Warning: Fluoroquinolone Antibiotics & The Leaky Brain Link You Weren't Told

In this episode, Dr. Hugh explains how fluoroquinolone antibiotics like Cipro and Levaquin may affect the brain, nervous system, and blood-brain barrier. He breaks down why some people develop serious symptoms after taking these antibiotics and why those symptoms may be connected to neuroinflammation, mitochondrial damage, and a leaky brain. 

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This episode is made for people who are struggling with symptoms that started after taking fluoroquinolones and want a simple explanation of what may be going on inside the body. 

In this episode, you will learn:

• What fluoroquinolone toxicity is
• How Cipro and Levaquin may affect the blood-brain barrier
• Why leaky gut and leaky brain may happen together
• How these antibiotics may reach fat-rich tissues like the brain
• Why mitochondrial damage may lead to low energy and nerve problems
• How neuroinflammation may be linked to symptoms after antibiotic use

Symptoms discussed in this episode include:

• Brain fog
• Anxiety
• Panic attacks
• Heart racing
• Blurred vision
• Nerve pain
• Dysautonomia
• Neurological symptoms that seem hard to explain

Why this episode matters:

• Many people are told their symptoms do not make sense
• This episode explains a possible reason for those symptoms
• Dr. Hugh teaches the science in a way that is easier to understand
• The goal is to help people feel seen, informed, and hopeful

Main topics covered:

• Fluoroquinolone antibiotics
• Leaky brain
• Blood-brain barrier damage
• Neuroinflammation
• Mitochondria and energy production
• Neurological side effects of Cipro and Levaquin
• Why these drugs may act differently than other antibiotics

Closing message:

If you have been dealing with strange symptoms after taking fluoroquinolones, this episode helps explain why that may be happening. Understanding the problem is often the first step toward recovery. As Dr. Hugh says, where there is help, there is hope. 

