 • Do
antibiotics affect viruses?
The
establishment medical dogma says no, although there are people who take
antibiotics for supposedly viral infections because they believe it
helps. A scentific
experiment in November 2010, demonstrates
how antibiotics could work against viruses and
explains why the medical establishment doesn't know about it, to wit,
the antibodies/antibiotics attach themselves to the virus and go with
it into the cell where it is dispatched by the cells' defenses, and
scientists never realized it because they only looked at what happened
outside the cell and not inside it.
 More details at:
http://www2.mrc-lmb.cam.ac.uk/group-leaders/h-to-m/l-james
http://salem-news.com/articles/november072010/common-cold-ta.php
• Are
antibiotics artificial?
All commercial
antibiotics are made by living cells that are grown in labs. The cells
may have been genetically fiddled with by scientists, but science
doesn't have the ability to completely synthesize an antibiotic. It
still has to be manufactured by a living cell. Commercial antibiotics
are very similar to the antibodies the cells in our bodies manufacture.
In fact, you may have penicillium mold producing penicillin in your
gut, as penicillium is a very common mold and likely to be part of the
gut flora. Antibiotic and antibody mean the same thing and once in the
body, they function in much the same way.
Penicillin
comes from
penicillium, a mold which grows on bread. There are records of ancient
Egyptians, Greeks and others using moldy bread as a medicine. Other
traditional societies extracted antibiotics from lichens. There is some
reason to believe that moldy bread was used as a medicine in western
society up until about the Medieval, or Dark Ages, as it was called,
when the church suppressed much non-Christian science.
Penicillin
was
re-discovered in modern times, not discovered, and even then there are
records of people being aware of the anti-germ properties of this mold
before it was officially discovered.
All modern antibiotics
are attempts to synthetically re-create the wild mold on bread. Would
penicillin mold-y bread be a "nourishing tradition", if we knew how to
recognize the correct mold on bread, and synthetic antibiotics as close
as we can get to that until we can reclaim this lost skill and
knowledge? The pencilllium mold is blue and white. To use it as a wound
dressing, apply bread directly to skin. To extract antibiotic, soak
bread in warm water. To extract antibiotics from lichen, air-dry the
lichen and then mix with water. (But
be careful because some lichens are poisonous.)
• Do bacteria
mutate
into
antibiotic resistant bacteria?
In
the first
place, it's called transformation and in the second place, the theory
of evolution by genetic mutation is wrong. Bacteria have always
had the ability to resist
antibiotics since the dawn of life on Earth. If they encounter an
antibiotic and want to be able to resist it, they send the word out for
someone who knows how to resist it and she shows up and gives them the
resistance gene and then they make copies of it and pass it around to
all their friends and relatives (but not their enemies).
• But
there was a
study with fruit flies that proved that genetic mutation causes
evolution.
No,
it didn't. It proved, as much as one can prove a
negative, the
opposite.After 30 years and no new species they dropped the experiment,
proclaimed it a success and named it (as best I can recall because you
can't find it anywhere on the net that I have looked) something like,
"Proof of Evolution [by Mutation] by the Creation of Incipient
Speciation
in Drosophila". It was carefully worded to make you believe it said
something other than what it did. What does the word "incipient" mean?
It's a weasel word meaning "we couldn't induce speciation by mutation
no
matter how hard we tried and we didn't want to ruin our careers by
announcing species cannot be made by mutations so as far as we're
concerned, it would have worked if we'd just kept going, not that we or
anyone else is willing to do so."
• Why do some people get another infection after stopping taking antibiotics?There
are several possibilities, you will have to look at your own body and
decide which are relevant to you: Suggestions for preventing these
effects are given in [brackets].
They kept taking antibiotics
after all the bad bacteria were killed, so there was nothing else left
for the antibiotics to act on except the good bacteria. [Take one dose
of antibiotics and if that makes you feel better, don't take any more.
Save them for next time]
A biofilm was acting as a a safe house for
unwanted bacteria to hide out in until the coast was clear. When you
stop taking the antibiotics, the biofilmed bacteria were free to resume
their activity. [See biofilms for ways to combat biofilms.]
They
took the antibiotics during the day at times when the antibiotics would
still be in the body when they were eating. The presence of food in the
digestive tract brings out the digestive enzymes, which were then
killed by the antibiotic. [Don't eat for at least 4 hours after taking
any antibiotic. Take antibiotics before bed, so they will not interfere
with digestion.]
They did not consume enough probiotics to replenish
the intestinal flora after they stopped taking the antibioticx. [12
hours after taking antibiotics, eat yogurt, sauerkraut, kvass, EM or
other sources of pro-biotics.]
They took only one kind of
antibiotic, giving bacteria that were resistant to it a strategic
advantage. [Take several different kinds of antibiotics together when
you take antibiotics.]
• Are human antibiotics a better
quality than
veterinary antibiotics?As
much as you might
believe that humans are more valuable than
animals, there are people who buy antibiotics for animals like prize
racehorses and stud bulls that would take a very dim view that their
antibiotics were anything but the best. In fact, antibiotics are
manufactured in the same batch at the
factory, and then separated into human
and animal at packaging time.
Surprisingly, and almost
a little too coincidentally, pills and tablets
for aquarium tanks come in the same sizes as antibiotic dosages for
humans. If you're still not sure about dosage, you could always check
the
dosage for swine antibiotics as, pound for pound, pigs are pretty much
the same as humans in their antibiotic dosage levels.
• Will taking an antibiotic cause bacteria to become resistant to it?
Take more than one antibiotic at a time and it's not a problem.
•
Are we running out of usable
antibiotics?
No.
We have plenty of
antibiotics, probably more than we need. We have
new antibiotics being discovered, and many antibiotics in late-stage
trials. We even have many antibiotics we don't use. There are entirely
different types of proven anti-bacterials used in other countries, that
we in Western countries don't use. Doctors and hospitals mostly say we
are running out of antibiotics when they mean their preferred
antibiotics like vancomycin aren't working in some cases.
Translating
medical-gook: "The bacteria is resistant to the most widely used
antibiotics, so the hospital had to resort to treating with another
antibiotic that is rarely used." =means= "Vancomycin with its
high
profit margin didn't kill the infection so they had to use the more
expensive penicillin instead."
• It is claimed that there are some
antibiotic-resistant
bacteria
that have evolved now so that they can only live in the presence of an
antibiotic. Is this true?
This is a half-truth. Almost all resistant bacteria must have the
continuing presence of antibiotics in order to stay resistant, but that
is a choice they make. If the presence of antibiotics is withdrawn,
they do not die, they just stop being resistant to antibiotics because
there is no longer a need to be resistant to antibiotics..
• Over-prescription
of
antibiotics is the
main cause of many of our new "super bugs" that are antibiotic
resistant.
They are not super bugs.
They are
wussy bugs. They are usually found in hospitals and nursing homes
because they cannot affect
people whose immune systems are fully functional.
"The
control of patents and markets by the large
transnational
companies enables them to raise those prices [of medicine] as much as
ten times above their production costs. Some of the latest antibiotics
are priced at 50 times their production cost." ... Fidel Castro, to the
World Health Organization, Thursday, May 14, 1998.
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Questioning the Antibiotics Narrative
by Andrew W.
Saul
by Stephen
Harr Buhner
