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Antibiotics have
perhaps done more to save lives than any other single invention ever.
But antibiotics have
several down sides:
1) They are based on
fungal toxins which means that your liver has to work hard to break
them down so that they don't build up in your system and damage your
other organs, nerves, or brain. In this way they are similar to
chemotherapy in that they are very toxic. The idea is to take just
enough toxin to kill the cancer or infection, but not so much that
they kill you.
2) Chronic use of
antibiotics can have long term consequences on your immune system,
liver, and intestinal health.
3) Antibiotics kill
good intestinal flora along with the infection. If the intestinal
flora (probiotics) are not replaced immediately following treatment,
other major problems can develop down the road (it is not standard
medical protocol to give patients probiotic supplements after
antibiotic use, go figure). Such things as yeast infections, acid
reflux, ulcers, irritable bowel, constipation, excess gas, and even
more bacterial infections are more likely to occur after killing good
bowel flora from antibiotic use.
4) Bacteria evolve
quickly. Antibiotics never kill all the bacteria in an infection, a
few are left over, and usually the ones with the best genes for
tolerating antibiotics. Over time, bacteria can become resistant to
antibiotics, putting us right back to where we were before we
invented them.
5) Antibiotics don't
work for viral infections like colds, flus, chicken pox, shingles,
ebola, etc.
Bacterial toxins
can turn off, slow down, or otherwise interfere with your immune
system. Toxins also damage tissues as the bacteria burrow deeper
inside you.
A new treatment aims
to simply absorb the toxins excreted from bacteria. Robbed of the effects of their secretions by this new
treatment, bacteria don't stand a chance against an animal's immune
system.
Small natural fat
particles called liposomes were injected into mice who had sepsis, an
infection so bad that it had spread into the blood and circulatory
system. The liposomes quickly absorbed the bacterial toxins, allowing
the mice's immune systems to stop the infections.
It seems to me that
if this turns out to work in humans as well as it does in mice, it
could be a huge deal for not only antibiotic resistant bacterial
infections, but it may also be able to be used to combat viral
infections.
If viral toxins were quickly absorbed by this new
treatment, your immune system would have a much better chance to kill
the virus before it killed you, in the case of ebola. Or at the
least, taking this new treatment at the first sign of the flu might
actually prevent flu symptoms while your body finished fighting off
the virus.
Another possible
huge benefit (in my opinion) could be for stopping Lyme's disease
symptoms and halting further damage from the Lyme's toxins. Lyme's is
known for causing widespread joint, muscle, and nerve pain due to the
effects of the spirochetal toxins. Spirochetes are a type of
bacteria, but antibiotics don't work very well for Lyme's because
they bore deep into the tendons, joints, and other connective tissues where blood vessels are sparse. With few blood vessels, it is hard for the antibiotics to reach the spirchetes.
But, since all the symptoms of Lyme's are due to the toxins released by the
spirochete, liposomal injections could theoretically stop all the
symptoms. Without pain, the person could begin to sleep deeply again
and strengthen their body until the infection could be wiped out or at
least held at bay by the immune system.
Liposomes are naturally occurring fat soluble microscopic organelles inside our cells that we use for absorbing certain toxins and fats and then burning them up. The researchers are of course artificially manufacturing the liposomes for injection into the mice, but from what I know about such things, the liposomes should not pose any harm to the animal or person.
Here's the link to
the article:
