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Bacteria are single-celled organisms that are pretty much everywhere: in the ground, in the ocean, on your hands and in your gut. While some are harmful, most are not — and some are even beneficial to human health. In many cases, humans live in symbiosis with bacteria, maintaining a mu...
The word antibiotic means “against life.” Any drug that kills germs in your body is technically an antibiotic, but most people use the term when they’re talking about medicine that kills bacteria. History of antibiotics Scientists introduced the first antibiotic, salvarsan, in the early 1900...
Now in sucking mode, the tick extracts water from your blood, then spits what it doesn’t need back into you… This goes on for 24 hours or so – about as long it takes for the bacteria in the tick’s gut to start entering your system… ...
It seems to disturb their gut microbiomes. There are similar concerns for humans. These tiny bits of plastic, floating and flying all over the world, could act as a “Trojan horse,” introducing harmful drug-resistant bacteria and their genes, as some researchers put it. It’s a deeply ...
prevent harmful bacteria and yeast from overpowering the gut by starving them out or actually attacking them (cool, right?!) play a part in regulating immune responses to infections and potential allergens influence energy balance and potentially body composition may (potentially) influence mood, behav...
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and developed a multi-step process that is still in use today in order to determine if a particular bacteria has caused disease. By the early 1900s, Paul Elrich developed the first antibiotic, which is an agent that kills bacteria. This invention has saved millions of lives in the past hu...
bacteria that has been associated with good gut and immune health. Could it be that, in addition to not receiving enough friendly bacteria from vaginal delivery, a child is at even greater risk of infection when skin bacteria are the first and not the second type of bacteria the child ...
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