Someone was saying that “Squalene” was a dangerous substance that is dangerous to inject. They say that with great sincerity. It’s keeping people from getting their innoculations.
The new strain of virus is likely to replace the older one; and if there’s a third wave later in the year it could be more virulent. We had the equivalent of a flu season’s worth of illness and deaths from August to November, when there are normally very few. In Canada, most of the people who died have been younger women (which is most unusual). So getting your flu shot is important, perhaps vital.
The fear-mongers are totally off-base with fears of squalene. It is one of many fats, or lipids as scientists call them, made in our own bodies. If you’ve ever had olive oil, corn oil, cod-liver oil, or shark-liver oil, meat, or fish, you’ve been drinking and eating squalene. Concentrated squalene from shark-liver oil is sold in health stores for high prices as a beneficial natural substance. We have it in every cell of our bodies. It’s stored in our livers, circulates in our blood, and oozes out of our skin. Injecting a few more milligrams of squalene into a body already awash with the stuff is completely safe.
The adjuvant used with the vaccine is made up of squalene, vitamin E, and water. It emulsifies the vaccine to give it more surface area (lots of little droplets) so that you only need 1/4 of the actual virus protein. The search for something causing Gulf War Syndrome found a tiny amount of squalene, so tiny that researchers think it probably came from the oils in someone’s fingerprint.
Here’s a link to a research paper (PDF), “Measurement of squalene in human tissues and plasma.” This paper mentions that human skin secretes squalene, that our fat contains a lot of squalene, and that our bloodstream contains squalene. It’s in our bile and gallbladders.
Here’s a link to a research paper (PDF), “Measurement of squalene in human tissues and plasma.” This paper mentions that human skin secretes squalene, that our fat contains a lot of squalene, and that our bloodstream contains squalene. It’s in our bile and gallbladders.
The article also says that an American eating a diet of 2000 Calories probably eats about 25 milligrams of squalene. Blood plasma levels in healthy, fasting Americans were about 20 – 70 micrograms per decilitre. They note that getting accurate and consistent measurement of squalene in biological samples, they must clean glassware thoroughly:
PRECAUTIONS: The high rate of secretion of squalene by the human skin leads to gross contamination of laboratory glassware unless exceptional care is taken to render every item squalene-free. Only after some experience is gained with the method is it feasible to not use polyvinyl gloves pre-rinsed with petrol ether. After routine cleaning of glassware, including that in which biologic samples are to be collected, we sonicate [agitate by ultrasound --M.] for 3 min in detergent; then, after rinsing away the detergent in distilled water, we sonicate again in distilled water before air-drying. Then, immediately prior to use of the glassware, it is rinsed in chloroform-methanol 2:1 and then air-dried.
So you see that just touching the inside of a container by accident could result in a false positive for squalene.
The Canadian vaccine contains 3.8 micrograms of viral protein (HA) and 5 micrograms of preservative solution mixed with 12 milligrams of Vitamin E, 11 milligrams of squalene, and 5 milligrams of Polysorbate 80, whatever that is.
The article quoted above notes that a person secretes 125 – 475 milligrams of squalene per day from their skin.
The viral material, haemagglutinin (the H in H1), is made up of cleaned and purified fragments of virus shell, so it can’t give anyone flu. If you get flu after the shot, it’s because you were incubating the virus (and infectious to others) but had not yet developed symptoms.
And this isn’t news: the paper is from 1976, more than 30 years ago. The intention of the paper was to see if researchers could learn to make consistent measurements of squalene in samples.
January 10, 2010 at 08:47
Government fights against Pilot:
a personal story, with a difference
http://bennymay.wordpress.com/
January 12, 2010 at 08:06
Wow, you sound right paranoid! It’s all their fault, is it?
January 16, 2010 at 08:34
Dude, was that directed at me?
{Paranoia relates to delusions of persecution, unwarranted jealousy, exaggerated self-importance, unjustified suspicion or mistrust of others. The doctors say that is NOT me.
I have no delusions beyond what the RAAF admits.
I don’t see myself as overly important.
I’m relatively trusting.}
The top medical experts in Australia (in the relevant area) said the air force vaccinations are the most probable cause of the medical condition I began suffering when the air force vaccinated me.
So, is it their fault?
Well, read my blog, and decide for yourself.
January 16, 2010 at 05:47
[...] Oh, that dangerous squalene!: [...]
January 17, 2010 at 08:30
Let me propose an experiment:
Take some olive oil, corn oil, cod-liver oil, or shark-liver oil, meat, or fish (or even sebum, the oil on your own skin). Put them through a blender. Sterilize the mixture. Then inject 0.25ml into yourself.
Volunteers, anyone??
January 17, 2010 at 14:32
You’d get a reaction to the foreign proteins of corn, olives, or flesh. However, if you used your own skin’s oil or purified squalene, there would be no reaction.
Incidentally, we make tiny amounts of our own formaldehyde, too, and the concentration in a vaccine is so low that we’re diluting what’s already in our bloodstreams.
January 17, 2010 at 18:26
If this was purified squalene, what you (or at least some portions of the population) would get would be what laboratory animals get when they are injected with squalene and similar oil-adjuvants – autoimmune arthritis. http://www.newfluwiki2.com/diary/3986/vaccine-adjuvants-and-the-pathogenesis-of-autoimmune-disease-i And, depending on what kind of protein antigen you inject together with the adjuvant, you’d get various forms of autoimmune disease. eg Experimental autoimmune encephalomyelitis or EAE, which is the laboratory model for multiple sclerosis. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Experimental_autoimmune_encephalomyelitis
Science is not about assumptions made based on our own (limited) understanding. Things don’t work the way we think just cos we think so. Things need to be determined by experiment.
