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Bad bacteria are everywhere - in the environment and in people around you. If your immune system is low, if you are tired, depressed, lacking in sleep or not eating the right foods and lacking exercise, you are a candidate for bacterial infection. The infection can be mild but it can also be lethal such as meningitis or pneumonia, a top killer disease in many countries today. When bacterial infection strikes and life is at stake, antibiotics can be your savior. There is an urgency to wipe out the bacteria because they reproduce and spread quickly and invade your whole system. They give off chemicals called toxins, which can damage tissues and make you sick or cause death. The problem with antibiotics is the undesirable side-effects. I am not talking about the short-term side effects like stomach troubles or nausea but the kind that induces Mitochondrial Dysfunction and Oxidative Damage of body cells. In a study published by James Collins et. al. in Science Translational Medicine journal, study results showed that prolonged antibiotic treatment can lead to detrimental side effects in patients. Popular antibiotics ciprofloxacin, ampicillin, kanamycin -- each cause oxidative stress in cultured human cells. They found that all of these drugs were safe after six hours of treatment, but longer-term treatment of about four days caused the mitochondria to malfunction and an overproduction of ROS in mammalian cells. These bactericidal antibiotic-induced effects lead to oxidative damage to DNA, proteins, and membrane lipids. Bactericidal antibiotics induce the formation of toxic reactive oxygen species (ROS) in bacteria. Oxidative stress occurs when reactive oxygen species (ROS) present in our body are abnormally high causing damage to human cells. This damage translates into cellular aging, degenerative diseases, cardiovascular inflammation, cell death, impaired kidney function, shortened life expectancy, cancer and death. What can you do to prevent cell damage by antibiotics? The solution is antioxidants. It is the role of anti-oxidants to combat oxidative stress. Of the many kinds of anti-oxidants, you may consider the super-antioxidant L-Acetyl Carnosine which has cell-rejuvenating property and naturally occurs in the body only that it gets depleted with age. Carnosine is known to enhance the positive effects of other biological antioxidants such as vitamin C, vitamin E, zinc and selenium and also with antioxidant enzymes such as superoxide dismutase and catalase to prevent premature grey hair. It also “mops up” other toxic substances, which are inevitable produced as a side effect of body metabolism. So during and after the course of antibiotics treatment, it would be best to supplement your diet with Ethos Endymion Carnosine capsules or powder. We also had reports by some patients that even the immediate side effects of antibiotics they expected like tremors and bitter taste of their saliva were alleviated as well after they started to take carnosine supplement during the course of antibiotic treatment. More info: http://ethosworld.eu/shop
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