03/02/2025
The meaning of antibiotics is "against life". Medicine focuses on the short-term "benefits" of antibiotic use over long-term health. Antibiotics are the main cause of systemic fungal candida, which in itself is related to over 125 different diseases and conditions. Beyond that, antibiotic use drives many other imbalances that are associated with even more diseases and conditions, as well as disrupting the planetary ecosystem.
One of the tools used in diagnosing imbalances in the gut is the stool test. While it is considered to be the most reliable diagnostic test for fungal candida and many other imbalances related to the microbes in the gut, I haven't found the explanations of the test results to be very useful. When I analyze stool tests, I incorporate many other factors that give a much better picture of what is taking place.
Now, science has discovered yet another consideration that further weakens stool tests and how the interpretations can have less validity. This study showed that antibiotics can change the function of the gut bacteria in ways that render beneficial bacteria less effective.
The study highlights yet another negative effect of antibiotics on the beneficial gut bacteria, Akkermansia muciniphila. Antibiotic exposure altered A. mucinphila's effectiveness. A stool test may show that the amounts of this bacteria are within the pre-determined arbitrary "healthy" ranges, but the reality can be that it is providing litte to no benefit despite the amounts present. Now, we need to account for this with every bacteria in the gut.
Unfortunately, studies like this constantly slip by unnoticed and so it is unlikely that the knowledge or application of this information will be incorporated into test results for decades.
Antibiotics are appropriately named.
Background Altered gut microbiota has emerged as a major contributing factor to the etiology of chronic conditions in humans. Antibiotic exposure, historically dating back to the mass production of penicillin in the early 1940s, has been proposed as a primary contributor to the cumulative alteration...
