Culture Apothecary with Alex Clark - Literally JUST What The Gov Says About Vaccines | @justtheinserts

Episode Date: November 8, 2024

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Are patients getting true informed consent in America? The average doctor appointment is about 15 minutes. Informed consent is a basic human right. Everyone has the right to accept delay or decline any or all medical products. Even if you and I are 100% vaccinated, according to the manufacturer, we may not be protected. You've gotten kicked out of pediatrician offices. When you walk into a pediatrician's office, they will walk in and say, these are the products that your child needs today. Not have you thought about these products for your child.

There is an automatic assumption that the pediatrician has authority over you and your child's body. And that's not the case. She created her Instagram account in 2020 to help patients and parents looking for government information on pharmaceutical products. You know her as Just The Inserts. Her real name is Alexandra, just like me. And she has always been an anonymous account until now. Just The Inserts provides training and resources to patients and parents looking for credible information about pharmaceutical products to make informed medical decisions.

Sourced from government resources, the insights within the Just the Inserts website, book, and social media are for everyone from the parent trying to navigate childhood vaccination to the patient that just received a complicated medical diagnosis. Watch this episode on the Real Alex Clark YouTube channel or Culture Apothecary on Spotify.

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So you are Just The Inserts. What made you decide to finally reveal your identity? Well, I hid my identity for a long time because I really wanted people to focus on just the inserts. But it's really hard to spread that message when you're hiding behind a logo. So there are some incredible opportunities that I turned down the last four years. And it just wasn't the right time for me to come out with my family. I've had three kids since I started just the inserts. And just the political climate wasn't ready. It wasn't the time to do that. As things started to change and I noticed that more and more people were talking about the importance of informed consent. And you weren't as crazy to talk about vaccines or talk about other aspects of the pharmaceutical industry. it made me more comfortable. And really, RFK, having part of his political platform to be questioning some of the cultural norms that we're all just told that we need to accept, it made me realize it's time. It's time for me to come out. It's time for me to spread the message.

I can reach so much more people with my face associated with the brand. So I'm so excited to be here and finally be doing that. Who are you? I mean, you're a mom, you're a woman, you're a wife. How do you know how to read these inserts? How do you understand all of this? Well, it really started out of necessity for my own personal health journey. And that started when I was active duty military. I experienced quite a few adverse reactions when I was active duty military. I suffered from severe adult acne, like very painful adult acne for about five years. And that whole process forced me to look at the things that I was accepting, the pharmaceuticals I was accepting, the products that I used in my home and the things that I wore,

the things that I put for my baby. And it really just started to make me realize that the things that are easily available in big box stores might not be the best thing. And it forced me to start questioning. So I ended up being more natural-minded. And in that process, when I became pregnant with my first child, I wanted to have a natural childbirth. So I researched, I wasn't ready for a home birth. That was too crazy for me. But I researched and found a birthing center attached to a hospital. And I went through the hospital tour and the pamphlet was all the buzzwords, all the crunchy

buzzwords. It was golden hour, delayed cord clamping, essential oils diffused in the room, a labor pool, stuff like that. So it definitely made me feel comfortable and that it was going to be. what I wanted. Unfortunately, that was a very traumatic experience for me. It was a 44-hour labor. And I had some medical bullying and coercion that occurred during that experience. In that process, I ended up accepting a medical product that injured my child. And when she was injured, I knew I was a nanny as a kid. I babysat. I knew what babies were normally like. And she was in pain.

And she was suffering. And so it really forced me to start wondering what did I accept and how has that been tied to what I'm experiencing as a new parent. So it was the vitamin K injection, the synthetic vitamin K injection. That was the only thing that she had had. And it forced me to start looking for the inserts. I didn't know what they were at the time. But I knew that there had to be some kind of document behind the products because every product

on a market has some kind of legal document behind it. So I knew that there was something there. Once I found it, I actually got down on my knees and praised God that she didn't have all the other reactions that were listed. There's fatal reactions that are known to be caused by the synthetic vitamin K injection. So I was grateful that she hadn't experienced all of those other reactions, but I was really mad because I felt betrayed by the people that I paid a lot of money to share expert experience and advice to me. Nobody ever told me that there were known adverse reactions. Is this something that affects her even now today? She does. She has some liver concerns. Thankfully, we were able to take care of her gastro issues. She was colic. She was jaundice.

There were just a slew of issues. So we were able to heal as much as we can. We are very strict with her diet, very strict with all of the products that she uses. So that's forced us to really focus on that. But overall, praise God, she's recovered and she's a very healthy five-year-old now, very spunky. When did you decide, now I'm going to make this Instagram account called Just the inserts, and I'm going to start going through the inserts of all of these different pharmaceutical, medical products, procedures for people? Well, I started posting on my personal Instagram, and a lot of people didn't like that. I was shadow banned. I had people, I had men contacting my husband asking if he knew what I was doing. They were concerned about my mental health.

