Antibiotics and Health: How They Affect Your Well-being

At the Marc Bony Chiropractic Center, we explore the impact of antibiotics on your natural health and how they can influence your microbiome. Discover why maintaining a microbial balance is vital for your well-being.

How many times have you hesitated to take antibiotics because you didn’t know to what extent they were necessary and the repercussions they could have on your health?

How do antibiotics affect the microbiome, and why is it so important for health?

Your body’s microbiome, that is, the colonies of various microbes residing in your gut and other parts in or on your body, are as unique as your fingerprint and can be rapidly altered based on factors such as diet, lifestyle, and exposure to toxins and antibiotics.

You have approximately 1,000 different species of bacteria living in your body, and these bacteria actually outnumber your body’s cells by 10 to 1. But that’s not all. You also harbor viruses (bacteriophages), which in turn outnumber the bacteria by 10 to 1.

Therefore, your body is not only home to 100 billion bacteria but also hosts about a quadrillion viruses. All these organisms perform multiple functions and need to be properly balanced and cared for to maintain good health.

Strictly speaking, there are no good or bad bacteria. Potentially harmful microbes only become dangerous once they start gaining too much ground, outnumbering the more beneficial microbes.

This also means that living in a sterile environment is in no way ideal, as the health-promoting microbes are adversely affected along with the potentially harmful bacteria when we wage war on bacteria using hand sanitizers and antibiotics as main weapons.

Fifteen years ago, it was anticipated that the Human Genome Project (HGP) would enable modern medicine to make an innovative leap in genetic therapies for virtually any disease known to man — experts were sure that health and disease were being regulated by genetic predisposition.

To everyone’s surprise, the HGP discovered that genetics is only responsible for about 10% of human diseases.The remaining 90% was induced by environmental factors, your nutrients, toxins, or thoughts and emotions.

In more recent years, we have realized that your microbiome is one of the environmental factors that drive genetic expression, activating or deactivating genes depending on the microbes present.

Children exposed to antibiotics during the first three years of their life may be predisposed to obesity.

In studies, mice who receive antibiotics as infants become 25% heavier and have 60% more body fat than adult control mice.

Before taking medications, consider what type of diet you have, if you suffer from environmental contamination, if you are in contact with toxic agents, etc., and always have the prevention of taking care of your health with other natural medicines such as chiropractic and other healthier alternatives for you.

Source: CDC.gov Exposome and Exposomics

Studies: Cell August 14, 2014: 158(4); 705-721, https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(14)00821-6, Foodnavigator-USA.com August 26, 2014

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