Obesity can be added to the long list of disorders that can be caused by medicine. Recent research shows that altering your intestinal flora with antibiotics influences appetite-regulating hormones and body mass.
A study found that people treated with antibiotics had a 6-fold increase in the appetite- and fat-increasing hormone ghrelin after meals, a 20 percent increase in levels of the hunger-influencing hormone leptin, and a 5 percent increase in body mass index a year and a half after completing the drug treatment.
According to Primal Wisdom:
“Conventional physicians most commonly prescribe antibiotics for upper respiratory, sinus, or ear infections, despite the fact that most of these events involve viruses or fungi ... which are not susceptible to antibiotics ... I just say no to pharmaceutical antibiotics.”