Vaccines

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Vaccines

Vaccines are biological preparations that provide active acquired immunity to a particular infectious disease. They typically contain an agent that resembles a disease-causing microorganism, and is often made from weakened or killed forms of the microbe, its toxins or one of its surface proteins. This stimulates the body's immune system to recognize the agent as a threat, destroy it, and 'remember' it, so that the immune system can more easily recognize and destroy any of these microorganisms that it later encounters.

Category
Biological Products
Molecular Formula
Varies
Mechanism of Action
Vaccines stimulate the immune system to produce an immune response, such as producing antibodies to a particular antigen, which can help prevent or control infection.
Evidence Grade
A

Other Names

  • Immunizations
  • Shots

Primary Benefits

  • Prevention of infectious diseases
  • Herd immunity
  • Eradication of diseases

Recommended Dosage

Child Varies depending on the vaccine
Adult Varies depending on the vaccine

Side Effects

  • Injection site reactions
  • Fever
  • Fatigue
  • Headache
  • Muscle pain

Precautions

  • Severe allergy to a previous dose of the same vaccine
  • Severe immunodeficiency

Interactions

  • Immunosuppressive therapies
  • Certain medical conditions

Key References

  • https://www.cdc.gov/vaccines/vpd/vaccines-diseases.html
  • https://www.who.int/topics/vaccines/en/
Using Your Mind to Control Your Physical Health & Longevity | Dr. Ellen Langer
Enhancing Health Through Mindfulness, Placebos, Sleep, and Exercise Strategies 1:27:36 0
“vaccines you know there is no treatment that's going to be good for everybody”

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#123–Joan Mannick & Nir Barzilai: Rapamycin and metformin—longevity, immune enhancement, & COVID-19
Enhancing Longevity and Health with Immune-Boosting Substances Research Insights 1:09:07 0
“The vaccines that I'm seeing developing are not considering the older host in several ways.”

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#123–Joan Mannick & Nir Barzilai: Rapamycin and metformin—longevity, immune enhancement, & COVID-19
Enhancing Longevity and Health with Immune-Boosting Substances Research Insights 1:11:11 0
“let's assume we can make some safe and efficacious vaccines are they really likely to keep you protected for five years ten years or more even without the genetic drift”

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Improving Science & Restoring Trust in Public Health | Dr. Jay Bhattacharya
Public health discussions on vital topics and practical recommendations. 4:40 0
“that discussion leads into a very direct conversation about vaccines more generally not just co 19 vaccines but also measles ms rebella vaccines and the very public and controversial issue taking place right now about vaccines and autism”

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Improving Science & Restoring Trust in Public Health | Dr. Jay Bhattacharya
Public health discussions on vital topics and practical recommendations. 2:50:55 0
“the lockdowns were unfair to in particular working-class populations we were told one thing about masks then told another we got a kind of uh loop-de-loop of of uh foggy speakak politico messaging about vaccines and what they did do or wouldn't do and basically I hear from a lot of the general population not just people on the MAGA Maha whatever you want to call it side but also a lot of stated Democrats and people are truly in the center that they lost trust in science and scientists”

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Improving Science & Restoring Trust in Public Health | Dr. Jay Bhattacharya
Public health discussions on vital topics and practical recommendations. 2:14:40 0
“do you believe that there are any vaccines that are useful yes okay well I think it's just let's build up from there um do you believe that some vaccines save lives yes okay many vaccines save lives”

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Improving Science & Restoring Trust in Public Health | Dr. Jay Bhattacharya
Public health discussions on vital topics and practical recommendations. 2:14:58 0
“do you believe that some vaccines that are given to children save lives yes”

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Improving Science & Restoring Trust in Public Health | Dr. Jay Bhattacharya
Public health discussions on vital topics and practical recommendations. 2:15:04 0
“do you believe that some vaccines are known to be harmful and yet still given let me let me say the specific one i think the COVID vaccine for children in particular I don't think is net beneficial for kids”

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Improving Science & Restoring Trust in Public Health | Dr. Jay Bhattacharya
Public health discussions on vital topics and practical recommendations. 2:19:36 0
“what they showed was that among patients who had never before had COVID, the patients who were randomized to the vaccine had lower rates of getting COVID in those two months than the people who were randomly assigned to placebo.”

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Improving Science & Restoring Trust in Public Health | Dr. Jay Bhattacharya
Public health discussions on vital topics and practical recommendations. 2:20:07 0
“the mRNA vaccines had more deaths in the treatment arm than in the placebo arm but the size of the samples were such that you couldn't say that that was a statistically meaningful result.”

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Improving Science & Restoring Trust in Public Health | Dr. Jay Bhattacharya
Public health discussions on vital topics and practical recommendations. 2:22:53 0
“I wrote an op-ed in December 2020 with Sinetra Gupta where I argue that that is sufficient to say we should give the vaccine or recommend that older people get the vaccine but that we shouldn't give it necessarily to young people.”

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Improving Science & Restoring Trust in Public Health | Dr. Jay Bhattacharya
Public health discussions on vital topics and practical recommendations. 2:29:12 0
“it very quickly became clear that that was not true right so I remember seeing uh uh the outbreak of cases in Gibralar which was like 95% vac% vaccinated uh and I look at them going why is Jibralter like they were using I think they were using the Astroenica vaccines like like why why are they seeing this huge spread of of COVID”

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Improving Science & Restoring Trust in Public Health | Dr. Jay Bhattacharya
Public health discussions on vital topics and practical recommendations. 2:45:09 0
“my understanding of the current literature as it stands is that the Andrew Wakefield data this British physician um who was really the first to popularize the idea that vaccines could in his words cause autism or were highly correlated with autism those data were essentially retracted by the journals he lost his medical license and my understanding is there was evidence of fraud that he that he was either made up data or contorted data”

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Improving Science & Restoring Trust in Public Health | Dr. Jay Bhattacharya
Public health discussions on vital topics and practical recommendations. 2:47:59 0
“there's a massive Danish study uh that tracks patients who were vaccinated kids who are vaccinated matched with patients similar patients who were not tracks them for for for a year or longer and finds no difference okay or fails to find a diff a difference in autism rates”

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3 NEW Science-Backed Blue Zone Strategies To Increase Your Lifespan & Happiness: Dan Buettner
Enhance Your Longevity and Happiness with Blue Zone Lifestyle Choices 49:40 0
“Public Health vaccines antibiotics kind of the you know really public health and um uh and then as soon as the corrosive effects of modernization hit then um chronic diseases blow up”

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Eric Topol Returns (on longevity) | Armchair Expert with Dax Shepard
Influence of Diet, Substances, Genetics, and Toxins on Health 32:52 0
“we got great with vaccines and we got great with treating with antibiotics a lot of different diseases what we all now have to deal with is these chronic four disorders right uh obesity and diabetes heart disease cancer and then neuro which are in your book”

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Longevity Supplements, Predatory Experts & Continuous Glucose Monitors | Dr. Eric Topol
Exploring Aging, Genetics, Disease Prevention, Nutrition, and Lifestyle Factors 1:00:33 0
“That is probably one of the most carefully studied things we've done in the history of medicine.”

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Longevity Supplements, Predatory Experts & Continuous Glucose Monitors | Dr. Eric Topol
Exploring Aging, Genetics, Disease Prevention, Nutrition, and Lifestyle Factors 1:44:03 0
“We could give like shingles vaccines. Today is the fourth study to show shingles vaccine lowers the risk of dementia and Alzheimer's disease.”

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