1.4.2. Negative Side Effects

1. Summary: This text discusses the overuse of antibiotics and its negative impact on the human gut microbiome and immune system. It highlights the interconnectedness of life and the challenges of suppressing bacteria, leading to drug-resistant strains. The speakers, Arzhan and Garrett, are excited to include this information in their presentation.

When antibiotics were discovered, they were hailed as the greatest discovery ever. And all these people dying from infections, and now we have antibiotics. And they indeed worked. They indeed brought a lot of benefit. But now antibiotics are used completely indiscriminately. We right now have pretty much the whole civilization overusing antibiotics. Sometimes even children in a womb, a baby in a womb already is exposed to antibiotics. So one of the very common side effects of this is that pretty much killing, destroying our immunity that resides in the gut because that colonies of bacteria that actually living in our gut, they are providing more than 50% of our immune function in the body. And it takes only a single course of antibiotics to wipe out 60% to 80% of this biodiversity in our guts. These are the good bacteria that providing our immune functions. So this is why we have right now all the epidemics of the syndrome, immune deficiency, indigestion and a whole bunch of different autoimmune conditions. So as much as we want to focus on a single aspect, let's say, and just use antibiotics to kill some one particular strain of bacteria, we cannot escape from the fact of the interconnectedness of life. And another aspect of this is, although we're trying to kill all the bad bacteria, but they are evolving again. It's really hard to suppress life. And now we have the so-called resistant drug-resistant bacteria. It's really hard to eliminate. So, Garrett and I were working on this module, and yes, I could not resist, I'm really excited to put this next -- this video into our presentation.