Maryn McKenna: What do we do when antibiotics don’t work any more?

crap load of BS!! CINNAMON ESSENTIAL OIL + CLOVE AND OREGANO GOOGLE IT!

Don't worry, humans are great at dealing with problems after they happen. I'm sure we'll start working on something after 100 million people die.

Humans are, in fact, becoming immune to antibiotics and so are viruses. But as both humans and viruses evolve, so does medicine. Researchers are constantly working on antibiotics and steroids with different combinations that will hopefully overcome the next strain of antibiotic-resistant viruses. As long as science and research methods keep improving, I believe there will always be a way to combat these "super bug" viruses.

In PJ´s words: Its evolution baby!

Humans have done plenty of damage to planet earth. Now, planet earth is attacking back. Hence, Super Bug.

In 2016, I treated five peyote cacti (legal in Canada) with silver solution and the intent of creating super alkaloidal amines, amino acids, non-proteinic acids, phenylethamines, and isoquinolines for future research into its possible antibiotic action(s). All that I require for the extraction of my dried and powdered peyote is a facility with a High Performance Thin Layer Chromatography machine to do it. I have made requests to labs, both nationally and internationally and all have refused to do so or remain silent. If my hunch plays out that the antibiotic properties of both plant and mineral will introduce a whole new class of terpentines and/or triterpentines with which to research with and develop new drugs. All that I ask for is the right to have my peyote tested. Refusing me is to ready yourselves to the post antibiotic era with hopelessness. Time is running out and we have so little left.

This is why we shouldn't leave medicine development to private corporations

Antibiotic resistance is a very scary and real thing we are dealing with. The over prescription of antibiotics and the addition of them into our foods has speed up this problem and only made it worse. Doctors are very cautious and this causes them to over prescribe antibiotic to their patients, even if it is not necessary. When your body is constantly being exposed to antibiotics your immune system will become adapted and the drug will no longer have the same effects as it used to. It's the same thing that happens with over exposure to painkillers. The food industry is not making matters any better, like she stated. There is no need to be adding antibiotics into everything we eat. This is done in order to save the company money and speed up the growth of the animal, but at what cost? People are dying because companies want to make more money than they already do. Young children have suffered from antibiotic resistance and it has to be taken more seriously.Monitoring doctors prescription rates and increasing regulations on antibiotics used in food is a great step. If pharmaceutical companies will not make new antibiotics without incentives, they need incentives and we need to slow the process down.

Brilliant actor..

Anybody heard of Bacteriophages?

All together, its scary.

The mutations are random, the bacteria will "develop" its resistance to the antibiotics randomly. These mutations would happen with or without the antibiotics. The difference is that at the end it would only be resistant outspread. If you don't use "too much" antibiotics it would not prevent these mutations, it would only give you the resistant ones in the middle of not resistant ones. Like, less percentage, but the same quantity. It doesn't matter if you kill the week or not, the strong will still be born, randomly.

i think that bacteria hug each other and tell other bacteria dunt eat this kind of thing...
if not u will be like me... soo other bacteria will notice it and learn... sory my english weak...

I've only used antibiotics a handful of times. In fact, I don't even think I've used them in the last 6 months, aside from someone iodine when I was getting stitches.

Let me this straight. Companies won't finance the research for new antibiotics because it's not likely they'll make enough money cause the rapid adaptation of super bugs. That's a damned if you damned if you don't situation. If they don't infections will kill millions and they won't be at any less of a risk (even if they did research for their personal use it'd cost the same as if they were to research for everyone minus the cost of production which would pay for itself once distributed) that would lead to millions and billion eventually dying and assuming none of the company owners are dying (it goes without saying, this is unlikely, infectious diseases are extremely fair and unbiased), you can still bet their customers are part of those billions that are dying so it sounds like this shouldn't be a for profit thing, it would be in all our best interests that these drugs are researched it should be a world wide effort, perhaps some sort of voluntary, financial/physical service tax if want access to whatever drugs the research develops then help support the effort otherwise you're on your own.

Colistin was a last line of defense antibiotic used against drug resistant bacteria. It has now been proven obsolete due to a CRE infection in Pennsylvania. There was nothing that worked better than Colistin and we have nothing stronger to date. Listen to her..... She is not trying to scare people. Just waking them up to what is happening.

The best way to start is to drastically reduce antibiotic use in livestock. At the same time, we consumers need to expect to pay for our meat and poultry, as reducing antibiotic use will increase production costs.

there are things that kill many types of bacteria..and viruses, and fungus as well. Iodine..can be applied topically as well as internal. I believe the medical community stopped using it for surgery because of the brown stain that took awhile to fade.
What is somewhat common today is the ancient use of immune boosting agents like Reishi mushrooms. Not new, just not typically recognized in the medical community that we most commonly know..the same that purported great use of antibiotics. Other known...that kill many if not all B V F ...Manuka Honey, & Coconut oil have broad use, and Oxygen drops...have a role...

scary yet this needed to be told.  This has been so interesting to watch

The Donald could take of this easily and make the bugs pay the for the drugs.
Just sayin...