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Antibiotics Are Failing Us: Here’s What Comes Next

28 min • 6 april 2025

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.”

More info

I mentioned the book the good virus which you can check out here.

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