# Squalene and the Autoimmune System Gary Matsumoto is a New York-based award-winning investigative journalist. His 2004 book, Vaccine: A Covert Government Experiment That`s Killing Our Soldiers–And Why GI`s Are Only The First Victims, took sharp issue with NIH (National Institute of Health) results and the Pentagon`s denial of Gulf War Syndrome. Matsumoto wrote: “Other research shows that squalene is the experimental anthrax vaccine ingredient that caused devastating autoimmune diseases and deaths for many Gulf War veterans from the US, UK, and Australia. (Note – French troops in Gulf War I were not vaccinated and none of them came out with Gulf War Syndrome). “Yet it (squalene) continues in use today and for new vaccines development in labs. There`sa `close match between the squalene-induced diseases in animals and those observed in humans injected with this oil” “The immune system (normally) see(s) and recognizes it as an oil molecule native to the body. Squalene . . . is found throughout the nervous system and the brain. When injected in the body, the immune system attacks it as an enemy to be eliminated. . . . injecting it galvanize(s) the immune system into attacking it, which can produce self-destructive cross reactions against the same molecule in the places where . . . where it is critical to the health of the nervous system. Once self-destruction begins, it doesn`t stop as the body keeps making the molecule that the immune system is trained to attack and …