Are we weakening our immune systems due to over prescribed medicines and antibiotics?

Answer 1

Drugs are dangerous and foods, as supplements, are not.

Even over-the-counter drugs, like aspirin, kill thousands of people each year.

Facts :
The immune system is almost completly microscopic with thousands of different classes and components.
Inflammation occurs when tissues are injured by bacteria, trauma, toxins, heat, or any other cause.
Swelling helps isolate the foreign substance from further contact with body tissues.
The immune system's enzymes and inflammatory chemicals are potent enough to destroy foreign invaders and even bone.

A daily regimen of Mangosteen with it's anti-biotic properties, is a good investment.

The DNA in every one of the 72 trillion cells of our bodies recieves an estimated ten thousand hits from free radicals everyday!

Mangosteen benefits :-

Mangosteen has acid lowering effects, anti-inflammatory effects, anti-oxident effects, and NO major side effects!

In the year 2000, the side effects of anti-inflammatories killed more people in the U.S. than Aids.

Facts:-

Inflammation causes blood clotting.

Bloodlots in the coronary arteries cause heart attacks.

Blood clots in the carotid arteries cause strokes.

Imagine the impact that the Mangosteen could have on people's well-being, if it were widely used???

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Answer 2

There are actually many diseases where weakening the immune system is better for the patient. Right off the top of my head, I can think of two: psoriasis (the dry and flaky skin that both itches and hurts and never seems to go away completely), and rheumatoid arthritis (the most crippling and deformative type of arthritis). Others could be some types of cancer, especially during chemotherapy, to help the chemicals in the therapy fight the cancer cells. You may find other answers ... because even though doctors know a lot, there are many 'diseases' and dysfunctions still being studied to find cures. You never know what new 'discoveries' will be made, or how a medicine that 'seems to hurt people' may actually be the 'thing' that leads to finding a cure!

Answer 3

Being an immunologist, I have to admit that this is a very complicated issue...First of all, you need to define what you mean by "weakening our immune systems"; what are you looking at? Which aspect of our body's immune functions? Anyway, there is no doubt that antibiotics are overprescribed in the US and that this leads to the development of multiresistant microbes; if this leads to alterations of the body's immune function needs to be proved. There are definitely other common factors which are well recognized in affecting our immune systems like dietary deficiencies, sedentary lifestyle, obesity, smoking, diabetes, exposure to toxicants secondary to environmental polution...Another factor that has been postulated in affecting immune responses is the widespread use of childhood immunizations (vaccines). There is definitely a great interplay among these factors, but how much each one of them is responsible for altering our immune functions is very difficult to define. To isolate the widespead use of antibiotics and infer a statistically significant association with out immune responses is a quite challenging task; no published epidemiologic research has been conducted yet...

Answer 4

Absolutely!! I believe that we as a species should just let the body do the work of fighting these "bugs". That is what the body was designed to do, after all. True, not all people would necessarily survive when fighting some of the nastier diseases, but again, that is just the natural order of life-only the strongest will survive! I do not take "cold remedies' or the likes, have very rarely taken antibiotics, and have not had a cold, or the flu, in well over 25 years. I also believe that your mind-set has a large part in how well your body fights these problems. If you truly believe that you CAN'T get sick, then you don't get sick (it works for me at least)

Answer 5

Yes....America uses too many antibiotics and we are too clean. We do not let our bodies do what they need to do naturally to fight infections and disease. At the first sign of discomfort we run to the doctor and want the quick fix. In other cultures people require far less medicine and treatment because they have allowed their bodies to become stronger. Antibiotics cause bacteria to mutate, evolve. This make antibiotics useless over time and new ones, stronger ones, have to be invented, with more powerful side effects. Get a little dirty....let you body get use to being a human being,,,not a chemical dump.

Answer 6

Yes-we over being over-prescribed antibiotics and our bodies are building a resistance as a result, rendering them ineffective.

Answer 7

Yes we are. I had hip replacement in Dec. 2005. I came down with an infection called MRSA. I did not know what that was. I asked my husband and my friends to research it and tell me. They refused to tell me. It is antibotic resistant. I was on vanocymin for months. I ended up having to have the hip replaced 3 times thanks to the MRSA.

I am better now; however after 3 replacements, my hip will probably never be very good. All this thanks to MRSA.

Answer 8

Yes - because our bodies get used to permanent medication and the bugs eventually find a way to get round the anti-biotics, which is why there is constant research into new ones.

Answer 9

Yes, and that is why the bugs such as the Vancomycin Resistant Enterococci (VRE) and other superbugs are around and are very hard and long to treat in patients.

Answer 10

Yes, especially with antibiotics. But sometimes you just have to do what you have to do.