Every year the medical community push the flu vaccine. Millions of people run to get their flu shot in the fall months. Do you get one? Here are some reasons not to get one!

Globally, the market for influenza vaccines is about $4 billion a year! That’s quite the incentive to market toward getting the vaccine every year.

Deaths are always noted during flu season. People who die are typically already sick and contract the flu and unfortunately can not recover. Most often they have pneumonia when they get the flu. The deaths reported by the CDC are very misleading. In 2001 “influenza and pneumonia” took 62,034 lives—61,777 of which were attributed to pneumonia and 257 to flu, and in only 18 cases was flu virus was positively identified.

The time of year the flu occurs, people do not go outside and get Vitamin D to help boost the immune system. When your immune system is lowered by “holiday” eating and not watching your diet (consuming more SUGAR), by being stressed due to gift buying and family get togethers, as well as many other reasons, you have the affinity to getting sick!

Ingredients

Flu virus– Each year they take last years flu virus and deactivate it, mutate it (to guess what the strain the coming year will be) and put it in the vaccine. You can get a 3 strain vaccine or a 4 strain vaccine each year.

Formaldehyde– is a colorless, strong-smelling gas used in making building materials and many household products. It is used in pressed-wood products, such as particleboard, plywood, and fiberboard; glues and adhesives; permanent-press fabrics; paper product coatings; and certain insulation materials.

— Formaldehyde when ingested is broken down mostly in the nose, throat and airways. Less than 1/3rd makes it to the blood stream. Unlike flu vaccine ingredients, where it is injected into the blood stream! Formaldehyde has been shown to cause cancer in lab animals.

Aluminum Salts– Aluminum is a metal that is naturally occurring. You can get aluminum toxicity due to ingesting (orally, on the skin or through the blood stream). Aluminum is put in many things: aluminum foil, anti-perspirants, vaccines, food (as a preservative), even our water!
Read the dangers here.

Thimersol– is a mercury based preservative used in vaccines and other medicines. Thimerosal exposure has been linked to attention disorders, speech delays, language delays, Tourette Syndrome, misery disorder, seizures, epilepsy, Sudden Infant Death Syndrome, narcolepsy, heart disorders, neurological disorders, asthma and allergies.

Chicken Egg Protein– The vaccine is grown inside eggs, where the virus multiples. When the virus is extracted, proteins are pulled along with it (due to growing inside it).
The purpose of a vaccine is to “become immune” to the ingredients injected. — Egg allergies are the most common allergy today. Mostly seen starting in infancy. (Maybe it’s from the egg protein in vaccines…) The CDC says that if you have an egg allergy you can still receive the vaccine. I would not! Why inject something into the blood stream that you are allergic to?!—

Gelatin– is used to stabilize vaccines. There are allergies liked to gelatin. Studies in Japan confirmed that severe allergic reactions to MMR vaccine were associated with the presence of antibodies in the blood directed against gelatin.

Antibiotics– are present in the flu vaccine to keep bacteria from growing during the production and storage of the vaccine. Possible allergies to the antibiotics used can cause issues and need to be researched.

Efficiency

For the 2017-2018 flu season the vaccine didn’t work against a flu bug that popped up halfway through the past flu season. This dropped the overall effectiveness to 29%, per the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report in June 2019.

Most vaccines are not deemed a success unless they reach 90% efficiency. The flu vaccine averages about 40% a year, yet is deemed successful most years.

What to do instead

To stay healthy, you have to keep your immune system boosted. Ways to boost your immune system:

• Eat a healthy diet. This means get a balanced meal with lots of fruits and vegetables.
• Stay away from sugar!! This includes extra breads and flours!
• Drink water instead of soda, juices or milk.
• Make sure hands are washed before eating. (God made dirt! Germs are actually good for you. Stay away from hand sanitizers!! Hand sanitizers actually cause more harm than help you.)
• Make sure you are getting enough sleep at night!
• Take vitamin C daily.
• Play outside in the sun for at least 30 minutes a day and skip the sunscreen. Your body needs Vitamin D to help fight viruses and keep you healthy.
• GET ADJUSTED!

When you start to notice you are getting sick, those symptoms are only 10% of what the body is actually doing. (Symptoms are always last! You have to have a break down in the system before you notice something is wrong first.) The other 90% is changing your posture, sending inflammation into your body and sending stress hormones into your body which produces “illness”.

Chiropractic

Every spinal adjustment directly affects the information going to the brain and the brain then will heal the body. Maintenance adjustments (or adjustments once or twice a month) can drastically help your body cope with invaders (such as bacteria or stress hormones) and help prevent issues.

If you have any questions on how to stay healthy and stay clear of the flu vaccine, give us or a chiropractor near you! Prevention care is cheaper than sick care!

~Dr. Lacey~
Carder Chiropractic Clinic, INC.
El Reno, OK 73036