Dr. Bill Costerton - The "Father" of Biofilms

[@jimbracke919]

I miss Bill greatly as a mentor and a friend. He will be proven to be as significant as Koch and Pasteur in how he changed the thinking of microbial infectious etiology.

[@charlesjacques750]

What a brilliant fantastic teacher. Dr. Costerton's ideas on biofilms is foundational to the understanding of chronic infectious disease.

[@MrAxewon]

It is amazing that this scientific fact has been ignored surely by millions of medical "professionals" for in excess of 30 years

[@magnoliahampton5416]

Invest in this book by Andreas Moritz “ The Amazing Liver and Gallbladder Flush” This book address every disease in the body and how to eradicate it. The book even address anger., and how to eradicate it.

[@panteraforever9411]

Magnolia Hampton tnx a bunch!

[@jabneel7]

RIP Andreas Moritz

[@trebelclef]

It seems that zappers and rife machines were ahead of their time since frequencies from ultrasounds and electrical currents are detrimental to biofilms

[@ousmanbajinka2896]

This talk will do a great deal for summarising the treatment of biofilm infections. thumbs up Dr Bill.

[@agustinzeron]

Bacteria spread “quietly” throughout the body as planktonic bacteria, or from biofilm communities. It’s that simple, but somehow that natural fact of biology gets overlooked and dismissed by dentists, primary care doctors and others across 131+ medical specialties...

[@raymondebbeler6494]

Getting to the source is preventive alternative and complementary areas for devitalizing dis-ease. I am a believer in an eclectic approach in health and wellness. He speaks the truth

[@DANTHETUBEMAN]

getting profit and insurance industries out of medicine would be the best thing every for health. what a great guy, great interview

[@lynettefidel1969]

I'm so grateful that he left us with this knowledge. What an amazing person!

[@netit1403]

Very amazing explanation of biofilms.

[@weedtdo]

It's not so much that these things are ignored. It's that the older clinicians and academicians are too enamored of their own ways of understanding that they resist change (generally unconsciously!). It is when they die that new ideas can spread.

[@ADRSupport]

Comment from MrAxewon: It is amazing that this scientific fact has been ignored surely by millions of medical "professionals" for in excess of 30 years

[@julioequinones]

in school, it is the same way.

[@Thatsbannanas-d8c]

This is what makes me hate life. No one really listens. So busy making a buck doing the same ol same. No one is healing anyone.

[@tulsatimeflies]

continued…..be removed within 1-3 months after implant. I suffered long & hard. Almost became immune to antibiotics. Need to take Periodontal Disease seriously. I got bit by a cat (supposed to be such clean animals by cat lovers.) Within 8 hours my arm tripled in size and I had to take Penicillin, if you touched my arm puss would shoot out. If the tooth of a cat lodges in your bone and you don't get help you could die without treatment. Mouths are pretty dirty areas.

[@ADRSupport]

Thanks, I agree. He's amazing.

[@youbz2002]

Rich academic info , clear explaining ...like it

[@billdomb]

Ozone injections of the prostate or around the prostate may be very effective and don't tend to wreck the entire microbiome.

[@ADRSupport]

Yes, that excerpt looks might familiar! ; )

[@ksuter200]

He says to think outside the box and yet he is boxed in in his own thinking. There are other alternatives to blasting the biofilms with even more antibiotics and wiping out the rest of the person's biome. Many outside the box thinkers are using Proteolytic Enzymes to make holes in the biofilms so that the immune system can attack it as it should. Also changing the environment around the biofilms so that it is no longer cozy to stay there is another method of encouraging the bugs inside the biofilm to leave and seek another place. Using natural herbs to change the environment to an unfavorable one. I wish he was a more out of the box thinker and could come up with healthier alternatives than to nuke with antibiotics. Many of us have been suffering for years due to over zealous antibiotic usage.

[@ofanning06]

Well said.

[@monikafelegyhazi529]

When will be medicine against biofilm ? Sinusitis, gastroistestonal track, urinary track.

[@MrEddieo1]

Are floating cells the same as "free radicals"?

[@jackharrisonattorney]

I think Dr. Costerton is now deceased. RIP

[@leahcarpenter793]

not the same - free radicals are molecules with unpaired electrons - they can do harm in your body by oxidizing cells. floating or planktonic cells refer to bacteria not associated with a biofilm.

[@julioequinones]

It just occurred to me as you spoke of the biofilms acting as irritants and cancers arising subsequently that there might be some lateral gean transfer happening that is disrupting the natural apoptosis of the cells. I will now look to see if this has been studied. Inversely it is an interesting idea for killing cancer cells.

[@honeybunny4real]

Lyme disease (borrelia) and other infections from ticks do form biofilms...

[@ecftube]

Wrote a Lyme disease brochure with the help of 2 Lyme disease specialists. Will email a copy to anyone interested. God bless, Elaine

[@julioequinones]

Dig them out or..... perhaps find microbes that cycle the biofilm and its microbes.

[@rickspalding3047]

Another reason why sugar is bad

[@edgarchelaru7712]

I know I'm 8 years too late, but there's a "L" missing in the title.

[@Thatsbannanas-d8c]

The last of the good men!