Shingles…to Take or Not Take the New Vaccine?

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Indexed  October 7, 2011

Question: from Terry I read with great interest your reply to the question about Vitamin D preventing cancer. Specifically your reply: “In other words it is not a matter of taking mega doses of Vitamin D but rather ensuring that you don’t have a deficiency. Remember that most cancers are due to a nutrient deficiency!” Can this same principle apply to other conditions? The current issue of Prevention Magazine has ‘suggestions/advertisements’ to be vaccinated (when you turn 60 years old) with Zostavax to prevent shingles and postherpetic neuralgia. Apparently, “1 in 4 people who have had chickenpox eventually develops the blistering rash of shingles – caused when the chickenpox virus, Varicella zoster” is reactivated. 40% will go on to suffer what’s been described as the worst kind of pain imaginable. Called postherpetic ...   See the complete post here