably the most important factor preventing it from understanding what is actually making us sick, and why its treatments are failing to deal with illness, effectively and safely.

MEASLES OUTBREAKS

Whenever conventional medicine considers a medical issue, their dismissal of the immune system means that they are unable to identify the real problem. Take its regular problem with so-called “measles outbreaks”. It is not just that they are trying to make ‘a mountain from a molehill’ (measles is a mild illness, most of these ‘outbreaks’ involved small numbers of cases, and recovery is usually quick. Regardless of this conventional medicine requires the vaccination of the entire population of young children!

Conventional medicine states that these ‘outbreaks’ of measles are serious, and routinely blame them on ‘unvaccinated’ children. It makes the assumption that if only all children were vaccinated no one would ever contract measles.

The problem for conventional medicine is that amongst those who contract measles in these outbreaks are children who have been fully vaccinated. And conventional medicine is not very good at explaining why this should be! In addition, and more generally, there is now a number of good studies that show ‘unvaccinated’ children to be healthier than ‘vaccinated children’. So how is this to be explained?

Conventional medicine struggles to explain why children who contract measles come from both groups. They either avoid the issue, or come up with highly complicated, often quite incredible explanations.

The simple explanation, however, becomes clear when we bring the immune system is taken into the picture. Natural medical therapies can consider 4 different groups of children.

1. Vaccinated children who have a strong, protective immune system. This means they did not need to be vaccinated as they would not have contracted measles anyway. These are the vaccinated children who do not get sick.

2. Vaccinated children with a weakened or compromised immune system. These children are more vulnerable to contracting measles, and any other disease. These are the vaccinated children who get sick.

3. Unvaccinated children with a weak immune system. These children are most in danger of contracting measles, are most likely to get sick, and who are likely to suffer the (very occasional) serious side effects of measles.

4. Unvaccinated children who have a strong, protective immune system. These children will not get sick, regardless of their vaccination status, and do not require vaccination in order to keep them well.

So for natural medical therapists vaccination status is not important; but the immune system most certainly is! What this means is that the starting point to illness, of all kinds, is quite different to that of pharmaceutical medicine - the primary importance of supporting and strengthening the individual’s immune system.

THE CONFUSION OF CONVENTIONAL MEDICINE

This is why Conventional Medicine always goes around in circles when it discusses illness. It does not understand illness, so it has no effective treatment for it. I recently read this Substack article from Popular Rationalism about a recent measles scare in the USA. It correctly asks for ‘more data’ as it struggles to make sense of the existing data. It is an excellent article, in its restricted way, but it is clearly uncertain about why both vaccinated and unvaccinated children were going down with measles! If it is read with a focus on the immune system, rather than vaccination status, many more questions are answered.

Popular Rationalism. What's Going On with the MMR Vaccine? 44% of Measles Cases in Colorado Transmission Chain Were Vaccinated Individuals

 

The most serious consequence of ignoring the immune system is that conventional medicine appears quite unable to identify the causes of illness. I wrote about it here, in my Substack article.

          “I realised this first several years ago whilst starting to put together my Iatrogenic (Doctor-Induced) Disease E-book. Each page of this book focuses on an illness or disease in order to see whether conventional medical drugs and vaccine can cause it. In doing so I found that conventional medicine routinely denies that their drugs and vaccines cause all kinds of illnesses. Indeed, worse than this, time and time again, conventional medicine states that “there is no known cause”.

So I asked the important question that arises. If a medical system does not know what causes illness and disease how is it able to treat it, safely and effectively? Let’s look at the different ways conventional medicine, and natural medical therapies, deal with a fever.

DEALING WITH FEVER

When someone gets ill the body’s usual response is to throw a fever. This is a normal and natural response of the immune system, an attempt to heal itself. The response of conventional medicine is often to give the patient a pharmaceutical drug in order to reduce the fever. What this means is that drugs are introduced to treat the patient in a way contrary to what the immune system is trying to do. It is what causes illness, through adverse drug reactions.

Homeopathy does quite the opposite. Faced with a patient with a fever it will prescribe a remedy which is made from a substance (homeopathically diluted and potentized) that (in its normal state) would actually cause a fever. In other words, the remedy is prescribed to correspond with, and support what the immune system is already seeking to do. It is called ‘treating like with like’, or the Law of Similars, on which homeopathy is based.

