When We Lose Antibiotics, Here’s Everything Else We’ll Lose Too

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35. Do you know how antibiotic drugs are made?

Antibiotics are chemical agents produced by one organism (bacteria or fungi) that inhibits or kills another organism. Daptomycin, the last new antibiotic approved a decade ago, is a compound derived from a soil bacteria (streptomyces roseosporus specifically). Penicillin is made from the mold Penicillium. They are naturally occurring compounds that need help through chemistry so they can be made into a drug that is delivered either topically or systemically to eradicate infection.

So essentially - compounds from bacteria and fungi are used to kill other competing bacteria and fungi. That's how it works.

I understand the claim that oregano oil, grapefruit seed extract and colloidal silver (for example) have antimicrobial activity, but there is zero clinical evidence of their effectiveness; and ingesting colloidal silver may even be harmful.

We absolutely need antibiotics to combat bugs like MRSA, VRE, CRE, and pan-resistant bacteria. Unfortunately, the process for getting them into a form that will help people is handled by big pharma, for profit. I wish that wasn't the case.