Should You Get The Shingles or Pneumonia Vaccine?

What about all those adult vaccines that we are all supposed to get like the shingles or the pneumonia vaccines? Are they really a good idea?

I have never had any of these vaccines. And I don’t intend to get one. Besides the fact that they don’t work very well, here are some other reasons why.

The diseases that the vaccines are supposed to be good for are fairly rare. The chance of getting shingles in the over-60 crowd is only 1 in 30. So if you are already 60, it would be pretty unlikely to get shingles in the first place. And the chance of getting the pneumococcal pneumonia that the pneumonia vaccine is supposed to prevent is even less — a highly unlikely 1 in 4,100. So statistically, these are not problems I have much concern over. And consider this.

These statistics never take into account overall health and well-being. I doubt very much that the rare person who gets these infections is a person who has a healthy diet, has excellent cardiovascular fitness, replaces deficient hormones, takes vitamins, practices good hygiene, avoids drugs, and gets plenty of rest.

In fact, people who take these common sense precautions are much less likely to get these infections. They are also much less likely to get heart disease, cancer, and diabetes. And these problems are way more significant than shingles and pneumococcal pneumonia. So having a healthy lifestyle seems to be a much better approach to disease prevention than injecting vaccines.

My advice to you is to get educated about the side effects of the vaccines if you think it’s a good idea. then you can decide if they seem safe enough to you when you consider the benefits you will receive from the shot. But don’t rely too much on them because they are very overrated. And even if you do get the vaccine, don’t stop there. Make sure you come up with a preventive plan that combines a healthy lifestyle, good wholesome food, regular exercise, immune supplementation and be sure to have a doctor at hand who can make sure your nervous system is working at full speed all the time because without your nerves nothing else is going to work well.