Imagine dedicating your life to peak health—two hours daily of intense workouts, a whole-foods diet, perfect sleep, and sky-high vitamin D levels—only to be labeled a health danger to society. The current easing of COVID vaccination mandates has rekindled controversy, and I want to share my perspective. At 60, I faced ostracism, lost clients, and was barred from seeing my daughter in New York City, all because I trusted my robust immune system over a one-size-fits-all mandate. My story exposes the clash between personal health choices and public health dogma, revealing how a disciplined lifestyle was dismissed in favor of a vaccine narrative that ignored my low risk. Read on to discover how I navigated this polarizing era, why I stood firm, and what it reveals about autonomy, judgment, and the future of public health.
Read MoreNobel Prize-winning physicist Murray Gell-Mann discovered the quark and noticed that when he read a news article about his area of expertise, he found the information to be erroneous. He then wondered whether the other articles he read in the same publication that were beyond his area of expertise were also false. In essence, we turn the page and forget the lies we just read and find credibility in the rest of what we read. Murray's friend and famous author, Michael Chrichton, coined the term Gell-Mann Amnesia to explain the phenomenon. If one news item is wrong, why believe the others are true? As we will see with The New England Journal of Medicine’s dismissal of the importance of vitamin D, why should we believe anything they print?
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