Last night I was reading an article about antibiotic-resistant bacteria and it mentioned that some antibiotics are given to cows to promote growth. Given the link between cows, PEDs, and bodybuilders I started doing some digging to see if this could be a new frontier of PEDs for humans.
I found this article that I'll quote from - https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9142037/
Obviously the big holdup here is the MOA preventing use in humans.
Are there other kinds of antibiotics that might achieve this in humans? Is there any chance something like this could work or is it just too far fetched?
I found this article that I'll quote from - https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9142037/
The US Department of Agriculture noted that approximately 88% of growing swine receive antibiotics in their feed for disease prevention and growth promotion purposes, commonly tetracyclines or tylosin [https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22298919]. Some of the most frequently used antibiotics in ruminants are ionophores, a distinctive class of antibiotics that can influence intestinal flora to achieve increased energy and amino acid availability and improved nutrient utilization [https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22298919]. Most beef calves in feed lots and some dairy heifers receive this drug routinely in their feed. Ionophores have never been used in humans or therapeutically in animals, because of their specific mode of action. The impact that medicated food has on human health, and implicitly how antibiotic resistance is installed after ingesting food with antibiotics residues, is a topic that we will detail in a later section, but it is worth mentioning that while some bacteria are intrinsically resistant to these drugs, there is currently no evidence to suggest that ionophore resistance is transferable [https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/22298919; https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/14503688].
Obviously the big holdup here is the MOA preventing use in humans.
Are there other kinds of antibiotics that might achieve this in humans? Is there any chance something like this could work or is it just too far fetched?