I’m assuming it has to do with making sure you get any straggler bacteria, but wouldn’t taking all the pills at once shock and awe the little buggers and force them to surrender?
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“Instead of drinking several glasses of water every day to stay hydrated, why can’t I just pound 5 gallons one night a week and be set?”
“Instead of trying to get 2-3 grams of dietary potassium intake a day, why can’t I eat a 1kg brick of alkali metal once a year?”
“Brawndo, the Thirst Mutilator has what plants crave!”
These are not meant to imply this is a dumb question, but to illustrate that the basic idea “living things need [X] to be healthy” can be correct but, applied aggressively without understanding the details of the underlying balance, leads to bad outcomes.
Toxicity is in the dosage. Too much of practically anything at once can kill you or seriously mess you up. Your body is a balance of lots of different interconnecting systems and subsytems that all have certain needs and certain rhythms. If you push a system too far out of balance, even by flooding it with something that is good/necessary in smaller doses, it may not recover.
In the case of antibiotics, there’s probably not much risk of a lethal “overdose” because they naturally pass through your system pretty quickly… much like a tank column smashing their way through lightly defended territory. You would probably devastate your gut bacteria and have horrible diarrhea for days, and there are cases of antibiotic overuse where the gut never really recovers its balance and you just have the shits forever.
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