Transcript

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Hey community, this is Doctor Hue coming at you. And today I have a very powerful webinar that I've put together, which is fluoroquinolone induced leaky brain blood, brain barrier damage, neuroinflammation, nerve pain. A lot of people have been coming to me lately that have taken fluoroquinolone, Cipro, levaquin and have severe neurological problems such as dysautonomia, heart racing, heart anxiety, panic attacks, blurred vision, uh, just an array of severe neurological conditions. And I want to kind of go over really what's the root cause of these things and what can actually be done for you to get better? So what today's webinar is going to be about, it's going to be about going over how these class of antibiotics, how they affect you. So it's not going to be going over protocols or anything like that. I've got tons of content on my website about this. This is strictly the pharmacokinetics, basically a big word for meaning how this actually gets in your body and how it actually affects you. And if you have any neurological problems at all, you need to watch this video video fully so you fully understand what's happening with your body. And the good news is, once you understand what's happening with your body, you can get well, you can start to recover from these medications. So what we're going to go over is these fluoroquinolone toxicities. They have basically three really important properties that they have together. So I'm going to go over these three properties. And these three properties are the main reason why people are suffering from these antibiotics. So the first property right here is it easily enters the tissues especially fat tissues. All right. So this is one thing that you really want to pay attention to is these medications because they have the fluoride love fat. They can penetrate fat very very easily. And guess what? This is your neurological tissue. Your neurological tissue is completely all fat. Now when we talk about neurological, Neurological tissue we're talking about your brain, your central nervous system, and your arms and your legs. All this is high, high, dense tissue that is fat. So the first property right here is it's easily penetrates the brain. And this kind of here, this thing right here, it's a grease seeking. What does that mean? That really means that that these class of medications love fat. It's like grease seeking. Like you put grease in your hands, it slips right in. That's the first property. Second property is it specifically targets the DNA in the bacteria. So this is a very specifically unique property of these fluoroquinolones. And you can see right here this is the the drug right there. It's tearing apart the bacterial DNA. It's tearing apart the DNA. Now here's the problem with that is when God designed us, he designed the bacterial DNA and our God given mitochondrial DNA to be virtually identical. So these class of medications do not know the difference between bacteria DNA and your mitochondria DNA. So what happens? You are going to get damaged. It's going to affect your mitochondria. And check this out. This is a crazy statistic. Is each cell each cell we have about 30 trillion cells. That's a lot of cells. Each cell can have between 500 and 2000 mitochondria. Between 500 and 2000 mitochondria. So this is why when people take these medications some people get damaged and they have an array of different symptoms. A lot of things are neurological based because it literally destroys your mitochondria. That's the second thing. And it gets confused. It doesn't know if we're going over the bacteria DNA or if we're actually affecting the human DNA, which causes tons and tons of side effects. Then the second property here, which makes us very, very unique besides all the other class of antibiotics, is it has this fluoride. Now fluoride gives this antibiotic very, very unique properties that no other class of antibiotics possess. And this fluoride molecule, this is what's causing the black Label boxes. It's the powerhouse of these antibiotics is the fluoride in the drug right there. Okay. So I'm going to take you back way, way, way back to elementary school. And we're going to go over this. Basically the, the periodic table. Now what you're going to see is over here is you are going to see fluoride right there. Okay. You see that F that's on the top of the periodic table. And then all the way down here we see that I 53 that's iodine. And you can see that's, you know, substantially down on the periodic table. Now why does this matter? This matters is because when we're up on the top of this periodic table, these elements are very small versus these elements down in here, like iodine is very large. So the closer you are to the top, the smaller the actual molecule is. So the closer you are up to the elemental table, the beginning, the smaller that little element is going to be. Now why is that such a big deal? Is check this out here. We're going to have fluoride right here versus iodine versus iodine right in here. So we have fluoride. So it's small and it's very aggressive versus iodine. It's large. In fact iodine is three times the size. And iodine is kind of like you know just kind of hangs out. It's a larger it's more stable. So anytime we talk about molecules and molecule structure, the smaller it is, the tighter it is, the more potential that is to cause harm. And this is why really the devastating facts are of these medications because specifically of the fluoride molecule. And it all gets down to how God designed us, how God designed these elements. Right here is a floor at the top. And then the iodine is way down three down lower. Now, as you know, is these antibiotics is they're going to cause massive amount of leaky gut. Now, when God designed this, he designed our gut and our brain to be identical in structure. So if you have a leaky gut, you have a leaky brain. And these antibiotics are the atomic bomb of antibiotics. And what they do to the gut is here. Let me go over what a normal gut should be. This