Kevin Trudeau
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 Each subsequent antibiotic only adds to the knowledge base of these developing man-made super bugs. The only way to eliminate them is by restoring the natural balance of good bacterial flora. To do this you must first eliminate the fungus that has overgrown the body and the digestive tract, and then you restore the normal bacteria flora. Don't worry, it's not time to panic about antibiotics and what they have already done to you, but it is time to start considering how we can reverse the effects of past antibiotic use and make better choices in the future. |
Dr. Sharon Moalem
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 But Ewald's theory takes the notion that bacterial evolution gives bacteria an advantage over us and turns it on its head:
Not by getting involved in some kind of arms race in which we're using one antibiotic weapon against the organism, and [the organism] evolve [s] a defensive weapon against that antibiotic, and then we have to shift to another, and so on, indefinitely. Instead, we have a sense of where we want evolution to end, and we adjust the environment so that the organism freely evolves to that endpoint, which is in its interest and also in our interest. |
Tom Bohager
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 It is antibiotic resistant and therefore helps to prevent antibiotic-induced diarrhea."13 ž"L. salivarius is classified as a facultative bacterium, which means that it can survive and grow in both anaerobic (without oxygen) and aerobic (with oxygen) environments, although its main effects take place in anaerobic conditions. One unique benefit of L. salivarius is its ability to help break down undigested protein and disengage the toxins produced by protein putrefactions. In one study, L. salivarius was able to produce a high amount of lactic acid and completely inhibit the growth of H. |
Death by MedicineGary Null PhD, Carolyn Dean MD ND, Martin Feldman MD, Debora Rasio MD, Dorothy Smith PhD.
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| He says these conditions would have to be changed along with cutting back on antibiotic use.
In America, over 3 million pounds of antibiotics are used every year on humans. With a population of 284 million Americans, this amount is enough to give every man, woman and child 10 teaspoons of pure antibiotics per year. Egger says that exposure to a steady stream of antibiotics has altered pathogens such as Streptococcus pneumoniae, Staplococcus aureus, and entercocci, to name a few.
Almost half of patients with upper respiratory tract infections in the U.S. |
Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D.
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 Jones's blood test came back positive for Lyme disease, antibiotic treatment quickly cured her fatigue. If only her first doctor had thought to ask her how she spent her free time, he or she might have gotten to the bottom of Mrs. Jones's "unexplained" illness easily. Tests can do a lot, but communication is also important. One warning, though: some doctors treat patients with complaints of fatigue and achiness for Lyme, even when there is no convincing evidence the patients have that infection. High doses of antibiotics, given for long periods of time, often have dangerous side effects. |
Death by MedicineGary Null PhD, Carolyn Dean MD ND, Martin Feldman MD, Debora Rasio MD, Dorothy Smith PhD.
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| Although there was a reduction in antibiotic use, the data indicate that on average every child in America receives 1.22 antibiotic prescriptions annually.
Group A beta-hemolytic streptococci is the only common cause of sore throat that requires antibiotics, penicillin and erythromycin being the only recommended treatment. However, 90% of sore throats are viral. The authors of this study estimated there were 6.7 million adult annual visits for sore throat between 1989 and 1999 in the U.S. Antibiotics were used in 73% of visits. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 We are already seeing it with the antibiotic use and abuse that has been going on. For years, since the advent of sulfa and penicillin, we have been able to come up with newer compounds and molecules to fight off infectious disease. But we are running out of these new products as we are starting to see more and more resistance to these antibiotics. It’s a major concern for hospitals and doctors, and there was a tremendous effort placed in the 1990s through the American Academy of Pediatrics and various health organizations to make people aware of the overuse of antibiotics on viral colds. |
Death by MedicineGary Null PhD, Carolyn Dean MD ND, Martin Feldman MD, Debora Rasio MD, Dorothy Smith PhD.
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| Egger further warns that in America the current crowded, unsanitary methods of animal farming support constant stress and infection, and are geared toward high antibiotic use. He says these conditions would have to be changed along with cutting back on antibiotic use.
In America, over 3 million pounds of antibiotics are used every year on humans. With a population of 284 million Americans, this amount is enough to give every man, woman and child 10 teaspoons of pure antibiotics per year. |
Michael Friedman, ND
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 Of course, there are situations when antibiotic treatment is necessary. However, the treatments below can lessen or eliminate antibiotic use.
There are many natural medicine alternatives to pharmaceutical antibiotics. Simple natural treatments can go a long way in preventing and treating diabetic foot ulcers.
