The End of Antibiotics and the Rise of Iodine as an Effective Alternative

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The End of Antibiotics and the Rise of Iodine as an Effective

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Natural News.com - Phoenix,AZ*

Monday, March 10, 2008 by: Mark Sircus Ac., OMD

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(NaturalNews) Eventually antibiotics are going to be seen as one of

the worst things to ever come out of pharmaceutical science because

in the end, they have made us only weaker in the face of ever

increasingly strong super bugs that are resistant to all the

antibiotics doctors have at their disposal. When we look at how deep

the rabbit hole goes with antibiotics, we will get sick in our

souls. Antibiotics have fulfilled their anti–biotic anti-life role

leaving a long trail of death and suffering in the wake of their use.

Diseases include measles, scarlet fever, tuberculosis, typhoid

fever, pneumonia, influenza, whooping cough, diphtheria and polio.

All were in decline for several decades before the introduction of

antibiotics or vaccines - Dr. Lawrence .

Antibiotics do not kill yeast. Many women find after taking

antibiotics, they get vaginal yeast infections (because their normal

bacterial balance has been lost). Antibiotics bring on fungal and

yeast infections thus will eventually be seen as a major cause of

cancer since more and more oncologists are seeing yeast and fungal

infections as an integral part of cancer and its cause. With upwards

of 40 percent of all cancers thought to be involved with and caused

by infections, the subject of antibiotics and the need for something

safer, more effective and life serving is imperative.

It may be some time before we really enter the predicted " post

antibiotic era " in which common infections are frequently

untreatable - Dr. Marc Lipsitch et al. (Harvard School of Public

Health).

Antibiotics kill all bacteria in the body, including the ones we

need.

An antibiotic is a substance produced by certain bacteria or fungi

that kills other cells or interferes with their growth. In nature,

these substances help some microbes survive by limiting the

multiplication of other microbes that share the same environment.

Antibiotics that attack pathogenic (disease-causing) microbes

without severely harming normal body cells are useful as drugs but

there does not seem to be any from the pharmaceutical companies that

do not do damage. Dr. Landymore-Lin wrote all about this in her

book Poisonous Prescriptions asking, 'Do Antibiotics Cause Asthma

and Diabetes?' We are now beginning to question the role of

antibiotics as a cause of cancer since they do lead to pathogen

overgrowth especially in the area of yeast and fungi. Woollams

writes, " It is estimated that 70 per cent of the British population

have a yeast infection. The primary cause of this is our love of

antibiotics. Swollen glands? Take antibiotics. Tonsillitis? Take

antibiotics. "

Two studies in the recent past have shown an association between the

use of antibiotics with higher incidence of breast cancer.

In one study the increased risk was small, and the importance of the

link has been played down by UK breast-cancer experts, but the

findings add weight to recent studies that have found links between

antibiotics and other diseases. In the past few years, heavy

antibiotic use has been linked to the inflammatory bowel disorder,

Crohn's disease, and to children developing allergies such as Hay

fever and asthma. And as we shall see below, antibiotics play a

hidden role in autism and other neurological diseases.

The Journal of the American Medical Association has reported a study

on 10,000 women in which women who took over 500 days of antibiotics

in a 17 year period (dubbed 25 plus doses) had twice the risk of

breast cancer as those that took none at all. Even women taking just

one had a statistical risk increase to 1.5 times.

The consequences of resistance in some bacteria can be measured as

increases in the term and magnitude of morbidity, higher rates of

mortality, and greater costs of hospitalization for patients

infected with resistant bacteria - Dr. Marc Lipsitch et al.

Broad-spectrum antibiotics are undiscriminating: in addition to " bad

bacteria, " they also kill healthy bacteria which normally live in

the intestines and the vagina, and which are a necessary part of the

indigenous flora to keep the body healthy. When the " good " bacteria

are killed with antibiotics, then yeast, which is part of the normal

flora of the body, can begin to overgrow because the antibiotics

have altered the body's healthy terrain (internal ecological

balance) allowing the yeast to hyperproliferate and cause many far-

reaching, toxic symptoms.

