What really occurs to your body when you suppress a fever with Tylenol (paracetamol)?

It’s the opposite of what most people think.

Note: In many European countries, Tylenol is usually simply called paracetamol.

Eleven years ago, CNN revealed the truth about Tylenol:

“Too much paracetamol over a long period of time can destroy your liver. It can damage your liver so severely that you need a transplant or even die from it.”

The most common cause of liver failure in America is not alcohol, but Tylenol.

Every year, the use of Tylenol leads to 56,000 emergency room visits, 2,600 hospitalizations, and 500 deaths. Strangely, however, the dangers of Tylenol are never mentioned in the news again.

Do you have a fever? Perhaps you reach for paracetamol out of habit every time, but this is exactly where it gets really unpleasant. Because suppressing a fever carries risks that probably no doctor has ever told you about – and the consequences extend far beyond the liver.

Almost immediately, pregnant influencers rushed to demonstrate their “faith in science” by filming themselves taking Tylenol. Some of them took enormous doses. One of them even overdosed. They probably saw the same videos I did. They were all very disturbing.

This reaction revealed something alarming: People still believe that Tylenol is one of the safest medications in America, despite overwhelming research findings to the contrary.

The data on autism is not marginal. It is consistent and quite alarming. If even half the evidence is true, then America is facing a massive public health crisis that is unfolding before everyone’s eyes.

11 years ago, CNN blurted out the truth about Tylenol:

“Too much acetaminophen over time can FRY YOUR LIVER. It can damage your liver to the point where you need a transplant or even to the point where it KILLS YOU.”

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— Vigilant Fox 🦊 (@VigilantFox) November 18, 2025

Before we talk about reducing fever, however, we need to first address pain relief.

Over-the-counter painkillers such as paracetamol, ibuprofen, and naproxen are the first choice for treating virtually all ailments in the USA. However, they are very weak in cases of severe pain and extremely dangerous in the long run.

NSAIDs alone lead to 107,000 Americans being hospitalized each year for gastrointestinal bleeding, kidney failure, heart attacks, and strokes. Over 16,000 people die annually from these complications. And all this because of a “safe” product that anyone can buy at any grocery store.

NSAIDs also significantly increase the risk of heart attack: depending on the drug, by 24% to 326%. Vioxx killed an estimated 120,000 Americans before Merck finally withdrew it from the market. This occurred after they hid the data. Celebrex remains on the market despite being linked to 75,000 deaths. These medications damage the small intestine in over half of chronic users, causing “silent” small bowel diseases and chronic inflammation.

This is the “safe” category of everyday medications. Tablets that can be bought almost anywhere. Tablets that people keep in their medicine cabinets, carry in their handbags, store in their cars, and give without hesitation to anyone with minor pain.

Paracetamol is not safer. Even at slightly elevated doses, it overloads the liver’s glutathione stores. For this reason, Tylenol is the most common cause of acute liver failure in America.

Every year it leads to 56,000 emergency room visits, 2,600 hospitalizations, and 500 deaths. But this isn’t reported everywhere in the news. Tylenol also increases the risk of blood cancer, high blood pressure, asthma, heart problems and kidney damage.

And during pregnancy, Tylenol was linked to ADHD, autism, learning disabilities, and behavioural problems in 46 studies. But pregnant women just laugh and take even more Tylenol. That makes no sense.

Now to the core of the problem: fever reduction. Parents treat fever reflexively. Doctors treat it automatically. Nurses report it immediately. Hospitals stop it immediately.

But fever isn’t all bad. It’s actually one of the immune system’s strongest weapons. Here is a short list of the amazing powers of fever:

• Activation of T cells, neutrophils and monocytes
• Enhancement of the interferon response
• Triggering of heat shock proteins
• Slowing down virus replication
• Deprivation of iron from the pathogens

Fever is not an enemy. It is your body’s strategy.

It should therefore come as no surprise that its suppression has consequences. Unfortunately, these are rarely acknowledged in modern medicine.

Doctors justify fever reduction with several arguments: reducing metabolic stress, avoiding extremely high temperatures, preventing febrile seizures, and improving patient well-being. But none of these arguments stand up to scrutiny. None.

Fever only causes brain damage at temperatures above approximately 41.5 °C – a temperature never reached in typical viral infections. There is a significant difference between 38.3 °C and 41.5 °C.

Fever-reducing medications do not actually prevent febrile seizures. The American Academy of Paediatrics warns against using them for this purpose.

Why do we continue to treat fever with tablets? Out of habit. Out of discomfort. Out of fear.

History gives us a crucial clue. During the 1918 influenza pandemic – the deadliest viral outbreak in modern history – doctors repeatedly observed that patients taking aspirin worsened their condition and died more frequently.

Many concluded that it was the fever-reducing effect of aspirin that made the infection more dangerous. This was not fringe speculation. It was observed on several continents.

And it reflects what many integrative doctors observed during covid. Patients who suppressed their fever with Tylenol often deteriorated rapidly. The body tried to fight, but the medication got in its way.

If we don’t learn from what’s going on right before our eyes, we will continue to repeat it.

Here’s an interesting anecdote. External warming of patients – especially with infrared mats – often alleviates the symptoms.

When we have a fever, we don’t feel bad because we’re hot. We feel bad because our body is trying to warm itself up. When external heat takes over this task, the strain on the body disappears. The illness feels less severe. And the urge to take a pill subsides.

