Tag: Antibacterial

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Super nutrient resets your body clock to stop cancer, inflammation and heart disease

Your body is like a finely tuned biological clock. And there’s an important nutrient that can help it “take a licking” as the old Timex commercial used to say, and protect you from cancer, heart disease, inflammation and other maladies. The nutrient is lipoic acid. According to scientists at Oregon State University, lipoic acid resets the body’s internal clock (its circadian rhythm) improves the heart’s response to stress, keeps your hormones in balance, helps muscles perform more efficiently, balances blood sugar and slows the aging process. Lipoic acid is a potent antioxidant used for aerobic metabolism. The best food sources include leafy vegetables like broccoli and spinach as well as organ meats. “This could be a breakthrough in our understanding of why lipoic acid is […] Read More

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Iodine and Antibiotics

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 cardiac death but sometimes they lead to liver compromise and failure. Despite the ever-widening use of antibiotics the National Center […] Read More

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Meat Is Murder—but It’s People Being Killed (and Not How You Think)

23,000 Americans will die this year from antibiotic-resistant infections; 80 percent of antibiotics in the U.S. are used by the meat industry. Can Big Ag and Big Pharma change in time to save this critical medicine for humans? One evening in June 2011, at their home in a suburb of Portland, Ore., Melissa Lee and her husband sat down to a dinner of spaghetti and meatballs with their 10-month-old daughter. It was one of the first times Ruby Lee ever tasted meat. What followed, over the next few days, was a new parent’s nightmare of fever, diarrhea, listlessness, and doctors—culminating in an urgent phone call about blood test results: “Get Ruby to the hospital now.” Ruby’s bloodstream was infected with a virulent bacterial strain, Salmonella […] Read More

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Bullet proof immune system – how to not get a cold ever

You don’t have to catch the next flu. With the right combination of supplements, in most cases, you can knock out, or radically lesson the severity of an infection. If an illness is caught early enough, even people who eat a lousy diet can treat it with the right supplements before they feel really sick. Infection remedies include virus, bacteria, fungus, and most of the parasites that make us sick. Believe it or not, candida (a type of fungus) can give us the same symptoms as a bacterial or viral infection, and many times people have multiple infections at once causing flu like symptoms. The only way to properly prepare your immune system to be as strong as possible is to have a diet and […] Read More

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Is Grass-Fed Beef Better for You?

Is there a health difference between eating grass-fed beef and conventional beef?Grass-fed beef tends to be higher in some nutrients, and studies suggest it may contain fewer bacteria that can cause food poisoning — which could be good for your health. Grass-fed can mean a lot of things. But the American Grassfed Association, which has a certification program, refers to grass-fed animals “as those that have eaten nothing but grass and forage from weaning to harvest, have not been raised in confinement, and have never been fed antibiotics or growth hormones.” Conventionally raised cattle are typically fed primarily corn and soy, which causes them to fatten more quickly, said Glenn A. Nader, an emeritus livestock and natural resources farm adviser for the University of California […] Read More

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The troubled State of the World’s Antibiotics: past, present, and future?

Carmen Cordova, Staff Scientist, San Francisco “The greater the volume of antibiotics used, the greater the chances that antibiotic-resistant populations of bacteria will prevail…” CDDEP, The State of the World’s Antibiotics, 2015 It’s an easy concept to understand – the more we use antibiotics, the more likely we are to see antibiotic resistant bacteria develop and spread. The new report co-authored by Ramanan Laxminarayan, CDDEP Director and others at Center for Disease Dynamics, Economics & Policy is chock full of sobering global statistics and science that all point to the fact that we’re overusing our antibiotics and it will only get worse unless we put policies into place that rein in use. The authors even suggest that a shift in focus away from antibiotic development […] Read More

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Why You Really Might Want to Go with Having a Veggie Burger Instead

Antibiotic-resistant superbugs found lurking in 1 in 5 conventional ground beef samples. If that raw hamburger meat you bought to cook for dinner hasn’t given you a stomach ache yet, this might: according to a Consumer Reports investigation, store-bought ground beef is teeming with dangerous bacteria, including “superbugs” resistant to three or more classes of antibiotics, as well as a whole lot of poop. That’s a big problem, the report warns, because of Americans’ penchant for under-cooked meat. But the study, which analyzed 300 packages of meat purchased from grocery, big-box, and natural food stores across 26 U.S. cities, found some important differences dependent on how the beef was raised: either conventionally — in grain and soy feedlots where food is supplemented with antibiotics and other growth-promoting drugs — […] Read More

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5 Natural Antibiotics that Fight Illness and Promote Health

By Natural News, Healing the Body There are many herbs and foods that can treat and prevent a wide variety of illnesses and diseases. Many people are beginning to use natural antibiotics and remedies for these illnesses rather than relying on traditional Western medicine with risks and side effects. Natural antibiotics can be powerful treatments for illnesses, preventing disease and keeping the body’s health in balance. Natural antibiotics, such as honey, ginger and Echinacea, among others, are powerful remedies to a wide variety of illnesses and diseases. Local Honey Honey has natural antibiotic properties. Spreading it on wounds and burns can fight infection and promote faster healing. Using locally sourced honey can also combat seasonal or environmental allergies. Since bees use local pollen to make their […] Read More

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FDA Allows Chemo Drugs To Be Prescribed As Antibiotics

“A few popular antibiotics affect DNA, similar to some chemotherapy agents.  If you’re sensitive to them, you could pay a neurological price that causes sudden and serious neuropathy and degrees of brain damage.  The Food and Drug Administration is concerned about drugs in the fluoroquinolone class, and these already have a black box warning for an increased risk of tendon ruptures.  But I’m telling you that more reports have come in with accusations of neurological damage.  Personally, I would only use these for life-threatening infections that were unresponsive to older, regular antibiotics.”  –Suzy Cohen, RPh  It is not appropriate to give people cell-destroying chemotherapy drugs when they don’t have cancer. That should be obvious. It shouldn’t even need to be said. But it’s happening every […] Read More

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What to Do About SARS and Rampant Infections

My friends in Asia asked me what they can do about SARS, and here’s the advice I gave them. The only reason I’m qualified to write about this is because I have a degree in nutrition, know Chinese medicine and western herbs, and because I have been researching and writing a book called Antibiotic (and Antiviral) Alternatives for Doctors and Their Patients. When I was in nutrition school several years ago and told my classmates I wanted to write this book as a national public service even though I didn’t expect it to make money. I wanted to do it anyway because I said that antibiotics would soon lose most of their effectiveness and therefore to have this book was a national security issue. Naturally […] Read More