But modern medicine so far continues to believe that antibiotics

have played an important role in staving off bacterial infections

since Fleming first discovered them in 1927. Many doctors

are finally beginning to see that the effectiveness of these so-

called miracle drugs has waned as some of the very bacteria they are

meant to control have been mutating into new forms that don't

respond to treatment. Many medical experts blame this phenomenon on

both the misuse and overuse of antibiotics in recent years in both

human medicine and in agriculture.

According to several studies, obstetricians and gynecologists write

2,645,000 antibiotic prescriptions every week. Internists prescribe

1,416,000 per week. This works out to 211,172,000 prescriptions

annually in the United States, just for these two specialties.

Pediatricians prescribe over $500 million worth of antibiotics

annually just for one condition, ear infections. Yet topical

povidone iodine (PVP-I) is as effective as topical ciprofloxacin,

with a superior advantage of having no in vitro drug resistance and

the added benefit of reduced cost of treatment.

According to a study published in the Journal of the American

Medical Association, taking properly prescribed medical drugs was

listed as the third leading cause of death in the U.S. Antibiotics

were listed in this category because antibiotics can be deadly.

A 17-year-old St Margaret's College student in New Zealand has

exposed multiple antibiotic-resistant bugs in fresh chicken sold in

supermarkets? Jane Millar's discovery of a range of resistant

bacteria in chickens that could compromise antibiotic treatment in

humans is an important finding that the bacteria have developed

resistance to antibiotics not used in the poultry industry but

important for treating serious infections in humans.

We can create resistance to medically important antibiotics by using

antibiotics that are presumably safe in agriculture - Jane Millar.

Jane bought six fresh chickens - free-range, barn-raised and

organic – from a supermarket. She took samples from each bird and

grew bug colonies, which she used to test different antibiotics.

Apramycin is an antibiotic used sparingly by the New Zealand poultry

industry to treat infections. The bacteria of two chickens tested

resistant to apramycin. They also proved resistant to another two

antibiotics from the same family - gentamicin and tobramycin - used

for serious human infections. Gentamicin is not used by the poultry

industry; tobramycin is restricted to human use only.

A recent risk assessment study commissioned by the U.S. Food and

Drug Administration (FDA) has estimated that about 8,000-10,000

persons in the U.S. each year acquire fluoroquinolone-resistant

Campylobacter infections from chicken and attempt to treat those

infections with a fluoroquinolone.

Every day, new strains of bacteria, fungi, and other pathogenic

microorganisms are becoming resistant to the antibiotics that once

dispatched them with extreme prejudice.

" We know that antimicrobial resistance will follow antimicrobial use

as sure as night follows day, " said Dr. A. Jernigan, deputy

chief of prevention and response from the Center of Disease

Control. " It's just a biological phenomenon. " It turns out that the

indiscriminate killing of harmless microbes damages the body in

complex ways we are only beginning to understand. Powerful

antibiotics introduced into the complex environment in our

intestines cause mayhem, much like a series of bombs tossed into a

market square. Antibiotic resistance is a widespread problem, and

one that the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention

calls " one of the world's most pressing public health problems. "

One of the deadliest germs is a staph bacteria called M.R.S.A.,

short for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, which lives

harmlessly on the skin but causes havoc when it enters the body.

Patients who do survive M.R.S.A. often spend months in the hospital

and endure several operations to cut out infected tissue.

Hospitalizations associated with a drug-resistant form of a

Staphylococcus bacterium doubled over six years in the U.S. to

nearly 280,000 cases in 2005. The death toll rose from 4,700 in 1999

to about 6,600 in 2005. It estimated that 94,000 Americans suffered

invasive MRSA infections in 2005 and that about 19,000 died.

One out of every 20 patients contracts an infection during a

hospital stay in the US. Hospital infections kill an estimated

103,000 people in the United States a year, as many as AIDS, breast

cancer and auto accidents combined. The vast majority of lethal

cases occur in hospitals and nursing homes, where open wounds and

punctures provide the opportunistic staph a ready path to the

bloodstream and organs. The dangers of infection are worsening as

many hospital infections can no longer be cured with common

antibiotics.

