Truth or Myth?
While many health experts and doctors and other nutritionists can probably argue day in and day out whether or not apple cider vinegar actually has any health benefit to it, the simple fact is that throughout history it has been used as a treatment for a variety of maladies that range from the mild to the more serious. Naturally that does not mean to say that it gives credence to the view that is a miracle cure, after all, at some point in history man thought that the world was flat and balanced on the back of a turtle. Still, the effect of the weight of the ages combined with the numerous accounts readily available detailing the myriad of ways in which apple cider has helped them makes a pretty strong case for argument. Whatever the case, most of the treatments are pretty harmless, and some apple cider vinegar treatments may benefit certain people. Still it would always be valuable to have a doctor look over your specific malady and how an apple cider vinegar cure would affect it befo
Myth 1. Dead microorganisms don’t mutate. Alcohol rubs (biocides) kill microorganisms. 2. Current scientific evidence has not shown a link exists between the use of topical antimicrobial formulations and antiseptic or antibiotic resistance. 3. Antiseptics (biocides) have multiple (thousands) of nonspecific killing sites on and in the microbial cell which cannot easily mutate. 4. Antibiotics and antibacterial soaps (triclosan) have one very specific killing site on and in the microbial cell which can easily mutate. 5. Antibiotic resistance has no affect on the effectiveness of (biocides) antiseptics. References: Jones R.D. Bacterial resistance and topical antimicrobial wash products. Am. J. Infect. 1999 Aug: 27(4):351-63. Barry A.L., Fuchs, P.C., Brown, S.D. Lack of Effect of Antibiotic Resistance on Susceptibility of Microorganisms to Chlorhexidine gluconate and Povidone iodine. Eur. J. Clin. Microbiol. Inf. Dis. 1999, 18: 920-921. Alcohol rubs and Germ Out® kill germs better than soap
