Antibiotics May Be Permanently Altering the Guts of Humanity - Polidicks

[QUOTE]If you’re one of those people worried that the over-prescription of antibiotics is leading us toward biological calamity, you’re not going to like this. Writing in the journal Nature this week, Martin Blaser of NYU’s Langone Medical Center makes the case that antibiotics aren’t just leading to highly resistant superbugs, but that they are permanently altering our bacterial microbiomes, and not for the better. Our microbiomes are the collection of bacterial microbes that we carry around with us all the time, those symbiotic little bugs that live on our skin and in our esophagi and--very importantly--in our guts. And while we’ve long known that a cycle of antibiotics prescribed to kill off an infection can also kill off some of our most important beneficial microorganisms, the general line of thinking is that once the cycle of antibiotics ends our microbiomes correct themselves and the natural order of things returns. Blaser presents arguments otherwise in an editorial that suggests that our gut bacteria is permanently affected by a cycle of antibiotics, and that the impact is so profound that it might be time to seriously consider not giving antibiotics to anyone other than very young children and pregnant women. Quoted by Maryn McKenna in Wired: [release]Early evidence from my lab and others hints that, sometimes, our friendly flora never fully recover. These long-term changes to the beneficial bacteria within people’s bodies may even increase our susceptibility to infections and disease. Overuse of antibiotics could be fueling the dramatic increase in conditions such as obesity, type 1 diabetes, inflammatory bowel disease, allergies and asthma, which have more than doubled in many populations.[/release] He then goes on to present some disconcerting correlations between the absence of certain bacteria and the rise in incidences of things like allergy, asthma, and weight gain. He points to evidence that children are getting too many doses of antibiotics before adulthood and that their microbiomes are never the same for it--specifically that the damage to our gut bacteria populations is permanent from that point forward. Which leads to an eventual conclusion that when our children are sick we shouldn’t give them what we know will make them better. And that’s a tough pill to swallow.[/QUOTE] Source: [url]http://www.popsci.com/science/article/2011-09/antibiotics-may-be-permanently-altering-our-friendly-gut-microbes[/url]

This was a punch in the gut.

Mother of god HUMANITY IS DOOMED!

No shit.

I thought this was fairly common knowledge.

I've been on two courses of antibiotics in my life oh god oh god oh god im going to die.

So it's the essentially the same deal with anti-bacterial soaps? With the killing off of the natural defences and what not?

[QUOTE=Eudoxia;32157160]No shit.[/QUOTE] Literally, after enough time it's gonna be with a colostomy bag.

[QUOTE=Billiam;32157201]I thought this was fairly common knowledge.[/QUOTE] So did I. This is the reason that antibiotics are not prescribed unless they are [B]really[/B] needed.

I have never taken antibiotics and I never will, unless I catch something life threatening where I could die if I dont. Even for a chest infection or something of the likes they arent really necessary...We are perfectly equipped to deal with them, just drink plenty of water, make sure to eat and get plenty of rest.

I wait for the nano robots thank you.

Well shit can't they just, you know, not give people antibiotics anymore? They rarely work positively on people anyway.

[QUOTE=SpaceGhost;32157633]Well shit can't they just, you know, not give people antibiotics anymore? They rarely work positively on people anyway.[/QUOTE] They do provide very-short term help, but in a few situations their presence is the difference between life and death. It's a double-edged sword.

[QUOTE=Sexy Eskimo;32157593]I wait for the nano robots thank you.[/QUOTE] Your immune system will try to consume them. Seeing as puny proteins can't crush glorious diamondoid shells, we'll evolve into a species made of diamond so our immune system can fight against the nanorobots. So yeah.

[QUOTE=SpaceGhost;32157633]Well shit can't they just, you know, not give people antibiotics anymore? They rarely work positively on people anyway.[/QUOTE] There's a lot of situations where the human body cant fight an infection on its own, thats when you need antibiotics.

that's why it is irresponsible to take antibiotics unless specifically told to take them for an infection

[QUOTE=Eudoxia;32157663]Your immune system will try to consume them. Seeing as puny proteins can't crush glorious diamondoid shells, we'll evolve into a species made of diamond so our immune system can fight against the nanorobots. So yeah.[/QUOTE] My nano robots will destroy my pathetic immune system and save my life.

[QUOTE=Eudoxia;32157663]Your immune system will try to consume them. Seeing as puny proteins can't crush glorious diamondoid shells, we'll evolve into a species made of diamond so our immune system can fight against the nanorobots. So yeah.[/QUOTE] Can I propose to my girlfriend holding you?

Stop getting sick.

Fuck, what are we supposed to do about UTIs?

[QUOTE=Emperor Scorpious II;32157726]Can I propose to my girlfriend holding you?[/QUOTE] Sure you can >;3~~

[QUOTE=Eudoxia;32157815]Sure you can >;3~~[/QUOTE] "to consummate a marriage, you must first invent the universe."

What the fuck I was just prescribed to antibiotics for my bladder infection.

I was on a year of antibiotics for acne about 3 years ago and more recently a 2 week antibiotic course following a visit to the ER. I've done tons of research on this for years because I've never really felt the same since that year long course of antibiotics. This study basically confirms what I was afraid of, that ABs cause permanent damage.

[QUOTE=fsTyle;32157831]What the fuck I was just prescribed to antibiotics for my bladder infection.[/QUOTE] Don't act like this suddenly changes everything, this has been known for many years. Its the reason why doctors only prescribe antibiotics when they are really needed.

Some people get UTIs multiple times a year. And as far as I know, antibiotics are the only way to cure the cases that are further along.

My dad would have died if it wasn't for anti-biotics.

[B]Anti-bio[/B]tics

[QUOTE=doonbugie2;32158213][B]Anti-bio[/B]tics[/QUOTE] You're just FULL of insightful posts tonight, aren'tcha.

Never been on anti-biotics, warm 7up cures all ailments