This is a fundamental difference in approach to treating an illness. Homeopathy is not fighting, or blocking, or inhibiting anything. It is recognising the body’s ability, through its immune system, to heal itself - and supporting that process.

So conventional medicine, when it considers an illness like the measles outbreak study mentioned above, focuses on pharmaceutical interventions (vaccinated or unvaccinated), whilst natural medicine focuses on the immune system (strong or compromised). The former talks about the need for drugs and vaccines. The latter focuses on the individual immune system, ensuring they are (i) eating a good diet, (ii) having adequate exercise, and (iii) having sufficient relaxation and rest (avoiding stress) - the three main factors that support and strengthen our immune systems.

For the pharmaceutical industry, which dominates conventional medicine, the former view is the more profitable, the latter is not. This goes some way to explaining its approach to most health issues; and the reason for its failure. When it considers illness it focuses on its business model - selling drugs and vaccines. If fails to focus on the individual, and the capacity of his/her body to heal itself - which is not profitable.

For natural medical therapies the patient is central, identifying the body’s weaknesses, and addressing them by supporting/stengthening/utilising their immune system. This goes a considerably way to explaining their greater success in dealing with sickness.

An effective and safe medical system is possible only when the immune system becomes central. The 100 year plus experiment with pharmaceutical drugs and vaccines demonstrates clearly that treating the body ‘from outside’ does not work. It has led to epidemic levels of chronic disease, and a plethora of ‘new’ and ‘rare’ diseases.

We, each one of us, as individuals, have within us the means of staying well, and regaining wellness. Any successful health system needs to recognise this simple but vital point. Accordingly it would spend less time promoting drugs and vaccines, and more time educating everyone

about the importance of their immune system, and how we can all support and strengthen it every day of our lives.

Good health rests firmly in our own hands; it does not come with a bottle of pills, or a vial of vaccine.

Has Medical Science Rediscovered the Immune System?

 "Scientists discover new part of the immune system"

These were the headlines of several British mainstream media outlets on 6 March 2025. The Israeli researchers said that what they had discovered "transforms our understanding of how we are protected against infection".

Of course, we have known that it is our immune system is what keeps us healthy for a very long time, although pharmaceutical medicine in recent years have been telling us that only their drugs and vaccines can keep us safe. But followers of natural medical therapies have always known about the importance of the immune system. This is how the BBC article on the discovery explains the new discovery.

        "A new part of the immune system has been discovered and it is a goldmine of potential antibiotics. (Scientists have) shown a part of the body known to recycle proteins has a secret mode that can spew out an arsenal of bacteria-killing chemicals. The researchers in Israel say it transforms our understanding of how we are protected against infection".

Well, this is brilliant! Isn't it? Perhaps we should all have known how special our immune system is in protecting us from illness and disease: but this discovery demonstrates just how clever the body is in achieving this remarkable feat, unaided, undirected. 

Apparently the discovery centres on the proteasome, described as "a tiny structure found in every cell of the body". Its main role is to "chop up old proteins into smaller chunks so they can be recycled to make new ones".  But now a series of scientific experiments (detailed in the Journal 'Nature') shows the proteasome detects when a cell has been infected by bacteria, and can then change its structure and role. "It begins to transform old proteins into weapons that can rip open the outer layer of bacteria to kill them".

The brilliance of our immune system is the reason why most people who follow natural medicine are content to rely on it to keep us fit and healthy. We certainly need to support and strengthen our immune system all the time but if we do this the secret of staying healthy, and recovering from sickness, is to rely upon it.

But this is not what conventional, drug-based medicine does. So the Guardian's article on the research adds to the headline: ... "and it could help solve our antibiotics crisis".

The antibiotic crisis to which they refer is, of course, that the pharmaceutical industry have been producing antibiotic drugs for nearly 100 years; and each one of them, in turn, has led to (i) resistance, and (ii) the development of superbugs. So pharmaceutical medicine has effectively stopped trying to replace the antibiotics as they no longer work. So an "Antibiotic Apocalypse" has been widely predicted within conventional medicine - the drugs on which they have relied for so long are no longer working, and are not going to be replaced.

So apparently medical 'science' sees this new scientific understanding of how the immune system works to be an opportunity to produce new and different antibiotic drugs! Prompted and assisted, of course, by this new knowledge about our immune system. Presumably the new drugs that might emerge can be patented by pharmaceutical companies (in order to ensure and boost profits), and to market them to an increasingly sick population.

