Unraveling AIDS: The Independent Science And Promising Alternative Therapies

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Unraveling AIDS is well written and understandable by the general public; moreover, it should be studied by clinicians and their patients as well as a broader health and socially minded audience. --Joe Cummins, Professor Emeritus of Genetics, Univ. of Western Ontario

Unravels major AIDS myths and weaves a comprehensive strategy for effective diagnosis, prevention and therapy. -- Gary Null, Ph.D., Author of AIDS: A Second Opinion

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CAN SELENIUM SUPPLEMENTATION CONQUER AIDS?
During the last decade, research has indicated an important geographical link between regions of selenium-deficient soils and peak incidences of HIV/AIDS infection. AIDS disease appears to involve a slow and progressive decline in levels of the trace element selenium in the blood along with CD4 cells, which are both independent predictors of mortality. AIDS infection in Africa has reached pandemic proportions, with over a quarter of the population said to be suffering from the disease in some areas, although there is debate over the WHO statistics (see the chapter "The African AIDS Epidemic"). Senegal in West Africa has the lowest AIDS prevalence at 1.77 percent in the general population, and 0.5 percent in antenatal clinic attendees, along with the most highly selenium-enriched soil. Geologically, Senegal is situated in the dried-up Cretaceous and early Eocene Sea, and the land is formed from sedimentary rocks from dissolved minerals in the evaporating seawater. Consequently, calcium phosphates derived from the selenium-rich phosphorite are one of the country's mined mineral products used for fertilizers. Senegal can also claim the lowest level of cancers on the African continent.

Geographical disease pattern analogies made by Prof. E. W. Taylor, University of Georgia, suggest that AIDS, Kaposi's sarcoma, and cancers are rife in regions of selenium-depleted soils and that this has further implications in the seemingly unstoppable spread of AIDS incidence worldwide.

Prof. Harold Foster of the University of Victoria in Canada is currently treating dozens of HIV/AIDS patients in Africa using a protocol of the four nutrients: selenium, cysteine, glutamine, and tryptophan. He says that the treatment of HIV/AIDS with nutrition is similar to 'curing" type 1 diabetes with insulin. When high doses of all four nutrients are administered to patients, deficiencies dissolve, as do the symptoms associated with AIDS. Patients have been able to return to work within one month of receiving nutritional treatments. Treating primary nutritional deficiencies with selenium and essential amino acids costs approximately $10 to $15 (see box).

Four Essential Nutrients
For a healthy person, a daily supplementary intake of 50 to 200 micrograms of selenium is safe, but for someone with a compromised immune system, an increase of 100 percent may be necessary to improve selenium plasma levels. Where soil quality is good and produce fresh, the four essential nutrients in preventing and fighting HIV/AIDS and other viral diseases are found in these foods:
Selenium: Brazil nuts, garlic, mushrooms, liver, round steak, lobster, shrimp, cod, crab, herring, oysters, tuna, barley, whole wheat, egg noodles, brewers yeast
Cysteine: duck, turkey, pork, wheat germ, yogurt
Glutamine: sausage meats, ham, bacon, cottage and ricotta cheeses, wheat germ
Tryptophan: ham, beef, eggs, almonds, salted anchovies, Parmesan and Swiss cheeses