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Summary: Learn about the health benefits of raw food antibiotics that naturally occur in some plants, as opposed to broad spectrum synthetic antibiotics, in this free instructional video on raw food cooking and recipes.
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Rachel Karr Rachel Karr is a raw food chef at Cru Restaurant in Silver Lake, Los Angeles, California.
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The nice thing about plants is that most of them tend to be natural regulators as opposed to western medicine which is the same dose, no matter who you give it to is going to have the same quantifiable effect. Whereas plants, because there are so many different factors at play, which is one of the reasons they work as better, because it is a natural antibiotics. Say like a natural antibiotic like a grapefruit seed extract, compared to a broad spectrum western antibiotic, it is just designed to combat that bug. But with a natural antibiotic, it's got 1,000's of antibiotic properties and the bug cannot mutate to meet it. So it is so complex, much more complex than anything created synthetically. You know what's really good? Olive leaf – for an antibiotic. And unlike a western antibiotic, it will keep working. It won't diminish in potency. You know it is really cool. I know oregano oil, I was doing that for a while for my sinus stuff, bronchial stuff; any of that stuff.