Antibiotics Destroy Health

Antibiotics don't selectively destroy "bad" bacteria so much as they selectively destroy health in the body. One antibiotic pill is known to create systemic fungal candida within 4-52 hours and increase your cancer risk by 50%. A 5- to 7-day course of antibiotics will wipe out all of the bacteria in the body and it takes 9-12+ months for the bacteria to repopulate the tissues, with some species never coming back, creating a lifelong effect. The microbiome has been called critical, necessary, crucial and indispensible to human health. We have co-evolved with microbes to create a symbiotic, co-dependent relationship that is essential to human health.

The microbiome heavily influences the metabolism of its host.
http://www.cell.com/cell-metabolism/retrieve/pii/S1550413111001483


Gut microbiota are associated with essential various biological functions in humans through a "network" of microbial-host co-metabolism to process nutrients and drugs and modulate the activities of multiple pathways in organ systems that are linked to different diseases. The microbiome impacts strongly on the metabolic phenotypes of the host,…This study shows extensive gut microbiota modulation of host systemic metabolism involving short-chain fatty acids, tryptophan, tyrosine metabolism, and possibly a compensatory mechanism of indole-melatonin production.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21970572


Probiotic exposure exerted microbiome modification and resulted in altered hepatic lipid metabolism coupled with lowered plasma lipoprotein levels and apparent stimulated glycolysis. Probiotic treatments also altered a diverse range of pathways outcomes, including amino-acid metabolism, methylamines and SCFAs...
The gut microbiome–mammalian ‘Superorganism' (Lederberg, 2000) represents a level of biological evolutionary development in which there is extensive ‘transgenomic' modulation of metabolism and physiology that is a characteristic of true symbiosis. By definition, superorganisms contain multiple cell types, and the coevolved interacting genomes can only be effectively studied as an in vivo unit in situ using top-down systems biology approaches. Interest in the impact of gut microbial activity on human health is expanding rapidly and many mammalian–microbial associations, both positive and negative, have been reported . Mammalian–microbial symbiosis can play a strong role in the metabolism of endogenous and exogenous compounds and can also be influential in the etiology and development of several diseases, for example insulin resistance, Crohn's disease, irritable bowel syndrome, food allergies, gastritis and peptic ulcers, obesity, cardiovascular disease and gastrointestinal cancers. Activities of the diverse gut microbiota can be highly specific.
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2238715/

Medicine is a knee-jerk reaction. Consumers and patients alike are trained to react and not to think about what they're doing. Thinking about what you're doing is the only way that you'll have a chance at restoring and maintaining health. Thinking is necessary for health.