“Well the argument is far from settled with the so called dissidents. Their questions still remain unanswered.” Would you post the specific questions that you believe to be unanswered? (Actually, it would probably be good to start this as a new thread, since it only peripherally relates to Christine Maggiore). In many cases, it seems to me that their questions are “unanswered” because they refuse to look at the research that would answer them! In some cases, they don’t even seem to be asking the right questions (if their real concern is getting to the truth of whether or not HIV is ...
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Why do you believe that HIV has not been isolated? http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3053989 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9171218?dopt=Abstract I could post hundreds of studies here, but won’t bother until I know that you actually read them! Do you believe that ANY viruses have been isolated? What is your alternative hypothesis for the cause of AIDS? How is the proof more convincing for you alternative hypothesis?   [End]
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(in reply to Hvergathi’s post) LOL! Are you just making this stuff up as you go along? You apparently can’t decide which (90% incorrect) beliefs about HIV and AIDS you want to hold! You have written (twice!) that “HIV infection CANNOT cause any diseases in man” (http://www.curezone.com/forums/fm.asp?i=1318407#i), and then, later, you wrote “I seriously doubt that you have been infected with HIV for 20 years. If you were actually infected with HIV for that long then you would be a walking miracle.” (http://www.curezone.com/forums/fm.asp?i=1322101#i EDIT: fixed link that didn’t ...
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People use the word ”co-factor” in a variety of ways, some meaning ”you can only get AIDS if you also have this factor present”, others meaning ”X will speed up progression to AIDS, but it is not necessary for the development of AIDS”. Other than HIV, nothing has been found to be a necessary co-factor (and people have looked!). Plenty of things fall into the latter category - all sorts of differences between people with HIV (genetics, age, nutritional status, other infections, viral strain.......) are known to influence the speed of progression. The interview with Gallo is from 1995 - ...
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Do you have a reference to this study’s publication? Just based on the laboratory markers used (among other things), I have to assume it’s pretty old. On a personal note, both my husband and I tried aloe vera juice (back in the day when there was still a lot of interest in it; having not seen much interest in it in recent days is another reason to suspect that this study is pretty old) for HIV - he’s dead and, as far as I could tell, it didn’t do a thing for me in slowing the course to AIDS.   [End]
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Well, you know I’ve been hanging back on even tentatively supporting oleander for HIV (although I believe I’ve dug further than probably anyone else on this site into plausible mechanisms of action of oleander against HIV) until I see some reliable data. But, if it helps people get it up, perhaps it’s time I re-think that position! ;-) As nice as it is to hear about symptomatic relief, would you ask the people on your yahoo group who are taking oleander for HIV to systematically monitor their laboratory results so that they can be shared? I think the most convincing testimonials would ...
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A couple basic immunology points and a question: ”dendrite, (memory cells,)” - dendritic cells aren’t memory cells (only certain lymphocytes - T and B cells - have memory phenotypes). DCs are pretty long-lived, but they don’t demonstrate ”immunological memory” - a DC’s secondary response to a given antigen is no different than a primary response. ”Even if dendritic cells can... find an antigen to copy” - Dendritic cells do not ”copy antigen”: they phagocytize (basically, gulp in) antigen, process it into little peptide pieces, and then present those pieces on MHC molecules on ...
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”I like the way you think” LOL! And to think, I thought that the way I think* was pretty much just a pain in your ass! *quite skeptically when it comes to claims that aren’t supported with evidence   [End]
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Have you considered medical marijuana? I live part of the year in California (where medical marijuana is legal), and while my personal view is that medical marijuana is overused (there are ’pot doctors’ here whose whole practice is writing people scripts for marijuana for a fee - most of these people are not sick, but just enjoy the recreational effects. Not that there’s necessarily anything wrong with that), it does seem to work VERY well for cachexia, anorexia, nausea, weight loss, etc. I’ve known several people who had cachexia from AIDS for whom marijuana seemed to work miracles. ...
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Dear Megan, First, you are very, very welcome for any help I’ve provided. I’m happy to help, and helping others makes me feel good (it’s always worth remembering that even the smallest acts of kindness can have real impacts on others. When I’m having a bad day and feeling grumpy, even just a smile from a stranger can make me feel significantly lighter). Obviously I wish that I did not have HIV, but it has provided me with many opportunities to help others, and this is nothing short of a blessing. I didn’t really go into the other potential causes of your sinus problems because (1) ...
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Dear Megan, I don’t have a ton of time right now, so I will answer your second question quickly, and if anything’s unclear or if you have any follow-up questions, I’ll be more than happy to write more later. So, onto your question about liver/kidney failure due to HIV meds. First, you should be aware of what people are talking about when they refer to “HIV meds” (I apologize if this is a review for you, but I just want to make sure you know this stuff). There are 25 medications available to treat HIV (although many of these are rarely, if ever, used in the US and other industrialized ...
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Dear Megan, I’m sorry that it took me so long to respond. My first grandchild was born recently, and I’m fortunate enough to have her and many other family members here for Christmas, so I haven’t been online since before the holiday. I certainly was not intentionally ignoring you! I’m happy to answer any questions you have, but if it takes a couple days, especially during the holiday season, please be patient with me! Could HIV have anything to do with your chronic sinus problems? Yes, absolutely! Your symptoms are VERY common in people with HIV. The two most common reasons fo ...