More than half the time, doctors and other caregivers break the most

fundamental rule of hygiene by

failing to clean their hands before treating a patient.

" Recently there has been an alarming epidemic caused by community-

associated (CA)-MRSA strains, which can cause severe infections that

can result in necrotizing fasciitis or even death in otherwise

healthy adults outside of healthcare settings, " is the word coming

from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

(NIAID) research team, headed by Dr. Otto.

Necrotizing fasciitis is the so-called flesh-eating disease that can

destroy healthy tissue and even kill patients. The team found that

some strains on MRSA secrete a compound called phenol-soluble

modulin or PSM. It attracts immune system cells called neutrophils,

the researchers found, and then blows them up in a process called

lysis. Neutrophils are key immune cells involved in clearing

bacterial infections, so destroying them would allow the bacteria to

thrive almost unmolested.

" In the United States, CA-MRSA is now the cause of the majority of

infections that result in trips to the emergency room. It is unclear

what makes CA-MRSA strains more successful in causing human disease

compared with their hospital-associated counterparts, " they add.

When the peaceful activities of a normal microbial population are

disrupted, malevolent bacteria may take full advantage of the

opportunity to strike. The intestinal infection C. difficile

colitis, now rampaging through hospitals around the world, is one of

the worst such complication of antibiotic use.

Clostridium difficile was first recognized as a hospital microbe in

1978. By 1996, it had increased to 31 cases per 100,000 people

discharged from U.S. hospitals. In 2003, the most recent year for

complete statistics, prevalence had risen to 61 per 100,000. C. diff

is part of the natural flora, or bacteria, in the colon. " We're

seeing all of the warning signs that this is the next MRSA, " said

former New York Lt. Gov. Betsy McCaughey, founder of the Committee

to Reduce Infection Deaths, a Manhattan-based nonprofit. " It spreads

like wildfire in hospitals. "

Clostridium difficile is a spore-forming toxin-producing bacterium

that is overtaking peoples' large intestines from which it mounts an

attack on the bloodstream. Like MRSA, Clostridium difficile has

become multi-drug-resistant. Although once a bacterium that mostly

affected elderly, hospitalized patients, a bolder strain is

crippling the robust. In emergency efforts to save some patients'

lives surgeons remove the entire large intestine to prevent

overwhelming infection.

One case had been treated by a dermatologist for an ingrown hair on

his back and prescribed an antibiotic. He took only a few pills, but

quickly became ill. Based on what his doctors told him, the short

course of antibiotics proved sufficient to destroy virtually all the

natural bacteria in his intestine - except C. diff, which was freed

to ravage his colon.

Frequently, stethoscopes, blood-pressure monitors and other

equipment are contaminated with live bacteria. Yet doctors and

nurses almost never clean the stethoscope before listening to a

patient's chest.

" It strikes precisely those hospitals which are more 'high-tech',

and handle more serious illnesses. Applying more disinfectant is not

the answer; some strains of germs have actually been found thriving

in bottles of hospital disinfectant! The more antibacterial

chemical 'weapons' are being used, the more bacteria are becoming

resistant to them, " writes Dr. Carl Wieland.

Health-care officials are increasingly concerned about emerging new

forms of drug-resistant Tuberculosis (TB). According to the WHO,

outbreaks of drug-resistant tuberculosis are showing up all over the

world and threaten to touch off a worldwide epidemic of virtually

incurable tuberculosis. An October 1997 survey by the WHO, the U.S.

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the International

Union Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease estimates that 50

million people are infected with a strain of TB that is drug-

resistant. Many of those are said to carry multi-drug-resistant

tuberculosis, incurable by two or more of the standard drugs.

New DNA technology has found hundreds of previously unrecognized

species in the traditional stomping grounds of the mouth and

intestine, and traces of bacteria even in tissues previously thought

to be sterile.