IV Oxidative Therapy
IV Oxidative treatment is the use of ozone gas topically on the skin or by autohemotherapy. Autohe-motherapy is the process of taking blood out, ozonating it, mixing it with heparin to prevent clogging, and then putting the blood into the body. |
Ron Garner
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 He also points out that silver is not an antibiotic because, by definition, antibiotics are derived from living organisms.13
The Environmental Protection Agency's Poison Control Center considers colloidal silver to be harmless and does not list toxicity levels in its rating for colloidal silver.14 Colloidal silver can be used topically to combat or prevent infections on conditions such as cuts, wounds, burns, rashes, sunburn, and insect bites. It can also be used to sterilize drinking water,15 as well as taken orally to combat low-grade infections. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Silver is a broad-spectrum antibiotic, so when you ingest it, you might eliminate the need to take various antibiotics. People who experienced little success on prescription antibiotics have taken colloidal silver with great success. Even drug-resistant bacteria are killed by ingested colloidal or ionic silver.
The catch is that if you go to your health food store, you'll find a lot of different silver products. Some of them claim 10 parts per million, while others claim 100 parts per million ... and that tends to be the only way that people compare these products. |
Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea
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 Whatever the reason for continued antibiotic use for common colds, Fran and I are distressed. Editorials in professional journals warn against the practice. Physicians, highly trained, must know better.
"It makes me wonder about the role of professional responsibility and ethics in the practice of medicine," concluded Fran. She paused for a moment. "I've had enough of this. My flowers need watering."
Not only are antibiotics ineffective, and indeed in some cases cause severe adverse reactions, but there is also another problem—this one for the public's health. |
Gary Null and Amy McDonald
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 Parents would come in: 'My child has a fever, has an earache, give me an antibiotic,' and most doctors gave them antibiotics, which knocked out some enemy germs, but also knocked out friendly germs, disturbing the normal balance of bacteria in the intestinal tract. This leads to the overgrowths of a number of unfriendly organisms, including not only the common yeast, but other bad bacteria.
"This also creates what is called a leaky gut, so these children absorb food allergens that they would not ordinarily absorb. Food allergens are clearly related to ADHD. |
Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea
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| Increased use is responsible for the recent rise in antibiotic resistance among common respiratory pathogens. Current overtreatment, in other words, limits the effectiveness of future treatment not only for common colds, but also for more serious conditions.
The conclusion is clear and twofold: the practice of prescribing antibiotics for common colds and flu is common medical practice, and it is unsatisfactory medical practice, both for the patient and for the public health.
"Maybe Grandpa's cure was not so bad after all," mused Fran.
Seeing my look of incomprehension, she explained. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Through that ten-year period they were really excited to see that antibiotic use had dropped by one-third. But what was really interesting was that the office visits for those same problems dropped by one-third. So what really happened was that the people, the parents, became more aware of what was a virus and was not. The antibiotics don’t help viruses, so they didn’t just take their kids into the hospital or the office.
But when they finally did go into the office, the percentage of antibiotics prescribed by doctors never changed. |
Lester A. Mitscher and Victoria Toews
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 In retrospect, it seems likely that the reason for this recommendation was to ensure that the men would be drinking water that had been boiled, rather than to provide them with the possible antibiotic properties of tea, since those effects are weak. In a review of the antimicrobial properties of tea, Dr. J. M. T. |
| In retrospect, we can conclude that boiling the water was probably more valuable than the comparatively weak antibiotic activity of the tea. Although modern research hasn't assessed the anti-typhoid potential of green tea, polyphenols have been shown to inhibit many other bacteria capable of causing infections. In particular, green tea extract prevents the growth of bacteria that cause many types of diarrhea. Researchers at the National Institute of Health in Tokyo, Japan, found that, in the laboratory, polyphenols inhibit infection by the influenza virus. |
J. Douglas Bremner
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 PENICILLIN
The first antibiotic, penicillin, was discovered entirely by accident when some mold got into a lab dish of bacteria and someone noticed that it inhibited the growth of the bacteria. Later it was found that penicillin destroys the walls of bacteria by inactivating an enzyme called transpeptidase that is vital to the cross-linking of bacterial cell walls.
The Gram staining method, named after the Danish bacteriologist who originally devised it in 1882, Hans Christian Gram, is one of the most important staining techniques in microbiology. |
Bottom Line Health
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| Doxy-cycline in very low doses (20 milligrams [mg] of Periostat twice daily) is actually subantimicro-bial, meaning that there is no antibiotic effect, but inflammation is still reduced, and therefore, signs and symptoms improve.
Reason: Rosacea's bumps and pimples are due to inflammation, possibly caused by microscopic skin mites that live in everyone's facial skin but that are found in greater numbers in the skin of rosacea patients. Typically, oral medication is used together with topical medication for three to six months. |
| If your doctor prescribes Cipro, ask if another antibiotic could be used.
NEW STAPH INFECTIONS
What's new: A drug-resistant strain of staphylococcus bacterium—community-acquired methi-cillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus(CA-MRSA) —formerly found only in hospitals, is now increasingly being detected within communities.
What this means for you: This particular staph bacterium appears to be more virulent than others and spreads from person-to-person, particularly through skin-to-skin contact sports, such as football and wrestling. |
| Bacitracin, a topical antibiotic.
