Most Replayed Moment: The Antibiotic Alternative Big Pharma Doesn't Want You To Know!

**Steven Bartlett** (0:00)
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**Simon Mills** (1:33)
And those are the main things.

**Steven Bartlett** (1:36)
I guess even with the diseases you get, you'll be slower to heal because you're less, if you've got that resistance.

**Simon Mills** (1:42)
That is one of the things that we do see, particularly those who are long term ill, we know that they lose some of the healing capacity. And that's so much of the work I do is to aim to put some of the work I do into the work I do, right.

**Steven Bartlett** (1:57)
And there's links to colorectal cancers?

**Simon Mills** (1:59)
Yeah, because we're talking about the microbiome, you see. So those are the cancers in the lower gut. And we know that the microbiome is a major factor in how well the gut is. So things like Crohn's and ulcerative colitis and cancer of the bowel, very closely linked to the state of the microbiome.

**Steven Bartlett** (2:18)
Okay. So are there alternatives on this table or in the world of plants to antibiotics that I should maybe also consider, instead of just jumping straight to antibiotics for everything that I experience?

**Simon Mills** (2:32)
Yes. If you've got a serious gut or other infection, you may need the antibiotics. So let's put that straight away. But if you've got a cold flu virus, a viral problem, particularly the airways, A, antibiotics won't have no use at all, and B, as we just said, they just add to the risk of more. Because every time you take an antibiotic, you're growing a small population of that, of the species of bacteria that's affected who are resistant to that. It's natural selection, you know, though you have a thousand little bacteria, that's a small amount by their terms, and you kill 999 of them, the one that survives will then become two in 20 minutes and four in 40 minutes and suddenly become a new population. And, you know, I duck that bullet. And so that group of bacteria will already be resistant. So we're creating resistance every time we use an antibody. So try, let's try and then doing something else, shall we? So let's say you've got a cold. You're feeling the cold. It's got a good name, by the way. So cold is one of the things you feel when you've got a cold. And that's interesting because in former times, we didn't have tests, we didn't have laboratories, we didn't have paramedics, we didn't have people poking things in you. All we could know is what it felt like. And when you've got a cold, you often feel cold. And you feel chills and you want to wrap up and you want hot water or you want to have a hot bath. All that in the old language meant that you were cold. And what you needed to do was to heat up. Now, you take this fella, this is ginger.