Concerned about your mental health because you were sharing what type of information. Government documents about pharmaceutical products. I strictly stuck with dot-gov information. And when I was deleted, I was deleted because I shared dot-gov websites. That's what Instagram said. So none of this is opinion. Nothing that just the inserts is posting is opinion or your experience or anecdotal. It is all documentation from the government. Correct. Yes. Yes. So when I first started researching and then the government shadow banned you for sharing their own info. This is juicy. So I was prior military, right? I have a lot of friends that are military. When I started sharing more and more and my Instagram blew up, it started getting really popular. And then I had my website,

I had people that I knew from the military saying that they could not access my website on any DOD computer. It had been blocked. Whoa. So the government was actually actively censoring you for sure. Which is crazy because my entire website, 99.9% of my website are dot-gov links. So this is all information that you can find. It's just very hidden. And so what I do is I just streamline the research. You could find everything that I post. You can find it all yourself. It just is going to take you a while and it took me a while. I easily have over 10,000 of hours of research on this topic. Are pharmaceutical companies the arbiters of science?

No. They are not the judge, the jury. They are not the final decision on what is or isn't science. And I elaborate that in the book. I talk about how science has been around for as long as people were starting to have unbiased observation and experimentation on the natural world. Pharmaceutical company utilizes science to produce their products, but they aren't the only ones. Science still exists without the pharmaceutical company. Can science be bought and paid for?

Absolutely. Anything can. Why is it important for somebody to acknowledge their preconceived notions before starting to read the information packets on vaccines or pharmaceutical drugs? I thought that was an interesting point of your book. Speaking from experience, that's why I wrote it. Because when I first started researching, my mom had researched for me. She had researched the T-DAP, the preventative product for tetanus diphtheria, protestus when I was pregnant with my first. I had asked her to research it for me. And when she called me

back, she was living across the country at the time. And she called me back a few days later. And she had this sense of anxiety and just urgency in her voice. It sounded as if I was on the edge of a cliff getting ready to jump off. And she was just so forceful and so emotional about what I was going to potentially accept. And it really turned me off. I'm not one to be told what to do. And so it It made me reject her, and I wanted to hear just from the source. I always say it goes straight to the source. And so I started researching inserts, and what really floored me, the pivotal moment was I was reading a manufacturer insert for D-TAPP. And that's the same.

It's a preventative product for diphtheria, tetanus, and pertusses. So T-Dap is for pregnant. D-TAP is for infants. I was reading that, and sudden infant death syndrome is listed as a new. known potential adverse reaction to a product that is given to two, four, and six-month-old babies. And according to the NIH, that's the highest rate of since SIDS in America. Wait a minute. So the NIH says this vaccine, we know, causes an increase in SIDS. So this is coming from a government entity. I've never heard of that. Yeah. Why is this not front page news?

Because I think people wonder that if there is a link between some of the things on the schedule and SIDS. Well, now what most people will say is they will say, well, that's very rare or it's a legal document and therefore the manufacturer has to list something on there because they have to protect themselves from being sued. Well, there's two issues with that. The first is vaccine manufacturers are not held liable for their products causing serious injury or harm or death. The National Childhood Vaccination Act of 1986 has removed liability from manufacturers to be held accountable. There is a National Compensation Injury Program for vaccines, but that is funded by an excise tax on vaccines. So when you accept a vaccine, you are paying 75 cents per disease that's prevented to go towards an injury compensation program for vaccine injury and death.

Never heard that. It's dot-gov information. I have it all on the website. So what's interesting, if you have a trivalent flu vaccine, it's only preventing one vaccine, so it's 75 cents. If you have MMR or T-DEP or anything like that, it's $2.25 per vaccine because it's counted on each disease that's prevented. Holy crap. Oh, yes.

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that they have to cover, there is no way that informed consent is properly being assessed for every patient. You've gotten kicked out of pediatrician offices. This is something that I spoke about at my Senate speech. When I testified at the Senate on chronic disease, I brought up, my whole speech was on millennial moms. Everybody's seen that by now. And I talked about the struggles and only us being essentially science experiments since birth without our consent, but then us trying to raise our own kids, the hoops that we have to jump through to raise healthy kids. And one of the things I brought up and people were like, does that really happen was I said there are parents getting kicked out of their pediatrician's offices for questioning things that can be found on the insert. And this happened

to you? Yes, multiple times. Yes. And I talk about it in the book. And the reason is the American Academy of Pediatrics, they have plenty of resources on their website about how to increase vaccine acceptance for their patients. So they adopt. a presumptive approach strategy. When you walk into a pediatrician's office, they will walk in and say, these are the products that your child needs today, not have you thought about these products for your child? So there is an automatic assumption that the pediatrician has authority over you and your child's body, and that's not the case.

So when you question that and you have questions about the products, very valid questions, that can be an issue for some pediatricians. Another issue can be that that time spent discussing about products is not billable. I link a CDC study of pediatricians that deal with vaccine hesitant parents actually have lowered job satisfaction, which to me is pretty crazy. That's your job. If you're a pediatrician, you need to address all the concerns that a patient has about the products that you're recommending. So how can somebody know if they have made a medical decision with true informed consent or not? The American Academy Association's definition of informed consent is that the patient has access to all the information about that product.

