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Originally published March 26 2008

The End of Antibiotics
by Mark Sircus Ac., OMD, citizen journalist
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(NaturalNews) Eventually antibiotics are going to be seen as one of
the worst things to ever come out of pharmaceutical science because in
the end, they have made us only weaker in the face of ever
increasingly strong super bugs that are resistant to all the
antibiotics doctors have at their disposal. When we look at how deep
the rabbit hole goes with antibiotics, we will get sick in our souls.
Antibiotics have fulfilled their anti–biotic anti-life role leaving a
long trail of death and suffering in the wake of their use.

Diseases include measles, scarlet fever, tuberculosis, typhoid fever,
pneumonia, influenza, whooping cough, diphtheria and polio. All were
in decline for several decades before the introduction of antibiotics
or vaccines - Dr. Lawrence Wilson.

Antibiotics do not kill yeast. Many women find after taking
antibiotics, they get vaginal yeast infections (because their normal
bacterial balance has been lost). Antibiotics bring on fungal and
yeast infections thus will eventually be seen as a major cause of
cancer since more and more oncologists are seeing yeast and fungal
infections as an integral part of cancer and its cause. With upwards
of 40 percent of all cancers thought to be involved with and caused by
infections, the subject of antibiotics and the need for something
safer, more effective and life serving is imperative.

It may be some time before we really enter the predicted "post
antibiotic era" in which common infections are frequently untreatable
- Dr. Marc Lipsitch et al. (Harvard School of Public Health).

Antibiotics kill all bacteria in the body, including the ones we need.

An antibiotic is a substance produced by certain bacteria or fungi
that kills other cells or interferes with their growth. In nature,
these substances help some microbes survive by limiting the
multiplication of other microbes that share the same environment.
Antibiotics that attack pathogenic (disease-causing) microbes without
severely harming normal body cells are useful as drugs but there does
not seem to be any from the pharmaceutical companies that do not do
damage. Dr. Lisa Landymore-Lin wrote all about this in her book
Poisonous Prescriptions asking, 'Do Antibiotics Cause Asthma and
Diabetes?' We are now beginning to question the role of antibiotics as
a cause of cancer since they do lead to pathogen overgrowth especially
in the area of yeast and fungi. Chris Woollams writes, "It is
estimated that 70 per cent of the British population have a yeast
infection. The primary cause of this is our love of antibiotics.
Swollen glands? Take antibiotics. Tonsillitis? Take antibiotics."

Two studies in the recent past have shown an association between the
use of antibiotics with higher incidence of breast cancer.

In one study the increased risk was small, and the importance of the
link has been played down by UK breast-cancer experts, but the
findings add weight to recent studies that have found links between
antibiotics and other diseases. In the past few years, heavy
antibiotic use has been linked to the inflammatory bowel disorder,
Crohn's disease, and to children developing allergies such as Hay
fever and asthma. And as we shall see below, antibiotics play a hidden
role in autism and other neurological diseases.

The Journal of the American Medical Association has reported a study
on 10,000 women in which women who took over 500 days of antibiotics
in a 17 year period (dubbed 25 plus doses) had twice the risk of
breast cancer as those that took none at all. Even women taking just
one had a statistical risk increase to 1.5 times.

The consequences of resistance in some bacteria can be measured as
increases in the term and magnitude of morbidity, higher rates of
mortality, and greater costs of hospitalization for patients infected
with resistant bacteria - Dr. Marc Lipsitch et al.

Broad-spectrum antibiotics are undiscriminating: in addition to "bad
bacteria," they also kill healthy bacteria which normally live in the
intestines and the vagina, and which are a necessary part of the
indigenous flora to keep the body healthy. When the "good" bacteria
are killed with antibiotics, then yeast, which is part of the normal
flora of the body, can begin to overgrow because the antibiotics have
altered the body's healthy terrain (internal ecological balance)
allowing the yeast to hyperproliferate and cause many far-reaching,
toxic symptoms.

But modern medicine so far continues to believe that antibiotics have
played an important role in staving off bacterial infections since
Alexander Fleming first discovered them in 1927. Many doctors are
finally beginning to see that the effectiveness of these so-called
miracle drugs has waned as some of the very bacteria they are meant to
control have been mutating into new forms that don't respond to
treatment. Many medical experts blame this phenomenon on both the
misuse and overuse of antibiotics in recent years in both human
medicine and in agriculture.

