Dr. Steve Blake
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 Lowered blood levels of zinc have been correlated with increased death rates in hiv patients. Zinc supplementation can reduce opportunistic infection in those with hiv. However, the hiv virus also needs zinc. Zinc supplements may in fact backfire to decrease survival time and stimulate the virus. Helping the immune system get adequate zinc without helping the hiv will require further research.
ZINC AND OLDER ADULTS
Older adults have average zinc intakes that tend to be lower than the RDA. |
Anne Harrington
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 Its founder, an HIV-positive gay man named Gary Hite, was described by the journalist as someone who defies the stereotype of a person who is hiv positive. With his large build, he's robust, not emaciated. With his sharp mind and engaging personality, he's energetic, not sluggish. . . . Hite also relies on his upbeat attitude, "I accept the fact that I'm hiv positive. Others can, too. If people want to die from AIDS, I won't stop them. But we suggest that people who are hiv positive can choose to live. |
Michael Friedman, ND
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 HIV and AIDS
DHEA inhibits RNA and DNA viral expression in animal studies,118 and also seems to suppress hiv replication. One recent investigation of HIV-positive patients showed that a reduction in serum DHEA. and DHEA-S levels inversely correlates with the progression of AIDS, indicating that DHEA can provide some measure of protection against hiv infection.119-120
Cushing's Syndrome
Patients with hypercortisolism associated with Cushing's syndrome showed lower DHEA-S levels than controls. |
Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D.
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 The new medicines for hiv disease are illustrative. The human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) causes acquired immune deficiency syndrome (AIDS). If this virus is left untreated, more than 90 percent of the people it infects will die. The virus grows and grows, eventually becoming present in suffins cient quantity to wipe out critical parts of the immune system, allowing horrible infections to take hold. The new treatments for hiv kill many but not all of the virus particles. But since the viral load gets smaller and smaller, immune function can return to normal and symptoms disappear. |
Dr. Steve Blake
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| Zinc supplementation can reduce opportunistic infection in those with hiv. However, the hiv virus also needs zinc. Zinc supplements may in fact backfire to decrease survival time and stimulate the virus. Helping the immune system get adequate zinc without helping the hiv will require further research.
ZINC AND OLDER ADULTS
Older adults have average zinc intakes that tend to be lower than the RDA. To avoid impaired immune system functioning, older adults should be sure to maintain adequate zinc intake. |
Thomson Healthcare, Inc.
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 Incubation of fucoidan with hiv directly also led to a reduction in RT activity. A synergistic depressive effect on RT activity was found when fucoidan and zidovudine (AZT) were added to HIV-infected human cells in vitro. The concentrations used were believed to be attainable in human subjects if fucoidan was administered intramuscularly (Sugawara et al, 1989). Several fractions and constituents in Bladderwrack were shown to inhibit human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), reverse transcriptase (RT), and/or syncytium formation in vitro (Beress et al, 1993). |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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 This vitally important mineral is a premier cancer fighter (it decreases the rate of prostate cancer) and in January 2007, one of the most conservative publications in medicine, The Archives of Internal Medicine, published an article showing that daily selenium supplements appear to suppress the progression of the viral load in patients with hiv infection. It's essential for those with hepatitis C. "Selenium acts as a birth control pill to the virus," Berkson told me.
The herb milk thistle (silymarin) is a premier liver nutrient. |
Anne Harrington
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| Hite also relies on his upbeat attitude, "I accept the fact that I'm hiv positive. Others can, too. If people want to die from AIDS, I won't stop them. But we suggest that people who are hiv positive can choose to live."64
The rallying call to positivity was inspiring, perhaps, but how did it sit with those patients who failed to maintain the robust optimism of a Gary Hite or who, unlike Lisa, did not seem able to cause their tumors to melt away under the laser-beam force of their upbeat visualizations? |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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 According to blood samples tested years later for hiv, 20 percent of all New York homosexual men who participated in the 1978 hepatitis B vaccine experiment are HIV-positive by this point (Goliszek).
The first AIDS case appears in San Francisco (Goliszek).
(1981)
The CDC acknowledges that a disease known as AIDS exists and confirms 26 cases of the disease -- all in previously healthy homosexuals living in New York, San Francisco and Los Angeles -- again supporting the speculation that AIDS originated from the hepatitis B experiments from 1978 and 1980 (Goliszek). |
Anne Harrington
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| The anthropologist Emily Martin tells the story of how one of her subjects found out his lover had tested hiv positive and then faced the difficult task of getting himself tested. At the clinic, he and the other people in the waiting room were made to watch a film about AIDS that vividly showed how the hiv virus destroys cells in the human immune system. He told Martin how he had fled from the clinic, feeling persuaded that viewing the film would itself undermine his immune functioning.73
Fear of AIDS diagnosis itself was a chronic stressor for AIDS patients. |
Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D.
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| What is exciting about medical advances in this field is that research doctors pretty much understand how the antiviral medicines work, and so they can work to develop new and more potent medicines to kill hiv itself.
But AIDS is unusual in medicine because we know its cause— hiv. In contrast, other diseases rarely have a single cause. Take heart disease as an example. In the nineteenth century, doctors learned that atherosclerosis, or clogging of the arteries in the heart, was a common cause of heart attack and heart failure. |
Lester A. Mitscher and Victoria Toews
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 Despite occasional progress and breakthroughs, AIDS researchers remain frustrated in their search for a way to prevent infection with hiv. EGCG has been reported to inhibit the action of an enzyme called reverse transcriptase (RT), which is essential for the reproduction of hiv. This is the same enzyme that the well-known drug AZT inhibits. The problem with most agents that inhibit the action of RT is that resistance develops so easily and the RT inhibitors are also very toxic, so that replication of the body's DNA can also be inhibited, leading to many undesirable side effects. |
Hyla Cass
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 Action: The hiv virus destroys cells that belong to the immune system. Both classes of drugs inhibit reverse transcriptase, the enzyme that hiv needs in order to replicate itself.
