Yes - you want to avoid anything that contributes to biofilm buildup.
Check this report on biofilm: [
thefunctionalmedicinecenter.com]
And check out all the past posts mentioning magnesium stearate here [
www.afibbers.org]
Stephen Olmstead, MD is the leading expert in research on biofilms. If you google his name and biofilms, you'll come up with loads of his reports. (This is a clip from Townsend Letter )
Sephen Olmstead, MD.
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Dr. Olmstead is a cardiologist, but he writes in this issue about a microbiology topic--biofilms. I first had the opportunity to work with Dr. Olmstead more than ten years ago, when he was asked to design a study of the effects of intravenous chelation on cardiovascular disease. Although his study design passed muster with the National Institutes of Health, some doctor at the local university hospital thought that chelation was dangerous and didn't deserve to be studied. The university decided not to participate, and the chelation study was abandoned.
Olmstead introduces us to biofilms--a new way to look at microorganism colonization in the gut. While we have been taught to consider organism infection to involve freely circulating organisms, what Olmstead refers to as "planktonic growth," it is more likely that organisms congregate in biofilms. The biofilm offers bacterial and fungal organisms a greater level of defense to resist pathogenic competitors and parasites, as well as chemicals and antibiotics. If the biofilm is indeed the new standard for microorganism colonization in the gut, mouth, and other tissues, the notion that we can depend on antibiotics to control infection appears to be fraught with failure. Olmstead proposes a strategy--curiously, also a triad strategy--to control the infective biofilm.
Jonathan Collin, MD
