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Hello, Dr. G. here with naturalfoodsdiet.org. The CDC recently released its report on the
rising and lethal threat of antibiotic resistant pathogens. The report estimates that right
now 2 million people a year in the U.S. get an infection with antibiotic-resistant organisms
with at least 23,000 people killed each year.
In the report, infectious organisms are prioritized into 1 of 3 categories: urgent, serious, and
concerning. Urgent threats include carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE), drug-resistant gonorrhea,
and Clostridium difficile. The number of illnesses and deaths resulting from C. difficile infections
stand at a minimum of 250,000 illnesses and 14,000 deaths and these are directly related
to antibiotic use and resistance. The CRE superbug can now resist virtually all antibiotics,
and a growing percentage of the bacteria that cause gonorrhea are resistant to all currently
available treatments.
The category of serious threats include methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), Salmonella infections,
the fungus Candida albicans and Pseudomonas. I find that Candida infections are epidemic
in my practice and there are still 80,000 serious MRSA infections each year in the United
States. The "concerning" category includes group A
Streptococcus, often referred to as "flesh-eating bacteria."
Dr. Frieden, the director of the CDC, described civilization as having a preantibiotic era
and an antibiotic era. He warned that we may soon be entering a postantibiotic era. I know
what I would like to do about this problem—But here is the CDCs 4 part strategy to resolve
this problem. 1. prevention. 2. tracking resistance patterns. 3. practicing antibiotic stewardship
and 4. developing new antibiotics and diagnostic tests. Let me review these and then I will
add my own. Preventing infections—you know what that
really means—douse everything in toxic chemicals. That's what we do now, and the germs are winning.
Okay, I could agree with this one. Let us prevent infections by lifestyle changes to
give us better immune function like a nutrient dense diet, sensible sun exposure and avoiding
toxic chemicals. Tracking resistance patterns, in other words
do more testing—I don't think that will help much.
Practicing antibiotic stewardship—I agree with this one. We need to severely cut back
the use of antibiotics, especially all the antibiotics that are given to food animals.
The CDC report states that at least half of medical antibiotic use is unnecessary. We
need to retrain doctors, veterinarians, farmers and patients.
Developing new antibiotics and diagnostic tests. Good luck trying to find a drug company
that wants to find a new antibiotic. Wouldn't you rather make a drug like Crestor, that
the FDA approves for everyone at risk for heart disease, (which is about everyone),
and get this, you are now approved to take the drug even is you cholesterol is normal
or low. And once you go on it—it's theoretically for life. I can picture the drug company executive--I
don't want no 10 day piece of s--- antibiotic. I'm sure the day will come, when we're all
desperate enough—and they can charge thousands of dollars per dose--like they do for cancer
and auto immune disease drugs, then we'll have plenty of new antibiotics.
So what do I recommend? Keep healthy with a good diet, supplements, rest, exercise,
sunshine, restoring balance to you life and a detoxification plan. If you have damage
that you want to reverse, I recommend a nutritional balancing aaprogram. You can check out our
website at naturalfoodsdiet.org. for info on how that works. If you do develop an infection,
add silver to whatever treatment you use and you likely won't need to worry about antibiotic
resistance. A video on silver as an antibiotic or as a booster to infectious disease treatment
will be posted soon. This is Dr. G. Thanks for watching.