Informed Health

I will not be updating this blog anymore, at least I have no plans to do so anytime in the near future. I am moving most of my content to my substack. I am slowly doing one vaccine/disease at a time and so far have covered tetanus, pertussis, polio, smallpox, and am currently working on…

Let’s talk about SIDS for a minute. The CDC defines it as follows: “Sudden unexpected infant death (SUID) is a term used to describe the sudden and unexpected death of a baby less than 1 year old in which the cause was not obvious before investigation. These deaths often happen during sleep or in the…

I recently came across this photo from a pediatrician’s group office and it’s been niggling at the back of my mind for the past several days so I thought it might be useful to take it point by point and respond to the belief statements with actual evidence since (as is typical) there is not…

I’ve recently gotten several people asking me about this outbreak and wondering if they should get their children vaccinated for polio so I decided it would be worthwhile to address this in a short blog post as thoroughly as I can while my husband has the boys out for ice cream. One of the people…

“If you abide in my word, you are truly my disciples, and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.” -John 8:31-32 I write this with a little bit of humor mixed with a heavy dose of sorrow. I’ve been noticing so many admissions lately that I’m sometimes baffled at how…

I’m so excited to present my first guest blog written by Jennita Wagner (our.cultivated.home on Instagram). I haven’t done a deep dive into this topic myself, but after reading this extremely thorough and informative piece, I asked her if I could add it to my blog to make it available for anyone who may want…

There is a theory often spoken of in the circles I’m a part of and a lot of times it’s posed as a question: “are we trading childhood infections for chronic disease?” I tend to think that we are. For example in the 60s when measles rates were impacting an estimated 3 to 4 million…

How does one go over the risks and benefits of the covid vaccines? Where do you begin? How do you choose what to share and what to pass over? What are the most important things to be aware of as we make decisions for our future and the future of our children? Well, here is…

I’ve been seeing an email recently that seems to be getting more and more common as a response to employees requesting religious exemption for the covid vaccines. Some of y’all have wanted to know what my response would be to the questions asked so I thought I would write it out and make it available…

I've hesitated broaching this subject for quite a while now, because people are already so convinced on this topic that it's almost impossible to carry on a decent conversation. Plus, although autism is a huge problem the world over, I think it's extremely easy to disqualify vaccines as "safe" on multiple other reactions and issues…