You may have heard that many bacterial infections have become resistant to antibiotics. Its a very serious situation if you have one of these infections, as it could kill you. And conventional medicine has had nothing to offer you — until now. Unfortunately, they have missed the boat — again. Let me explain.
Researchers have found that bacteria, like you, have need for nitric oxide (NO). Nitric oxide was once thought to be toxic. Then, Nobel Prize winning research proved that your body makes it. In fact, it is indispensable for keeping your arteries open. In men, its responsible for erections (vasodilation).
Its also involved with learning and memory in your brain. Your white blood cells make it to fight infection. And its a beneficial free radical when made in physiological amounts.
Well, now science has found a new role for NO. Bacteria actually make NO to neutralize many antibacterial compounds. Amazingly, bacteria use NO to fight back against antibiotics.
So what is conventional medicine doing with this information? Knowing that it is very expensive to develop a new antibiotic, scientists are looking for a short cut to fight resistant bacteria.
They are trying to find chemicals that will impair the enzyme that makes NO, called nitric oxide synthase. That way, bacteria might be left more vulnerable to currently used antibiotics.
The study author praised the research. Here we have a shortcut, where we do not have to invent new antibiotics. Instead we can enhance the activity of well-established ones, making them more effective at lower doses.
It sounds great, does not it? Well, its not! This same molecule that they want to repress in bacteria is required for us to stay alive. True, I would give up sexual function temporarily to fight a stubborn infection that could kill me. But I would not want my vascular system to implode as my arteries close down because there is not enough NO to expand them.
This is a catastrophe waiting to happen. Besides, theres a much better way to beat these bacteria that has absolutely no negative side effects whatsoever. Ultraviolet blood irradiation therapy has been around for over 70 years. It can cure the most hopeless cases in just days with zero toxicity. It does not make antibiotics more effective. In fact, with UBI, you usually do not need antibiotics at all. UBI simply makes your immune system more effective!
Sorry, Charlie. You can have your NO inhibiting chemicals and possibly induce a fatal heart attack while you take it. Ill stick to proven UBI and other oxidation therapies. If medicine were to look at what it already has on its plate, we could save countless lives and cut costs while doing it. Please visit doctorrowen.com for a posted medical paper on UBI I authored more than 10 years ago.
Ref: Science, 11 September 2009: vol. 325 no. 5946.