is a normal healthy gut right here. This is critical. You're going to see this saliva layer right here. This is the mucus. This is very very critical. This is in super super important. You can see here that mucus layer right in there. That would be kind of like your tongue. Like if you stick out your tongue and there's mucus on it, that's a protective barrier. Now, if you have dry tongue, you know how uncomfortable that is. So this barrier right here is very critical. And then we have this right here, these individual cells, individual cells. And then we have these tight junctions right here that prevent things from getting into your bloodstream, which is right here. Now we have leaky gut right here. So if you've taken these antibiotics and you have some kind of side effect, if it's neurological or if it's gut, if it's musculoskeletal, if it's tendon, you have some degree of leaky gut. And if you have some degree of leaky gut, you have some degree of leaky brain. Now in here, look at this. This is leaky gut option right here. You can see what's happened to the mucus. What's the first thing you notice to that mucus layer? What's happened to it? The mucus layer is completely gone. Your gut has dry tongue. Very dry tongue. Now, when that happens, just like if you have chapped lips, like you get chapped lips, you get these sores right over here. When you get these sores, that's when the bad bacteria toxins can get in your bloodstream. You have gluten here. It gets into your bloodstream and that causes inflammation. Then you can see here how these cells are not healthy, right? And you see these little things right up in here, these little finger like structures in here. So what that is here, this is called there the bush border. Okay, so they're just like little fingers. And then food comes in here and starts to digest it. And what happens is when you get leaky gut, it's not a very good picture right here, but these little fingers start to get irritated and then they get a lot shorter. So that's what happens when it comes to your gut. Now here's just another visual here. We're looking at the gut right here. This is the stomach. And you can see right in here all this stuff here is one cell thick right. So this is one cell thick in here. So we have one cell thick in here. And then you can see down here we have leaky gut as well. And then down here, this is the blood brain barrier. You can see this is one cell thick. And then down here this this starts to break up. This is leaky gut. This is when a whole bunch of these particles can get in your brain. And when they get into your brain, guess what? You have neural inflammation. You have your brain that's inflamed and you can have any weird neurological condition that's not explained. So if you go to the doctor, the doctor, doctor, neurologist, neurologist, and you have these weird neurological symptoms and they don't know what's going on, they say it's all in your head. It's crazy. There's no way this medication can can cause that. That's not true. Okay? You have neural inflammation, you have leaky brain, and you have to handle your brain inflammation, which guess what can be done through a very specific functional medicine program. Now, I've created this webinar here to be really quite visual, but there's a couple terms I just want to go over. So we're all on the same page so you can get the maximum benefit out of this. So one of the things that happens, there's this thing here called the circumventricular organs or the cvos, the Circumventricular organ. So what are they? They are indeed highly specialized, specialized leaky spots in the brain where the blood brain barrier is intentionally absent or modified to allow vital communication between the blood and the brain. Permeability. So what happens here is unlike typical capillaries, the cvos, which are these things right here the circumventricular organs cvos capillaries are fence straight. Well what does fenestrated mean? That just means they have holes in them like like your finger. So they're not tight. They're not like tight junctions, right? Like when we're talking about this is in your brain, this is your blood brain barrier. So you have these tight junctions like this. And then in some areas you have the cvos and their fence fence straighted like that to allow pot to allow molecules to get in to your brain. Okay, so this is very, very critical. So here's a great visual. So circumventricular organ cvos are leaky. So what is this saying? This is saying that when God designed us, he has certain areas in our brain that are all ready leaking. Now why would that be? Because when we eat food, we our brain has to sense that. It has to see and it has to see what's in our blood, what's our glucose levels? What's our inflammation? Do we have bacteria? Do we have viruses in there? What's going on in there? So God created very, very specific areas of our brain that are leaking. So this is a great visual. So this right here is the normal this is the normal blood brain barrier. So what we're going to see here is this right here is the blood brain barrier. You can see these cells are very very tight right? So we're looking at something like in this picture right here very very tight. Now we're going over to your brain right now. Right. So this is your brain. So these would be the tight junctions right in here. So normal blood brain barrier. The blood brain barrier is tight and sealed to protect the brain. That's how you want it. Now we have the cvos, the circumventricular organs. You can see this right here. This is a really cool diagram. You can see here. This right here is the tight junction right there. You see that? That's the tight junction. That's the tight junction. But between these tight junctions there's a CVO which is the opening right. We need to sense what's in our external environment. So this is the brain right in here right. So this is the food. This would be the bloodstream right in here. So this has it helps regulate hormones fluids blood pressure. And it's small and it, and it basically it's a regulated opening right