14 May

Two things weren’t common before the 20th century, and that tells us that we’ve probably been looking at them the wrong way. Those two things are heart disease, and obesity. Both rare before last century. We even link them, we say heart disease is often caused by obesity. Chronic infection is the likely major cause of heart disease. The Spanish Flu at the start of the 20th century one likely culprit. What about obesity? This one is interesting. It’s very likely driven by the use of antibiotics. We know feeding farm animals antibiotics fattens them up. Scientists call it gut dysbiosis, killing some microbes in your gut (antibiotics do that) unbalances the others. The timing is perfect, check the timeline of the introduction of antibiotics against the surge in obesity. The reason we’re all so casual about infection today is antibiotics, and vaccines. We think infection is a thing of the past. That’s a terrible mistake. Not only are the bugs now beating the antibiotics and vaccines, but neither antibiotics or vaccines control chronic infection, where the bugs set up permanent residency in your body and damage you for years. That’s the likely cause of most of our chronic diseases, including obesity, heart disease, cancers, MS, Parkinson’s and Alzheimers.