Business Spotlight Interview with Dr. Christina Parks of VITA

By the grace of God, I had the opportunity to interview Dr. Christina Parks, the owner of VITA. She shared with me her very inspiring story that tells the mission of VITA , which is a website that is dedicated to empowering people with the information they need to maintain and restore health in this age of toxic overload, mass vaccination, and skyrocketing chronic illness. She also discussed her supplement, which is a blend of natural herbs and has over 20 peer-reviewed studies showing that it reduces oxidative stress/inflammation and brings the body back into balance.

 

Nadine Muhammad: Please, would you tell our readers about yourself?

Christina Parks: I am a servant of the Most-High God, seeking to bring healing and restoration to his people. To that mission, God led me along many paths. First, I earned a double major in Biochemistry and Molecular Biology from the University of Wisconsin, Eau, Claire, followed by a Ph.D. In Cellular and Molecular Biology from the University of Michigan. During that time, God pulled on my heart to jump out of perfectly good (well, mostly) airplanes, which I did for 20 years, accumulating over 900 jumps. I mention this because through this process, God gave me the opportunity to face my fears over and over again, strengthening my inner resolve to follow my soul's calling, even into uncomfortable places. I married in 2001 and we adopted 2 children from Ethiopia after years of infertility in 2009. My daughter had catastrophic special need due to a brain abscess. I had been teaching in the public schools, at which time I came home to care for my daughter and home-school my son (who was 7 yrs old). During those years of making a home and raising my children I dove into studying food science, gardening, and basically just poured myself into cultivating the healthiest family I was able to. At the time, it did not occur to me that God would use my work well beyond the scope of my family life. During the pandemic, I stood alongside many other warriors to give voice to the truth. 

Nadine Muhammad: Share with us the story behind VITA: the inspiration for starting, history, mission, and  purpose.

Christina Parks: The seeds of VITA (Vaccine Injury Teaching Alliance) were planted in my heart over 30 years ago when I was working as a Ph.D. candidate in the field of cytokine signaling. At that time, colleagues and I discussed our bewilderment at some of the changes to the childhood vaccine schedule. Why were they adding a vaccine for an illness as mild as chickenpox? Why were they starting to give more and more vaccines to children under the age of 2 yrs., when we knew the immune system was not developed enough to respond properly to them yet? You see, we knew as scientists that we were just beginning to figure out how the immune system works, so there was NO WAY anyone could have a thorough understanding of what unintended consequences vaccination might have. Because of this, there seemed to be a general understanding among scientists that vaccine usage should largely be restricted to illnesses with high morbidity and mortality.

I was further distressed at the controversy surrounding Dr. Andrew Wakefield, who was blacklisted for suggesting that there might be a link between the live viral MMR vaccine and compromised gut health. Why was this controversial? I listened closely to the wording of the CDC when they said they had not observed any link between vaccines and autism.  “Ahhh,” I thought, “they mean they haven’t looked, otherwise they would cite the data.” You see, I naively believed that it was the job of doctors and scientists to LISTEN to parents and see if there was plausible mechanism that would explain the injury their child appeared to sustain following vaccination. I also naively thought that as soon as enough children had adverse events following a vaccine, something would be done to prevent further injury and to help injured families to heal. I would never have believed that 30 years later the damage done to these families would still be being swept under the rug. At the time, I did not know about the 1986 Vaccine Injury Act, which removed liability from vaccine manufacturers for any vaccine added to the CDC recommended childhood schedule. Later, during my years teaching in the public school system, I was floored at the amount of neurological damage in children manifesting as ADHD, Autism and various sensory disorders. I was also concerned with the ever-expanding number of vaccines on the schedule and the increasing amounts of toxins in our environment. WHAT was going on here??? When I found that PubMed, the scientific library I had used for research in graduate school, was accessible to anyone online, without a subscription, I was finally able to explore the genetic, biochemical and environmental factors that might result in some children being more sensitive to medical interventions, such as vaccines. The more I learned, the more concerned I became, until finally I knew I had to speak out. When I did, my world became filled with the families of the vaccine-injured. Both my brother and my daughter had/have significant special needs, so I deeply identified with the challenges these families faced. As I heard their stories of injury and their desperate search for healing, my heart was deeply convicted. I was surrounded by parents asking if I knew what was wrong with their child and what sort of therapy might restore balance and healing. I didn’t know, but my broken heart would not let me turn away from the question, and my scientific background and curiosity compelled me to search for answers that might relieve the suffering of these families.  I watched as parents who were already exhausted from meeting the needs of their injured child spend countless hours desperately searching for answers; and I watched as information became harder and harder for them to find due to censorship. It was then that my DREAM of having a central resource where information on vaccines, vaccine-injury and therapies as well as recovery from chronic health condidtions that shared the same underlying cuases, could all be easily accessed and digested came into focus. And as horrific as the last few years of COVID were, among its few bittersweet blessings has been the coalitions of practitioners and scientists that have come together and take a serious, multi-disciplinary look at the causes of vaccine injury and how to heal them.  One of my dear friends that is mother to 3 vaccine injured children was grieving that there were no answers for her children as they were “non-responders” to various therapies. As I grieved with her for all the years her family had suffered and struggled, I explained, “you don’t understand, this is really JUST THE BEGINNING of a serious search for answers!” Due to the fact that chronic illness and vaccine injury have many of the same underlying susceptibilities, the mission of the website has expanded to provide information on how to restore the body to the optimal health that God intends for us. Please become a member and support us in finding answers and passing them along to those who need them most!