in here. The C v o. So this is critical. So what happens in here. You get water comes in, hormones come in and toxins come in. So just think of it. This is pretty amazing the way God designed our our brain. It already has areas that are leaking so we can get food and nutrition and ions in and out of the brain, and we can see what's happening with our body. Now, here's what happens when you have leaky brain or your brain is damaged. What happens to the window? The CVO, it's completely torn apart. Bam bam. Things get in there. Things get in there and cause neuroinflammation. So cells are pulled apart, uncontrolled openings, inflammation and sensitivity. This is crazy. What happens? Inflammation from antibiotic injury can stimulate the cvos and damage the blood brain barrier. So I want to talk about a couple things right here. So when God designed it you have the blood brain barrier. And then in certain areas of your brain you have the sea vessels, which are basically, uh, basically openings in your, in your brain, just like a screen on your door. Okay. Envision these cvos as screen doors that are screen doors in your brain. So here we have the tight junction, right? Healthy, tight junction, healthy tight junction. And then between some of these screens, between some of the tight junctions, we have a screen door which just allows things to get in and out of your brain very easily because we need to be sensing, your immune system needs to be sensing, sensing what's happening in your blood and in your immune system and in your lymphatic system. 24 hours a day, every single second of your life. Now in here. So these act as a screen door, the circumventricular organs, it's naturally leaky areas of the blood brain barrier, designed to allow small molecules in the bloodstream to pass to tiny fenestrations, which just means like a fence. And just here, let's blow this up. You can see that right here. This is coming in here. This is a screen door. These are all the elements in there. We have water hormones, II ions. And of course we have toxins in there. So some things are going to get through and some things are not. So this is a pretty amazing system. When you think about how God designed it is he designed our brain already with areas that are leaking. Now here's what happens is when you take these antibiotics, it destroys the tight junctions here and it destroys. Guess what? It destroys. It destroys your screen doors. So the circumventricular organs right in here. This is normal, healthy, nice and controlled environment. And then what happens over here? What happens? The screen door. Bam. That thing blasts open from the antibiotics. And now what's going to happen is you have all these things from your bloodstream going into your brain. If you have if you've taken these antibiotics, they're there in your bloodstream. They've like ripped the screen doors, direct access to your brain, neuroinflammation, dysautonomia pots, increased heart rate, increased blood pressure, temperature control, weird thoughts, anxiety, panic attacks, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. All the neurological things happen because this drugs, these class of drugs love fat, right? They're attracted to the brain because the brain is highly, highly fat. So large holes, uncontrolled openings are in here, large holes in the screen. Everything gets through, including bacteria, inflammation, molecules, and let's say everything. Let's say you have a mold case. Let's say you've had mold for 20 years, had no problem. You take these antibiotics, it causes leaky gut, leaky brain, not only with the tight junctions, but with the screen doors. Boom, they get blasted. The mold is in your body, the mold goes to your brain. You get neuroinflammation. Mold does not like antibiotics. That's what I've seen clinically. People have mold from 20 years ago. They take these antibiotics, the antibiotics wake the mold up, the mold sees the antibiotics and say, you're trying to kill me. Nuh uh. I'm going to start producing my poisons. Right? So when they start to produce their poisons, this is when people become very toxic. Now this is a really critical part right here is where in particular are these cvos found. So there's very specific areas in our brain that the cvos are located. So let me just go over this again. Most of your brain is this tight junctions, right? The tight junctions. Then there's very small areas in your brain that have the screens, right. The screen doors, those are the cvos. Now those are strategically placed in certain areas of our body. And guess what? They're located deep, deep inside the brain, deep inside your in your brain where your sympathetic nervous system is and your parasympathetic. Those are fancy words for that's where all the regulation of your nervous system is, is deep into your brain, right? Because we want to make sure our heart works. We want to make sure that we're breathing. These are very core mechanisms that are deep into our brainstem that we really need to protect and make sure they're not damaged. So the first one here is found in your hypothalamus. Well, where the heck is your hypothalamus? You can see right here. Here's the hypothalamus. See that's like really deep. It's really deep into your brain to get you oriented right here. This would be your chin right in here. Right? So this is a chin. This is the head right here. This would be the eyeball, like sitting right in here. That would be the mouth, right? Okay, so it's the hypothalamus has a bunch of these fences, right screen doors, right. They have screen doors all over the hypothalamus. What does the hypothalamus do? Check this out. It regulates your temperature. It helps you sleep. It helps appetite. Appetite. It regulates hormones. It regulates, um, mood, anxiety, depression, irritability, memory issues. It helps vision and it helps helps to do with thirst. Now, why is it because these things that we just went over here are primitive, like you have to have these things and they're deep inside of your brain, neurological tissue. This is why God designed us