Antibiotics as a treatment are past their cell by date?
Mar 28, 2017 8:34:23 GMT 10
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Post by toxic32 on Mar 28, 2017 8:34:23 GMT 10
This is just log to capture my thoughts at this moment in time before they drift into the oblivion of distraction and an empty bottle. Ref: To look up
Nature is all about survival of the fittest! As Darwin proved. From the very smallest of animals to the very largest animals. We all know that process as a basic arms race. Each animal that is the prey has to adapt and evolve just keep ahead of its predictor. Weather you are plant or animal. And each predictor is all so on the path of evolution! fail to capture your prey leads to extinction. Blaaa blaa blaaaa.
What about bacteria and viruses? The same rules must apply at every level of life. If you exist you are alive and subject to the rules of evolution....
The biggest killer before anti bacterial drugs were discovered were infections. Our body in some cases adapt and survive an attack by bacteria and viruses and gain immunity from future infections from the same bacteria and viruses which was passed on the future generations building a stronger and more adapted body. The accidental discovery of penicillin by Ian Flemming's lab assistant interrupted that process! The adapt and survive strategy was derailed. It has taken nature 89 years to start to defeat our strategy! Anti bacteria drugs are and have become ineffective. Bacteria and viruses have adapted and are now adopting the niche in existence they have evolved to occupy. Blaa blaa blaa.
How did we overcome bacteria? We used a chemical/drug created by a bacterial mold to protect its self from other bacteria feeding from the same nutrient. Namely Staphylococci....Blaa blaa
Instead of looking at chemical/drugs as a means to disable bacteria( which of course has its place) Start looking at how other bacteria survived and thrived. What other strategy do bacteria utilize to fend off/destroy or disable competing bacteria's? It is an arms race and is pertinent as much for them as it is for us. Look for the top predator in the range of bacteria's and niches they occupy! How do they kill/deter/neutralize other bacteria? Interfere with reproduction? weaken the cell wall? Communicate false information? mimic? Con them into cellular self-destruction. (Apoptosis)
TBC
Nature is all about survival of the fittest! As Darwin proved. From the very smallest of animals to the very largest animals. We all know that process as a basic arms race. Each animal that is the prey has to adapt and evolve just keep ahead of its predictor. Weather you are plant or animal. And each predictor is all so on the path of evolution! fail to capture your prey leads to extinction. Blaaa blaa blaaaa.
What about bacteria and viruses? The same rules must apply at every level of life. If you exist you are alive and subject to the rules of evolution....
The biggest killer before anti bacterial drugs were discovered were infections. Our body in some cases adapt and survive an attack by bacteria and viruses and gain immunity from future infections from the same bacteria and viruses which was passed on the future generations building a stronger and more adapted body. The accidental discovery of penicillin by Ian Flemming's lab assistant interrupted that process! The adapt and survive strategy was derailed. It has taken nature 89 years to start to defeat our strategy! Anti bacteria drugs are and have become ineffective. Bacteria and viruses have adapted and are now adopting the niche in existence they have evolved to occupy. Blaa blaa blaa.
How did we overcome bacteria? We used a chemical/drug created by a bacterial mold to protect its self from other bacteria feeding from the same nutrient. Namely Staphylococci....Blaa blaa
Instead of looking at chemical/drugs as a means to disable bacteria( which of course has its place) Start looking at how other bacteria survived and thrived. What other strategy do bacteria utilize to fend off/destroy or disable competing bacteria's? It is an arms race and is pertinent as much for them as it is for us. Look for the top predator in the range of bacteria's and niches they occupy! How do they kill/deter/neutralize other bacteria? Interfere with reproduction? weaken the cell wall? Communicate false information? mimic? Con them into cellular self-destruction. (Apoptosis)
TBC