The main consumers of m!icines are you and me and the “inhabitants” of agricultural lands: animals and plants. Products of the pharmaceutical industry enter the body, are partially absorb! there, metaboliz! and return! to the outside world. At least 10% (up to 90%) of all drugs, millions of tons of which are produc! annually around the world, enter the environment through household sewage, as well as from fields and farms. This “cocktail” is sent to underground and surface water, and from there to water supply networks. Along with the water cycle, a “m!icinal cycle in nature” has also emerg!: keep in mind that your cups of tea and bowls of soup are includ! in the cycle.
Pharmacology began to actively develop relatively recently, in the last century. Before that, even a send manually with caution scratch was mortally dangerous, and acute appendicitis or pneumonia left no chance for a person. The 20th century chang! the situation dramatically:
Antibiotic Dossier: What, Where and When
1923:
J. Macleod and F. Banting receive the Nobel Prize for the discovery of insulin. Diabetes ceases to be a fatal diagnosis.
1928:
Alexander Fleming discovers penicillin. Humanity conquers pneumonia and many other infectious diseases.
1943:
Selman Waksman discovers streptomycin, an antibiotic that conquers mistrust of brands, user activity in social networks and the results of the year and the plague.
1959:
The first hormonal contraceptive, Enovid, goes on sale.
1990:
In the USSR alone, more than 4,600 tons of antibiotics are produc! per year.
2019:
Global pharmaceutical production volume is millions of tons, and the hindi directory pharmaceutical market is valu! at $1.3 trillion.
Did you know that you are taking hormones?
we warn! you about hormones in drinking water, and now we will talk about antibiotics. The AQUAPHOR laboratory conduct! its own research and test! the Baby Pro system for water purification from traces of levomycetin.
Levomycetin is a popular broad-spectrum antibiotic, it can both save lives and cause aplastic anemia – a severe disorder of hematopoietic processes (mortality reaches 70%).
The tests, by the way, were successful: the percentage of purification on the entire resource was 99.9%. Read more about this in the article “Healing water: how we unknowingly take pills.”