The End Of Antibiotics And The Rise Of Iodine As An Effective Alternative

NaturalNews.com
Originally published March 10 2008

The End of Antibiotics and the Rise of Iodine as an Effective
Alternative
by Mark Sircus Ac., OMD


(NaturalNews) Eventually antibiotics are going to be seen as one of
the worst things to ever come out of pharmaceutical science because in
the end, they have made us only weaker in the face of ever
increasingly strong super bugs that are resistant to all the
antibiotics doctors have at their disposal. When we look at how deep
the rabbit hole goes with antibiotics, we will get sick in our souls.
Antibiotics have fulfilled their anti–biotic anti-life role leaving a
long trail of death and suffering in the wake of their use.

Diseases include measles, scarlet fever, tuberculosis, typhoid fever,
pneumonia, influenza, whooping cough, diphtheria and polio. All were
in decline for several decades before the introduction of antibiotics
or vaccines - Dr. Lawrence Wilson.

Antibiotics do not kill yeast. Many women find after taking
antibiotics, they get vaginal yeast infections (because their normal
bacterial balance has been lost). Antibiotics bring on fungal and
yeast infections thus will eventually be seen as a major cause of
cancer since more and more oncologists are seeing yeast and fungal
infections as an integral part of cancer and its cause. With upwards
of 40 percent of all cancers thought to be involved with and caused by
infections, the subject of antibiotics and the need for something
safer, more effective and life serving is imperative.

It may be some time before we really enter the predicted "post
antibiotic era" in which common infections are frequently untreatable
- Dr. Marc Lipsitch et al. (Harvard School of Public Health).

Antibiotics kill all bacteria in the body, including the ones we need.

An antibiotic is a substance produced by certain bacteria or fungi
that kills other cells or interferes with their growth. In nature,
these substances help some microbes survive by limiting the
multiplication of other microbes that share the same environment.
Antibiotics that attack pathogenic (disease-causing) microbes without
severely harming normal body cells are useful as drugs but there does
not seem to be any from the pharmaceutical companies that do not do
damage. Dr. Lisa Landymore-Lin wrote all about this in her book
Poisonous Prescriptions asking, 'Do Antibiotics Cause Asthma and
Diabetes?' We are now beginning to question the role of antibiotics as
a cause of cancer since they do lead to pathogen overgrowth especially
in the area of yeast and fungi. Chris Woollams writes, "It is
estimated that 70 per cent of the British population have a yeast
infection. The primary cause of this is our love of antibiotics.
Swollen glands? Take antibiotics. Tonsillitis? Take antibiotics."

Two studies in the recent past have shown an association between the
use of antibiotics with higher incidence of breast cancer.

In one study the increased risk was small, and the importance of the
link has been played down by UK breast-cancer experts, but the
findings add weight to recent studies that have found links between
antibiotics and other diseases. In the past few years, heavy
antibiotic use has been linked to the inflammatory bowel disorder,
Crohn's disease, and to children developing allergies such as Hay
fever and asthma. And as we shall see below, antibiotics play a hidden
role in autism and other neurological diseases.

The Journal of the American Medical Association has reported a study
on 10,000 women in which women who took over 500 days of antibiotics
in a 17 year period (dubbed 25 plus doses) had twice the risk of
breast cancer as those that took none at all. Even women taking just
one had a statistical risk increase to 1.5 times.

The consequences of resistance in some bacteria can be measured as
increases in the term and magnitude of morbidity, higher rates of
mortality, and greater costs of hospitalization for patients infected
with resistant bacteria - Dr. Marc Lipsitch et al.

Broad-spectrum antibiotics are undiscriminating: in addition to "bad
bacteria," they also kill healthy bacteria which normally live in the
intestines and the vagina, and which are a necessary part of the
indigenous flora to keep the body healthy. When the "good" bacteria
are killed with antibiotics, then yeast, which is part of the normal
flora of the body, can begin to overgrow because the antibiotics have
altered the body's healthy terrain (internal ecological balance)
allowing the yeast to hyperproliferate and cause many far-reaching,
toxic symptoms.

