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 Fantastic! So, the facial tissues won't get sick, either. How does that help a consumer? It doesn't. It's just a marketing gimmick. It's just part of the insane hype of antibacterial everything.
I was hoping the antibacterial frenzy would fizzle out because we now have a hefty collection of evidence warning about the dangers of using antibacterial products. I thought that product manufacturers would eventually stop using these toxic chemicals, but instead it just seems to be expanding to all sorts of other areas, now including antibacterial pencils.
How about antibacterial cars? |
| We live with bacteria all around us. In fact, your immune system needs to be stimulated by some exposure to bacteria in order to be healthy enough to defend you against those really aggressive ones that might make you sick. You have to have bacteria in your environment if you want to be healthy. So, the whole concept of antibacterial products is actually quite ridiculous to begin with.
We also learned that many of these antibiotic products contain toxic chemicals. What do I mean by toxic? |
| Maybe someone will start selling carpet that is laced with Agent Orange or other chemicals that kill bacteria. That'll be exciting. That way when you roll around on your carpet with your children or your pets, you will be absorbing some of that right into your skin just as if you were using antibacterial soap.
Maybe we'll have antibacterial clothes that have been soaked in that toxic chemical, and the marketers will claim your clothes won't stink, even if you do. How healthy is that going to be? Let's just wear antibacterial chemicals and then sweat and absorb all that right through our skin. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 It can be used to treat food poisoning as well, although if the food poisoning has gone on for a very long time, there are already some toxic byproducts from the bacteria that you're going to have to get rid of. You're going to feel lousy for a while, but the silver can at least kill the bacteria and stop them from doing additional damage.
Using silver topically
Silver can also be used topically, so if you have an infection on your skin, or if you have a cut or a scrape, you can spray silver on it, rub it in, and it will function as an antibacterial agent. |
| How does silver know the difference between friendly bacteria and unfriendly bacteria?
See, I don't think silver knows that difference. I think it wipes out all the bacteria. So if you are taking a silver product, you should recognize you are going to create an imbalance in your intestinal flora that will significantly impact the nutrition you're absorbing from your small intestine. If you're taking silver products, you need to take some acidophilus and other probiotics at the same time. Rely on probiotics any time you're using silver internally, as you will need them. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| In fact, your immune system needs to be stimulated by some exposure to bacteria in order to be healthy enough to defend you against those really aggressive ones that might make you sick. You have to have bacteria in your environment if you want to be healthy. So, the whole concept of antibacterial products is actually quite ridiculous to begin with.
We also learned that many of these antibiotic products contain toxic chemicals. What do I mean by toxic? |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 If aloe vera gel wasn't antibacterial, then any little nick or scrape of the aloe plant would result in the whole thing being eaten up by bacteria. Aloe has to be antibacterial simply to survive in the wild! Otherwise, the moist, nutrient-rich gel would be a perfect breeding ground for bacteria.
Aloe vera makes most first aid kits obsolete. You can get rid of all those silly, toxic first aid sprays (antibacteria sprays, lotions, bandages, etc.) and just replace them all with aloe vera. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 These companies like the chemical because it allows them to state the product is a "99.9% bacteria killer" and make claims about the product being a "medicated formula."
According to the chemical creator's website, Ciba Specialty Chemicals "invented triclosan more than 35 years ago and in this long time of application without any adverse effects it has proven itself as the 'aspirin' of the antibacterial actives -- helpful without side effects. |
| Toothpaste manufacturers claim that triclosan is used because it helps to reduce plaque and kill bacteria, but it actually aids in gum damage and can cause mouth ulcers, say some health experts. These companies like the chemical because it allows them to state the product is a "99.9% bacteria killer" and make claims about the product being a "medicated formula. |
Dr. Steven R. Gundry
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 To repopulate with beneficial bacteria, avoid those foods and take a probiotic that includes several of the normal bacteria such as Lactobacillus acidophilus, L. rhamnosus, L. salvar-ius, and Bifidobacterium bifidum, in a growth-promoting medium like mal-todextrin.
Typical daily dose: Take capsules with at least 4 billion bacteria once a day for the first month of Diet Evolution, and whenever you are traveling or during and after you take antibiotics.
