Vaccinations

[dewline]

I got the first dose on my shingles vaccinations yesterday.

Aside from the hopes of averting that disease itself, apparently there's some small degree of benevolent knock-on effect against dementia too.

https://med.stanford.edu/news/all-news/2025/03/shingles-vaccination-dementia.html

https://www.cbc.ca/news/health/shingles-vaccine-dementia-wales-1.7500368

You'll certainly want to do some additional digging into this on your own to be more certain.

Comments

[blogcutter]

Well, any health-related treatment involves a bit of benefit-to-risk analysis - and my analyses of vaccinations usually skew in the direction of the benefits!

[dewline]

In this case, the benefits may be more than we originally believed and knew. I considered that good enough news to share.