The DEADLIEST Bacteria in the World - Dr. Berg

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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 you