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"All patients developed infections of the bone that would not respond to antibiotics or surgery. They had chronic pain and problems with eating, speaking, and dental hygiene. In another review 10% of patients treated for cancer with zoledronic acid and 4% treated with pamidronate developed osteonecrosis of the jaw after three years of treatment. Most of the patients had dental problems, with dental surgeries that resulted in nonhealing bone." - J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.)

"The cardiac damage induced by anthracycline antibiotics, daunorubicin, and doxorubicin is very real. I have seen patients with severe cardiac complications due to these agents, including heart failure and even death. These chemotherapy agents not only kill rapidly proliferating cancer cells, they are also toxic to normal heart cells. Disruption of basement membranes or the layer of cells at the border of adjacent cells, and an increase of free fatty acids and long-chain fatty acid metabolites all can injure the myocardial cells." - Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., The Sinatra Solution Metabolic Cardiology (Get the book.)

"High doses of antibiotics, given for long periods of time, often have dangerous side effects. I never take this course of action unless I am convinced active Lyme infection exists. In some cases, HIV, the virus that causes AIDS, can be a cause of unexplained fatigue. Fortunately, more regular awareness and early testing for this syndrome in recent years has reduced the number of cases where fatigue shows up prior to a diagnosis." - Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D., Your Symptoms Are Real: What to Do When Your Doctor Says Nothing Is Wrong (Get the book.)

"His physician thought he had an infection in his heart, so George was placed on antibiotics, but it was soon determined that what George really had was congestive heart failure. George and his wife refused invasive surgery and signed him out of the hospital against the advice and the protestations of his doctor. On subsequent visits to two cardiologists, George was prescribed diuretics to rid him of excess fluids and a variety of drugs to help his heart beat more strongly. Even though the fluid overload was controlled, George's heart continued to decline." - Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., The Sinatra Solution Metabolic Cardiology (Get the book.)

"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. Better to have only one or two meals per week that fall off the wagon. When my patients say they are doing the diet 80 percent of the time, this can mean different things to different people. Essentially, though, 80 percent means that eight of ten meals are on the plan." - James Dowd and Diane Stafford, The Vitamin D Cure (Get the book.) "In the absence of these proteins, antibiotics are less effective, increasing the risk of resistance and chronic or recurrent infection. UVB is essential for vitamin D synthesis, but it also can inactivate viruses. Low UVB levels in winter and falling vitamin D levels allow more viruses to hang around and make you more vulnerable to them. Flu is a perfect example: the peak of the flu season follows the summer solstice by six months, and its global spread alternates between the Northern and Southern hemispheres, in keeping with hemispheric seasonal changes." - James Dowd and Diane Stafford, The Vitamin D Cure (Get the book.)

"But most important, an imbalance in the flora can damage the delicate gut lining and lead to Spent. antibiotics are just one environmental element that can destroy the balance between good and bad. These "bad guys" can also move into areas where they shouldn't be (such as the small intestine, which normally does not contain bacteria) and cause digestive problems that can also lead to Spent. A relatively unknown fact is that your gut actually functions like a second brain. More than half of your body's nerve cells are located in your gut. Dr." - Frank Lipman, Mollie Doyle, Spent: Revive: Stop Feeling Spent and Feel Great Again (Get the book.) "A clean, fresh whole-foods diet contains fewer antibiotics, hormones, pesticides, hydrogenated fats, additives, preservatives, chemical sweeteners, and other chemicals and therefore decreases the toxic load on your body. This will make you more vital and less Spent. Once again, make sure the bulk of your foods don't have labels! The last thing you need to do to prepare for my restorative eating program is to make sure that you have most of the following kitchen tools?particularly a blender—so that you can make all the delicious recipes we provide." - Frank Lipman, Mollie Doyle, Spent: Revive: Stop Feeling Spent and Feel Great Again (Get the book.) "Make sure the whey you buy comes from cows that grazed on pesticide- and chemical-free grass and were never fed grain or given growth hormones, chemicals, or antibiotics. And, in all of my smoothie recipes, except the chocolate avocado one (which is an incredible treat!), I suggest that you add a super "greens" powder. Super greens powders will give you some of the essential vitamins and nutrients you need to heal Spent. Go to www.spentmd.com for all my favorite products." - Frank Lipman, Mollie Doyle, Spent: Revive: Stop Feeling Spent and Feel Great Again (Get the book.)

"Often newborns or breast-feeding mothers are required to take antibiotics that strip the healthy flora of the gastrointestinal system. This creates an imbalance of the good and bad bacteria in the gut if not properly replenished with probiotics. A person's natural flora is usually set in the first few years of life. Thus, if a child is exposed to a variety of toxic insults or the mother's flora was imbalanced, the child may have more of a chance of developing other disorders later in life. These disorders can be allergies, immune dysfunction, ADHD, intestinal problems and the like." - Heather Caruso, Your Drug-Free Guide to Digestive Health (Get the book.)

