How the Medical Establishment Worsens Health Outcomes from the Flu

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Executive Summary

The medical establishment’s advice on treating the flu is yet another example of where they dramatically worsen health outcomes.

Introduction

In this article, I cover the terrible medical advice the medical establishment offers regarding the flu.

Medical Advice #1: Flu Vaccines Increase the Incidence of Catching Flu

The following quote is from the article Is Covid More Dangerous Than the Flu?

During that flu season, I clearly recalled that each patient I saw who had been hospitalized or put onto a ventilator had received that year’s flu shot, whereas no one I knew who had not vaccinated had any issues with that year’s flu.

While my observations may have been anecdotal, they are in fact supported by the previously cited study because:

The most identified strain of the virus is influenza A (H3N2). According to a CDC emergency health advisory released Dec. 27, 83 percent of reported cases were H3N2, a strain associated with more hospitalizations and deaths in those over 65 years of age and in young children compared to other age groups.

Or put differently, the vaccine made you roughly 17.5% more likely to catch the dangerous strain that characterized most of the flu season. However, this did not in any way stop anyone from pushing that vaccine—and I still remember the numerous mind-boggling debates I had with pulmonologists about it, something I believe illustrates how invested their profession is in this approach.

Meanwhile, what works very effectively against the flu is de-emphasized by the medical establishment — which spends its efforts promoting ineffective vaccines instead of what works and which has no side effects — namely Vitamin D.

..it has been repeatedly observed that influenza outbreaks tend to occur in tandem with low levels of sunlight, suggesting a vitamin D deficiency is a causative factor for influenza. In turn, a significant amount of research has been done between vitamin D levels and the flu. Consider the following:

A study measured the vitamin D concentrations in 198 healthy adults each month during the fall and winter of 2009-2010. It found the incidence of infection was 2.7 times lower and the percentage of days ill was 4.9 times lower in the group that maintained vitamin D levels of 38 ng/mL or higher during the entire study period as compared to the group with levels below 38 ng/mL.

A meta-analysis of five placebo trials found vitamin D supplementation reduced the number of respiratory tract infections in adults by 35% and in children by 42% when compared to groups that did not receive supplementation.

However, this is the type of information that the medical establishment and Big Tech want censored. Taking Vitamin D reduces the profits for pharmaceutical companies, and anything that reduces the profits is, by definition, medical misinformation. Medical misinformation is not false information; it is just information that is profit-minimizing for powerful entities in the medical space. The reason is that providing actual medical misinformation is the full-time job of the medical establishment. We often look back at the mistakes of medicine as something that happened in the distant past, be it frontal lobotomies or MDs refusing to wash hands as the cause of mortality and sickness in patients. However, in reality, it is just that these things have been exposed, while the current stuff that medicine does wrong has not been, or at least has not been, exposed to a sufficient degree to be broadly accepted.

Medical Advice #2: Suppress the Fever.

In the case of fevers, a long standing belief in the natural medicine community has been that suppressing fevers worsens your body’s immune response and its attempts to expel an infection, so the natural medicine field strongly advises against suppressing fevers. This for example was clearly demonstrated throughout the devastating 1918 influenza pandemic and many reports at the time showed it determined if a patient would live or die.

It is left out by sources controlled by the medical establishment how their advice worsened the Spanish Flu. Then, after their advice caused a higher mortality rate, medicine has been promoting Spanish Flu deaths, so we need to pay more attention to their advice.

From reading all of these reports, (provided the fever is not too high) I’ve adopted the practice of instead often encouraging fevers during these types of infections and found it frequently significantly improves how quickly the patient recovers. Furthermore, I also found that for some patients, a significant amount of the discomfort they experience during an illness comes not from its fever, but rather the body struggling to heat itself up to the target temperature needed for the fever. For this reason, I often find (provided the patient is not on the frail end), that to reduce discomfort it is more effective to heat the body up (e.g., with an infrared mat) than it is to use a medicine which suppresses the fever by turning off the body’s signal to heat itself up.

What an excellent point. This is the exact opposite of the standard medical advice — rather than suppress the fever, you encourage it in people who are more restricted in increasing the body temperature on their own.