This simple observation turns everything we thought we knew about fever on its head!

Contrary to popular belief, the anti-vaccine movement did not begin only when autism rates started to rise or when the covid vaccine came onto the market. It began more than 150 years ago with the smallpox vaccine.

The doctors immediately discovered that many vaccinated people still contracted smallpox – often in a severe form. Then they noticed something really strange. People who did not respond to the vaccine (by developing a skin reaction) were the ones who later became the most severely ill.

Some doctors thought this meant that the vaccine “was not working”, so they continued vaccinating and waited for the reaction. Dissenting doctors concluded that the reaction indicated a functioning immune system. Those who became seriously ill did so because their immune system was not functioning adequately to begin with, not because the vaccine had failed.

Understanding the context makes it clear that smallpox vaccination was pointless. These same dissident doctors believed that suppressing the symptoms drove the disease inward, leading to more dangerous consequences. And these same patients also had the worst neurological complications from smallpox vaccines.

Modern integrative physicians observe a similar pattern in fever reduction. And that’s something we can no longer ignore.

Suppressing the body’s natural response doesn’t make the pathology disappear – it penetrates deeper. Exactly to the place where you don’t want it.

Chinese medicine reinforces this entire concept. It states that diseases can migrate from the surface to deeper layers depending on patient’s reaction.

Microclots – which are now recognized in cases of long covid and vaccine damage – correspond to the concept of “blood stagnation” in Chinese medicine.

If the body cannot express the illness outwardly, a chronic disease develops. To heal, it needs to be brought back to the surface.

This ancient model aligns with our Western observations. Suppressing fever worsens long-term outcomes. Suppressing immunity increases the risk of chronic diseases. Two systems separated by thousands of years……. and yet they reach the same conclusions.

Anthroposophic medicine adds yet another dimension. Rudolf Steiner, the founder of this medicine, believed that cancer arises from a “cold” biological state in which the body loses its energetic warmth.

Fever was considered essential for the development of the immune system in childhood. This is now confirmed by modern epidemiology. Children who have never had measles, mumps, chickenpox, or influenza have a higher risk later in life of developing melanoma, ovarian cancer, and even heart disease.

Fever in childhood is not meaningless. It is a training exercise for the immune system.

In 1891, an American surgeon observed something remarkable. His patient’s aggressive cancer shrank after a severe streptococcal infection and high fever. He developed “Coley’s Toxins,” which induced therapeutic fever. He successfully treated many cancers with them. But his work was forgotten as chemotherapy and radiation therapy gained the upper hand.

Today, whole-body hyperthermia – a controlled fever therapy – is a recognized cancer treatment in Germany.

Fever doesn’t just fight infections. It can also help fight cancer! That’s amazing! Imagine how different medicine might look if the West had taken this path.

Homeopaths may have sounded crazy back then, but they rightly predicted that suppressing acute illnesses would shift society towards more of them:

• Cancer
• Autoimmune diseases
• Anxiety disorders
• Depression
• Psychopathy
• Spiritual alienation

Their prediction was eerily accurate. Suppressing symptoms doesn’t just modify the body. It can even have a harmful effect on consciousness. And our culture.

We cannot ignore this.

Unfortunately, suppressive antibiotics show the same pattern. When bacteria are attacked, not all of them die. Some of them transform into forms without cell walls that hide deep inside our bodies. They can become active later and trigger autoimmune diseases or recurring infections.

This explains why some diseases seem to disappear and then reappear years later. Antibiotics have resolved the immediate symptoms……. But they have probably laid the foundation for chronic diseases. Suppression has long-term costs.

Back to autism. Vaccines trigger immediate reactions. This is something most people now accept as perfectly normal and acceptable. Some even say it’s a sign that the vaccine is working.

A common reaction in babies is fever and crying. Parents have been conditioned to fear fever and seeing their children cry in pain. So what do they do? They give them paracetamol. The fever disappears. The child calms down.

But then severe reactions occur: skin rashes, neurological changes, and in some cases, lifelong disabilities.

After dozens of similar reports, three mechanisms emerged:

1. Suppressing the symptoms drives the pathology inwards.
2. Fever improves blood circulation and reduces microclots.
3. Tylenol consumes the glutathione that is needed for detoxification after vaccinations.

Three plausible paths lead to the same disturbing conclusion.

The insight we can gain from this is greater than Tylenol, greater than fever, and even greater than vaccines.

Modern medicine’s obsession with eliminating symptoms does not heal us. It makes us sicker. It changes short, treatable illnesses into lifelong chronic diseases. It turns healthy people into lifelong customers of the pharmaceutical industry. At the same time, the immune-boosting systems that our grandparents still knew are being suppressed at every turn.

The costs involved are now impossible to ignore.

Will we heed this warning or continue to ignore the warning signs?

The evidence linking Tylenol use during pregnancy to autism can no longer be ignored.

The more important message here, however, is that fever is not a design flaw. It is a survival mechanism. And it exists for a reason. Suppressing it out of convenience could be one of the biggest medical mistakes of the last century.

The human body is not broken. It is making an effort to help us, exactly as it was designed to do. Perhaps it’s time we stopped getting in its way.

The article is based on a report originally published by A Midwestern Doctor. Key details have been simplified and edited for clarity.

 

yogaesoteric
December 21, 2025