Antibiotics May Be Bad For Your Health

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With winter rapidly approaching in the Northern Hemisphere, millions of people will sooner or later rush to the doctor for a prescription against the symptoms of a cold or influenza. But is taking medication, often antibiotics, really a wise choice?

Even though modern medicine still has no cure for the common cold, influenza and other viruses, most doctors, going through the motion of appearing to be helpful and making money, will prescribe antibiotics and send the patient on his or her way.

This action by the medical professional is not only totally ineffective against viral conditions, but also medically negligent.

The immune system, when working at maximum efficiency, is a miracle of nature, with the ability to prevent and heal virtually any disease, including cancer.

What doctors call “diseases” are now known to be the experiential externalized symptoms of a condition arising from a compromised, ineffective immune system. All modern medicine ever attempts to do is mask the experiential symptoms of a disease without ever holistically healing the origin of the condition itself, and thereby without healing the disease, often causing even more harm to the patient through chemical medicines and invasive surgical procedures.

In most people today, the immune system is often already highly compromised through a poor diet and lifestyle, environmental toxins and other factors, including medicines.

The immune system is highly complex, at least 80 percent is located in the digestive system and regulated by the “gut flora,” microbes, that live there in vast numbers. At least 15 percent of the weight of the entire body can be attributed to trillions of microbes and other organisms, living mostly in the digestive tract.

The ratio of “good” or “beneficial” microbes to “bad” or “pathogenic” microbes is absolutely critical to the efficient functioning of the immune system, being broadly 85 percent “good microbes” to 15 percent “bad microbes” in the gut. In most people, due to the previously mentioned factors, this ratio is severely skewed in favor of bad microbes, which in turn has the effect of seriously weakening the immune system.

This imbalance in the ratio of good to bad microbes is known as “dysbiosis.”

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