But modern medicine so far continues to believe that antibiotics have
played an important role in staving off bacterial infections since
Alexander Fleming first discovered them in 1927. Many doctors are
finally beginning to see that the effectiveness of these so-called
miracle drugs has waned as some of the very bacteria they are meant to
control have been mutating into new forms that don't respond to
treatment. Many medical experts blame this phenomenon on both the
misuse and overuse of antibiotics in recent years in both human
medicine and in agriculture.

According to several studies, obstetricians and gynecologists write
2,645,000 antibiotic prescriptions every week. Internists prescribe
1,416,000 per week. This works out to 211,172,000 prescriptions
annually in the United States, just for these two specialties.
Pediatricians prescribe over $500 million worth of antibiotics
annually just for one condition, ear infections. Yet topical povidone
iodine (PVP-I) is as effective as topical ciprofloxacin, with a
superior advantage of having no in vitro drug resistance and the added
benefit of reduced cost of treatment.

According to a study published in the Journal of the American Medical
Association, taking properly prescribed medical drugs was listed as
the third leading cause of death in the U.S. Antibiotics
were listed in this category because antibiotics can be deadly.

A 17-year-old St Margaret's College student in New Zealand has exposed
multiple antibiotic-resistant bugs in fresh chicken sold in
supermarkets? Jane Millar's discovery of a range of resistant bacteria
in chickens that could compromise antibiotic treatment in humans is an
important finding that the bacteria have developed resistance to
antibiotics not used in the poultry industry but important for
treating serious infections in humans.

We can create resistance to medically important antibiotics by using
antibiotics that are presumably safe in agriculture - Jane Millar.

Jane bought six fresh chickens - free-range, barn-raised and organic –
from a supermarket. She took samples from each bird and grew bug
colonies, which she used to test different antibiotics. Apramycin is
an antibiotic used sparingly by the New Zealand poultry industry to
treat infections. The bacteria of two chickens tested resistant to
apramycin. They also proved resistant to another two antibiotics from
the same family - gentamicin and tobramycin - used for serious human
infections. Gentamicin is not used by the poultry industry; tobramycin
is restricted to human use only.

A recent risk assessment study commissioned by the U.S. Food and Drug
Administration (FDA) has estimated that about 8,000-10,000 persons in
the U.S. each year acquire fluoroquinolone-resistant Campylobacter
infections from chicken and attempt to treat those infections with a
fluoroquinolone.

Every day, new strains of bacteria, fungi, and other pathogenic
microorganisms are becoming resistant to the antibiotics that once
dispatched them with extreme prejudice.

"We know that antimicrobial resistance will follow antimicrobial use
as sure as night follows day," said Dr. John A. Jernigan, deputy chief
of prevention and response from the Center of Disease Control. "It's
just a biological phenomenon." It turns out that the indiscriminate
killing of harmless microbes damages the body in complex ways we are
only beginning to understand. Powerful antibiotics introduced into the
complex environment in our intestines cause mayhem, much like a series
of bombs tossed into a market square. Antibiotic resistance is a
widespread problem, and one that the U.S. Centers for Disease Control
and Prevention calls "one of the world's most pressing public health
problems."

One of the deadliest germs is a staph bacteria called M.R.S.A., short
for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, which lives
harmlessly on the skin but causes havoc when it enters the body.
Patients who do survive M.R.S.A. often spend months in the hospital
and endure several operations to cut out infected tissue.
Hospitalizations associated with a drug-resistant form of a
Staphylococcus bacterium doubled over six years in the U.S. to nearly
280,000 cases in 2005. The death toll rose from 4,700 in 1999 to about
6,600 in 2005. It estimated that 94,000 Americans suffered invasive
MRSA infections in 2005 and that about 19,000 died.

