Whoa man...antibiotics for a birthing mother? Is this what the medical profession is recommending? If they (md's) don't know if she has GBS, they would rather give everyone antibiotics on a 1 in 4 chance that the mother has it? I wish medical doctors would start looking at how bad antibiotics are in general. They should only be used in worst case scenarios...but they haven't for a long time and now look what we have now. We have resistant strains. So now what? Come up with some "magic" pill that will work only 12% of the time but cost people $500/month (being facetious though I'm sure there is partial truth to it).
And why would you recommend not eating something that may have some sort of bacteria on it? Wasn't the last major recall on something that had salmonella was spinach? So maybe now we should stop eating all healthy food and eat all the processed crap because they adulterate this "food" so much that bacteria can't even grow on it? Because that's what it sounds like the medical professions is saying.
The body is a miraculous thing. Whether you believe in God or not, we were given all the proper tools to deal with much of the issues we face in the world today. But instead of supplying the body with the proper fuel/food, we eat like **** and hope that some lil medical pill is going to let us die a little slower. When given what it needs, it produces so called "medical miracles". I've seen it personally as well as heard many stories through documentaries like the one mentioned in this thread, "Hungry For Change" (not released yet unless you gained access to the pre-release), Forks Over Knives, Food Matters, etc.
What Jake is doing (a more raw diet) is what we need to get back to. I wish the medical club would get back to its roots (although, I probably wouldn't like that because then they wouldn't be coming to me, as a chiropractor, to actually get off the meds that are killing them and get them back to a truly healthy state) and start re-reading all of Hippocrates' work. One quote I love, "Let thy food be thy medicine and thy medicine be thy food." Hell, he even treated blood disorders and other "dis-eases" with Watercress. He knew more about healing than the current medical field. While the current can help with traumatic injury and if you decide to get surgery for something, they can most certainly do that...but getting people back to health is something 99% of MD's lack knowledge on. Cool...you can get rid of all bacteria in the body...now how are you going to get that same patient back to being healthy?
Oh gosh...and don't get me started on vaccines. Medical students don't do near enough research on vaccines as they should...nor do most medical doctors. Schools and textbooks are told by the pharma companies that make vaccines what the benefits are and don't really say any cons. You get no long term research (I think the longest a vaccine test lab person has been watched was 3-4 weeks). While I may get jumped for this paragraph, it will be by those very people who haven't done any research whatsoever. People looking for immunity need to read how the body actually become immune to something. Nearly everything has to pass through your digestive or pulmonary system, passing through the mucous membranes, allowing the body to recognize the foreign object prior to it entering the blood. Instead, vaccines are injected directly into your body with massive amounts of toxic materials to invoke a greater "immune" response towards the nearly dead or dead virus/bacterium. Too many sketchy things to talk about in this post but when I see an MD (or someone who poses to be one...not quite sure who may have a degree or not) starts posting medical "treatments" or fallacies (research in the medical field has become a joke...it's not based on science anymore for at least 50% of the studies - don't take my word, just look up John Ioannidis's research on the research done in the medical field), I feel it's my duty to put the other side of the story out there, in hopes someone reads these posts and decides to research some of these things therefore becoming more knowledgeable about their own body and choices they can make.
Sorry for making this post rather long...I've been gone for a week and wanted to hit on a few points from posts in the last 2-3 pages.
