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“As a pediatrician for thirty-five years, I have seen the enormous rise in autoim
mune diseases like asthma, allergies, eczema, and autism. We no longer need
to scratch our heads wondering why, because the reasons are clear. In Vaccines,
Autoimmunity, and the Changing Nature of Childhood Illness, Dr. Cowan
intelligently educates us on the complicated and beautiful workings of our
immune system, clearly explains how and why its malfunction is harming us,
and elucidates why our precious children are so vulnerable to these diseases.
Most importantly, perhaps, Dr. Cowan charts the clear, concise path to heal
ing, offering a better, healthier life for us, our children, and the planet.”
— L I N D Y W O O D A R D , M D, Pediatric Alternatives
“This book gives parents the intellectual ammunition they need to fight back
against the pro-vaccine medical establishment. They clearly need such. I have
seen parents driven by fear into vaccinating their children entirely against
their parental instincts. By not vaccinating, Cowan shows us how children
can be protected from allergy, autoimmunity, attention-deficit/hyperactivity
disorder, asthma, and autism. This book is essential reading for all concerned
with the health of the next generation.”
- D R . S A R A H M Y H I L L , author of
Sustainable Medicine and Diagnosis and Treatment of
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Myalgic Encephalitis
“This book is a global wake-up call to defend, against those who would destroy
it, the awesome wisdom of the human body to wage its own battle against the
myriad diseases that seek to overcome our internal defense system. This book
will have a profound, beneficial impact on human health around the world in
the years and decades to come. It is a courageous and pioneering work worthy
of admiration and support.”
— N I C A N O R PERLAS, recipient, Right Livelihood Award
VACCINES,
AUTOIMMUNITY,
and the Changing Nature o f
CHILDHOOD
ILLNESS
Also by Thomas Cowan, MD
Human Heart, Cosmic Heart:
A Doctor's Quest to Understand, Treat, and Prevent
Cardiovascular Disease
VACCINES,
AUTOIMMUNITY,
a n d the Changing Nature o f
CHILDHOOD
ILLNESS
THOMAS COWAN, M D
Foreword by Sally Fallon Morell
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Names: Cowan, Thomas Dale, author.
Tide: Vaccines, autoimmunity, and the changing nature of childhood / Thomas Cowan, MD.
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In future, children will be vaccinated with a substance
which it will certainly be possible to produce, and this will
make them immune, so that they do not develop foolish
inclinations connected with spiritual life — “foolish” here,
of course, in the eyes of materialists.
— R u d o l f Steiner, “Fall of the Spirits of Darkness,
Lecture 13: The Fallen Spirits Influence in the World,”
Dornach, Switzerland, October 27, 1 9 1 7
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 I I
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
1 0 : The Measles Vaccine:
A Case of Oversimplification 96
PART I I I
Treatment and Recovery
1 1 : Basic Autoimmune Treatment Protocol for
Children and Adults 1 07
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
FOREWORD
A few years ago, I attended a debate on the subject of
/-\ raw milk held at the yearly meeting of the Interna-
JL JL tional Association for Food Protection, an
organization dedicated to pasteurizing, poisoning, zapping, and
pressure-treating every morsel of the food we eat, in order to
make it completely lifeless and sterile.
The most interesting aspect of the debate was the clear dif
ference in worldview between those for and against raw milk.
Those in favor enumerated many of the amazing properties in
raw milk—it contains components that protect against patho
gens, build a healthy gut wall, support the immune system, and
ensure the assimilation of 100 percent of the vitamins and min
erals in nature s perfect food.
But those in favor of pasteurization began with a different
point of view. “My assumption is not that nature is perfect,” said
pasteurization proponent Jeff Kornacki, PhD. “My assumption
is that nature is wild and can be dangerous.” He then referenced
the death angel mushroom, which can kill you with one bite — as
if to say that raw milk, the magic elixir that has nourished every
mammalian baby in the world since the dawn of time —is not
just risky, but downright toxic.
where who believe that nature is dangerous and hostile, and who
have constructed their scientific paradigm on the assumption of
that danger — danger in the very elements that make our life
possible, such as cholesterol and animal fat. Public health offi
cials rail against the dangers of wholesome foods such as red
meat and eggs, in addition to raw milk. We are taught that sun
light is the enemy, and our friends, the microorganisms, are out
FOREWORD
to kill us. According to this worldview, these are mistakes
embedded in nature that we must fight against with the newest
technologies that scientists can muster.
When health officials assume that nature is imperfect and dan
gerous, we end up with all kinds of inappropriate procedures —from
pasteurization to routine antibiotics to vaccinations. Unfortunately,
these are not minor mistakes, but strategies that have led us to the
greatest health crisis in the history of the world, and one that has
disproportionally impacted our children in tragic ways.
Tom Cowan belongs to a different breed of physician, one
who, in the tradition of Dr. Weston Price, makes an alternative
assumption: that nature is not hostile, dangerous, and imperfect,
but is infused with wisdom. For sure, nature needs a certain
amount of thoughtful management to make it compatible with
human life, but the showdown confrontation of the physician
cowboy, armed with needles and pharmaceutical drugs, has not
made our lives any healthier or happier.
