Your Body's Own Antibiotic - Effective and Safe

Antimicrobial peptides are endogenous proteins and active members of our immune system. They are found naturally in the skin, especially in the mucous membranes. Scientists discovered that these peptides are so potent that they can also kill pathogens such radical, who are already resistant to antibiotics and therefore now threaten the health of many people. This news is more exciting, because antimicrobial peptides - in contrast to antibiotics - no side effects. 


Antibiotics are a wonderful achievement, as they already saved the lives of many people - and sometimes still do. Unfortunately, it turned out during the course of the now decade-long antibiotic use, that the "miracle cure" for at least two unfavorable properties holds: 

1st Antibiotics harming healthy cells 

Antibiotics do not only infectious bacteria but also healthy cells, such as the beneficial bacteria in the intestinal flora. Since the latter represent the basis of a functioning immune system, antibiotic treatment always leads to a weakening of the body's own defense is, that in the short term benefit (because you're not at the current infection dies), but leads in the long term - when the vital restoration ofintestinal failure - an increased susceptibility to other infections. 

2nd Antibiotic-resistant pathogens make 

The second disadvantage of the often indiscriminate antibiotic regulations is that more and more potentially harmful germs become resistant to antibiotics. This fact alone will cost in Germany every year up to 40,000 lives, mostly in the hospital. This means that these people went to the hospital, to stay healthy.Instead they are infected - probably through lack of hygiene of the staff - with a so-called multi-resistant germs, a pathogen that is resistant to most antibiotics, so that he can not get at more. The doctors are here and have to watch helplessly as the patient dies. 

Antibiotics helplessly at 25 percent of germs 

Several years ago, for example, only 2 percent of Staphylococcus aureus were multiresistant, today there are already 25 percent. (1) The germ causes, for example, that no longer heal surgical wounds. They fester and the germ eats further and further into the healthy tissue. Staphylococcus aureus can also cause inflammation of the lining of blood poisoning or pneumonia to death.Consequently, scientists are looking frantically for a new "wonder drug" that can replace conventional antibiotics as soon as possible. 

Our Guardian Angels: Antimicrobial peptides 

Staphylococcus aureus is everywhere. But why does not everyone infected with it? Our skin is injured again. Here a scratch, there a small incision, even an insect bite or an open knee - and yet we do not all die at the multi-drug resistant Staphylococcus. Who protects us? Antimicrobial peptides (2), which sit naturally in our skin and in our mucous membranes - but only if we have a healthy and efficient immune system. 

The most dangerous viruses are powerless 

Several studies have now shown that these endogenous peptides may have an antibiotic effect on bacteria, fungi and enveloped viruses known. Enveloped viruses are viruses that have, in contrast to non-enveloped or naked viruses, a viral envelope. 

The difference between the two virus types is that the enveloped viruses are much more dangerous to humans than is stark naked in the viruses of the case.Enveloped viruses - such as influenza virus or HIV - are adept at subverting the immune system of their victim. 

And precisely these viruses show the body's antimicrobial peptides (AMP) is a fast action - and make sure that we do not suffer from terrible infections constantly and continuously. 

Finally: Healthy antibiotic replacement in sight 

Scientists are now trying to artificially produce these peptides to them - in the foreseeable future - to be used instead of antibiotics. Dr. Andreas Schubert said of the Fraunhofer Institute for Cell Therapy and Immunology (IZI) in Leipzig that the peptides act even against antibiotic-resistant pathogens, including against the multi-rest patients Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) or against Klebsiella, are resistant to the antibiotic class of carbapenems are (CRKP) - and in a concentration equivalent to one tenth of the dose commonly prescribed antibiotics. 

The body's own Guardian Angel Production 

The human organism can, ideally, the antimicrobial peptides establish themselves and then protect themselves excellently. The problem here, however, that many people have due to improper diet and lifestyle as well as due to ill-antibiotic treatments or taking any other medication side effects, rich no longer have the necessary powerful immune system. 

A weakened immune system but can no longer produce much-needed antimicrobial peptides in sufficient quantity. The result is a person who is suddenly prone to infections of all kinds for those who do not like to set the speed and ingenuity of the scientists, the question now arises: How do you strengthen your immune system and how do you get it back into the able enough guardian angels, thus being able to produce antimicrobial peptides? 

Activate Your Immune System 

High quality protein: Provide your body with really high-quality proteins, so it there is sufficient raw materials, to produce the much needed antimicrobial peptides.Avoid processed meat products and dairy products as these - although they deliver proteins - the organism burden at the same time many disadvantages, so that they exceed the potential benefits far. 
Nuts, hemp seeds, legumes (eg beans, peas, chickpeas, etc.), dried fruits, green leafy vegetables, flour of sweet lupine and delicious shakes from a high-quality rice protein supply to the organism, however, all amino acids, which he for the production of antimicrobial peptides required. At the same time such a diet supplied with a variety of antioxidant nutrients and phytochemicals that help the immune system in many ways and transform it into an impregnable fortress. 
Maintain your intestinal health! Without intestinal flora, which is located in a harmonious balance, the immune system is virtually powerless. The device from its healthy balance of intestinal flora and take the harmful bacteria in the intestines out of hand, then, for example by antibiotic therapy, by inferior, so industrially processed foods, sugar-rich food by, alcohol abuse, drugs, or drugs, etc., is such dysbacteria often the beginning of a whole rat's tail from a variety of ailments.Therefore, the restoration of intestinal flora - in combination with a natural diet basenüberschüssigen - one of the simplest and most successful measures to increase the self-healing powers. A renovation of the intestinal flora can be integrated without problems in every day.

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