pimg class=”alignright” title=”Antibiotics” src=”http://i247.photobucket.com/albums/gg158/MDA2008/MDA2010/antibiotics.jpg” alt=”antibiotics” width=”320″ height=”212″ /Allow me to preface this post series with a wholehearted acknowledgment of the beneficial role antibiotics have played, and continue to play, in fighting infections that might otherwise take limbs or lives. Before formal antibiotics, ancient and traditional cultures employed antibacterial herbs, tinctures, and even a title=”Secrets of the Mummy’s Medicine Chest” href=”http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/10/nyregion/10papyrus.html?pagewanted=all” target=”_blank”moldy bread/a, but regardless of the various methods#8217; efficacies, they were largely operating in the dark. They knew what worked, but not why it worked. When we use antibiotics today, we (mostly) understand what they are doing on a micro level, and we aren#8217;t (ideally) just relying on hearsay, a title=”Weighing the Evidence: Science and Anecdote in Nutrition Studies” href=”http://www.marksdailyapple.com/weighing-the-evidence-science-and-anecdote-in-nutrition-studies/” target=”_self”anecdote/a, and a title=”Why Self Experimentation Matters” href=”http://www.marksdailyapple.com/why-self-experimentation-matters/” target=”_self”experimentation/a. This is a good thing./p
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