•Quaternium 15, a preservative that can be found in cosmetic products, such as self-tanners, shampoo, nail polish and sunscreen, as well as in industrial products, such as polishes, paints and waxes.
The study also confirmed that patch testing using a standard contact dermatitis series of substances is useful for identifying common contact allergens.
Avoiding allergens is the chief treatment for contact dermatitis. In some cases, corticosteroid creams can be used to treat rashes caused by contact dermatitis. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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 Caprylic acid is absorbed very rapidly, so capsules should be enteric coated or timed release for best results
Garlic
Known as Russian penicillin, garlic is considered nature's premier antibiotic and antifungal, which makes it a perfect adversary for Candida. It's like a stealth smart-bomb—it's effective against bad bacteria and yeast but leaves the body's normal, friendly bugs unharmed. Several studies demonstrate the power of garlic to combat Candida, with some showing garlic to be more powerful than nystatin, gentian violet, and other standard antifungal agents. |
Peter Pringle
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 In theory, the enzyme could deactivate the antibiotic function of kanamycin in human beings who eat the food, thus reducing the drug's therapeutic value.23
Scientists were curious whether foods containing the marker gene could allow transfer of those genes to naturally occurring, harmless bacteria in the human intestine. The resistant genes in the harmless bacteria could, in turn, be transferred to bacteria that are harmful. The result could be a harmful strain of bacteria that was resistant to an important antibiotic or even to a whole family of antibiotics. |
Paula Begoun and Bryan Barron
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 DISINFECTING: To kill the bacteria in the skin that cause blemishes (Propionibacterium acnes), you need a reliable topical disinfectant (available over the counter) or topical antibiotic (available by prescription). There aren't many options when it comes to disinfecting the skin with over-the-counter products. The best over-the-counter topical disinfectant is either a 2.5%, 5%, or 10% benzoyl peroxide product—but only if no irritating ingredients are added. |
| A serious, problematic side effect is that acne-causing bacteria can become immune to the antibiotic after a short period of time, causing the acne to return (Sources: Dermatology, January 2003, pages 54-56; American Journal of Clinical Dermatology, April 2003, pages 813-831, and March 2001, pages 135-141; and The General Meeting of the American Society for Microbiology, May 2001). Whatever course of action you take should be discussed at length with your dermatologist, who, like you, should also be carefully monitoring you for any side effects. |
Amarjit S. Basra
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 However, its eradication can be difficult to achieve with conventional antibiotic therapies, requiring combinations of antibiotics, proton-pump inhibitors, and bismuth preparations. Moreover, adverse effects are regularly associated with these conventional treatments.3 Garlic is one of the most extensively researched medicinal plants.4 Its antibacterial action depends on allicin and is thought to be due to multiple inhibitory effects on various thiol-dependent enzymatic systems. |
Ron Garner
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| Some examples are: as a cleaning agent; removing bacteria, fungi, and pesticide residues from fruit and vegetables; restoring acid balance to the skin after a bath or shower; as an insect repellent; as a natural antibiotic and antiseptic; and as an aid to digestion, acv does not need to be refrigerated. It can be added to raw salads and soups. One can add one or two teaspoons of acv to a glass of water along with a little unpasteurized honey as a drink first thing in the morning to cleanse the alimentary tract and to aid in the replenishment of nutrients. |
Too Profitable to CureBrent Hoadley, Ph.D.
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| Greedy pharmaceuticals now pursue acne relief rather than a cure for ALS (Lou Gehrig's disease) or a better antibiotic. Corporate leaders know that the return on investment favors a new acne cream or a better treatment for erectile dysfunction over a cure or even an effective treatment for diabetes or any other life-threatening disease.
Pharmaceutical reps and drug companies are not allowed to promote "off-label" uses of prescription drugs. However, doctors may do so. How do doctors come to know of off-label uses for prescription drugs? |
Paula Begoun and Bryan Barron
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| If that happens, that specific oral antibiotic won't be effective to help deal with other types of infections you may encounter.
Cosmetic skin-care products can help mitigate rosacea exacerbations, but there are no cosmetic products that can have an effect on the microbe that causes this skin disorder. Because redness, irritation, and skin sensitivities are part and parcel of rosacea irself, anything that makes these worse will cause more problems. In this regard, according to the National Rosacea Society (www.rosacea.org), gentle, nonirritating skin-care products are essential. |
Gary Null, Ph.D.
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 Results of this study showed there to be synergy between the antibiotic effects of propolis and antibiotics to antibiotic resistant strains of Staphylococcus aureus.
—T.A. Shub, et al., [Effect of Propolis on Staphylococcus Aureus Strains Resistant to Antibiotics], Antibiotiki, 26(4), April 1981, p. 268-271.
Results of this study showed the ethanol extract of propolis to have lethal effects on Trichomonas vaginalis in vitro and also on Toxoplasma gondii, the latter after 24 hours of contact.
—J. Starzyk, et al., "Biological Properties and Clinical Application of Propolis. II. |
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