Shingles vaccine being touted for lower dementia risk
VAXXED for dementia?! Not so fast.
Well, this is a sick and twisted plot if there ever was one.
Sales of the shingles vaccine in the U.S. are SOARING after a lull during pandemic lockdowns… maybe because Big Pharma has got folks so hopped up on getting vaxxed that they’ll roll up their sleeves for just about anything right about now.
But now the mainstream is trumpeting another reason to get a shingles jab…
And this one is a doozy.
The media’s reporting that it could help lower dementia risk!
I gotta admit, it sounded pretty good at first. After all, the virus that causes shingles… a.k.a. herpes… is a possible culprit behind Alzheimer’s and other dementias.
But when it comes down to it, nobody in mainstream medicine actually KNOWS what causes cognitive decline. And it’s foolish that such a complex condition could be boiled down to such a simple, single cause.
Add to that the fact that Big Pharma has failed… MISERABLY… at coming up with any drug to actually TREAT Alzheimer’s in any significant way.
So now they’ve magically come up with a VACCINE that could keep the disease at bay?
Seems to me like they’re grasping at straws.
If you’re tempted to get the shingles shot anyway… and listen, I get why you might be… here’s what you might be signing up for.
First of all, the vaccine used in the latest study out of Wales was Zostavax… which was pulled off the market in the U.S. in 2020, after its maker was accused of a “false and misleading” marketing campaign.
In this country, that leaves you with Shingrix… and it’s no bed of roses, either.
The regular side effects are bad enough… enough fatigue, muscle pain, nausea, and even chills to put you out of commission for a couple of days.
But there are also some pretty scary cases of a rare condition called Guillain-Barré syndrome… which could literally PARALYZE you.
As bad as a case of shingles is… it can’t hold a candle to paralysis.
And a 2021 study found that older folks getting jabbed by Shingrix were TWICE as likely to develop Guillain-Barré than if they’d gotten the Zostavax shot.
Complicating matters is that some older folks who received Zostavax before 2020 are now being urged to get ANOTHER shingles shot, this time with Shingrix… supposedly because it’s that much more effective at keeping the herpes zoster virus at bay.
How is it that we’re constantly being FORCED to sacrifice one aspect of our health in favor of another?
Why can’t we live out our “Golden Years” WITHOUT a debilitating nerve disease… and still be able to hold onto our precious memories?
This is a trade-off I’m not willing to make… but only you can decide for yourself.
Just remember that the mainstream will NEVER share the time-tested and PROVEN underground cures that come from nature…
Ones that could stop viral infections in their tracks… and even support brain health and memory function, too.
You’ll have to look elsewhere for those… and I’ll share some of them with you right here in the future as well.
Trust me – it’s worth doing a little extra digging.
In pursuit of the truth,
Dr. Marc Micozzi M.D., Ph.D.