Antibiotics Yes Antibiotics No. How they affect health

How many times have you doubted whether 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?

The microbiome of your body, that is, the colonies of various microbes that reside in your gut and in other parts inside or on your body, are as unique to you 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. It also harbors viruses (bacteriophages), which in turn outnumber the bacteria by 10 to 1.

So your body is not only home to 100 billion bacteria, but it also houses around 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 to gain significant ground, outnumbering the more beneficial microbes.

This also means that living in a sterile environment is not ideal in any way, as the health-promoting microbes are adversely affected along with the potentially harmful bacteria when we wage war against bacteria with hand sanitizers and antibiotics as our main weapons.

Fifteen years ago, it was predicted that the Human Genome Project (HGP) would allow modern medicine to make an innovative leap in genetic therapies for practically 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 responsible for only 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 directs gene expression, activating or deactivating genes depending on the microbes that are present.

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

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

Before taking medications, observe what type of diet you have, whether you suffer from environmental pollution, if you are in contact with toxic agents, etc., and always take the precaution of caring for 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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