Lessons from Autism

Medical scientists at Arizona State University tell us that

antibiotic use is known to almost completely inhibit excretion of

mercury in rats due to alteration of gut flora. Thus, higher use of

oral antibiotics in the children with autism may have reduced their

ability to excrete mercury. Higher usage of oral antibiotics in

infancy may also partially explain the high incidence of chronic

gastrointestinal problems in individuals with autism.

Many physicians are unaware of lasting adverse effects caused by

routinely prescribed medications such as antibiotics. Antibiotic

therapy for minor colds and runny noses is a common practice. People

routinely receive multiple courses of broad-spectrum antibiotics

throughout life or are injected with long-acting corticosteroid

medicine for joint or muscle pain. Once established, sub-clinical

colonization with yeast in the body may persist unrecognized for

many years. Antibiotics, such as tetracycline, can greatly increase

yeast in the colon after only a few days.

The extensive use of antibiotics will make the condition of Candida

much worse because it reduces heavy metal excretion, which is a food

source for the yeast like organism and also killing the beneficial

bacteria at the same time.

Normally, candida albicans lives peacefully in our intestines and

elsewhere, in harmony with other flora that keep the yeast in check.

Take an antibiotic and all this changes. By suppressing the normal

flora, candida takes over and problems begin. In its mild form, the

result is diarrhea or a yeast infection. Dr. Elmer Cranton says

that, " Yeast overgrowth is partly iatrogenic (caused by the medical

profession) and can be caused by antibiotics and cortisone

medications. A diet high in sugar also promotes overgrowth of yeast.

A highly refined diet common in industrialized nations not only

promotes growth of yeast, but is also deficient in many of the

essential vitamins and minerals needed by the immune system.

Chemical colorings, flavorings, preservatives, stabilizers,

emulsifiers, etc., add more

stress on the immune system. "

Children with autism had significantly (2.1-fold) higher levels of

mercury in their baby teeth but similar levels of lead and similar

levels of zinc. Children with autism also had significantly higher

usage of oral antibiotics during their first 12 to 36 months of

life. Reporting in the July 11, 2007 issue of the Journal of the

American Medical Association, researchers say the use of antibiotics

as prevention boosts risks for drug resistance while doing nothing

to shield kids from future urinary tract infections (UTIs). Giving

antibiotics to prevent recurrent urinary tract infections in small

children not only will not help but will hurt these children. Prior

use of antibiotics to prevent infection did boost the likelihood of

developing a drug-resistant infection by nearly 7.5 times. Indeed,

61 percent of recurrent urinary tract infections were caused by a

pathogen with antibiotic resistance, the researchers pointed out.

In a 2005 study, the antibiotic Augmentin TM has been implicated in

the formation of autism. The study strongly suggests the possibility

of ammonia poisoning as a result of young children taking Augmentin.

Augmentin has been given to children since the late 1980's for

bacterial infections.

Many physicians seem to be unaware that birth control pills

comprised of the hormones estrogen and progesterone can also make

the body more susceptible to fungal infections. If antibiotics are

prescribed, it acts as a double whammy to ensuring a fungal

infection will take hold by diminishing the protective bacteria in

the intestines. Many pregnant women seek medical treatment for minor

problems and are indiscriminately given antibiotics and this begins

a long decline into problems that are complicated at each turn by

OBGYN doctors at birth and by pediatricians who just love to poison

children with the toxic chemicals found in vaccines. In many places

in the world they still give mercury shots at birth.

Microforms poison us with their waste products.

The waste products are acetylaldehyde, uric acid, alloxin, alcohols,

lactic acid, etc.

Antibiotics may be to blame for hundreds of children developing

autism after having the controversial MMR jab. More than two-thirds

of youngsters with the condition received four or more antibiotics

in their first year, a British survey has revealed. It is thought

the drugs weakened their immune systems, leaving them unable to

withstand the impact of the triple jab. Allopathic medicine has been

stubborn and slow to look at its abusive use of antibiotics. It's

the same with vaccines, the holy grail of medicine. But with last-

line-of-defence antibiotics failing on increasingly drug-resistant

superbugs and young children's systems being destroyed by them you

would think they would wake up and find some alternatives.

