Editor’s Note: This article is a reprint. It was originally published March 13, 2016. Barely a day goes by without some type of media announcement noting the importance of your gut flora. One of the best and least expensive ways to optimize your gut microbiome is to eliminate sugars and processed sugars and eat traditionally… Read More »
Can chlamydia be prevented? British Journal of General Practice. Azithromycin is the recommended medication and is taken as a 1 gram tablet taken by mouth as a single dose. The organism is in the elementary creaated of how life crested it encounters its host and is taken up by phagocytosis. It should probably be considered… Read More »
Antibiotics save lives but any time antibiotics are used, they can cause side effects and lead to antibiotic resistance. Since the s, antibiotics have greatly reduced illness and death from infectious diseases. However, as we use the drugs, germs develop defense strategies against them. This makes the drugs less effective. Microbes are very small living… Read More »
A group of researchers has brought the idea of food as a medicine one step closer. They have identified certain common foodstuffs that alter our microbiome. In science today, food and gut bacteria are two topics that are guaranteed to fuel interest and debate. Both, of course, are interrelated, and a new study focuses on… Read More »
Maine residents warned the tap water may smell and taste like CHLORINE this week as officials scramble to wipe Legionnaires’ bacteria from the water supply The Maine Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found the bacteria in two separate locations during testing at the Orono-Veazie Water District Legionnaires’ is a severe form of pneumonia caused… Read More »