According to several studies, obstetricians and gynecologists write
2,645,000 antibiotic prescriptions every week. Internists prescribe
1,416,000 per week. This works out to 211,172,000 prescriptions
annually in the United States, just for these two specialties.
Pediatricians prescribe over $500 million worth of antibiotics
annually just for one condition, ear infections. Yet topical povidone
iodine (PVP-I) is as effective as topical ciprofloxacin, with a
superior advantage of having no in vitro drug resistance and the added
benefit of reduced cost of treatment.

According to a study published in the Journal of the American Medical
Association, taking properly prescribed medical drugs was listed as
the third leading cause of death in the U.S. Antibiotics
were listed in this category because antibiotics can be deadly.

A 17-year-old St Margaret's College student in New Zealand has exposed
multiple antibiotic-resistant bugs in fresh chicken sold in
supermarkets? Jane Millar's discovery of a range of resistant bacteria
in chickens that could compromise antibiotic treatment in humans is an
important finding that the bacteria have developed resistance to
antibiotics not used in the poultry industry but important for
treating serious infections in humans.

We can create resistance to medically important antibiotics by using
antibiotics that are presumably safe in agriculture - Jane Millar.

Jane bought six fresh chickens - free-range, barn-raised and organic –
from a supermarket. She took samples from each bird and grew bug
colonies, which she used to test different antibiotics. Apramycin is
an antibiotic used sparingly by the New Zealand poultry industry to
treat infections. The bacteria of two chickens tested resistant to
apramycin. They also proved resistant to another two antibiotics from
the same family - gentamicin and tobramycin - used for serious human
infections. Gentamicin is not used by the poultry industry; tobramycin
is restricted to human use only.

A recent risk assessment study commissioned by the U.S. Food and Drug
Administration (FDA) has estimated that about 8,000-10,000 persons in
the U.S. each year acquire fluoroquinolone-resistant Campylobacter
infections from chicken and attempt to treat those infections with a
fluoroquinolone.

Every day, new strains of bacteria, fungi, and other pathogenic
microorganisms are becoming resistant to the antibiotics that once
dispatched them with extreme prejudice.

"We know that antimicrobial resistance will follow antimicrobial use
as sure as night follows day," said Dr. John A. Jernigan, deputy chief
of prevention and response from the Center of Disease Control. "It's
just a biological phenomenon." It turns out that the indiscriminate
killing of harmless microbes damages the body in complex ways we are
only beginning to understand. Powerful antibiotics introduced into the
complex environment in our intestines cause mayhem, much like a series
of bombs tossed into a market square. Antibiotic resistance is a
widespread problem, and one that the U.S. Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention calls "one of the world's most pressing public health
problems."

One of the deadliest germs is a staph bacteria called M.R.S.A., short
for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, which lives
harmlessly on the skin but causes havoc when it enters the body.
Patients who do survive M.R.S.A. often spend months in the hospital
and endure several operations to cut out infected tissue.
Hospitalizations associated with a drug-resistant form of a
Staphylococcus bacterium doubled over six years in the U.S. to nearly
280,000 cases in 2005. The death toll rose from 4,700 in 1999 to about
6,600 in 2005. It estimated that 94,000 Americans suffered invasive
MRSA infections in 2005 and that about 19,000 died.

One out of every 20 patients contracts an infection during a hospital
stay in the US. Hospital infections kill an estimated 103,000 people
in the United States a year, as many as AIDS, breast cancer and auto
accidents combined. The vast majority of lethal cases occur in
hospitals and nursing homes, where open wounds and punctures provide
the opportunistic staph a ready path to the bloodstream and organs.
The dangers of infection are worsening as many hospital infections can
no longer be cured with common antibiotics.

More than half the time, doctors and other caregivers break the most
fundamental rule of hygiene by
failing to clean their hands before treating a patient.

"Recently there has been an alarming epidemic caused by community-
associated (CA)-MRSA strains, which can cause severe infections that
can result in necrotizing fasciitis or even death in otherwise healthy
adults outside of healthcare settings," is the word coming from the
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) research
team, headed by Dr. Michael Otto.

Necrotizing fasciitis is the so-called flesh-eating disease that can
destroy healthy tissue and even kill patients. The team found that
some strains on MRSA secrete a compound called phenol-soluble modulin
or PSM. It attracts immune system cells called neutrophils, the
researchers found, and then blows them up in a process called lysis.
Neutrophils are key immune cells involved in clearing bacterial
infections, so destroying them would allow the bacteria to thrive
almost unmolested.
"In the United States, CA-MRSA is now the cause of the majority of
infections that result in trips to the emergency room. It is unclear
what makes CA-MRSA strains more successful in causing human disease
compared with their hospital-associated counterparts," they add.