these screen doors. We want to taste the environment. So that's one place that it's found. The second place that it's found. It's found in your thalamus. Right in here. Well, where is your thalamus? Your thalamus is right in here. Right. So we have your hypo, which means lower hypothalamus right in here. Hypothalamus. And then we have the thalamus, which is right in here. Well what does the thalamus do? What does that control? That controls sensation. Uh, vision, hearing motion. Right. A taxi. A taxi just means like you're off balance. You know, you, you can't balance a lot of people that have been hurt by antibiotics. They have, um, gait problems. They have shaking hands. Their eyes cannot track properly. All this is done here through the thalamus is a major relay center deep into your brainstem, right up in there. But it needs to know what's going on in the environment. So it has the screen doors where it can sample what's happening in your body. It also helps sleep, cognitive issues, language deficits. Can, you know, basically people feel like they have brain fog, brain fatigue, vision problems, behavioral changes. So you can see here that this is really critical that if you have these antibiotics and it affects the screen doors. So now what happens is you're going to have big screen doors right here in your cvos, right? The cvos right here, big screen doors in the circumventricular organs. Things get in. And then all of a sudden you have a neuroinflammation case and you have weird neurological conditions that no one can explain. And what the heck's going on? Problems after problems after problems after problems. Okay, that's one concept. Another concept is this. You gotta stay with me on this. There's a calculation. It's called p. Very simply. What log p is? Every drug has this calculation. It calculate, it calculates. Is this drug uh. Fat loving? Does it. Does it love fat or does it like water? Because when we look at our body, our body really is water and it's fat. That's how our that's how God designed our body. So this, what they call a P log determines if a drug likes fat or if a drug likes water, or if it would be such as like neutral. Okay, so really simply here, what is the p log? Think of it as a passport. Okay, think of it as a passport. I love this analogy. So the p log is a passport. So if you have a passport you have direct access. Boom. Right through go right past, go into the brain. So you have a high p log or log p. So a high log p tells you it's a passport. You have direct access. Boom right into the fat which is right into the brain. So a log p is a as a passport that tells the drug or nutrition how easy it can move through the different environments of the body. The body essentially is essentially made up of two things water and fat, right? That's pretty much it. So water loving. So water loving is a low log P. Okay, so just remember passport. So if you have a passport you have a high log P which means it goes into the fat tissue. So water is low low p it has low P. There's no passport. These molecules stay in the bloodstream and move around easily in the watery parts of the body. But they struggle to get into the cells. Okay. You low log p low log p no passport. Okay. High log P direct. Direct passport into the brain, into the fat tissues. This is not good, right? This is not good. So high P right. High P passport high P is fat loving. These molecules are greasy. They can easily slip through the fatty walls of the cell membrane and reach deeper tissues like the brain. Okay, so guess what. Do fluoroquinolones the class of medications have a low log p right? Low. Or do they have a high log p? Guess what they have a high log. P means they love love love fat. Okay, so check this out right here. So this is the log right here. Okay. So zero zero would be neutral. Zero is neutral. So check this out. We have Ciprofloxcin which is 0.28.28 right. So that's positive. That's positive. We have levaquin which is 0.5. So here this talks about how it likes the fat right. So ciprofloxacin is moderately attracted to fat. Levofloxacin is is moderate to high attracted to fat. Moxifloxacin is very high. This is this is one this is the worst one right here. Okay. Now you can see this. All these have positive P values. They all have the passport. They all have a positive number. Passport directly into the brain and causing all the things that we just talked about in these other slides. Neuroinflammation. The screen doors get blasted and you have chronic systemic brain inflammation. Now check this out. I put this in here just so a comparison. So amoxicillin this is negative. So if it's negative there is no P for passport. So it doesn't get in. It's water and it does not penetrate the blood brain barrier. So that's pretty incredible. So if you have a log P that's positive in the positive area it loves fat. It loves to get in the brain and cause its damage. So here's another great graphic right here. So understanding log P. So this is really, really simple right? So right here this is water soluble right here. The blue stands for water. Water right. So this is going to have a low value right down here. A low value right in here. So these ones are water soluble. They stay in the bloodstream. Guess what can clear them. Your kidneys can clear them. Guess what happens. Your kidneys clear water right. So a low P amoxicillin has a negative number. It stays in the in the bloodstream. Your kidneys filter it out very easy. But guess what happens over here? Oh, hang on, hang on. Poor penetration into the brain, right? Poor penetration into the brain. And these are water soluble drugs. Now let's say here we have a log P. Let's say we're going to be taking, let's say right here levaquin. So we have a 0.5 log. So it's higher. So it gets deep into the tissues. It's stored in fat higher risk of symptoms especially Gaba right here. That's like your relax. Deep penetration of the brain and these drugs like fat. Now guess what happens if they like fat and your kidney filters out water. It can't filter out your it can't filter out your