Marnie
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Alter it.
"Doxycycline depletes: Vit B1, Vit B2, Vit B3, Vit B6, Vit B12, Vit K, Iron, Magnesium, Biotin, Calcium, Inositol, Bifido bifidum (bifidus), lactobacillus acidophilus."
It takes Mg and Ca to make HEALTHY antibodies...our own natural "antibiotics".
Antibodies are one of the immune system fighters as are the WBCs of course.
TETs = tetracyclines
These results indicate that TETs are not able to act directly on the synthesis of these cytokines, but they may modulate other pathways that could in turn be responsible for the
...evidence of the augmentation of immune responses by tetracyclines... This is the first study to show an effect of antibiotic therapy on cytokine levels in vivo.
PMID: 8331300
Tetracycline "downregulates" TNF alpha...good or bad?
11. ``the level of TNF-alpha directly or indirectly regulates the production of borreliacidal antibody'' PMID: 12522038
12. ``The increased bone resorption may be due to an increase in TNF-alpha'' PMID: 14704297
13. ``no detrimental effects on normal neurons and can protect neurons when present in neuronal cultures during in vitro ischaemia...Once TNF's removed, neuroprotection is lost.''
Inflammation is, and always has been a part of the healing process. Unfortunately if there is too much inflammation ongoing, this is very harmful to the body.
The PURPOSE of antibiotics is to RID an infection, NOT to suppress it. Long term use does cause bacteria to MUTATE. We can't develop new antibiotics to deal with mutations fast enough.
When you destroy the beneficial bacteria along with the bad guys, this alone is DISASTEROUS.
The beneficial bacteria absorb and make many nutrients for us. Without those nutrients, we stay sick.
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