7 Years A Vegan and 36 Hours Fully Vaccinated!!! #PartOfTheSolution #BuhByeCOVID-19

Vaccines cause adults who did not die from a preventable disease.

Yesterday was January 16, 2021; the day I got my 2nd dose of the Pfizer vaccine. I've experienced no side effects at all from yesterday's vaccination and only had mild injection site soreness for 1 day after I got the 1st dose, 3 weeks ago.

January 1, 2014 when I was 58 years old, I changed my lifestyle from that which made me an obese couch potato struggling with hypertension, high cholesterol and sleep apnea. All of the above are disease  states brought on by the quagmire of the Standard American Diet (S.A.D.).  With no surgery, therapy, extra medication or strenuous exercise, I changed my eating habits and transitioned overnight to a Whole Foods Plant Based No Oil (WFPBNO) diet. I lost the need to take any medication along with 100 lbs. in a little over a year. That's when I started running at the age of 59 and lost an additional 10 lbs.

Now it's 7 years later and having found my way out of that decaying life; reducing my risk for heart attack, stroke, prostate cancer and diabetes, a novel virus presents itself threatening the health of everyone. Having to stay home when I'm not working has kept me too inactive and too close to the refrigerator. Since last March I've managed to put back on about 15 lbs. Now its time to get serious again and make up the ground I've lost since the pandemic began. No more excuses!  

After investing so much time and effort to optimize my health through a major lifestyle change, it was an extremely easy decision to choose vaccination against the COVID-19 virus. I have a good friend in New York whose whole family got it and lost her husband after getting this virus, another friend who is currently recovering and lots of patients who either had it or lost multiple family members who succumbed to it. Its not something I wish to experience. 

For the past 30 years, maybe longer, I've taken the flu vaccine with no side effects. I've also been vaccinated against Polio, Smallpox, Swine Flu, Tetanus, Diphtheria, Pertussis, Hepatitis and Shingles. As a child I've had Measles, Mumps Chickenpox and Rubella resulting in natural immunity to all of them. My wife and I have 3 healthy children, all of whom where fully vaccinated to all of the above resulting in 3 healthy adults.  

 

Having a bachelor degree in Microbiology before going to medical school, with majors in immunology and animal viruses, I have no problem reading and understanding the science behind this new generation of mRNA vaccines in contrast with previous vaccines which were based on killed or attenuated live viruses. This new approach has been in the works for about 30 years. There is no live virus involved. The genes for mRNA are sequenced in a lab. The gene in question can only make one of the surface proteins of the virus, not the entire virus. This triggers the immune system to get ready to attack the virus if exposure occurs and eliminate it from the body. 

Here's what you should know:

• The mRNA vaccine has been tested in animals and humans and was deemed safe and effective. 
• It does not contain any live virus.
• It does not contain any killed virus. 
• It does not contain any heavy metals.
• It does not contain any formaldehyde. 
• Any side effects from the vaccine are generally mild, manageable and self limiting.
•  The side effects from the vaccine cannot be transmitted by you to your loved ones.
• The side effects of the VIRUS
   could take you away from your job, hospitalize you, ruin your lungs, cause blood clots in your limbs or kill you.

Here is an easy to read link to a summary published by Harvard Medical School.

In the U.S. more than 800,000 people die every year from Heart Attacks and Strokes. If there was a vaccine to prevent those deaths, would you take it? You could just change your lifestyle as I did instead of waiting for a vaccine, but that's a subject for another day!

Wishing you all the best of health no matter what you decide to do! 💓