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On very rare occasions, they may develop Guillain-Barre syndrome in the days or weeks after getting certain vaccines, such as Shingrix, which is a shingles vaccine, Johnson & Johnson's COVID-19 vaccine, and influenza vaccines in some seasons.

Just so y'all know, I've already read these documents years and years ago.

Did you know the efficacy rate lifetime of flu vaccines is 4%? 96% of all vaccines for the flu have been a failure.

Oh, wait, let's go back.

The risk of Guillain-Barre syndrome following receipt of a tetanus-containing vaccine is plausible, so you can get it from that also.

What about the shingles vaccine that everybody, basically Medicare age in America, is gonna be told you need every single year? Earlier in 2021, the FDA required the addition of a warning label to Shingrix, which is the most common shingles vaccine for the elderly in America, citing an increased risk of about three cases for every million vaccine doses of shingles vaccine.

Importantly, this increased risk occurred in about six of one million people 65 years of age and older during the six weeks after receipt of the first dose of this vaccine.

Adult vaccination can be thought of as a cornerstone of successful aging.

But a major issue hampering the uptake of shingles vaccination is the lack of awareness of the disease.

Shingles is caused by a reactivation of the chickenpox virus later in life.

After your body beats back chickenpox, the virus hides in waiting in your spinal cord, waiting for an opportunity to strike back.

More than 90% of US children get common childhood vaccinations such as polio or their measles, mumps, and rubella shot.

But most adults fail to get their full complement of recommended adult vaccinations.

Assuming you got all your childhood vaccinations, and aside from any emergent pandemic needs, the CDC recommends all healthy adults get annual flu shots, tetanus boosters every ten years, though the World Health Organization doesn't think this is necessary, shingles vaccination at age 50, and pneumonia vaccine at age 65.

Certain groups need others, such as a hepatitis B series for healthcare workers or men who have sex with men.

Mm-hmm.

Uh, Shingrix, for example.

Uh, and then you typically get one pneumococcus, and you get DTaP every 10 years.

Mm-hmm.

Yeah.

And even in socialized healthcare where everything is recorded, you know, 'cause everybody has the same provider, the state, same thing.

By the way, there- one of the fascinating shingles studies that I wish I had thought of was an American investigator who found out that in Denmark, I think it's Denmark, if you're over 85, you don't get the Shingrix vaccination.

If you're under 85, you do.

And I always think of exactly what you're saying.

I mean, you know, now the Shingrix vaccine, the shingles vaccine, the new one, there's a huge amount of research that says it really helps prevent dementia.

So I know quite a few people, and I think I'm going to be one of them, that's going to get the Shingrix vaccine because I'd rather prevent dementia.

Yeah.

I also want to get a fix on what percentage of diseases directly relates to the health of the mind.

The shingles vaccine, so

Shingrix? This Shingrix is quite extraordinary stuff.

And so I think that when you've hit 65, I've had it myself, it's important to do that.

And again, it's the same thing, reduction in heart attack, reduction in also Alzheimer's, in dementia, Alzheimer's disease.

I talked really briefly.

I did like a one-liner about the newest data for Shingrix in this a couple episodes ago, and we'll go into it a little bit more here.

But in general, Patty, can you tell us briefly kind of which vaccines so far have the strongest data for reducing risk of dementia? Yeah.

Yeah, I would agree with you that Shingurix is probably the one with the most and best data.

Yeah.

That's a great thing.

But yes, the Shingrix, that most recent article I saw that I mentioned a couple episodes ago, I think it was published in Annals of Internal Medicine, and I'll talk about it just briefly.

Also, because there was a pharmacist as the lead author, and I just love supporting and, yes, elevating the work of pharmacists.

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And finally, a groundbreaking Brown University study analyzing medical data from half a million seniors reveals that the Shingrix shingles vaccine is associated with a 24 percent lower risk of developing dementia.

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