Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 The latest absurdity in Big Pharma America: Free antibiotics at the grocery store!
Publix grocery stores have announced a plan to give away free antibiotics to everyone! I'm not making this up: Any person with a prescription can now walk into a Publix store anywhere in the United States and get that prescription filled for free. The free offer covers amoxicillin, cephalexin, penicillin VK, erythromycin, ampicillin, sulfamethoxazole/trimethoprim, and ciprofoxacin. |
| That Publix would actually think it's a great idea to give away antibiotics for free is yet another astonishing a sign of the times in a world that seems to have sold its soul to the drug companies. This giveaway is their big P.R. stunt, and they actually think they're helping everyone by doing it! But I can think of a thousand things better to give away than antibiotics. How about free cod liver oil supplements for children? What about free prenatal vitamins? Or just free hugs? The world needs more free hugs.
And the Population Control Award goes to...
Health authorities in the U.S. |
| Publix grocery stores have announced a plan to give away free antibiotics to everyone! I'm not making this up: Any person with a prescription can now walk into a Publix store anywhere in the United States and get that prescription filled for free. The free offer covers amoxicillin, cephalexin, penicillin VK, erythromycin, ampicillin, sulfamethoxazole/trimethoprim, and ciprofoxacin.
This is fascinating marketing ploy to get more customers, but it makes me wonder why they didn't go all the way and simultaneously give out free anti-diarrhea medication to counter the effects of the antibiotics. |
| If Publix is giving away free antibiotics now, perhaps some other grocery chain will try to up the ante and give away free antidepressant drugs. Then another group will offer free diabetes meds with every purchase of donuts, or free anti-cholesterol drugs with your purchase of a fried cheese dinner. Before long, grocery stores will be filled with mind-numbed pharma zombies, lined up at the pharmacy with a bag of junk food in one hand and a prescription in the other. |
| But I can think of a thousand things better to give away than antibiotics. How about free cod liver oil supplements for children? What about free prenatal vitamins? Or just free hugs? The world needs more free hugs.
And the Population Control Award goes to...
Health authorities in the U.S. announced this week that 100,000 lives could be saved each year if people used more sunscreen and got more frequent mammograms and prostate cancer screenings. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Hammer them with antibiotics. Don't worry about the fact that antibiotics are useless against ear infections, or that they wipe out your child's friendly intestinal flora and cause nutritional deficiencies. It's doctor-recommended, so it must be good, right? Result: Billions of doses of useless antibiotics helped breed a new generation of superbug viruses that have now escaped the hospitals and are infecting the public at large. antibiotics are useless to stop them, and doctors still have not figured out that you can kill superbugs with colloidal silver or garlic. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Antibiotics don't work, either
What about antibiotics? As any doctor will tell you, antibiotics only work on bacteria, molds and fungi, not viruses. In fact, antibiotics are going to do you far more harm than good, because they are not going to prevent the virus, but they are going to destroy your healthy intestinal flora, and that's going to upset your entire digestive system. It's going to make it more difficult to assimilate the nutrients you need from whole food concentrates and medicinal herb supplements.
Taking antibiotics could give you diarrhea. They could also give you indigestion. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Don't worry about the fact that antibiotics are useless against ear infections, or that they wipe out your child's friendly intestinal flora and cause nutritional deficiencies. It's doctor-recommended, so it must be good, right? Result: Billions of doses of useless antibiotics helped breed a new generation of superbug viruses that have now escaped the hospitals and are infecting the public at large. antibiotics are useless to stop them, and doctors still have not figured out that you can kill superbugs with colloidal silver or garlic. |
Mehmet C. Oz., M.D. and Michael F. Roizen, M.D.
