Hepatitis B Vaccine: 4 Things You May Not Know

By |June 11th, 2026|

Discovery of the Virus Occurred in Two Major Steps 

Hepatitis was suspected to have a viral etiology by the first decade of the 20th century, and by World War II, physicians were giving gamma globulin to mitigate outbreaks. Generalized immune globulin lacks the specificity of hepatitis B Ig (HBIG) administered today to high-risk neonates along with the birth dose of hepatitis B virus (HBV) vaccine, but it helped prevent the disease from spreading in the close quarters common in military settings. On an episode of the period TV series M*A*S*H, set in wartime Korea, the lead character, Hawkeye Pierce, […]

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By |June 1st, 2025|

Measles: Parties and Amnesia

Taking a page out of the ‘Chicken pox party’ playbook, apparently ‘measles parties’ are starting in the USA. The principle is of bringing infected children together with their healthy peers to infect them so they develop the ‘natural’ infection and therefore develop immunity without needing vaccination.

It was a bad idea for chicken pox but it is even a worse one for measles. Measles is one of the most contagious childhood infections, each infected person infects an average of about 18 others (remember Covid was about 2 – 3). In fact, if you are unvaccinated, you […]

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Covid Vaccination for Pregnant and Breastfeeding Women.

By |September 15th, 2021|

I’ve had a few calls from pregnant and breastfeeding mothers regarding getting the Covid vaccine….


The advice is now crystal clear:

Firstly the vaccines have zero effect on fertility, pregnancy and anti-spike proteins are not related, or close to, placental proteins.
Anything you hear to the contrary is misinformation, untrue, cherry-picked and mischievous. [1,2,3]

Your immune system is different during pregnancy so your body can accept, and not reject, the foetus. Consequently you’re MORE vulnerable to the virus and its consequences – such as hospitalisation, loss of the baby, death or long Covid – than when not pregnant.

After vaccination, […]

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DON’T TREAT FEVER!

By |January 20th, 2021|

 

 

In a recent placebo-controlled trials of a Covid vaccine I heard of a report from one of the participants, who was a doctor.  He was delighted after receiving his first dose because he got a fever and body aches. He had definitely received the vaccine not the placebo.

Generating a fever, by cranking up the brain’s thermostat, is the body’s way of supercharging its immune system. The increased body temperature makes the cells that kill germs (neutrophil white cells), or make antibodies (B-cells), work much more efficiently and quickly.

In both animal and human studies of infected subjects if the temperature is […]

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Boys Will Be Boys (2)

By |October 13th, 2020|

if you want your little boys to grow up feeling secure and with good mental health, keep them close and allow them to remain babies for longer. This may be inconvenient and require financial sacrifice but this investment in their lives pays back massive dividends to them as they grow.

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Just Don’t Tell Them!

By |June 15th, 2020|

A new mum talks about the pressure she gets from family and friends, to persuade her, against powerful personal feelings, to impose rigid routines on her young baby. The answer is simple. Most people don’t discuss their finances or sex life with their relations and friends either. Just don’t tell them.

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Boys will be Boys

By |September 25th, 2019|

When the ideas of attachment parenting were being developed in the 1960’s or so, the advice was fairly ‘gender neutral’.

Later however data started to accumulate that baby boys’ needs were different from that of girls. Not qualitatively but quantitatively. Male babies on average have greater difficulty self-regulating their emotional state and therefore have a greater reliance on emotional support. They need it both more intensely and for a longer period than girls.1

In essence, mothers need to work harder with their boys than their girls.2

It seems that that boys’ brains develop more slowly3 , and are more vulnerable to negative outside influences, […]

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The Path to Empathy

By |September 18th, 2019|

Recently I was talking to a friend of mine who works as a pre-school teacher. She asserted that she could tell an ‘attachment parented’ child from across the room.

“They are generally so much more calm and empathic! They will tend to go over and comfort a sad child. They think about what others are feeling’.

 

There is a lot of scientific evidence for this accumulated over many years.

One of the critical factors of being born human is being born very immature.  For good or bad, this gives the parents and carers the opportunity to mould the baby’s brain as it […]

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Gratitude For Grandmas

By |November 7th, 2018|

After chimps or gorillas give birth, those mothers hold their babies closely and possessively for many months. They will not allow others to get too near or to hold their baby, and the mother is the sole carer.

During the hunter/gatherer era, the life of homo sapiens was tough and precarious. Without sharing the care of her baby with kinfolk it would have been impossible for a woman to meet the intensive and prolonged needs required on her own. Apparently it takes a total of 13 million calories to grow an adult from babyhood. That’s a lot of gathering to do on your […]

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FOOD FOR THOUGHT

By |October 18th, 2018|

HHumans are omnivores, that is, they can eat many different foods. We need food for our body to maintain and grow our cells. But the cells, especially the ones in the brain, are only interested in glucose. That is the only fuel that creates energy to power the cell. So all foods have to be convertible to glucose, and the body has wonderful ways of doing it.

In our cells is an awesome mechanism called the ‘Krebs Cycle’ (Citric Acid Cycle). Plug in any food, carb, fats, or proteins, and it ends up as glucose. This works just fine, even when […]

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