Peter Attia· MD
so cladium defil is a strain it exists and many of us have it in low levels in our gut microbiome and we walk around perfectly healthy and and fine with it um when you take an antibiotic that's essentially almost like a nuclear bomb to your microbiome it kills everything in there um but in some cases it doesn't kill everything and so there are these strains of Clum defil that after you take an antibiotic it's killed all the different strains off but it didn't kill your cherium defil strain and the problem with killing off all the other strains is now all the competition is gone so you imagine you know you have all these this ecosystem different microbes and now you've just gotten rid of all of them so now you have this strain that has no competition and it can start to propagate unchecked and so it's when you start to have these really high levels of this strain Clum medifil in your microbiome that's when it starts to make you really sick and actually ultimately it's fatal