More on Flu Shots

From Eco Child's Play:

Thanks for the link, Darryl!

A cardiac surgeon and Professor of Surgery at the University of Washington recommends avoiding the flu shot and taking vitamin D instead. Donald Miller, MD, says “Seventy percent of doctors do not get a flu shot.”

There is also a lack of evidence that young children benefit from flu shots. 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 (Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2006;1:CD004879).

Flu shots contain a number of substances which may have adverse effects on health, especially for children:

• Mercury: Two-thirds of the vaccines made for the 2008–09 flu season contain full-dose thimerosal, an organomercury compound, 49% mercury by weight. It is used to disinfect the vaccine. Each of these flu shots contain 25 micrograms of mercury, a mercury content of 50,000 part per billion, 250 times more than the Environmental Protection Agency’s safety limit. Mercury is a neurotoxin, with a toxicity level 1,000 times that of lead.
• Formaldehyde, a known cancer-causing agent is used to inactivate the virus.
• Aluminum, added to promote an antibody response, is a neurotoxin that may play a role in Alzheimer’s disease.
• Triton X-100 (a detergent)
• Polysorbate 80
• carbolic acid
• ethylene glycol (antifreeze)
• gelatin
• various antibiotics such as neomycin, streptomycin, and gentamicin that can cause allergic reactions

So why does the CDC push the flu shot every year?

The CDC’s 15-member Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) makes recommendations each year on who should be vaccinated. Almost all the ACIP members who make these recommendations have financial ties to the vaccine industry.

Vaccination demand, particularly among people who don’t routinely receive an annual influenza vaccination, is related to heightened concern, anxiety, and worry.  For example:

• A perception or sense that many people are falling ill
• A perception or sense that many people are experiencing bad illness
• A perception or sense of vulnerability to contracting and experiencing bad illness.
• Some component of success stems from media stories and information that create motivating (i.e., high) levels of concern and anxiety about influenza.

Before relying on a shot to keep you safe from the flu, please consider make sure you are doing all of the following seven things.  If you are not, commit to these steps before getting poked in the arm.  If you are already doing most of these, you're probably not considering a flu shot anyway...

1. Get enough SLEEP
2. Get the proper amounts of essential VITAMINS and MINERALS
3. Manage your stress levels effectively, RELAX
4. Boost your ANTIOXIDANT levels
5. Receive regular CHIROPRACTIC adjustments
6. Drink plenty, plenty WATER
7. SMILE and LAUGH throughout the day

Flu Shots

HMSA runs radio ads during all the UH football games encouraging everyone in Hawaii to get a FREE (or a discount) flu shot.

What a deal!

Or is it?

Please watch this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-QznfG6oDDM

Thanks to Dr. Laelle for sharing this!