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Rebecca holds a Bachelor's Degree in Nutrition and Food Science from Hunter College in NYC and Master's Degree in Human Nutrition from the University of Bridgeport in CT. She is a certified TBM practitioner.
Rebecca has been seen on the Channel 12 news, local cable television, written articles for the Milford Magazine, Bridgeport Banner, and heard on AM radio. Rebecca also teaches classes and lectures in her community on various alternative health related topics.
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ANTIBIOTICS FOR EVERYONE!?
By Rebecca Karchere
In my practice, I find it somewhat amusing the way my patients react to illness. Please do not take this personally but I feel that I must confess it and explain why I find some humor in it. Well over 50% of my patients will confess that when they get an infection, they go directly to their medical doctor. Most of the time, if not all, they receive an antibiotic. You are probably thinking, well that sounds pretty normal. Well, normal is a relative term and just because something is ‘normal’ doesn’t mean that it is the best way.
Antibiotics only kill bacteria, so if you have another pathogen like fungus, yeast or a virus in your body, you are not getting the proper care if handed an antibiotic. On top of that, medicine does not address the reason or cause for the infection. Why is it that people run to the doctor for many different reasons and all come out leaving with an antibiotic prescription? When did antibiotics become the cure for everything? Are all our problems caused by bacteria? No. Are we all antibiotic deficient when we get sick? No
The reality of antibiotics is this: Simply put, antibiotics are poisons that are used to kill bacteria and only licensed physicians can prescribe them. Certainly, many people have benefited from using them and sometimes they are necessary for short periods of time only. The situation I am referring to is the overuse of antibiotics, which I come across constantly both in my practice and personally. As an adult, you have three to four pounds of beneficial bacteria and yeast living within your intestines.
These microbes compete for nutrients from the food you eat. Usually, beneficial bacteria keep the ever-present yeasts in check. However, every time you swallow antibiotics, you kill the beneficial bacteria within your intestines called probiotics. When you do so, you upset the delicate balance of your intestinal terrain. The party that yeast has in your body after taking an antibiotic is called dysbiosis. After enough beneficial bacteria die, another infection develops typically about 3 weeks later in the urinary tract, vaginal tract or sinuses. Other conditions such as parasitic infections, leaky gut, irritable bowel, and food allergies can develop as well. What you may not have known is that the beneficial bacteria in the gut is part of your immune system. The antibiotic kills the immune system hence the secondary infection. Does this sound logical? In addition, non- foods that people put in their mouth also weaken the immune system. These foods include white sugar, white flour, caffeine, pasteurized dairy and alcohol.
The human body is physically made out of water, macronutrients and micronutrients. In addition humans have a soul (mind, will and emotions) and a spirit. In summary you are all three and they need to be in balance in order to live life to the fullest. When the body is sick, it is out of balance. You only need one area out of balance and the ‘whole’ is disturbed.
The solution is to restore balance to the body, spirit and or soul. Drugs play no part in this restoration. Drugs do not restore balance in the body as they create a mandated reaction. They force the body to respond whether it is ready or not. This causes imbalance in other areas of the body, which we commonly call ‘side effects’. Side effects are inevitable when you take a drug and sometimes the side effects are worse than the original illness. We’ve all seen and heard the drug commercials!
The good news is, if you have taken an antibiotic then can take probiotics in the form of a supplement to restore the bacterial environment. Standard Process has one called Lact Enz. I almost always find when examining my patients after taking an antibiotic that they need this supplement. There are also supplements from Standard Process and Mediherb that I use for those patients who know the dangers of taking an antibiotic and insist on a ‘natural only’ approach. These are my graduate A+ patients. Upon examining them using a technique called Contact Reflex Analysis, I may find that they need any of the following: Echinacea, Immuplex, Andrographis, Garlic, Congaplex, or Thymex to name a few. Each of these supplements support the body differently. No one leaves my office with the exact same protocol! In addition, using another technique called Total Body Modification, patients can literally be restored to health before leaving the office! Both exams allow me to detect exactly what it is that a patient needs in terms of whole body support with no guesswork. We will also discover the cause(s) of the illness. My hope is that the next time you are not feeling well, that you come in to Pure NEWtrition, first!!! You will get the individualized care that you need to get well. Don’t we all just want to be well, without any additional stress or side-effects?
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