It's important to know that the Zostavax shot contained whole replication competent varicella viruses that could spread to others, and resulted in full blown chickenpox in some adults who got the shot, so they stopped doing that. The MMRV shot given to children also contains whole replication competent measles, mumps, rubella, and varicella viruses, but we’re still doing that to children.
Zostavax was replaced with a recombinant zoster shot (SHINGRIX) that is supposedly safer because it contains a viral protein that is not biologically active (will not bind to human cells) and contains an adjuvant (AS01B) that is safe. I'm not buying that narrative. The protein in the shot is part of the varicella-zoster virus called gE. How do they get that protein? The gE gene is inserted into a plasmid (a circular DNA molecule) and then introduced into host cells—typically Chinese Hamster Ovary (CHO) cells or yeast cells (specific to the manufacturer). How do we know for sure that there is no hamster DNA in the shot? We don't. DNA plasmids are notorious for finding their way into shots, as we saw with the covid shot. That gE protein by itself won't bind to human cells, but it will bind to an enzyme that, when combined with it, will attach to human cells. This will cause an inflammatory immune response that will result in various levels of tissue destruction inside the body, hence adverse reactions. Nerve tissue and Guillain-Barre Syndrome is mentioned in the post marketing section of the vaccine package insert. The adjuvant AS01B combines MPL and QS21. QS21 is extracted from the bark of the Quillaja saponaria tree native to Chile. MPL is part of salmonella bacteria. Both of those substances are toxic. All adjuvants are toxic, or they wouldn't work. 1 in 3 people will experience a shingles rash at some point in their life, usually when they get really stressed out. I had one and it was no big deal. I'll risk a painful rash over Guillain-Barre Syndrome any day, but that's me.
Although here in Canada doctors push people of a certain age to get the sHingrix shot, I’ve always declined. After the one and only covid shot, I got shingles of all places on my bum. I took the prescribed meds early and they cleared up. I agree, why take the risk, which I was not aware of as doctors never disclose this information.
Overlooked in the debate about the efficacy of viral vaccines is the comparison to interventions that strengthen terrain factors. These studies are rarely funded, and hence not often done. I would propose that individuals who have better nutrition, better lifestyle measurements, such as exercise, exposure to sunlight, regular detoxification or who live in less toxic environments have superior protection from viral diseases than those who lack similarly strengthening of terrain factors. My evidence: the historical record of infectious diseases in the first half of the twentieth century, outlined neatly in McCullough and Leake's own book, Vaccines: Mythology, Ideology and Reality. Until the studies get done, we will be forever debating the degree to which vaccines are useful instruments of prevention, while the solution, improving terrain factors, languishes in darkness.
by an extraordinary coincidence, it seems there has been much more shingles in the last 3 yrs; I wonder why; must be genetical; and seems like much younger folks have been affected; must be climate change or genetics I guess; I understand doctors are baffled
Doctors are baffled about what they are seeing. McMaster university here in Canada reported that they are seeing more clots that are not responding to traditional drugs, they’re baffled. Every doctor I’ve seen because of being injured is perplexed. They are aware of the covid shots causing injuries but still the damage is being hidden. The people with the power are in control of this suppression.
I remember at the beginning of this calamity, reading that Israel was warning people it get the shingles shot because they’d seen a rise in shingles after the covid shot. I’m shot injured and on the support groups many people complained about getting shingles after the shot, including me.
This reminds me of a post on the Next Door Neighborhood social media site where a woman posted that she'd received a Shingrix shot three days prior and now had a bad case of shingles. Her question was: "Has anyone else had this happen?" Following that question were more than 100 comments from people who'd had the same AE after receiving the Shingrix shot.
Another vaccine that is a total waste of money and does nothing to protect anyone. We older Baby Boomers had all of those "childhood diseases" so we're fine. Too bad people have to learn the hard way.
My last "vaccine" (if that's what it was) was a polio vax (pink liquid on a sugar cube) in 1957. Not another one since! I'm healthy!
