Hi all,
I received this blog in my e-mail since I subscribe. This one is really interesting, designer bacteria? Who would have ever guessed? (Partial cut and paste from blog below):
Cutting Edge Science and Revolutionary Treatments
The future is bright with hopes of using hundreds of types of friendly bacteria to combat and eliminate many of the world’s worst illnesses. You will be able to implant a specific type of bacteria for weight loss, another type for chronic emotional problems, another for eliminating diabetes, cancer, allergies, and the list goes on.
Long term antibiotics are now recognized to be definitely causing more problems than they are fixing, not only killing the harmful bacteria, but also the friendly bacteria that are so important in maintaining health of the body and mind. The era of chemical, prescript
ion antibiotics has largely run its course and thankfully there is something infinitely better positioned to take its place – friendly to humans, tailor-made bacteria designed to seek out and destroy disease-promoting bad bacteria in the body.
We are entering the era of designer bacteria. Cornell researchers have developed a genetically-modified strain of Lactobacillus bacteria, a commonly found friendly gut bacteria, that can virtually eliminate diabetes in rats, by causing the bacteria to secrete a protein called Glucagon-like peptide 1 (GLP-1).
The rush is on to develop better ways to use bacteria, essentially either by restoring what we were all supposed to be born having, or modifying known bacteria to target key aspects of diseases. Researchers are rushing to patent specific types of bacteria that are being grown to replace antibiotics and to replace traditional toxic, symptom-suppressing medications. Biotech companies are being called to catalog and maintain stockpiles of the many types of bacteria for medical uses.
Even The Worst Bacterial Infections Can Be Addressed
Even in Lyme disease, the presence of Borrelia burgdorferi and the many associated co-infections will likely be shown in the near future to be more eloquently addressed by using targeted combinations of friendly bacteria, instead of antibiotics to attack and suppress the bad bacteria from ever being able to cause disease. Indeed, a person’s microbiome, in combination with the overall health and healthy lifestyle of the individual, may be the determining factor as to whether someone gets full blown Lyme disease or if they are simply a carrier when bitten by an infected tick, mosquito, or other blood-sucking bugs, not to mention sexual or gestational transmitted Lyme bacteria.
It is now apparent that everything you choose to put in your body is affecting the microbiome, the bacterial population that maintains health. Every food choice, personal care product you use on your skin, every chemical fragrance in your house, your laundry detergent, every type of medication…EVERYTHING is either helping or harming your microbiome! Antibiotics, even for short term use, should be avoided if possible, deferring instead to more forms of natural healing that target the body’s own ability to prevent the overgrowth of potentially harmful bacteria, while maintaining the harmonious populations of life-sustaining bacteria in the body.
To be clear, there are many potential insults to the body that can trigger alterations in the microbiome leading to the named illnesses listed in the first paragraph. The point of this article is to bring to light that restoring the microbiome, and dealing with the many downstream damaging effects of the illnesses can result in never before seen improvements. Obviously when tissues are damaged beyond repair, that will be the limiting factor in the complete restoration of health for an individual. The greatest results will always be seen in those individuals who are newly diagnosed with an illness.
http://hansacenter.com/treating-virtually-any-illness-including-lyme-disease-with-the-help-of-bacteria/Denise