Antibiotics are mostly derived from fungi and are therefore

classified as mycotoxins. Mycotoxins Are Poisons.

Iodine - a Pillar Against Infections

Iodine offers a serious and potent replacement for much of the

antibiotics that are literally destroying people's lives and can be

used safely with children. Parents, who chose not to dose their kids

with dangerous vaccines will be glad to know that iodine can be very

effective against a host of viral infections that medical officials

insist threaten children.

Though it kills 90 percent of bacteria on the skin within 90

seconds, its use as an antibiotic has been ignored. Iodine exhibits

activity against bacteria, molds, yeasts, protozoa, and many

viruses; indeed, of all antiseptic preparations suitable for direct

use on humans and animals and upon tissues, only iodine is capable

of killing all classes of pathogens: gram-positive and gram-negative

bacteria, mycobacteria, fungi, yeasts, viruses and protozoa. Most

bacteria are killed within 15 to 30 seconds of contact.

Iodine is by far the best antibiotic, antiviral and antiseptic of

all time - Dr. Derry

Dr. Derry says that iodine is effective " for standard pathogens such

as Staphylococcus, but also iodine has the broadest range of action,

fewest side effects and no development of bacterial resistance. "

There is a world of difference between using an antibiotic – anti-

life substance – and an antibiotic, antiviral and antifungal

substance like iodine, which is life serving because it is a basic

and most necessary nutritional substance.

Iodine kills single celled organisms by combining with the amino

acids tyrosine or histidine when they are exposed to the extra-

cellular environment. All single cells showing tyrosine on their

outer cell membranes are killed instantly by a simple chemical

reaction with iodine that denatures proteins. Nature and evolution

have given us an important mechanism to control pathogenic life

forms and we should use it and trust it to protect us in ways that

antibiotics can't.

" My husband Ron had a small infection at the base of the nail. This

very quickly turned nasty and our doctor agreed it looked like gout.

Three weeks later Ron heard back from his Doctor who was in a mad

panic saying Ron had septicemia. On seeing the surgeon that same day

the surgeon wanted to go in and cut the finger open end for end and

look at the finger and that she would probably have to take it off

anyway. Finally the Nascent Iodine we ordered arrived (my husband

was refusing to take antibiotics) He started on quite a hefty dose

of 15 drops while continuing to apply magnesium chloride

transdermally. "

" Two days after starting the iodine there was feeling starting to

regenerate and pain again in the finger and Ron thought it looked

less discolored. Then the following day the swelling had started to

go down and the normal healthy pinkness was returning at the base of

the finger. Over a period of days it has progressively improved with

no other treatment than the iodine and magnesium chloride. We also

then made a poultice with a mixture of comfrey, honey and garlic for

a few days, then the Nascent Iodine dripped into a goldenseal

ointment. "

Magnesium chloride is the only form of magnesium known to have anti-

infectious properties. When it comes to fighting infections, iodine

and magnesium chloride are a dynamic duo that should not be

overlooked by allopathic or naturopathic physicians or by anyone

else. I talked a few months ago to a missionary in Africa who was

using iodine (in the atomic or detoxified form) to successfully

treat malaria. My own children have recently had bad coughs and it

is iodine, not dangerous over-the-counter cough medicines I reach

for.

The feeling of security for a parent comes from administering

substances like iodine (Nascent and other forms) and magnesium

chloride (natural forms) to their children. Yes in dire emergency we

would still use an antibiotic when fever is high and all else has

failed but until that kind of critical point, iodine, backed up by

magnesium chloride, sodium bicarbonate and even clay, is our main

line of defense against a full range of pathogens.

Determining what is an appropriate use of an antibiotic is a

judgment call in which cultural, social, psychological, and economic

factors play at least as great a role as clinical and

epidemiological considerations - Dr. Marc Lipsitch et al.

