{"id":190886,"date":"2024-06-09T10:26:47","date_gmt":"2024-06-09T15:26:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/game-changing-antibiotic-discovered-that-spares-good-bacteria"},"modified":"2024-06-09T10:26:47","modified_gmt":"2024-06-09T15:26:47","slug":"game-changing-antibiotic-discovered-that-spares-good-bacteria","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/game-changing-antibiotic-discovered-that-spares-good-bacteria","title":{"rendered":"Game-Changing Antibiotic Discovered That Spares \u2018Good\u2019 Bacteria"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/game-changing-antibiotic-discovered-that-spares-good-bacteria2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>For all the good antibiotics do for the world, one of the biggest downsides to their use is the way they indiscriminately kill both the \u2018good\u2019 and the \u2018bad\u2019<\/p>\n<p>A single course of this life-saving medicine can not only destroy disease-causing invaders in the human body; it can also have an \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/pmc\/articles\/PMC8756738\/\">immense<\/a>\u201d impact on the gut and its resident collection of microbes.<\/p>\n<p>This impact can sometimes lead to an overgrowth of certain bacteria or fungi. For instance, women <a href=\"https:\/\/www.monistat.com\/vaginal-health-blog-articles\/can-antibiotics-cause-yeast-infections-understanding-link-and-how-to\">have up to a 30 percent chance<\/a> of developing a yeast infection after antibiotic treatment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For all the good antibiotics do for the world, one of the biggest downsides to their use is the way they indiscriminately kill both the \u2018good\u2019 and the \u2018bad\u2019 A single course of this life-saving medicine can not only destroy disease-causing invaders in the human body; it can also have an \u201cimmense\u201d impact on the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-190886","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190886","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=190886"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190886\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}