Show 1407: Battling Superbugs with Nature’s Viral Warriors

The People's Pharmacy

Joe and Terry Graedon

Health & Fitness, Medicine, Kids & Family, Alternative Health

4.5 • 934 Ratings

🗓️ 7 November 2024

⏱️ 73 minutes

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This week, we consider whether viruses might be able to overcome bacterial infections that resist all antibiotics. We start with a thrilling story from a few years ago in which a scientist saved her husband’s life with bacteriophages. Then we turn to a journalist who grew up in Russia where bacteriophages are common remedies. She […]

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0:00.0	I'm Joe Graydon.
0:01.5	And I'm Terry Graydon.
0:02.9	Welcome to this podcast of the People's Pharmacy.
0:06.0	You can find previous podcasts and more information on a range of health topics at
0:11.5	People's Pharmacy.com.
0:14.4	What happens when antibiotics don't work?
0:18.6	Superbugs have become resistant to many antimicrobial drugs.
0:23.2	This is the People's Pharmacy with Terry and Joe Graydon.
0:33.9	We'll hear how a researcher saved her husband's life when he developed a multi-drug-resistant infection.
0:41.0	She recruited viruses from sewage to fight the bacteria.
0:45.0	Bacteriophages have been used in Eastern Europe for more than a century, but they never caught on in the West.
0:51.8	We'll talk with the author of The Living Medicine about how a life-saving cure was nearly lost
0:57.4	and why it might rescue us when antibiotics fail.
1:00.8	Coming up on the people's pharmacy, phage fighters, battling superbugs with nature's viral warriors.
1:13.9	In the P's Pharmacy Health Headlines, New Research offers a wonderful excuse to eat nuts.
1:21.5	Scientists studied more than 50,000 volunteers in the UK Biobank who filled out detailed dietary questionnaires when the study began.
1:30.7	These people were between 40 and 70 years old and free of cognitive problems at the time.
1:37.4	The investigators followed up between six and 10 years later to find out how the participants
1:42.8	had fared. Those who ate nuts every day
1:45.9	were 12% less likely to develop dementia during that time. Overall, 2.8% of the volunteers
1:53.5	had a dementia diagnosis by the end of the study. Unsalted almonds and cashews appeared to be
1:59.6	more helpful than salted or processed nuts.
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