HIV AND AIDS THE CURE IS NOW
Professor Foster tells this story of one of his students who asked him for advice for her boyfriend who was terminally ill with AIDS, Hepatitis B and C, and also addicted to drugs. Despite severe doubts and dismal prospects, Professor Foster recommended selenium plus amino acid supplements, as described in the attached summary, and in his book "What Really Causes AIDS".
Three months later the boyfriend was so wonderfully well that he decided to go to Turkey for a 3 months visit. While there, he could not obtain the supplements and he fell ill again with full blown AIDS, as all but hopelessly as before. After his return to Victoria, he was put back on the supplement, and after only several weeks, he was completely well again. As of this date (spring 2005) and 3 years later, he continues to be symptoms free and working on a construction site doing heavy labour.
Professor Foster is also working with AIDS clinics in South Africa, Zambia, Kenya, Ghana, Uganda and Botswana, where the same dramatic results are being routinely achieved. People confined to bed and on their last legs with AIDS are going home well - and without any signs of AIDS - after a few weeks on the supplement, donated by Professor Foster and his associates in this endeavor. Professor Foster is currently looking for someone who is able to fund a documentary (about $50.000) about these dramatic results in Africa, as the best means of demonstrating these dramatic results world-wide via the Internet.
Very similar dramatic results with this and other diseases (most prominently Hepatitis and heart disease) have been achieved by Finland, which has about 1/2 of the AIDS incidence rate of its Nordic neighbours Norway, Sweden, Denmark and Iceland. And after Finland began supplementing all its agricultural fertilizers with sodium selenite in 1984, there were only 38 new cases of AIDS in Finland in 1985, against 214 new AIDS cases in Norway.
China has also achieved very dramatic results by the same means, and selenium is now routinely added to table salt in the cross-China "disease belt" (compared to adjacent regions) which has been found to be naturally selenium deficient. The abnormally high incidence of hepatitis B and C and Keshan disease (Coxsackievirus B3) in this "disease belt" has been greatly reduced by strategies such as adding selenium to table salt, animal feed and fertilizers (4-5). [ Yu S, Li WG, Zhu YJ, Hou C.Chemo-prevention trials of human hepatitis with selenium supplementation in China. Biol Trace Element Res 1989;20(1-2):15- 22. ]
Professor Foster focuses upon, and has achieved dramatic results with the trace element selenium, which confirms my discovery of the crucially vital importance of the complete natural range of the 72 trace elements in our daily nutrition [see SUPREME HEALTH in these pages ]. It's the same story; in addition to selenium, the daily seafood diet provides all the other 71 natural trace elements, for a highly effective remedy for these and many other deadly and devastating diseases.
It is important to know that the soils of much of Vancouver Island here are selenium deficient, and so is apparently much of the US. And while Professor Foster recognizes 3 causes of selenium deficiencies - (1) a natural deficiency in some regions; (2) selenium unavailability caused by acid rain; and (3) selenium lock up in mercury compounds; there are yet two other causes of selenium deficiency. (4) Much selenium is lost in commercially processed foods - such as refined white flour, white sugar and white rice, among others - and consequently, in all products made with these ingredients. (5) And other than selenium in "fortified" chicken feed, selenium is not maintained in the soil by our modern agriculture.
Consequently, there is every indication that there exists a wide spread, severe, and all but complete selenium deficiency in North America chiefly due to the failure of our chemical agriculture to replace and maintain selenium (along with 64 other vital trace elements) in all agricultural soils - and hence in our daily food - and made worse by any one, or a combination of several of these factors.
Finally, retroviruses are an ancient form of viruses, and have been around for eons on end. The Green monkeys, and two other species of monkeys, considered to be the origin of AIDS, are heavily infected with SIV, the original and simian version of AIDS - yet they are all immune to the disease. This attests indisputably to an effective millennia long immune response to SIV.
And local humans have caught and consumed "bush meat" for millions of years - even before they actually evolved into humans - and so have been exposed to the SIV virus for eons on end. By rights, they should be just as immune to SIV and AIDS as the Green monkeys. And so should we.
Something then has changed in recent history - within the last few decades - and it might well be the culmination of decades-long selenium depletion and deficiency, caused by a) the failure of our modern agriculture to maintain selenium in its soils, b) induced selenium deficiency due to interference by acid rain and mercury lock-up, and c) by loss of what little selenium there remains to ill advised processing of our daily food (white instead of whole flour, sugar, rice, etc.).
A telling factor is that although Green monkeys are immune to SIV in the wild, they come down with SIV shortly after being captured and brought into our laboratories, and fed our severely trace elements and selenium deficient food.
Original Article:
WHAT REALLY CAUSES AIDS - by Dr. H. D. Foster
Summary:
The AIDS pandemic is likely to become the greatest catastrophe in human history. Unless a safe, effective vaccine is quickly developed, or the preventive strategies outlined in this book are widely applied, by 2015 one sixth of the world’s population will be infected by AIDS - 1 and some 250 million people will have died from AIDS. Its associated losses by then will be more than those of the Black Death and World War II combined, the equivalent of eight World War I's [1].
