by Frances Sheridan Goulart
Reaching for an apple, some oatmeal, or an herb before you have to start taking an antibiotic is smart. Antibiotics are now the leading cause of adverse drug reactions in the United States and the cause of oft en deadly strains of resistant bacteria. In addition, antibiotics are commonly overprescribed. Even though, for example, most sore throats are viral and not bacterial in nature (therefore, resistant to antibiotics), 73 percent of viral sore throats are oft en treated with an antibiotic prescription, according to a yearlong study by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration Center for Drug Evaluation and Research.
While super pills may help with super infections caused by bacteria, drugs such as penicillin and sulfur drugs can lower your resistance even as they help you fi ght back. In the process of killing those bad bugs, antibiotics deplete a wide spectrum of nutrients that are the foundation for immunity, including vitamin C, iron, zinc, and most of the B vitamins, plus bone-building vitamin K, calcium, and magnesium. In addition, antibiotics wipe out your good bacteria, so they are best used only when truly necessary—and even bett er, avoid them altogether with super immunity nutrition.
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