It's not so easily linked to diet, it's linked to bone marrow content vs the size of the body. Someone who is chronically obese needs vastly more immune cells (leukocytes, lymphocytes, macrophages, mast and dendritic cells ect). Illnesses gained from being overweight like diabetes can contribute to a poorer immune system due to hardening and narrowing of capillaries, which stop or hinder white blood cells from travelling through the HEV component of a capillary.
Antibiotic myths.
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It's not so easily linked to diet, it's linked to bone marrow content vs the size of the body. Someone who is chronically obese needs vastly more immune cells (leukocytes, lymphocytes, macrophages, mast and dendritic cells ect). Illnesses gained from being overweight like diabetes can contribute to a poorer immune system due to hardening and narrowing of capillaries, which stop or hinder white blood cells from travelling through the HEV component of a capillary.
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Sorry for being a grammar Nazi but how can you come out with big words and then spell the last one wrong
Sorry for being a grammar Nazi but how can you come out with big words and then spell the last one wrong
Using a tablet whilst cooking my dinner if you must know!
So what do you do if the doctors prescribe you 5 days worth of amoxicillin, but the pharmacy only has packs of 21 pills, and advises you to return the last 6, but you take all 7 days worth anyway, feel better, but still have a huge painful lump in your chest?
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What will happen when all available antibiotics become next to useless?
Will it help to keep the human population at sustainable levels?
I never get ill because I rarely mix with other people so it won't bother me.
Will it help to keep the human population at sustainable levels?
I never get ill because I rarely mix with other people so it won't bother me.
When antibiotics have become ineffective, we can either hope that bacteria lose their genes to produce enzymes to breakdown these antibiotics after we stop using them for a long period of time.
The other option is to heavily invest in a radical new way to stop bacterial infection. Bacteria 'communicate' by chemical signals to trigger disease, a takeover attempt by bacteria. If you can block chemical signals, you may make the bacteria remain in a dormant state instead of becoming a full blown infection.
All this came from a lady who started studying bio luminescence in bobtail squid! She has stumbled on a potential life saving treatment
Lol?
Im overweight, and while not incredibly lazy, have an absolutly superb immune system. Too good in fact. Causes problems with infections from an ingrown hair.
its all those mcdonalds and kfcs making you immune And another entrant for cloud-cuckoo land ...
Hmm...
On the one hand we have someone who spent at least 7 years studying a specific subject and passed numerous tests to prove competence in it.
On the other hand we have randoms on the net who might or might not even be serious.
Clearly the second option is a much better choice. You have opened my eyes!
If that's true, I'd bet good money on the reason for it being that you were talking rubbish about non-existent medical conditions that you made up with the help of random strangers on the internet who were trolling or trying to sell snakeoil.
Its not quite that straightforward as using chemicals to "mop up" bacterial cytokines isn't any better than antibiotics in terms of side effects. Best approach to getting rid of any and all infections would be antibody research, which is already underway and highly successful.
Example being the newest (and extremely expensive) cancer treatments which are all over the news due to the "lottery" malarky which are antibodies which are perfectly specified for tumour cells. Causes your immune system to target all the cancer cells directly, releasing tumour necrosis factors (which are part of our DNA, amazingly) and wiping it out.
Our own immune system is and always will be the best source of treatment for infections, its just finding ways of boosting it against infections which can mask themselves (HIV) to speeding it up for fast profilerating infections.
I wouldnt worry, wont be long till a 7 strain super flu emanates from the Asian populations and wipe out most of us lol.
Dads been a Pharmacist for over 55 years now...the " we will all be immune to Anti-Bs" is a little OTT, their will come a time where this MIGHT come true...but it wont really be in your life time.
Dads been a Pharmacist for over 55 years now...the " we will all be immune to Anti-Bs" is a little OTT, their will come a time where this MIGHT come true...but it wont really be in your life time.
Which of course has another side of the coin when they hyped up immune system starts attacking things its not supposed to.
Or when we get infections that attack the Immune System
MRSA does that too, not just HIV, and several other things.