Natural Alternatives to Antibiotics: How you can Supercharge Your Immune System and Fight Infection

Natural Alternatives to Antibiotics: How you can Supercharge Your Immune System and Fight Infection
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We now know that antibiotics are not the simple solution we once thought. But how can we stay well without them? This book shows how to keep your immune system in peak condition – and stay healthy without antibiotics.Antibiotics have been one of the most succesful inventions of modern medicine – saving many millions of lives around the world. But antibiotics aren’t the trouble free pill for all ills we once thought.Over exposure to antibiotics through over prescription and also from the food chain – means our immune systems are often ‘lazy’.• Antibiotic resistant superbugs mean we need healthier immune systems than ever before.When our immune system is naturally healthy, infections and bugs should hardly ever be a problem. Natural Alternatives to Antibiotics explains the natural therapies herbal medicines you can take to:• strengthen your immune system naturally so you that minor infections don’t become problems.• fight infections without antiobiotics.• make sure your children have well developed immune systems.

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Antibiotic Crisis, Antibiotic Alternatives 1998

© Leon Chaitow 1998

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Contents

Chapter 1 The Antibiotic Crisis (#ulink_a3779a7f-2da3-50d4-851b-751a7fa82ccf)

Chapter 2 Bacteria – The Good, the Bad, and the Frightening (#ulink_d0228847-3658-588f-aa15-c42b58d0686c)

Chapter 3 The Story So Far: A Brief History of Antibiotic Use (#ulink_89a93796-9562-5798-9c14-c33242146636)

Chapter 4 How the Major Antibiotics Work – and Some Problems (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 5 Immune Enhancement: Lifestyle, Detoxification, and Mind-Body Factors (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 6 Immune Enhancement: Supplements, Herbs, Hydrotherapy, and Acupuncture (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 7 Ecological Damage Caused by Antibiotics – The Yeast Connection (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 8 Antibiotics, Bowel Flora, and Illness (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 9 Probiotics – What to Do If You Have to Take Antibiotics (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter 10 Children, Antibiotics, and Probiotics (#litres_trial_promo)

Conclusion (#litres_trial_promo)

Keep Reading (#litres_trial_promo)

References (#litres_trial_promo)

About the Author (#litres_trial_promo)

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1: The Antibiotic Crisis (#ulink_f4581a28-1da6-539b-9e77-45459421868b)

Crisis, What Crisis?

Health care in the industrialized world has never been more available, or so we are told.

More and better hospitals are built (are there more sick people?).

Ever more complex and high-tech treatments are devised.

Life-expectancy rates are rising (quantity, perhaps, but what of quality?).

Research continues at breakneck pace into all aspects of disease causation and treatment.

New, highly trained doctors and nurses are turned out every year.

… And yet there really is a crisis, as we will see.

Old diseases such as TB which were thought to be history are back, and are often untreatable because the bacterial agents which cause the infections have become resistant to antibiotics which previously controlled them easily.

This acquired resistance presents an enormous threat to the health of us all, not just those who are malnourished and impoverished.

Whether or not more and more hospitals and high-tech diagnostic and treatment methods equate with better health for the general public is itself open to question. However, what is not debatable is the fact that one of the most potent tools in the medical tool-box, antibiotics, are no longer working on many extremely dangerous bacteria, or only work when used in amounts so high that they are likely to cause serious side-effects.

The evolution of antibiotic-resistant bacteria – superbugs – therefore forms a significant part of the story we need to examine in order to understand the crisis.

The UK Office of Health Economics reported in September 1997