Among all ingredients we use in our products, Apple Cider Vinegar definitely takes a leading roll. This powerful antimicrobial agent is capable of healing all bacterial, yeast, and fungal infections while metering insects and parasites.
In ancient times, it was used as a wound cleaner and even today, it is celebrated for its many health benefits including its effects on many skin conditions such as eczema, rashes, dandruff, acne, and much more.
Keep in mind, these amazing properties are all from fermented, unpasteurized apple cider vinegar with the mother. The mother has a huge colony of beneficial bacteria that actually differentiate between normal healthy cells and abnormal cells in the body and remove those impurities from the system.
This is a direct quote from NIH, National Library of Medicine, National Center for Biotechnology Medicine:
Antibiotic resistance is rapidly becoming a major worldwide problem. There has been a steady increase in the number of pathogens that show multiple drug resistance. In fact the World Health Organization predicts that infections involving antibiotic resistant pathogens will pose major patient care management issues in the future.This will inevitably lead to an increase in hospital stays, cost, patient morbidity and mortality. In the immunocompromised and at risk patients severe microbial infections can result in sepsis. Sepsis can rapidly lead to systemic inflammation and organ failure. In response to microbial invasion, the innate immune system reacts by triggering tissue damage. Mononuclear cells recognize pathogens associated with molecular patterns (PAMPs) present on the microbial surface. This results in intracellular signaling cascades which initiate pro-inflammatory cytokine and chemokine release into the blood circulation. Unchecked, the chemokines will continue to recruit more immune cells to the site of infection which release further pro-inflammatory cytokines enhancing inflammation in a continuous feedback loop. Essentially, antibiotics are antimicrobials but can also act as immune modulators reducing the release of pro-inflammatory cytokines such as IL-1β, IL-6, TNFα, IL-8, and interferon-gamma (INF-gamma). Antibiotics can also affect mononuclear phagocytic function and modulate the activity of nuclear transcription factors such as NF-ĸB and activator proteins. Microorganisms such as E-coli, S. aureus and C. albicans form part of the human microbiota. However pathogenic forms of these microbes have been implicated in blood or urinary tract infections, gastroenterititis, endocarditis, soft tissue infections and organ malfunction.
The anti-microbial agents used to treat gram negative infections such as β-lactams, fluroquinolones, sulfamethaoxathoxazole and trimethroprin are becoming increasingly ineffective. Strains of S. aureus have emerged with reduced susceptibility to vancomycin and methicillin. Furthermore, antibiotic action itself can be problematic in terms of cell membrane permeability, intracellular inactivation and the inability to reach intracellular structures in which organisms can hide. Alternative supplementation that can combat a plethora of microbes without concurrent side effects would be of significant healthcare interest as the discovery of effective new antibiotic has been slow but should be a global priority.
(NIH)
The use of ACV as an antimicrobial is a proven and effective method of antibacterial control and moreover, studies has shown that insects steer clear of any patch of skin that was covered with ACV. As biting into the skin soaked with ACV causes pain in fleas and other insects.
The true challenge remained in how to make this potent substance to penetrate deep within the skin so the effects remains there in long term, without using alcohol. Since any liquid over the skin does not get automatically absorbed.
In Redd Hart laboratories we have devised a substance that allows ACV and other herbal liquids to freely get absorbed and penetrate the skin and become bioavailable in layers that they are truly the most effective.
That has enabled our products to be so incredibly effective and potent when battling infections and infestations of parasites and insects!
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