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Welcome to the Vitalife show I'm doctor Janine Bowring
and today we're talking about the overuse
have antibiotic so in North America this is
and epidemic that doctors who will very easily prescribed antibiotics
on a daily basis and actually government
analysis was published in the New England Journal of Medicine
that found that US doctors were prescribing antibiotics
4 out of 5 Americans each
year. It's absolutely crazy
for example, in 2010 258 million courses
of antibiotics were prescribed to a population of only
309 million people so that goes to show you that four to five people were getting a
prescription for antibiotics
so what happens with that unfortunately the overuse of
antibiotics
the bacteria actually become very smart and they start to mutate and this is why
we start to have a rise
of the resistant bacteria to antibiotics and the need for more
antibiotics to be
taken and this is a big problem because when you really need an
antibiotic that's when you want it to work so
in nature there are natural antibiotic some things that we use everyday
as naturopathic doctors things like oregano oil and tea tree oil and garlic
natural antibiotics that don't have the negative side effects
of unfortunately wiping out all our good flora and that's exactly what an antibiotic
will do
if it's chemically made is it actually wipes out all our
good flora and this is our friendly flora
that are probiotics that we have naturally in our digestive tract part
of our immune system which is so important
and what happens when we over use antibiotics or even just one round which
I've seen my patients just one round of antibiotics
wiping out all that good flora sets them up from the next infections so
things like chronic sinusitis chronic ear infections in children and adults
chronic vaginal infections in women whether it's bacterial or yeast problem
you're setting yourself up for these infections because the antibiotic wipes
out all
of your protection all of that probiotic 'the good guys'
so what's the solution well stay healthy as possible
take probiotics probiotics help to keep that
army of good guys within the digestive tract vaginal tract as well in women
so important give this to your kids on a daily basis we don't send their kids to
school without their probiotics because it helps to keep them
strong fortifying keeps our immune system strong not to mention the
digestive processes and enhance and you get more nutrients when you have
efficient probiotics within the digestive tract you actually break down
and get the nutrients from your food and your vitamins
a lot better when you have sufficient probiotic so
this is really important and if you do you need an antibiotic
I mean I always encourage you to take something more natural so whether this
is oregano oil tea tree oil
garlic there's a lot of natural antibiotics that are available
herbally as well so again I encourage you to do your research see a
naturopathic doctor if you can
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