“Give Yourself a Boost,” says the Wall Street Journal. The popular newspaper suggests in a recent article that
“Beyond Flu Shots, Many Adults Forgo Vaccines That Could Prevent Potentially Lethal Illnesses.”
Many adults are behind on their shots, as recommended by the CDC, says the article. These include the pneumococcal vaccine, at 25% coverage and could prevent pneumonia, the complication that kills flu victims; whooping cough at 50%; HPV (human papillomavirus) at 11%, to prevent genital warts and cervical cancer; herpes zoster vaccine at 7%, to prevent shingles. Gregory A. Poland from the Mayo Clinic calls this a “collusion of ignorance—patients don’t know to ask about vaccines, and physicians often don’t have good mechanisms to screen patients and determine which vaccines they need.” A recent shingles victim laments “I believe in preventive care, as long as I’m aware of it. If I had known the vaccine [shingles vaccine] was recommended for everyone my age, I would have gotten it. “
Dr. Gardner’s comments: Truly healthy people don’t get these diseases, or the diseases are extremely mild if people are afflicted. This goes back to the age-old conflict-are we sick because of exposure to ‘germs’, or because the terrain (our cells, the immune system, our health) is weak? Yes, some people are dying from these diseases, but those dying are not healthy people. Vaccines carry risks that continue to be down-played or denied. Instead of building the immune system, vaccines may interfere with its proper functioning. To be healthy (‘the terrain is everything,’ said Pasteur on his deathbed), proper nutrients must come into the body (which includes supplements), nutrient deficient, high caloric ‘food’ avoided, toxins avoided and removed, and a good emotional attitude makes a huge difference for the better. You have alternatives to drugs and surgery.
My doctor says I can get all the vitamins and minerals I need from my food. What is your opinion on this?
I used to say the same thing to my patients, back in the days before I studied healthy alternatives. It is the party line of allopathic medicine, although that is starting to change. Here's the bottom line, and I'll follow up with some info on what allopaths are now doing:
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1 Dave, RN // Oct 22, 2009 at 12:13 pm
I’m an RN, and I don’t take the flu shot. So many people I know who go the flu shot got sick anyway. My brother got the flu shot a month ago, and now has the swine flu. I think it made him more susceptible, and a Canadian study bears that out. I tried to school his wife about Vitamin D, immunizations etc, but it’s hard to convince an ex Merck pharmaceutical sales person about the dangers of immunizations.
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