The way to combat antibiotic resistance is not bigger, better,

stronger antibiotics but, rather, no antibiotics at all. Instead,

other molecular weapons are available with the ability to disable

bad germs without bothering good ones. Iodine is the ideal broad

spectrum antibiotic that is not an antibiotic - it is not against

life. Not against human life that is but you can hear the little

pathogens screaming as high enough levels of iodine fan out through

the system. Meaning all the viruses, bacteria, yeasts and molds that

are threatening us are threatened with instant death when iodine is

used orally to fight infection. It's hard to make a mistake with

iodine but with pharmaceutical antibiotics we are playing at the

crap table hoping our choice of which one to use works against the

pathogen that is actually threatening a person.

Infection depresses levels of vitamins B6 and C.

" The right dose of Vitamin C will stop every infection in its tracks

without needing to use antibiotics " - Dr. Gordon.

Another reason to avoid antibiotics, except in the most dire

emergencies, is that they interfere with the absorption of many

vitamins and minerals, leading to their deficiencies. Deficiencies

in these nutrients can set the stage for increased susceptibility to

more infections.

Following is a list of the Drug/Substance and the Nutrients which

are depleted by that substance:

* Antibiotics - (Nutrients Depleted) Vitamin A, B-12, C, E, K,

Biotin, Calcium, Iron, Magnesium, Potassium

* Chelators - Copper, Iron, Magnesium, Zinc

* Anticonvulsants - Vitamin B-2, B-12, C, F, K, Folic Acid, Calcium,

Magnesium

* Antidiabetics (Oral) - Vitamin B-2, B-12, C, D, Folic Acid

* Antihistamines - Vitamin C

* Aspirin - Calcium, Folic Acid, Iron, Potassium, C, B Complex

" When I was finally discharged from hospital, I still had a strain

of supergerm colonizing my body. Nothing had been able to get rid of

it, after months in hospital. However, I was told that all I had to

do on going home was to 'get outdoors a lot, occasionally even roll

in the dirt, and wait.' In less than two weeks of this advice, the

supergerms were gone. Why? The reason is that supergerms are

actually defective in other ways, as explained. Therefore, when they

are forced to compete with the ordinary bacteria which normally

thrive on our skin, they do not have a chance. They thrive in

hospital because all the antibiotics and antiseptics being used

there keep wiping out the ordinary bacteria which would normally out

compete, wipe out and otherwise keep in check these 'superwimps,' "

wrote Dr. Carl Wieland

Interestingly enough Dr. Weston Price, who studied the diets and

health of many primitive societies during the early 20th century,

found that many primitive people would eat food that has been dipped

in water dissolved with clay – in order to prevent upset stomachs

from food poisoning. Two types of clay are today commonly sold for

consumption as health supplements – bentonite and montmorillonite.

These have been variously called " living clay " , " healing clay " or

just " edible clays " . Clay is highly absorptive. It readily absorbs

toxins, heavy metals, bacteria, virus and fungi. But because clay

itself is not absorbed by the body, whatever it absorbs is passed

out in the stools.

Mutating Viruses

Did you know that a nutritional deficiency can cause a virus to

mutate to a more virulent form? That is the news from the United

States Department of Agriculture (USDA) who are reporting that a

human virus, normally harmless in laboratory mice, mutated into a

heart-damaging pathogen when the animals were raised on a diet

devoid of the essential element selenium. And, once mutated, the

virus continued to damage hearts - even in mice that got ample

selenium in their feed.

The importance of this is not limited to nutritionally-deprived

populations, say researchers with the University of North Carolina

and Agricultural Research Service of the government, who

collaborated on the studies. In theory, one selenium-deficient

person or animal could produce a new family of virus mutants that

could cross species and spread worldwide, causing disease even in

well nourished people.

The USDA is now officially on record that nutritional deficiencies

cause viral mutations and they expect to find the same results with

vitamin-E-deficient mice because both selenium and vitamin E are

nutrients that serve as antioxidants in the body. This means that

the government is recognizing that free radicals and oxidative

stress affects the world of pathogens creating super bugs out of

regular critters. They are even going as far as saying that this may

help explain the many new strains of influenza virus arising in

China, which has widespread selenium-deficient areas.