Agree with the avoid vaccines, but just to clarify, having chicken pox as a child is WHY we’re at risk for shingles. It’s a reactivation of the H virus. The immunity does apply to other common childhood diseases.
Thank you Dr. McCullough for emphasizing health instead of over reaction to disease. I had chicken pox as a child, and survived. I had shingles as an adult, and survived. I think my mom dosed me with chicken soup. I do not remember much about the chicken pox or measles episodes as a child. I do remember the mumps! I had it on both sides and it really hurt. I survived that too. Chicken soup is powerful medicine! Shingles episode was a little harder, but I was fortunate to get into a Doc's office within 24 hours of onset. You could see where the pustules were going to be although they had not fully formed yet. I got an antiviral which minimized the severity. The pesky part was the brain thinking there was still a problem after it was all gone. A low dose of neurontin for 3 weeks stopped the weird sensations. So, to emphasize your point, a healthy immune system, early treatment, and strategic aftercare worked miracles and cost this patient very little.
My Mom was perfectly sharp at 87. She had great short term and long-term memories. She was able to run her household pay her bills, balance her checkbook and keep on top of all her families activities. Her primary care doctor suggested she have the shingles vaccine. Both her and her siblings never remember having chickenpox as children. I begged her not to do it, reminding her she never had chickenpox and that at 87 she had not yet had shingles. She was talked in to having the shingles vaccine by her primary care doctor, about nine years ago when she was 87. After receiving the shingles vaccine and then a booster, within six weeks, she could not even carry on a decent conversation. She lost the ability to pay her bills and keep her checkbook balanced, along with a personality change. This was as if she had a TIA or stroke. My mother‘s memory never got worse as it would be suggested with dementia or Alzheimer’s. All I know is my mom was perfectly fine until she had that shot and booster. There was no informed consent prior to having the vaccine, and her doctor never even asked her if she ever had chickenpox. She lived to be 95, with me the last five years. I believe the vaccine caused these changes which ultimately destroyed her quality of life.
I'm very sorry about your mom. What a bloody shame. I would've been hard pressed not to schedule a visit with her doctor to share with him the devastation his "care" caused, and make it clear I was pointing the finger of blame directly at him.
Sadly, this is actually an excellent example of how vaccines cause irreversible harm to previously robustly healthy people, in this case, an elderly lady who made it to 87 in complete control of her life. The other end of the spectrum is the thriving infant whose health is devastated after a well baby visit involving vaccines.
in the late 70's i was sewing freelance for Martha Graham, the great modern dance choreographer, copying her Halstons in fabrics she had collected from her world travels. at some point she got a case of shingles which she told me was horrible. i was stunned. up until that moment i never knew anyone with shingles. i assumed it was a disease that ancient spinsters got in victorian novels. i didn't think it was a real thing!
flash forward to 2004.
i was in my 22nd season as Costume Director of the Spoleto Arts Festival in Charleston, SC. my assistant ran the dance costume department at George Mason and took the summers off to work with me in Charleston. it was early June and she got a panicked call from her crew at George Mason. it was opening night and the lead dancer had come down with a case of shingles and couldn't go on. she spent some time on the phone, coaching them through alterations for the understudy's costumes. the dancer was 23.
in July, i was back in NYC and my boyfriend took me to a July 4 BBQ at a stagehand friend's lake house in upstate NY. it was also my 51st birthday. we ran into another young stagehand there who we both knew and when we asked him how he was doing, he said that he had just recovered from a bout of shingles and it had been horrible but he was finally on the mend. he was 23.
in august, i heard of a third 23 year old male who also had shingles!.
to me, this was an epidemic. in my entire life, i had known only 1 very old woman with shingles and now, decades later, i either knew or heard about 3 young men in 3 months who had shingles.
what did they have in common other than being male and 23? well, all of them would have been vaccinated against chickenpox and therefore never had the natural form of the virus. i did have chickenpox as a child and measles and mumps. my high school educated mother was considered perfectly capable of nursing me through it without "expert" counsel. she never called the CDC (which didn't exist then). no one ever thought i was in any danger; there were no headlines about "outbreaks" in the papers even though most of the children in my neighborhood all came down with it.
