The Aftermath of Antibiotics
The Aftermath of Antibiotics
One of the greatest discoveries is the antibiotic. In lifesaving situations it can be miraculous. Untold numbers of lives have been saved since their beginning in the 1940’s. They are important in a provision.
Antibiotics were discovered in 1928 when a biologist, Alexander Fleming, Professor of Bacteriology at St. Mary’s Hospital in London, was working on an experiment in his lab and discovered a fungus had accidentally contaminated a colony of bacteria he had been culturing. When he examined the petri dish closely he saw that the area was cleared of bacteria, as if the mold had secreted something that inhibited bacterial growth. 
Fleming published his findings in the British Journal of Experimental Pathology in June 1929, with only a passing reference to penicillin’s potential therapeutic benefits. In the years to follow, a class of drugs called antibiotics was born.
Introduced in the 1940’s, today there are hundreds of seven different types of antibiotics on the market. Of the estimated 154 million prescriptions for antibiotics written in doctor’s offices and emergency departments each year, 30 percent are unnecessary. One-third of antibiotic prescriptions in hospitals involve potential prescribing problems such as giving an antibiotic without proper testing or evaluation, prescribing an antibiotic when it is not needed, or giving an antibiotic for too long. Studies have shown that as many as 10 million antibiotic prescriptions are written each year for infections they are unlikely to help. Recent evidence shows that prescriptions for broad-spectrum antibiotics have increased, even when no antibiotics are needed or when a narrow-spectrum antibiotic would work. Overuse of antibiotics contributes to antibiotic resistance, making infections more difficult to treat.
Now, after over seventy years of use, we are reaping what we have sown in the aftermath.
Once hailed as the “miracle” drug, antibiotics now are revealing their dark sides. We are seeing damaging side effects and the exacerbation of many diseases from having taken too many of them too frequently. These side effects and links to so many diseases are making us take a second and even third look at this “miracle” of modern medicine.
To start with, it is critically important to understand the basic differences between the two major types of organisms that make us sick-bacteria and viruses. Even though they can produce similar symptoms, the ways they multiply and spread illness are different.
Bacteria are living organisms. Some are beneficial, such as lactobacillus and other good bacteria which live in our intestines, helping us digest food and making B vitamins. Others are harmful, such as staphylococcus and streptococcus, which cause illnesses, multiplying and interfering with bodily processes.
Viruses are not alive and not dead. They are tiny bundles (small enough they can only be seen by the most powerful electron microscopes) of genetic material-either DNA or RNA-encased in a hard shell called the viral coat. They exist for one reason, to reproduce. However, they cannot reproduce by themselves. They must attack and seize living cells in order to secure the cells’ replicating abilities. When they have gained entry, they use their own DNA and start replicating and transform the cells into virus factories. When mature, the new viruses leave the host cells, either by “budding” or bursting through the cell walls, as new infectious particles. They can infect nearly every living thing. Even bacteria can get viral infections!
There are a growing number of researchers, including myself, who are convinced that viruses are really microfungi-microscopic pieces of fungi. If you re-read the paragraph above, the similarities between how cancer (fungal cells) grows and how viruses operate are obvious. Both are efficient parasites. Both enter and seize cells, alter DNA, and replicate wildly. Both have hard, protective outer shells. Both reproduce by budding. Both harm or kill cells. The list is long and further calls attention to my claim, that most of our diseases are really fungus in disguise.
There has been a long-standing controversy over whether there is a viral connection to cancer. If a virus is really a fungus and fungus is really cancer, this could explain that connection. Also, if a virus is really a fungus, then that would explain why antibiotics have NO effect on viral or fungal infections.
Antibiotics are poisons that are used to kill. They kill bacteria. Antibiotics are dangerous mycotoxins or fungal metabolites. An antibiotic is the waste product of a live fungus colony. It means anti-life.
It is not hard to understand why researchers have discovered how widespread the damaging side effects of antibiotics are.
Here are the major hazards:
- Antibiotics can contribute to cancer. In 2004, a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association compared 2,266 women with breast cancer to 7,953 women without, all aged over 20. The study noted how often and over how many years these women took the most commonly used antibiotics. This research found that the more antibiotics the women used, the higher the risk of breast cancer. The specific data for this study states that women who took 1 to 25 antibiotics over a 17-year period had one-and-a-half times a higher risk of breast cancer as compared to women who took no antibiotics.
- Antibiotics can create allergic reactions. Antibiotics contain sugar, chemical dyes, and other harmful additives that trigger allergic reactions in sensitive individuals.
- Antibiotics are destructive to our fragile intestinal flora. Our immune systems (remember eighty percent of our immune system is in the colon) are extremely dependent on the proper balance of micro flora in the gut. Broad spectrum antibiotics are especially notorious for throwing off this critical balance which leads to parasitic invasion, vitamin deficiencies, loss of minerals through diarrhea, inflammation of the gut, malabsorption syndrome, and the development of food allergies.
- Antibiotics lead to immune suppression. They mangle our immune systems. Clinical evidence shows that people taking antibiotics are more prone to repeated infections than those who are not. Antibiotics do not aid the immune system, they make it weaker.