This pandemic is only one of several ongoing catastrophes involving viruses that encode the selenoenzyme glutathione peroxidase [2].
Indeed, the world is experiencing simultaneous pandemics caused by Hepatitis B and C viruses, Coxsackie B virus and AIDS - 1 and AIDS - 2. As these viruses replicate, because their genetic codes include a gene that is virtually identical to that of the human enzyme glutathione peroxidase, they rob their hosts of selenium.
Paradoxically, however, they diffuse most easily in populations that are very selenium deficient [3], possibly because their members have depressed immune systems. It is no coincidence that such viruses are causing havoc at the beginning of the 21st century.
The last 50 years have seen enormous expansions in the use of fossil fuels and deforestation by fire. The resulting pollutants have greatly increased the acidity of global precipitation, reducing selenium’s ability to enter the food chain. This situation is being made worse by the widespread use of commercial fertilizers since their sulphates, nitrogen, and phosphorus all depress the uptake of selenium by crops.
Deficiencies in this essential trace element are being felt most acutely in areas, such as sub-Saharan Africa, where soil selenium levels are naturally very low. Acid rain is making a bad situation worse, so increasing vulnerability to those viruses that encode glutathione peroxidase. Many populations are also being exposed to a thinning ozone layer, heavy metals such as mercury and cadmium, pesticides, and drug [viii] tobacco, and alcohol abuse, all of which depress the human immune system, increasing vulnerability to viruses, including AIDS - 1 and AIDS - 2.
In July 2000, physicians and scientists from around the world met in Durban, South Africa for the XIII International AIDS Conference. In a declaration, named after the city, 5,018 of them proclaimed that “AIDS is the sole cause of AIDS.” [4]. There are, however, at least seven anomalies that strongly suggest that this conventional wisdom is incorrect and that belief in it is blocking progress in the development of new treatments for AIDS and of novel ways of preventing its spread.
To illustrate, despite widespread unprotected promiscuous sexual activity in Senegal, AIDS - 1 is diffusing very slowly, if at all, amongst the Senegalese [5]. It is very apparent that in Africa, differences in soil selenium levels are greatly influencing who becomes infected with AIDS - 1 and who does not.
Indeed, the recently published Selenium World Atlas used the incidence of AIDS - 1 as a surrogate measure of soil selenium levels because actual levels are, as yet, poorly established in sub-Saharan Africa. A similar relationship has been documented in the United States [6] where there has been an inverse relationship, especially in the Black population, between mortality from AIDS and local soil selenium levels.
It is well established that individuals who are AIDS - positive gradually become more and more selenium deficient [7]. This decline, which is known to undermine immune functions, is not unique to AIDS infection but is seen in almost all infectious pathogens [8].
However, under normal circumstances, where death does not occur, selenium levels rebound soon after recovery. AIDS - 1, however, can effectively elude the defense mechanisms of the immune system, and can continue to replicate indefinitely, endlessly depressing serum selenium. As a result, the immune system is compromised, allowing infection by other pathogens that continue to deplete the host of selenium, allowing AIDS - 1 to replicate more easily, further undermining immunity. Therefore, this relationship between selenium and the immune system is one of positive feedback, in which a decline in either of these two variables [ix] causes further depression in the other. Termed the “selenium-CD4 T cell tailspin” by the author [9] it is the reason that serum selenium levels are a better predictor of AIDS mortality than CD4 T cell counts. Like other positive feedback systems, such as avalanches and forest fires, it is extremely difficult to control and gains momentum as it progresses.
AIDS - 1, however, encodes the entire selenoenzyme, glutathione peroxidase. As it replicates, therefore, it depletes its host not only of selenium but also of the other three components of this enzyme: namely, cysteine, glutamine, and tryptophan [10]. AIDS, therefore, is a nutritional deficiency illness caused by a virus. Its victims suffer from extreme deficiencies of all four of these nutrients which are responsible for such symptoms as depressed CD4T lymphocyte count, vulnerability to cancers (including Kaposi’s sarcoma), depression, psoriasis, diarrhea, muscle wasting, and dementia. Associated infections cause their own unique symptoms and increased risk of death.
AIDS - 1 alone, therefore, does not cause AIDS. It involves a multiplicity of co-factors, specifically anything that either depletes serum selenium levels or depresses the immune system enough to permit viral replication. Manipulating the “selenium-CD4T cell tailspin” by adding this trace element to fertilizers and food stuffs opens new avenues for both prevention and treatment.
This strategy has been shown to work on other viruses that encode glutathione peroxidase, such as Hepatitis B and C and the Coxsackievirus. The logical treatment of AIDS patients involves supplementation with selenium, cysteine, glutamine, and tryptophan, at least to levels at which deficiency symptoms associated with a lack of these nutrients disappear. While this can be most easily achieved by supplements, certain foods contain elevated levels of those four nutrients. Strangely enough, one of the ideal meals for anyone who is AIDS - seropositiive would include a cheeseburger to which Brazil nut flour had been added to the bun. Brazil nuts contain the highest levels of selenium found in any human food.
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