now, in 2004, shingles was something that was so widespread that they had to make a vaccine for it but these 23 year old men were 27 years too young to qualify for the vaccine so it didn't help them any.
i began to think that shingles was a man made epidemic. by preventing natural chickenpox infections (and the subsequent re-exposure to siblings, cousins and school chums to top up the immune system), "science" opened the door for widespread shingles outbreaks. by preventing something minor, they caused something worse.
some years later, i heard a lecture by a Russian immunologist which seemed to confirm my hunch. recently i read that the varicella vaccine was not recommended in the UK because they didn't want to cause shingles outbreaks in adults later on. what do they know that our "experts" don't? what do i know, a humble costume maker (ultimately fired in 2021, after 40 years because i wouldn't take a covid shot), that our "experts" don't?
Bottom line. If you had chicken pox you carry the herpes Zoster virus for the the rest of your life. Only when the immune system is defective will shingles emerge. So rather than an injection, treat the cause of a compromised immune system. No?
The zoster/varicella virus causes chicken pox and due to latency comes back later in life when your immunity fades. We call that shingles. The vaccine against this virus was the first one to be made using aborted human fetal tissue culture. We were told there was no other way to make it. We had to accept this good thing from aborting a baby in Sweden. That turned out to be untrue, a lie. That was varivax and zostavax. Those were widely used without informed consent. Parents and adult recipients were not told about the fragments of human fetal DNA that was in the shot. 95% of doctors did not know that. It was not legal to do that research to make this in the USA at the time. Turns out, this vaccine didn't work very well. The use of this vaccine times with an increase in autism.
Zostavax was the name given to the adult version the vaccine. It was a live virus. There are no safety studies on the 40 year risk of the latency problem. We know that the virus is attenuated as far as chicken pox is concerned but no one knows what will happen in 40 years.
If shingles hits a dermatome that includes an eye or an.ear it can cause huge problems. I have seen the misery from such. There is treatment, but you have to be treated within 48 hours. This is the reason that shingrix, a killed virus vaccine not made from human fetal tissue, is the only vaccine I recommend taking. If the first one (of the 2 recommended) gives you a strong reaction, you may not need the second one.
In a natural setting, you get chicken pox at a young age and then when your kids get chicken pox, you are naturally boosted and then when your grandchildren get chicken pox you are again naturally boosted. But now the kids are not getting chicken pox so you get shingles in your 40s. That boosts you for 20 years. This is also why you want to consider the shingrix. Or attend all the chicken pox parties your home school friends are having for natural boosting.
If you think you might have shingles don't wait until Monday to get the treatment. Go the same day.
Agree! Treatment ASAP and high dose antivirals. Don’t skip the nighttime dose for several days. However, contrary to old medical claims, exposure to kids with chickenpox can actually precipitate a case of shingles, so I don’t recommend that approach.
This is not a scientific study. I'm 61. To hear the commercials tell it, I'm a ticking time bomb. Of COURSE I had chicken pox as a child. We ALL did. It was a calamine soaked right of passage.
I have know TWO people who have had shingles. Since I am a veterinarian, people tell me their health issues ALL the time....as if I can help? I dunno.
But TWO cases of shingles are all I know about. This includes family.
BOTH the cases were in middle aged women who did not take care of themselves and were both alcoholics.
I think keeping yourself in good health is worth more than any of the recent medical interventions concocted as of late.
I haven't been to a doctor since I broke 6 ribs in a horse fall in 2022. Somehow, I am surviving.....maybe it's the 50 lbs I lost or working out before every work day or riding horses in my spare time or all the meat I eat. I don't know. Seems to be working.
I think people my age spend WAY too much time schlepping from one doctor to the next. But, again, not a scientific study. Just and old bat's opinion.
