Dr. Zibners.com

As a parent of five, I often volunteer in my children’s school.  I’m always amazed at what I learn and what I see in the span of just a few short hours - the coughing, the sneezing, the lack of handwashing and personal hygiene, not to mention the lack of personal space.  No matter how germ free I keep my home,no matter how much sleep my kids get, and no matter all the healthy food they eat, I’m still amazed at what their immune systems must battle in those 6 1/2 hours they spend in close quarters with all those germy kids at school.  While I’m totally against schoolyard bullying, I can accept the convictions of the flu shot bully.  After all, you are preventing harm, not causing it!  And if they don’t want a needle, you can always offer a bit of mist up the nose!

    – Christine Vara (12/06 11:40 AM)

I have 7 kids from 21 to 2 years and teach school. I never get sick and I NEVER get flu shots. My older children have asthma, learning problems and sensory issues, they were immunized. My 4 children that were not immunized or polluted with flu vaccines are high performers with high IQs. You can be a “bully” all you wish, but it is to your own detriment and that of your offspring. I believe pharmacuetical companies would refer to you as a “useful idiot”. Go ahead immunize, you like all bullstupidest stupid.

    – Momof7 (12/07 11:17 PM)

Until recently, scientists have blamed the rise in flu cases during winter on an increased tendency to congregate inside in groups. Low humidity has also been blamed, as viruses are said to survive longer in drier air. But the real culprit responsible for the winter cold and flu season may be vitamin-D deficiency.

It seems that, in the winter months, the sun is not strong enough to trigger vitamin-D synthesis in our skin, resulting in lower vitamin-D absorption.

To test this theory of vitamin-D deficiency causing an increased risk for getting the flu, researchers at the Jikei University School of Medicine in Tokyo, Japan, recruited 167 school children for a clinical trial. From December 2008 through March 2009, the research team conducted a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled trial comparing vitamin D(3) supplements with placebo.

The researchers found that Influenza A occurred in 18 of 167 (10.8%) children in the vitamin D(3) group, compared with 31 of 167 (18.6%) children in the placebo group (an almost two-fold increase). The researchers also found that, for children with a previous diagnosis of asthma, asthma attacks as a secondary outcome occurred in two children receiving vitamin D(3), compared with 12 children in the placebo group — a significant increase!

The research team concluded that vitamin-D(3) supplementation during the winter may reduce the incidence of influenza A.

The best source of vitamin D is the sun, of course. UV rays from the sun trigger vitamin-D synthesis in your skin. Ten to 15 minutes of sun exposure at least two times a week to your face, arms, hands or back is enough to give you a healthy dose of vitamin D. Keep in mind, however, that long winters and sun avoidance in the summer mean that you may not be getting enough vitamin D this way.

One other note: vitamin-D synthesis is less efficient in people with darker skin, and African Americans are at higher risk of deficiency than whites. Overweight adults can also be at risk because vitamin D is stored in body fat. The more vitamin D that gets stored into fat tissue, the less active vitamin there is in the blood.

    – Judy (12/08 07:03 AM)

Everyone should learn how to defend themselves against bullies. The flu vaccine has caused many deaths and many cases of paralysis. Its aluminum content is responsible for the twenty-fold increase in cases of Alzheimer’s in the U.S. since 1980. My parents went to the mall for their yearly flu vaccine starting in the ‘80s, and it paralyzed my father for the last three years of his life, and caused Alzheimer’s for the last thirteen years and counting in my mother, who said sadly ten years ago, “But no one in my family has ever had Alzheimer’s.” But no one in her family had ever gotten flu shots either.

Flu is a fairly mild disease in most people. Up until five years ago, it was not recommended for children, as it is so rarely dangerous in that population. Getting the flu naturally trains the immune system to eradicate the flu virus effectively, and provides permanent immunity to that flu strain and partial immunity to its future mutations, leaving the person better able to cope with the flu in subsequent years.

I have never taken nor will I ever take the flu vaccine. I got the flu last March, and took homeopathic bryonia and oscillococcinum in the middle of the first night, when I was shaking with chills and fever. A few hours later the fever was completely gone, not to return. Elderberry in Sambucol, Umcka, Vitamin C, echinacea, and zinc lozenges were some other remedies I took, and though I still had a cough, I was able to drive ninety miles to the funeral of an old friend the next day.

I will not try to bully you, but would like to warn you that the flu vaccine is dangerous (see the story of Lisa Marks Smith, paralyzed for four years by the flu vaccine), often ineffective, and actually damages the immune system. Fighting the flu naturally confers many adventages, and naturopathic and homeopathic treatments are safe remedies to consider when combatting the flu.