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 The whole issue really comes down to protection—protecting our good cells from the thugs, protecting our organs from the hungry enemies, protecting our
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Some people may say there's no harm in taking antibiotics if you feel bad, but if you're fighting off a viral infection like the flu, antibiotics can hurt you more than they can help. That's because overtreating with antibiotics can cause collateral damage. You'll kill off all the bacterial allies in your gut and leave the evil virus untouched. |
Dr. Sharon Moalem
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 In fact, the digestive problems many people experience when taking antibiotics are directly related to the loss of these healthy bacteria. Using broad-spectrum antibiotics is like carpet bombing—they kill everything in their way and can't tell the difference between enemies, allies, and innocent bystanders. That's why many doctors recommend eating yogurt when taking antibiotics: the bacteria in yogurt are friendly—probiotic—and they can help to provide some of the digestive assistance and protection that is normally performed by the gut flora until they get back to normal levels. |
Charles Barber
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 This is a bit like saying pneumonia is an illness of low antibiotics because we treat pneumonia with antibiotics."100 Correlation with serotonin is not necessarily causation by serotonin.101
Furthermore, the monoamine system comprises only a small percent of the neurons in the brain. The largest regulatory systems in the brain are the glutamate and GABA (gamma-aminobutyric acid) systems. Glutamate excites neurons and induces activity, whereas GABA inhibits neurons.102 Gerard Sanacora at Yale is pursuing research into these neurotransmitter systems. |
James Dowd and Diane Stafford
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 Vitamin D speeds wound healing, and antibiotics in the absence of a functioning immune system aren't effective. We see this all the time in bone marrow transplant patients and cancer patients who are undergoing chemotherapy. In the end, it is not about either/or—it's about teamwork. Simply put, vitamin D can help antibiotics work better.
Q: If I eat well 80 percent of the time, is that enough to correct my acid-base imbalance?
A: Certainly, 80 percent is better than something less. That means you're eating four meals a week that don't comply with the recommendations. |
Charles Barber
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| This is a bit like saying pneumonia is an illness of low antibiotics because we treat pneumonia with antibiotics."100 Correlation with serotonin is not necessarily causation by serotonin.101
Furthermore, the monoamine system comprises only a small percent of the neurons in the brain. The largest regulatory systems in the brain are the glutamate and GABA (gamma-aminobutyric acid) systems. Glutamate excites neurons and induces activity, whereas GABA inhibits neurons.102 Gerard Sanacora at Yale is pursuing research into these neurotransmitter systems. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 It works better than antibiotics and offers no opportunity for bacteria to build up resistance. Some people take colloidal silver internally as a replacement for antibiotics (that topic is a whole article).
Acupuncture can help speed wound recovery. Needling the tissues near the wound can boost local circulation and help eliminate scar tissue. |
Lester A. Mitscher and Victoria Toews
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 Although these tea effects are helpful in prevention, they are generally weaker than those of antibiotics, so a person who is sick with an infection should use antibiotics upon the advice of a health-care professional.
Green Tea and Oral Health
A number of studies based on laboratory, animal, and human evidence indicate that green tea's polyphenols are beneficial for maintaining oral health. One of the more interesting studies located thirty-five volunteers who were willing to refrain from any oral hygiene, such as brushing or flossing, for four days. |
| Among the causes of the worsening situation are lifestyles that put people at higher risk of infection, noncompliance with use of prescribed antibiotics, and the emergence of microorganisms that are resistant to antibiotics.
Your immune system response, or lack thereof, determines whether you will succumb to the myriad bacteria, viruses, fungi, and other microorganisms you encounter every day or will brush them off and maintain good health. |
Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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 Majority of Americans Are Unaware Most Meat and Poultry Is Raised with antibiotics, Growth Hormones; Nationwide Survey Shows Americans Want Term 'Natural' Meat to Mean No antibiotics, Hormones, By-Products." http://www.wholefoodsmarket.com/ company/ pr_06-01-04.html.
CHAPTER 20: TOP 10 FOOD-LABEL MISCONCEPTIONS ABOUT SWEETENERS
American Diabetes Association. "Evidence-Based Nutrition Principles and Recommendations for the Treatment and Prevention of Diabetes and Related Complications." Position statement. Diabetes Care 25 (2002): 148-98.
Appleton, Nancy. |
Dr. Steve Blake
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 Additionally, antibiotics may lower the production of biotin because some antibiotics kill bacteria in the colon. Biotin is not known to be toxic.
Vitamin B5—Pantothenic Acid, the Center of Energy
Pantothenic acid derives its name from the root word pantos, which means "everywhere." It has been found in every living cell including plant and animal tissues as well as in microorganisms. Pantothenic acid was first identified in 1933 when Roger Williams detected it as a growth factor for yeast. It is used in a wide variety of vital body processes. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Result: Billions of doses of useless antibiotics helped breed a new generation of superbug viruses that have now escaped the hospitals and are infecting the public at large. antibiotics are useless to stop them, and doctors still have not figured out that you can kill superbugs with colloidal silver or garlic. (A fact that ancient human civilizations knew thousands of years ago...)