The immune system in the human body provides natural resistance to bacteria, viruses, etc. It can be broken down by any matter entering the bloodstream other than nutrients from natural wholesome unprocessed food. The bloodstream feeds all the organs in the body producing health. I remember seeing a seventy year old woman back in the forties who looked ancient with very wrinkled skin, frail and bent over. She had been married to a very wealthy man who spent nothing on food. I remember her very wrinkled skin. I am 91 years old and I have been in a search for health for 64 years...focusing on nutrition and feeding my body nutrients in the food I eat. My skin is not wrinkled like hers was. and I am not frail and bent over. It is important to feed your body nutrients...and avoid all drugs and vaccines. They are toxic! The Creator did not design the human body for the benefit of Big Pharma's Bottom Line.
I took had Zostavax before 2020 and 2 Shingix in 2024.
I never had any reaction and apparently Shingrix is much more effective per Grok:
I've heard of too many bad cases of Shingles and Postherpetic Neuralgia from people who regret not getting the vaccine.
Grok says:
"Shingrix is a two-dose vaccine. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommends administering the two intramuscular doses 2–6 months apart for adults aged 50 years and older who have healthy immune systems, or 1–2 months apart for those who are immunocompromised.Regarding its effectiveness, Shingrix is over 90% effective at preventing shingles in adults aged 50 and older. Specifically, clinical trials showed it was 97% effective in preventing shingles among adults aged 50–69 years and 91% effective among those aged 70 years and older. It is also about 89% effective at preventing postherpetic neuralgia (PHN), the most common complication of shingles, in adults aged 50 and older. Real-world studies confirm sustained effectiveness, with two doses remaining 76–84% effective against shingles and its complications over four years. Effectiveness may be lower (around 50–74%) in certain high-risk groups, such as those with inflammatory arthritis or other immunocompromising conditions."
It's important to know that the Zostavax shot contained whole replication competent varicella viruses that could spread to others, and resulted in full blown chickenpox in some adults who got the shot, so they stopped doing that. The MMRV shot given to children also contains whole replication competent measles, mumps, rubella, and varicella viruses, but we’re still doing that to children.
Zostavax was replaced with a recombinant zoster shot (SHINGRIX) that is supposedly safer because it contains a viral protein that is not biologically active (will not bind to human cells) and contains an adjuvant (AS01B) that is safe. I'm not buying that narrative. The protein in the shot is part of the varicella-zoster virus called gE. How do they get that protein? The gE gene is inserted into a plasmid (a circular DNA molecule) and then introduced into host cells—typically Chinese Hamster Ovary (CHO) cells or yeast cells (specific to the manufacturer). How do we know for sure that there is no hamster DNA in the shot? We don't. DNA plasmids are notorious for finding their way into shots, as we saw with the covid shot. That gE protein by itself won't bind to human cells, but it will bind to an enzyme that, when combined with it, will attach to human cells. This will cause an inflammatory immune response that will result in various levels of tissue destruction inside the body, hence adverse reactions. Nerve tissue and Guillain-Barre Syndrome is mentioned in the post marketing section of the vaccine package insert. The adjuvant AS01B combines MPL and QS21. QS21 is extracted from the bark of the Quillaja saponaria tree native to Chile. MPL is part of salmonella bacteria. Both of those substances are toxic. All adjuvants are toxic, or they wouldn't work. 1 in 3 people will experience a shingles rash at some point in their life, usually when they get really stressed out. I had one and it was no big deal. I'll risk a painful rash over Guillain-Barre Syndrome any day, but that's me.
THANK YOU for sharing this EXCELLENT information!
Although here in Canada doctors push people of a certain age to get the sHingrix shot, I’ve always declined. After the one and only covid shot, I got shingles of all places on my bum. I took the prescribed meds early and they cleared up. I agree, why take the risk, which I was not aware of as doctors never disclose this information.