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If your hypothesis is that ozone can cure HIV/AIDS in humans, the only way to prove (or disprove) it will be to test it. There may be no visible flaws with your ”head work” but the hypothesis still may turn out to be wrong - that’s the way science goes. It’s not always possible to predict what will happen in the amazingly complex human body. On the other hand, sometimes things do work as predicted, but not for the reasons predicted (i.e. the head theory is wrong, but the results are right) - many drugs known to work remain poorly understood for very long times. I’m afraid nobody is g ...
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Hi! Sorry I just noticed this question (I wasn’t ignoring you!) Here’s my quickie shot at an answer (one which I had to look up, because unlike the questions I usually respond to, I really didn’t know!) If there is a list somewhere of all the cells HIV has been shown to be able to replicate in (either in vitro or in vivo), I’ve never seen it. The most important sites of HIV infection are indeed certain white blood cell types – CD4+ T-cells (which are not necessarily all T-helper cells; other T cells can and do express CD4 under certain circumstances), CD4+ macrophages, and dendri ...
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Scientists are being careful about labeling this a ”cure” simply because they don’t know whether a few years down the road, if there is HIV remaining in his system, it could reactivate and perhaps even switch tropism and he could become ill again (the likelihood of this seems low). However, at this point, it seems like he has been functionally cured. Only time will tell. Nevertheless, bone marrow transplants are not a viable option for the vast majority of patients with HIV. - the mortality risk is enormous - the patients have to be on immunosuppressive drugs for life - the likelih ...
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It has been many years since I took genetics (never my area of interest) in grad school, but I’ll do my best to handle this one: If HIV were an endogenous retrovirus, it would have infected germ cells (sperm or egg) by definition - HIV DNA would then be in the DNA of every nucleated somatic cell in the body (barring some mutation post-birth that somehow excised it), not just in a random cell here or there that could be difficult to find. There is no good evidence that HIV is able to get into the germline in vivo under natural conditions. For example, there has yet to be an HIV+ bab ...
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“What people learn in textbooks often is in contradiction with the facts.” This may be true. I suppose it depends on the textbook. I recommended Janeway’s Immunobiology because it is relatively basic (one can understand some of it with little scientific preparation, and most of it with just a basic understanding of biochemistry and genetics) and yet thorough, and it gives references to the articles on which each section is based (I also recommended it because it is available online for free. If you’re willing to spend a bit of money, I can recommend a more advanced text). I agree th ...
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Actually, ozone WAS tested in HIV patients many years ago: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/1685651 (removing the blood, treating it with ozone, and returning it to the patients) – no effect. This is the abstract for the phase II trial. You’ll see it reported that in the uncontrolled phase I trial, a few patients appeared to show some improvement. There was also some in vitro work that suggested that ozone would help. This pattern (preliminary results suggesting a benefit, followed by more rigorous – and often longer-term – trials showing no benefit) is a common theme in research i ...
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Very, very quickly (I need to get to work!) – if you’d like me to expound on this more later, I’m happy to do so. Nope, people with severe CD4 deficiencies are actually very sick – you cannot live a healthy life and fight off most pathogens without CD4 cells (if you know of a single person with zero CD4 cells who is nevertheless perfectly healthy, please refer them to an immunologist and/or research physician, because that’s a journal article right there! It would contradict a lot of other experimental data, and require a re-thinking of certain aspects of immunology if such people turn ...
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Nope - nobody has yet figured out how to remove HIV from a cell after it has been integrated into your DNA. Current therapies can stop the virus from replicating or infecting new cells, but cannot eliminate it from your body completely. The difficulty is that HIV establishes reservoirs of infection in long-lived cells. In the news recently was a single individual who may have been cured of HIV with a bone marrow transplant where the donor marrow was from a person who had the CCR5-delta-32 mutation (a mutation that confers resistance to CCR5-tropic HIV). Thus far, it’s unknown whether ...
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Hi Rob! I’m glad you’re feeling better, and I wish you luck with your HIV wellness clinic. You posted a similar message a few months ago, but never answered the follow-up questions people had. Since this forum is about poz people learning from the experiences of others, it would be very helpful if you would take the time to give us some more information. Specifically: - when were you infected? (if you know; if not, your best estimate of how long before diagnosis you actually acquired the virus) - Before you started on meds, what were your CD4 counts (% and absolute), CD8 count ...
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Hi patientadvocate! There is a lot here to respond to, but in order to respond, I need some clarification on the following point. Which cells do you believe are actually virally infected? The T-cells (and in some cases B-cells) driving the immune response, or the cells they are attacking? Thanks! Also, in the future it would be very helpful if you posted links to the articles you are quoting (or at least a reference), rather than just giving the names of the website you found them on.   [End]
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Any other Californians on the board? We’ve got an awful lot of propositions on the ballot this tuesday (even for California!). I’ve just been familiarizing myself with all of them. Up until now, I hadn’t heard much of Proposition 5 (neither side seems to be running commercials and I’m not really a very political person), but after having read the literature of both sides (and as much of the very long proposition itself that I could stomach), I think it would bring about one of the most important reforms of government that we’ve seen in a long time. When I was a lawyer (many moons ago), ...