When the peaceful activities of a normal microbial population are
disrupted, malevolent bacteria may take full advantage of the
opportunity to strike. The intestinal infection C. difficile colitis,
now rampaging through hospitals around the world, is one of the worst
such complication of antibiotic use.

Clostridium difficile was first recognized as a hospital microbe in
1978. By 1996, it had increased to 31 cases per 100,000 people
discharged from U.S. hospitals. In 2003, the most recent year for
complete statistics, prevalence had risen to 61 per 100,000. C. diff
is part of the natural flora, or bacteria, in the colon. "We're seeing
all of the warning signs that this is the next MRSA," said former New
York Lt. Gov. Betsy McCaughey, founder of the Committee to Reduce
Infection Deaths, a Manhattan-based nonprofit. "It spreads like
wildfire in hospitals."

Clostridium difficile is a spore-forming toxin-producing bacterium
that is overtaking peoples' large intestines from which it mounts an
attack on the bloodstream. Like MRSA, Clostridium difficile has become
multi-drug-resistant. Although once a bacterium that mostly affected
elderly, hospitalized patients, a bolder strain is crippling the
robust. In emergency efforts to save some patients' lives surgeons
remove the entire large intestine to prevent overwhelming infection.

One case had been treated by a dermatologist for an ingrown hair on
his back and prescribed an antibiotic. He took only a few pills, but
quickly became ill. Based on what his doctors told him, the short
course of antibiotics proved sufficient to destroy virtually all the
natural bacteria in his intestine - except C. diff, which was freed to
ravage his colon.

Frequently, stethoscopes, blood-pressure monitors and other equipment
are contaminated with live bacteria. Yet doctors and nurses almost
never clean the stethoscope before listening to a patient's chest.

"It strikes precisely those hospitals which are more 'high-tech', and
handle more serious illnesses. Applying more disinfectant is not the
answer; some strains of germs have actually been found thriving in
bottles of hospital disinfectant! The more antibacterial chemical
'weapons' are being used, the more bacteria are becoming resistant to
them," writes Dr. Carl Wieland.

Health-care officials are increasingly concerned about emerging new
forms of drug-resistant Tuberculosis (TB). According to the WHO,
outbreaks of drug-resistant tuberculosis are showing up all over the
world and threaten to touch off a worldwide epidemic of virtually
incurable tuberculosis. An October 1997 survey by the WHO, the U.S.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the International Union
Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease estimates that 50 million people
are infected with a strain of TB that is drug-resistant. Many of those
are said to carry multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis, incurable by two
or more of the standard drugs.

New DNA technology has found hundreds of previously unrecognized
species in the traditional stomping grounds of the mouth and
intestine, and traces of bacteria even in tissues previously thought
to be sterile.

Lessons from Autism

Medical scientists at Arizona State University tell us that antibiotic
use is known to almost completely inhibit excretion of mercury in rats
due to alteration of gut flora. Thus, higher use of oral antibiotics
in the children with autism may have reduced their ability to excrete
mercury. Higher usage of oral antibiotics in infancy may also
partially explain the high incidence of chronic gastrointestinal
problems in individuals with autism.

Many physicians are unaware of lasting adverse effects caused by
routinely prescribed medications such as antibiotics. Antibiotic
therapy for minor colds and runny noses is a common practice. People
routinely receive multiple courses of broad-spectrum antibiotics
throughout life or are injected with long-acting corticosteroid
medicine for joint or muscle pain. Once established, sub-clinical
colonization with yeast in the body may persist unrecognized for many
years. Antibiotics, such as tetracycline, can greatly increase yeast
in the colon after only a few days.

The extensive use of antibiotics will make the condition of Candida
much worse because it reduces heavy metal excretion, which is a food
source for the yeast like organism and also killing the beneficial
bacteria at the same time.

Normally, candida albicans lives peacefully in our intestines and
elsewhere, in harmony with other flora that keep the yeast in check.
Take an antibiotic and all this changes. By suppressing the normal
flora, candida takes over and problems begin. In its mild form, the
result is diarrhea or a yeast infection. Dr. Elmer Cranton says that,
"Yeast overgrowth is partly iatrogenic (caused by the medical
profession) and can be caused by antibiotics and cortisone
medications. A diet high in sugar also promotes overgrowth of yeast. A
highly refined diet common in industrialized nations not only promotes
growth of yeast, but is also deficient in many of the essential
vitamins and minerals needed by the immune system. Chemical colorings,
flavorings, preservatives, stabilizers, emulsifiers, etc., add more
stress on the immune system."