Overlooked in the debate about the efficacy of viral vaccines is the comparison to interventions that strengthen terrain factors. These studies are rarely funded, and hence not often done. I would propose that individuals who have better nutrition, better lifestyle measurements, such as exercise, exposure to sunlight, regular detoxification or who live in less toxic environments have superior protection from viral diseases than those who lack similarly strengthening of terrain factors. My evidence: the historical record of infectious diseases in the first half of the twentieth century, outlined neatly in McCullough and Leake's own book, Vaccines: Mythology, Ideology and Reality. Until the studies get done, we will be forever debating the degree to which vaccines are useful instruments of prevention, while the solution, improving terrain factors, languishes in darkness.
by an extraordinary coincidence, it seems there has been much more shingles in the last 3 yrs; I wonder why; must be genetical; and seems like much younger folks have been affected; must be climate change or genetics I guess; I understand doctors are baffled
Maybe more compromised immune systems because of the mrna shots. Igg suppression. ??
indeed; high levels of IgG4 suppressing
I believe James made that point. 😁 Perhaps he would have added the /s ? Doctors are baffled was enough for me.
Doctors are baffled about what they are seeing. McMaster university here in Canada reported that they are seeing more clots that are not responding to traditional drugs, they’re baffled. Every doctor I’ve seen because of being injured is perplexed. They are aware of the covid shots causing injuries but still the damage is being hidden. The people with the power are in control of this suppression.
Exactly! So sorry for your injury!
I remember at the beginning of this calamity, reading that Israel was warning people it get the shingles shot because they’d seen a rise in shingles after the covid shot. I’m shot injured and on the support groups many people complained about getting shingles after the shot, including me.
This reminds me of a post on the Next Door Neighborhood social media site where a woman posted that she'd received a Shingrix shot three days prior and now had a bad case of shingles. Her question was: "Has anyone else had this happen?" Following that question were more than 100 comments from people who'd had the same AE after receiving the Shingrix shot.
Another vaccine that is a total waste of money and does nothing to protect anyone. We older Baby Boomers had all of those "childhood diseases" so we're fine. Too bad people have to learn the hard way.
My last "vaccine" (if that's what it was) was a polio vax (pink liquid on a sugar cube) in 1957. Not another one since! I'm healthy!
Agree with the avoid vaccines, but just to clarify, having chicken pox as a child is WHY we’re at risk for shingles. It’s a reactivation of the H virus. The immunity does apply to other common childhood diseases.
if only children still got chickenpox, we would all be periodically exposed (but not infected) which would top up our immunity
same here! born in 1953, had 3 vaccines and all the childhood diseases. i eat well, exercise and garden. i can work rings around any 25 year old.
Thank you Dr. McCullough for emphasizing health instead of over reaction to disease. I had chicken pox as a child, and survived. I had shingles as an adult, and survived. I think my mom dosed me with chicken soup. I do not remember much about the chicken pox or measles episodes as a child. I do remember the mumps! I had it on both sides and it really hurt. I survived that too. Chicken soup is powerful medicine! Shingles episode was a little harder, but I was fortunate to get into a Doc's office within 24 hours of onset. You could see where the pustules were going to be although they had not fully formed yet. I got an antiviral which minimized the severity. The pesky part was the brain thinking there was still a problem after it was all gone. A low dose of neurontin for 3 weeks stopped the weird sensations. So, to emphasize your point, a healthy immune system, early treatment, and strategic aftercare worked miracles and cost this patient very little.
my mother gave me oatmeal baths to soothe the itching. those old wive's tales work!
My Mom was perfectly sharp at 87. She had great short term and long-term memories. She was able to run her household pay her bills, balance her checkbook and keep on top of all her families activities. Her primary care doctor suggested she have the shingles vaccine. Both her and her siblings never remember having chickenpox as children. I begged her not to do it, reminding her she never had chickenpox and that at 87 she had not yet had shingles. She was talked in to having the shingles vaccine by her primary care doctor, about nine years ago when she was 87. After receiving the shingles vaccine and then a booster, within six weeks, she could not even carry on a decent conversation. She lost the ability to pay her bills and keep her checkbook balanced, along with a personality change. This was as if she had a TIA or stroke. My mother‘s memory never got worse as it would be suggested with dementia or Alzheimer’s. All I know is my mom was perfectly fine until she had that shot and booster. There was no informed consent prior to having the vaccine, and her doctor never even asked her if she ever had chickenpox. She lived to be 95, with me the last five years. I believe the vaccine caused these changes which ultimately destroyed her quality of life.