What I deemed to be, it would be the manufacturer insert. So the manufacturer insert is a pamphlet that is provided for every single prescription pharmaceutical. The manufacturers have to state clinical trial information. They have to state any information about drug interactions, eat and food interactions as well. So for Adderall, it states in the insert. that adderol will be limited, the effectiveness of atyrol will be limited if you have vitamin C. So these are things that the manufacturer knows about their products. That's important for you to know.

Just even if you accept it, that's important for you to know. And then there's other warnings and precautions and contraindications, anything that can increase your risk for an adverse reaction. We'll go back to DTAP. So DTAP, they have a warning and precaution and a contraindication. if your child has over three hours of inconsolable crying after a D-TAP injection, it will be a sign that they will have an increased risk for a more serious adverse reaction in a subsequent D-TAP injection.

And how many D-TAP injections are there? Is there like a series or something? There is. Most of them have a series. And the CDC changes the schedule all the time. These are little things that I don't know because I don't have kids yet. So I'm glad to ask you. You say that informed consent is actually a human right.

Could you explain that? So every human has the right to accept delay or decline a medical product. If you accept a medical product, you need to be aware of any of the potential adverse reactions so that you can expedite treatment and eliminate diagnostic confusion. That's the main part of informed consent, even if you plan to accept the product. If you plan to delay a product, you just need to know maybe more about your condition. You maybe need to find a second opinion. Maybe the provider that you're working with is not who you want to work with. maybe there's another option somewhere else that you can go with.

And then if you decline a product, you can either seek alternative treatment with that provider or you can find a new provider. Every person has the right whenever they receive a diagnosis from their medical provider to get a second opinion to research that product and then accept a layer decline that product. How often do you think the doctors are reading the inserts? So I have many, many medical providers that follow on me. And almost all of them say they do not read a manufacturer insert until they themselves. are responsible for a potential adverse reaction or they become parents. And that's a huge problem.

Now, I also have had pharmaceutical representatives that have contacted me and they say, yes, doctors do read inserts, but only when they are presented by a pharmaceutical representative to compare a competitor's product. Hearing that is a similar feeling. I get to knowing that, you know, our physicians have less than a day or zero days spent on nutrition when they're in med school. Doesn't this seem like something that should be the American standard for the well-being of Americans. Nope. Yeah. Nope.

Sometimes people think that they are given the full insert on a vaccine or a medication or a prescription, but they're actually only given part of the information unless they press their doctor. Yes. What's that about? Most of them are called medication guides. If you're talking about vaccines, they're called vaccine information statements. And that was born out of the National Childhood Vaccination Act of 1986.

And what that did is it was supposed to basically save time for the provider. It was supposed to be, here's an information for you to know. Like a short version. The example that I give in the book is like if you're looking at a product, it's the outside of the box. It's kind of just the quick information that you need to know about a product. However, most products that we see on the market, if you open up the box, there's going to be a more intense manufacturer instruction. It's going to tell you if there's a kind of battery in here that can blow up your house, these are the things you need to. know, not to plug it in in a certain way or something like that. That's just an example. So there

are manufacturer inserts that feed the medication guide or feed the vaccine information statement, but they are the ones, that's where all the information is. The concerning thing is, there was an amendment to the Childhood Vaccination Act of 1986 and 1993, and it allowed the CDC to differ from manufacturer inserts. What does that mean? A great example is for the DTAB insert. they didn't have to say SIDS, they just had to say in rare circumstances, a vaccine might cause death. What? Yeah. So as a parent, if you're looking at that, you just think, oh, everything can cause death, water can cause death, eating an avocado can cause death.

That's just some legal jargon. But if parents really knew that a product given to their young infant can cause sudden infant death syndrome, most parents would be quite concerned and ask more questions. Yes. So do you say to your doctor? doctor, I want the vaccine information statement or is this something you get off Google or what? So most of the time they will have it in the office, they'll give it to you. But that's just the high level. You really need to be reading the manufacturer answer. And I would I would suggest not to rely upon your doctor to do that. I would suggest, where do you get those? I have a great

website for you and a great book. So I teach you how to do all of that. It's actually very simple. All you have to do is take the trade name or the generic name of whatever products you're researching and then type in FDA insert after that. And the FDA insert will pop up. Look for a dot-gov link. The most recent one of the most recent year, you'll see it in the URL. And that will most likely be your manufacturer insert. Yeah. So I did this when I was reading your book. I was like, okay, I'm going to try this see if I can do it. So I typed in Ambien. I said Ambien, FDA insert, several different, you know, government links popped up. And then I looked in the URL like you said. And like there was one from 2009. I was like, there's got to be way recent. Then there was like 2016. I was like, that's, that's

you know, let's see if there's anymore. There's like 2021 and then there's 2022. So then I looked at the 2020 one. Good job. Yeah, that's awesome. I learned something for me. I love it. So it's very, very easy. Your book is so interesting. I was like, man, you are so smart. You know women so well because you not only write out every step, but you did like screenshots of what it would look like on your computer also in this section to like, here's what you're looking for and all this. So it's like literally a picture guide step by step, how to read your inserts, how to find them very, very well done. I'm a very visual person. It was good.

