Should you be taking antibiotics? Should I be taking antibiotics? What about your
kids should they be taking antibiotics? And that's a topic of the video. This is
Dr. Jason West where medicine stops and I take over great information, check it
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I get asked all the time, "Should I be taking antibiotics?" And the answer is
maybe because let's talk about this for a second, everybody wants to know why
they got sick or an infection and the answer is because your body came into
contact with something bad, however, the only way we can make it so that your
body doesn't come in contact with something is to put you into a plastic
bubble and let not let you have any contact with the outside world.
You see, we're always coming in contact with bacteria, with virus, with fungus,
with creepy crawlers, and to everything and if your immune system is healthy, you are
healthy. Now if you break down the word antibiotic therapy, anti means against,
bio means life or life killing so really it's a life killing therapy. Now in acute
situations and things like meningitis and pneumonia and in different types of
infections, I believe that antibiotics are
absolutely life-saving. For chronic conditions, for the chronic use of
antibiotics, I don't think that that's the way right way and here's why I think
that. I think that what we need to do is focus on your immune system being
healthy and if your immune system is healthy, when you come into contact with
bad guys, that you can actually not get sick. Now, in those instances when you do
get sick, if you're not mismanaging or not if using antibiotics, they have a
better tendency to work but let's circle around and talk a little bit more about
antibiotics. Now one of the leading causes of antibiotic resistant bacteria
is the mismanagement or abuse of antibiotics because life finds a way.
If you put bacteria into an environment with continual antibiotic usage,
eventually, those are going to mutate and the antibiotics are not going to work
against the infection or the bacteria. To combat
antibiotic resistance that's occurring, the CDC, Center
for Disease Control says that we should make sure that we're using antibiotics
appropriately and there's some guidelines for that and while I do agree
with that, I again also think that the immune system is the most important
possession that you have and if your immune system is working well, it's going
to be vital for life. One of the frequent problems that we see with antibiotic
uses is the inappropriate prescribing for viruses for colds and flus that are
actually caused by a virus or other type of microorganism and isn't responding or
the antibiotic isn't appropriate for that then what happens as the bacteria
there in your system, they actually become used to that or resistant to that
and then when you do have a bacterial infection, the antibiotics are not as
successful as they could be. Taking antibiotics for viral infections, for
many types of your aches or for viral infections like canker sores and cold
sores, there's not effective and actually creates further problems and so when
you're prescribed an antibiotic, it's really important that you take it the
way the doctor recommends and that you finish off the course that you don't
stop short and then the other thing is, it's really important to not save the
antibiotics because in future infections the antibiotics, they will degrade over
time, they don't work as well and you should never ever share your antibiotic
prescription with someone else. So what are you going to do if you have an
infection? Well the first thing is the basics, rest, lots of fluids, chicken
noodle soup, sleep in a good sleep sanctuary and then I prefer to use
things that help to upregulate your immune system.
My favorite vitamins, vitamin C so if you're taking liposomal vitamin C,
it needs to be somewhere between 2,000 and 5,000 milligrams, sodium
ascorbate, ascorbic acid that you need to work up basically from a 1,000 milligrams
and Linus Pauling who was really the only Nobel Laureate and two
different disciplines would take up to 30,000 milligrams a day. Now you can't
take that much initially, it'll give you bowel problems and your body's not used
to it but you need to be way more than the 500 milligrams recommended and in
that 2,000 or 3,000 range for healthy immune system function.
Now if you're diagnosed with the flu, antibiotics are not the appropriate
therapy, it's not the way that you should do because all it does is, it's putting
anti-life therapy into your body with a microorganism that isn't going to
respond to it, I think it's really detrimental. For conditions where you're
being prescribed antibiotics again and again and again and again, you need to
have a discussion with your doctor about other options available and if there
isn't options for that doctor, you need to find a doctor that helps recognize or
helps you to treat your immune system because if your immune system is healthy
then you really don't need antibiotics except for those certain instances where
we have an acute infection, the body can't keep up with and then antibiotics
are going to be life-saving.
Hey, thanks for watching the video on
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