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How To Survive In A World WITHOUT ANTIBIOTICS! electron microscope image of methicillin resistant staphylococcus, surrounded by white blood cells by Keith Scott-Mumby MD, MB ChB, PhD “The Alternative Doctor” How To Survive In A World Without Antibiotics How To Survive In A World Without Antibiotics It’s closer than you think. What will you do when it’s no longer safe? Don’t wait. Get educated NOW! Page 2 How To Survive In A World Without Antibiotics Title Quote: Put bluntly, medicine’s successes at vaccination and antibiotics treat- ment are trivial accomplishments relative to natural selection’s success at generating the immune system. Recognizing this fact has important repercussions for the long-term control of infectious diseases. We will probably obtain better disease control by figuring out how to further tweak the immune system and capitalize on its vastly superior abilities than by relying on some human intervention such as new antimicrobials (antibiotics, antivirals, or antoprotozoal agents). Paul W. Ewald Plague Time Page 3 How To Survive In A World Without Antibiotics Disclaimer All content within this digital book is commentary or opinion and is protected under Free Speech laws in all the civilized world. The information herein is provided for educational and entertainment purposes only. It is not intended as a substitute for professional advice of any kind. In no event shall Professor Scott-Mumby be liable for any consequential damages arising out of any use of, or reliance on any content or materials contained herein, neither shall Professor Scott-Mumby be liable for any content of any external inter- net sites listed and services listed. Always consult your own licensed medical practitioner if you are in any way con- cerned about your health. You must satisfy yourself of the validity of the profes- sional qualifications of any health care provider you contact as a result of this newsletter. Page 4 How To Survive In A World Without Antibiotics Quotes And Facts The mass of a single cell of the E coli bacterium is 665 femtograms. A femtogram is one-thousandth of a picogram, which is one-thousandth of a nanogram, which is a billionth of a gram. Journal of Applied Physics. Not only does the Earth contain more bacterial organisms than all others combined (scarcely surprising, given their minimal size and mass); not only do bacteria live in more places and work in a greater variety of metabolic ways; not only did bacteria alone constitute the first half of life’s history, with no slackening in diversity there- after; but also, and most surprisingly, total bacterial biomass (even at such minimal weight per cell) may exceed all the rest of life combined, even forest trees, once we include the subterranean populations as well. Stephen Jay Gould, “Planet of the Bacteria,” Washington Post Horizon, 1996, 119 (344): H1; Reprinted here with permission; This essay was adapted from Full House, New York: Harmony Books, 1996, pp. 175-192. Bacteria inhabit effectively every place suitable for the existence of life. Mother told you, after all, that bacterial “germs” require constant vigilance to combat their ubiquity in every breath and every mouthful, and the vast majority of bacteria are benign or irrelevant to us, not harmful agents of disease. One fact will suffice: during the course of life, the number of E. coli in the gut of each human being far exceeds the total number of people that now live and have ever lived. Stephen Jay Gould, “Planet of the Bacteria,” Washington Post Horizon, 1996, 119 (344): H1; Reprinted here with permission; This essay was adapted from Full House, New York: Harmony Books, 1996, pp. 175-192. Numerical estimates, admittedly imprecise, are a stock in trade of all popular writ- ing on bacteria. The Encyclopaedia Britannica tells us that bacteria live by “billions in a gram of rich garden soil and millions in one drop of saliva.” Page 5 How To Survive In A World Without Antibiotics Human skin harbors some 100,000 microbes per square centimeter (note: “mi- crobes” includes nonbacterial unicells, but the overwhelming majority of “microbes” are bacteria). Writer Dorion Sagan and biologist Lynn Margulis, Garden of Microbial Delights Fully 10 percent of our own dry body weight consists of bacteria, some of which, although they are not a congenital part of our bodies, we can’t live without. Writer Dorion Sagan and biologist Lynn Margulis, Garden of Microbial Delights We could not digest and absorb food properly without our gut “flora.” Grazing ani- mals, cattle and their relatives, depend upon bacteria in their stomachs to digest grasses in the process of rumination. About 30 percent of atmospheric methane can be traced to the action of methanogenic bacteria in the guts of ruminants, largely released into the atmosphere—how else to say it—by belches and farts. Stephen Jay Gould, “Planet of the Bacteria,” Washington Post Horizon, 1996, 119 (344): H1; Reprinted here with permission; This essay was adapted from Full House, New York: Harmony Books, 1996, pp. 175-192. In another symbiosis essential to human agriculture, plants need nitrogen as an es- sential soil nutrient but cannot use the ubiquitous free nitrogen of our atmosphere. This nitrogen is “fixed,” or chemically converted into usable form, by the action of bacteria like Rhizobium, living symbiotically in bulbous growths on the roots of leguminous plants. Stephen Jay Gould, “Planet of the Bacteria,” Washington Post Horizon, 1996, 119 (344): H1; Reprinted here with permission; This essay was adapted from Full House, New York: Harmony Books, 1996, pp. 175-192. A group, led by microbiologist William. B. Whitman, estimates the total number of bacteria on Earth to be five million trillion trillion -- that’s a five with 30 zeroes after it. Look at it this way. If each bacterium were a penny, the stack would reach a tril- lion light years. These almost incomprehensible numbers give only a sketch of the vast pervasiveness of bacteria in the natural world. Page 6 How To Survive In A World Without Antibiotics “There simply hadn’t been any estimates of the number of bacteria on Earth,” said Whitman. “Because they are so diverse and important, we thought it made sense to get a picture of their magnitude.” The study was published in the June 1998 Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. For the first half of geological time our ancestors were bacteria. Most creatures still are bacteria, and each one of our trillions of cells is a colony of bacteria. Richard Dawkins “Love: Before I heard the doctors tell The dangers of a kiss; I had considered kiss- ing you. The nearest thing to bliss. But now I know biology and sit and sigh and moan; six million mad bacteria and I thought we were alone!” Song lyrics A probe sent two miles underground in a South American gold mine found bacte- ria living there. Their dinner? Radioactive emissions from the rocks around them. Above ground, the aptly named Deinococcus radiodurans can handle radiation exposure nearly 10,000 times the fatal dose for humans. Somewhere in cyberspace... Everything we do with food is an attempt to keep from being poisoned by our mi- crobial competitors. Professor Paul Sherman, Cornell University. Page 7 How To Survive In A World Without Antibiotics Contents Quotes and facts Contents Terminology MRSA. What’s All The Fuss? 1. The Fear Erupts Part 1. Knowing The Enemy 2. What Are Bacteria? 2a. What about viruses? 2b. What about parasites? 3. Staphylococcus and Co. 3a. Beware The Hospitals! 3b. Pets Can Give Us MRSA Too 4. Community Active MRSA 5. Other resistant Organisms 6. Our Fight With Bacteria 7. Killing Bacteria Has A Downside 8. The Rise Of Superbugs 9. Agribusiness To Blame 10. We May Have To Turn The Clock Back Part 2. What Can You Do? Simple remedies first: 11 Water! 11a. Antibiotic Soap? 12. Drawing Salves and Ointments 13. Blue Light 13a. UV LIght Nano 14. Manuka Honey 14a. Propolis 15. Stolle Milk 16. Colostrum 17. Marine Quinton Page 8 How To Survive In A World Without Antibiotics Chemical and Inorganic Substances 18. Chlorine dioxide 19. Hydrogen Peroxide 20. Hydrochloric Acid Injections 21. Colloidal Silver 22. Nutritional factors 23. Vitamin A 24. Vitamin C 25. Vitamin D 26.Iodine 27. Zinc 28. Iron Overload 29. What About Herbs? 30. Calendula 31. Garlic 32. Artemisia annua 33. Samento 34. Tea Tree 35. Green Tea 35a. White tea 36. Spices Are Hot Stuff! 37. Mushrooms and Fungi 37a. Reishi mushroom 37b. Maitake 37c. Shiitake 37d. Inonotus obliquus 37e. Pleurotus ostreatus 37f. Trametes versicolor 38. Aromatherapy And Essential Oils 38a. Oregano 38b. Cinnamon 38c. Cassia 38d. Thyme Page 9 How To Survive In A World Without Antibiotics 38e. Black Seed Oil 38f. Mountain Savory 38g. Lavender 38h. Geranium 39. Competition to Control Pathogens 39a. Probiotics 39b. Bacteriophages 40. Homeopathy 41. Complex Homeopathy 42.Biochemic Tissue Salts 43. Scenar 44. Cold Laser 44a. UV Nano 45. What Should Go In The Medicine Cupboard Appendix The Official FDA Version Page 10
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