And so that was important for me that I needed, and especially too, when you're a new mom, you're not going to want to read just pages and pages of text. You just need something quick that you can reference. And this is a short book with all the info. I think this is a great little baby shower gift to throw into your gift bag, too. Many people have done that. How often do inserts change? It depends. So if a formula changes, the manufacturer-driven change, if a formula changes, a dosage recommended changes or anything like that,

the manufacturer will drive that. The other end is if the FDA pressures there to be a change. So if there happens to be a high number of adverse reactions that are associated with that product, the FDA will make the manufacturer update it. And most of the time when that happens, they'll do what's called a black box warning. It used to be called that now. It's just called box warnings. But you'll see that on the first page of the insert.

It'll be a big black box and it'll say the biggest things that are associated. So for OZempec, the thyroid cancer alert is on the first part of the insert. There's a whole bunch of different things that can be on there. That's just really important. That's meant to be the most important information when you look on an insert. There's a lot of controversy in the functional medicine community about OZempec because some people are very, very anti in all circumstances. And then you have some people that like it in like a microdose setting. Based on what you've read on the inserts, do you think microdosing OZempic?

could be safe? Here's my issue. It's not just GLP1. It has propylene glycol, which is the preservative. And I put this on my website. There is a CDC warning about injecting that long term,

that ingredient. So it's not necessarily the active ingredient that I have an issue with. It's the other ingredients that are in it. Something else nobody else has ever brought up

that I've heard. Right. Oh, it drives me crazy. When I see that, I just want to comment, wait, you need to read the insert. Because if you read the insert, you would see all these other ingredients that are on there. And that's what's important for informed consent. You need to know these other ingredients so then you can research it because that specific ingredient might not have a whole bunch of information on the insert. But it gives you insight and a little breadcrumb for you to take that research and start researching elsewhere and start understanding, okay, if this ingredient, if I'm going to be accepting this product long term, I need to understand all their ingredients in it.

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So what they do is they have this recipe. It's like a recipe card. And it says if you adhere to this recipe card for this certain ingredient, certain dosids, whatever it is, for whatever condition. And over-the-counter prescription does not need to be evaluated by the FDA. So if you look at Mirolax or you look at some other over-the-counter acetametamine or something like that, it'll say that it has not been evaluated by the FDA. To me, it's concerning, especially when you start to look at drug interactions, there is no scientific study that has been done of all the vaccines that are given, all of the medications that are provided during a regular labor in America. Most of the drugs that are used when you're talking about birth are used off label. Most cytotech is actually used for gastric ulcers, but they use that in America to try to encourage contractions.

So for me, when you look at a lot of these over-the-counter prescriptions, it's important to understand what the drug does. But also, there's no research on how it interacts with other things that you're taking at the same time. Can you tell us about the insert for epidural? The biggest thing I have about epidural. I almost accepted an epidural for my first birth because I was just in so much pain. I had horrible back labor. It was, I understand. I don't blame anyone for wanting to get an epidural.

I totally get it. The thing is, most women that get an epidural have no idea that there are listed adverse reactions that can affect your baby and affect your breastfeeding experience. It can increase your risk for anxiety. and depression, which postpartum depression is a really big thing in America. And I actually, I didn't talk about this in the book, but I've talked about it in the past. I've talked about the CDC Foundation. The CDC Foundation is a private entity that fundraises for campaigns to support the CDC. And there was one campaign that was meant to be for women that were suffering from postpartum depression.

Unfortunately, that campaign was funded by a pharmaceutical company. that had products with listed anxiety, depression, adverse reactions that are given to postpartum women. So here they were funding an awareness campaign to try to bring awareness about postpartum depression, but then they had products that contributed to postpartum depression. That reminds me of Bayer and glyphosate and Hodgkin's lymphoma. Right. This is why this rabbit trail, it's like you start going down it and you want to believe the good in people. You want to believe other human beings could never do this to other human beings and yet you read the freaking inserts. Right. And I will say, I've talked with

pharmaceutical employees. There's actually one pharmaceutical employee. She found my Clomid insert. Clomid is a fertility medication. And her mother had taken it. And on the insert, it says that it can cause fetal abnormalities. And this woman has only one thumb and she endorsed. And she endorsed 20 surgeries within her first year of life. And she has so much pain from her fetal abnormality that she got at birth. And she got into the pharma industry. She was making vaccines. And then she found my clomid insert. And she realized she had no clue. She had never been taught this. She had never been educated that there were inserts. And that manufacturers and the government entities that are in charge of pharmaceutical companies that regulate pharmaceutical companies. That regulate pharmaceuticals.