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Nobody on this site has enough information about you (or access to your body) to really give you answers. You need to ask your doctor. you’re not actually anemic (your RBC + hemoglobin counts are normal). Your serum iron is just below normal limits, but this is not the same as being anemic. You have a very mild macrocytosis (increased RBC size - this is what the slightly high MCV means), but without any accompanying anemia, this in and of itself shouldn’t be problematic. What’s the RDW? Do you have any medical problems (e.g. kidney diseases, inflammatory diseases)? Lots of things can ...
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- when were you infected? - when did you start on meds? What were your CD4 counts (%), CD8 count (abs), viral load at the time? - what meds were you on? what were your specific problems with them?   [End]
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I realized that the thing I wrote about the Th2 response not being less inflammatory than the Th1 response could have been explained more clearly. Sure, if you were to look up, for example, IL-4, it would be characterized as an ”anti-inflammatory” and IL-2 would be characterized as ”pro-inflammatory”. This can be misleading to someone who doesn’t know much immunology. Some cytokines that tilt towards Th2 may ramp down pro-inflammatory cytokines like TNFa or IL-1a, but this does NOT mean that when you have an antibody response (driven by Th2 + B cells), that inflammation is being driven ...
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Thank you for the courtesy, DQ! I don’t spend enough time on this site to know most of the personalities (unless they frequent the AIDS Support Forum, in which case I know some of them), so it’s nice to be told by a reliable informant on curezone matters when there’s someone not worth wasting valuable time on. Just to reiterate for anyone else: the idea that AIDS is caused by rectal trauma is INSANE! Men/women who have receptive anal sex with condoms experience just as much rectal trauma, and they do not get AIDS. Also, difficult bowel movements CAN cause significant trauma, up to t ...
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These sorts of results are why everyone with HIV needs to learn a little bit about how it works. In EVERYONE, viral titers (viral load) are highest right after infection. Right after infection, viral load shoots up and CD4+ T-cell counts shoot down. Over the next year or so, these numbers recover: viral load comes back down, CD4 count comes back up (usually not as high as it was before infection, but well within healthy ranges). This is due to cell-mediated immunity kicking in, and getting the virus under partial control (in the vast majority of people, the immune system alone is unab ...
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This man needs to go back to med school! No, really! It’s probably not his fault - at the time when he was in med school, very little was known (by today’s standards) about how the immune system works. However, nobody should rely on this as an explanation for how the immune system works (you’ll note that the only immunology article he cites is from 1972 = the dark ages, as far as immunology is concerned). Some of his more important errors: The analogy to 2 functions in eating doesn’t make sense: He appears to be confusing cell-mediated immunity (cellular immunity) with innate immu ...
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uh, what exactly are you referring to in saying that nitazoxanide is a cure for ”immune compromised” and HIV? There’s no evidence of such a thing. It has sometimes been used successfully to treat certain opportunistic infections that PWAs get (diarrheal infections like crypto), but there is no evidence I know of showing that it can reverse or halt the immune decline that is the hallmark of AIDS. There are many treatments for opportunistic infections (e.g. Bactrim for PCP) - none of these treat the underlying immune dysfunction. Moreover, people with HIV respond less well to nitazoxanid ...
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Buprenorphine (the active ingredient in Suboxone) isn’t new; its use for narcotic addiction has been around for many, many years (it’s been the treatment of choice in France for decades). What’s relatively newer is FDA approval for that purpose and the Suboxone/Subutex formulations (previously the only formulation was injectable Buprenex, which under the controlled substances act could not ’legally’ be prescribed for the maintenance of a narcotic addict. This did not mean that physicians didn’t find ways to justify off-label prescriiptions where necessary. Because it was the first narco ...
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So, you’re asking questions not so that you can get an answer, but so that you can respond with your own (incorrect) beliefs? If rectal trauma leading to fecal matter entering the mucosa were responsible for AIDS, then people would get AIDS every time they had a difficult bowel movement that tore up the mucosa; it would also make no difference whether anal sex involved a condom or not. If you believe either of these to be the case, then you are living in your own world devoid from reality. I would suggest some basic coursework in physiology, virology, and immunology.   [End]
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Yes, anal sex carries the same risk regardless of whether the receptive partner is male or female. However, most of the HIV transmission worldwide still occurred as a result of VAGINAL transmission. ”That makes sense since rectal trauma would allow passage of infectious fecal matter into traumatized healthy tissue” No, that does not make sense at all! Think about the mechanics of anal sex: a penis enters another person’s anus. Anal sex does not involve the insertion of foreign fecal matter into the anus. The only person’s whose fecal matter is in your rectum following anal sex is ...
