We Are What We Eat

We Are What We Eat, New York Times, Sept 22, 2010

Today’s Simple Truth comes from Andy Forelli, DC of Huntington, NY:

The first antibiotic (Penicillin) was mass-produced and introduced to the public in 1943. A mere four years later, bacteria were becoming resistant to it. Over 75 years later, many in the health care fields are declaring that the age of antibiotics is over as more and more germs are becoming resistant to the drugs. Combine that with drug companies severely decreasing spending on research and development of new antibiotics and it is easy to why this is rapidly becoming a truth. As recent as ten years ago, unfettered prescribing of antibiotics for the common cold and other viral infections was commonplace, even though these drugs have ABSOLUTELY NO EFFECT ON VIRAL INFECTIONS. Many M.D.’s disregarded the warnings from concerned parties regarding the ever increasing resistance of the germs to the drugs. That is no longer the case. With hospital borne bacteria becoming “Super bugs” due to the over utilization of antibiotics, more and more people are coming down with antibiotic resistant strains of once easily taken care of infections and the medical community has finally woken up. Your local primary care physician is no longer prescribing antibiotics willy-nilly for every little sniffle. Your kid’s pediatrician is no longer writing all those prescriptions for ear infections, instead allowing to give the little kids bodies a chance to heal on their own (doesn’t THAT sound familiar?). And yet, according to the article above, the FDA is merely SUGGESTING that the producers of livestock limit the use of antibiotics. If you think that antibiotic overuse is a problem with HUMANS, you should see how they are over-utilized in livestock. It’s scary and it is in YOUR food supply, creating more and more powerful and resistant strains of bacteria. So what are you to do about it? This is just one more stressor in your environment that your body is being asked to deal with. You can combat it by making sure your pantry is as clean as possible and the best food you can buy is what you put into your body. But how do you combat all those super bacteria that the overuse of antibiotics has produced? By making sure your body can do what God designed it to do; adapt and thrive. Regular Chiropractic adjustments give your body the best chance it can possibly have to adapt to ALL of the stressors in your environment on a DAILY basis. The corrective spinal adjustment given to you by your chiropractor releases the pressure on your nervous system so your body can express 100% of it’s inner health potential, giving your body the edge it needs to be healthy in this world in spite of what this world throws at it.