I'm very sorry about your mom. What a bloody shame. I would've been hard pressed not to schedule a visit with her doctor to share with him the devastation his "care" caused, and make it clear I was pointing the finger of blame directly at him.
Sadly, this is actually an excellent example of how vaccines cause irreversible harm to previously robustly healthy people, in this case, an elderly lady who made it to 87 in complete control of her life. The other end of the spectrum is the thriving infant whose health is devastated after a well baby visit involving vaccines.
This is NOT "health care"!!!!!
in the late 70's i was sewing freelance for Martha Graham, the great modern dance choreographer, copying her Halstons in fabrics she had collected from her world travels. at some point she got a case of shingles which she told me was horrible. i was stunned. up until that moment i never knew anyone with shingles. i assumed it was a disease that ancient spinsters got in victorian novels. i didn't think it was a real thing!
flash forward to 2004.
i was in my 22nd season as Costume Director of the Spoleto Arts Festival in Charleston, SC. my assistant ran the dance costume department at George Mason and took the summers off to work with me in Charleston. it was early June and she got a panicked call from her crew at George Mason. it was opening night and the lead dancer had come down with a case of shingles and couldn't go on. she spent some time on the phone, coaching them through alterations for the understudy's costumes. the dancer was 23.
in July, i was back in NYC and my boyfriend took me to a July 4 BBQ at a stagehand friend's lake house in upstate NY. it was also my 51st birthday. we ran into another young stagehand there who we both knew and when we asked him how he was doing, he said that he had just recovered from a bout of shingles and it had been horrible but he was finally on the mend. he was 23.
in august, i heard of a third 23 year old male who also had shingles!.
to me, this was an epidemic. in my entire life, i had known only 1 very old woman with shingles and now, decades later, i either knew or heard about 3 young men in 3 months who had shingles.
what did they have in common other than being male and 23? well, all of them would have been vaccinated against chickenpox and therefore never had the natural form of the virus. i did have chickenpox as a child and measles and mumps. my high school educated mother was considered perfectly capable of nursing me through it without "expert" counsel. she never called the CDC (which didn't exist then). no one ever thought i was in any danger; there were no headlines about "outbreaks" in the papers even though most of the children in my neighborhood all came down with it.
now, in 2004, shingles was something that was so widespread that they had to make a vaccine for it but these 23 year old men were 27 years too young to qualify for the vaccine so it didn't help them any.
i began to think that shingles was a man made epidemic. by preventing natural chickenpox infections (and the subsequent re-exposure to siblings, cousins and school chums to top up the immune system), "science" opened the door for widespread shingles outbreaks. by preventing something minor, they caused something worse.
some years later, i heard a lecture by a Russian immunologist which seemed to confirm my hunch. recently i read that the varicella vaccine was not recommended in the UK because they didn't want to cause shingles outbreaks in adults later on. what do they know that our "experts" don't? what do i know, a humble costume maker (ultimately fired in 2021, after 40 years because i wouldn't take a covid shot), that our "experts" don't?
zoster, another virus bs story to sell poisons.
THANK YOU for providing this information, Dr. McCullough!
Bottom line. If you had chicken pox you carry the herpes Zoster virus for the the rest of your life. Only when the immune system is defective will shingles emerge. So rather than an injection, treat the cause of a compromised immune system. No?
I had chicken pox in 1958 when I was ten. I am 77 now and never had an outbreak of shingles. I won't take their poison shots.
The zoster/varicella virus causes chicken pox and due to latency comes back later in life when your immunity fades. We call that shingles. The vaccine against this virus was the first one to be made using aborted human fetal tissue culture. We were told there was no other way to make it. We had to accept this good thing from aborting a baby in Sweden. That turned out to be untrue, a lie. That was varivax and zostavax. Those were widely used without informed consent. Parents and adult recipients were not told about the fragments of human fetal DNA that was in the shot. 95% of doctors did not know that. It was not legal to do that research to make this in the USA at the time. Turns out, this vaccine didn't work very well. The use of this vaccine times with an increase in autism.
