Gut Biota Never Recover from Antibiotics: Damages Future Generations

'Emerging research shows that the harmful effects of antibiotics go much further than the development of drug resistant diseases. The beneficial bacteria lost to antibiotics, along with disease-inducing bacteria, do not fully recover. Worse, flora lost by a mother is also lost to her babies. The missing beneficial gut bacteria are likely a major factor behind much of the chronic disease experienced today. The continuous use of antibiotics is resulting in each generation experiencing worse health than their parents.'


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Before Antibiotics Ever Existed, Sunlight Was Used To Treat Diseases With Great Success

'Sunlight: Without it there would be almost no life. It’s key factor involved in photosynthesis, a process vital for many living beings on Earth. Considering the lengths we go to protect ourselves from the sun, it’s a wonder that the incidence of disease is not higher than it already is. Before the advent of toxic drugs and antibiotics, sunlight was being used to treat everything from tuberculosis, multiple sclerosis, psoriasis, acne, cancer, sleep disorders and overcoming worldwide sanitation problems including the purification of water.'


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The Most Potent B Vitamin That Combats Infections Better Than Antibiotics Ever Could

'The Nicotinamide form of vitamin B3 is one of the most potent of blood B vitamins, absorbing four times more into the blood than any other vitamin. Cedars-Sinai researchers have discovered that the vitamin has the potential to provide a powerful weapon to fight superbugs and antibiotic-resistant staph infections that health experts see as a threat to public health.'


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36 Natural Alternatives for Infection

'Most people have issues with bacterial or viral infections from time to time. Unnecessary antibiotics ARE dangerous! Antibiotics damage the integrity of the microbial balance in the gut. The healthy gut microflora is 70-80% of the immune system. Impaired immune systems are less effective at healing the body.


Plant products have historically been consumed and utilized for their anti-microbial and health boosting benefits. Many plant materials are being researched for their therapeutic value for our immune health.'


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Using Colloidal Silver

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Antibiotics Could be to Blame for Skyrocketing Mental Illness Rates

 

 'A new report published in the popular journal Nature has revealed that antibiotics are permanently destroying beneficial bacteria within the gut, a condition scientists link to mental illness. While it has been known for some time that antibiotics contribute to the development of drug-resistant superbugs and certain gut problems, the link between antibiotic use and mental illness through the permanent destruction of beneficial bacteria only further tops the pharmaceutical paradigm. In fact, the pharmaceutical paradigm set in place by drug makers is so vast that it actually offers drug-based ‘solutions’ to the very problems that drugs originally created!'

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The Post-Antibiotic Age: Germ Theory

 'When once you interfere with the order of nature, there is no knowing where the results will end.'
- Herbert Spencer

It was great while it lasted: the age of antibiotics. Sure came and went in a hurry, though, didn’t it? Left me with a few questions:

• How did antibiotics run their course already in just 50 years?
• How did we get so sick?
• Where does all the money go?
• Why aren’t we making any progress?
• What’s going to happen now?

These are the questions for which you can almost never get a straight answer. Unless you look beyond Newsweek, beyond the San Francisco Chronicle, beyond 20/20, or Ted Turner, beyond the media which year by year seem to cater to an ever-dwindling level of literacy and awareness…'


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New Study Reveals That Antibiotics Damage Our Immune System

'The study focuses on other fascinating points, but the conclusion is unavoidable: The use of antibiotics must be causing chronic diseases.'

'A new Caltech study has shown that our intestinal bacteria determine which bacteria are beneficial and which are pathogenic. Even more significantly, it is the gut bacteria that trigger an immune response, not the immune system itself. This indicates that science and medicine need to completely rethink the current view of how the immune system operates. That's the intriguing conclusion that the paper published in Science reached. Though unstated, it leads to another inescapable conclusion: The common use of antibiotics must be disrupting and harming our ability to distinguish pathogens from normal cells and bacteria.'