    – cia parker (12/08 11:44 AM)

I am a health care provider, my motto is first:

DO NO HARM

second:

INFORMED CONSENT

There is no evidence to show that flu vaccines are 100% safe and
do no harm. So why would you or anyone in health care promote
this treatment? Could it be the influence of Pharmaceutical companies
that are putting profit over safety?

    – Sue (12/08 04:11 PM)

Following up on what Mom o’ Four said, it’s true that a child at all sick should not get vaccines, but even many previously healthy children react to vaccines, no matter how carefully they are limited and spaced. My baby was given the hep-B vaccine in the hospital when she was born, although I had told her pediatrician a month earlier that I didn’t want her to get it, as I had read it often caused autism. The motto “first do no harm” was thrown overboard by the health care industry so long ago that it’s not worth even trying to remember the words. I had been tested and found to be hepatitis free months before. My baby was at zero risk of contracting hep B. A congressional sub-committee a year before (May 1999) had found this vaccine to be so dangerous that it recommended a moratorium be placed on its use. Despite that, it was given to my baby without even asking permission (the doctor had forgotten to tell the staff I didn’t want her to get it). She reacted with four days and nights of inconsolable nonstop screaming which the pediatrician tried to dismiss as colic (newborns never get colic, it follows the rule of three, at least three hours a day, for up to three months, starting about three weeks old). It was vaccine-induced encephalitis, and she was later diagnosed with autism. I got a tetanus booster when I was nineteen, and it paralyzed both arms for two days, and I later developed multiple sclerosis.
For these reasons we am completely immune to bullying from health care providers, school systems, and news outlets, and it is permanent immunity, with no need for boosters, ever.

    – cia parker (12/09 11:03 AM)

If I were you, I would just practice good hygiene before I head home. And I would love to see you try to get me in a head lock.

    – Heythere. (12/11 03:26 PM)

What a jerk. Your friends and family are better off without you. No one needs a bully in their life. Way to infringe on their rights to medical treatment. Glad I still live in a state that allows me to decide which vaccines are necessary or not.

    – FreeAmerican (12/11 03:29 PM)

Wow, glad you think you have the authority to even make these comnents to people! Pressuring your babysitter, your uncle and ‘friends’ and then brag about it!! Wow! Fall of your pedestal please!

    – informedstrongmother (12/11 03:39 PM)

Ofc you should be ashamed of yourself.  I’m grateful not to know any doctors like you.

    – Chava (12/11 03:54 PM)

I am so glad to see people speaking out against this. I am so sick of hearing about how vaccines work when they don’t and can cause more harm than good. SHAME ON YOU. So many children are dying from SIDS and getting autism and its due to vaccines, and its all due to trusting your doctors. Some are damaged for life, and those are the ones who live. I would never go to a dr like you.

    – novaxes420 (12/11 03:58 PM)

It’s sad there are such mis-informed and deluded people in this world, helping speed up the dangerous experiments of others.

Try buy a brain, it’s not looking like you’ll ever grow one.

    – Why not put all this energy in to actually learnin (12/11 04:01 PM)

Flu shots, vaccines in general, and prescription drugs are all lies! Big Pharma has no interest in keeping people healthy, they wouldn’t make any $$$. Strengthen your immune system naturally and if you get the flu, you get the flu… I’d rather have the flu than brain damage or an auto-immune disorder from all the highly toxic ingredients in those things. People all over are becoming more conscious of the lies we have been fed by Big Pharma and we’re taking our health back! Educate yourselves, and stand up to “medical professionals” that use scare tactics to push vaccines, stand up to them with facts!

    – Ken (12/11 04:25 PM)

There are strick laws about bullies in my state, so I am rather confused why a professional would choose that label. Educate yourself, don’t be bullied.
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2011/10/26/flu-vaccine-fails-in-41-of-adult-patients-115875-23514992/#ixzz1fl9z3X3p

    – Chrissy (12/11 04:53 PM)

I am vaccine damaged from hep b shots. Over a decade of fibromyalgia, multiple chemical sensitivity, clinical depression, failed marriage, loss of career. It’s only been since I’ve been willing to accept the vaccine as the trigger that I have started on the road to recovery. This was hard given my medical background. The last 10 years of my life have been absolute TORTURE. Good luck with your career lady. People like you destroyed mine.

    – Liz (12/11 05:04 PM)

Sorry, my family enjoys being healthy…so we refuse ALL vaccines. Don’t be an idiot…

    – Jennifer White (12/11 05:15 PM)

My children had severe reactions to vaccines and nearly died. People like you are disgusting. People like you almost succeeded in killing my children with your precious vaccines with a plethora of JUNK in them like carcinogens, neurotoxic metals, aborted fetal cells, squalene, polysorbate80, and so on. I doubt you even know what in the world you are coercing others to inject into themselves, maybe you should go look it up on the CDC site. I’ll give you a hint: CDC vaccine ingredient list. Have fun getting some real education and leave the rest of us alone!

    – Mom of two. (12/11 06:09 PM)

Your post was very disturbing. One day, when our civilization can look back at history and how we have messed up our immune systems by forcing man-made concoctions into the blood stream (a way that is completely unnatural and works against the body’s immune system) which are chemical-laden and destructive, you will understand that you are on the wrong side of this debate. And, the fact that you admit and seem to be proud of bullying people into getting the flu shot is disgusting. I’m sorry. Shame on you.

    – Sarah Vilmain (12/11 06:26 PM)

Quite contradictory when society and schools push the non-bullying issue. Yet, an adult does not have to adhere to the same behavior? No wonder our schools lack credibility in consistency, especially with a parent such as above. Bullying your babsitter? If my daughter was your babysitter I would first, doulbe- pay her whatever you do to never babysit for you again.  Secondly, I would ensure you no longer are in intimidation range of my child. That child is mine, to educate and handle her healthcare issues, not yours to voice your ignorance and intimidate. That’s sick in itself. 

Definition of bully: A person who uses strength or power or harm to intimidate those who are weaker

And this person calls herself proud to be a bully? Preying on the weak???

I’d like to add that this above adult is a very non-educated thug. Has she ever read the flu vaccine insert? Along w/ it’s contradictions? Knows the ingredients? That the flu virus is an RNA virus? Which 3 virus types are in the yearly shot? and why? Along w/ being grown on egg embryos, that soon the vax will be grown on dog kidney cell lines? woof woof

I work in healthcare, the flu shot is useless. The 3 viruses in it mutate, shift and drift rapidly. There is nothing but natural immunity that will save your a**, along w/ a healthy diet of non-processed foods and frequent hand-washing.

    – Alicia (12/11 07:55 PM)

A family member works as a nurse in an Aged Care Nursing Home. When the annual Flu Shots are due for their patients they call it “Culling Season”!!! Yes, that’s right…..“Culling Season”. Why? Because patients begin dying within hours of receiving the shot or are hospitalized with complications from it. Sounds like this “doctor” has been bullied but the pharmaceutical companies!! Gone are the days of a doctor caring for their patients, seems the $$$$ are more important.

    – Jules38 (12/11 09:04 PM)

My family has been immunized against flu this year, just like every other year.

In 1918, my great-grandmother’s mother died during the Spanish flu epidemic.  My great-grandmother, 14 at the time, quit school to raise her 8 younger siblings, setting the course for the rest of her life.  I have known my entire life, based on her tales, that influenza is nothing to trifle with.

The flu shot is a safe shot.  It does not have “toxins,” it likely does not cause GBS, it has few side effects beyond a sore arm, and it is not a money-maker for pharmaceutical companies or for doctors like Dr. Zibners.

I vaccinate my children, my husband, and myself to protect us from unnecessary illness and from possibly debilitating or fatal complications.  I vaccinate us to protect those around us who are immunocompromised, who have asthma, who have cancer, or who suffer from chronic illness.  We are vaccinated because we like to visit my elderly grandmother, and we would like her around for as long as possible.

Thank you, Dr. Zibners, for being a bully!

    – Sane mother (12/11 10:17 PM)

My son and I both got the vax this year.

These anti-vaxers make me laugh - they don’t realize that you can’t just cite *a* study; it has to be a *a study that supports your claim* (maybe they just have low reading comprehension skills?)

But most of the time they just make stuff up anyway…

    – non crazy mom (12/11 10:34 PM)

You must have really touched a nerve to bring out the crazies. I’m glad that there are physicians like you who practice evidence-based medicine, and who is concerned about our children’s health.

    – Mom who bases her opinion on science not whale.to (12/11 10:39 PM)

Just another brainwashed doctor making money from pumping chemicals into his victims…

    – Angela (12/11 10:51 PM)

You are going to lose your friends. Anyone who stays your friend after being bullied into getting a flu shot, just doesn’t have high enough self esteem to actually have a friend.  You are also going to lose your babysitter, your children and anyone else who gets sick by having their immune system unnecessarily and abnormally provoked, leaving behind a trail of toxic waste to eliminate.  You are going to lose some of them because eventually they will get sick.  But before they die, you and the other vaccine happy doctors will have many prescriptions and other such “help” to offer, I’m sure.

    – sanedoc (12/11 11:55 PM)