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Dr. Matt and Dr. Mike's Medical Podcast

Folate Inhibitors | Antibiotics

Dr. Matt and Dr. Mike's Medical Podcast

Dr. Mike Todorovic

Nursing, University, Physiology, Health, Education, Health & Fitness, Science, Physiotherapy, Medicine, Anatomy

4.8743 Ratings

🗓️ 18 April 2026

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Why is folate important and how do some antibiotics inhibit folate metabolism??


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0:00.0

The Welcome everybody to another episode of Dr Matt and Dr. Mike's medical podcast.

0:30.1

I'm your host, Dr. Mike Todorovich, joined as always by my co-host that J.D. Rockefeller.

0:34.6

How way, J.D?

0:35.6

I told a joke on a team's meeting the other day and no one laughed.

0:39.5

It turns out I'm not remotely funny.

0:42.2

No. No, you're not.

0:44.5

Glad you're coming to terms with your lack of humor.

0:48.3

Funny in person though, right?

0:50.3

Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Sure. All right, Maddie, you have somebody you need to thank.

0:56.9

Oh, yes, I forgot to thank Anton last week.

1:00.1

Anton is a medical student from the University of Queensland,

1:03.2

and he sent me a couple of papers on cell wall inhibitors.

1:08.0

Particularly, I mentioned one paper being that ingredient, remember the ingredient of

1:13.4

the thousand-year-old recipe or the eye, I don't know. Salve? Yeah. Yeah. And it seemed to be

1:21.9

useful for today, even for MRSA infections. Oh, right. Yeah, that's right. Thank you, Anton.

1:44.3

Yeah, so thank you, Anton. Any help that Mac can get, we appreciate. And there's a lot of help this guy. In multiple levels, yes. Yes, all aspects of his life. Maddie, we're talking today about another. So last week we spoke about cell wall inhibitors. This week we're talking about folate inhibitors, antibiotics inhibit folate.

1:46.3

So I've got a question for you.

1:50.3

So when we spoke about cell wall inhibitors makes total sense.

1:52.3

We don't have cell walls, bacteria do.

1:53.6

They're in our body.

1:54.8

We want to get rid of it.

1:59.1

Not all of them, obviously, but those that are becoming pathogenic or affecting us negatively.

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