Dr. Peter Attia

So here's an area where I think the system has kind of broken a little bit, and it's the use of the hep B vaccine for kids early in life. So today, if a child is born in the United States, they are going to want to give them their first of their hepatitis B shots while they're in the hospital.

So here's an area where I think the system has kind of broken a little bit, and it's the use of the hep B vaccine for kids early in life. So today, if a child is born in the United States, they are going to want to give them their first of their hepatitis B shots while they're in the hospital.

So here's an area where I think the system has kind of broken a little bit, and it's the use of the hep B vaccine for kids early in life. So today, if a child is born in the United States, they are going to want to give them their first of their hepatitis B shots while they're in the hospital.

Now, that has never made sense to me biologically because unless the mother has hep B, in which case that makes sense because the risk of transmission is very high. And to be clear, hep B is an awful disease. So I'm not minimizing hep B at all. We have no treatment for it. We have no cure for it.

Now, that has never made sense to me biologically because unless the mother has hep B, in which case that makes sense because the risk of transmission is very high. And to be clear, hep B is an awful disease. So I'm not minimizing hep B at all. We have no treatment for it. We have no cure for it.

Now, that has never made sense to me biologically because unless the mother has hep B, in which case that makes sense because the risk of transmission is very high. And to be clear, hep B is an awful disease. So I'm not minimizing hep B at all. We have no treatment for it. We have no cure for it.

If you have hepatitis B, the risk of getting cirrhosis and needing a liver transplant or the risk of getting what's called hepatocellular cancer is very high. So you don't want hep B. but it's a bloodborne transmitted disease. Like you're not going to catch it in the air.

If you have hepatitis B, the risk of getting cirrhosis and needing a liver transplant or the risk of getting what's called hepatocellular cancer is very high. So you don't want hep B. but it's a bloodborne transmitted disease. Like you're not going to catch it in the air.

If you have hepatitis B, the risk of getting cirrhosis and needing a liver transplant or the risk of getting what's called hepatocellular cancer is very high. So you don't want hep B. but it's a bloodborne transmitted disease. Like you're not going to catch it in the air.

So if a child is born to a mom that doesn't have hep B, the risk that that kid's going to get hep B in the first five years of their life is virtually zero. And for that reason, I don't see the need to subject them to that vaccine immediately.

So if a child is born to a mom that doesn't have hep B, the risk that that kid's going to get hep B in the first five years of their life is virtually zero. And for that reason, I don't see the need to subject them to that vaccine immediately.

So if a child is born to a mom that doesn't have hep B, the risk that that kid's going to get hep B in the first five years of their life is virtually zero. And for that reason, I don't see the need to subject them to that vaccine immediately.

But I also understand where the medical community is coming from, which is saying, hey, we don't want to miss an opportunity to give a vaccine because if we don't give it now, this kid might never get it. So there's a policy decision that needs to be made by people there. Personally, if it were me, I'd like to see it studied.

But I also understand where the medical community is coming from, which is saying, hey, we don't want to miss an opportunity to give a vaccine because if we don't give it now, this kid might never get it. So there's a policy decision that needs to be made by people there. Personally, if it were me, I'd like to see it studied.

But I also understand where the medical community is coming from, which is saying, hey, we don't want to miss an opportunity to give a vaccine because if we don't give it now, this kid might never get it. So there's a policy decision that needs to be made by people there. Personally, if it were me, I'd like to see it studied.

This is where I actually would like to see the NIH fund an experiment, because I'm genuinely curious. Is it safe to give children that many vaccines that early in life, or should we limit them to the ones that are absolutely essential, where we know, hey,

This is where I actually would like to see the NIH fund an experiment, because I'm genuinely curious. Is it safe to give children that many vaccines that early in life, or should we limit them to the ones that are absolutely essential, where we know, hey,

This is where I actually would like to see the NIH fund an experiment, because I'm genuinely curious. Is it safe to give children that many vaccines that early in life, or should we limit them to the ones that are absolutely essential, where we know, hey,

measles mumps rubella smallpox polio these are devastating diseases and especially if you have a kid that's going to go to daycare where they're going to be around a lot of kids and the risk of transmission if there's an outbreak is non-trivial so again we want to eradicate smallpox and polio mmr probably don't get eradicated but we want to protect kids against them

measles mumps rubella smallpox polio these are devastating diseases and especially if you have a kid that's going to go to daycare where they're going to be around a lot of kids and the risk of transmission if there's an outbreak is non-trivial so again we want to eradicate smallpox and polio mmr probably don't get eradicated but we want to protect kids against them