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Worldwide, heterosexual sex (vaginal sex) is responsible for the majority of cases of HIV transmission. In the US (and most European countries, depending on whether the countries of the former USSR count), more cases have occured due to men having anal sex with other men. I don’t have time right now to go into the reasons for the different patterns. In terms of what type of sex most efficiently transmits HIV, the answer is receptive anal sex, followed by receptive vaginal sex, followed by insertive anal sex, followed by insertive vaginal sex. The risk from oral sex is minimal.   [End]
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LOL! And only 2 minutes of searching! What the heck have I been bugging you for? ;-) Just FYI, it IS public record, and any oleander-curious readers in TX may be interested to know that the PBI 05204 trial does seem to still be recruiting patients (hasn’t been updated in a couple months, but they’re usually updated once closed): http://clinicaltrials.gov/ct2/show/NCT00554268?term=pbi&rank=1   [End]
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If the formulation under study is indeed being studied as an IND, there is a public record with the information I listed before.   [End]
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”Some concern has been raised by a recent report, which found that niacin raises homocysteine levels. But in fact, this finding represents yet further proof of niacin’s benefits for heart health, and an opportunity to make them even stronger. That is, since persons taking niacin alone, even with this Hcy-raising effect, still end up with lower rates of both heart attack and death than those not receiving the supplement, it is reasonable to speculate that taking niacin with homocysteine-lowering nutrients may result in even greater reductions in risk. Hcy-lowering nutrients include the vita ...
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What sort of recourse are you looking for? Criminal or civil? Criminal: Forget about it. The DA wherever you live is very unlikely to be interested in such a case. I don’t know what state you’re in, but it’s very unlikely that you’ll find a statute that covers this sort of behavior. Many states have statutes that criminalize the sexual transmission of HIV, but I know of none that does the same for herpes (a reflection of societal values about the relative dangers of the two viruses). Without such statutes, prosecutors have often charged people with HIV with attempted murder (in va ...
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Who said you have to co-supplement other B-vitamins? They may be confusing 2 different pathways for the synthesis of NAD (I have no idea in what context they were speaking). The first is from dietary niacin, and the second is from tryptophan (the amino acid. you’ve most likely heard about it in conjunction with serotonin and turkey). To get niacin from tryptophan, you need vitamin B6. However, you do NOT need to co-supplement if you’re actually taking niacin. Why are you taking niacin? The studies on niacin for, e.g. cholesterol/heart attack risk used niacin alone, and it’s effect ...
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Yes, I was fairly certain that you meant to say ’confidential conversation’ rather than ’privileged conversation’ (I’m a bit of a nag when it comes to terms of art being used synonymously with everyday terms, even though it happens all the time, and most of us do it to some extent). I just found it odd that you revealed confidential information while refusing to share the information that is public record (the IND under investigation, the lead researcher, the objectives of the trial, the conditions for which it is being studied, etc.) The fact that a drug is showing some success is als ...
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Are there any oleander-based compounds under FDA-regulated study besides Anvirzel and PBI-05204?   [End]
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Depends what you mean for ”toooooooooo much”. More than you need? Absolutely! Most of the excess will just be urinated out (B-vitamins are water soluble and not stored), so you’ll just have some very expensive piss! Enough to be dangerous? Nah, it’s pretty unlikely. Water-soluble vitamins have a very wide therapeutic index. However, there is a ceiling beyond which toxicity is a possibility with some water-soluble vitamins. With B1-B3, B5, B12 + biotin, you’re unlikely to see any significant toxicity even with relatively high doses (Assuming the niacin is in the form of niacinami ...
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You omitted the most important part: WHAT condition is oleander showing efficacy for? If cancer, what types of cancer? If not cancer, what conditions? Don’t worry, unless you’re leaving a lot out of your biography, your conversation was not legally privileged.   [End]
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Well, if that’s your belief, then why would you send me to the following link? (http://curezone.com/forums/fm.asp?i=650048) It makes the bizarre (and implausible) claim that AIDS is caused by the trematode F. buskii, which the zapper kills. Please read articles before you refer people seeking information to them. This is the ONLY mechanism given in the article for how zappers are supposed to help PWAs. It also claims that the zapper causes people who are HIV+ to serorevert to HIV-negative in short order (this finding on its own would be so easily publishable that I strongly suspect ...
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Here is the descriiption of this forum: ”For all talk related to AIDS. You can share your experience, ask questions, give answers, support others or get support” Where’s the clause stating that you can only post here if you’re promoting some product that you’re refusing to subject to strict scientific scrutiny? Because I didn’t see it! Why are the people who complain SO MUCH about how they’re not given a fair shot to express their views always the ones trying to censor others?   [End]
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I’m confused by the link - is the whole premise behind zapping that AIDS is actually caused by the trematode F. buskii?   [End]
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”is there anything alternative that anyone has used to keep their hiv under control without meds”? Absolutely! About a zillion different things! So many things that it would take too long to recount them all! For everything, you’ll find some people for whom it seems to be working. Unfortunately, nobody can predict with any sort of accuracy who these people will be (or whether it is even a given product that is causing their good health). The people promoting alternative treatments for HIV generally refuse to test and evaluate them using strict scientific standards. When scientists ...
