Posted on 07/25/2009 8:25:48 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
***Tens of millions died in 1918, so anything is possible. ***
No antibiotics to fight the flu caused pneumonia back then.
"Doctors in India and Canada give people a once-yearly injection of 600,000 IU of vitamin D (MJA 2005;183:10-12). That would be better, and safer, than having a flu shot. Daily, weekly, or monthly vitamin D tablets work just as well."
"Investigators have completed one double-blind, randomized, placebo-controlled trial that shows vitamin D prevents colds and influenza significantly better (P<0.002) than a placebo pill (Epidemiol Infection 2007;135:1095-6)".
"A large multi-center randomized trial conducted over multiple flu seasons comparing vitamin D to a flu shot can show conclusively which is better, and safer. But given the financial stakes underpinning flu shots, and unpatentable vitamin D, who will fund it?"
"In the meantime, considering what is most likely to be the outcome of such a trial, if it is ever conducted, I recommend that you avoid flu shots and take vitamin D instead".
.................. and other studies
. . Two Russian studies, the only such studies in the world, suggest higher vitamin D levels prevent the immune response flu shots attempt to generate. Dr. Scott Dowell, at the CDC, has known about these two studies for at least five years.
source
http://www.theairdb.com/swine-flu/heatmap.html
And this marxist doesn’t take criticism well.
All my kidding aside, I’m convinced (as you seem to be) that nutrition and hygiene are far more effective than vaccine, especially for flu. That’s a general statement, and I believe there are exceptions.
I have had maybe one flu shot in my 50+ years, and don’t plan another one any time soon.
Yes, he’s not only a marxist, but a sociopath, and they can get a little out of control when things don’t go their way.
Well, he did create a little crisis for himself, but I mean he’s going to need a crisis (real or phoney) big enough to let him get rid of any pretense of having three branches of government and living under the rule of law. Something like an epidemic, an attack, etc.
I think the mask is beginning to slip and we’re seeing that snarling face which is just behind it. If he suffers a few more setbacks or even becomes much more unpopular, I think he’s going to feel he’s got to do something about it, and he’ll stage a crisis to do it.
The Administration and CDC can only cry “wolf” for so long on each and every crisis that threatens the extinction of our great nation. Where’s the great Earl Pitts from Cincinnati when you need him? “wake up Uhmerika!”
Thanks for posting. It’s a good reminder to get tested for Vitamin D deficiency, especially if you live in the Great Lakes.
My best friend is an RN, retired early now due to a chronic illness. She did plenty of ER and critical care rotations and said that the number of people hospitalized for flu vaccine reactions always way outnumbered those hospitalized for the flu.
I have never had a flu shot and even before I heard that little anecdotal statistic, I had decided I will never get one. I don’t know, maybe it’s me, but there’s something about getting a shot that will probably make you sick but MIGHT ward off the right flu strain that makes very little sense.
Influenza is a virus, whereas antibiotics treat infections from germs. Or am I mistaken? Any medical personnel here?
I’ve been taking a 400 IU Vitamin D-3 + Vitamin A 5,000 IU combined capsule and a 1000 IU Vitamin D-3 gummie daily since this story broke in May. Not sick one day.
Your doc and CDC/FDA pharma shills won't tell you this, but the best protection against H1N1 swine flu is the old indian medicine -- tobacco (nicotine on its own provides only a fraction of the protection by the real thing -- the plain tobacco leaf smoke, see also here and an earlier FR discussion). As one might guess, practically all the money buying antismoking junk science, antismoker laws and regulations, propping antismoking "grass roots" groups,... is from the big pharma, which by mere coincidence makes a fortune (including these flu vaccines) as result of its war on this anicent medicinal plant.
The antibiotics are for opportunistic bacterial infections.
If they really cared about people dying they would stop promoting the behavior that spreads AIDS. THOUSANDS die from AIDS every year.
Watch Obama - get sick.
Elect Obama get very, very sick.
Believe Obama - die.
The Vitamin D supplementation is interesting for a lot of reasons. One is that a friend of mine who suffers from Rheumatoid Arthritis has been taking prescription massive strength Vitamin D. It's truly helped ease her pain.
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That is what I'm hearing from others. Amazing..
And my brother has started taking Black Cherry juice for his painful gout...Surprise! No gout pain or flare ups.
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By the time fall rolls around, so many people will be unemployed because of Obama’s policies, that people will not have to worry about contracting it at work.
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