Tag: Antibiotic resistance

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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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Your Gut: Home to an Entirely New Life Form?

A new genetic analysis of human gut bacteria is turning up some really weird critters—so weird, in fact, that some biologists are speculating we’ve found an entirely new domain of life. … here’s why it’s even being discussed: In the past ten years, new genomic technologies have, for the first time, enabled scientists to explore our microbiome—that trove of invisible critters that live on us and in us. Microbiome research is quite literally rewriting the textbooks on human biology, as we learn that everything from our mouths to our intestines to our skin is, in fact a complex and diverse ecosystem. Hell, we’re even surrounded in a personal cloud of bacteria. By some estimates, the human cells in your body are vastly outnumbered by microbes. […] 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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This Simple Home Test Can Assess If You Have Diabetes

Your Doctor can readily assess your glucose levels by blood-analysis, however there are also many diagnostic tests which can be carried out in your home which are very effective in finding out the degree of onset for diabetes. Type 2, or adult onset diabetes, is a metabolic disorder that results when the body cannot make enough or properly use insulin, a hormone that converts food to energy. This differs from type 1 diabetes, in which people must take daily insulin shots because their bodies don’t produce any insulin, and is most commonly diagnosed in children and young adults. According to the American Diabetes Association, type 2 diabetes accounts for 90 to 95 percent of diabetes cases. The number of people with diabetes has doubled in […] 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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Making Herbal MASTER TONIC ” how to Cure Anything “cold cure

This stuff fixes cold, flu, respiratory problems, immune booster, anti allergy, anti bacterial, anti fungal, anti anything that can hurt you… MASTER TONIC… contains, Garlic, Horseradish, Ginger, Peppers, Onion, in an Apple Cider vinegar base. Have a Healthy Day!!! www.HealthyHerbalist.com Master Tonic – A Natural Antibiotic: antiviral, anti-bacterial, anti-fungal and anti-parasitical. 1 part fresh chopped garlic 1 part fresh chopped Onion 1 part fresh grated Ginger Root 1 part fresh grated Horseradish Root 1 part fresh chopped Cayenne Peppers or any peppers available. Apple Cider Vinegar (Raw Unfiltered Unbleached Non-distilled) Fill a glass jar 3/4 of the way full with equal parts by volume of the above fresh chopped and grated herbs. Then fill jar to the top with raw apple cider vinegar. Close and […] Read More

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What Our Immune System Can Teach Us About Dealing With Life’s Challenges

It’s been awhile since I last sat in class learning about Natural Killer cells, B cells and T cells, and the whole wonderful intricate system that defends us against illness and disease on a daily basis. But not to worry, I’m not actually going to teach you the science of immunity today (I can almost hear your collective sigh of relief as I write this). Instead, I’m going to talk about what we can learn from our magnificent immune system. Every day we get bombarded with things that can make us sick, but 99% of the time we have no idea because our body is busy fighting them off. We assume that because we aren’t sick, we haven’t been exposed. However, every now and again, especially […] 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