- Antibiotics stimulate Candida overgrowth. Antibiotics ignite yeast, leading to all the associated miseries outlined in this blog post. When beneficial bacteria in the intestines are destroyed, we become vulnerable to rampant yeast overgrowth, salmonella, cholera, E. coli, inflammation of the colon, and colitis.
- Antibiotics are strongly connected to Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS). Antibiotics are one of the major risk factors for this disease. Vitamin B-12 is destroyed by antibiotics, contributing to fatigue.
- Antibiotic use has led to the development of mutant, drug-resistant super infections. Antibiotics, as a result, are becoming increasingly ineffective as germs become more resistant and stronger. As diseases become antibiotic-resistant they are much more difficult to treat-a direct result of over-prescribing antibiotics. The flesh-eating staph infections, such as MRSA, have become such a huge problem that some physicians are cutting back on antibiotic usage! Yay! Because antibiotics have created a situation far worse than the original condition.
Furthermore, look at the range of side effects and hidden dangers of antibiotics. All can be credited to the yeast/beast.
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- Anaphylactic shock
- Angina
- Angioedema
- Antibiotic use in early life increases the rate of asthma in later life.
- Burst intestine
- Cerebral thrombosis
- Constipation
- Dermatitis
- Fevers and chills
- Gastrointestinal (GI) bleeding
- Heart attack (fluoroquinolones)
- Heart murmur
- Heart palpitations
- Hyperactivity
- Irritable bowel syndrome (IBS)
- Jaundice
- Liver failure
- Lupus
- Skin rashes
- Sudden death on first dosage
- Swelling of lips, eyes and face
- Tendon tearing (from fluoroquinolones, a class of antibiotics which includes Cipro and Levaquin)
- Ulcerative colitis
- Vasculitis
- Vomiting
- Weight gain
Since bacteria multiply like wild fire, they are able to evolve and adapt to their new environments. This is why doctors warn their patients to finish the prescription for antibiotics instead of stopping them when they start to feel better. They are aware that whatever bacteria escape and aren’t killed off, MUTATE.
Treatment with antibiotics results in the survival of the fittest organisms. When weaker bacteria surrender, the stronger, more resistant bacteria that can tolerate the drug, survive. These renegades multiply, increasing their numbers a million fold in JUST ONE DAY. With no natural beneficial bacteria to balance them (because they were killed by the antibiotic), the mutated superbugs replicate wildly. Now, as older antibiotics are losing their power, doctors are getting desperate in the search for new treatments against these superbugs gone wild. Interestingly enough, one of the most recent and popular groups of “super-antibiotics” is known as the (you guessed it!) fluoroquinolones such as Cipro mentioned above. This prescription is so toxic it carries skull and crossbones on the label! 
Survival of the fittest, one of the most basic guidelines of Mother Nature, has come back in the aftermath of antibiotics to teach us again that we cannot fool her.
Mother Nature has provided us with many options when looking for natural products that kill bacteria. Herbs such as garlic (elephant garlic for sensitive tummies), golden seal, olive leaf extract, oregano oil, Vitamin C, and grapefruit seed extract have excellent anti-microbial effects. Do not use Tylenol or aspirin to reduce fever (fever burns up the bugs) as they slow down the fever reaction and can prolong the illness. All anti-oxidants are anti-fungals, and all vegetables are strong anti-fungals-asparagus, broccoli, cauliflower, and brussels sprouts in particular. Courtney and I encourage you to eat them for that reason.
Anyone who has been prescribed antibiotics MUST take PROBIOTICS (meaning FOR life) in order to replenish the good bacteria the antibiotics destroyed. The rule of thumb is: take probiotics 2 hours apart from antibiotics. If you are taking an antibiotic that is too frequent (every 4 hours) then take probiotics in a day to week ratio. If you take antibiotics for four days, you should take probiotics for four weeks, etc. Probiotics are critical to the recovery from almost all diseases. The immune system is dependent upon a healthy gut terrain.
In the 1880’s there was a famous running debate that took place between the French chemist, Louis Pasteur, and his colleague, Andre Beauchamp. Doctor Pasteur argued that germs were the cause of disease. Doctor Beauchamp insisted that the health of the host was more important, stating that the “environment” or terrain in which cells live was more important than germs themselves. On his deathbed, Pasteur is reported to have admitted, “The microbe is nothing. The terrain is everything.” In other words, a healthy body (terrain) and immune system trump any and all germs. If you have a healthy immune system, you don’t need to be concerned that much about germs.
Unfortunately, orthodox medicine chose to accept Pasteur’s germ model and ignored Beauchamp’s immune system model, and the rest is history. What a different world we would have today if scientists had chosen the other path. Maybe we are ready now to focus on the condition of a person’s immune system rather than the germs that distress him.
“The focus of the marketing of drugs is mainly on the benefit side. Doctors are historically under informed about the risks of drugs.”
…Dr. Sidney Wolfe, M.D.
The aftermath of antibiotics is still being written.
Antibiotics should be used as a last resort, not the first.
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Kim Seymour LVN and Courtney Seymour
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