1990's
Coat your children with sunscreen. The sun is dangerous and has no health benefits whatsoever, didn't you know? And besides, all those chemicals in sunscreen are perfectly safe. |
James Howard Kunstler
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 So while pharmaceutical companies are slowly developing potent new classes of antibiotics, resistance is developing at a rate faster than the drug companies can develop replacements. The overuse of antibiotics in livestock has been mirrored by the overuse of antibiotics in regular medicine. Within the last few years there has been an emergence of bacteria resistant to vancomycin—a last defense drug for some illnesses, including deadly blood infections and pneumonia caused by Staphylococcus bacteria.
Factory farming of animals has been behind the frightening and mystifying mad cow problem. |
Too Profitable to CureBrent Hoadley, Ph.D.
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| Ask them why they needed to be subsidized by us —the people (government)—to expend the effort necessary to seek new antibiotics and vaccines that may be required to deal with terrorism. This is the most profitable corporate industry in the U.S.
A law was just enacted that appropriated $3 billion to encourage pharmaceuticals to find new antibiotics to replace the old ones that are becoming resistant; or to create new vaccines — perhaps without a Thimerosal base? — for ever-more virulent bacteria. |
Dr. Sharon Moalem
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| Using broad-spectrum antibiotics is like carpet bombing—they kill everything in their way and can't tell the difference between enemies, allies, and innocent bystanders. That's why many doctors recommend eating yogurt when taking antibiotics: the bacteria in yogurt are friendly—probiotic—and they can help to provide some of the digestive assistance and protection that is normally performed by the gut flora until they get back to normal levels. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Drugs and chemicals (including dangerous antibiotics) -- Drugs are frequently implemented in order to fight disease, control parasites and reduce animals' stress from overcrowded living conditions. However, the antimicrobials used on some poultry promote the accumulation of arsenic inside their bodies. This is a highly carcinogenic chemical that can then contaminate the water supply near the farm, or emerge in the meat later eaten by consumers.
In fact, an estimated 13.5 million pounds of antibiotics are used on factory farm animals every year in the U.S. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Result: Billions of doses of useless antibiotics helped breed a new generation of superbug viruses that have now escaped the hospitals and are infecting the public at large. antibiotics are useless to stop them, and doctors still have not figured out that you can kill superbugs with colloidal silver or garlic. (A fact that ancient human civilizations knew thousands of years ago...)
1990's
Coat your children with sunscreen. The sun is dangerous and has no health benefits whatsoever, didn't you know? And besides, all those chemicals in sunscreen are perfectly safe. |
Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
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| Majority of Americans Are Unaware Most Meat and Poultry Is Raised with antibiotics, Growth Hormones; Nationwide Survey Shows Americans Want Term 'Natural' Meat to Mean No antibiotics, Hormones, By-Products." http://www.wholefoodsmarket.com/ company/ pr_06-01-04.html.
CHAPTER 20: TOP 10 FOOD-LABEL MISCONCEPTIONS ABOUT SWEETENERS
American Diabetes Association. "Evidence-Based Nutrition Principles and Recommendations for the Treatment and Prevention of Diabetes and Related Complications." Position statement. Diabetes Care 25 (2002): 148-98.
Appleton, Nancy. |
Mike Adams
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 The common conventional treatment for this is, of course, antibiotics. But antibiotics destroy and disrupt the normal probiotic balance in the body. In other words, they wipe out the friendly flora in the intestine. antibiotics are no long-term solution, and they may, in fact, make the situation worse. The key is to reduce the consumption of sugars and then use natural herbs and remedies that treat urinary tract infections—like cranberries. Cranberries really do work to eliminate UTIs. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 Most people in the United States are shocked when they hear that 80 percent of the drugs and antibiotics made in this country are not fed to humans to cure them of some illness, but fed to animals in their feed every day to make them grow faster. Scientists do not totally understand why, but they do know that if you cram thousands of animals together in unsanitary or unhygienic - not to mention inhumane - conditions, they all get sick and die.
The only way to keep them alive is to constantly feed them antibiotics. |
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