Flu vaccination linked to 40% reduced risk of Alzheimer’s disease

Never gotten the flu vaccine before. Biggest fear in life is alzheimers. Guess I will get the flu vaccine annually going forward.

The also allude to “other vaccines” in this article. Googled it and they mean the pneumococcal vaccines also gave a protective effect. So maybe get those. If you just tell your doctor you’re an alcoholic they’ll give it to you.

Participants in the study were on average 75 years old.

Worth getting anyway -- the flu is pretty miserable.

My family has an unfortunate history of not living past 65, so may as well start now :)

You could learn another language if you haven't already. That apparently helps slow the onset of Alzheimer's.

And Tdap, chicken pox, and shingles.

It is not known whether spacing them out is better, for this specific purpose, or all at once. It is easy to invent plausible arguments for each. Only the data can choose.

Not just those. Tdap shows a 40% effect size, too. Better get your shingles and/or chicken pox, too.

Chicken pox and shingles are the same virus. If you've had chickenpox, they won't give you that vaccine. But you should definitely get the shingles vaccine either way, if possible (CDC is still denying it to adults under 50, even though shingles affects adults under 50).

Your facts are opposite to reality.

If you had chicken pox (even asymptomatic), that puts you at especial risk for shingles; not surprisingly, as it is a retrovirus.

I had chicken pox, and got the shingles vaccine. They did not ask.

Sure, but I believe for every 70 years you take the flu vaccine you’ll prevent yourself from getting the flu once. It will probably lessen the severity of the flu the other time or two you get it, though.

Frankly, Alzheimer’s prevention makes it seem a hell of a lot more worthwhile to those that are young and healthy.

Not everyone who has had chicken pox is aware they’ve had it. That’s why everyone should get the shingles vaccine.