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Finish Your Antibiotics

I’m sorry, this isn’t Jojo at all but I think I’ve had it for today. As a pharmacy tech, I’m tired of hearing “Well, I started to feel better so I didn’t finish them.” I always knew this but now as a Molecular and Cellular Biology major, I not only know why but how. If you’re willing to heed my advice from the title, good; be on your way. If you need to know more, keep reading.

It’s widely known–to some extent–that not completing a regiment of antibiotics can result in resistant bacteria, or even super bacteria.

But in an infection, you already have resistant bacteria lurking. Not taking antibiotics doesn’t literally create resistant bacteria. So how, then, do the antibiotics take care of the resistant ones?

A lot of antibiotics aren’t bacterialcidal: They don’t actually kill them. Many inhibit growth by some mechanism depending if the bacterium is gram negative or gram positive. For example, penicillin inhibits growth by disrupting the formation of a peptidoglycan layer on gram positive bacteria. Others target the LPS layer on gram negative ones. This keeps the non resistant bacteria at bay. So what kills the resistant ones? Your immune system. Antibiotics buy time and energy for your immune system to recognize and destroy the resistant strains. Your immune system is intelligent in that sense and can form antibodies for new illnesses. It’s important to give your immune system this time because bacteria grow, mutate, and transfer genetic material at astonishing rates. If you wanted to look at a microcosm of the mechanics that go into evolution, you’ve got it with bacteria. 

There are three methods aside from binary fission in which they transfer genes (I won’t get into the minutia of the form of informational material): Transformation, transduction and conjugation.

In transformation, a bacterium can pickup lost genes from a ruptured and dead cell.

Transduction is a way to transfer information via a viral vector.

In conjugation, genes are transferred through something called a pilus: It’s a bridge between two cells that pipes a copy of the information from one cell to another receptive cell and is the only method that doesn’t involve killing either cells. Resistant bacteria like to give around that resistance information like they’re burning a CD for their friends.

So please finish your antibiotics if you’ve been given them. It doesn’t matter if you’ve started to feel better or even great. Finish them.

(Hey science people, If I’ve missed anything or even got something wrong, help me out. There’s obviously lengthy stuff I’ve left out but I think I got the basics).

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#WednesdayWisdom

5 Signs The Universe Is Trying To Tell You Something

1. Synchronicity - being at the right place at the right time. Meeting a stranger who tells us something that relates directly to our situation is an example of synchronicity and this is the universe’s way of sending us the message we need to hear.

2. Reflections - seeing ourselves in others. Crossing paths with those who have similar beliefs to our own allows us to observe ourselves from an outsider’s perspective. This is a great way for us to reflect on where we’re at and assess the changes we need to make in order to get to where we want to be.

3. Emotions - our inner GPS. Being led by our feelings is a clear sign that we’re being guided by the universe because our emotions are our inner GPS, they guide us to where we need to be and sometimes we must let go of our desire for control and let the universe take the wheel.

4. Hard times - wake-up calls. Many of our most valuable lessons are embedded in difficult experiences and this is when we must adopt the concept of pronoia and realise that the universe has put these challenges in our paths to help us grow.

5. Resistance - everything feels a lot harder. Indeed, it’s important for us to push forward, but there will be times when we come into resistance in many areas of our lives and this is a clear sign that we must take a step back to look at the big picture which prevents us from moving against our true purpose.

Pronoia means things are happening for us, not to us.

Peace & positive vibes.

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Day 20 - Tread

I wonder what kind of adventure he’s on?

It is mine!