Making a choice not to vaccinate their children is a well-known albeit controversial practice in the Amish population by and large.
What has been largely overlooked and misunderstood as to how their immunity is robust without following the vaccination schedule as advised by conventional medicine is the psychoneuroimmunological basis that underlies their choices and hence the positive results they are experiencing as a result of those choices in the form of almost all their children being free from the symptoms of autism.
Psychoneuroimmunology is the nascent scientific discipline that studies the interaction between the mind, body and social systems and how this interaction influences health and healing. The Amish community is world renowned for their way of life that is based on
leading life in a manner that honors the intelligence of the cells of the body, trusting the signals that their bodies send that reveal what resonates with well-being and acting on those signals and impulses. Their social system and psychological conditioning therefore prepares the groundfor their choice to not vaccinate their children.
This extends onto the widespread belief that most in the community hold on to tenaciously that in fact the opposite is true –
vaccination, if they make the choice to do so, causes more harm than good. All the more so since the Amish community has become aware that they have somehow been made “immune” to the usual presentation of autism, because of their “no vaccination” mindset.
This forms the psychological platform on which their immunological protection against not only most of the childhood illnesses the vaccines are supposed to prevent, but also the absence of manifestation of the debilitating symptoms of autism, is based.
The more obvious biomedical basis for the absence of autism in the Amish community is the fact that throughout many centuries they
have rigorously followed organic farming and have been consuming only organic produce grown mostly on their own farms, by themselves. Their food is therefore pesticide free and is consistently sustained as such over many generations. And the Amish continue to maintain the same till today.
This practice reveals what may be interpreted as their belief and understanding of biomedicine as “food being medicine”. This mindset
and conditioning is again in alignment with their reverence for the land, respect for the values that they uphold, one such value being
living in harmony with the forces of nature and viewing their food as being divine and pure. As the rest of the world is dealing with the rise in the debilitating symptoms in autism at least partially precipitated by genetically modified and pesticide-laden food, the Amish have been protected from the same.
https://www.longdom.org/open-access/gabr-genes-autism-spectrum-disorder-and-epilepsy-2165-7890-1000131.pdf
Edited 7/17/2020 16:39:11