One out of every 20 patients contracts an infection during a hospital
stay in the US. Hospital infections kill an estimated 103,000 people
in the United States a year, as many as AIDS, breast cancer and auto
accidents combined. The vast majority of lethal cases occur in
hospitals and nursing homes, where open wounds and punctures provide
the opportunistic staph a ready path to the bloodstream and organs.
The dangers of infection are worsening as many hospital infections can
no longer be cured with common antibiotics.

More than half the time, doctors and other caregivers break the most
fundamental rule of hygiene by
failing to clean their hands before treating a patient.

"Recently there has been an alarming epidemic caused by community-
associated (CA)-MRSA strains, which can cause severe infections that
can result in necrotizing fasciitis or even death in otherwise healthy
adults outside of healthcare settings," is the word coming from the
National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) research
team, headed by Dr. Michael Otto.

Necrotizing fasciitis is the so-called flesh-eating disease that can
destroy healthy tissue and even kill patients. The team found that
some strains on MRSA secrete a compound called phenol-soluble modulin
or PSM. It attracts immune system cells called neutrophils, the
researchers found, and then blows them up in a process called lysis.
Neutrophils are key immune cells involved in clearing bacterial
infections, so destroying them would allow the bacteria to thrive
almost unmolested.
"In the United States, CA-MRSA is now the cause of the majority of
infections that result in trips to the emergency room. It is unclear
what makes CA-MRSA strains more successful in causing human disease
compared with their hospital-associated counterparts," they add.

When the peaceful activities of a normal microbial population are
disrupted, malevolent bacteria may take full advantage of the
opportunity to strike. The intestinal infection C. difficile colitis,
now rampaging through hospitals around the world, is one of the worst
such complication of antibiotic use.

Clostridium difficile was first recognized as a hospital microbe in
1978. By 1996, it had increased to 31 cases per 100,000 people
discharged from U.S. hospitals. In 2003, the most recent year for
complete statistics, prevalence had risen to 61 per 100,000. C. diff
is part of the natural flora, or bacteria, in the colon. "We're seeing
all of the warning signs that this is the next MRSA," said former New
York Lt. Gov. Betsy McCaughey, founder of the Committee to Reduce
Infection Deaths, a Manhattan-based nonprofit. "It spreads like
wildfire in hospitals."

Clostridium difficile is a spore-forming toxin-producing bacterium
that is overtaking peoples' large intestines from which it mounts an
attack on the bloodstream. Like MRSA, Clostridium difficile has become
multi-drug-resistant. Although once a bacterium that mostly affected
elderly, hospitalized patients, a bolder strain is crippling the
robust. In emergency efforts to save some patients' lives surgeons
remove the entire large intestine to prevent overwhelming infection.

One case had been treated by a dermatologist for an ingrown hair on
his back and prescribed an antibiotic. He took only a few pills, but
quickly became ill. Based on what his doctors told him, the short
course of antibiotics proved sufficient to destroy virtually all the
natural bacteria in his intestine - except C. diff, which was freed to
ravage his colon.

Frequently, stethoscopes, blood-pressure monitors and other equipment
are contaminated with live bacteria. Yet doctors and nurses almost
never clean the stethoscope before listening to a patient's chest.

"It strikes precisely those hospitals which are more 'high-tech', and
handle more serious illnesses. Applying more disinfectant is not the
answer; some strains of germs have actually been found thriving in
bottles of hospital disinfectant! The more antibacterial chemical
'weapons' are being used, the more bacteria are becoming resistant to
them," writes Dr. Carl Wieland.

Health-care officials are increasingly concerned about emerging new
forms of drug-resistant Tuberculosis (TB). According to the WHO,
outbreaks of drug-resistant tuberculosis are showing up all over the
world and threaten to touch off a worldwide epidemic of virtually
incurable tuberculosis. An October 1997 survey by the WHO, the U.S.
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the International Union
Against Tuberculosis and Lung Disease estimates that 50 million people
are infected with a strain of TB that is drug-resistant. Many of those
are said to carry multi-drug-resistant tuberculosis, incurable by two
or more of the standard drugs.

New DNA technology has found hundreds of previously unrecognized
species in the traditional stomping grounds of the mouth and
intestine, and traces of bacteria even in tissues previously thought
to be sterile.