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5 Steps to Kill Hidden Bad Bugs in Your Gut that Make You Sick

 by Dr. Mark Hyman

'Symptoms Throughout the Body are Resolved by Treating the Gut. Many today do have digestive problems including reflux or heartburn, irritable bowel, bloating, constipation, diarrhea and colitis. In fact, belly problems account for over 200 million doctor’s visits and billions in health care costs annually. But gut problems cause disease far beyond the gut. In medical school I learned that patients with colitis could also have inflamed joints and eyes, and that patients with liver failure could be cured of delirium by taking antibiotics that killed the toxin-producing bacteria in their gut. Could it be that when things are not quite right down below it affects the health of our entire body and many diseases we haven’t linked before to imbalances in the digestive system? 


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Antibiotics Linked to Cancer: Implications for Evidence-Based Medicine

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'Evidence-based medicine is nothing more than a game played to give the impression that the devices used by modern medical practice are based on sound evidence.'

 

'Back in 2004, a study reported in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) documented a direct relationship between breast cancer and antibiotic use. After a brief flurry, the study quietly faded from the public's—and modern medicine's—consciousness. What makes this newsworthy is that the study has not been contradicted. In seven years, a study that demonstrates a severe risk from one of modern medicine's most vaunted methods is still the final word, yet its importance is utterly ignored.'

 

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Are Antibiotics Making Us Fat?

From Homeopathy plus!

'The common side effects of antibiotics are well documented but a now a new and concerning problem has come to light — weight gain and obesity. Dana Ullman explains in a recent article how antibiotic use causes the loss of ‘good’ bacteria from our digestive tracts (gut) with disastrous consequences for the way we process food. Dana discusses recently published research that found:

* Bacteria within the digestive system are involved in the hormonal regulation of fat and hunger, how food is digested and how fat is stored around the body.

* A link exists between reduced varieties of bacteria in the gut and overweight humans and mice.

* Destruction of gut bacteria by antibiotics may be linked to obesity in the young, type II diabetes, metabolic syndrome, inflammation, and other diseases such as high blood pressure, high cholesterol, and heart disease.

* Farmers have long known that antibiotic use stimulates overgrowth in animals, something they have used to advantage to produce bigger and heavier stock but with fattier and poorer quality meat.

Other findings include:

* Scientists say that microbes essential for human life are now becoming ’extinct’.

* Individuals who carry the H. pylori bacterium have a lower risk of childhood asthma, skin allergies, and allergic rhinitis but this bacterium is now being eradicated through antibiotics.

* Microbiologists and immunologists are concerned that important metabolic pathways dependent on poorly understood microbes may also be lost.

* Exposure to infectious microbes during childhood seems to protect against serious illnesses during adulthood including cardiovascular disease.

* Being ultra-hygienic and overly concerned about germs may lead to inflammatory diseases.

* The incidence of breast cancer is higher in those who use antibiotics.

Dana concludes by discussing research showing homeopathy can be a safe alternative to antibiotic use for both nuisance-value and serious infections. Some of this research is discussed in our own articles on coughs and colds.


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Iodine vs Antibiotics

by Dr. Mark Sircus Ac., OMD

'A great feeling of security for a parent comes from administering a medicinal like iodine. It is what I give my children instead of dangerous antibiotics when they are sick. It is what I use when the first symptoms of flu approach and it does spare one the worst of that misery. After we understand that iodine is an excellent antiviral, antibacterial, anti fungal, mold and yeast agent we begin to glimpse the catastrophic mistake made for substituting pharmaceutical antibiotics for iodine.

'Antibiotics do not kill yeast but they certainly can kill people on occasion.[1] Not only do some antibiotics increase the risk of sudden icscardiac death but sometimes they lead to liver compromise and failure. Despite the ever-widening use of antibiotics the National Center for Infectious Disease and the Centers for Disease Control announced that the U.S. death rate from infectious disease increased by more than 50% between 1980 and 1992, making it the third leading cause of death.'

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