Do you know what infects 2 million Americans every year?<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Candida albicans.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Although I bet, you weren't thinking about it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The worst part is that out of all those 2 million people, over 23,000 die because of candida albicans.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n What was once an easy-to-treat infection has now turned into a life-threatening disease<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n You see, antibiotics cannot kill candida albicans<\/strong> because it is an antibiotic-resistant fungus.<\/p>\n\n\n\n And candida albicans is not the only drug-resistant threat that we are facing today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The CDC (Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) has warned that the current antibiotic resistance threat is serious and urgent.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In fact, some researchers claim that we may return to a “pre-antibiotic era in which minor infections can once again become deadly.”<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Are there solutions to the new antibiotic resistance threat?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n Although there is no official solution presented to the public, researchers believe they've made a huge breakthrough!<\/p>\n\n\n\n They found that by using a drug for blood disorders <\/strong>(which can lower iron levels) starves Candida albicans.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n This happens because Candida albicans is feeding on iron.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Yes, the primary power source of Candida is iron.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Without it, Candida simply shuts down.<\/p>\n\n\n\n In the research, scientists did just that, they administered deferasirox (a drug that treats blood disorders) to mice with Candida albicans. <\/p>\n\n\n\n By comparing the group that received the drug and the one that didn't, the results were shocking: the experiment worked!<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n The iron-lowering drug affected the Candida so much that it destroyed it in a proportion of 88%.<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n This finding is significant since it's the first one that actively stopped the spreading of infection.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Plus, the treatment with deferasirox, the iron-lowering drug, did not cause iron deficiency in the mice.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Who knows, perhaps one day this might be the alternative measure to treating Candida albicans.<\/p>\n\n\n\n What are your thoughts on this incredible finding?<\/p>\n\n\n\n Do you agree with the researcher's vision of repurposing drugs to treat diseases?<\/p>\n\n\n\n I can't wait to read your opinions on this, and until next time, please don't hesitate to ask me your questions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Do you know what infects 2 million Americans every year? Candida albicans. Although I bet,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":37,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/usahealthresource.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/usahealthresource.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/usahealthresource.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usahealthresource.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usahealthresource.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/usahealthresource.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38,"href":"https:\/\/usahealthresource.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36\/revisions\/38"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usahealthresource.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/usahealthresource.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usahealthresource.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/usahealthresource.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}