Author: Erin Elizabeth

How many of you would honestly say you let your kids play in the dirt? Or even encourage it? While we’ve known for decades that hand washing is important, for some reason, about a decade ago people started freaking out about dirt and started over sanitizing everything. RELATED ARTICLE: Taking your full course of antibiotics isn’t helping prevent the spread of resistance; it’s fueling it. And that behavior has created another problem. By totally obliterating all the microbes in or on our kid’s bodies with hand sanitizers, antibacterial soaps, antibiotics they’re immune systems have taken a huge hit. Marie-Claire Arrieta,...

Recently the British Medical Journal published an article in which the authors challenged the long-held belief that you should take the ENTIRE course of doctor prescribed antibiotics, even after you are feeling better. However, that claim has physicians and public health officials expressing serious concern about “an overly complex message that could result in encouraging patients to go rogue and ignore their doctors’ prescriptions.” 3 (Heaven forbid we listen to our bodies or stop taking something if we don’t need it. We are LOOOOOONNNNNGGG past protecting against antibiotic resistance!) RELATED ARTICLE: Study: Manuka honey kills more bacteria than all available antibiotics...