Dangerous antibiotics? Most people assume that antibiotics are benign drugs. They think that antibiotics kill bacteria while leaving human cells unscathed. They know that antibiotics have saved millions of lives, maybe theirs, and think of antibiotics as purely good drugs. They don’t think that there are dramatic differences in safety or efficacy between antibiotics and …
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Injured by Antibiotics – Episode 60
#60 – Injured by Antibiotics ** January 21, 2015 Guest // Lisa Bloomquist ** Host // Chandler Marrs, PhD When we think about adverse effects of antibiotics, we think about microbiomes… – environmental microbiomes in the rise of antibiotic resistance, and – human microbiomes and ecosystem resilience following gross perturbations, including antibiotics. However, antibiotics can injure …
Top 7 Ways to Keep Baby Safe
The luscious baby photos in parenting magazines belie today’s new childhood normal. Frazzled parents-to-be are fretting about chronic illness, obesity, and developmental delays. Using the Three Pillars of Radiant Health as our guide — respect the microbiome, food is medicine, less is more — we sally forth with 7 bold and brave ways to keep …
Fever and Non-Intervention: A Mother’s Hand
A mother’s hand is the finest-gauged instrument available when it comes to assessing the presence of a fever in her child. When I felt my daughter’s head this morning, I knew her body was in a state of inner turmoil, and my mind leapt to my pantry of herbs, homeopathy, and nutrients. You see, I …