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The Advantages Of Biofilms Over Planktonic Bacteria

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Channel: CanXida · 2015 · People & Blogs

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Good day, Eric Bakker, naturopath from New Zealand, author of Candida Crusher. Thanks for checking out my video today on biofilms.
So we’re going to talk today about really the advantage of biofilms over planktonic or single bacteria. Why biofilms are really liked by the body and why these bacteria like to live in these sort of - congregate in these groups. 
So there are many advantages of organisms living together like human beings. Cooperation is a very big thing. So the whole conglomeration of bacteria can thrive much more so in an environment like a biofilm than it can as planktonic or free floating. Planktonic bacteria or bacteria that are not attached to a biofilm are more susceptible to phagocytosis or being engulfed by white blood cells or being affected by chemicals produced by specific kinds of white cells.
So biofilms offer protection from environmental fluctuations like moisture, temperature, pH, ultraviolet light, so they have a more stable living environment. This is why biofilms are really favored inside the body. And also, cell-to-cell interactions occur, what we call “quorum sensing,” which is a complicated word. 
Quorum sensing is a way for bacteria, basically, to talk to each other in groups. That’s an easy way to explain it to you. So quorum sensing impairs chemotaxis of neutrophils. So what that means is it allows it – the way these bacteria talk to each other, they have a much higher level of protection from the immune system than bacteria that float around as planktonic. 
They also function as a shield against host offense. So, of course, if you’ve got this sort of like shield around the biofilm made up out of different substances, mucopolysaccharides, and different types of chemicals, proteins and DNA and things like that that shield these bacteria that live in these colonies, they’re going to have a much higher degree of protection. That’s why they tend to live like this. 
So it also promotes an increased tolerance to pathogens and to antibiotics. So antibiotics can’t really do much with biofilms. So medical science has to rethink the way they really deal with infection, because more and more we’re getting all these kinds of resistance towards diseases as the years go by. We’re going to get to a point where antibiotics just don’t work anymore, so we have to look at ways really of eradicating biofilm.
In my opinion, the only way to do it is through the diet change, the lifestyle change, and using natural agents that help to eradicate biofilm. They’ve worked for thousands of years, and they’ll probably work for thousands more years. 
So that gives you a bit of an insight into advantages of biofilms with bacteria, particularly pathogenic bacteria that want to thrive versus the planktonic or the bacteria that float around in the blood stream unattached.

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