But wait? Isn't the body already producing these 'new' antibiotics? Is it not doing so on the basis of the actual bacterial 'threat' to the health of each one of us as individuals? The research suggests that the proteasome, present in each cell, can detect a new 'problem', and reacts to it accordingly by producing a new and appropriately antibiotic? So if our body is capable of doing this for itself, why does conventional medicine need to intervene and produce its own?

This question represents the difference between pharmaceutical medicine and natural medical therapies (homeopathy, naturopathy, herbalism, acupuncture, et al). The latter seek, each in their different ways, to support and strengthen the functioning of the immune system. By contrast, conventional medicine seeks to interfere with the immune system with drugs - on the basis that 'it' knows best what our body needs.

And, in fact, this is the choice that we all have, as patients. 

    When we are fit and healthy do we have confidence in our immune system to keep us so? 

    When we are sick do we have confidence that our immune system is working to make us better? And that it needs to be supported, and left alone in order to do so?

If, as this research seems to demonstrate, that our body is capable of recognising a problem, and then can produce an 'antibiotic' capable of responding to it, why would we want a conventional doctor to 'second-guess' this natural process. 

Do we really believe that a doctor can do it better? 

Or should we not just leave well alone?

The Immune System. Why Conventional Medicine wants to Re-educate us

The Conventional Medical Establishment is trying to "re-educate" us about our immune system. The new medical understanding is that the immune system protects us best only after we have been vaccinated, and even questions whether there is any such thing as "natural immunity". 

These are some comments I have seen recently on the Quora website, responses to a question about whether "young children have a natural immunity to Covid-19, even if they do not catch it". What these responses describe appears to be an entirely new understanding of what the immune system is, what it does, and how it does it.

        "No human of any age has immunity until infected or vaccinated."

        "I don't think they could have any natural immunity....."

        "No. No one has any immunity to COVID 19. We/Humans have never had it before; therefore, we have never developed any immunity."

        "No, Next question please". 

        "One cannot have a “natural” immunity to a non-preexisting entity. First, one has to be exposed."

        "No. To have an immune response to a specific virus your immune system has to see the virus, either by catching ir or being vaccinated against it...."

        " No. There is no such thing as “natural immunity”.

        "There is no natural immunity".

        "The coronavirus that causes Covid-19 is novel to the human race, so no one is immune to it, especially children."

        "No human has 'natural immunity' until they are infected and their immune system responds." 

        "No, haven't you seen any local news? The hospitals are filled with children with Covid.

Most of the responses the questioner received were in the same vein. To date the questioner has received 53 similar responses. Perhaps this should not come as too much of a surprise. During the Covid-19 pandemic conventional medical 'experts' have been given free-rein, both by government and the mainstream media (MSM), to inform us about this entirely new understanding of our immune systems. 

"We have no immunity, we are all at risk, we all need the vaccine" has become part of the official narrative being incessantly forced on us.

Only vaccines can safe us from Covid-19!

So what you will now hear from me will be described by the conventional medical establishment as disinformation! However, I will quote only from conventional medical websites to describe what we used to believe the immune system is, and what it does. This 'misinformation', for examples, is taken from the John Hopkins Medicine website.

        "The immune system protects your child's body from outside invaders, such as bacteria, viruses, fungi, and toxins (chemicals produced by microbes). It is made up of different organs, cells, and proteins that work together. There are two main parts of the immune system:

• The innate immune system, which you are born with.
• The adaptive immune system, which you develop when your body is exposed to microbes or chemicals released by microbes."

THE INNATE IMMUNE SYSTEM. This is your child's rapid response system. It patrols your child’s body and is the first to respond when it finds an invader. The innate immune system is inherited and is active from the moment your child is born. When this system recognizes an invader, it goes into action immediately. The cells of this immune system surround and engulf the invader. The invader is killed inside the immune system cells. These cells are called phagocytes." (also from the JHM website, my emphasis).

THE ACQUIRED IMMUNE SYSTEM. The acquired immune system, with help from the innate system, produces cells (antibodies) to protect your body from a specific invader. These antibodies are developed by cells called B lymphocytes after the body has been exposed to the invader. The antibodies stay in your child's body. It can take several days for antibodies to develop. But after the first exposure, the immune system will recognize the invader and defend against it. The acquired immune system changes throughout your child's life." (also from the JHM website, with my emphasis).

The JHM website only then adds that "immunizations train your child's immune system to make antibodies to protect him or her from harmful diseases." It is almost an after-thought. But it is an after-thought that does not explain why the child's immune system should not work; why it should fail in its primary task; or what has compromised our 'natural immunity' so that we need vaccines.