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Look in a dictionary: ”alternative” has multiple meanings. ”alternative” can be a synonym for ”choice” or ”option” (without the connotation of fringe lifestyles or opposition to mainstream consensus). Why must you impose on others your chosen definitions the same way you attempt to impose on others your chosen products? You can attempt to ”condense” my messages as much as you want; unfortunately, you don’t seem to be READING them. Personally, I would find your ”critique” of me much more pursuasive if you could point out things I’ve said that have actually been INCORRECT rather than ...
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I would love to hear a plausible theory of how zappers are helpful for people with HIV. The link you gave before, Parazapper, was just an advertisement for a zapper without any actual information.   [End]
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I’m not sure what you mean by ”meds”. Even excluding HAART (antiretroval combination therapy), there are a lot of options (as I wrote before), but it’s impossible for anyone to predict with any accuracy how well any option will work. When did the lesions first develop (i.e. how long following initial infection), and are you continuing to get new ones? If you only have a few lesions, and if you’re not getting any new ones, HAART may not even be the recommended ”best option”. There are lots of ways to remove lesions, surgical and non-surgical. I see no reason to believe that you have ...
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KS is among a handful of infections that frequently occur at higher CD4 counts (the risk of getting them is higher the lower the CD4 goes, but a relatively high CD4 count isn’t always protective against it. Thrush and shingles can also occur early. Bacterial pneumonia and TB are also common at higher CD4 counts, even though they’re not unique to HIV patients). Classic KS occurs in older men of certain ethnicities who are NOT immunosuppressed. It’s really AGGRESSIVE epidemic KS (rather than mild KS - a few lesions limited to the skin) that is dangerous and specific to AIDS. I had a fri ...
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1 but as CD4 counts go down and CD8 go up with HIV, it can be reversed. (your first time, they may run an ELISA/Western Blot to confirm infection if you were tested anonymously and have not already done this - this is just a ”re-do” of your HIV test, to be sure and to have it for their records) Then they’ll do a whole bunch of tests that are NOT specific to HIV. These tests aren’t really specific enough to be diagnostic of anything, but give a general state of your health and also let your doctor know if there may be something wrong with you. These tests will include the Complete B ...
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200, IFN-a (2a or 2b) may help; so could Foscarnet (an antiviral that works against HHV-8, the virus that causes KS, rather than HIV). IL-12 may help. This shouldn’t be too difficult for a competent doctor to treat in most cases of early, non-disseminated disease. - As for natural things that may help, there’s not a lot of good evidence for anything. I know that some people like ginseng.   [End]
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sorry I’m taking so long to answer everyone’s questions. I’m going through a chaotic time at work right now. I’ll get to them as soon as I can. This one’s easy, though! I assume you mean, which antivirals am I on? I’m on a bunch of drugs, both pharmaceutical and alternative, but my antivirals are the following: MK-0518, T-20, DRV/r, FTC, TDF A drug-naive patient wouldn’t take most of these, and they wouldn’t take this many things. The only thing I have that could be considered a ”side effect” is injection-site reactions from the T-20, but to me that’s not really a side effect, it’s ...
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What’s misleading or erroneous? I didn’t say anything about CS in that post - I said what I would do. If I wanted to try a natural remedy for MS, I would take oleander over CS because there’s far more ”rational basis” behind taking oleander for MS than there is behind taking CS. rational basis for taking oleander for MS: - oleandrin + inhibition of NF-kB Oleandrin Suppresses Activation of Nuclear Transcriiption Factor-kB, Activator Protein-1, and c-Jun NH2-Terminal Kinase: http://cancerres.aacrjournals.org/cgi/content/full/60/14/3838 Cardiac glycosides inhibit TNF-α/NF ...
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All of the toxicity studies related to silver nanoparticles (pure silver). Some (not all) of the articles on silver-resistant bacteria were indeed testing against AgNO3 (silver nitrate). However, do you have any reason to believe that the organisms resistant to AgNO3 are not also resistant to Ag+? They’ve identified at least some of the plasmids encoding silver resistance (which confers resistance to AgNO3): http://www.springerlink.com/content/k7q3077u3365l706/ The reason they were testing against AgNO3 is because that is the silver compound most frequently used. My point w ...
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All of the toxicity studies related to silver nanoparticles (pure silver). Some (not all) of the articles on silver-resistant bacteria were indeed testing against AgNO3 (silver nitrate). However, do you have any reason to believe that the organisms resistant to AgNO3 are not also resistant to Ag+? They’ve identified at least some of the plasmids encoding silver resistance (which confers resistance to AgNO3): http://www.springerlink.com/content/k7q3077u3365l706/ The reason they were testing against AgNO3 is because that is the silver compound most frequently used. My point was ...
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Hi Animated Star! I’m very glad to hear that that lymph node (LN) is no longer bugging you! Just as I cannot say what was causing your swollen LN (I’d be more confident in saying it was likely HIV if it had been generalized lymphadenopathy rather than localized, but even then, I would never be able to say definitively), I cannot say what is causing your headache. I’m certainly sorry, though, that it’s causing you suffering. People with HIV who aren’t on meds get headaches for all sorts of reasons (tension + migraine headaches like everyone else, opportunistic CNS infections if your C ...