pharmaceutical companies know that these adverse reactions are listed. She had no idea. And she ended up leaving the industry because she just couldn't be a part of it anymore. So I do, I tried to have grace because there are people who truly just want to make the world a better place. They truly think that they are bringing some kind of charity work with their products. And unfortunately, according to the government and the manufacturers, that might not be the case. So does just the inserts believe that parents have to choose one? one of two camps. You're either pro-vax or anti. I actually don't believe in that. And that's what originally turned me off to this whole conversation is there was a false dichotomy that you had to be

one or the other. And I do not think that there's actually a clear definition of each. Each person is going to have a different definition of who's who is pro-vaccine. Is that you accept every single product on the market. If you delay any of them, are you no longer pro-vaccine? and then for anti-vaccine is that you've never had a vaccine your entire life because that would make most of the anti-vaxers, not anti-vaxers, because they've accepted products or they have vaccinated their own children. So I don't even play with those terms. I say that I am pro-informed consent. Informed consent is a basic human right. Everyone has the right to accept delay or decline any or all medical products. What are the questions that every parent should ask their pediatrician

before saying yes to a vaccine for a child? Have they read the answer? What do you think of these commonly used phrases? Vaccines provide immunity. Vaccines save lives and vaccines provide herd immunity. There's a lot of flaws to that logic. And we'll go through just the basic ones. The first is most manufacturers have a section called limitations of effectiveness. And unfortunately, it's very bare.

It's just one sentence. And it will say this product may not provide protection to every person that accepts it. So if that's the case, Even if you and I are 100% vaccinated, according to the manufacturer, we may not be protected. So if that's what the manufacturer is saying, there's no way to accomplish herd immunity. Even if everyone accepts that product, they're not going to be protected, all of them according to the manufacturer. The other issue is there's a section called shedding. And I know shedding can be quite controversial.

Is it? It can be. What's why? Well, so according to the CDC, shedding is when any part of the ingredient of, of the vaccine is shed from the vaccinated person. There's also natural shedding. So if I were to get flu, I could naturally shed flu onto you through my nasal cavities or some like polio virus is actually through fecal matter. So if you don't wash your hands after going to the bathroom and then I touch your hand or we hug or something like that, I could shed the virus onto you. So the same thing happens

with vaccines. And traditionally speaking, most shedding is done with live vaccines. So that's MMR. That's the flumists, the influenza that goes up the nose. That's typically when we talk about shedding. That's most of the time what a manufacturer is talking about. A really good example is the polio vaccine. There's an oral polio vaccine. So those are drops in the mouth. Those are known to cause paralytic polio in individuals that have been shed upon by recently vaccinated people.

So that was why the oral polio vaccine was phased out. I believe in 1997 and was replaced with an inactivated polio vaccine. Now, according to the manufacturer and the CDC, even if you take an inactivated polio vaccine, you can still shed the vaccine and the natural virus onto other people. Okay, so this debunks which vaccines providing immunity or vaccines save lives. Both. Because if you're, if you are a vaccinated person and you believe that you're fully protected and that you're protecting your immunocompromised family member, you might be putting them in danger.

So that's the traditional speaking of shedding. Now, when COVID came out, the COVID vaccine came out, everybody was worried, does it going to shed? Is it not? Spike proteins, blah, blah, blah, blah. I don't really cover that because there's so much debate in that. And every single source that you go to is going to have a different view on that. However, the CDC does speak to breakthrough infections. So those mirror shedding-like events.

So if I were to be 100% vaccinated for the COVID vaccine, the COVID vaccine does not stop the spread of COVID. It just suppresses my symptoms. So if I had the coronavirus that leads to COVID-19 and I was 100% vaccinated, I would have no symptoms. So I wouldn't stay home. There would be nothing when you were sick this past weekend that alerted you to stay home. I don't have that.

So I'm going to go out. I'm going to see family members. I'm going to go into the community. I'm going to go to large-scale events. And I'm going to shed that virus, that coronavirus, to everyone that I meet because I don't know that I have symptoms. Oh. So even though the COVID-19 vaccines aren't live, they still have a shedding-like event because of breakthrough infections. And this is all on the CDC website. How do we know that vaccine injuries are underreported? There was a million dollar grant that was awarded to a Harvard Medical Research Group. And they were tasked to study the effectiveness of the passive surveillance system that is called VERS, vaccine adverse event reaction system, and FERS, which is the FDA's adverse event reaction system. Those are for drugs. So they were tasked to assess the effectiveness of this surveillance system.

They came out and said that less than 1% of vaccine adverse reactions reported through VERS. Why is that happening? Because if you think about it. So when I first read that, I was like, that's bonkers. There's no way. Like, there's no way that that program would be so inefficient and only capture less than 1%. Then I started talking to medical professionals. Understaffing is a huge issue, it not being a part of the regular workflow.

