Antibiotic resistance has been declared a crisis by the World Health Organization, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), the Institute of Medicine, the Infectious Diseases Society of America, and virtually all other relevant organizations.
The last new antibiotic class for gram-negative bacteria was the quinolones, developed 40 years ago.
Antibiotic abuse in the United States is widespread. We have only 4.6% of the global population but we have 46% of the global antibiotic market.
What can you DO?
Stop Antibiotic Use on the Farm
A full 80% of antibiotic use in the United States is for growth promotion and disease prevention in farm animals. Resistant bacteria and resistance genes can be traced from the chickens to the chicken meat in grocery stores and, finally, to blood cultures in patients (The "farm to fork" phenomenon). The practice of antibiotics for growth promotion on the farm was stopped in Denmark many years ago, with no apparent economic or animal health consequences.
Only buy meat that says no antibiotics used.
Ideally – Pasture raised - Grass fed and finished, for red meat and organic grain for chickens.
Eat only Foods certified Non-GMO – see below for why.
Adopt Rapid Diagnostic Tests
Take a rapid test for bacteria before taking that pill. We have a test for the detection of MRSA, vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus, Neisseria gonorrhoeae, Chlamydia trachomatis, group B Streptococcus, tuberculosis, Candida albicans, and many others. Coming soon are tests that will detect practically every bacterium as well as other pathogens, making a diagnosis, to facilitate antibiotic decision-making, within 1-2 hours of collecting the culture.
There's always a butt...
initial studies show that antibiotics such as ciprofloxacin, commonly prescribed for 1 week, have a profound and sometimes lasting effect on the colonic microbiome. Furthermore, excessive antibiotics in childhood have been associated strongly with subsequent obesity and inflammatory bowel disease.
Take a Probiotic supplement every day to keep the Doctor (and the poo pill) away.
(If you get C-Diff, the solution is to put poo from a healthy host into your colon.)
I'm not kidding.
Your digestive and immune system depend on the good bacteria.
Good bacteria crowd out the bad and you will get sick much less often.
You know you are getting enough probiotic, when you pass gas and it doesn't smell.
Yes there are people whose s**t don't smell. 
And they are healthier.
GMO isn't a car company.
I am quite skeptical of accepting hype and propaganda.
Therefore, I do a lot of research before talking about something.
At this point, despite the over the top hype about Frankenfood and the like,
I am convinced that foods which are Genetically Modified, or contains a GMO (Genetically Modified Organism), are a safety and health concern, with a high enough probability of harm, not to take the risk of eating it. Not all GMO are bad, such as the ones with medical applications, but the ones in the current food supply, that we eat, likely are.
Not only is there too high a risk that GMO can make you sick, but there is also a risk that they also may affect how your genes work, altering them to produce harmful substances or debilitate them, and the flaw can pass on to your children. For more information look up Epigenetics, which is the study of heritable alterations in gene expression caused by mechanisms other than changes in DNA sequence.
Additionally, foods with the gene, resistant to Monsanto's Roundup pesticide, are over sprayed and you eat the pesticide.
It is a potent antibiotic and kills the bacteria in your gut that you need for digestion.
Meanwhile the resistant bacteria multiply in your gut and cause problems.
A GMO is not a hybrid where the best strains are identified (today with supercomputers sequencing the plant's genome) and allowed to cross pollinate.
A GMO is anything, in this case food, that has a foreign gene sequence (instructions to the cell) spliced into its own genes.
These spliced genes are passed on to the next generation of the food, and when consumed, has an effect on your health and can even affect your genetic structure.
Not to mention the economic and biological danger of terminator genes, that force farmers to buy new seeds every year.
Seeds from these genetically-modified plants are not viable and therefore unable to produce future crop.
The GMO plants are contaminating other fields of Non-GMO plants causing unwanted alterations to crops and even weeds, with over 60 million acres already affected.
Because the Supreme court allowed patenting of GMO, (which also accounts for the proliferation of GMO) this contamination, in our food crops, resulted in patent lawsuits, crop destruction, farm shutdowns and economic chaos in our farm sector. In this heavily subsidized sector, how much of it is paid for by the taxpayers? Not to mention that legal fees are passed on to the consumer in prices.
The main GMO culprits are Corn, Soy, Cotton(seed) and Canola.
These GMO can be found in almost everything, in the form of Corn syrup, sugar, vitamin ingredients, Soy lecithin, soy sauce, oil in snack foods, Meat/Poultry/dairy/eggs from animals that consume GMO food etc.
The US does not require Labeling of GMO ingredients.
So be careful.
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