Have you ever wondered about antibiotics? Are there alternatives? Why are they so
commonly prescribed? Are there natural alternatives?
This is Dr. Jason west coming at you with a hundred and two years of healing
and we're going to talk about antibiotics and how to help your immune
system without antibiotics. Check it out.
So this is about antibiotic alternatives and so this video is about antibiotics,
are you tired of taking antibiotic,s are you suffering from an antibiotic side
effect, is your antibiotic not working, and then this video is for you and after
watching the video what you should have is to know what an antibiotic is, the
benefits and problems with antibiotic therapy, and a couple alternatives to
antibiotics. Now the definition of an antibiotic is any substance that
inhibits the growth and replication of a bacterium or kills it outright can be
called an antibiotic. And antibiotics are a type of antimicrobial designed to
target bacterial infections within or on the body.
This makes antibiotics subtly different from other main kinds of antimicrobial
widely used today and antiseptic are used to sterilize the surfaces of living
tissues with the risk of infection if it's high such as during surgery and
disinfectants are non-selective anti microbials
killing a wide range of microorganisms including bacteria. They are used on
nonliving surfaces. For example in the hospitals, now there's antifungals that
kill fungus and antivirals that can kill some type of viruses. Most antibiotics
used today are produced in laboratories but they are often based on compound
scientists have found in nature. Some microbes for example produce substances
specifically to kill other nearby bacteria in order to gain a competitive
advantage when competing for food, water, or other limited resources.
However, some microbes only produce antibiotics in the laboratory and so how
do antibiotics work?
Antibiotics are used to treat bacterial infections and
some are highly specialized and are only effective against certain types of
bacteria. Others known as broad-spectrum antibiotics attack a wide range of
bacteria including the ones that are beneficial to us. These are two main ways
which antibiotics target bacteria. They either prevent the reproduction of the
bacteria or they kill the bacteria for
example by disrupting the cellular wall. Now why are antibiotics important?
Introduction of antibiotics into medicine revolutionized the way that
infectious disease were treated however it's also caused some problems with the
over prescription or over utilization of antibiotics.
Between 1945 and 1972, the
average life expectancy jumped eight years with antibiotics used to treat
infections. But just like some things that are good that are used too much
antibiotics if they improperly prescribed
can causes a host of problems and a host of different unwanted side effects.
Now today antibiotics are one of the most common classes of drugs used in
medicine and make possible many of the complex surgeries that have become
routine around the world. If we ran out of effective antibiotics and modern
medicine, it would set us back. However, some people are over relying on
antibiotics for common ear infections or the cold which is mostly caused by a
virus and viruses don't respond to antibiotics. Relatively, minor surgeries
such as appendectomy could be life-threatening if we ran out of
antibiotics or if you use antibiotics too much and the bacteria get immune for
them it's going to cause problems. Now antibiotics are sometimes used in a
limited number of patients before surgery to ensure that the patients do
not contract any infections from bacteria entering open cuts. Now without
this precaution, the risk of blood poisoning could become much higher and
many of the more complex surgeries doctors now perform may not even be
possible. Antibiotics are called societal drugs
since antibiotics resistance can pass from bacterium or from bacteria and
causing antibiotic resistant and resistant bacterial infections can pass
from person to person. I just had a patient going to the hospital system for
a colon surgery and developed methylene resistant staphylococcus aureus which is
a mersa infection and passed it on to all of the family members. Now the
difficulty with this condition is it's completely antibiotic resistant and the
only way to treat those conditions is you have to make the person healthy
which if you make people healthy you can decrease the need and utilization of
antibiotics. Now antibiotic use and antibiotic resistance can eventually
affect the entire community because you can spread antibiotic resistant bacteria
from one family member or from one friend to another.
Now antibiotics in the form we know them today are still relatively modern
invention because they were accidentally discovered by Sir Alexander Fleming, he
was working on a project in his lab and noticed that there was some mold on an
auger sheet in our auger plate and what happened was that bacteria wasn't
growing around them. This was happened in 1928 and Herald the beginning of what we
call modern antibiotic era. This discovery and subsequent development of
numerous antibiotics for the first time provided doctors with effective
treatments for previously difficult or incurable infections. Now some commonly
prescribed conditions for antibiotics are most all in fact bacterial
infections for acne, for urinary tract infections, for strep throat, for
pneumonia, but antibiotics may have side effects. Some of these more common side
effects include soft stools or diarrhea, an upset stomach, vomiting, severe watery
diarrhea and abdominal cramps, allergic reactions, shortness of breath, brash
swelling of the lips face or tongue, vaginal itching or discharge, white
patches on the tongue, again skin rashes and so let's talk about some other ways
to manage infections and immune system disorders besides using antibiotics. It's
my opinion that you should use antibiotics only when absolutely
necessary because they'll work better and they may save your life. Now some
alternatives to antibiotic therapy, my favorite vitamin is vitamin C. Should be
liposomal which we use vitamin C powder. We mix it with the fat that forms my
seal formation and gets into your system it works tremendously.
I love echinacea and echinacea has been used historically for years
and then it did get a little bit of a rap a couple years ago because I think
it was a disingenuous study. Now what does that mean? There are active
components of herb. Is that the root? Is that the stem? Is that the leaf? It is the
flower. And it's my understanding of the echinacea study that said that it didn't
work is that they were using the wrong active component of the echinacea plant.
I've seen tremendous outcomes with echinacea. Now olive leaf, goldenseal, calendula, and
colloidal silver. Now if we make the body healthy,
we don't need antibiotic therapy because we're always being consulted or
assaulted with viruses, fungus, bacteria, and if we use raw honey
horseradish, garlic, pineapple, which has a really neat enzyme in it called bromo
lean oil of oregano grapefruit seed extract tea tree oil and then some of
the in-office treatments that we've been able to do to save legs from amputation,
mersa infections and turn around chronic infections are the ultraviolet therapy.
There's a way you can put an IV catheter into the arm and treat the blood with 20
minutes of red light, 20 minutes to green light, 20 minutes of magenta light, you
can also use something called major autohemotherapy where you run red blood
cells pass an ultraviolet light where you can attach a photon of energy to the
red blood cells that are being exposed. IV vitamin C therapy between 25,000 and
$100,000 grand and dilute hydrogen peroxide therapy are all fantastic
treatment recommendations for chronic infections. Now the one thing that's
really important if you have a fungal infection or a viral infection don't
take an antibiotic it's not going to help you and it's gonna make things
worse if you need to antibiotic therapy in the future. So natural considerations
for antibiotic therapy. This is Dr. Jason west we'll see on the next video.
We just
covered alternatives to antibiotics and what you can naturally do to help your
immune system so that you will reduce the need and hopefully eliminate
antibiotics from your arsenal. You can save them for when there
this is Dr. West we'll see you tomorrow.