Re: Master Cleanse and HIV
I think this comment is reactionary:
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HIV treatments are amazingly complicated and important and modern medicine IS DOING A GOOD JOB AT REDUCING VIRAL LOADS. Really listen to what your Doc has to say, and then talk to some other Docs, some nurses, just please do youself a favor and TALK TO PEOPLE IN THE FIELD."
Talking to people "in the field" is just like asking an M.D. if mucoid plaque exists. The hiv/aids field is not exempt from bad science, bad treatments, and serious misunderstandings. hiv/aids is not a privledged disease.
People can and should listen to their bodies first whether it is the flu, cancer or "hiv". So many claims are made about hiv that are false that it is just plain absurd anymore. People think you can get it from a toilet seat, from kissing, from all kinds of casual contact, yet even the cdc acknowledges that it is hard to catch. People think that hiv automatically means death, yet people are living still since the begining and without treatments. It's not supposed to be that way according to mass media minds, but that is the case. Remember how in the 80's and 90's they claimed that even on meds people died withing 2 years? Well people lived too long and so now they claim its 10 years. But that claim, that only two years results in death...no matter what!...allowed the drug companies to push radical and not well tested hiv drugs onto the market. Even the doctors in the field don't know what hiv tests really indicate. They cant tell you what to expect, they just want people on expensive drugs. The fact is, no study has been done that tests if a positive hiv antibody test actually results in death by itself, without treatment. Hiv is the first diagnosis that was "discovered" at almost the exact time that the pharmaceutical companies "discovered" the treatment. The "disease" and "treatment" co-exist. The hiv professionals often fail to explain side-effects of their treatments and the patients are led to believe their illnesses and problems are from the "hiv" and not the side effects of drugs even though the drugs cause many of the symptoms that hiv/aids supposedly cause.
So listen to your body. Do what is best for you.