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I mentioned and linked this article on an answer to a question about CS for HIV a while ago - I suppose it was foolishly optimistic to think that anyone might have followed the link and read it! Important Points from the article: 1) SIZE MATTERS! Inhibition of HIV-1 was only seen with nanoparticles that were 1-10ng, and can probably only occur by the presumed mechanism with nanoparticles smaller than 14ng. Anyone who wants to make silver for ingestion for the purposes of treating HIV should look at the procedure these guys used – it is not just electrolysing silver in water! T ...
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What were your RBC count, hemoglobin, hematocrit, MCV + RDW?   [End]
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I have not seen this proof. Please point me to a study that confirms what you are saying. How can candida species exist chronically at low numbers in the blood? If the patient is healthy and they’re only there in low numbers, where are the neutrophils and why aren’t they doing their job? If the candida has evaded and/or overwhelmed the immune system, why are they only there in low numbers? If you’re seeing fungus on a live blood dark-field examination, do you, at the very least, do a gram stain? The numbers vary from population to population, but 30-75% of patients with candidemi ...
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I would try oleander for MS long before I would try colloidal silver. There can be no promises in this regard, but there is reason to believe (purely theoretical at this point) that the mechanism of action of some of the key components in oleander could be very helpful to people with MS. On the other hand, I wouldn’t take anything that is claimed to boost the immune system unless you know how it works - it could make things a lot worse. I wouldn’t mix NAC with oleander - they seem to antagonize each other.   [End]
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Hi! I’ve had thrush at least a dozen times (though not in recent years). Acyclovir won’t cause thrush; broad-spectrum antibiotics can potentially cause it by killing off ”good bacteria” that keep the candida species in your mouth in check, but acyclovir is an antiviral, and affects neither the bacteria nor the yeast in your mouth. With thrush, the tongue isn’t usually noticeably swollen UNTIL you scrape off the white stuff (I never seem to learn my lesson on this one!). To see if it’s thrush, try gently scraping off the white coating - when it’s thrush, inflammation and some bleeding w ...
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Why not ban them completely? Drug ads on television do no good for anyone, drive up the costs of healthcare, and lead a lot of people to believe that they need drugs that are not particularly appropriate for them. I don’t see how a two- or three-year waiting period following FDA approval is going to make direct-to-consumer advertising more appropriate once that period has ended. It certainly won’t uncover every long-term toxicity. This is a case of ”fighting the last war” - showing that there won’t be any more Vioxxes. There will be, they’ll just be those drugs where the long-term to ...
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”Thanks Happyhealthygal.” You’re very welcome! ”So the body needs antibodies to fight against viruses, and when the antibodies aren’t present that means that the individual has lost a big part of their immune system defense” Antibodies are not equally helpful (e.g. antibodies to the envelope protein in Hepatitis B are extremely helpful in fighting Hepatitis B Virus, but antibodies to the virus’ core antigen aren’t helpful. Antibodies aren’t particularly helpful in fighting HIV). But when a person with AIDS is losing antibody responses that they should have, it indicates an immun ...
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Hi Tony, You wrote: “I want to make it crystal clear to you that I believe you have seriously crossed the line here. I am now warning you in no uncertain terms that if you want to get along with me, stop taking potshots at a man and a product you know absolutely nothing about... I will promise that if you continue taking these kind of personal cheap shots, I will not stand idly by. In fact, I will take off the gloves and go toe to toe with you here and on any other forum in CureZone all night long and the following day as well.” If you want to get into a shouting match, you will ...
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Aww, Mr. 100843, you’re sweet! I’m blushing! Seriously, though, I’m more than happy to help. I’ll probably get to the rest of your questions next week. As far as gadgets and other cures go, it’s true that most of them are quackery, but I wouldn’t spend money on ANYTHING or make ANY drastic life choices based on the fact that you might be HIV+. Once you know your status, you can plan your course of action, but if I were a betting lady (OK, I used to like blackjack back in the days when the casinos would still let you WIN), I’d be putting odds of about 3:1 that you’re negative. T ...
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OK, that ”answers” title is a bit misleading. I’ve only had time to answer one question this evening. So again, I’ll ask you to be patient with me while I get to the next few. Question 1: I’ve read a lot about the unreliability of the Eliza, Western Blot and Viral Load tests, including from Nobel prize-winner Kary Mullis. How do you account for this? Supposedly the proteins or dna/rna fragments tested for are present in normal blood anyway, and lots of things can cause false postivies? Well, I’m not surprised that you’re a bit confused, given that so many people are deliberately at ...
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No problem, m’dear! You’re very, very welcome, and I’m glad I could help out in this small way. If you end up being a guinea pig for the laser treatment, promise you’ll keep us updated! Hopkins is an amazing place. If I were looking for an HIV doctor in the Chesapeake area, it would be the first place I would go. Even if the laser treatment isn’t ready-to-go at this time, if you want to participate in a clinical trial in the Baltimore area, it’ll be a good place to find out what’s available. I really hope the laser therapy works out! It’s pretty cool that the only medical researchers ...