kidneys because it's fat loving, right? So these are all the things where it gets penetrated into the tissues and causes problems deep into the tissue. And one thing you need to know about, for example, the cell membrane and the mitochondria, that membrane is all fat like your mitochondria 500 to 2000 mitochondria in each cell. The cell membrane the mitochondria cell membrane is fat. The cell. Now we're talking. The cell membrane is fat. So the cell membrane and the mitochondrial membrane membrane they're all fat. These drugs love fat and they have that fluoride. Remember the fluoride molecule which is very very tiny and small. Boom pops right in there causes damage. Right. So I'm hoping this is making sense to you. This is just a really another great graphic. This is the p value. So we have p value here of ciprofloxacin which is 0.28 levofloxacin which is 0.5. And then we have the strongest one moxifloxacin which is 1.45. So as you start to go up this way here, as you go from here to here, obviously the p value is higher. The p value is higher. The p value is higher. So when you go to these other different Medications. The absorbability into the fat is higher. Now I'm just going to give you a case because I see this hundreds and thousands and thousands of times. So if someone already has, let's say someone already has a gut problem, like they've had constipation, diarrhea, you should have normal bowel movements of 2 to 3 bowel movements every single day. No gas, no bloating or diarrhea. Okay. 2 to 3 bowel every single day. No gas, no diarrhea, no bloating. You're not taking any kind of medication, right? That's normal. So let's say someone already had a problem. Let's say they had they're making a bowel movement once every two days, once every three days. They had gas. They bloating to start with. So their gut is already leaking. They already have a bad gut to start with. If you have a bad gut to start with, there's a probability that you already have a bad blood brain barrier. So these people that don't go to the bathroom on a regular basis, just saying prior to getting damaged, just hypothetically, maybe they have brain fog, brain fatigue, maybe they don't think they're sharp as they were. Now they take this medication for whatever reason, and now their gut gets really worse. So their guts more leaking, their brain becomes more leaking. And when your gut becomes more leaky. More molecule. Molecules, more gluten, more bacteria. If you have small bacterial overgrowth, can get in your bloodstream that causes inflammation that goes to your brain. Your brain is open now. So those tight junctions can you remember those tight junctions should be like this. Now they're broken. They're leaking. And what happens to the screens? The screen doors in the brain, in the brain, boom. They're blasted open. So you can really see what's happening now from a spectrum of neuroinflammation when people get damaged. And this is why people I mean, I don't know, it's just tragic that this is what's happening. So this is just, um, just kind of some simple math. So if I have a, a log p value of one, for example, a log p value of one means that it's ten times more concentrated in oil than it is in water. So if I have a p value of one right, it's ten times more likely. It's ten times more concentrated in the fat than it is in the water. So let's go up to this right here. So in here this right here. So if this is I'm just going to take levofloxacin. This right here is a 0.5 value. Okay. So here if it was one it's ten. So this is four. This is five times more likely or five times more fat loving than water. So Levofloxacin loves fat five times greater than it does water. That's what these calculations are actually showing and demonstrating here. What's going on in your brain? Now, let me bring you to this because I want to make some things, some some points clear. Okay. If anyone has heard of a z-pack, what's a z-pack? That's an antibiotic. That's the the name of it right there, the Z pack. Now the Z pack has a log P of 0.48, right 0.48. And then we hear levaquin has a basically a log p of 0.50. So you can see this right here boom. And this right here. When it comes to the number of the log P, they're pretty much identical. Okay. We'll just say both of them are 0.5,.5.5 and 0.5. Now the z pack. Why don't people have problems on the Z pack like they have with the fluoroquinolone toxicity. And it comes down to what it comes down specifically to this. They are chemically distinct. And what makes this thing chemically distinct is you have it right here fluoride. So fluoride is what's making these class of medications so dangerous is the fluoride molecule. So you can have the two numbers of the P log of 50 and 50, but the fluoroquinolones are going to be way worse because it has a fluoride, and the fluoride can penetrate deep into the brain tissue and cause neuroinflammation, not only in the brain tissue, but we're talking. You also have your nerves and your hands and your feet. That's also neurological tissue as well. So that can be a problem as well. So here I just like this kind of summary right here. The comparisons. So ciprofloxacin right here moderate tissue disruption moderate central nervous system risk levofloxacin 0.50. High risk significant tissue saturation frequent brain fog and moxifloxacin very high deep penetration high risk of psychiatric side effects. Okay. That's pretty scary, right? So this stuff gets deep in the tissue and it moves very, very quickly. All right. So here, um, I want to talk about these two different medications here. So we have fluoroquinolones right here. Her. And then we have amoxicilin. Now, before I go on to this, let me just show you this graph right in here. Okay. So right here you can see this right here. This is the p value, right? The p value of amoxicillin is right here-0.06. So what if it's negative. If it's negative what do we know right away. We already know that it's fat loving. Okay. And then we have these down in here which we already went over. These is the 2850 and 1.54. Now this is what I like about