Oh, my gosh. And most medical professionals are not required. They're not mandated to report adverse reactions within a certain. So if you were to receive a vaccine and you're at a vaccine, and your adverse reaction happened outside of the time window. Normally it's about four to seven days. Then I don't have to, I'm not mandated to report that reaction. This is an American scandal.

It's horrible. And I have a lot of emergency responders that message me. And they say one of the first things that they ask when they respond to a pediatric call is, are you up to day on your vaccinations? And almost every single time the parent will say, yeah, we had it earlier today. Why do you ask? So that's definitely something that's concerning, that there's no stream. streamlined efficient way to report adverse reactions. Now, during the COVID craziness, everyone said, oh, well, theirs is anybody can report to theirs, almost discrediting it, even though the FDA and CDC speak to the importance of those passive surveillance systems. And what most of them didn't realize, when you go to submit a report onto these passive surveillance systems, you could be fined or put into prison for putting in a faulty report. And so nobody is going to want to take that risk.

Of course not. Yeah, that it's going to be misconstrued as faulty or whatever. Right. And it is so much information that you have to put on that. You have to do the vaccine lot number. You have to put information about your condition. So they make it almost nearly impossible for like an average American to understand how to fill this out and report. Right.

And you most likely will need some kind of collaboration with your medical provider because you need to know the training. Oh, good luck. Yeah. They probably kicked you out of your clinic. Right, right. Just request your medical records. People want to know where they can find. proof that the current childhood vaccination schedule includes up to 70 vaccines. So if you look up, just go into your Google, your preferred search engine, and type in CDC

vaccine schedule. It will pop up. The CDC website will pop up. And you can go and look. They have several different graphs. And it'll say these are the vaccines that are recommended from a child that is born, birth, all the way up into 18 years old. And most people don't realize there's also an adult recommended schedule.

Oh, brother. Yeah. Okay. Well, see, this is the problem, too, is I think people don't understand that it's that many because they're putting multiple shots within one syringe. So you don't even know that you're getting a whole bunch in there up to how many six? Yeah, they just, gosh, they keep. Well, MRNA is going to make it more complicated, I believe, because MRNA is really easy.

It's much cheaper and more cost effective to make. So I think in the next few years we're going to see more and more of the combo shots. This is why people are confused. they're like, because what I was getting was a bunch of mom saying, I have no idea what you're talking about. Once again, you're somebody that has no kids who is giving wrong information. They said, I have never taken my kid to a pediatrician office where they have given them more than one vaccine or whatever in one visit. And I said, ma'am, they were giving your kid multiple vaccines within the same shot. Yeah. Then they never write me back on DMs. Yeah, they're called combination

vaccines. They're bewildered by that. And they don't even know. And, you know, I'm not trying to be like, you know, making them feel bad. It's just, this is really, it's just insane that people don't already know this information. It's insane that they're hearing it from me and not their doctor. Right. But, you know, they weren't informed. There was no informed consent. That tells me that informed consent is not the norm in America.

Yep. And they just hate me because I'm the messenger and I don't happen to have kids. This is just like government information or government evidence. Right. I don't need to have kids to look this up and say this. Right. You know what I'm saying? Right.

So that is just, I think that's a weak response. And I think it's beautiful that you know this before you have kids. I wish I would have researched this before I had kids. Because when you have kids, when you have a baby, every single second counts. Everything that you do counts. I just had my third baby in springtime. You don't get a chance to put on your frownies. You don't get a chance to put on your skincare routine.

You don't, you get, most of the time you can't wear a bra. Like every second counts. And so when you. have those children, it is so important for you to research those things, but most of the time you don't have the time to do it because there are so many things that are like just demanding your attention. So I think everyone should research before. And I have people that message be of, when should I find a pediatrician? Now, before you have kids, find your medical provider. It doesn't have to be a pediatrician. You can go with a family doctor. You can go with anyone you want to.

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we were constantly hounded about potential conflict of interest. I was a budget officer, so I was always hounded on, okay, what stocks do you have? Do you have any ties to potential contractors that would be petitioning the government? So it was ingrained in me about potential conflict of interest. So when I researched this, this just blew my mind. The CDC and FDA have loopholes where people can be on committees to allow products to be added to the CDC schedule. if their position outweighs the risk for potential conflict of interest. Now, unfortunately, these products, in order to gain that expertise, most likely you have to

have some experience in a pharmaceutical company. So I would venture to guess that most of the people that are adding these products onto the CDC schedule have some ties in a pharmaceutical industry. Just because it's natural for them to be able to be at the expertise levels that they are, they have to have some kind of ties. So the CDC and FDA says, if it's more important for you to be on this panel, for you to vote in this product, even though you have a financial conflict of interest, we will waive that for you. Are there risks to stopping vaccinating mid-series?

I get this question a lot, and it's a very valid question. I think it's born out of antibiotics. We're always told when you take antibiotics, you have to take the full amount of antibiotics or it won't be effective. That's not the case with vaccines. So if you have a six dose series and you're halfway through, you've done three doses, your child has developed a contraindication, or you just don't want to accept those products anymore, you can stop those products. You do not have to complete the series. Now, the pediatrician or medical provider will argue that your immunity won't last as long, but then I would point you to the limitation of effect in this section that says not everybody vaccinated will be protected. Can't we owe the decline of disease to the fact that people started vaccinating their children? This was really tricky when I first started researching because I remember it was circulating on Facebook. And it's normally like my grandparents' generation.