Vaccines, Autoimmunity, and the Changing Nature of Child
hood Illness begins with the radical notion that childhood
illnesses such as chicken pox and measles play critical roles in the
development of our immune systems, conferring lifelong protec
tion against diseases such as cancer and arthritis, and that
vaccinations against these childhood illnesses disrupt the
immune system in dangerous ways, even introducing chaos into
the amazing structural wisdom of the cytoplasm in our cells.
Cowan presents a view of the human body as infused with
innate wisdom, and describes a way of supporting and treating
both infectious and chronic illness that is born of respect rather
than fear. It starts with a nourishing, satisfying diet, provides
support for digestion and assimilation, and allows fever to do its
important work. Above all, his therapies refuse to incorporate
the voodoo science of vaccination and its attendant horrors.
Sally Fallon Morell
February 24, 2018
Introduction
"V T" hen I was growing up in suburban Detroit, my
% /\ I doctor’s office didn’t have towel racks in the
▼ V bathroom.
Actually, there were towel racks in the bathroom until I
began running for them. I would hook one arm through a rack,
clasp my hands together, and hold on for dear life.
I was running from Dr. Kuehl, my pediatrician and a friend
of my parents, who was trying to give me my shots. My counter
strategy, starting around the age of three, was to run for the
bathroom as soon as I entered his office. Since reasoning with
me never worked, Dr. Kuehl tried to forcibly pry me loose, but
he was left so weak from childhood polio — or, more likely, from
a devastating neurotoxicity that was mistaken for polio — that
he was no match for an intensely willful kid whose every cell was
directed toward the goal of noncompliance.
On two occasions I was sent home vaccine-free. Both times,
I agreed to come back another time and cooperate, though I had
no intention of doing any such thing. Dr. Kuehl’s response was
to unscrew the towel racks from the bathroom walls.
This battle went on for years. Every time my mother told me
I was going to the doctor’s office, it felt like a fight for survival.
Sometimes we never even made it out of the driveway.
1
INTRODUCTION
In some ways, this book is my grown-up version of that small
boys struggle. I haven’t, as one might expect, come around to
seeing things from the adults’ point of view just because I’m now
an adult. Or the doctor’s point of view just because I’m now a
doctor. Far from it. I still empathize with the frightened boy, not
the exasperated adults. Dr. Kuehl used to say that he became a
pediatrician to spare children the suffering he experienced from
polio, but I saw him only as a terrifying adult doing all he could
to force me to submit to his dreadful injections. And, although
this flies in the face of the deference we’re supposed to have for
medical authority, I still do see him that way.
I see in my younger self a boy who was right in his struggle. I
see a boy who was correct in intuiting that there was something
wrong about vaccines—even beyond the momentary pain that
probably guided my response when I was three or four, and even
though the number of shots I received (or was supposed to
receive) was far fewer than the fifty doses that American chil
dren now typically receive before the age of six and the sixty-nine
doses of sixteen vaccines they receive by the age of eighteen.1
And I now realize how correct that young boy was to dis
trust even those who were ostensibly dedicated to his
well-being. After nearly four decades as a doctor, I believe the
medical profession is party to one of the most grievous errors a
nation has ever perpetuated on its own children. I believe that
linked, though not limited to, the Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention’s recommended vaccination schedule that
most American children follow. And I believe we are in the
midst of a massive crisis that is only going to get worse if we
don’t change course.
2
INTRODUCTION
As I contemplated writing this book, I had to ask myself why we
need yet another book about the dangers of vaccines. Books
about vaccines are frequently among Amazons bestsellers in
alternative medicine and pediatrics; many of them, such as Dis
solving Illusions and Millers Review of Critical Vaccine Studies,
are intelligent, thoroughly researched, and convincing, despite
what the medical establishment wants you to believe. And there
have recently been excellent and informative full-length docu
mentaries, such as Vaxxed, that present a chilling and far more
nuanced depiction of vaccines than you will ever encounter in
the mainstream media. The medical issues are actually easy to
demonstrate; there are scores of medical studies in peer- reviewed
journals that document how vaccines adversely affect immuno
logic function. This is so well established that the Department
of Health and Human Services has an injury compensation
program, specifically for vaccine-related deaths, disabilities, and
illnesses, that was established in an attempt to reduce the over
whelming number of lawsuits that vaccine-injured people and
their families were filing against vaccine manufacturers and
health care providers in the 1980s.
So why yet another book?
The simple answer is that this isn’t really a book about the
dangers of vaccines, nor a synthesis of the scientific studies, nor
are dangerous and I do think there’s abundant evidence to sup
port that stance. There is evidence that our bodies need exposure
to certain childhood illnesses in order to establish the founda
tion of lifelong health. For example, in chapter 8, we’ll see how a
largely benign illness like chicken pox reduces the risk of brain
cancer, while the vaccine increases the risk of shingles. In chapter
10, we’ll see how getting measles as a kid reduces the risk of
heart disease, arthritis, and allergies. And in chapter 9, we’ll see
how an innocuous virus that has been with us for millennia,
cohabiting benignly in our guts, took the blame for the devastat
ing disease we know as polio — the terror of which helped launch