this. So this right here this is going to be the blood brain barrier. That's a blood brain barrier. It could also be the your screen doors as well. Now because of fluorine see this? It gets in it gets in. Why does fluorine gets in. Because it's very small molecule. One of the properties. It's very small fat loving. It blasts in blasting your brain. Brain. You can see what's happening in here. This is all neuroinflammation happening right here. So it's small, fast and it penetrates versus amoxicillin, which again is water soluble, very poor penetration. It's kind of like a cotton ball. These are a cotton ball. The cotton cotton ball comes in and bounces off and you are out and your brain is saved. So they are large, slow and does not penetrate. And it stays out the amoxicillin which have a negative p value. So they like water. Here's another example. Amoxicillin. Same thing. You see this 0.06 right. Negative. You see that's negative. Negative. It loves water right. So it's cleared by what. It's cleared by your kidneys. Super out. Bang stays outside the fatty tissue avoids deep penetration low risk for CNS risk. And in here same thing here. This these W's right here. Just stand for water. This is amoxicillin. It hits the blood brain barrier and bounces off, right. So completely different mechanisms. I'm hoping now you can see. Like OMG, what's happening and why you're having all these different symptoms when it comes to these class of medications. Here's just another visual. I'm a huge learner of visual. You can see here this is the p value down in here. So it's low. And then as we move up high p p value in here. So it's cleared by the kidney stays in the blood. Water soluble poor penetration in your body here. It loves fat deep penetration into the tissues. Deep penetration in the brain. Higher risk of symptoms more fat loving. Anytime we talk about these medications down in here right here, they move up on the higher p value. Okay, so let's summarize this up. There's really three there's really three properties that this class of medication possess that make them so deadly and dangerous, and why people have so many side effects. First thing is right here high p value like we. Went over that multiple times. Second thing in here that we touched is. These medications go after the DNA of the bacteria. This is the only class of drugs that go after the DNA of the of the of the bacteria. Some some bacteria will go over the cell wall, right. It will go over. It will poke holes in the cell wall. Some other antibiotics will go over like the metabolism of the bacteria. But this specifically targets the DNA. And it does a great job of that. It does a great job of that. It targets it targets the normal bacteria DNA. It unzips them. And so they basically what they are going to stop replicating, boom. Stop replicating. This is the thing when we kill bacteria, it stops replicating. And guess what? Here the bacteria get torn up. But this is the consequence right in here, all the bad stuff. So it also affects the energy cells, the mitochondria right here. So it actually has the bacterial DNA. So it's going to stop this. It's going to stop the replication in the DNA stops the DNA right here. And then what happens is then you get sick, uh, mitochondria. And as you know, mitochondria are the driving force of everything in your entire body. It's just not for healing. That's just a little small bit of what these mitochondria do. They're really driving. Everything in your entire body is to make things work. The third thing, the third thing that we want to worry about here is the fluoride. And the fluoride makes it very penetrable deep into the tissue. So this is just an example of a negative p value -50. This is just an example again. Okay. Water soluble p value water soluble. It easily washes out of the body. So I just want you to see you see that it's-50 right in here.-50. Okay. Now we're going to the fluoroquinolones. You have the fluoride. This again this is just an infographic in here. It's just using an analogy of plus 50 right here. So when that happens right here, it's not cleared by the kidneys. It stays in the bloodstream. It stays in the bloodstream because the kidneys only only filter out water soluble products. Right? So this is a fat soluble product. So what happens here. It starts to accumulate in your central nervous system. It affects the DNA because the mitochondria because that's the DNA in their mitochondrial DNA. Mitochondrial DNA dysfunction. It's greasy. Remember it's greasy. This is the thing that the fluoroquinolones have. It's greasy. It penetrates very easily. It's hard to get out. And then you have all these different symptoms low energy, brain fog, nerve problems, whatever. The symptoms go on and on and on. And there are really endless of the symptoms that people can actually experience. And remember here, the biggest quality right here is the fluoride. The fluoride molecule right here is three times smaller, three times smaller. This is actually the size right there 42. It must be a range 115 to 140. So the fluoride molecule is literally three times smaller than iodine. And you know how important iodine is for the function of your thyroid. That's very, very, very critical. So this is it. If you're out there looking for help, you don't need to suffer. There's lots of help out there. I help people all over the United States to get better through telemedicine. And if you're interested, you want some help, just go to my website right here. Doctor.com. Come up in here, right here, click this button right there and schedule a zoom call. And we can chat and actually figure out exactly how we can get you better. And remember this, oh, one last thing here. All this stuff is referenced. Everything is referenced here. Its reference is also references on the pages as well. If you want the references, you have to go to my website, right? This might be on YouTube. You go to my website and I'll have all the references there. So remember this where there's help, there's hope. Where there is help, there's hope. Take care. Bye bye.