The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases describes the function of the immune system as follows"

        "The overall function of the immune system is to prevent or limit infection..... The immune system can distinguish between normal, healthy cells and unhealthy cells by recognizing a variety of "danger" cues called danger-associated molecular patterns (DAMPs). Cells may be unhealthy because of infection or because of cellular damage caused by non-infectious agents like sunburn or cancer. Infectious microbes such as viruses and bacteria release another set of signals recognized by the immune system called pathogen-associated molecular patterns (PAMPs)." 

Let's try one more description of the immune system this time described by the NCBI, the National Centre for Biotechnology Information .

        "The immune system has a vital role: it protects your body from harmful substances, germs and cell changes that could make you ill. It is made up of various organs, cells and proteins. As long as your immune system is running smoothly, you don’t notice that it’s there. But if it stops working properly - because it’s weak or can't fight particularly aggressive germs - you get ill. Germs that your body has never encountered before are also likely to make you ill. Some germs will only make you ill the first time you come into contact with them. These include childhood diseases like chickenpox."

        "Without an immune system, we would have no way to fight harmful things that enter our body from the outside or harmful changes that occur inside our body. The main tasks of the body’s immune system are: 

• to fight disease-causing germs (pathogens) like bacteria, viruses, parasites or fungi,
• to remove them from the body, 
• to recognize and neutralize harmful substances from the environment, and 
• to fight disease-causing changes in the body, such as cancer cells.

This is how the immune system has been understood for a very long time. Thucydides, an Athenia historian and general, said this about acquired immunity in 430bce, during the Athenian Plague.

        "Yet it was with those who had recovered from the disease that the sick and the dying found most compassion. These knew what it was from experience and had no fear for themselves; for the same man was never attacked twice - never at least fatally."

So nothing in any of these conventional medical descriptions, pre-Covid-19, talk about the inability of the immune system to recognise new, or strange viruses, whether artificially produced in a Chinese laboratory, or not. They do not support what conventional medicine now seems to be saying. To the contrary, we have been told, and we have been aware for many millenia, that the immune system is designed to protect us against 'foreign substances'.

Nowhere, in any of these descriptions, is it suggested that we have NO immunity UNTIL we have CAUGHT the infection; and certainly not UNTIL we have been vaccinated.

• So who is spreading disinformation?
• Has conventional medicine been wrong about the immune system for centuries - until now? If so, where is the science?
  
• Or perhaps our former understanding of innate and acquired immunity (= natural immunity?) does not lead to the financial rewards that 'vaccine acquired' immunity provides for the pharmaceutical industry?

I do not know who the young person was who asked the question. But the responses he/she received will have left him/her in little doubt that he/she was completely unprotected against the Covid-19 virus, and that he/she would either have to subject himself/herself to the virus, or get the vaccine.

Of course the immune system does not protect everyone from everything; if it could do that no-one would ever be ill. We have known this for a long time too. But the problem is not the immune system - it is our treatment and abuse of our immune system. If we eat badly, if we don't exercise properly, if we smoke, if we drink to access, if we take pharmaceutical drugs, et al., we can undermine, or compromise our immune system. When we abuse our bodies our immune system will not function so well; it will not give us the protection it should; we will succumb to illness.

The Covid-19 narrative has, at least (and to a very limited extent) been honest about this. We have been told that those people most at risk of infection, hospitalisation and death are people with compromised immune systems. However, the narrative has never gone on to develop this further. Conventional medicine should have been telling us how best we can support natural immunity but it has signally failed to do so.

• It has never told people what they can do to support and strengthen their immune systems - in terms of nutrition, exercise and life-style choices.
• It has never offered people tests that can assess the strength of their immunity (although I believe such tests do exist).
  
• It has never told people who have strong immune systems that they could/should carry on their lives, normally, through the pandemic - in order to keep social life moving.
• The official narrative certainly never mentioned that people with "underlying health conditions" were often people who have a history of taking pharmaceutical drugs and vaccines for other illnesses, and that taking these drugs could have compromised their immune system.
• We have never been told that people who had had limb and organ transplantation, and other people taking "immuno-suppressant" drugs (that is, pharmaceutical drugs that intentionally compromise our natural immunity) were most at risk from the Covid-19 virus.

