Actually most of us are bacteria on a cell count basis. This is an observation worth taking into account when taking antibiotics. However that does not mean we

Actually most of us are bacteria on a cell count basis. This is an observation worth taking into account when taking antibiotics. However that does not mean we shouldn't take them. Confident asides as in '(we) can safely metabolize the drug itself' are unhelpful and indeed wrong for certain people. https://www.forbes.com/sites/judystone/2015/11/09/common-antibiotics-cause-arrhythmias-death-and-everything-else/?sh=65673cadd170 https://www.forbes.com/sites/judystone/2015/11/09/common-ant... "Macrolide antibiotics caused an additional 36 sudden cardiac deaths per million treatment courses. So about 1:8,500 patients will develop a serious arrhythmia, or irregular heartbeat, and 1:30,000 would die because of the antibiotics."