Over the past 50 years Americans have ramped up their usage of antibiotics. I read that the average person may take antibiotics as many as 70 times in their lifetime. Antibiotics have proven their benefits, but we must not ignore the consequences of using them either. This overuse of antibiotics is causing unforeseen damage to our bodies and is causing super-strains of bacteria to evolve.
Dan Rather reported that more people die from these new, antibiotic resistant strains of bacteria than die of AIDS, car accidents, and prostate cancer combined -- more than 90,000 Americans per year.
Antibiotics also cause bacterial resistance, intestinal flora imbalance, and yeast infections. Overuse is quite harmful to the female urinary tract and also nullifies her use of birth control pills for up to one month.
If you aren't getting overloaded with antibiotics prescribed to you by your doctor, you can get plenty from all that mass-produced meat you probably consume. Commercial farmers put antibiotics in all their livestock, regardless if they are sick or not. 70% of antibiotics used in America go into the farming industry.
Norway uses 1/3 the antibiotics than America does per capita, and has the lowest rate of antibiotic-resistant bacteria in the industrialized world.
Cancers may be springing up due to this over use of antibiotics as well. A JAMA study concluded that women who took excess antibiotics had twice the risk for Breast Cancer as did women who did not take antibiotics.
Antibiotics wipe out all the bacteria in your body -- good and bad. The trouble is that your body needs certain bacteria to digest food and live a healthy life. If you absolutely have to take antibiotics, replenish the beneficial bacteria in your body by taking probiotics during and after the course of your antibiotic treatment.
Having been medicated plenty of times in my lifetime, a doctor has never once told me about the downsides of antibiotics or about replenishing my body with probiotics.
Dr Mark Porter: Don't ask for antibiotics
Are We Taking Too Many Antibiotics
When antibiotics are applicable (Mayo Clinic)
Bacterial Infections (possibly consider using antibiotics)
Bacterial Infections (possibly consider using antibiotics)
- Some ear infections
- Severe sinus infections
- Strep throat
- Urinary tract infections
- Many wound and skin infections
- Most ear infections
- Colds
- Influenza (flu)
- Most coughs
- Most sore throats
- Bronchitis
- Stomach flu (viral gastroenteritis)
Dan Rather reported that more people die from these new, antibiotic resistant strains of bacteria than die of AIDS, car accidents, and prostate cancer combined -- more than 90,000 Americans per year.
Antibiotics also cause bacterial resistance, intestinal flora imbalance, and yeast infections. Overuse is quite harmful to the female urinary tract and also nullifies her use of birth control pills for up to one month.
If you aren't getting overloaded with antibiotics prescribed to you by your doctor, you can get plenty from all that mass-produced meat you probably consume. Commercial farmers put antibiotics in all their livestock, regardless if they are sick or not. 70% of antibiotics used in America go into the farming industry.
Norway uses 1/3 the antibiotics than America does per capita, and has the lowest rate of antibiotic-resistant bacteria in the industrialized world.
Cancers may be springing up due to this over use of antibiotics as well. A JAMA study concluded that women who took excess antibiotics had twice the risk for Breast Cancer as did women who did not take antibiotics.
Antibiotics wipe out all the bacteria in your body -- good and bad. The trouble is that your body needs certain bacteria to digest food and live a healthy life. If you absolutely have to take antibiotics, replenish the beneficial bacteria in your body by taking probiotics during and after the course of your antibiotic treatment.
Having been medicated plenty of times in my lifetime, a doctor has never once told me about the downsides of antibiotics or about replenishing my body with probiotics.
Dr Mark Porter: Don't ask for antibiotics
Are We Taking Too Many Antibiotics
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