Lessons from Autism

Medical scientists at Arizona State University tell us that antibiotic
use is known to almost completely inhibit excretion of mercury in rats
due to alteration of gut flora. Thus, higher use of oral antibiotics
in the children with autism may have reduced their ability to excrete
mercury. Higher usage of oral antibiotics in infancy may also
partially explain the high incidence of chronic gastrointestinal
problems in individuals with autism.

Many physicians are unaware of lasting adverse effects caused by
routinely prescribed medications such as antibiotics. Antibiotic
therapy for minor colds and runny noses is a common practice. People
routinely receive multiple courses of broad-spectrum antibiotics
throughout life or are injected with long-acting corticosteroid
medicine for joint or muscle pain. Once established, sub-clinical
colonization with yeast in the body may persist unrecognized for many
years. Antibiotics, such as tetracycline, can greatly increase yeast
in the colon after only a few days.

The extensive use of antibiotics will make the condition of Candida
much worse because it reduces heavy metal excretion, which is a food
source for the yeast like organism and also killing the beneficial
bacteria at the same time.

Normally, candida albicans lives peacefully in our intestines and
elsewhere, in harmony with other flora that keep the yeast in check.
Take an antibiotic and all this changes. By suppressing the normal
flora, candida takes over and problems begin. In its mild form, the
result is diarrhea or a yeast infection. Dr. Elmer Cranton says that,
"Yeast overgrowth is partly iatrogenic (caused by the medical
profession) and can be caused by antibiotics and cortisone
medications. A diet high in sugar also promotes overgrowth of yeast. A
highly refined diet common in industrialized nations not only promotes
growth of yeast, but is also deficient in many of the essential
vitamins and minerals needed by the immune system. Chemical colorings,
flavorings, preservatives, stabilizers, emulsifiers, etc., add more
stress on the immune system."

Children with autism had significantly (2.1-fold) higher levels of
mercury in their baby teeth but similar levels of lead and similar
levels of zinc. Children with autism also had significantly higher
usage of oral antibiotics during their first 12 to 36 months of life.
Reporting in the July 11, 2007 issue of the Journal of the American
Medical Association, researchers say the use of antibiotics as
prevention boosts risks for drug resistance while doing nothing to
shield kids from future urinary tract infections (UTIs). Giving
antibiotics to prevent recurrent urinary tract infections in small
children not only will not help but will hurt these children. Prior
use of antibiotics to prevent infection did boost the likelihood of
developing a drug-resistant infection by nearly 7.5 times. Indeed, 61
percent of recurrent urinary tract infections were caused by a
pathogen with antibiotic resistance, the researchers pointed out.

In a 2005 study, the antibiotic Augmentin TM has been implicated in
the formation of autism. The study strongly suggests the possibility
of ammonia poisoning as a result of young children taking Augmentin.
Augmentin has been given to children since the late 1980's for
bacterial infections.

Many physicians seem to be unaware that birth control pills comprised
of the hormones estrogen and progesterone can also make the body more
susceptible to fungal infections. If antibiotics are prescribed, it
acts as a double whammy to ensuring a fungal infection will take hold
by diminishing the protective bacteria in the intestines. Many
pregnant women seek medical treatment for minor problems and are
indiscriminately given antibiotics and this begins a long decline into
problems that are complicated at each turn by OBGYN doctors at birth
and by pediatricians who just love to poison children with the toxic
chemicals found in vaccines. In many places in the world they still
give mercury shots at birth.

Microforms poison us with their waste products.

The waste products are acetylaldehyde, uric acid, alloxin, alcohols,
lactic acid, etc.

Antibiotics may be to blame for hundreds of children developing autism
after having the controversial MMR jab. More than two-thirds of
youngsters with the condition received four or more antibiotics in
their first year, a British survey has revealed. It is thought the
drugs weakened their immune systems, leaving them unable to withstand
the impact of the triple jab. Allopathic medicine has been stubborn
and slow to look at its abusive use of antibiotics. It's the same with
vaccines, the holy grail of medicine. But with last-line-of-defence
antibiotics failing on increasingly drug-resistant superbugs and young
children's systems being destroyed by them you would think they would
wake up and find some alternatives.

