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so the question is what is the most

deadly bacterial disease

in the world well it is the

mycobacterium

tuberculosis which causes the disease

tuberculosis or tb

now tuberculosis is very very

interesting i had no idea it killed

1 million 800 000 people every single

year worldwide

that is incredible but what’s more

incredible is i found out that 25 of the

population has been infected with tb but

not in its active form okay in its

dormant or latent form so there’s two

forms of tb you have the

active infection and then you have like

an infection that’s in remission or it’s

called latent and it kind of sits there

and it doesn’t actually cause any

symptoms at all and it’s not even

infectious you can’t spread tb when it’s

dormant or when it’s latent now this is

what you need to know

not a large percent

of tb is active okay

like ninety percent is latent and only

five to ten percent

becomes active but the problem with this

is that 50

of people with an active infection that

are not treated actually die so it is

very very deadly but my question of

course is

what about the other 50

why

do they live what do they have

special about them that helps them

survive well it’s something that i

couldn’t really find a lot of

information on you see what’s really

missing when you deal with infections is

your own immune system that seems to be

neglected and instead we focus more on

the antibiotics and other treatments

which i’m going to get to but for people

that have an active tb infection

they usually have a chronic cough and

they might have some mucus that has some

blood in it

they have a fever they get back pain

they lose weight they might have night

sweats and they might just have these

mild symptoms for months and another

unique thing about tb is that

apparently

it takes eight to ten weeks before it

even shows up on a test so you might be

infected but not really know it for

weeks now a big problem with the

treatment of tb is

you’re given multiple

antibiotics for months and months and

months and the problem is that you might

be at risk for getting antibiotic

resistance okay like 13

of the people who get treated become

resistant to the antibiotic and then it

doesn’t work at all so then what are you

going to do

and apparently six percent of population

is resistant to

any treatment you do for tb so i want to

share something interesting about these

antibiotics

there’s some things you need to know

number one antibiotics do not

do anything for viral infections okay

they don’t do anything for

fungal or yeast or candida infections

and 60

of all antibiotic treatments have been

shown to be unnecessary because a lot of

these infections were viral or fungal or

yeast infections and a really big

complication of this is antibiotic

resistance because then you start

developing these super bugs i mean the

same exact thing is happening in

agriculture when you’re killing off

these microbes in the soil you start to

get super bugs and then now you have a

problem with these pathogens that are

very very difficult to kill and just as

an important side note if you ever take

an antibiotic always take a probiotic at

the exact same time okay and then

afterwards you don’t want to wait until

you’re done with the round of

antibiotics

and if you’re taking a probiotic that is

not going to interfere with the

effectiveness of the antibiotic okay

it’s not going to prolong the infection

because you’re not taking pathogens

you’re taking

probiotics that means you’re taking

friendly

microbes and when people have antibiotic

resistance

they’re very vulnerable to getting a

secondary infection and that’s primarily

going to be like a yeast infection a

candida infection that’s going to have

this overgrowth you see the bacteria are

there to keep the yeast in check and so

as soon as you wipe them out you get

this

overgrowth and that creates a whole

series of issues

another really major side effect of

antibiotics is brain side effects i’m

talking about

cognitive

loss of memory

uh brain fog

confusion

psychosis

major depression

anxiety

irritability so you’ll have mood changes

and cognitive changes now there’s

something else that’s very interesting

about tb that i want to share with you

i talked about the active form in the

latent form and usually if someone’s

going to get the active form of tb it’s

going to be within one to three years

however

they could get it later in life okay but

the percentage

of you getting it becomes less and less

so what would increase your risk of

getting it down the road well

if you live in the northern hemisphere

you’re more at risk also you’re at more

risk during the winter months so what’s

common about these two items right here

and if you guessed low vitamin d you are

correct because vitamin d deficiencies

increase your risk

of in the active form of tb by five

times and so there’s a very strong link

between vitamin d

and tb and that’s simply because vitamin

d is

the most important vitamin for your

immune system it affects almost every

part of your immune system and it helps

to regulate the immune system and if

you’re low in vitamin d

you’re greatly susceptible to not just

tb but a lot of other infections and now

also i found some interesting

information about the vitamin d receptor

okay there’s this genetic problem with

vitamin d called polymorphism where the

receptor for vitamin d

just won’t accept the vitamin d it’s

kind of resistant okay

and so if you have this genetic defect

you’re going to be more susceptible to

getting tb

and more and more people are

getting assessments for their dna and

there’s a lot of great information you

can find from that by the way various

weaknesses that you can then strengthen

epigenetically also people that have

post traumatic stress syndrome

are more likely to get tb why because it

activates cortisol

so stress activates cortisol which not

only lowers your vitamin d but cortisol

in general

paralyzes your immune system this is why

so many people develop autoimmune

conditions

and all sorts of

weird strange illnesses right after

major stress events especially losses

now a couple other things that will

increase the risk of this infection

age as you get older of course

as you get older

your vitamin d goes down and your immune

system goes down chemotherapy destroys

the immune system so that can also kick

in

an episode of active tb and then we have

steroids what’s steroids

so steroids generally you know they’re

anti-inflammatory but they put your

immune system into a sleep mode and this

comes back to why vitamin d is the most

important vitamin for your immune system

and also why you need to be out in the

sun a lot more get sun exposure not to

the point of getting burned

but

just before that okay sun is very very

healthy not just for the vitamin d but

for the

infrared and even the uv spectrum is

actually good for certain things as well

because uv can actually deactivate

certain pollutants in the air as well as

as well as microbes as a maintenance

dosage i would recommend

about 10 000 ius of vitamin d3

and in addition to that if you have

tb

or you’re feeling run down i would beef

that up to about 30 to 40 000 iu’s for a

period of time now if you haven’t seen

my video on the

relationship between the sun and your

immune system i put that right here

check it out

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