They circle this picture around of like a child with polio and how grateful they are for vaccines because now people aren't having to deal with polio anymore. Now, unfortunately, that tells me now that I've researched, they haven't really. researched polio and the history of polio. And I actually include that in the book because I think it's really important to understand. When polio vaccine came to market, polio was already declining. And this is according to the CDC. Now, unfortunately, according to the CDC and the National History Museum, when the first polio vaccine came to market, there were people dying from it because it's called the cutter incident. There was a laboratory that wasn't properly filtering out virus. So when people were getting injected with the polio vaccine, it was actually causing

polio in the vaccinated arm, whereas polio traditionally started in the legs. So they were realizing that the polio was actually, the polio vaccine was actually causing polio. Another example, the World Health Organization, they've stated that the inactivated measles vaccine when it came onto the market was causing an aggressive atypical measles infection for vaccinated children. So it was actually causing more harm. So we'll go back to the polio example. So instead of polio decreasing the disease, wiping out polio, it actually had, there were more cases of vaccine-derived politic polio than there were wild. Is there a lower risk associated with a delayed schedule?

Yes and no. Yes, in the sense of if you have one of those combo vaccines, there could be an increased risk if you're putting six vaccines in. your arm at the same time with the preservatives, the adjuvants, everything else. You could argue that would be more dangerous and potential risk than if you were to receive each of those vaccines in an individual injection. However, normally when we talk about a delayed schedule, that's when you spread out how many vaccines that you get in each pediatrician's appointment. So the biggest complaint people say about that is that they have to go to the pediatrician all the time because they have to constantly be giving vaccines to their kids. Now, the benefit of a delayed

schedule is you can identify which product caused the adverse reaction. However, it doesn't stop the reaction from happening. You just know what caused it. So a great example is if you were to give new food to a baby. So say you were giving my daughter just started solids. So if we gave her a food, we would wait a few days, see if she had an an anaphylactic reaction or rash or anything like that and then we would know, okay, she's good with that food and then we would introduce a new one. Whereas if you gave her five foods at once and she had a reaction, we wouldn't know what food caused her to have that reaction, but she still has the reaction. What should moms know about consumer guilt and regretting medical decisions that they have made in the past for their

kids? Well, those are two different things and I really want to, those are great questions. And I think that's really important to hit on, especially if anyone's listening right now and they feel like they made the wrong decisions for their kids. We make the decisions off the information that's provided to us. When you go to a pediatrician's office, you are hiring them for their expertise and for their advice and the education that they have. When that is not provided to you, please, please don't put that gill on yourself. I know that it's really easy to do that, but you will spiral into bitterness. And it'll become so overwerews. And it'll become so overwerex. that you'll just throw your hands up and say, well, I already messed up. They're already

injured. Like, what's the point? So I think it's really important to understand that if you do have some kind of a guilt that we just, we know better and we do better and just to go forward making the best decision for your child. And that's why I say informed consent is so important because I'm not against anyone accepting delaying or declining a product. I just want you to be informed so that when you do make that decision, you don't have that guilt. You don't feel like, you were duped or betrayed. Now, if there is a reaction, there might be a little bit of guilt because you knew that up front that there could be a reaction and then if your child had a reaction, then there's going to be guilt there. And that's just, that just comes with being responsible

and having authority over your body. That's, that's natural. That's going to happen no matter what product you're accepting. So consumer guilt is whenever you go to a service provider or you receive a product and you feel guilty about asking questions or going outside the regular experience. So if you were to go get your hair done and the person does a horrible job, they like make your bangs look horrible or they do the wrong color of your hair or something. And then you say, okay, thank you. And then you tip them. That's consumer guilt. That's rooted in the desire not to offend someone or inconvenience someone. And that happens. all of the time with medical providers.

Yes. I have one friend. She is amazing. She is so intelligent. She's a lawyer. She knows everything about anything. She is fantastic, beautiful, gorgeous, like just very, very powerful person. When she walked into a pediatrician's office, she had done all this research, she decided she wanted to delay or decline some products. When she walked into a pediatrician's office, she told me she could not verbalize anything that she had researched. She started fumbling over her words. She just felt like she was being rushed. She felt that she was being an inconvenience. And that is a very real atmosphere that new parents or moms go into whenever they go into a pediatrician's office. So that's a very, and that's why I put it into the book. It's so important for you to know that

up front. So then when you go into an office, you're already aware of it and you're not blindsided. If somebody claims that their doctor won't let them decline or end a certain medication, what should they tell them? No, thank you. Period. You are responsible for your body. For every product you accept delay or decline, you are responsible for whatever adverse reaction

that could happen financially and anything that happens to your body, you're responsible for those complications. But let's say you say no, thank you, and the doctor says, I don't accept that you have to do this. So that's called medical coercion. If the doctor is telling you

that you do not have the ability to accept delay or decline a product, that is not informed consent. And try to safely remove yourself from that situation. If you sense that a medical provider is becoming emotional about your personal medical decision, that is not informed consent. And there is zero tolerance of that in a provider-patient relationship. Tell me about the mom paralyzed with fear. She's scared to not have her child take something and then get sick, but she's also scared of having them take something and then have side effects associated with taking something.

