NUTRITIONAL SIDE OF HIV/AIDS

 Sir,

Give almost any bedridden HIV/ AIDS patient a 400-600mcg daily supplement of selenium and within one week that person will be out of bed, usually with plenty of energy and a healthy appetite.

Why?  Dr. David Ho, the developer of protease inhibitor drugs, destroyed the accepted paradigm of how HIV causes AIDS in his keynote address to the International AIDS Society’s First Scientific Conference on AIDS in Buenos Aires, Argentina in 2001.
Dr. Ho explained, “It is impossible that HIV causes AIDS as most people believe, because HIV infects less than 1 per cent of CD4 cells. HIV cannot kill all the CD4 cells by infecting 1 per cent of them. Something else must be happening.”

Ho pointed out that CD4 cells live for only four days - except for rare memory T-cells. Yet most people in the field of AIDS still believe and teach the fallacy that HIV causes AIDS by killing CD4 cells.

That is what they were taught, and what they still believe. They perpetuate a preliminary, oversimplified, premature theory proposed early in the HIV epidemic to attempt to explain this complex disease.
However, no scientist has ever been able to fully elaborate the details of that early theory. Unfortunately, no authority has ever bothered to correct that mistaken hypothesis either.

Today the continuing belief in and propagation of that overly simplistic explanation does irreparable harm to the health of millions living with HIV/AIDS and costs governments billions of dollars a year. It is incumbent on the scientific community to shift the scientific paradigm of how HIV causes AIDS to one that can explain all the phenomena related to HIV disease, not just some of them. If the theory of how HIV causes AIDS that most people continue to believe is not correct what is the correct explanation?

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HIV does not cause AIDS by killing CD4 cells. It causes it by preventing production of new CD4 cells.  Like computer code, the HIV ENV gene genetically encodes a selenium-containing protein that constitutes part of its protective envelop. The viral envelope is equivalent to a person’s skin.
It protects viral RNA from the intercellular environment into which it will be released. Every time an HIV virus is produced it uses up an infinitesimal amount of the body’s limited resources of the essential trace element selenium.

As HIV replication increases, selenium levels progressively decline. As selenium declines, CD4 falls in tandem. How does a decline in selenium levels cause CD4 count to fall? How does supplementing selenium back into the body cause CD4 to rise and CD8 to fall?

Any correct theory of how HIV causes AIDS must, by necessity, incorporate and explain these scientific observations. The current, prevailing hypothesis does not. Both CD4 and CD8 cells originate as naïve cells in the bone marrow.
Millions of undifferentiated, precursor cells migrate to the thymus daily to be processed and released into the blood stream. After naive cells arrive in the thymus they are processed or detailed.

Some immunologists compare this to being educated in a university. Once these cells have been educated, they are tested for auto reactivity to check if they attack proteins that contain that person’s DNA.
If they do attack a person’s own proteins, those defective CD4 cells fail and are instructed to self-destruct through the process of programmed cell death - apoptosis.

If this immune process is defective, some autoreactive cells are released, resulting in autoimmune diseases like lupus. Since their life span is only four days, millions of new CD4 and CD8 cells must be produced daily.

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CD4 helper cells are often referred to as the generals of the immune system army. They direct various types of immune cells where to go, what to attack, and when to stop.

CD8 suppressor cells help tamp down immune reactions so activated immune responses remain under control. While immune functionality can be measured by CD4 count alone, a better measure of overall immune health is CD4/CD8 ratio.

Normally, the immune system should have one to two CD4 cells for each CD8 cell. A fully healthy CD4/CD8 ratio is between 1.0 and 2.0. When the CD4/CD8 ratio falls below .20, that is an additional way to statistically define AIDS.

Howard

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