Antibiotics are mostly derived from fungi and are therefore classified
as mycotoxins. Mycotoxins Are Poisons.

Iodine - a Pillar Against Infections

Iodine offers a serious and potent replacement for much of the
antibiotics that are literally destroying people's lives and can be
used safely with children. Parents, who chose not to dose their kids
with dangerous vaccines will be glad to know that iodine can be very
effective against a host of viral infections that medical officials
insist threaten children.

Though it kills 90 percent of bacteria on the skin within 90 seconds,
its use as an antibiotic has been ignored. Iodine exhibits activity
against bacteria, molds, yeasts, protozoa, and many viruses; indeed,
of all antiseptic preparations suitable for direct use on humans and
animals and upon tissues, only iodine is capable of killing all
classes of pathogens: gram-positive and gram-negative bacteria,
mycobacteria, fungi, yeasts, viruses and protozoa. Most bacteria are
killed within 15 to 30 seconds of contact.

Iodine is by far the best antibiotic, antiviral and antiseptic of all
time - Dr. David Derry

Dr. Derry says that iodine is effective "for standard pathogens such
as Staphylococcus, but also iodine has the broadest range of action,
fewest side effects and no development of bacterial resistance." There
is a world of difference between using an antibiotic – anti-life
substance – and an antibiotic, antiviral and antifungal substance like
iodine, which is life serving because it is a basic and most necessary
nutritional substance.

Iodine kills single celled organisms by combining with the amino acids
tyrosine or histidine when they are exposed to the extra-cellular
environment. All single cells showing tyrosine on their outer cell
membranes are killed instantly by a simple chemical reaction with
iodine that denatures proteins. Nature and evolution have given us an
important mechanism to control pathogenic life forms and we should use
it and trust it to protect us in ways that antibiotics can't.

"My husband Ron had a small infection at the base of the nail. This
very quickly turned nasty and our doctor agreed it looked like gout.
Three weeks later Ron heard back from his Doctor who was in a mad
panic saying Ron had septicemia. On seeing the surgeon that same day
the surgeon wanted to go in and cut the finger open end for end and
look at the finger and that she would probably have to take it off
anyway. Finally the Nascent Iodine we ordered arrived (my husband was
refusing to take antibiotics) He started on quite a hefty dose of 15
drops while continuing to apply magnesium chloride transdermally."

"Two days after starting the iodine there was feeling starting to
regenerate and pain again in the finger and Ron thought it looked less
discolored. Then the following day the swelling had started to go down
and the normal healthy pinkness was returning at the base of the
finger. Over a period of days it has progressively improved with no
other treatment than the iodine and magnesium chloride. We also then
made a poultice with a mixture of comfrey, honey and garlic for a few
days, then the Nascent Iodine dripped into a goldenseal ointment."

Magnesium chloride is the only form of magnesium known to have anti-
infectious properties. When it comes to fighting infections, iodine
and magnesium chloride are a dynamic duo that should not be overlooked
by allopathic or naturopathic physicians or by anyone else. I talked a
few months ago to a missionary in Africa who was using iodine (in the
atomic or detoxified form) to successfully treat malaria. My own
children have recently had bad coughs and it is iodine, not dangerous
over-the-counter cough medicines I reach for.

The feeling of security for a parent comes from administering
substances like iodine (Nascent and other forms) and magnesium
chloride (natural forms) to their children. Yes in dire emergency we
would still use an antibiotic when fever is high and all else has
failed but until that kind of critical point, iodine, backed up by
magnesium chloride, sodium bicarbonate and even clay, is our main line
of defense against a full range of pathogens.

Determining what is an appropriate use of an antibiotic is a judgment
call in which cultural, social, psychological, and economic factors
play at least as great a role as clinical and epidemiological
considerations - Dr. Marc Lipsitch et al.

