AIDS MAY BE A COMBINATION OF NUTRITIONAL DEFICIENCIES

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AIDS: A TREATABLE COMBINATION OF NUTRITIONAL DEFICIENCIES

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AIDS MAY BE A COMBINATION OF NUTRITIONAL DEFICIENCIES

HIV Depletes Body of Selenium and Three Amino Acids

 

(OMNS, April 26, 2006) New clinical reports from Zambia, Uganda and

South Africa indicate that AIDS may be stopped by nutritional

supplementation. A number of members of the medical profession have

observed that high doses of the trace element selenium, and of the

amino acids cysteine, tryptophan, and glutamine can together rapidly

reverse the symptoms of AIDS, as predicted by Dr. Harold D. Foster's

nutritional hypothesis.

(1)

 

These nutrients are necessary for the human body to produce the enzyme

glutathione peroxidase. This enzyme is strongly antiretroviral (it is

an antagonist of reverse transcriptase) and can greatly reduce HIV

replication. Unfortunately, HIV has developed the ability to compete

with the body for these four nutrients because shortages of them allow

its more effective replication. Specifically, HIV has a gene that

allows it to produce an analogue of glutathione peroxidase.

 

Diets high in selenium, cysteine, tryptophan and glutamine seem to

have two major benefits for AIDS patients:

 

1) They replace these four nutrients in the body, correcting the

deficiencies HIV has caused. AIDS is what we call these combined

deficiency symptoms.

 

2) High levels of these four key nutrients push up the body's

glutathione peroxidase levels, making it much more difficult for HIV to

replicate. This enzyme also beneficially interferes with the

replication of

Hepatitis B and C. Nutritionally treated patients are still HIV-positive,

but seem to generally remain in good health unless they start to eat a

diet that once again is poor in one or more of these nutrients. If this

occurs, glutathione peroxidase levels fall, HIV begins to be replicated

and the AIDS cycle begins again.

 

Some countries or regions, like Senegal and Bolivia, have been very

fortunate. Their bedrock is naturally elevated in selenium and their

diets

are normally high in the three amino acids. As a result, they are

rarely infected by HIV. Others, like Finland, have wisely mandated the

addition of selenium to their fertilizers, with similar results. In

contrast, some regions like Kwazulu Natal have bedrock and soils that

contain

little selenium and diets are poor in one or more of the key nutrients.

For example, corn (maize) is low in both selenium and tryptophan. As a

result, populations eating a great deal of corn are easy to infect with

HIV and die very quickly of its associated nutritional deficiencies

(AIDS).

 

To halt AIDS, to stop HIV from replicating, the needed nutrient levels

are high. Selenium, for example, is taken at several times the commonly

recommended daily allowance for the first month. Dosage is considered

in more detail in " What Really Causes AIDS. " (2) This book is available

for free reading and downloading at www.hdfoster.com .

 

What is Orthomolecular Medicine?

 

Linus Pauling defined orthomolecular medicine as " the treatment of

disease by the provision of the optimum molecular environment, especially

the optimum concentrations of substances normally present in the human

body. " Orthomolecular medicine uses safe, effective nutritional therapy

to fight illness. For more information: http://www.orthomolecular.org

 

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Editorial Review Board:

 

Abram Hoffer, M.D., Ph.D.

Harold D. Foster, Ph.D.

Bradford Weeks, M.D.

Carolyn Dean, M.D. N.D.

Erik Paterson, M.D.

Thomas Levy, M.D., J.D.

Steve Hickey, Ph.D.

 

Andrew W. Saul, Ph.D., Editor. Email: omns

 

References:

 

1. Foster HD. How HIV-1 causes AIDS: Implications for prevention and

treatment, " Medical Hypotheses, Vol. 62(4), p 549-553, 2004.

 

2. Foster HD. What really causes AIDS. Victoria, BC: Trafford, 2002.

Free download at www.hdfoster.com .

 

For further reading:

 

" HIV/AIDS: a nutrient deficiency disease, " Journal of Orthomolecular

Medicine, 2005, Vol. 20(2), p 67-69.

Environmental factors and the pathogenesis of selenium-CD-4 cell

tailspin in AIDS. Chinese Journal of AIDS and STD, Vol. 10(5), p

390-392,402

2004.

 

AIDS and the selenium-CD4T cell tailspin, " World Journal of Infection,

Vol. 3(6), p 456-459, 2003.

Micronutrients in pathogenesis and treatment of AIDS, " Foreign Medical

Sciences: Section of Medgeography, Vol. 24(2), p 49-53, 2003.

 

Why HIV-1 has diffused so much more rapidly in Sub-Saharan Africa than

in North America. Medical Hypotheses, Vol. 60(4), p 611-614, 2003.

 

" How HIV-1 kills: Implications for the treatment and prevention of

AIDS. Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients, No. 255, p 76-78, 2002.

 

" Aids and the 'selenium - CD4T cell tailspin': the geography of a

pandemic, " Townsend Letter for Doctors and Patients, No. 209, p 94-99,

2000.

 

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