I get offered it each year here in East Anglia, partly having had a mild heart attack (11 years ago), partly being over 60, I suspect.

   This year I said,'No thanks'. I haven't had 'flu since I don't know when, and certainly not since 1993, when I converted to a healthy diet. And therefore not since 1995. That year of the heart attack, I was told by a doc that we don't drink enough water. Since then, I've made a point of sipping water a lot, and for years after, I didn't get a cold either.

(I can't recommend highly enough "Your Body's Many Cries for Water" by Dr.F.Batmanghelidj)

So I said no because I think my immune system is in good shape.

A further downside to getting the jab is that germs develop new strains to get past the chemical defences, so, as with war, I doubt the strategy is always right.

I add hastily that I do take an aspirin a day, and I'm grateful to the docs for same my life with the stuff they had. I just think people have such a fearfulness of illness and such a love of 'getting -something- from- the-doctor-if- he -says-it-will-help', and love of technology, that they make themselves vulnerable. When I go to the doc., I always say I don't want to be given anything if there is no vital need for anything.






      
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       Ivor