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A new vaccine study published in
Molecular and Genetic Medicine is bringing to the forefront the disturbing connection between the dramatic expansion in the quantity of routine childhood vaccines administered and a corresponding increase in inflammation-associated disorders.

Titled, “Review of Vaccine Induced Immune Overload and the Resulting Epidemics of Type 1 Diabetes and Metabolic Syndrome, Emphasis on Explaining the Recent Accelerations in the Risk of Prediabetes and other Immune Mediated Diseases,” the study argues that vaccine-induced immune overload is a driving factor in a number of rapidly accelerating childhood epidemics including:

• Autism 
• Type 1 diabetes 
• Asthma 
• Food allergies 
• Many autoimmune diseases 
• Obesity 
• Type 2 diabetes 
• Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFL) 
• Metabolic disease.

The paper sought to provide a theory of vaccine induced immune overload to explain many observations about the changes in the epidemics.  The fundamental problem, according to the study, is that vaccinology assumes a ‘one size fits all’ approach that results in the majority of the vaccine recipients having overstimulated immune systems:

“One major problem with vaccines is the concept of one size fits all. Package inserts of almost all vaccines recommend a dose based on age. In order for a vaccine to be a commercial success it is expected to induce a protective immune response in well over 90% of children. In order for this to happen a dose, based on age, must stimulate a protective immune response in those with the weakest immune system. In the process of doing this, the other 90% or more of children have their immune system over stimulated. The process of over stimulating the immune system time and time again increases the risk of inflammatory diseases like autoimmune diseases, and allergies which cause even more inflammation.”