A bacteriophage is a virus that infects and replicates within bacteria. Bacteriophages are among the most common and diverse entities in the biosphere.
Each bacteriophage evolved to kill just a specific set of bacteria. Because bacteriophage kills with a narrow scope, it could be used to cure an infection without disturbing the community of beneficial bacteria in our body.
One of the densest natural sources for phages is sea water, where up to 9×108 virions per milliliter have been found in microbial mats at the surface.
Bacteriophages were discovered over a decade before penicillin, the most well-known antibiotic, and they have been used for over 90 years as an alternative in the Soviet Union, France, and Central Europe.
Bacteriophages inject DNA into bacteria which then copies itself, makes more of it’s shell with the newly made DNA. Once done the Bacteriophages produces toxic chemicals that rupture the bacterial host from the inside out.C
Since phages consist mostly of nucleic acids and proteins, they are inherently nontoxic.
In an era where antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections are on the rise, you need to know that there is an alternative out there for you and your family if all else fails.
This is one of the concerns with all the antimicrobial soaps and too frequent washing and bathing. Phages are the awesome little warriors we wash away from day to day.
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Why aren’t they telling people more about this rather than digging deeper into this antibiotic hole?
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I can only gue$$. Like many things we just have lost our way.
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Ahh… agreed
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A study from two years ago linked children who grow up in rural areas exposed to animals and bacteria-laden dirt with a more robust immune system and better mental health.
https://sciencepost.uk/2018/06/children-grow-countryside-better-mental-health
My biggest beef with modern medicine is that it focuses more on pharmaceutical treatments than healthy living because there’s no profit to be made in the promoting the latter.
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That’s an interesting study. I’ve heard this before but never seen an actual comparison.
“ There is a great deal of research that needs to be done, but it appears that spending as much time as possible, preferably during childhood, in environments offering a large array of microbial exposure, has numerous beneficial effects”, concludes the researcher
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Agreed!
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I grew up on a farm. I felt lucky already, now feel double lucky.
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Interesting. And prayer helps as well.
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Always
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Interesting.
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Lander: My guess (like Jim) it’s about money, but I also believe that in the long run (long con?) people will burn out/destroy the body’s ability to self heal – with all the (more and more) antibacterial use. We will become sicker in the end – which will make us (the ones that are left) depend on them more – for our very survival.
That (could be) their reasoning.
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Or they can just be greedy and reckless. Getting as much as they can at the expense of others with little or no guilt knowing they don’t live long.
One of us is most likely right
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