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The Overuse, Misuse, and Abuse of Antibiotics

By Makeisha Lee
www.CleanseFormula.com

Have you ever gone to the doctor because you were ill and didn’t quite know why and the doctor just prescribed you an antibiotic and says take xyz for x amount of days? When he prescribed these drugs to you, did he bother to perform a test to determine if you had an infection of some kind? Did he perform a test to determine which antibiotic out of hundreds would be the most effective against the particular bacterial strain causing your problem? Chances are, probably not!

Why would any of that be necessary? Well, first of all if you have a virus of some kind, antibiotics do not kill viruses, they only kill bacteria thus rendering them ineffective and useless. Secondly, in over 90% of the cases when an antibiotic is prescribed, it is not the right one for your particular bacterial infection. Clearly a sign of misuse!

Were you aware that antibiotics have been known to cause heart attacks, strokes, and have put people in comas? Over 100 million doses of antibiotics are handed out each year. Even the Center For Disease Control, says that 60 percent are totally unnecessary prescriptions. Statistics show that antibiotics have killed over 900,000 people, and at least 10 million have suffered permanent physiological disorders directly attributable to taking antibiotics.

True enough, some antibiotics have saved some people over the last 30 years showing that they do have a time and a place. However it is their overuse, misuse, and abuse that has produced devastating imbalances within the body. These imbalances are created by killing off all the good bacteria along with the bad. The good bacteria are part of your body’s natural defense system and help prevent other organisms, like fungus and parasites from overpowering our bodies.

So without the good bacteria dominating the internal environment, yeast (or Candida) will migrate to the digestive tract and throughout the body, thus perpetuating the cycle of imbalance and toxicity. If this persists long enough, our inflamed nutrient-starved bodies will start to waste away. This type of harm should never be taking place to begin with, but it is all because of the cold hard abuse of antibiotics.

Consider that on the front page of the San Diego Union Tribune, August 2005, the headline reads “Rules Tightened to Buy/Use, Acne Drug Acutane.” Acutane is an antibiotic. It is now proven that it has caused hundreds of miscarriages and birth defects each year. This drug was prescribed left and right and now the evidence is so overwhelming that new restrictions are being put on its use. Furthermore, what is insane is the fact that this drug was “proven scientifically”, to be safe and effective. It was approved by the FDA, which means all the scientific studies “proved” that this was safe and effective, and now we find out that it is categorically not safe and virtually ineffective. How surprising, misleading and untruthful!

The FDA says that antibiotics and other drugs are safe when they are not. This has to stop, we need to begin to do our own research about drugs like antibiotics and find out exactly how they impact our bodies. We need to investigate, investigate and investigate some more to find out what facts are being hidden from us about drugs as they are being recognized as dangerous and to cause disease.

Don't panic about antibiotics and what they may have already done to you, but do take the time to consider how you can reverse the effects of past antibiotic use and make better choices in the future. How is this attainable?

You must begin by detoxifying the body that is the best place to start because when our bodies are toxic the immune system becomes the garbage collection system and is suppressed. Detoxifying eliminates Candida so that you can prepare the body for the restoration of the good bacterial flora balance.

If you have a condition that would require the use of antibiotics, it is highly advisable that you take an anti-candida product such an acidophilus. Alternative health experts implement the use of Colloidal silver as a natural form of antibiotic.

Dr. James Balch writes, “Colloidal silver can be used to fight fungal infections, to promote healing of burns, wounds, cuts, rashes, and sunburn. It has been shown to be a powerful antibiotic and anti-fungal agent; effective against more than 650 disease-causing organisms."

Remember this: science is not better than nature. Nature provides all the medicine we need!

Makeisha Lee is a health and nutrition consultant. For more information about cleansing and detoxifying your body, contact her at 614-595-1425 or makeisha@cleanseformula.com or learn more at www.CleanseFormula.com



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