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Do you have any thoughts about the influenza vaccine, and do you recommend it your patients?

Chris: Well, that is, of course, a very controversial subject, and I have actually recorded a podcast. I did a pretty deep dive into the research on this subject awhile back, and if you search for “Chris Kresser flu,” well actually, Lyndsey can probably put the link right into the chat box here, or I will. I can see it here, but this is from 2012. It’s actually six years ago; boy, time flies. There may have been some newer studies. I think there have been a couple of new studies, but I think the information in the podcast it’s still generally sound. At the end of the day, with vaccination, I think it’s ultimately a very personal decision for patients. I never make direct recommendations without engaging the patient in a conversation, no. It’s such a polarized topic. I don’t feel like it’s being studied in a dispassionate objective way or discussed in a dispassionate objective way, and because of that, it’s just really hard for patients and practitioners to sort through all of the various information that’s out there. It’s actually not a topic that is receiving attention in the way that we would hope anything in science is addressed because there’s just so much such polarization now, and not really a reasonable dialogue is taking place, which is a shame because that that’s the thing that affects nearly everybody.

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