"The beauty of a normal vitamin D level is that it's likely to prevent your need for antibiotics by avoiding serious infection altogether. In the case of an infection, your adequate vitamin D level should speed clearance of the microbe and reduce the likelihood of incomplete eradication of the microbe or the development of antibiotic resistance. The vitamin D and the antibiotic team up to overcome infection more quickly and completely. Moreover, vitamin D will assist in the repair of damaged tissues after an infection, too." - James Dowd and Diane Stafford, The Vitamin D Cure (Get the book.)

"This can be a reaction to certain medications, including antibiotics, antidepressants, antihypertensives, drugs used to treat kidney stones and rheumatoid arthritis, and some vitamins. It's also a common result of chemotherapy and radiation treatment. A metallic taste signals to some epileptics that a seizure may be coming on. SIGNIFICANT FACT If your taste in music leans more toward heavy metal than light rock, the metallic taste may be an unexpected result of another one of the latest trends—tongue piercing with a small metal barbell." - Joan Liebmann-Smith, Ph. D., and Jacqueline Nardi Egan, Body Signs: From Warning Signs to False Alarms...How to Be Your Own Diagnostic Detective (Get the book.)

"Since I have never seen a patient improve while on antibiotics, I ask patients to stop taking them if they tell me they are taking them chronically. I believe patients should not receive treatment for infectious agents unless testing definitively confirms infection, because the medicines used to treat infections have marked side effects and can be dangerous. Nonetheless, there is one line of research that supports the idea of chronic infection." - Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D., Your Symptoms Are Real: What to Do When Your Doctor Says Nothing Is Wrong (Get the book.)

"Allan Greene, the problem is that "each time a child takes a course of antibiotics, future infections become harder to treat." In addition, he reports, "Of the 10 million annual antibiotic prescriptions for ear infections, somewhere between 8.5 million and 9.5 million prescriptions didn't actually help the children."126 There are a number of homeopathic and naturopathic remedies that have been successful, and often simply waiting out the earache will take care of the problem." - Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.) "Prescriptions for antibiotics are down.100 There is little research on the safety and effectiveness of mixing multiple medications in a single patient. In fact, there is no body of pharmacology capable of making such a study. Epidemiologists (those who study health intervention attributes) may be able to create an effective way to study it, but it would be impeded or stopped by 98 Pamela D. Larson and Janice L. Hoot Martin, "Polypharmacy and Elderly Patients," AORN JOURNAL, March 1999. Reported at http://www.findarticles." - Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.) "When we eat meat today, we eat a lot of antibiotics and hormones at the same time. Poultry, pigs, calves, cattle - they are to a large degree fed with drugs and hormones; poultry averages more so than cattle, by the way. In other words, there are side effects from sources never envisioned. One could call it side effects of side effects. Now hardly anyone knows the true proportion of those side effects of side effects. Why? Because it is not known, in the first place, that we are drugging ourselves continuously with "normal" food and "normal" beverages. Another example: caffeine...." - Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.)

"A remarkable psychiatrist, Aaron Beck, and Medications Cough, cold, hay fever, antibiotics, diarrhea preparations hormones (e.g., Contac, Dristan, aspirin Sudafed, Acufed, Demerol, acetaminophen Lomotil) Diet pills Amphetamine, cocaine an equally remarkable psychologist, Albert Ellis, arrived at a new form of talk therapy called cognitive-behavioral therapy, or CBT. In 2006, Beck was awarded the Albert Lasker Clinical Medical Research Award for his insightful work; this award is often a step to a Nobel prize." - Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D., Your Symptoms Are Real: What to Do When Your Doctor Says Nothing Is Wrong (Get the book.)

"A new study in Alimentary Pharmacology & Therapeutics showed that taking antibiotics to kill H. pylori, along with medication to control stomach acid, has an 86 percent success rate, but when zinc carnosine is added to the mix, the success rate climbs to a perfect 100 percent. NSAIDs, which also include pain relievers such as aspirin and aspirin-like compounds like ibuprofen and naproxen sodium, aren't as innocuous as they seem." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The Most Effective Natural Cures on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth about What Treatments Work and Why (Get the book.) "People who are given antibiotics a lot tend to have a much greater tendency to have an imbalance in their gut ecology—it's easier to grow more weeds than it is roses. Probiotics will help offset that unhealthy balance. Probiotic supplementation is especially critical if a lot of yeast is present, and will help restore a healthy balance of microbes in the digestive tract." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The Most Effective Natural Cures on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth about What Treatments Work and Why (Get the book.) "Moreover, and especially in the case of antibiotics, they will probably do more damage to your health in the long term. If you want to heal eczema naturally, a great place to start is by examining possible food triggers. There's a connection between atopic dermatitis and food sensitivities or allergies, and believe it or not, your food triggers can be programmed as early as in the womb. A recent study in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition showed that eating certain foods during the last four weeks of pregnancy increases the risk of eczema for the infant." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The Most Effective Natural Cures on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth about What Treatments Work and Why (Get the book.) "Put a high-sugar diet together with a course of antibiotics and you can pretty much guarantee you've got a serious Candida problem. It's a particularly insidious problem to have. Only in some cases are the symptoms localized and obvious—a vaginal yeast infection, for example, or a case of thrush, which is an overgrowth in the mouth. Most of the time the symptoms are general and somewhat ambiguous. You could experience anything from brain fog to fatigue to GI distress, rashes, hives, skin problems, or sinus infections—the connection to Candida can be elusive." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The Most Effective Natural Cures on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth about What Treatments Work and Why (Get the book.)