The implications are enormous for a form of medicine that

understands absolutely nothing about nutrition and the science of

low level toxicity. Part of our infection fighting arsenal needs to

include selenium and ALA (Alpha Lipoic Acid) and this is critical

not only for maintaining glutathione levels but also for the

neutralization of mercury. Mercury provides the ideal environment

for viruses, bacteria, fungi and yeast infections. Though most are

in total denial of it, we are as a race being overrun by mercury

pollution that is everywhere in the air, water, food, vaccines,

dental amalgam and even beauty products.

When a person is bitten by a snake, spider or scorpion it helps the

doctors to know which poison they are treating. One cannot say

anything about health or disease anymore without dealing with

mercury and its rising tide. You cannot treat infectious diseases in

effective ways without dealing with the soil of the infection, with

the mercury and other chemical toxicities that are driving the

pathogens. A doctor needs to know his poisons but most of them find

their minds obscured by the denial of the fact that most of the

pharmaceuticals they use are mitochondrial poisons. Modern medicine

is lost when it comes to dealing with mercury and in fact endorses

its use in vaccines and dental medicine.

Garlic is one food that has powerful anti-bacterial and anti-fungal

properties and some scientific studies have found it to be at least

as effective as the popular anti-fungal drug, Nystatin, in

destroying candida albicans.

We have to change our perceptions about infections and infectious

processes. We need to shift away from the competing paradigms of

pathogen vs. terrain. We need to deal simultaneously with pathogen,

terrain and poison. Certainly we need to deal with nutrition and the

use of concentrated nutritional substances that help us deal safely

and effectively with infections.

Much more could be said about natural remedies and other substances

like colloidal silver, which is known to have antibacterial

properties. I would choose iodine first because the body needs it

anyway where it does not need colloidal silver. When we use

concentrated nutritional substances as antibiotics we are doing a

lot more than confronting hostile pathogens. We are supporting total

body physiology as well as elimination of heavy metals and other

toxic poisons.

Nearly 500,000 people are dying yearly in America due to infectious

disease. It now ranks number 3 behind heart disease and cancer in

claiming American lives.

About the author

Mark A. Sircus Ac., OMD, is director of the International Medical

Veritas Association (IMVA). Dr. Sircus was trained in acupuncture

and oriental medicine at the Institute of Traditional Medicine in

Sante Fe, N.M., and in the School of Traditional Medicine of New

England in Boston. He served at the Central Public Hospital of

Pochutla, in México, and was awarded the title of doctor of oriental

medicine for his work. He was one of the first nationally certified

acupuncturists in the United States. Dr. Sircus's IMVA is dedicated

to unifying the various disciplines in medicine with the goal of

creating a new dawn in healthcare.

He is particularly concerned about the effect vaccinations have on

vulnerable infants and is identifying the common thread of many

toxic agents that are dramatically threatening present and future

generations of children. His book The Terror of Pediatric Medicine

is a free e-book one can read. Dr. Sircus is a most prolific and

courageous writer and one can read through hundreds of pages on his

various web sites.

He has most recently released his Survival Medicine for the 21st

Century compendium (2,200 page ebook) and is racing to finish his

Winning the War Against Cancer book. Dr. Sircus is a pioneer in the

area of natural detoxification and chelation of toxic chemicals and

heavy metals. He is also a champion of the medicinal value of

minerals and is fathering in a new medical approach that uses sea

water and different concentrates taken from it for health and

healing. Transdermal Magnesium Therapy, his first published work,

offers a stunning breakthrough in medicine, an entirely new way to

supplement magnesium that naturally increases DHEA levels, brings

cellular magnesium levels up quickly, relieves pain, brings down

blood pressure and pushes cell physiology in a positive direction.

Magnesium chloride delivered transdermally brings a quick release

from a broad range of conditions.