Equally important, these healthy bacteria need fertilizer in the form of prebi-otics. |
David R. Montgomery
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 The earliest bacteria were close relatives of those that still carpet Yellowstone's spectacular thermal pools. Fortunately, the growth and development of these heat-loving bacteria increased weathering rates enough to form primitive soils on rocks protected beneath bacterial mats. Their consumption of atmospheric carbon dioxide cooled the planet by 30°C to 45°C—an inverse greenhouse effect. Earth would be virtually uninhabitable were it not for these soil-making bacteria.
The evolution of soils allowed plants to colonize the land. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 One of the side effects of using antibiotics is that they often stimulate the growth of inappropriate bacteria in the intestines, and those bacteria could be very problematic. Most people don't realize that we have in our intestines ten times as many bacterial cells as we have in our body. Those bacterial cells are metabolically active, and sometimes the things they produce are useful for us.
For example, some bacteria like lactobacilli produce B vitamins that may be helpful for us. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Ionic silver and hydrogen peroxide (35 percent food grade hydrogen peroxide) are two of the best things you can put in a hot tub or a swimming pool to kill the bacteria without chemicals. By the way, be careful handling the hydrogen peroxide, because at that concentration it will burn your skin. Hydrogen peroxide is potent stuff: at 90 percent concentration, it’s rocket fuel.
Ingested silver can also treat resistant strains of bacteria, including MRSA. If you have a tooth or ear infection, for example, silver can do the job for you. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| So, not only are you doing nothing to protect yourself against all those dangerous bacteria, you are actually harming your health by exposing yourself to these dangerous toxic chemicals.
Antibiotic pencils protect pencils from disease, not people
We know that antibacterial chemicals are not only worse than useless in an everyday environment; they are actually harmful to human health. Now, of course, they have a place in a hospital setting -- in emergency rooms or burn wards, for example -- although there are much better alternatives, such as colloidal silver. |
Dr. Steven R. Gundry
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| To repopulate with beneficial bacteria, avoid those foods and take a probiotic that includes several of the normal bacteria such as Lactobacillus acidophilus, L. rhamnosus, L. salvar-ius, and Bifidobacterium bifidum, in a growth-promoting medium like mal-todextrin.
Typical daily dose: Take capsules with at least 4 billion bacteria once a day for the first month of Diet Evolution, and whenever you are traveling or during and after you take antibiotics.
Equally important, these healthy bacteria need fertilizer in the form of prebi-otics. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| The popularity of triclosan is a reflection of its unique combination of efficacy against almost all types of bacteria and safety to man and nature which with the currently known substances used cannot be surmounted."
The toothpaste manufacturers haven't done any substantial studies that reach a decision on whether to take triclosan out of their products. They continue to say that it is safe and only harmful if ingested. Even then, they say it only affects the nervous system (as if that's something very minor to have harmed). |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| You have to have bacteria in your environment if you want to be healthy. So, the whole concept of antibacterial products is actually quite ridiculous to begin with.
We also learned that many of these antibiotic products contain toxic chemicals. What do I mean by toxic? I mean chemicals that are molecularly similar to Agent Orange -- chemicals that cause brain cancer and impair the ability of your brain and nervous system to function adequately. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 The large intestine is kept healthy by maintaining a friendly terrain that welcomes helpful bacteria. We must have friendly bacteria in the gut in order to be healthy individuals for a variety of reasons, some of which are only beginning to be understood by medical researchers. Healthy skin also provides the right terrain for friendly bacteria, while discouraging the growth of harmful bacteria.
The importance of water for digestion and skin
There are other similarities between these two organs: their positive reaction to sufficient dietary water. |
David R. Montgomery
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| Fortunately, the growth and development of these heat-loving bacteria increased weathering rates enough to form primitive soils on rocks protected beneath bacterial mats. Their consumption of atmospheric carbon dioxide cooled the planet by 30°C to 45°C—an inverse greenhouse effect. Earth would be virtually uninhabitable were it not for these soil-making bacteria.
