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Link Found Between Food Allergies and Farm Antibiotics
Along with its potential for causing food allergies, agricultural antibiotics are also a primary driver of antibiotic resistant disease.
A healthy balance of gut bacteria is vital to good physical and mental health. Your gut bacteria activity play a role in the your immunity, your serotonin production and the development or prevention of a number of diseases, including food allergies. Recent research shows a common gut bacteria helps prevent sensitization to food allergens.
You have about 2 - 3 pounds of bacteria in your gut. Besides helping you to remain healthy, these bacteria also help you to digest your food and to extract vital nutrients. You need more than 85% “good” bacteria and less than 15% “bad’ bacteria to be healthy. By destroying the beneficial gut bacteria and altering your microbiome, agricultural chemicals like glyphosate (Roundup) and antibiotic pesticides can play a significant role in creating food allergies.
Use of antibiotics in healthy livestock accounts for about 80% of all antibiotic use in the US, so to halt the growth of antibiotic resistance we must address this source.
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Along with its potential for causing food allergies, agricultural antibiotics are also a primary driver of antibiotic resistant disease, which now kills an estimated 23,000 Americans each year.
This information presents a compelling reason to eat organic. In the case of meat and other animal products such as eggs and dairy, your best bet is organic grass-fed or pastured varieties.