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Dr. Paul Thomas joins Dr. Maggie Yu
today to talk about the role of vaccines in autoimmune disease. Dr. Paul haswritten a book related to this topic called The Vaccine-Friendly Plan. Dr. Paulsays that though he is not an anti-vaccine doctor, he argues that thelegislators’ view of vaccines being safe and effective for everyone is nottrue.Dr. Paul gives his background of
being born in Africa and having had several childhood diseases, all of whichmade his autoimmune system stronger. In medical school, he recalls the traininghe was given which enforced that vaccines are wonderful. Dr. Paul states thatvaccines are actually very useful for measles, which leads into a discussion ofthe current measles outbreak in Washington and Oregon. As it turns out, thisoutbreak is being sensationalized by legislators and Dr. Paul explains why.Dr. Yu believes that there is
fear-mongering on both sides of the vaccination debate, and expresses herappreciation that Paul is a voice of reason. Dr. Yu shares the story of how herson’s behavior completely changed after getting vaccinated, later receiving anautism spectrum disorder diagnosis. Dr. Paul talks about hearing similarstories in his office every week and then talks about the need for data thatdisplays the link between vaccination schedules and autoimmune diseases. Heactually did his own research to obtain this data recently and provides us withhis findings.Dr. Paul describes the three most
important aspects of his Vaccine-Friendly Plan and challenges us to discoverwhy they make so much sense. The aspects are not getting vaccines whilepregnant, not giving your baby the hepatitis B shot immediately after birth,and not giving your baby the MMR vaccine until at least age three. Dr. Paulprovides his evidence of why these three steps should be followed and make forhealthier children.The main problem that Dr. Paul sees
is vaccine mandates being rolled out across the country. Dr. Paul says that thereason he cannot stand these mandates is because they place healthcaredecisions in the government’s hands, while removing the ability of anintelligent parent to make these decisions for their child. Dr. Yu declaresthat as a mother, she wants the choice of whether her children will bevaccinated or not in addition to the knowledge that Dr. Paul’s plan provides.Dr. Paul brings up that a news
organization is advocating for the removal of his book from the market. Hegives a rundown of why the pharmaceutical industry has moved towards this wayof thinking, beginning with a story about Dr. Andrew Wakefield lost hispractice twenty years ago because of an article he wrote about a possible linkbetween MMR and autism.We learn from Dr. Paul that the CDC
and government want to silence anybody that is exposing the truth aboutvaccinations, including himself. He and Dr. Yu give some calls to action thatcan be used to fight back against the censorship of the truth aboutvaccination.Get Dr. Paul’s book: https://www.drpaulapproved.com/
