The Problem with Antibiotics

It's true that antibiotics save lives through controlling infections.

But, it is also true that they prevent human bodies from absorbing nutrition. Have you ever felt run down for months after taking an antibiotic? The reason is you need to be taking Probiotics to counteract the nutrition robbing properties of antibiotics. Because even though antibiotics might save your life from an infection they also (because they prevent your body from absorbing nutrition) harming you by not allowing your body to absorb the nutrition you need to survive for months after you stop taking them.

I had been feeling very rundown lately and mentioned this to my wife. She said, "Are you taking probiotics every day to counteract the antibiotic affects?" I said, "While I was taking ammoxicilin (the antibiotic) I took a probiotic within two hours of every dose like the doctor recommended. Also, I couldn't really take three a day because I would have been so mentally diminished from it I wouldn't have been able to drive a car while taking it."

So, if you are taking an antibiotic to control some kind of infection (I had a boil on my back that wouldn't go away after going to Hawaii). Staph is much more common in the tropics so if you get some kind of boil after returning from the tropics or going to live there or something be sure to treat it so it doesn't become a serious problem for you.

However, if you don't take probiotics while you are taking antibiotics to counteract the "starvation effect" of not being able to get nutrition from your food you will feel weak for months and could in some cases contribute to people's early unnecessary deaths when people are really run down at any age if they don't take probiotics to prevent these effects for a month or more during and after your antibiotic course.

So, just like GMOs reduce the nutrition in foods so do antibiotics.

Also, really strong antibiotics can contribute, especially in people over 40 or 50 sort of senile dementia effects because the brain isn't getting enough B-12 to function. I recommend to do what I do by getting a sublingual B-12 supplement from Trader Joe's that goes under the tongue and through the glands directly into the bloodstream bypassing the stomach. This way your brain has enough B-12 to continue functioning normally.

In fact, a very strong antibiotic might have been the trigger for my own mother's slip into senile dementia around age 82. If she wasn't taking probiotics (likely was not) it might have been what did her in in the long run. She passed away around age 90 like her mother, and two sisters also passed away at the same age. However, her doctor told me her heart could have made it to 100 if she hadn't died of senile dementia which is a fatal disease.

But, I'm thinking this might have been caused by strong antibiotics without probiotics to counter them.