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plzchuckle: Candida is not a bacteria. Candida species are eukaryotes - they don’t even look like bacteria (which are prokaryotes). They’re also not ”good” - they’re commensals (there’s no real benefit from having them living in us, but there’s usually no real harm); our relationship with them is not mutualistic, as it is with some of the bacteria that live in the gut. They do not mutate into bacteria - they are yeasts and remain yeasts forever. Anyone who says otherwise needs to review microbiology (as well as 8th grade science). Candidemia (candida ”overgrowth” in the bloodst ...
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Hi 100483! Good to have you here, and I’m glad that my posts have been helpful to you. First let me say that I’m sorry about your ex-girlfriend’s recent diagnosis, as well as for what you’re currently going through. I really hope that the tests turn out negative. There are a lot of questions here, so I’m going to have to take this a bit at a time. I’ll just go through chronologically and answer as many as I can whenever I have a bit of time. Question 1: ”I’ve just recently discovered an ex-girlfiend has AIDS. We were together a year and a half and had a normal sex life with lo ...
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If a person with AIDS goes to the hospital because they’re very sick, a decent doctor should be able to catch it. By the time they’re immunosuppressed enough that they lose an antibody response, they’re pretty damn sick - they’ll be having AIDS-defining conditions, and the doctor will immediately suspect HIV. In the VAST majority of AIDS cases, the antibody test will be positive. If a doctor has a patient who he is 99% sure has AIDS and the antibody test comes back negative, the first thing he’ll do will probably be to run another antibody test, to make sure that there wasn’t a laborato ...
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Hi Africana! I hope you’re doing well and I’m sorry I caused confusion. Here are answers to your questions: “Happyhealthgal Does this statment make any sense ‘HIV-positive to HIV-negative on an antibody test? Not with my own eyes, but it does happen. However, when it has happened, the people were not actually cured - in fact, they often have advanced AIDS.’” Well, the statement makes perfect sense if you know what an antibody test is, what it is looking for, and what happens with AIDS. I probably should not have assumed that everybody knew this, so it’s my fault if I caused confus ...
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”id be willing to be a guinie pig for them” Ask and you shall receive! Here are the names and contact numbers for some of the guys up at Hopkins who helped conduct the study. You can email or call one them and tell them you’re interested in participating in a pilot study, and ask if they have one planned and/or are recruiting. If they’re not yet ready to do an in vivo study (which I suspect is the case), you can ask them to contact you if/when they are. Tzyy Choou Wu: tcwu@jhmi.edu 410-614-3899 (I’d email this one) Chien-Fu Hung: chung2@jhmi.edu 410-614-4906   [End]
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what were the numbers? Please post your CD4 absolute + percentage CD8 absolute Viral load (and the method used to derive it if it was something other than Amplicor ultra-sensitive) Also, how old are you? With that information, some reasonable population statistics exist that give probabilities of various outcomes. Which drugs did he recommend? If you know this, I can tell you what sorts of side effects you can reasonably expect. Not all antivirals are created equal in this regard! What precisely are you terrified of? Are you scared of drugs in general, or is there someth ...
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uh, zero? Candida albicans is a yeast (as are the less common Candida species). No amount of bacteria will magically transmogrify into a yeast.   [End]
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Do you know the guy’s name? (again, I just fast-forwarded through the film to see what it was about). Handfuls of people (not huge numbers, though) tried this blood-heating protocol back in the day. Some died. The rest were never tracked. There is some evidence showing a beneficial effect for Kaposi’s Sarcoma, but I don’t think anyone thought this was a GOOD solution (it was very risky and obviously not a real cure or even a feasible treatment for the vast majority of people). There was never any compelling evidence for its general use and it was known to be very risky. I doubt th ...
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When insulin is correctly used, the percentage of people who die from insulin is very tiny. The percentage of people who would die from untreated Type I diabetes if they did not take insulin is, on the other hand, enormous (prior to insulin therapy, huge numbers of individuals with Type I diabetes died of diabetic ketoacidosis). There are plenty of mortality studies done on patients with Type I diabetes, looking at cause of death. There are also studies comparing risk of death and serious complications by adequacy of glycemic control. Take a look! I think the results will surprise y ...
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Hi Healthierlife! A good rule of thumb: anything that promises to turn you HIV-negative is almost certainly a scam. Is it possible that a true cure (a treatment that eliminated every virion and every HIV-infected cell) could turn you HIV-negative? Yes, after a long enough period of time, it is a possibility. However, there is just as much possibility that you would remain HIV-positive for the rest of your life. At this point, seroreversion (going from HIV+ to HIV-negative) following a cure is purely hypothetical (and since people differ in the persistence of their antibody responses ...
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”keep in mind that even if HIV were cured, the HIV antibodies will remain in the body for years and thus trigger positive tests” I probably wasn’t clear on this point before when I said that you’ll continue having an antibody response for many years, and possibly life, following HIV infection, but I just thought you’d want to know that the antibodies themselves don’t remain in the body for all that long. If you were to try to passively immunize someone with anti-HIV antibodies (which wouldn’t work, by the way!), you’d be talking in terms of months, not years. HIV-negative infants who ...
