Antibiotics
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Now,
antibiotics
created such a perceptual shift in our way of thinking about medicine that it really colored, distorted, very successfully, the way we've thought about medicine for the last hundred years.
The molecules that we're discovering on coral reefs are increasingly important in the search for new
antibiotics
and new cancer drugs.
From alternatives to battle disease so we don't need
antibiotics
and chemicals anymore, to automated feeders that feel when the fish are hungry, so we can save on feed and create less pollution.
Many factors affect our microbiomes, including our environment, medications like antibiotics, and even whether we were delivered by C-section or not.
It comes from molecular biology, which has given us antibiotics, vaccines and better ways to observe the physiological nuances of the human body.
A friend of mine, Art, he recently needed to be hospitalized for just a minor surgery, and he had to stay in the hospital for over two weeks, just because he needed a specific kind of IV
antibiotics.
He can now get the IV
antibiotics
in the comfort of his home: no hospital pajamas, no crappy food and no risk of these antibiotic-resistant superbugs that only bite you in these hospitals.
Mushrooms produce strong
antibiotics.
Fungi don't like to rot from bacteria, and so our best
antibiotics
come from fungi.
If you've got a harmful organism, a high proportion of the people are going to be symptomatic, a high proportion of the people are going to be going to get
antibiotics.
And once you get increased antibiotic resistance, the
antibiotics
aren't knocking out the harmful strains anymore.
Like half the
antibiotics
in this country are not administered to people, but to animals.
So when chemical
antibiotics
emerged in the 1940s, they completely changed the game.
And
antibiotics
really work very differently than phages.
And so as we developed more and more antibiotics, they, rightly so, became the first-line therapy for bacterial infections.
We are only able to do complex medical interventions and medical surgeries today because we have antibiotics, and we don't risk the patient dying the very next day from the bacterial infection that he might contract during the operation.
And to a certain extent, even when I was growing up, the notion was: we have solved bacterial infections; we have
antibiotics.
Those are bacteria that have become resistant to many, if not all, of the
antibiotics
that we have developed to treat this infection.
In the onslaught of
antibiotics
that were all around them, those bacteria survived that were best able to adapt.
And their selectivity will help us avoid some of the side effects that are commonly associated with broad-spectrum
antibiotics.
There, we uncovered a microorganism that could make novel antibiotics,
antibiotics
that can kill the world's worst superbugs.
This was an awesome thing to find, but here's the secret: for the last 60 years, most of the
antibiotics
on the market have come from similar soil bacteria.
Every day, you and I and everyone in this room and on this planet, are saved by similar soil bacteria that produce most of our
antibiotics.
From
antibiotics
to surgery, birth control to in vitro fertilization, the filters for reproductive success are being relaxed.
We can't keep feeding our kids pesticides and herbicides and
antibiotics
and hormones.
One of my big soapboxes right now is
antibiotics.
Seventy percent of all
antibiotics
consumed in America is consumed in animal husbandry.
We are feeding our kids
antibiotics
in beef and other animal protein every day.
And, you know, certainly
antibiotics
have been over-prescribed, but it's an issue in the food supply.
The USDA allows these antibiotics, these hormones and these pesticides in our food supply, and the USDA paid for this ad in Time magazine.
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