That's such a valid fear. and I've been there. I totally understand that. There is an exercise that I have in my book and on my training course on my website and it's called root of fear. And what it is, it's writing down all of your fears.

Do you fear that your pediatrician's going to be mad at you? Do you fear that your child will be judged for accepting or delaying or declining a product? Do you fear the disease that your child may potentially get? Write down all of those fears so then you can categorize this. Is this fear of a person?

is this fear of judgment or is this fear of a disease or is this fear of my child not being healthy? Because those are two very different things. If you're fearing somebody judging you or you're fearing upsetting your medical provider, that's going to be different than if you're fearing your child ever getting sick. There's two different answers for that. And hopefully my book has been designed to answer all of those fears. So when I talk about are you fearful that your child is going to get measles? that's a valid fear, especially with outbreaks in the United States happening.

Unfortunately, though, because of what we know about shedding and what we know about adverse reactions listed on the adverse or listed on the manufacturer insert, atypical measles is listed as a potential adverse reaction on the MMR. So you can still get measles if you accept MMR. So that's important. That's important for you to research into you know because if you're incredibly scared that your child's going to get measles, there's still potential that you will get measles if you accept that product. My favorite quote in your book was, no is a full sentence. Can you elaborate on that?

If you do not want to go into depth on why you don't want to accept delay or decline in medical product, you don't have to elaborate that. Your service provider is providing you a service and it's a hired service. You do not have to explain if you do not want to or you don't feel comfortable explaining it to your provider why you decided that decision. Now, I will say, as a caveat, there are certain nuances with open CPS cases or custody battle. So if you are in that situation, my advice is to seek professional legal help. It does depend on your state based on the definition of medical neglect in your state.

You do need to be aware of that. Not that it is medical neglect. You just need to understand how the legislation is set up in your state. You do need to be aware of that. if you are operating within your right, especially if there are exemptions in your state, you do not have to, it's not your job to educate the medical provider about inserts. How can somebody find a provider who believes in informed consent? I have a ton of tips in the book. The first is to just research, ask people,

as like-minded people, either in your local community or on your natural-minded social media groups, there are some underground directories out there. And it's actually something that I really want to work on. And I'm getting ready to rebrand and refresh the website. And that's one of the things that I want to put on there. I want to have a directory of pro-informed consent providers because it can be really hard to find. I know it took me forever to find providers in my area. You could just do all 50 states and put a couple in there from each state. Yeah. That'd be great.

Yeah, exactly. Exactly. I love that. So in the book I talk about all the different types of health care as well, you don't have to have a pediatrician. You can have a family doctor. You can have a chiropractor. You can have all these other naturopathic doctors. A lot of people don't realize that. They think that it's a legal mandate that they have to go to a pediatrician and that's not the case. If you could provide one remedy to heal a sick culture, physically, mentally or spiritually, what would it be? Do not gatekeep the information. If you learn about inserts and you learn how to, to find inserts and read inserts, share it with a friend. The more that we're able to have open and respectful conversation about informed consent, the better for everyone. What is your Instagram and what sorts of content do you provide and tell us about your book? So just the inserts.com is my website. Just the inserts on Instagram and X.

I'm also Just the Alternatives. So I have my insert Instagram where I go through all the pharmaceuticals. And then for the community that delays or declines, I have just the alternatives. and you can find my book on my website. And then I have a few really exciting things coming up on the website. I actually got to meet you before this because you came to my chronic disease Senate hearing and were so sweet and you came up to me and gave me your book. And I had reached out to you.

I already knew you were coming on the show, but we had never met. And so I was so excited to meet you at that. And, like, I mean, she is the real deal, you guys. You were smart as a whip. Your book is so well researched. You are so good at breaking down complex information for the, average American mom or anybody looking for, you know, medical information on medications or procedures. It's just phenomenal what you're doing. This is true grassroots work. This is culture changing work.

And I just think everyone should follow your page. I think you're fantastic. Thank you for coming on Culture PapiCari. Thank you so much for having me. I love this girl so much. She is just such a delight in person, online. Everything I said at the end is true. I think she is, somebody who is doing major important change for young moms in America especially. And I just respect the heck out of her. And I just adore her. So it was amazing meeting her. You should definitely be following just the inserts. We release new episodes every Monday and Thursday, 6 p.m. Pacific, 9 p.m. Eastern. We're on a mission to heal us at culture, physically, mentally, and spiritually. You can leave a five-star review for us that really helps the show.

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