The evolution of soils allowed plants to colonize the land. Some 350 million years ago, primitive plants spread up deltas and into coastal valleys where rivers deposited fresh silt eroded off bare highlands. |
Elaine Magee
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 Yogurt, which is made using active good bacteria, is considered to be a probiotic. In the United States, generally lactic acid-producing bacteria are used in making yogurt, including Lactobacillus and Streptococcus species. Most major brands of yogurt contain probiotic bacteria.
Other probiotic foods, according to the American Institute for Cancer Research (AICR), include kefir (fermented milk drink), tempeh (cake made of fermented, cooked soybeans), miso (fermented soybean paste), and sauerkraut. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| I think it wipes out all the bacteria. So if you are taking a silver product, you should recognize you are going to create an imbalance in your intestinal flora that will significantly impact the nutrition you're absorbing from your small intestine. If you're taking silver products, you need to take some acidophilus and other probiotics at the same time. Rely on probiotics any time you're using silver internally, as you will need them.
With that out of the way, the question is what can you use it for? What does silver really treat? |
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| Otherwise, the moist, nutrient-rich gel would be a perfect breeding ground for bacteria.
Aloe vera makes most first aid kits obsolete. You can get rid of all those silly, toxic first aid sprays (antibacteria sprays, lotions, bandages, etc.) and just replace them all with aloe vera. I've been known to pack small chunks of aloe vera gel inside wounds that ultimately healed with zero scarring. As the aloe vera dries, it actually contracts, pulling the wound shut and keeping it completely free of dangerous bacteria. Plus, it provides nourishment to the wound tissue itself. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 You are seriously misled if you think you can just wipe out all of the bacteria in your house with antibacterial soap. Do you think you are going to be germ free? Have you checked your doorknobs and your own skin? What about your toothbrush? I bet there are more colonies of bacteria in your toothbrush than there are people in the entire city in which you live. These antibacterial products are useless. They have no value on the market or in your home. It is all a huge marketing gimmick.
You need immune distress to be healthy
Do you think the microbes on your counter are giving you the flu? |
Dr. Steven R. Gundry
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| BENEFICIAL BACTERIA: SUPPLEMENT YOUR DIET
Since you're starting to restore your body, you'd better start reinvigorating a huge (literally) contributor to the proper functioning of your body-the pounds and pounds of bacteria in your colon. No, it's not a cesspool that needs to be periodically cleaned out. But if you have ever taken antibiotics or eaten a heavily "white" and "beige" food diet (see pages 66 and 67), you've filled your colon with bacteria and fungi that are sending abnormal chemical messages into your bloodstream 24 hours a day. Really. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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| Conventional doctors who do not understand holistic health only look at what's happening locally; they think bacteria in the skin cause acne. We all have bacteria on and in our skin, so the presence of bacteria isn't the cause of acne. Do you think clear-skinned people have sterilized their facial skin? Hardly. If you are suffering from acne, try going dairy-free for thirty days and see for yourself just how much your acne is reduced or eliminated. |
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| They say, "Hey, if you can show me the chemistry, and explain it in terms of physics and molecules and the ion exchange between silver and bacteria, then yeah! We'll use it."
So silver has a good, strong future in medicine. In fact, it's being used in many medical devices right now. But doctors are still reluctant to prescribe silver as an antibiotic. Why? The drug companies keep feeding them all this propaganda about drugs, and doctors are not educated about using silver internally. They simply don't know about it. |
| Ingested silver can also treat resistant strains of bacteria, including MRSA. If you have a tooth or ear infection, for example, silver can do the job for you. Now, there is a huge disclaimer with all of that: First of all, I'm not giving anybody medical information. This is just my experience with this product. If you're going to use this product or eliminate antibiotics, you should be working with a medical professional.
The second thing is that if you use silver in this way, then you are using it allopathically, meaning that you are not really solving the core problem. |
Alex Vilenkin
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 There are two competing processes: bacteria reproduce by division, and they are occasionally destroyed by antibodies. The outcome depends on which process is more efficient. If the bacteria are destroyed faster than they reproduce, they will quickly die out. Alternatively, if the reproduction is faster, bacteria will rapidly multiply (Figure 8.2).
In the case of inflation, the two rival processes are the false-vacuum decay and its "reproduction" due to the rapid expansion of inflating regions. |
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