
#90 Preventing The Next Pandemic (Part 2 of 2) Quantum Biology & Bacteria with Professor Johnjoe McFadden
The Doctor's Kitchen Podcast
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What Are the Driving Factors Behind Drug Resistance?
The drugs essentially drug resistance, which is an evolutionary process. Millions of bugs in our environment and we're throwing antipotics at them constantly. We are providing them with a huge selective pressure to develop resistance. And that is not going to go away. It's an accelerating thing. You you a, once you get a resistance, is going ob population for a long, long time. So what it means is that this has got to be balanced by pharmasutical companies discovering new drugs all the time. They haven't really been able to keep up with that. Now becoming now farmasutical companies are becoming more willing to invest in antipotics. Most infectious diseases were quick. You only give
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