The way to combat antibiotic resistance is not bigger, better,
stronger antibiotics but, rather, no antibiotics at all. Instead,
other molecular weapons are available with the ability to disable bad
germs without bothering good ones. Iodine is the ideal broad spectrum
antibiotic that is not an antibiotic - it is not against life. Not
against human life that is but you can hear the little pathogens
screaming as high enough levels of iodine fan out through the system.
Meaning all the viruses, bacteria, yeasts and molds that are
threatening us are threatened with instant death when iodine is used
orally to fight infection. It's hard to make a mistake with iodine but
with pharmaceutical antibiotics we are playing at the crap table
hoping our choice of which one to use works against the pathogen that
is actually threatening a person.

Infection depresses levels of vitamins B6 and C.

"The right dose of Vitamin C will stop every infection in its tracks
without needing to use antibiotics" - Dr. Gary Gordon.

Another reason to avoid antibiotics, except in the most dire
emergencies, is that they interfere with the absorption of many
vitamins and minerals, leading to their deficiencies. Deficiencies in
these nutrients can set the stage for increased susceptibility to more
infections.

Following is a list of the Drug/Substance and the Nutrients which are
depleted by that substance:

* Antibiotics - (Nutrients Depleted) Vitamin A, B-12, C, E, K, Biotin,
Calcium, Iron, Magnesium, Potassium

* Chelators - Copper, Iron, Magnesium, Zinc

* Anticonvulsants - Vitamin B-2, B-12, C, F, K, Folic Acid, Calcium,
Magnesium

* Antidiabetics (Oral) - Vitamin B-2, B-12, C, D, Folic Acid

* Antihistamines - Vitamin C

* Aspirin - Calcium, Folic Acid, Iron, Potassium, C, B Complex

"When I was finally discharged from hospital, I still had a strain of
supergerm colonizing my body. Nothing had been able to get rid of it,
after months in hospital. However, I was told that all I had to do on
going home was to 'get outdoors a lot, occasionally even roll in the
dirt, and wait.' In less than two weeks of this advice, the supergerms
were gone. Why? The reason is that supergerms are actually defective
in other ways, as explained. Therefore, when they are forced to
compete with the ordinary bacteria which normally thrive on our skin,
they do not have a chance. They thrive in hospital because all the
antibiotics and antiseptics being used there keep wiping out the
ordinary bacteria which would normally out compete, wipe out and
otherwise keep in check these 'superwimps,'" wrote Dr. Carl Wieland

Interestingly enough Dr. Weston Price, who studied the diets and
health of many primitive societies during the early 20th century,
found that many primitive people would eat food that has been dipped
in water dissolved with clay – in order to prevent upset stomachs from
food poisoning. Two types of clay are today commonly sold for
consumption as health supplements – bentonite and montmorillonite.
These have been variously called "living clay", "healing clay" or just
"edible clays". Clay is highly absorptive. It readily absorbs toxins,
heavy metals, bacteria, virus and fungi. But because clay itself is
not absorbed by the body, whatever it absorbs is passed out in the
stools.

Mutating Viruses

Did you know that a nutritional deficiency can cause a virus to mutate
to a more virulent form? That is the news from the United States
Department of Agriculture (USDA) who are reporting that a human virus,
normally harmless in laboratory mice, mutated into a heart-damaging
pathogen when the animals were raised on a diet devoid of the
essential element selenium. And, once mutated, the virus continued to
damage hearts - even in mice that got ample selenium in their feed.

The importance of this is not limited to nutritionally-deprived
populations, say researchers with the University of North Carolina and
Agricultural Research Service of the government, who collaborated on
the studies. In theory, one selenium-deficient person or animal could
produce a new family of virus mutants that could cross species and
spread worldwide, causing disease even in well nourished people.

The USDA is now officially on record that nutritional deficiencies
cause viral mutations and they expect to find the same results with
vitamin-E-deficient mice because both selenium and vitamin E are
nutrients that serve as antioxidants in the body. This means that the
government is recognizing that free radicals and oxidative stress
affects the world of pathogens creating super bugs out of regular
critters. They are even going as far as saying that this may help
explain the many new strains of influenza virus arising in China,
which has widespread selenium-deficient areas.