Zostavax was the name given to the adult version the vaccine. It was a live virus. There are no safety studies on the 40 year risk of the latency problem. We know that the virus is attenuated as far as chicken pox is concerned but no one knows what will happen in 40 years.
If shingles hits a dermatome that includes an eye or an.ear it can cause huge problems. I have seen the misery from such. There is treatment, but you have to be treated within 48 hours. This is the reason that shingrix, a killed virus vaccine not made from human fetal tissue, is the only vaccine I recommend taking. If the first one (of the 2 recommended) gives you a strong reaction, you may not need the second one.
In a natural setting, you get chicken pox at a young age and then when your kids get chicken pox, you are naturally boosted and then when your grandchildren get chicken pox you are again naturally boosted. But now the kids are not getting chicken pox so you get shingles in your 40s. That boosts you for 20 years. This is also why you want to consider the shingrix. Or attend all the chicken pox parties your home school friends are having for natural boosting.
If you think you might have shingles don't wait until Monday to get the treatment. Go the same day.
Agree! Treatment ASAP and high dose antivirals. Don’t skip the nighttime dose for several days. However, contrary to old medical claims, exposure to kids with chickenpox can actually precipitate a case of shingles, so I don’t recommend that approach.
This is not a scientific study. I'm 61. To hear the commercials tell it, I'm a ticking time bomb. Of COURSE I had chicken pox as a child. We ALL did. It was a calamine soaked right of passage.
I have know TWO people who have had shingles. Since I am a veterinarian, people tell me their health issues ALL the time....as if I can help? I dunno.
But TWO cases of shingles are all I know about. This includes family.
BOTH the cases were in middle aged women who did not take care of themselves and were both alcoholics.
I think keeping yourself in good health is worth more than any of the recent medical interventions concocted as of late.
I haven't been to a doctor since I broke 6 ribs in a horse fall in 2022. Somehow, I am surviving.....maybe it's the 50 lbs I lost or working out before every work day or riding horses in my spare time or all the meat I eat. I don't know. Seems to be working.
I think people my age spend WAY too much time schlepping from one doctor to the next. But, again, not a scientific study. Just and old bat's opinion.
L-Lysine daily, 500-100 mg daily keeps breakouts from occurring. Used personally 20 + years.
The immune system in the human body provides natural resistance to bacteria, viruses, etc. It can be broken down by any matter entering the bloodstream other than nutrients from natural wholesome unprocessed food. The bloodstream feeds all the organs in the body producing health. I remember seeing a seventy year old woman back in the forties who looked ancient with very wrinkled skin, frail and bent over. She had been married to a very wealthy man who spent nothing on food. I remember her very wrinkled skin. I am 91 years old and I have been in a search for health for 64 years...focusing on nutrition and feeding my body nutrients in the food I eat. My skin is not wrinkled like hers was. and I am not frail and bent over. It is important to feed your body nutrients...and avoid all drugs and vaccines. They are toxic! The Creator did not design the human body for the benefit of Big Pharma's Bottom Line.
No vaccine.
I took had Zostavax before 2020 and 2 Shingix in 2024.
I never had any reaction and apparently Shingrix is much more effective per Grok:
I've heard of too many bad cases of Shingles and Postherpetic Neuralgia from people who regret not getting the vaccine.
Grok says:
"Shingrix is a two-dose vaccine. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) recommends administering the two intramuscular doses 2–6 months apart for adults aged 50 years and older who have healthy immune systems, or 1–2 months apart for those who are immunocompromised.Regarding its effectiveness, Shingrix is over 90% effective at preventing shingles in adults aged 50 and older. Specifically, clinical trials showed it was 97% effective in preventing shingles among adults aged 50–69 years and 91% effective among those aged 70 years and older. It is also about 89% effective at preventing postherpetic neuralgia (PHN), the most common complication of shingles, in adults aged 50 and older. Real-world studies confirm sustained effectiveness, with two doses remaining 76–84% effective against shingles and its complications over four years. Effectiveness may be lower (around 50–74%) in certain high-risk groups, such as those with inflammatory arthritis or other immunocompromising conditions."