How Many Deaths Will It Take?

My French medical school professor of bacteriology, Mme. le Professeur Jeanne Orfila, stood in front of her (our) class near tears. She was not the sort of woman who frequently fell into that state, so I vividly remember the day she told us this:

“Prescribe antibiotics carefully, and only when you have to. Every time you prescribe antibiotics, you are creating more and more bacteria who will “learn” to make themselves resistant to antibiotics. So they will work less well against human disease.

“They are making stronger and stronger drugs to fight infections. As we use them in medicine, they work less and less well.

“I cannot say for sure, but it is very, very possible that this will be the mechanism by which the human race ends its colonization of the planet earth, and becomes extinct.

“Be very, very careful.”

I know of no solution to this situation being proposed by the commercial pharmaceutical companies.

Candida albicans is not a bacterium, but a mold, common and long ago implicated in human pathology. It is white in color. Now the New York Times runs an article about “Candida auris,” presumably a similar mold, but golden in color.

It has already killed folks. We do not appear to have a specific drug that can kill it.

I have lived through numerous similar warnings. Infectious disease folks concerned about things like the tuberculosis germ of staphylocossus aureus not having enough strong drugs to kill them.

Human species seems to have made it through so far. But folks usually have to put up with taking a few antibiotics together.

I believe the strongest hope for fighting infections in the future comes from strengthening the immune system.

This approach has not been energetically enough developed. This is probably because most strengtheners of the immune system cannot be patented, so no pharmaceutical companies will produce them.

There is great promise for one I favor, a lower dose of an FDA approved drug — naltrexone.  I refer patients to my clever physician’s assistant, who operates a private practice in North Hollywood, Craig Jace, DOM LAC CTN PA-C APH. Yes, he has a lot of letters after his name — besides his credential as a PA, he is a Doctor of Oriental Medicine, an acupuncturist, a holistic health practitioner, and more. You can check him out on his website and on YELP.

Low-dose naltrexone (LND) is considered “alternative medicine.”

I hate the term “alternative medicine.”

There are only two kinds of medicine, really.

Medicine that works and medicine that does not.

In my lifetime, I have worked with doctors whose patients pleaded with them for “the American wonder drugs, the “antibiotiques,” in the wake of WWII, when they saved many lives. Now I have seen many public health cries that antibiotic, antifungals — even corticosteroids, are less effective than they were.

I think maybe the international medical establishment, surely the American one, is a sleeping giant that needs to wake up.

We have effective methods — How many human deaths will it take?