Demonizing AntiBiotics
By: William Wong ND, PhD, Member World Sports
Medicine Hall of Fame
It is a very common thing
among the natural health crowd to thoroughly
bad mouth antibiotics. Yes, antibiotics
have been over used. Yes, some antibiotics
have nasty side-effects, and Yes, the bugs
we're trying to kill are becoming resistant
to the medicines. Going further, Yes,
the use of antibiotics can create the death
of the good flora in our intestines and set
us up for everything from diarrhea to body
wide yeast infections. But let's please
think for a while and put things in perspective.
Not so long ago (1905) cancer,
heart disease and diabetes were not the leading
killers in the US or the world, bacterial
infection was! The life expectancy
for men was 52, for women 56. Two out
of 5 children never lived to see their 5th
birthday all due to infection! Close
to 90% of all deaths were the result of infection,
and this despite the widespread use of colloidal
silver as an anti-infection agent! These
days, people don't remember history past
the time they've experienced; they only remember
what happened in their lifetimes and not
what occurred before. They suppose
that the way it is now is the way it's “always
been”; taint so! It's actually
a luxury to live long enough to die of cancer
or heart disease or Alzheimer’s! In
the history of human kind for the last 4
million years, infection has been the #1
killer, all the other diseases that cause
death are only recent developments that did
not exist in the past: people simply did
not live long enough to catch them!
Before you get on my case
thinking I'm belittling the diseases mentioned,
I'm not. What I am doing is pointing
out that the greatest killer of all time
is bacterial infection, period! We
take infections too lightly; we should fear
infections more than any other disease, because
other than serious trauma there is nothing
that can kill us as quickly!
A neglected infection in
a cut finger can fester in a week to the
point of losing an arm or killing you. An
ear infection treated “naturally” can
lead to deafness. Fevers left to stand
and “do their work” as many in
the natural health field recommend, can cause
damage to the brain and internal organs. (There
was one DC writing in a Chiropractic journal
on the value of letting a kid maintain a
high-grade fever to overcome infection. I
wanted to hang that fool from his gonads
with piano wire for promulgating an idea
sure to ruin the brains and innards of the
kids subjected to the experience)! I've
said this before and I'll repeat it till
the day they box my up – bacterial
infections are the forte of allopathic medicine. Nothing
works as well at killing bacterial infections
as antibiotics. Not silver, not oxygen,
not peroxide, not UV blood IV’s, not
nothing.
Viral infections are another
matter. Here the natural medicines
of silver, oxygen, peroxide and UV work super
well. But we have to remember
that viral infections often breed secondary
bacterial infections, like the flu turning
into bronchitis. For the resultant
bacterial infections we need the antibiotics. And,
the use of natural anti-virals does not belittle
the allopathic anti-viral tools of Valtrex,
Ribavirin and Isoprinosine. They are
great medicines! When they were being
kept out of the US market in the 90's by
the politics of HIV (the makers of AZT not
wanting any possible competition) I was vociferous
in my urging the approval of these meds and
allowing Americans the anti- viral benefits
these drugs had been providing the rest of
the world since the 80's. It's
taken nearly 20 years of fighting but now
they are here. The anti-viral drugs
on the whole are safe even in long-term use
and have none of the side effects on the
good bacteria that antibiotics have.
The antibiotics killing
of the body’s good bacteria and the
growth of bad yeast in the wet areas of the
body (i.e. the mouth, intestines, lungs,
sinuses, vagina, womb, cerebral spinal fluid
and brain) can easily be overcome by the
strong use of prebiotics (Inulin) and probiotics
(good bacteria). These days, cases
of candida and thrush that previously took
months or years to get rid of can be done
away within days or weeks using the right
combination of pre and probiotics. We've
done it, it works!
So, the short term and occasional
use of antibiotics against infections is
OK. What is not OK is the long-term
low-level ingestion of these drugs against
silly things like acne! Acne
can be so easily treated using topicals,
change of diet and hormone therapy that the
continued use of antibiotics with the systemic
yeast infections and vaginitis they cause
is needless.
You now have my thoughts
on the subject. I'll get off my soap
box now. |
