subject: Antibiotics: How They Work by:Victor Leppky [print this page] The ongoing medical problems of antibiotic resistant diseases is nearly impossible to prevent, and you can see why once you understand how antibiotics work in the first place.
All livings things have natural variations within their populations, that can produce unusual characteristics. One characteristic can be the resistance against certain antibiotics. After the application of an antibiotic, all the regular bacteria are killed off, but any unusual ones with resistance are left unharmed. With no more competition, the remaining bacteria will thrive and multiply rapidly.
Differences Between Antibiotics
Not all antibiotics work the same why to kill bacteria.
Penicillin attaches to a bacteria cell wall, then breaks it down which kills the bacteria. On the other hand, popular antibiotics like erythromycin, tetracycline and streptomycin all work on the inside of a bacteria. They destroy one of the bacteria's organs (the ribosomes), killing the bacteria that can no longer make proteins.
Regardless of the specifics, the problem is that each antibiotic has a single attack approach which makes it more likely that microbes will evolve a resistance. Bacteria that are now resistant to penicillin, for example, have cell walls that are unusual and penicillin cannot bind to it.
Viruses
Not all diseases are caused by bacteria though. Viruses are also prone to developing the same sorts of drug resistances. A virus is much simpler than a bacteria, usually made up of just a piece of DNA and a protein. Technically, they are not really living things at all. Being so different from a bacteria, regular antibiotics have no effect on them. There is another class of drugs called antivirals for diseases caused by viruses. One example is Tamiflu, which is currently of interest due to the various flu pandemics caused by variations of bird and swine influenza.
Their primitive form makes viruses even more likely to mutate than bacteria. It can take only a few months for drug-resistant strains of some viruses to appear, once a particular antiviral drug has been introduced. It usually takes years for it to happen with bacteria.
What Can Be Done?
One option is to look at natural antibiotics rather than man-made ones. Though bacteria and viruses are able to develop resistances with relative ease, many natural antibiotics are still effective even after thousands of years of use. How is this possible?
The reason behind their continuing success is their mutli-chemical approach, rather than the single attack that conventional products have. Natural antibiotics have dozens of active chemicals within them, creating hundreds (if not thousands) of combinations between them. This kind of complex make-up is nearly impossible to evolve against. Garlic is one example.
The main active component in garlic is called allicin, which is how garlic's potentcy is measured. But allicin isn't simply one chemical. It oxidizes quickly, becoming more than 100 sulfur-containing compounds. With this many biologically-active chemicals, there are just too many possible combinations for any bacteria or virus to defend against. Two of them may combine together, or 99 might form a new mix. The possibilities are virtually endless. So garlic remains a potent natural antibiotic, even after centuries of use.
This is the successful trick of natural antibiotics. It even gets better when several of these substances are combined together, further increasing the number of active compounds in your system. This is what our concentrated natural antibiotics formula offers.
It contains the extracts from 10 of the strongest antibiotics found in nature, and it can fight common infections over and over because pathogens simply can't defend against it.
This mixture of powerful natural antibiotics contains the following:
1. Ginger
2. Onion
3. Garlic (30 cloves worth per bottle)
4. Olive leaf
5. Horseradish
6. Habanero pepper
7. Zinc
8. Grapefruit seed extract
9. Wild mountain oil of oregano
10. Apple cider vinegar
Unlike man-made or artificial drugs, these natural products will create no toxic side-effects for your body.
A few of the common bacterial, fungal, and viral conditions that our product can be used for:
1. Remedy for stomach flu
2. Ringworm treatment
3. Cold sore treatment
4. Toenail or fingernail fungus infections
5. Bladder infections
6. Urinary tract infections (also known as UTIs)
7. Sinus infections
8. Yeast infections (such as Candida)
About the author
Victor Leppky is the editor of http://www.natural-remedies-only.com the complete resource for natural ways to cure diseases and stay healthy. More information about chronic yeast infections can be found at http://www.natural-remedies-only.com/chronic-yeast-infections.html - Copyright: You may freely redistribute this article, provided the whole text, the active links and this copyright notice remain intact.
