Antibiotics Are Failing Us: Here’s What Comes Next

This one’s probably a bit of a bleaker episode, but it’s about something absolutely fascinating that we should know more about: Antimicrobial resistance. By 2050, it could kill more people than cancer.

Now, in this episode I use the terms antimicrobial and antibiotic interchangeably. Technically they’re not the same thing — but for the sake of this episode, they are.

This is a huge issue we’re all facing, and most of us are completely unaware of it.

In this episode, I share:

• The history of antibiotic overuse
• What antimicrobial resistance actually is
• The 3 types of microbial resistance — and why they should scare us
• The pathogens that are really scary (because they resist antibiotics)
• Who will suffer the most from rising antimicrobial resistance
• How the anti-vax movement is making it harder to slow the spread
• How gene-editing technology is creating precision antibiotics
• The best solution we have to this crisis
• How geopolitics influenced Western scepticism about phages

• Why it’s hard to use phages in Western medicine

• And the few (but fixable) problems with phages

Key Quotes

“More than 1.3 million people every year already die because antibiotics no longer work for them.”

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