#229: Should Kids Get a COVID-19 Vaccine? with Pediatrician Dr. Elisa Song

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Dhru Purohit

Alternative Health, Medicine, Health & Fitness

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🗓️ 15 July 2021

⏱️ 105 minutes

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Should Kids Get a COVID-19 Vaccine? with Pediatrician | This episode is brought to you by Cozy Earth and BiOptimizers. COVID-19 has challenged us like never before. The past year has been full of uncertainties and we continue to face decisions around vaccines, a changing social landscape, and how to protect our families and maintain our quality of life. The best we can do is stay informed on the constantly evolving research and take into account our family’s unique needs. Parents of young children have the added responsibility of making decisions for them, with limited data. No one can tell you what the right choice is when it comes to getting your child vaccinated. Dhru and Dr. Song have a grounded conversation about what we know and what we still need to find out. They hash out what can be a pretty overwhelming topic into digestible information to help you feel empowered. Dr. Song is an integrative pediatrician, pediatric Functional Medicine expert, and mama. In her integrative pediatric practice, Whole Family Wellness, she’s helped 1,000s of kids get to the root causes of their health concerns and helped their parents understand how to help their children thrive in body, mind, and spirit by integrating conventional pediatrics with Functional Medicine, homeopathy, acupuncture, herbal medicine, and essential oils. Dr. Song created Healthy Kids Happy Kids, an online holistic pediatric resource to help practitioners and parents bridge the gap between conventional and integrative pediatrics with an evidence-based, pediatrician-backed approach. In this episode, we dive into: -Dr. Song and her family’s experience of being infected with COVID (9:57) -Confirmation bias and COVID recommendations (12:49) -Pregnant women and COVID-19 vaccine safety (16:31) -What the FDA Emergency Use Authorization for the vaccines means (20:08) -Helping our kids build immune resilience (36:54) -What role children really play in herd immunity (45:33) -Is COVID-19 vaccination in previously infected individuals necessary? (47:45) -Why there is so much pressure to vaccinate children right now (52:47) -What you can do to mitigate any inflammatory response after getting the vaccine (1:10:11) -Natural immunity if you’ve previously been infected from COVID (1:25:47) -Antibody testing to determine if you’ve previously been infected with COVID (1:30:08) For more on Dr. Elisa Song you can follow her on Instagram @healthykids_happykids, on Facebook @DrElisaSongMD, and through her website https://healthykidshappykids.com/. Also mentioned in this episode: -Should Kids Get a COVID-19 Vaccine? - https://healthykidshappykids.com/2021/06/14/should-kids-get-a-covid-19-vaccine/ -Kawasaki Disease, ACE-2 & COVID-19: What a Pediatrician Wants You to Know - https://healthykidshappykids.com/2020/04/29/kawasaki-ace2-covid-19/ -Necessity of COVID-19 Vaccination in Previously Infected Individuals - https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2021.06.01.21258176v2 Sign up for Dhru’s Try This Newsletter - https://dhrupurohit.com/newsletter. This episode is brought to you by Cozy Earth and BiOptimizers. Right now, Cozy Earth is offering my audience 40% off. Just head over to https://cozyearth.com/ and use the discount code DHRU40. Right now, BiOptimizers is offering my community a few special bundles, just head over to https://magbreakthrough.com/dhru with code DHRU10. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Most children are not going to require hospitalizations. That may give us a little breath of, okay,
0:05.3	so then let's really think about, do I really need to consider this vaccine.
0:08.9	On today's podcast, we're talking with Dr. Alisa Song, who's an integrative, holistic,
0:14.3	and functional medicine pediatrician on the topic of COVID-19 vaccines for kids.
0:19.4	Parents are asking, all around the world, should my child, should my kid get the COVID-19 vaccine?
0:26.0	It's a nuanced conversation with a lot of layers, and that's why we have Dr. Song on the podcast
0:31.7	to talk all about it. I know I'm not the only one who finds sleep a little tougher in the summer.
0:38.6	Most people don't realize that temperature has a huge impact on how well we all sleep.
0:43.5	One study, get this, found that of 765,000 people, it found that most people have abnormal sleeping
0:52.2	patterns during the hotter summer months, because it's difficult to keep an optimal temperature
0:57.0	in their bedroom. And the other studies showed that we sleep deeper at cooler temperatures.
1:02.9	While I try to keep a comfortable sleep environment all year long, now that summer's here,
1:07.0	I'm extra mindful about keeping it cool. This goes way beyond cranking up the AC.
1:12.2	It's important to keep your bed and body from overheating to truly optimize your sleep.
1:17.8	I tried some of the bamboo sheets from Cozy Earth, which are natural temperature regulating,
1:23.3	and I love how cool and comfortable they keep my bed. Most people have no clue that cotton
1:28.9	is not the ideal option for temperature regulation. It was actually used as insulation back in the
1:35.2	early 1900s and has been used for bedding even longer. It became a commonplace even though there
1:40.5	are much better alternatives like bamboo. With bamboo sheets from Cozy Earth, my bed stays just
1:47.1	the right temperature, even when it's hot here in LA or wherever it is that you live.
1:52.1	Plus, they use a special weave that makes them softer than any other brands I've tried.
1:58.0	I also love that I can trust Cozy Earth because their entire line is free from harmful chemicals
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