The orthodox medical world has made historic gains based on eliminating things – whether bacteria, viruses, pests, etc. The forms of elimination include sterilization, pasteurization, radiation, pesticides, pharmaceuticals, chemotherapy, vaccination, antibiotics, surgery, etc.
That elimination of threat rests on the hygiene principle, that cleanliness and isolation from “threat” are the means to health. On many levels this approach is a military one, a war against something we are taught to fear, as we are encouraged to fear “terrorists.” Methods and language often overlap – fighting cancer, bombarding it with radiation, wiping out infection with antibiotics, surgical strikes, cleansing an area of enemy, etc. Multinational industries have grown up around each form of killing, from weapons dealers to the pharmaceutical and radiation/nuclear industry which have immense vested interest in killing things as the means to solve problems. And the more the “things” to be fought can be defined as urgent threats or the more kinds of “things” that can be defined as new threats, the more each industry grows. More enemies and more diagnoses based on more fear mean more sales.
I love this way of framing the medical establishment's attitude towards bacteria - all death and war.
One point missing in this article is about the gut flora, where the use of antibiotics WIPES OUT the beneficial flora that we need to digest food and produce enzymes and even vitamins, etc.
The killer bacteria "C. Difficile" is a good example - it only affects people who have been on antibiotics, because all the good gut flora are killed off and the C Diff has a chance to multiply. The best cure is probiotics, which re-establish those good bacteria and crowd out the C Diff. Really, it is what they do in the better hospitals now!! [and the Doctors are finally recognising that C Diff occurs after antibiotic therapy].
Where the article and gut flora meet up is over Acidopholus bacteria. That is the one that helps us digest MILK, and there is allways acidopholus in RAW MILK and plain yogurt, but not in pasturised milk. No wonder people cannot digest pasturised milk - there is no acidopholus in it!! DUG!!
Constipation is often the result of not digesting the food, such as milk. Yup - to find out if milk is constipating you, just take some probiotic Acidopholus, or eat some plain yogurt or raw milk and your bowels will loosen up and you will feel better.
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The Battle over Bacteria 