For more evidence-based discussion on the safety of oil adjuvants, see http://www.newfluwiki2.com/tag/adjuvant
Have a nice day ;-)
January 21, 2010 at 00:31
Oh, here’s one: Potentiation by squalene of antitumor effect of 3-[(4-amino-2-methyl-5-pyrimidinyl)methyl]-1-(2-chloroethyl)-nitros ourea in a murine tumor system: “The effect of squalene (SQ) on the antitumor activity of 3-[(4-amino-2-methyl-5-pyrimidinyl)methyl]-1-(2-chloroethyl)-1-nitros urea (ACNU) was studied in a murine tumor system. SQ at 4.2 g/kg exhibited a significant potentiating effect on the activity of 10 mg/kg of ACNU against lymphocytic leukemia P388 and resulted in some long-term survivors without toxicity to the host. Simultaneous administration of SQ and ACNU was most effective.” Injected squalene makes anti-cancer drug more effective.
January 21, 2010 at 00:47
And here’s a bit on the “injecting squalene is BAD” research. theme:
Links from the quote:
J. Pharm Biomed Analysis 2002: The method has a limit of detection of 140 parts per billion and has been successfully applied to a commercial vaccine known to contain squalene. We have applied this method to 17 lots of Anthrax Vaccine Adsorbed administered to members of the US Armed Forces. No squalene has been detected in any lot. The results of these analyses provide direct evidence for the absence of squalene as an ingredient or a manufacturing contaminant in Anthrax Vaccine Adsorbed.
J. Pharm Biomed Analysis 2006: Specific lots of anthrax vaccine adsorbed administered to members of the U.S. Armed Forces have been alleged to contain squalene, a chemical purported to be associated with illnesses of Gulf War veterans. A method of enhanced sensitivity for determining squalene in anthrax vaccine adsorbed using high-performance liquid chromatography with photodiode array detection has been developed, validated, and applied to 44 bottles of 38 lots of anthrax vaccine. In 43 bottles of 37 lots, no squalene was detected within a detection limit of 1ng/0.5ml dose (2 parts-per-billion). One lot, FAV008, was found to contain trace amounts of squalene at 7, 9, and 1microgl(-1), levels considerably below normal human plasma levels (290microgl(-1)). The overall results of this investigation provide direct evidence for the absence of squalene in nearly all of anthrax vaccine preparations tested.
Vaccine. 2009: Since the end of the 1991 Gulf War, there have been reports of unexplained, multisymptom illnesses afflicting veterans who consistently report more symptoms than do nondeployed veterans. One of the many possible exposures suspected of causing chronic multisymptom illnesses Gulf War veterans is squalene, thought to be present in anthrax vaccine. We examined the relationship between squalene antibodies and chronic symptoms reported by Navy construction workers (Seabees), n=579. 30.2% were deployers, 7.4% were defined as ill, and 43.5% were positive for squalene antibodies. We found no association between squalene antibody status and chronic multisymptom illness (p=0.465). The etiology of Gulf War syndrome remains unknown, but should not include squalene antibody status.
Clinical and Vaccine Immunology, 2006: Squalene is a naturally occurring oil which has been used in the development of vaccine adjuvants, such as the oil-in-water emulsion MF59. In past years, by use of noncontrolled and nonvalidated assays, a claim was made that antisqualene antibodies were detectable in the sera of individuals with the so-called Gulf War syndrome. Using a validated enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay for the quantitation of immunoglobulin G (IgG) and IgM antibodies against squalene, we demonstrated that antisqualene antibodies are frequently detectable at very low titers in the sera of subjects who were never immunized with vaccines containing squalene. More importantly, vaccination with a subunit influenza vaccine with the MF59 adjuvant neither induced antisqualene antibodies nor enhanced preexisting antisqualene antibody titers. In conclusion, antisqualene antibodies are not increased by immunization with vaccines with the MF59 adjuvant. These data extend the safety profile of the MF59 emulsion adjuvant.
September 14, 2010 at 08:41
O.K., Fine Don’t blame Squalene. Do you really think it matters to all the people suffering from autoimmune conditions as a result of the H1N1 Vaccine what exact component caused their suffering? See the link below!
http://canadiansforhealthfreedom.wordpress.com/h1n1-vaccine-side-effects-canadians-please-report-here/
Yes there is a lot of Canadains suffering.
Why don’t you take some of your mental prowess and concern youself with finding the smoking gun, if not Squalene then what?
You see we that suffer don’t care what caused this, we just want it to stop. We can’t understand why our surffering is being unreconized by the medical comunity and the government we trusted that and so easily took full responsibility for this vacinne.
Your missing the real issue here, can I make this any clearer for you?
September 16, 2010 at 11:29
That’s because as far as real research goes, not “OMG I’ve got an ache it must be teh vaccine,” there are very few side effects and most of them are temporary reactions. Look up the hundreds of phone calls that the BC government got about reactions to aerial spraying, followed by hundreds of embarrassed silences when the callers found out that the spraying hadn’t taken place as scheduled.