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 "Plus, probiotics are being studied for their potential role in heart disease, oral health, prevention of the cold and flu, HIV-associated diarrhea, treatment of superbugs and much more. Researchers are also discovering more bacteria and yeasts that demonstrate probiotic effects and are showing promise as future therapies for diseases in humans.
From the Laboratory to Your Plate
The ability to take this research knowledge and transform it into easy, at-home therapies is what makes probiotics such a fascinating area."- Allison Tannis, Probiotic Rescue: How You can use Probiotics to Fight Cholesterol, Cancer, superbugs, Digestive Complaints and More (Get the book.) "Because antibiotics cannot kill these superbugs. Antibiotic-resistant infections kill as many as 8,000 patients each year in Canada and cost the health-care system at least $100 million annually. In the United States the figures are even higher at 99,000 deaths each year due to antibiotic-resistant infections." - Allison Tannis, Probiotic Rescue: How You can use Probiotics to Fight Cholesterol, Cancer, superbugs, Digestive Complaints and More (Get the book.) "Antibiotic-resistant bacteria, or superbugs, are discussed in more detail in Chapter 16. One the most severe side effects of antiobiotic use is antibiotic-associated diarrhea. Antibiotics are commonly used in developed countries to treat illness. Antiobiotics are drugs that kill bacteria. Some people are using antibiotics for illnesses that are not caused by bacteria, such as the common cold, which is caused by viruses. A national survey of Canadians done by Ipsos-Reid discovered that 30% of consumers believe that most colds and flus can be treated successfully with antibiotics." - Allison Tannis, Probiotic Rescue: How You can use Probiotics to Fight Cholesterol, Cancer, superbugs, Digestive Complaints and More (Get the book.) "More research in this area is needed before medical professionals will be able to effectively prescribe probiotics to fight superbugs. Asthma Asthma is one of the most common chronic diseases in childhood and one of the most common causes of school absenteeism. Asthma is inflammation of the bronchial tubes. It causes obstruction of the airway, chest tightness, coughing and wheezing. If probiotics are primarily in the intestinal tract, how would probiotics aid the lungs and help to fight asthma? Remember that probiotics have a great influence on the immune system." - Allison Tannis, Probiotic Rescue: How You can use Probiotics to Fight Cholesterol, Cancer, superbugs, Digestive Complaints and More (Get the book.) |
 "The more antibiotics Iowans used, the faster these drug-resistant superbugs spread.
Iowa's children were among the most vulnerable to these drug-resistant germs because doctors regularly gave them antibiotics. Physicians had shown no hesitation in giving these drugs even to infants. One study of Iowa children found that 75 percent had been given an antibiotic by the time of their first birthday, and 91 percent had received such a prescription by age two and a half."- Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.) |
 "Sleeping" tumors that would never really cause much harm to the body, may now be aroused into powerful defensive reactions and become aggressive, not unlike relatively harmless bacteria that turn into dangerous superbugs when attacked by antibiotic medication. It makes absolutely no sense that at a time you need to strengthen the body's most important healing system—the immune system—you would subject yourself to radical treatments that actually weaken or destroy the immune system."- Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.) |
 "More importantly, in its role as an antibacterial, it has been directly linked to increasing resistance Lo a range of antibiotics commonly used for treating infectious disease, one potential contributor to the evolution of "superbugs," now a major national concern. (15) Triclosan was mentioned previously this chapter as one of the contaminants found in umbilical cord samples collected by Greenpeace International and Britain's WWF. Surveys in Sweden have also found triclosan in the breast milk of 60 percent of women."- Samuel S. Epstein, Randall Fitzgerald, Toxic Beauty: How Cosmetics and Personal Care Products Endanger Your Health . . . And What You Can Do about It (Get the book.) |
 "The idea that you're creating superbugs in livestock that will then be easily passed to humans—it's huge," Dr. Boscamp said.
