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Me: WebMD, why does my finger hurt?

WebMD: You died eight years ago

Anti-Anxiety Spell Jar

☀️2 pinches of Basil (For Protection) ☀️1 Cinnamon Stick/ or 2 pinches of Ground Cinnamon (For Healing and Protection) ☀️2 pinches of Ground Clove (For Protection) ☀️1 Pinch of Sugar (For Sweetness to Calm the Soul) ☀️{Optional} Wax (Blue, Green, Turquoise, or White)

Place ingredients in order of above. Charge in your preferred method. You can than seal with colored wax if you wish.

Shake when needed.

This was pulled from my witchcraft.cafe profile. 

Finish Your Antibiotics

I’m sorry, this isn’t Jojo at all but I think I’ve had it for today. As a pharmacy tech, I’m tired of hearing “Well, I started to feel better so I didn’t finish them.” I always knew this but now as a Molecular and Cellular Biology major, I not only know why but how. If you’re willing to heed my advice from the title, good; be on your way. If you need to know more, keep reading.

It’s widely known–to some extent–that not completing a regiment of antibiotics can result in resistant bacteria, or even super bacteria.

But in an infection, you already have resistant bacteria lurking. Not taking antibiotics doesn’t literally create resistant bacteria. So how, then, do the antibiotics take care of the resistant ones?

A lot of antibiotics aren’t bacterialcidal: They don’t actually kill them. Many inhibit growth by some mechanism depending if the bacterium is gram negative or gram positive. For example, penicillin inhibits growth by disrupting the formation of a peptidoglycan layer on gram positive bacteria. Others target the LPS layer on gram negative ones. This keeps the non resistant bacteria at bay. So what kills the resistant ones? Your immune system. Antibiotics buy time and energy for your immune system to recognize and destroy the resistant strains. Your immune system is intelligent in that sense and can form antibodies for new illnesses. It’s important to give your immune system this time because bacteria grow, mutate, and transfer genetic material at astonishing rates. If you wanted to look at a microcosm of the mechanics that go into evolution, you’ve got it with bacteria. 

There are three methods aside from binary fission in which they transfer genes (I won’t get into the minutia of the form of informational material): Transformation, transduction and conjugation.

In transformation, a bacterium can pickup lost genes from a ruptured and dead cell.

Transduction is a way to transfer information via a viral vector.

In conjugation, genes are transferred through something called a pilus: It’s a bridge between two cells that pipes a copy of the information from one cell to another receptive cell and is the only method that doesn’t involve killing either cells. Resistant bacteria like to give around that resistance information like they’re burning a CD for their friends.

So please finish your antibiotics if you’ve been given them. It doesn’t matter if you’ve started to feel better or even great. Finish them.

(Hey science people, If I’ve missed anything or even got something wrong, help me out. There’s obviously lengthy stuff I’ve left out but I think I got the basics).

Credit: @moderndaymanifestations

Me right now: Shift + Command (⌘) + 3

Lord of Mosquitos, by Rostyslav Zagornov, via ArtStation.

The number of people donating their bodies to science has doubled in the last ten years because funeral costs are so high, and most schools will cremate the donated body when they are done and return it to the family at no cost.

It’s possible lovelies 💕

I’m at the lowest weight I’ve been in quite a while, still not where I want to be but enjoying the journey. Will post an underwear comparison pic this weekend, was trying on new clothes 💃

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