So, I’ve been reading about latent viruses and chickenpox is one of them, and this can reemerge in older age as shingles. Now, as a young adult I am wondering whether I should be considering boosting myself with a varicella-zoster vaccine or whether I should already take shingrix at an earlier age.
Any thoughts about the difference between these two? Or what you would do if you were me?
It’s pretty likely that reducing infections from viral diseases would have benefits for both lifespan and healthspan, so I believe it’s best to get boosted and to take up more new vaccines developed in the last decade or two (which we may have missed).
see Vaccines for longevity