He also cautioned against prescribing antibiotics to people "with an obvious viral illness—people who come in sneezing, with a runny nose, or a cold. That's really a problem because we know antibiotics don't do anything against viruses, so every time we use an antibiotic when we don't need to, we'll pay a price in the future. People are starting to understand that, to say, 'Maybe I don't need an antibiotic this time.'"- Deirdre Imus, Growing Up Green: Baby and Child Care: Volume 2 in the Bestselling Green This! Series (Green This!) (Get the book.) |
 "Of course, if that is the case, understanding its origins will give us another powerful tool in fighting an instinct—if it even is one—that has long outlived its usefulness.
" 'SUPERBUGS' SPREAD FEAR FAR AND WIDE"
"RISING DEADLY INFECTIONS PUZZLE EXPERTS"
"BACTERIA RUN WILD, DEFYING ANTIBIOTICS"
You've seen the headlines. They've probably frightened you. And it's true—just as we've been evolving to survive disease, all the organisms that cause disease have been evolving right along with us."- Dr. Sharon Moalem, Survival of the Sickest: A Medical Maverick Discovers Why We Need Disease (Get the book.) |
| "Super Resistant superbugs. - Brent Hoadley, Ph.D., Too Profitable to Cure (Get the book.) |
 "Even if an individual is very healthy and never uses antibiotics, there is still a chance of being infected with one of these superbugs that has been created due to the overuse of antibiotics. These new superbugs are very hard to get rid of once they settle into a person's system. Just when the illness seems to be over, the bug flares up again and there is a reoccurrence.
One drug that evolved in the early antibiotic research was cyclosporine, allowed for use as an anti-rejection drug for transplant surgery."- Byron J. Richards, CCN, Mastering Leptin: The Leptin Diet, Solving Obesity and Preventing Disease, Second Edition (Get the book.) |
 "Recent nationwide outbreaks of infections caused by superbugs killed teenagers in U.S. schools, reflecting the natural consequence of indiscriminate and irresponsible use of antibiotics in this country.
Previously only found in hospital settings, the drug-resistant staph germ is now spreading through prisons, gyms and locker rooms, and poor urban neighborhoods. It can enter the blood, kidneys, liver, lungs and muscles around the heart. Most cases exhibit life-threatening bloodstream infections."- Andreas Moritz, Timeless Secrets of Health & Rejuvenation: Unleash The Natural Healing Power That Lies Dormant Within You (Get the book.) "We have created an entire armory consisting of highly sophisticated antibiotic-resistant weapons— superbugs that defy even the smartest of treatments. TB took 1,000 million lives within the previous two centuries, but then the deadly disease was nearly eradicated from the earth through a combination of public hygiene measures and antibiotics. One may argue that without the use of antibiotics the disease could never have been brought under control." - Andreas Moritz, Timeless Secrets of Health & Rejuvenation: Unleash The Natural Healing Power That Lies Dormant Within You (Get the book.) "These superbugs can travel around the world in almost no time. AIDS patients, people regularly treated with antibiotics or those living in poor and unhygienic environments are particularly endangered. Out of the 40 variations of antibiotics available for the treatment of TB, only one or two still seem to have an effect. Nobody can foresee the consequences of our collective action in making antibiotics the treatment of preference for infectious diseases. You may remember from chapter 8 that sunlight used to be the preferred and most successful treatment for TB (more about this below)." - Andreas Moritz, Timeless Secrets of Health & Rejuvenation: Unleash The Natural Healing Power That Lies Dormant Within You (Get the book.) |
 "If you do develop a UTI, be wary of using prescription antibiotics, which can cause yeast infections or new infections with antibiotic-resistant superbugs. Instead of relying on pharmaceuticals, treat UTIs naturally with cranberry juice and the widely available supplement pulsatilla extract. Be sure to watch your symptoms, if the UTI has already progressed too far you may require conventional intervention to prevent more serious complications to your organs."- Mike Adams, Natural Health Solutions (Get the book.) |
