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by Terry_Roll 1433 days ago
It is. https://www.worldanimalprotection.org.uk/sites/default/files...

1ml of sea water will contain billions of phages, but its pot luck if you get the right strain.

Another thing not mentioned with antibiotics is man y are penicillin based that when metabolised become penicillamine which is used to treat copper toxicity or Wilson's disease, ie it makes the liver dump copper out of the body. Copper is needed to produce Interleukin-2, a naturally occurring chemo drug, most effective when injected into tumours, but having naturally high levels circulating can be helpful as a prevention measure.

Creatine when metabolised becomes creatinine which in sufficient qty can kill gram positive and gram negative bacteria. If you get 3rd degree burns, the muscles catabolise to release creatine and then the creatinine helps to keep bacteria at bay with the wounds.

It probably also explains why the US military are reportedly the only one's to use copper sulphate to debride battlefield wounds. Even the WHO dont recommend using it! Copper sulphate will dissolve skin though.

Vitamin D also increases creatinine, and because creatinine is used for estimated glomular filtration rate kidney tests, high levels of creatinine can make you appear to have various stages of kidney disease. Medical lab tests (human and veterinary) can not tell if you are supplementing so dont get an inaccurate diagnosis.