Why Do They Put Aluminum In Vaccines? The Difference Between Injection and Ingestion

Are aluminum adjuvants necessary for some vaccines to work? Is there another way? This article explores concerns with aluminum containing vaccines and why such an extremely toxic substance is used.

Images show close-ups of intracellular adjuvant particles contained within vesicle-like structures and the red arrows highlight their presence within the respective cell. Via “Insight into the cellular fate and toxicity of aluminium adjuvants used in clinically approved human vaccinations.” Scientific Reports (Nature 2016).

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A number of childhood vaccines, like the HPV vaccine, contain aluminum adjuvants. It’s also used in DTaP vaccines, the pneumococcal conjugate vaccine, hepatitis B vaccines and many more. Aluminum adjuvants have been used in various vaccines since the 1930s. Despite this fact, government health authorities have claimed that it’s safe despite the fact that they’ve never provided adequate studies or data to prove this.

The CDC currently recommends up to 22 aluminum containing vaccines from birth up to the age of 18 years old.

A 2011 study published in Current Medical Chemistry explains,

“Aluminum is an experimentally demonstrated neurotoxin and the most commonly used vaccine adjuvant. Despite almost 90 years of widespread use of aluminum adjuvants, medical science’s understanding about their mechanisms of action is still remarkably poor. There is also a concerning scarcity of data on toxicology and pharmacokinetics of these compounds. In spite of this, the notion that aluminum in vaccines is safe appears to be widely accepted. Experimental research, however, clearly shows that aluminum adjuvants have a potential to induce serious immunological disorders in humans”

It’s 2024 now, and we have a wealth of science that has shown cause for concern. I’ve written about this previously multiple times and provided various examples.

The article below would be my latest example if you’re interested in examining some of these concerns a little deeper. I also briefly touched upon some in this article you’re reading now.

So let us examine the question of, why do they put aluminum in some vaccines?

The FDA explains,

“Aluminum salts are incorporated into some vaccine formulations as an adjuvant.  An adjuvant is a substance added to some vaccines to enhance the immune response of vaccinated individuals.”

Dr. Martin Howell Friede, Unit Head of the Product & Delivery Research team (PDR) for the Department of Immunization, Vaccines and Biologicals at the World Health Organization, explained why adjuvants are added to vaccines at the World Vaccine Summit in 2019,

“When we add an adjuvant, it’s because it is essential. We do not add adjuvants to vaccines because we want to do so, but when we add them it adds to the complexity. And I give courses every year on ‘how do you develop vaccines’ and ‘how do you make vaccines’ and the first lesson is, while you are making your vaccine, if you can avoid using an adjuvant, please do so. Lesson two is, if you’re going to use an adjuvant, use one that has a history of safety, and lesson three is, if you’re not going to do that, think very carefully.”

He also criticized the assumption that if an adjuvant like aluminum appears to be safe for one vaccine, it should not be presumed to be safe for other vaccines. Dr. Friede said that current safety surveillance is quite effective at determining immediate effects (such as immediate injury (local) to the arm at the injection site), but not as effective in identifying “systemic” long term adverse events.

Ingesting Not The Same As Injecting

The FDA does mention this local factor, but does not mention long-term concerns that have been shown by the more recent science on this subject.

“Aluminum adjuvant containing vaccines have a demonstrated safety profile of over many decades of use and have only uncommonly been associated with severe local reactions. Of note, the most common source of exposure to aluminum is from eating food or drinking water.”

- FDA

I would like to note here that the FDA states the most common source of exposure to aluminum is from eating food and drinking water. This is a very misleading statement when discussing aluminum in the context of vaccines. Exposure to aluminum from vaccines is a much more acute type of exposure.

This is because when you inject aluminum, it goes into a different compartment of your body. It doesn’t come into the same mechanism of excretion, like urine, as it does when you ingest it. The whole idea of an aluminum adjuvant is that it is meant to stick around and allow that antigen to be presented over and over again persistently.

When you ingest it, the body actually does a great job at getting rid of it. This doesn’t seem to be the case when it comes to vaccines.

