Avoid Flu Shots With the One Vitamin that Will Stop Flu in Its Tracks

[Raineyrocks]

My doctor recently told me that people in New England are very deficient in Vitamin D and it can cause all kinds of problems.  He told me to take Vitamin D3, I guess that's different from regular Vitamin D.     I don't know if any of this will help I just figured I'd give you the info! 


http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2008/10/21/avoid-flu-shots-vitamin-d-is-a-better-way.aspx

Avoid Flu Shots With the One Vitamin that Will Stop Flu in Its Tracks

Another influenza season is beginning, and the U.S. Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) will strongly urge Americans to get a flu shot. In fact, the CDC mounts a well-orchestrated campaign each season to generate interest and demand for flu shots.

But a recent study published in the October issue of the Archives of Pediatric & Adolescent Medicine found that vaccinating young children against the flu appeared to have no impact on flu-related hospitalizations or doctor visits during two recent flu seasons.

At first glance, the data did suggest that children between the ages of 6 months and 5 years derived some protection from vaccination in these years. But after adjusting for potentially relevant variables, the researchers concluded that "significant influenza vaccine effectiveness could not be demonstrated for any season, age, or setting" examined.

Additionally, a Group Health study found that flu shots do not protect elderly people against developing pneumonia -- the primary cause of death resulting as a complication of the flu. Others have questioned whether there is any mortality benefit with influenza vaccination. Vaccination coverage among the elderly increased from 15 percent in 1980 to 65 percent now, but there has been no decrease in deaths from influenza or pneumonia.

There is some evidence that flu shots cause Alzheimer's disease, most likely as a result of combining mercury with aluminum and formaldehyde. Mercury in vaccines has also been implicated as a cause of autism.

Three other serious adverse reactions to the flu vaccine are joint inflammation and arthritis, anaphylactic shock (and other life-threatening allergic reactions), and Guillain-Barré syndrome, a paralytic autoimmune disease.

One credible hypothesis that explains the seasonal nature of flu is that influenza is a vitamin D deficiency disease.

Vitamin D levels in your blood fall to their lowest point during flu seasons. Unable to be protected by the body's own antibiotics (antimicrobial peptides) that are released by vitamin D, a person with a low vitamin D blood level is more vulnerable to contracting colds, influenza, and other respiratory infections.

Studies show that children with rickets, a vitamin D-deficient skeletal disorder, suffer from frequent respiratory infections, and children exposed to sunlight are less likely to get a cold. The increased number of deaths that occur in winter, largely from pneumonia and cardiovascular diseases, are most likely due to vitamin D deficiency.

Unfortunately, now, for the first time, flu vaccination is also being pushed for virtually all children -- not just those under 5.

This is a huge change. Previously, flu vaccine was recommended only for youngsters under 5, who can become dangerously ill from influenza. This year, the government is recommending that children from age 6 months to 18 years be vaccinated, expanding inoculations to 30 million more school-age children.

The government argues that while older children seldom get as sick as the younger ones, it's a bigger population that catches flu at higher rates, so the change should cut missed school, and parents' missed work when they catch the illness from their children.

Of course, this policy ignores the fact that a systematic review of 51 studies involving 260,000 children age 6 to 23 months found no evidence that the flu vaccine is any more effective than a placebo.


   

[Romak]

More fear mongering(not you Rainey). The "bird flu" is total bs. Did you see how recently they were trying to get Sheriffs and certain police departments across the nation to get a mandatory flu vaccine for H5N1. Something tells me this winter will get very intersting.

[Raineyrocks]

More fear mongering(not you Rainey). The "bird flu" is total bs. Did you see how recently they were trying to get Sheriffs and certain police departments across the nation to get a mandatory flu vaccine for H5N1. Something tells me this winter will get very intersting.

I totally agree, there is tons of fear mongering going on with the flu, bird flu, etc.  When I was a kid and I got the flu I stayed in bed for a few days, drank tea w/a little whiskey  ),used Vicks Vapor Rub on my back and chest, slept and got over it.

I just thought it was neat that this article mentioned Vitamin D which is something my doctor and I just discussed. 

I ended up in the hospital a few weeks ago for my heart and he said that Vitamin D deficiencies can play a part in cardiovascular health, anemia (which I have), and cancer.  He said some other stuff too but I guess it can't hurt to take some.   I don't know how he knows that people in New England are deficient but I guess it could be these long winters and lack of sun? 

[slim]

I have had flu shots offered to me 3 times already this year. The 1st one I was at the doctor's office and he tried to push the shot on me. The 2nd one was at my employer is having some people coming to the work place to give out the shots. The 3rd was a large grocery store was giving them out to anyone that had a insurance card.