We often find people heavily
dependent on antibiotics. Do you
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know what happens when they
continue to depend upon the same
drug day after day, month after
month, year after year? The good
gut bacteria die along with the bad
bacteria. With the mass destruction
of good gut bacteria, fungi that has
all along been waiting on the sidelines for a chance to thrive, spring
to life and grow rapidly and unopposed, thereby causing bloating,
indigestion, diarrhea and increased
yeast infection. The immune cells
too suffer. Their source of nutrition,
the good gut bacteria (lactobacil-
Barbara Starfield wrote an article
revealing that from conservative
estimates, the practice of medicine
is the third leading cause of death
in United States. But from the
research of Gary Null it is the first
leading cause of death with over
three quarters of a million people
dying from medical treatment each
year {5}.