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Posted in Troubleshooting, and Useful Tips
There are a multitude of ways to kill a UTI, depending on which genus, species, and strain you have, but some things remain constant no matter what type of bacteria you have and what regimen of meds you’re using. You must keep these things in mind and implement them no matter which way you’re killing a UTI.
Posted in Immediate UTI Treatment, Infection Killing Protocol, Supplements, and Useful Tips
“Let your food be your medicine and your medicine be your food.”–Hippocrates
This is an alternative strategy for killing a gram negative (E. coli, Klebsiella, Proteus) UTI purely with produce, and a juicer. Alternative instructions are given for a gram positive infection.
If you don’t already have a juicer, a cheap $30 centrifugal one from Wal-Mart/Target/Bed, Bath & Beyond will do the job, but a masticating one is best: you can get an $85-95 model on Amazon. The difference is that the centrifugal one oxidizes the ingredients during the process, meaning their medicinal and nutritional value has a limited life span: you want to drink that juice right away.
Posted in Infection Killing Protocol, Supplements, and The Kill List Series
This is the most common gram positive bacteria causing UTIs. It and the other bacteria ending in “coccus” (staph and strep) are less painful and virulent in the bladder due to two factors:
#1 means you don’t have to worry about a runaway infection getting to your kidneys, and #2 means you’re not going to be in the kind of raging pain typically associated with a UTI. At most, you generally feel some irritation and have frequency, but you’re not doubled over.
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Proteus mirabilis is an interesting bug, named after an ancient Greek god of the sea for its ability to change its shape and swarm rapidly over moist surfaces. Ominous, no?
It’s a member of the same (infamous crime) family as E. coli: gram negative, motile, naturally resistant to penicillin and fluorquinolone-based antibiotics, highly likely to form a biofilm when it spreads in a medical setting, generally through catheters, but almost every case I’ve seen has been in someone who hadn’t been catheterized.
All of them, however, had low stomach acid. Treating that is vital to both killing a current Proteus infection, and preventing new ones.
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Posted in Infection Killing Protocol, Profiles, Supplements, The Kill List Series, and Useful Tips
Klebsiella is the second most common cause of UTIs and has two different species that cause infection: K. pneumoniae and K. oxytoca. Like E. coli, it is motile (the little bastards can swim) and gram-negative, meaning it too can be suppressed by alkalizing the urine.
K. pneumoniae is the most common, and is often quite antibiotic resistant. That species name does indeed mean what you think it means: it’s the bacteria that causes pneumonia. That sounds scary, but don’t worry: there’s a silver bullet in the arsenal for this one.
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We’re going to go pathogen-by-pathogen in a Kill List series, listing the best weapons against each type of bacteria, and the pH you want to maintain in order to suppress growth. Listed next to the pH is what you can use to get it to that level. The posts are ordered by how common that bacteria is in the bladder.
The natural meds are listed in order of how broad-spectrum they are against all the different strains of that bacteria, and potency (how capable they are of killing an antibiotic-resistant infection single-handedly).
E. coli is first in the series because it’s the most common; it has so many different strains; and so many different things can be used against them.
Posted in Troubleshooting, Useful Tips, and UTI Causes
The vast majority of people who’ve contacted me about their bladder issues have a chronic case of low stomach acid.
That’s right, LOW stomach acid. High acid is far, far less common than low acid: if you get heartburn, you have low acid. If you always bloat after meals, you have low acid. If you’re chronically constipated, suffer from kidney stones, cavities, weak nails, thyroid problems, undigested food in your stool, pee red after eating beets, your urine pH is chronically acidic on an alkaline diet, and/or nothing you take seems to do you or your bladder any good….*drumroll*