Antibiotics
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Enders: Antibiotics can increase stool volume by expelling dead bacteria
“Sometimes you can see it even as a side effect of antibiotics, because the antibiotics kill off all these bacteria, and they have quite some weight. They have a mess, you know. They are sometimes described as an organ of its own. So you're basically losing a l…”
Enders: Half of adults fail to replenish microbes lost to antibiotics
“So we see especially small kids and seniors in studies that they have a harder time going back to their microbiome after a round of antibiotics. Then we have all the adults in the middle area of this. For them, it's like fifty-fifty. Some of them will actually…”
Juneja: Halting Chinese intermediate supplies would spark an Indian antibiotic crisis
“A lot of antibiotics are there. In the absence of Chinese supply, we can come into a crisis.”
Makary: 60% of US antibiotic prescriptions are unnecessary
“60% of antibiotics prescribed in the United States Are unnecessary.”
Makary: Average two-year-old has received over 2.5 antibiotic courses
“The average two-year-old has already received over 2.5 courses of antibiotics.”
MIT researchers used AI models to create novel antibiotics for resistant bacteria
“It's been enough for this group at MIT to use some of these relatively, you know, narrow purpose-built biology models and create totally new antibiotics. New in the sense that they have a new mechanism of action. Like they're affecting the bacteria in a new wa…”
Dr. Drew: Raw milk pathogens are very rare and easily treated
“You can get brucellosis, you can probably get tularemia, you can get listeriosis, and we can treat that with antibiotics, no problem. But they can make you very sick, and they're very rare.”
Power: The US no longer manufactures antibiotics domestically
“We don't really make antibiotics onshore in the US anymore.”
John Green: Antibiotic economics fail because effective drugs must be used least
“Because from a market perspective, you want a drug that everyone takes all the time. And from an antibiotic perspective, you want a drug that almost no one takes except in cases of everything else failing so that you can protect the antibiotic. And there's jus…”
Dr. Moore: One person's antibiotics shift the entire household's microbiome
“He was sharing that a study a few years ago where one person in the family took an antibiotic and the entire family's microbiome shifted within days.”
Scotti Stockpiles Six Life-Saving Antibiotics at Home Over Supply Chain Fears
“But I just, I like to keep on hand since the start of COVID big gun antibiotics. So like your top six drugs that are like, could be life saving.”
Doctors prescribe more antibiotics in the afternoon due to decision fatigue
“Doctors are far more likely to prescribe antibiotics in the afternoon than they are in the morning for the same patient with the same issues because they're just running late and they're dealing with decision fatigue.”