Vaccines… The word alone gives me the shivers. Enter any doctor’s surgery or pharmacy and you’ll be prompted to get your flu shot ‘quickly, easy and at your convenience’ as soon as possible.
The fact is, that raising the convenience level for customers translates directly into raising the profit level for the pharmaceutical companies. Because, let’s face it, according to Big Pharma the target audience for these drugs is, well, just about everyone. Cha-ching.
But what’s the real cost here? What are they willing to put on the line for the good of their bottom line?
I mean, even before you get to the potential harms, we’re talking about something that could very well be completely useless. There’s no way of telling what vaccine strains will be active each season, so drug companies are literally playing a game of hit or miss. In fact, packaging inserts even make the confession. From GlaxoSmithKline’s 2011-2012 offering: “…there have been no controlled trials adequately demonstrating a decrease in influenza disease after vaccination with FLULAVAL.”
What will prevent illness? A strong immune system. The number one way to strengthen it? Eliminate sugar from your diet. Eating even a small amount of sugar can impair your immune system’s white blood cells by up to 50 per cent. And that effect continues for hours after you’ve eaten the sugary snack.
Simple, but true.
From a newsletter I get from Dr. Jonathan V. Wright.
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