by Louise Mclean, LCCH.
Cell mediated immunity is the first line of defence and uses mature T helper and T cytotoxic cells, which recognise pathogens and antigens. These T cells will destroy infected cells, such as viruses, bacteria and fungi. Cellular immunity utilises phagocytic white cells (ingesting foreign agents) and cytotoxic activities (poisoning foreign agents). Each is identifiable by a biochemical signature it produces in the form of substances called cytokines.
Humoral immunity acts as the second line of defence using B cells, and antibodies are produced by plasma cells to identify and bind specific antigens, neutralising extracellular pathogens, such as bacteria and viruses. Humoral immunity is always active in the body and is circulated by body fluids.
Cell-mediated immunity is the first line of defence and has to be triggered by mature T cells and macrophages, while humoral immunity is the second line of defence, which is antibody-mediated immunity.
Cell-mediated immunity has a long term memory, remembering previous infections or antigens, while humoral immunity has a short term memory. Both cell-mediated and humoral immunity work together in a coordinated defence.
Major medical journals state that in healthy people there is a bias towards cellular immunity, while people with allergies, asthma and auto-immune diseases tend towards the humoral immunity.
There is considerable evidence that vaccines disturbs the cell-mediated immune balance, causing the alarming rise in allergies and other illnesses in small children and infants. According to Dr. H.H. Fudenburg, a renowned immunologist, with hundreds of publications to his credit "One vaccine decreases cell-mediated immunity by 50%. Two vaccines by 70%. Triple vaccines like the MMR markedly impair cell-mediated immunity, which predisposes to recurrent viral infections, especially otitis media, as well as yeast and fungal infections.
So if your body encounters a new and novel pathogen that it has never encountered before, your cell-mediated immunity kicks off to counteract it with your white blood cells fighting it. Then you might react by initially sneezing to repel the pathogen and if that doesn't work you may experience all the symptoms of a cold or flu, as your body tries to overcome it.
The symptoms of a fever, runny nose, cough, colds, flu, rash, etc., are due to your cell-mediated immunity trying to expel infected cells from your body. These reactions are essential to maintain a healthy body. However, If your body encounters a pathogen that it remembers from the past, it can deal with it without you experiencing a cold or a flu.
Every cell in your body has your name on it, so to speak, almost like an individual code. That is because every person is totally unique. Hence your body will recognise foreign cells as an enemy to be removed as soon as possible. This is how humanity has survived for thousands of years.
However, if you introduce a vaccine containing cell lines from another human or an animal, this confuses and disrupts your cell-mediated immunity, which is your first line of defence.
Eventually with enough vaccines and foreign cell lines injected into you, your body no longer relies on its cell-mediated immunity but relies instead only on humoral immunity developing antibodies. This is precisely the goal of vaccines and what they are meant to do.
There is also a school of thought that by injecting substances directly into the body via a vaccine, this completely bypasses the cell-mediated immune system, which is stimulated when you breathe in or ingest a pathogen naturally. By injecting vaccines directly into the body, it starts to rely entirely on its humoral immunity, which is less effective.
With too many vaccines, the cell-mediated immunity becomes repressed and can no longer ward off invaders, so acute disease is replaced by heightened antibody responses. The person then becomes susceptible to countless chronic diseases instead, such as allergies, asthma, eczema, Crohn's, colitis, etc. We haven't eradicated disease with vaccines but merely replaced them with chronic conditions, for which there may be no effective cure.
In patients with autoimmune disorders, the immune system cannot tell the difference between healthy body tissues and antigens that need to be attacked. The result is an immune response which destroys normal body tissues.
Prior to the introduction of vaccines, the Th1 cellular immune system of the gastrointestinal and respiratory systems served as the primary defence systems with the Th2 humoral immune system in the bone marrow, serving a secondary role. There is a school of thought that the "minor childhood diseases" of earlier times, including measles, mumps, chicken pox, and rubella, which involved the epithelial tissues of skin, respiratory, and/or gastrointestinal tracts, served a necessary purpose in challenging, strengthening, and establishing the dominance of Th1 cellular immune system during early childhood.
Current vaccines against these diseases, in contrast, being directed at stimulating antibody production in the bone marrow, are bypassing the cellular immune system and thereby tending to reverse the roles of the cellular and humoral systems, with the former suffering from a lack of challenge. In addition, the cellular immune system is being further compromised by the powerfully immunosuppressive effects of the MMR vaccine. The time is overdue to totally rethink and redirect our current childhood vaccine program.