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What do you mean by ”cured of AIDS”? A lot of people use this to mean different things. I’ve seen dozens of people go from having single- or double-digit CD4 counts and muliple opportunistic infections go to being stable and healthy. Have I seen anyone eradicate HIV completely? Nope. Have I seen anyone with HIV go from HIV-positive to HIV-negative on an antibody test? Not with my own eyes, but it does happen. However, when it has happened, the people were not actually cured - in fact, they often have advanced AIDS.   [End]
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Based on the title of the video and the brief clip of Ariz St U I caught while fast-forwarding it, I’m pretty sure they’re referring to the following article: http://www.iop.org/EJ/article/0953-8984/20/25/252205/cm8_25_252205.html As has happened many times in the past, extremely preliminary results from a new technology look promising and the popular media starts raving about ”cures”. In this case, any talk of ”cure” is totally unwarranted at this point. Why? Well, because even if the laser reduced viral load below the point of detection, it would not cure you of HIV. T ...
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From your title, it sounds like you were having problems digesting ALL fats, but in the post it sounded like olive oil was the culprit, so I’m not entirely sure which is the problem. If you’re unable to digest fats in general, it may be a problem of malabsorption. The problem is that there are many different reasons a person may malabsorb fats, so you’ll have to do some investigation to find out which is causing your problems. A fecal fat test can tell you whether you have abnormally large amounts of fat in your stool. I don’t want to get too scatalogical here, but just look up the ter ...
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Hi Caleb! I haven’t been able to find any evidence on the use of MMS for HIV (which doesn’t mean that it doesn’t work for some people, just there is no evidence to support its use. I’ve obviously seen the work on WF10) and asked on the MMS forum but nobody knew of anyone who was seriously tracking their results. If you wouldn’t mind, would you please post the following: For the closest date you had labs done prior to starting MMS: CD4 (absolute AND %), CD8, CD4:8, Viral load (real #s rather than logs - we can all work the logs out ourselves, but I always like to see numbers too), R ...
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Well, I didn’t watch the video, but I fast-forwarded through it with the sound off, and I recognized President Jammeh (of Gambia), so I assume it’s about his so-called AIDS cure. I don’t really take it very seriously when a dictator says something and his citizens agree with him (you can read about censorship and the abuse of journalists [arbitrary arrests, arsons of press houses, even murder] by His Excellency Jammeh here: http://www.freemedia.at/cms/ipi/freedom_detail.html?country=/KW0001/KW0006/KW0156/) Disagreeing with Jammeh, or refusing to say what he wants you to, is a risky b ...
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I actually am on HAART, like Magic. As my HIV is currently managed to the best extent possible (undetectable viral load), there is no reason for me to take it personally (I don’t have any side effects from my current HIV meds, so if anything, sounds like MMS might be riskier in terms of those) - I was more asking as a point of curiosity because I do try to keep up with the literature, and until a couple weeks ago, I had never even heard of MMS as a treatment for HIV. If anyone knows of any documented cases of people improving on it (even if it’s not a controlled study), I would still b ...
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Do you know what sort of improvements were reported? Long-lasting undetectable viral load and subsequent stabilization of CD4 counts? Thanks!   [End]
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In very advanced stages of AIDS, patients will occasionally test HIV-negative on antibody tests. This is not because they don’t have HIV, it is because their immune systems are so weakened that they can no longer make antibodies against HIV. This is a very bad sign! If someone is promising to turn you HIV-negative, they are either (1) lying in an attempt to scam you; or (2) planning to give you some drug that suppresses your immune system to the extent that you cannot make antibodies (not a cure, and a very bad thing!). I wouldn’t trust anyone who said their product could turn me H ...
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”I guess YOU didn’t know it, but there have been hundreds of people (if not thousands) cured of AIDS!” Uh, where are they? why haven’t they submitted themselves to scientific study so that the rest of us can benefit from their experience? Most of these so-called ”cure” claims are frauds - the people don’t actually exist, or they haven’t been cured. Many people have died while taking so-called ”cures”. ”And taking herbs as part of the protocol is VERY beneficial” What herbs? What protocol? ”If you knew anything much about natural health and healing, you’d know there is NO SU ...
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”One of my friends Mom is suffering from the HD disease. Her(my friend) grandmother is not having HD.Nor does his grandfather. SO how much are the chances that she (my friend) can be affected by HD.” If he has one parent with Huntington’s Disease, he has a 50% chance of inheriting that gene. If he is worried, and if the stress of not knowing is eating at him, he can be tested to see if he has it. Huntington’s is NOT considered an autoimmune disease (the neurological damage in Huntington’s is not caused by autoreactive immune cells. It’s a genetically inherited disorder of protein ...
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Total BS - the ridiculous price ($1400!) for cheap products and the absurdly inaccurate information on getting this ridiculous price reimbursed (trust me, ain’t nobody gonna pay for you to give your money to these charlatans) are a couple good signs of this being a scam. Their claims are also nonsensical. Incidentally, whenever someone promises that they can not only treat HIV, but turn you HIV-negative, it’s a sure sign of a scam. I explain why here: http://www.curezone.com/forums/fm.asp?i=1203123#i (in short, even if you were completely cured, you will still have antibodies to ...
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Is this the right link? It just takes you to a bunch of advertisements for zappers, and the HIV/AIDS link there does not actually contain any information, just advertisements.   [End]
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