{"id":612,"date":"2013-11-22T06:30:41","date_gmt":"2013-11-21T18:30:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4abettermemory.com\/memory\/?p=612"},"modified":"2013-11-23T07:23:25","modified_gmt":"2013-11-22T19:23:25","slug":"better-than-flu-shots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/4abettermemory.com\/memory\/better-than-flu-shots\/","title":{"rendered":"Better Than Flu Shots"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"dec2009_flu-prevention_03\"<\/a>A 2006 review of 48 reports including more than 66,000 adults,\u00a0found that \u201cVaccination of healthy adults only reduced risk of influenza by 6%\u00a0 and reduced the number of missed work days by less than one day (0.16) days. It did not change the number of people needing to go to hospital or take time off work.\u201d\u00a0 Reference: \u201cVaccines for preventing influenza in healthy adults.” The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews.\u00a0(2006).<\/p>\n

A review of 64 studies noted that for elderly individuals living in nursing homes, \u201cflu shots were non-significant\u00a0 for preventing the flu<\/b>. For elderly living in the community, vaccines were not (significantly) effective against influenza, ILI or pneumonia.\u201d\u00a0 Reference: \u201cVaccines for preventing influenza in the elderly.\u201d The Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews. 3(2006).<\/p>\n

According to acclaimed neurosurgeon and medical journal editor Russell Blaylock, MD. studies have shown that environmental toxins, among them pesticides, mercury, aluminum and lead, are significantly more toxic to the brain following vaccination. He cites one noted immunologist, Dr. Hugh Fundenberg, who found that people at least 55 years old who receive the flu vaccine each year for five years in a row increase their risk of Alzheimer\u2019s disease an astounding 1,000 percent. This is because of a phenomenon called \u201cpriming,\u201d a hyperactive state of microglial alertness, which he calls immunoexcitotoxicity.<\/p>\n

If you go to Dr. Blaylock\u2019s website<\/a> and click on his \u201cpublished papers\u201d you would see an article titled: Vaccines, depression, and neurodegeneration after age 50 years: another reason to avoid the recommended vaccines. <\/b>This paper demonstrates the known links between: systemic immune activation, brain microglial activation, and both major depressive disorder and a worsening of neurodegenerative diseases. According to Blaylock \u201cBecause a number of vaccines are being recommended to adults, the risk of precipitating or worsening these disorders is quite real.\u201d The mechanism for this process is discussed.<\/p>\n

So What Could Work Better? <\/b><\/p>\n

In Dec 2009 Julius Goepp, MD wrote an article for Life Extension Magazine titled: Are You Getting Optimal Flu Prevention?<\/a><\/i> He notes the work of several other medical experts suggesting that at\u00a0sufficient<\/span>\u00a0levels, a simple vitamin D3 supplement \u201chas the capacity to supercharge\u00a0the immune system and can\u00a0virtually eliminate the risk of infection\u201d including the flu.<\/p>\n

For example Norris Glick, MD, Director of Rehab Services at Central Wisconsin Center, a facility for people with developmental disabilities, found with his 275 residents and 800 staff members that during the\u00a0<\/span>H1N1<\/strong>\u00a0<\/span>(\u201cswine flu\u201d)<\/em>\u00a0outbreak of June 2009, only two of his patients (0.7%) developed influenza-like symptoms.\u00a0During the same period, 103 staff members (7.5%) developed influenza-like illnesses\u2014<\/span>a 10-fold difference<\/b>. Why the difference? Dr. Glick had been giving his patients high amounts of vitamin D3 for its neuroprotective properties. Vitamin D3 (the functional form) is, in truth, a neurohormone rather than a vitamin, meaning it has special effects on brain function. But it\u2019s also a potent immune system booster. He concluded \u201cstaff were susceptible [to infection] while our residents were protected.\u201d To read this entire article in context <\/span>go here<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

So how much vitamin D do you need? Dr. Blaylock notes:<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cTo determine how much vitamin D3 you need, get a vitamin D3 blood level test. Many medical labs are listing 30 ng\/ml to 50 ng\/ml as the normal value \u2014 this is wrong. For optimum health, D3 blood level should be between 70 ng\/ml and 100 ng\/ml.<\/span><\/p>\n

Should your vitamin D3 level fall below 40 ng\/ml, you\u2019ll require a dose of over 2,000 IU per day to bring it up to normal. More severe deficiencies require 5,000 IU to as much as 10,000 IU a day to return values to optimal levels. At this level, vitamin D3 is highly protective against immunoexcitotoxicity.\u201d The Blaylock Wellness Report <\/i>Oct 2012 The Key to Better Mental Health<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

<\/a>A 2006 review of 48 reports including more than 66,000 adults,\u00a0found that \u201cVaccination of healthy adults only reduced risk of influenza by 6%\u00a0 and reduced the number of missed work days by less than one day (0.16) days. It did not change the number of people needing to go to hospital or take time […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":613,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-prevention-strategies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/4abettermemory.com\/memory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/4abettermemory.com\/memory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/4abettermemory.com\/memory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4abettermemory.com\/memory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4abettermemory.com\/memory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=612"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/4abettermemory.com\/memory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":614,"href":"https:\/\/4abettermemory.com\/memory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612\/revisions\/614"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4abettermemory.com\/memory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/613"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/4abettermemory.com\/memory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4abettermemory.com\/memory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/4abettermemory.com\/memory\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}