So the pharmaceutical industry might want to promote their vaccines. It might want to downplay the importance of innate and acquired immunity - natural immunity. It might want to suggest that vaccine immunity is best.

But nobody needs to believe this blatant promotional sales pitch!

Natural immunity is alive and well; and unless we abuse it it will continue to protect us from most infections, and keep us well, just as it has always done.

 

POSTCRIPT

91 Scientific studies prove naturally acquired immunity provides better protection protection than the Covid-19 Vaccines (a summary given of each study provided here)

WHO AM I? I am a Pro-Choice Well-Being Advocate

If, like me, you are fed up with being abused by government, the mainstream media (MSM), and conventional medicine about pharmaceutical vaccines, let's make a stand!

• I am not going to have the Covid-19 vaccine, no matter what these 3 pillars of our society say.
• I am fed up with being called an 'anti-vaxxer', or 'vaccine hesitant' - this does not explain my position.
• I am fed up with being told that only vaccines will save the world, return social life to normal, and rescue the economy.
  
• I am fed up with being ignored, never given the chance to explain my position on MSM, and never being given a right to reply to abuse (much of it by journalists).
• I am fed up with insistent reminders from the NHS that I should get vaccinated.

So, the first issue. How should I describe my personal stance? I have been discussing this with several colleagues, and I have decided that this is how I would like to be described.

I AM A PRO-CHOICE, WELL-BEING ADVOCATE

I believe in patient choice, and more widely, in health freedom. This means, in negative terms, that I refuse to be forced into accepting pharmaceutical medication. I believe I have good evidence and information on which to base my stance, both negative and positive. First, the negative reasons.

1. The treatments offered by the conventional medical establishment (CHE) are not effective. Most of them do not work, and the efficacy of all pharmaceutical drugs and vaccines are grossly exaggerated by CHE and the mainstream media (MSM).
2. CHE drug treatments are all dangerous, with adverse drug/vaccine reactions ensuring that their disadvantages far outweigh any benefits.

I do not care if you agree, or disagree with this stance! That is entirely your prerogative. I can defend my position with good quality information, much of it coming from the literature of the CHE itself. I have written a book, freely available on the internet, called "The Failure of Conventional Medicine" and in this I fully explain my position. You may disagree, although you cannot disagree without first knowing what my position is. I am not an 'anti-vaxxer', or 'vaccine hesitant' - without very good reason.

All I ask is that you first seek to understand my position. Do not dismiss me without first knowing what this is.

I am fully aware of the position of CME on vaccination. Everyone does! We have heard nothing else from government, health authorities, and the MSM for over a year now. And these sources of information have been most careful to ensure that my position, as a pro-choice well-being advocate, has never ever been presented or explained.

So what is a 'Pro-Choice Well-Being Advocate'?

First, we are people who believe that personal freedom and liberty is important; and that there is no freedom more important than the freedom to choose our medical treatment when we are ill. We believe that it is unacceptable for government, or one particular medical system, or the corporate-dominated and controlled MSM, to encourage/oblige/force anyone to take pharmaceutical medication. 

And we demand full information, from all side of the health debate. Moreover we want this information to be freely and transparently available to everyone - so that we are all able to make an informed choice. An informed choice is not necessarily a 'correct' choice, or a 'sensible' choice, or even a 'wise' choice; but it is a choice that should not forced on anyone by the 'experts' of one particular medical system.

Second, pro-choice well-being advocates believe in something that is vitally important. Our belief is no longer accepted by the CME but this does not make the CME right. Our reasons for not getting vaccinated are for good positive reasons:

• they are reasons connected with the immune system, supporting and strengthening natural immunity to infection and illness, through diet, nutrition, exercise, life-style choices. And (for me) with homeopathic prophylaxis; and ultimately (should I fall ill) having homeopathy at my side for treatment.

It does not matter to me if you believe this is inadequate, that you think this will not protect me from Covid (or anything else), and that I should still have the vaccine. That is YOUR assessment of what heath is all about. It is most definitely NOT mine! It is not about well-being!

Third, well-being is an importantly different concept to today's normal definition of 'health' - which is why I prefer the term. We believe that everyone is equipped by nature to stay well. Certainly, we can compromise our well-being by poor life-style choices, bad diet, or indeed through the harmful side effects of conventional medical treatment. But this does not make germs (bacteria or viruses) an enemy. They become an enemy when we undermine our personal protection against them. We recognise that we live with germs every second of every day, and that the secret of well-being is to live with them, alongside them, in harmony.

