Table Of ContentHow To Survive In
A World
WITHOUT
ANTIBIOTICS!
electron microscope image of methicillin resistant staphylococcus,
surrounded by white blood cells
by Keith Scott-Mumby MD, MB ChB, PhD
“The Alternative Doctor”
How To Survive In A World Without Antibiotics
How To Survive In A World
Without Antibiotics
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Title Quote:
Put bluntly, medicine’s successes at vaccination and antibiotics treat-
ment are trivial accomplishments relative to natural selection’s success
at generating the immune system. Recognizing this fact has important
repercussions for the long-term control of infectious diseases. We will
probably obtain better disease control by figuring out how to further
tweak the immune system and capitalize on its vastly superior abilities
than by relying on some human intervention such as new antimicrobials
(antibiotics, antivirals, or antoprotozoal agents).
Paul W. Ewald Plague Time
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Quotes And Facts
The mass of a single cell of the E coli bacterium is 665 femtograms. A femtogram
is one-thousandth of a picogram, which is one-thousandth of a nanogram, which is
a billionth of a gram.
Journal of Applied Physics.
Not only does the Earth contain more bacterial organisms than all others combined
(scarcely surprising, given their minimal size and mass); not only do bacteria live in
more places and work in a greater variety of metabolic ways; not only did bacteria
alone constitute the first half of life’s history, with no slackening in diversity there-
after; but also, and most surprisingly, total bacterial biomass (even at such minimal
weight per cell) may exceed all the rest of life combined, even forest trees, once
we include the subterranean populations as well.
Stephen Jay Gould, “Planet of the Bacteria,” Washington Post Horizon, 1996, 119
(344): H1; Reprinted here with permission; This essay was adapted from Full
House, New York: Harmony Books, 1996, pp. 175-192.
Bacteria inhabit effectively every place suitable for the existence of life. Mother
told you, after all, that bacterial “germs” require constant vigilance to combat their
ubiquity in every breath and every mouthful, and the vast majority of bacteria are
benign or irrelevant to us, not harmful agents of disease. One fact will suffice:
during the course of life, the number of E. coli in the gut of each human being far
exceeds the total number of people that now live and have ever lived.
Stephen Jay Gould, “Planet of the Bacteria,” Washington Post Horizon, 1996, 119
(344): H1; Reprinted here with permission; This essay was adapted from Full
House, New York: Harmony Books, 1996, pp. 175-192.
Numerical estimates, admittedly imprecise, are a stock in trade of all popular writ-
ing on bacteria. The Encyclopaedia Britannica tells us that bacteria live by “billions
in a gram of rich garden soil and millions in one drop of saliva.”
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Human skin harbors some 100,000 microbes per square centimeter (note: “mi-
crobes” includes nonbacterial unicells, but the overwhelming majority of “microbes”
are bacteria).
Writer Dorion Sagan and biologist Lynn Margulis, Garden of Microbial Delights
Fully 10 percent of our own dry body weight consists of bacteria, some of which,
although they are not a congenital part of our bodies, we can’t live without.
Writer Dorion Sagan and biologist Lynn Margulis, Garden of Microbial Delights
We could not digest and absorb food properly without our gut “flora.” Grazing ani-
mals, cattle and their relatives, depend upon bacteria in their stomachs to digest
grasses in the process of rumination. About 30 percent of atmospheric methane
can be traced to the action of methanogenic bacteria in the guts of ruminants,
largely released into the atmosphere—how else to say it—by belches and farts.
Stephen Jay Gould, “Planet of the Bacteria,” Washington Post Horizon, 1996, 119
(344): H1; Reprinted here with permission; This essay was adapted from Full
House, New York: Harmony Books, 1996, pp. 175-192.
In another symbiosis essential to human agriculture, plants need nitrogen as an es-
sential soil nutrient but cannot use the ubiquitous free nitrogen of our atmosphere.