Renowned French academic, Romain K. Gherardi, and his colleagues have published many works on this topic. Gherardi was the Director of the French National Institute of Health and Medical Research at the University of Paris and was the head of the Histology-Embryology department of the Henri Mondor Hospital (Creteil) of neuromuscular diseases.

A study (Autoimmunity Reviews) published by his group in 2019 explains,

“Comparing toxicology of different forms of aluminum and different types of exposure is misleading and inadequate and small animal experiments have turned old dogma upside down. Instead of being rapidly solubilized in the extracellular space, injected aluminum particles are quickly captured by immune cells and transported to distant organs and the brain where they elicit an inflammatory response and exert selective low dose long-term neurotoxicity. Clinical observations and experiments in sheep, a large animal like humans, confirmed both systemic diffusion and neurotoxic effects of aluminum adjuvants.”

In 2015 Gherardi and his colleagues explained (Frontiers in Neurology),

“Evidence that aluminum-coated particles phagocytosed in the injected muscle and its draining lymph nodes can disseminate within phagocytes throughout the body and slowly accumulate in the brain further suggested that alum safety should be evaluated in the long term.”

This has also been the discovery of one of the world’s leading experts in aluminum toxicology, Dr. Christopher Exley.

He, like Gherardi, found that that certain types of cells come to the injection site and take up the aluminum inside them and that same aluminum could be carried by those same cells across the blood brain barrier into the brain tissue where they could deposit the aluminum and produce a disease.

So when the FDA reminds us that “the most common source of exposure to aluminum is from eating food or drinking water” it’s not really significant at all when discussing aluminum in vaccines.

“Aluminium adjuvants are effective in magnifying the potency of infinitesimally small amounts of antigen because they are acutely toxic at the vaccine injection site. If the toxicity of aluminium adjuvants remained at the vaccine injection site then their use might be tolerated. We know that this is not their reality and this is why aluminium salts should no longer be used as adjuvants in vaccines, regardless of how many pennies of profit they make for the vaccine industry.”

- Dr. Christopher Exley

Do they really have to use aluminum? Is It a Question of Economics?

So what would happen if a vaccine did not include the aluminum adjuvant? Dr. Martin Howell Friede stated, as mentioned above, that if “you can avoid using an adjuvant, please do so.”

But has this been done?

What would happen if the vaccine just contained the antigen and not the aluminum adjuvant? Most likely nothing, as in the vaccine wouldn’t work because there is not enough antigen in the vaccine for antibodies to be produced against it.

But, what if the vaccine included 100 times more antigen and still no aluminum adjuvant?

Exley, explains,

“Well, I am guessing with the factor of 100 but bags of antigen would be sufficient to initiate the immune response and raising of antibodies against the antigen. Bingo! If you believe in vaccinology then this would be an effective vaccine against the injected antigen. So, why don’t they do this, why bother with their ‘dirty little secret’ the aluminium adjuvant. I know that you are ahead of me but….the antigen is by far the most expensive component of any vaccine. It is essentially the cost of the vaccine and therefore it determines the margin, the profitability of the vaccine. If they had to use 100 times more antigen for the vaccine to be effective then the vaccine would be 100 times more expensive and no longer profitable.

This is the economic genius of including an aluminium adjuvant. For some reason, apparently wholly unknown as to why to the manufacturers and vaccine ‘Gods’ alike, the inclusion of an aluminium adjuvant with an infinitesimally small amount of antigen produces an effective antibody titre against the injected antigen. It’s a miracle (of profitability). So how does the inclusion of an aluminium adjuvant, the industry’s not so secret, ‘dirty little secret’ make all the required difference.”

I never considered this angle before. I simply thought the more toxic the adjuvant, the better the immune response. I did not consider the economics of vaccine production and the business of “health.”

Some experts seem to think so. But at what cost? Not just dollars and cents, but human health. The next question to explore is the effectiveness of aluminum containing vaccines and their impact on human health, compared to the risks associated with aluminum containing vaccines. Is it really worth it?