February 02, 2015
by Nicholas Gongalez, MD
(GreenMedInfo.com) What if nutritional deficiencies were behind many of the epidemic “vaccine-preventable” diseases that modern vaccination campaigns have taken credit for?
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I recently had the opportunity to join a Functional Medicine Journal Club online debate on vaccinations that prompted me to write the following response. In my mind, the discussion, sometimes heated, really brought into my focus the larger, more global issues of infectious disease, the nature of infection, and the all-important participant in the action, the host, issues which I wanted to share with the larger audience at GreenMedInfo.
I will say I don’t think it too helpful when physicians and scientists, as happened in the discussion, turn to emotional arguments and pleas that do little to advance a scientific, objective perspective. Evoking an unvaccinated relative paralyzed by polio, for example, or poor Thai children stricken with diphtheria doesn’t teach us what we need to know about the role of innate immunity, and the pathogenicity of microorganisms
In terms of my own background, though I am known to many as a physician offering an intensive nutritional program for patients diagnosed with advanced cancer and other serious diseases, my formal training was in cancer immunology, in a specially designed program created for me by my conventional mentor Robert A. Good, MD, PhD, for years President of Sloan-Kettering. Dr. Good, called the “father of modern immunology” by the New York Times, was the most published author in the history of medicine, and the scientist who first unraveled the immune complexities of the thymus in the 1950s. When I joined his group as a fellow, as I have mentioned to Kelly, I lived in his house with his wife, living, breathing, and ingesting immunology, an experience that has served me well in my medical career however far from the conventional it has veered..
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