So, our response to Covid-19 is much the same as it is for measles, pertussis, HPV, influenza, et al; plus every other disease for which conventional medicine wants to force drugs/vaccines on us. We support well-being every day by maintaining our immune system, by strengthening our natural immunity. And, importantly, we get on with life without the panic and fear we have been witnessing over Covid-19.

We are not selling drugs or vaccines? We are not promoting anything. We are not profiting from what we do. We believe we keep well, and protect ourselves from illness, by looking after ourselves.

Fourth, we recognise that we are all responsible for our own well-being. Health does not come from a bottle of pills, or even an injection. It comes from within ourselves. What this means is that I cannot be responsible for your health, and that I cannot expect you to be responsible for my health. Well-being is about the decisions we each make about our lifestyle. This is not a selfish position. It is not a decision at all. It is the reality. Our health is in our own hands; it is our responsibility; we make ourself well, or susceptible to sickness, by our own decisions. 

When we get ill natural medical therapies are there to help us support and strengthen our immune systems; but part of that consultation will almost inevitably involve a discussion about the lifestyle choices we have made, and what we can do to enhance our well-being.

Fifth, we recognise that one of the main side effects of pharmaceutical medicines is to compromise our natural immunity, to make the patient more rather than less susceptible to illness. So we avoid them. Pro-choice well-being advocates do not recommend chasing germs, and killing them, as the CHE does. We take this position because we believe, ultimately, they are counter-productive to our well-being.

So advocates of pro-choice well-being cannot agree to vaccination. It is not because we are 'anti-vaccine', or 'vaccine hesitancy'. It is because, for us, health comes from within. We do not believe that conventional medicine is helpful, that it does not understand health, and that ultimately it is contrary to our wellness and well-being.

Listen to your Immune System: get to feel how your natural immunity is constantly working

How well is your immune system working? How good is your natural immunity? And how do you know?

The question is usually answered by asking how susceptible you are to bugs and germs, how frequently you contract coughs, colds, and sore throats.

Yet in recent months I have come to think perhaps there is another way. I may have been as I was aware of the Covid-19 problem that made me conscious of every little tickle in my throat, every slightly blocked nose, every temporary cough, every momentary desire to sneeze.

I didn't realise how often these things came; nor how quickly they went again, quite spontaneously, sometimes within just a few minutes; and without having to do anything. So what is happening?

We should recognise that we live with germs, bacteria, viruses every minute of the day. They are part of 'us', part of our make up. We can usually live in harmony with them. Only since the germ theories of Louis Pasteur, in the latter part of the 19th century, did we begin to look at them as 'the enemy'. 

So what maintains the balance between 'them' and 'us', what stops the germs doing what they can do if they get out of control? The answer is simple - it is the 'host'; that is, it is you and me; it is our body, within which the germs function, that controls them. And this is what the body's immune system is set up to do, every moment of the day.

We have all known this for a very long time! What I did not realise, perhaps as I should  have realised, is that our immune system is working, continually, to correct even the most marginal, most delicate of imbalances.

Only conventional medicine, in its desire to sell vaccines, appears to have forgotten the importance of natural immunity. Perhaps it has also had to forget because a 'side effect' of so many of their pharmaceutical drugs and vaccines is actually compromise the immune system. This is what gives rise to the numerous 'autoimmune' diseases from which so many people now suffer. Indeed, some drugs actually set out to suppress the immune system (immunosuppressant drugs).

What natural medical therapies realise is that we have to look after our immune system. When it works it works and we don't even know it is working. When it is compromised we pay a serious price in terms of our general health. I have written about how we can support and strengthen our natural immunity, through healthy lifestyle choices, good diet and nutrition, exercise and the like. And of course, staying clear of pharmaceutical drugs and vaccines.

So here is an exercise for you. Begin to recognise the functioning of your natural immunity, take notice of the small, temporary signs of potential ill-health that I have listed; witness their emergence; and see how they come and go, quite naturally. This is the immune system at work. Appreciate it. Begin to do all the many things that will support and strengthen your personal immunity.

It's a lovely exercise. It encourages us to eat another bowl of fruit, and/or to get out into the sunshine, and/or to exercise. And it makes us appreciate, and look after. the wonderful body we have all been given - brilliantly designed to keep us in good health.

AND ALL WITHOUT THE NEED FOR VACCINES

There are a large number of studies that demonstrate that natural immunity is more robust than the Covid-19 vaccines.