"Besides pus cells and blood, which are now normal in milk produced during machine suckling, the milk is also high in pesticides, herbicides, antibiotics, hormones, radioactive iodine, and disease factors such as mad cow prion and bovine leukemia virus. In addition, research cited by Robert Cohen has made the point that there is up to a gallon of extra mucus in the body created as a result of drinking dairy. The mucus problem is associated with the fact that 87 percent of milk protein is casein, the main ingredient of Elmer's Glue." - Gabriel Cousens, There Is a Cure for Diabetes: The Tree of Life 21-Day+ Program (Get the book.)

"These days, well-informed doctors recommend taking and replacing probiotics when a patient is taking antibiotics. But this supplementation is not enough, particularly for those who are Spent. Our digestion needs to be functioning optimally at all times so that we can absorb the nutrients we so desperately need. I want you to begin supplementing with probiotics or adding them to your smoothie. If you have serious digestive problems, I recommend looking at the Troubleshooting chapter (page 241) or, for an even more substantial discussion of digestive problems, going to www.spentmd.com." - Frank Lipman, Mollie Doyle, Spent: Revive: Stop Feeling Spent and Feel Great Again (Get the book.)

"Antitumor Antibiotics Antitumor antibiotics are a varied group of anticancer drugs that are so named because they are produced in a manner similar to conventional antibiotics. Like alkylating agents, most antitumor antibiotics create free radicals that attack rapidly dividing tumor cells. However, their actions, side effects, and usefulness are not as uniform as alkylating agents. They are used to treat a wide variety of cancers, including carcinomas of the breast, lung, stomach, and thyroid; lymphomas; certain leukemias; myelomas; and sarcomas." - Dan Labriola, Complementary Cancer Therapies: Combining Traditional and Alternative Approaches for the Best Possible Outcome (Get the book.)

"They also noted that meat contains other potential carcinogens, including heme iron (the type of iron found in meat), nitrates and nitrites, saturated fat, antibiotics, hormones, and salts. All of these substances have been observed to affect hormone metabolism, increase cell proliferation, damage DNA, encourage insulin-like growth hormones and promote damage of cells by free radicals, all of which can lead to cancer. What actually happens when you eat meat? The most blood-thickening agent is food protein, particularly if it is derived from an animal source." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.) "Most of the infection-causing bacteria that are being attacked by the antibiotics will be killed, but some of them will survive and reprogram their own genes to become antibiotic-resistant. Nobody really wants to die, and this includes bacteria. The same law of nature applies to our body cells. Cancer is the final attempt of the body to live, and not, as most people assume, to die. Without gene mutation, those cells in the body that live in a toxic, anaerobic environment would simply suffocate and expire." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.)

"Meat has both the advan- *Industrial meat production is notoriously brutal to the animals and extravagantly wasteful of resources such as water, grain, as well as antibiotics; the industry is also one of the biggest contributors to water and air pollution. A 2006 report issued by the United Nations stated that the world's livestock generate more greenhouse gases than the entire transportation industry. Henning Steinfeld, et al. Livestocks Long Shadow:Environmental Issues and Options. A report published by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (Rome: FAO, 2006)." - Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto (Get the book.) "But some of our food animals, such as cows and sheep, are ruminants that evolved to eat grass; if they eat too many seeds they become sick, which is why grain-fed cattle have to be given antibiotics. Even animals that do well on grain, such as chickens and pigs, are much healthier when they have access to green plants, and so, it turns out, are their meat and eggs." - Michael Pollan, In Defense of Food: An Eater's Manifesto (Get the book.)

"And of course, drinking chlorinated water, or eating meats or dairy produced with antibiotics, totally defeats any program you're on. Enzymes = Life Anyone who has any understanding of health has got to be taking enzyme supplements with every single meal they eat. Unfortunately, most people think of enzymes (if they think of them at all) as necessary only if they have some kind of digestive problem. And, yes, it's true that people suffering from digestive problems, hiatal hernias, ulcers, and the like, have benefited greatly from using enzyme supplements." - Jon Barron, Lessons from The Miracle Doctors: A Step-by-Step Guide to Optimum Health and Relief from Catastrophic Illness (Get the book.) "As a result of chlorinated/fluorinated/treated water and antibiotics and pesticides in our food, we have virtually eliminated an essential component of health and well-being. There can be no true health or relief from disease until we rebuild it. 3. Enzymes. Modern man is the only animal that eats a diet almost entitely devoid of live enzymes. As a result, virtually every American has an enlarged pancreas by the time he/she is 40 and a significantly diminished life expectancy. 4. Diet. Every cell, every system, every organ in our bodies is produced from the food we eat." - Jon Barron, Lessons from The Miracle Doctors: A Step-by-Step Guide to Optimum Health and Relief from Catastrophic Illness (Get the book.)

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