The implications are enormous for a form of medicine that understands
absolutely nothing about nutrition and the science of low level
toxicity. Part of our infection fighting arsenal needs to include
selenium and ALA (Alpha Lipoic Acid) and this is critical not only for
maintaining glutathione levels but also for the neutralization of
mercury. Mercury provides the ideal environment for viruses, bacteria,
fungi and yeast infections. Though most are in total denial of it, we
are as a race being overrun by mercury pollution that is everywhere in
the air, water, food, vaccines, dental amalgam and even beauty
products.

When a person is bitten by a snake, spider or scorpion it helps the
doctors to know which poison they are treating. One cannot say
anything about health or disease anymore without dealing with mercury
and its rising tide. You cannot treat infectious diseases in effective
ways without dealing with the soil of the infection, with the mercury
and other chemical toxicities that are driving the pathogens. A doctor
needs to know his poisons but most of them find their minds obscured
by the denial of the fact that most of the pharmaceuticals they use
are mitochondrial poisons. Modern medicine is lost when it comes to
dealing with mercury and in fact endorses its use in vaccines and
dental medicine.

Garlic is one food that has powerful anti-bacterial and anti-fungal
properties and some scientific studies have found it to be at least as
effective as the popular anti-fungal drug, Nystatin, in destroying
candida albicans.

We have to change our perceptions about infections and infectious
processes. We need to shift away from the competing paradigms of
pathogen vs. terrain. We need to deal simultaneously with pathogen,
terrain and poison. Certainly we need to deal with nutrition and the
use of concentrated nutritional substances that help us deal safely
and effectively with infections.

Much more could be said about natural remedies and other substances
like colloidal silver, which is known to have antibacterial
properties. I would choose iodine first because the body needs it
anyway where it does not need colloidal silver. When we use
concentrated nutritional substances as antibiotics we are doing a lot
more than confronting hostile pathogens. We are supporting total body
physiology as well as elimination of heavy metals and other toxic
poisons.

Nearly 500,000 people are dying yearly in America due to infectious
disease. It now ranks number 3 behind heart disease and cancer in
claiming American lives.


About the author
Mark A. Sircus Ac., OMD, is director of the International Medical
Veritas Association (IMVA). Dr. Sircus was trained in acupuncture and
oriental medicine at the Institute of Traditional Medicine in Sante
Fe, N.M., and in the School of Traditional Medicine of New England in
Boston. He served at the Central Public Hospital of Pochutla, in
México, and was awarded the title of doctor of oriental medicine for
his work. He was one of the first nationally certified acupuncturists
in the United States. Dr. Sircus's IMVA is dedicated to unifying the
various disciplines in medicine with the goal of creating a new dawn
in healthcare.

He is particularly concerned about the effect vaccinations have on
vulnerable infants and is identifying the common thread of many toxic
agents that are dramatically threatening present and future
generations of children. His book The Terror of Pediatric Medicine is
a free e-book one can read. Dr. Sircus is a most prolific and
courageous writer and one can read through hundreds of pages on his
various web sites.

He has most recently released his Survival Medicine for the 21st
Century compendium (2,200 page ebook) and is racing to finish his
Winning the War Against Cancer book. Dr. Sircus is a pioneer in the
area of natural detoxification and chelation of toxic chemicals and
heavy metals. He is also a champion of the medicinal value of minerals
and is fathering in a new medical approach that uses sea water and
different concentrates taken from it for health and healing.
Transdermal Magnesium Therapy, his first published work, offers a
stunning breakthrough in medicine, an entirely new way to supplement
magnesium that naturally increases DHEA levels, brings cellular
magnesium levels up quickly, relieves pain, brings down blood pressure
and pushes cell physiology in a positive direction. Magnesium chloride
delivered transdermally brings a quick release from a broad range of
conditions.






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