Children with autism had significantly (2.1-fold) higher levels of
mercury in their baby teeth but similar levels of lead and similar
levels of zinc. Children with autism also had significantly higher
usage of oral antibiotics during their first 12 to 36 months of life.
Reporting in the July 11, 2007 issue of the Journal of the American
Medical Association, researchers say the use of antibiotics as
prevention boosts risks for drug resistance while doing nothing to
shield kids from future urinary tract infections (UTIs). Giving
antibiotics to prevent recurrent urinary tract infections in small
children not only will not help but will hurt these children. Prior
use of antibiotics to prevent infection did boost the likelihood of
developing a drug-resistant infection by nearly 7.5 times. Indeed, 61
percent of recurrent urinary tract infections were caused by a
pathogen with antibiotic resistance, the researchers pointed out.

In a 2005 study, the antibiotic Augmentin TM has been implicated in
the formation of autism. The study strongly suggests the possibility
of ammonia poisoning as a result of young children taking Augmentin.
Augmentin has been given to children since the late 1980's for
bacterial infections.

Many physicians seem to be unaware that birth control pills comprised
of the hormones estrogen and progesterone can also make the body more
susceptible to fungal infections. If antibiotics are prescribed, it
acts as a double whammy to ensuring a fungal infection will take hold
by diminishing the protective bacteria in the intestines. Many
pregnant women seek medical treatment for minor problems and are
indiscriminately given antibiotics and this begins a long decline into
problems that are complicated at each turn by OBGYN doctors at birth
and by pediatricians who just love to poison children with the toxic
chemicals found in vaccines. In many places in the world they still
give mercury shots at birth.

Microforms poison us with their waste products.

The waste products are acetylaldehyde, uric acid, alloxin, alcohols,
lactic acid, etc.

Antibiotics may be to blame for hundreds of children developing autism
after having the controversial MMR jab. More than two-thirds of
youngsters with the condition received four or more antibiotics in
their first year, a British survey has revealed. It is thought the
drugs weakened their immune systems, leaving them unable to withstand
the impact of the triple jab. Allopathic medicine has been stubborn
and slow to look at its abusive use of antibiotics. It's the same with
vaccines, the holy grail of medicine. But with last-line-of-defence
antibiotics failing on increasingly drug-resistant superbugs and young
children's systems being destroyed by them you would think they would
wake up and find some alternatives.

Antibiotics are mostly derived from fungi and are therefore classified
as mycotoxins. Mycotoxins Are Poisons.

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About the author
Mark A. Sircus Ac., OMD, is director of the International Medical
Veritas Association (IMVA)http://www.imva.info/. Dr. Sircus was
trained in acupuncture and oriental medicine at the Institute of
Traditional Medicine in Sante Fe, N.M., and in the School of
Traditional Medicine of New England in Boston. He served at the
Central Public Hospital of Pochutla, in México, and was awarded the
title of doctor of oriental medicine for his work. He was one of the
first nationally certified acupuncturists in the United States. Dr.
Sircus's IMVA is dedicated to unifying the various disciplines in
medicine with the goal of creating a new dawn in healthcare.

He is particularly concerned about the effect vaccinations have on
vulnerable infants and is identifying the common thread of many toxic
agents that are dramatically threatening present and future
generations of children. His book The Terror of Pediatric Medicine is
a free e-book one can read. Dr. Sircus is a most prolific and
courageous writer and one can read through hundreds of pages on his
various web sites.

He has most recently released his Survival Medicine for the 21st
Century compendium (2,200 page ebook) and just released the Winning
the War Against Cancer book. Dr. Sircus is a pioneer in the area of
natural detoxification and chelation of toxic chemicals and heavy
metals. He is also a champion of the medicinal value of minerals and
is fathering in a new medical approach that uses sea water and
different concentrates taken from it for health and healing.
Transdermal Magnesium Therapy, his first published work, offers a
stunning breakthrough in medicine, an entirely new way to supplement
magnesium that naturally increases DHEA levels, brings cellular
magnesium levels up quickly, relieves pain, brings down blood pressure
and pushes cell physiology in a positive direction. Magnesium chloride
delivered transdermally brings a quick release from a broad range of
conditions.
International Medical Veritas Association: http://www.imva.info/

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