Nadine Muhammad: Tell us about your website and health supplements and services that you offer to customers.

The VITA website:
The mission of the VITA website is to empower people with the information they need to maintain and restore health in this age of toxic overload, mass vaccination and skyrocketing chronic illness. There are many free pages, including ones on The Childhood Vaccine Schedule, The COVID Vaccines as well as a resource page to help you find other like-minded resources. Those who join and support our mission have access to life-changing resources that help them identify the root causes of chronic illness (such as diabetes, cancer, autoimmune disease) and teach how to address these root causes to bring the body back into balance and health. Resources for members include:
1. Bi-monthly webinars on critical health issues, which are then posted on the site for members to view at their leisure. 

2. Wellness Protocols, including Spike Detox Protocols, protocols for dealing with respiratory illness, and over 50 pages of protocols that will help you raise a healthy family and address everything from how to deal with a fever naturally to what to do for a bee sting. Links to key products and resources are provided. 

3. Healing-Where Do I Begin? These pages have videos that explain all the components of wellness and how toxins and other factors compromise them. You will find videos and downloadable PDFs on how to detox your mind, body and environment with links to less toxic products.
3. Figuring Out What's Wrong: These pages give information that will assist members who are trying to make sense of various health issues. It describes key tests that you can request from your doctor and what their results mean.
4. Understanding Key Susceptibilities: These pages have short tutorials that explain biochemical pathways that may be compromised in susceptible individuals. There is a specific section addressing key biochemical susceptibilities in persons of African descent.

5. Practitioner Pages: These pages have information on the practitioners who partner with VITA and give webinars, so that you can access their practice and/or services. 

 

A core aspect of my mission is to vet various healing modalities and supplements and share my knowledge and perspective so that laypersons do not waste their time, money and hope on products and services that will not render them optimal benefits. Immediately prior to the pandemic, I was led to scientific studies on the body's key anti-oxidant detox pathways, which are regulated by a master gene, called Nrf2. Two months later, God brought someone into my life who introduced me to a product (developed by a scientist) that activated this God-designed system in our bodies. This supplement was a blend of natural herbs and had over 20 peer-reviewed studies showing that it reduced oxidative stress/inflammation and brought the body back into balance. Since then, I've been excited to be able share the Nrf2 activator as well as other amazing products developed by the LifeVantage company with those seeking solutions. The health recovery stories have been nothing short of amazing, and I feel blessed to be able to give the gift of knowledge, which leads to healing. 

Nadine Muhammad: How can we order your products/services online?  Also, share with us the value that customers will obtain from using your products and services.

VITA website: vi-ta.org

Health Supplements can be accessed here: https://christinaparks.lifevantage.com/us-en/shop/protandim-nrf2

Here is a brief video that describes what makes this supplement/activator completely different than anything else. 

My social media sites are dedicated to providing information that will empower people to be better stewards of their health. I can be followed on the following sites. The best way to reach me is Facebook messenger.

Twitter: @drCParks1

Telegram: https://t.me/ChristinaParks

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/christina.parks.752

Instagram: @epigenetichealing

 

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