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Could the same be true of antibiotics. Please,[https://gofreshnup.com/igr-plus-review/ IGR Plus] don't get me wrong, antibiotics are absolutely useful and necessary in many circumstances. Penicillins have revolutionized the treatment of conditions such as pneumonia, and it is without doubt that antibiotics have saved many lives. However, they may not be the cure all, or tonic that many believe. There are a number of associated "harms" with taking antibiotics. What many people do not realise is that when antibiotics take effect, not only do they eliminate bacteria exactly where you want them to (for example in the lungs, in someone who is suffering a chest infection), but throughout the entire body.
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These are pages that have an incomplete explanation or are missing something important. (This includes categories that have been created recently and need to be filled with relevant pages.) New comics are currently marked as incomplete automatically, to be removed later once their explanation is in a pretty good state. To add pages to this category, place {{tl|incomplete}} at the top of their explanation and give a reason, such as: <code>'''<nowiki>{{incomplete|The explanation of the title text is missing.}}</nowiki>'''</code>. We have a different [[:Category:Incomplete transcripts|category for incomplete transcripts]].
  
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Human beings have evolved a symbiotic relationship with bacteria over many millennia. Some of the bacteria that colonize our gut are of little use, but others actually perform a rather useful function. Taking antibiotics wipes the slate clean and destroys all but the most hardy bacteria, leaving what remains to re-colonise the gut. In most cases this re-colonisation is rapid and fairly similar to pre-antibiotic consumption levels. However, occasionally unhelpful bacteria can take hold and this can lead to stomach cramps and persistent diarrhoea which requires further medical intervention. This relates to some of the harms of taking antibiotics that I mentioned previously.
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In addition to this, our obsession with clean living and eliminating "germs"in our homes by using cleaning fluids and bleach means that we are even further removed from the symbiotic bacteria we have evolved to live in conjunction with over the period of our evolution.Recent research suggests that all this clean living and antibiotic taking may have some rather unintended consequences. For example, were you aware that probiotics can actively reduce histamine levels thereby reducing the effects of allergy? Or that probiotics have an active role to play in "programming" the immune system?
 
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Incomplete explanations  •  Incomplete transcripts
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