Drug Resistance--The Twilight of Antibiotics?

Drug resistance is becoming pandemic. Gonorrhea is rapidly approaching the point of being untreatable. Tuberculosis has been there for years. New types are emerging constantly. Are we entering the twilight of the antibiotic age?

Pharmaceutical companies are showing little interest in developing new varieties of antibiotics to replace the old ones that are rapidly becoming useless. You’d have thought that their rapacious quest for profits would have them scrambling to find new drugs to replace the old, but it’s not happening. The only explanation can be that they’re reaching the end of the line in the search for new molecules to replace the old—that their bag of tricks is nearly empty.

The only conclusion is that modern medicine’s approach to health is leading to a dead end. The Medical Paradigm Is Fatally Flawed. What’s wrong? More important, what should you do about it?

Antibiotics seemed to be a miracle. They rapidly killed bacteria associated with disease. Symptoms disappeared. People believed they’d been healed. What could possibly be wrong with that?

What’s Wrong?

Secondary Answer

The secondary answer is overuse. Doctors were able to treat diseases when, previously, they’d only been able to watch and wait. Of course, that’s not what they usually did. Medical history is replete with horrific treatments that made patients sicker. Whenever an idea caught on, it was pushed to the extreme. Bloodletting was done until there was almost no blood left for the heart to pump. Laxatives were used until the poor patient’s bowels were evacuated in an uncontrollable and burning rush, and then they were repeated.

Treatments were presumed to be effective, for whatever reason some doctor thought he’d seen a benefit. Then they were pushed and pushed and massively overused. A few doctors would became disgusted and start preaching of the immense harm being done. However, they were treated as heretics.

Nothing has changed in mainstream medicine. For any benefit gained by antibiotics, all the harm done was ignored. Not only that, but doctors repeated history. They threw them at everything—and they ignored the fact that drug resistance was noted within a few months of the first uses of the first antibiotic, penicillin.

Antibiotics were given to people with colds—and still are—in spite of the fact that they could do nothing for a virus. They were given as a prophylactic to prevent infection—and still are. Antibiotics and antiviral drugs and antifungal drugs and anti-inflammatories and anti-whatever you can imagine drugs were handed out like candy on the flimsiest of excuses—and still are.

In spite of drug resistance being a known concern from the earliest days of antibiotics, these drugs have been massively overused.

Primary Answer

A primary concept of mainstream medicine is an even more significant concern than drug overuse. Symptoms are not disease. They are the body’s means of healing disease.

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