This nitrogen is “fixed,” or chemically converted into usable form, by the action
of bacteria like Rhizobium, living symbiotically in bulbous growths on the roots of
leguminous plants.
Stephen Jay Gould, “Planet of the Bacteria,” Washington Post Horizon, 1996, 119
(344): H1; Reprinted here with permission; This essay was adapted from Full
House, New York: Harmony Books, 1996, pp. 175-192.
A group, led by microbiologist William. B. Whitman, estimates the total number of
bacteria on Earth to be five million trillion trillion -- that’s a five with 30 zeroes after
it. Look at it this way. If each bacterium were a penny, the stack would reach a tril-
lion light years. These almost incomprehensible numbers give only a sketch of the
vast pervasiveness of bacteria in the natural world.
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“There simply hadn’t been any estimates of the number of bacteria on Earth,” said
Whitman. “Because they are so diverse and important, we thought it made sense
to get a picture of their magnitude.”
The study was published in the June 1998 Proceedings of the National Academy of
Sciences.
For the first half of geological time our ancestors were bacteria. Most creatures still
are bacteria, and each one of our trillions of cells is a colony of bacteria.
Richard Dawkins
“Love: Before I heard the doctors tell The dangers of a kiss; I had considered kiss-
ing you. The nearest thing to bliss. But now I know biology and sit and sigh and
moan; six million mad bacteria and I thought we were alone!”
Song lyrics
A probe sent two miles underground in a South American gold mine found bacte-
ria living there. Their dinner? Radioactive emissions from the rocks around them.
Above ground, the aptly named Deinococcus radiodurans can handle radiation
exposure nearly 10,000 times the fatal dose for humans.
Somewhere in cyberspace...
Everything we do with food is an attempt to keep from being poisoned by our mi-
crobial competitors.
Professor Paul Sherman, Cornell University.
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Contents
Quotes and facts
Contents
Terminology
MRSA. What’s All The Fuss?
1. The Fear Erupts
Part 1. Knowing The Enemy
2. What Are Bacteria?
2a. What about viruses?
2b. What about parasites?
3. Staphylococcus and Co.
3a. Beware The Hospitals!
3b. Pets Can Give Us MRSA Too
4. Community Active MRSA
5. Other resistant Organisms
6. Our Fight With Bacteria
7. Killing Bacteria Has A Downside
8. The Rise Of Superbugs
9. Agribusiness To Blame
10. We May Have To Turn The Clock Back
Part 2. What Can You Do?
Simple remedies first:
11 Water!
11a. Antibiotic Soap?
12. Drawing Salves and Ointments
13. Blue Light
13a. UV LIght Nano
14. Manuka Honey
14a. Propolis
15. Stolle Milk
16. Colostrum
17. Marine Quinton
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Chemical and Inorganic Substances
18. Chlorine dioxide
19. Hydrogen Peroxide
20. Hydrochloric Acid Injections
21. Colloidal Silver
22. Nutritional factors
23. Vitamin A
24. Vitamin C
25. Vitamin D
26.Iodine
27. Zinc
28. Iron Overload
29. What About Herbs?
30. Calendula
31. Garlic
32. Artemisia annua
33. Samento
34. Tea Tree
35. Green Tea
35a. White tea
36. Spices Are Hot Stuff!
37. Mushrooms and Fungi
37a. Reishi mushroom
37b. Maitake
37c. Shiitake
37d. Inonotus obliquus
37e. Pleurotus ostreatus
37f. Trametes versicolor
38. Aromatherapy And Essential Oils
38a. Oregano
38b. Cinnamon
38c. Cassia
38d. Thyme
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38e. Black Seed Oil
38f. Mountain Savory
38g. Lavender
38h. Geranium
39. Competition to Control Pathogens
39a. Probiotics
39b. Bacteriophages
40. Homeopathy
41. Complex Homeopathy
42.Biochemic Tissue Salts
43. Scenar
44. Cold Laser
44a. UV Nano
45. What Should Go In The Medicine Cupboard
Appendix
The Official FDA Version
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