Superbug-Antibiotic Battle
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Neutrophils are the first line of defence in innate immunity and the effector cell in the acquired immune response. I also work on Staphylococcus, particularly S. aureus and so it's very relevant.
Western Medicine is in an ongoing battle with a very clever enemy, nature, which produces new forms of bacteria and viruses, sometimes called superbugs, that our immune system is unprepared to deal with. The development and usage of antibiotic medicines over the past 100 years seems now to be in an accelerating battle with a parallel development of antigens resistant to antiobiotics, thus rendering them useless and driving medical researchers to develop even cleverer antibiotics to deal with the new invaders.
The human immune system is an extremely complex defense mechanism which defends our bodies against foreign invaders. Neutophils are white blood cells in the first line of defense which can eat and destroy harmful bacteria, viruses and other antigens. Western research is now indicating that vitamin B3 can boost neutrophils immune cell response to the deadly Staphylococcus aureus bacteria superbug.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/
It is interesting that the company Livestrong lists nicotinamide which is used in cancer treatment. Livestrong was started by US cyclist Lance Armstrong who survived cancer to go on and win cycling events. Last week Armstrong had his medals taken from him after he ceased fighting a legal battle against doping allegations!
B3, or nicotinamide, is found in many kinds of food - grains, nuts, yogurt, fish and chicken. A natural balanced diet has all we need, after all, humans find themselves in a natural environment on earth that is suited for them over millions of years and much longer if we see ourselves as related to ALL LIFE. Of course, man-made artificial environments in which many exist in the modern world are now not natural at all, are unbalanced, polluted, psychologically stressed, while people eat unbalanced processed foods.
The western medical mindset tries to deal with the results of living in an artificial man-made environment by using man-made antibiotics and dietary supplements to treat dis-ease. However, the balance and ease of living in harmony with nature has been lost due to a departure into an artificial, man-made, modern world of scientific and technological development which is utterly out of balance with nature. Medical researchers then try to remedy the gross imbalance with pure chemical drugs, drastic interventions and treatments. New superbugs then crop up apparently out of nowhere to attack humans in the very hospitals which are supposed to be healing them, while human immune systems seem to be going haywire causing increased allergies.
Western medicine is not on track to attain any ease or balance whatsoever with nature! Rather the paradigm mindset it's framed within is driving more dis-ease and more imbalance! At a more philosophical level man is seen to be utterly wrong in his thinking that he can control and be master of nature as the western scientific mindset has increasingly imagined in recent times. Man is actually damaging his natural environment and the lifeforms that depend on it, and destroying his own health in the process. Western scientists remain utterly arrogant in their belief that they will be able to understand and control nature using their chronically dis-eased mindsets and wrong, narrow, boxed-in, materialistic paradigm!
The way forward is to live in balance and harmony with nature, listening to what nature teaches us, rather than following the narrow-minded, controlled-experiment methods of materialistic scientists which obviously produce very limited results. Drugs, agro-chemicals and supplements developed by western science, not to mention DNA manipulation, are often later found to be very harmful, despite regulatory bureau-rat efforts! Such developments are obviously increasingly out of balance with nature. Man is arrogantly interfering in the natural environment and lifeforms on earth with a seriously wrong paradigm, or mindset.
Rather than only following the very narrow and increasingly specialized approach of western science, such as the effects of nicotinamide on neutrophils and the immune system, it is necessary to look at the whole human organism together with the environment it lives in so as to understand where the imbalances arise that cause dis-ease. Dis-ease is the result and indication of imbalance with nature. The immune system does not work separately from the whole organism, and neither does anything else work separately or in isolation from anything else. The controlled, "clean", scientific environments in which experiments are carried out are unnatural, narrow-minded, and a symptom of the serious aberration of the western scientific mindset! SUCH A MINDSET WILL LEAD TO MORE HORRENDOUS CALAMITIES DOWN THE ROAD!
Nature has sustained lifeforms on this planet for a billion years or more (time is relative, of course). Modern man in a few hundred years now thinks he knows better, with his split-conscious mind terrorizing and decimating lifeforms on this planet. Arrogant materialistic scientists have got something coming to them! And it will be more than a slap in the face! No apologies for the hard words, because hardened materialistic mindsets are asking for a rude awakening! A change of paradigm is already underway which will make the present lot of western medical practitioners look like voodoo witch doctors or worse! However, there may be disasters to go through before the old, boxed-in thinking is changed and a new paradigm, new mind, awakens. Those working in the medical field are advised to open their minds to the change of paradigm already underway.
Comments on the above piece by a researcher in this field:
Neutrophils are the first line of defence in innate immunity and the effector cell in the acquired immune response. I also work on Staphylococcus, particularly S. aureus and so it's very relevant.
It's also very applicable regarding the use of dietary supplements, and the department has published data on this i.e. tablets of whole fruit and vegetable extracts promote the clinical benefits achieved by periodontal therapy. However, as you say, it would be better if the patients were to have a healthy balanced diet in the first place (and healthy lifestyles such as exercise, no smoking etc), although the results published are hugely significant as it highlights the importance of a balanced healthy lifestyle on both dental and medical health.
I wholeheartedly agree with the need for balance in life. I also agree in that you need to keep an open mind when conducting research. As you say when you research, say, neutrophils and Staphylocccus, it is very important to remember that this is only one small piece of the puzzle, and that in life there are lots of other "corresponding" things happening to neighbouring cells that could influence the "results" in-vivo.
Sheldrake's book, The Science Delusion, covers this approach very well, and it makes a lot of sense.
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