This Over-Prescribed Medication can Make you Fat....and, Much WORSE!

According to a recent medical study, antibiotics have now been linked to weight gain and even diabetes. According to findings published in the Journal of Clinical Endocrinology, just two doses of antibiotics increases your risk of developing diabetes by 23%! And if you have had 5 or more courses, your risk increases by 53%.

The very worst part of this is that the researchers found this association between antibiotics and diabetes up to 15 years before the diagnosis!  Perhaps, this may be a contributing factor to the explosion Type 2 diabetes in children.

Why the association between antibiotics and fat? Because antibiotics destroy your microbiome-- the trillions of bacteria (microbes) living primarily in your large intestine. These bacteria are responsible for everything from your immune system (70% of the immune system is regulated by our good bacteria), brain function (mood) to your metabolism and weight.

We have a mixture of good and bad bacteria in our gut. The optimal ratio is thought to be 80:20 good to bad. The good bacteria help to keep you trim and healthy while the bad make you fat and sick.

The end result of our good bacteria being wiped out by medications is bloating, gas, constipation, diarrhea, muscle pain, join pain, anxiety, depression and, of course, weight gain.

So, all you would need to do is to eat yogurt, right? Wrong! All products are devoid of active good bacteria. But, what if the label says there are bacteria in the yogurt? Sorry, any of the good microbes that make it through the heating process die off within a very short time.

 And, studies show that only about 4.5% of microbes in probiotic capsules are still viable by the time they get to the consumer. Let’s add to this the pasteurized sensitivity that your gut has towards toxins that we are exposed to everyday, such as chlorine, fluoride and artificial sweeteners in the water system. 

Yes, all those years of people using artificial sweeteners have now flooded our water systems. Why? Because the body cannot process these chemicals, so the toxins pass directly into our waste water system and they cannot be removed by any process available, today.

Sounds pretty bad, doesn't it?  There have to be reasons why our population is getting sicker and sicker...this bacterial kill-off by our, "better living through chemical medications," looks to be one of them.

Dr. Esther