 "Hospitals breed antibiotic-resistant superbugs that pose a real danger to patients and the public alike. Hospitals are places where medical errors are rampant; people are given the wrong drugs at the wrong doses, or undergo the wrong medical procedures with horrifying frequency. Sometimes people even have the wrong limbs operated on or amputated, waking up wondering, "Where is my good arm?" There are literally hundreds of thousands of medical mistakes that injure, and even kill, patients in America each and every year."- Mike Adams, Spam Filters for Your Brain (Get the book.) "In fact, it could be argued that they have created something worse: Antibiotic-resistant superbugs. Even as we conquer one disease, such as smallpox, a new disease emerges. Today, we're dealing with the H5N1 strain of influenza, or bird flu, a disease for which there is no antibiotic treatment whatsoever. Part of this message, that science is better than nature, is frequently encapsulated in the marketing mindset of drug companies. Drug companies want you to believe that a synthetic drug is always going to be superior to natural chemical compounds found in plants." - Mike Adams, Spam Filters for Your Brain (Get the book.) |
| "They account for most of the deaths in hospitals today. The superbugs "choose" those patients whose immune systems have already been impaired through sickness, injury, surgery, and/or previous encounters with antibiotics. In healthy people with a strong immune system, these bugs can live on their skin or in their noses without infecting them. In other words, under normal circumstances, we can live with the bugs without ever getting infected and, even if we did get infected, our body would deal with them effectively while becoming immune to them." - Andreas Moritz, Timeless Secrets of Health & Rejuvenation: Unleash The Natural Healing Power That Lies Dormant Within You (Get the book.) |
 "Unfortunately, bacteria evolve rapidly, developing strains resistant to one or more antibiotics and requiring researchers to search for new drugs to combat the "superbugs."
Other drugs added to the pharmaceutical arsenal included corticosteroids, to treat rheumatoid arthritis; antabuse, to prevent alcoholics from drinking; cyclo-sporine, to prevent rejection of transplanted organs; antidepressants and antipsychotics, for mental problems; and thrombolytic drugs to dissolve blood clots. Some new offerings actually were ancient drugs in new form."- The New York Times, The New York Times Guide to Essential Knowledge: A Desk Reference for the Curious Mind (Get the book.) |
 "While everyone seems to be working frantically to thwart the effects of the Y2K computer bug, superbugs of a different kind may be becoming more and more of a threat. Experts fear that someday strains of bacteria resistant to all known antibiotics may become the worlds number one health problem. Ironically, it may be the overuse of the very antibiotics used to combat bacteria that might cause you to fall victim to these superbugs.
When antibiotics were discovered in the first part of the 20th century, they revolutionized the medical field."- Frank K. Wood, Natural Cures and Gentle Medicines: That Work Better Than Dangerous Drugs or Risky Surgery (Get the book.) |
 "Bacteria have been on earth for billions of years, but mankind's sudden, widespread introduction of antibiotics in a few short decades has forced the creation of superbugs we may no longer be able to defeat.
The looming threat of incurable bacterial infections is an "international public-health nightmare," says Stuart Levy, a professor of medicine, molecular biology, and microbiology at Tufts University, and one of the world's best-known experts on drug resistance."- Elinor Levy, Mark Fischetti, The New Killer Diseases: How the Alarming Evolution of Germs Threatens Us All (Get the book.) |
| "These new superbugs are very hard to get rid of once they settle into a person's system. Just when the illness seems to be over, the bug flares up again and there is a reoccurrence.
One drug that evolved in the early antibiotic research was cyclosporine, allowed for use as an anti-rejection drug for transplant surgery. The drug was originally intended as an antibiotic but was too toxic to give to the general public. It found a market niche because it poisons the immune system to a point where the immune system will not reject a donor organ." - Byron J. Richards, CCN, Mastering Leptin: The Leptin Diet, Solving Obesity and Preventing Disease, Second Edition (Get the book.) |
 "These resistant bacteria are often called "superbugs." So giving antibiotics for colds generally falls into the category of useless therapy that sometimes turns harmful and can make things worse for all of us. Sometimes more isn't better.
It's increasingly apparent that expenditures for health care are only loosely associated with health itself. It's common knowledge that the United States spends more per capita on health care than any other country, yet our life expectancy and infant mortality are worse than those in most European countries and Japan."- Richard A. Deyo M.D. M.P.H., Donald L. Patrick, Hope or Hype: The Obsession with Medical Advances and the High Cost of False Promises (Get the book.) |
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