Side effects: These vary from drug to drug, and may include headache, nausea, muscle pain, dizziness, diarrhea, anemia, rash, peripheral neuropathy (burning, stinging, stiffness, tickling, or numbness in feet, toes, or hands), hair loss, weight loss, or menstrual problems.
Nutrients depleted: Carnitine, copper, vitamin B12, and zinc.
Needed supplements:
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Benjamin H. Natelson, M.D.
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| Finally, hepatitis C can produce fatigue in the absence of any signs of liver disease. Like hiv, this virus is transmitted through blood and other bodily fluids. The time between infection with the hiv virus and the development of symptoms is often quite short; in contrast, many years can go by between the time of hepatitis C infection and the onset of symptoms. Therefore, it's a good idea for your doctor to test for this infectious agent if you've recently experienced the onset of fatigue, but the test is also warranted if your problem is widespread pain instead. |
Dr. Steve Blake
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| However, the hiv virus also needs zinc. Zinc supplements may in fact backfire to decrease survival time and stimulate the virus. Helping the immune system get adequate zinc without helping the hiv will require further research.
ZINC AND OLDER ADULTS
Older adults have average zinc intakes that tend to be lower than the RDA. To avoid impaired immune system functioning, older adults should be sure to maintain adequate zinc intake.
ZINC AND ALCOHOLISM
Alcoholics are at increased risk of zinc deficiency from both impaired absorption and increased urinary losses. |
Dawson Church
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 After being diagnosed as hiv positive, Carlos's infection progressed rapidly into full-blown AIDS. He suffered from serious opportunistic infections, and had very low levels of T-cells, and high levels of viral load, despite taking hiv medication.
A common gateway to spiritual transformation was having a spiritual experience. |
James Dowd and Diane Stafford
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 Most people with hiv have low levels of both vitamin D and activated vitamin D. The role vitamin D plays in increasing a person's susceptibility to hiv infection is unclear, but the role that vitamin D plays in fighting tuberculosis (TB) and probably hepatitis C and other opportunistic viral and bacterial infections that AIDS patients suffer is indisputable.
Cranking Out Protection
Your immune system keeps churning away at its three big jobs throughout your life—functions that affect all the systems in your body. |
David W. Grotto, RD, LDN
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 HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS (HIV): Impressive data exist demonstrating a positive role for whey protein in boosting immune function and aiding in muscle-mass preservation and improving strength in women diagnosed with hiv.
Tips for Using Whey
SELECTION AND STORAGE:
• Choose non-denatured, ion-exchanged, or microfiltered.
• Store container in a cool, dry place.
PREPARATION AND SERVING SUGGESTIONS:
• Many of the non-denatured forms of whey protein often create foam if mixed too rigorously. Suggestion: Make a rue or "paste" out of the whey powder. |
Michael Friedman, ND
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| In one study, DHEA inhibited the replication of hiv, the virus believed to cause AIDS.23 In addition, DHEA has been shown to enhance the immune response to viral infections. Furthermore, DHEA levels are low in people infected with hiv and these levels decline even more as the disease progresses to full-blown AIDS.24 In a study of 108 HIV-infected men with marginally low helper T-cell counts (between 200 and 499), those with serum DHEA levels below normal were 2.34 times more likely to progress to AIDS than were men with normal DHEA levels. |
Hyla Cass, M.D.
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| Action: The hiv virus destroys cells that belong to the immune system. Both classes of drugs inhibit reverse transcriptase, the enzyme that hiv needs in order to replicate itself.
Side effects: These vary from drug to drug, and may include headache, nausea, muscle pain, dizziness, diarrhea, anemia, rash, peripheral neuropathy (burning, stinging, stiffness, tickling, or numbness in feet, toes, or hands), hair loss, weight loss, or menstrual problems.
Nutrients depleted: Carnitine, copper, vitamin B12> and zinc. |
Dr. Sharon Moalem
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 Like a wheel block used by truckers to park their loads, some of these drugs stop the reverse transcriptase enzyme in its tracks: that leaves hiv stuck within the nuclear truck stop, trying to hitch a ride on DNA but unable to climb on board.
Now imagine what happens when a retrovirus or virus writes itself into the DNA of cells in the germ line of an organism. That organism's offspring is born with the virus permanently encoded in its DNA. (By the way, scientists don't think that hiv breaks through the Weismann barrier and inserts itself into the DNA of eggs or sperm. |
Jonathan V. Wright, M.D. and Alan R. Gaby, M.D.
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 It may be appropriate, for example, for pregnant women who are infected with the hiv virus to take extra vitamin A (perhaps 25,000 IU per day). That is because low levels of vitamin A, which are common in HIV-infected women," are associated with an increased risk of transmitting hiv to the infant.14 When in doubt, one can measure the vitamin A level in the blood. In addition, it may be possible to reduce the risk of vitamin A toxicity by taking other nutrients. |
Dr. Sharon Moalem
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| By the way, scientists don't think that hiv breaks through the Weismann barrier and inserts itself into the DNA of eggs or sperm. Instead, they believe infected mothers pass hiv to their babies during birth when there's a significant opportunity for the mother's blood to mingle with the infant's.)
Usually, of course, as with all mutations, when an organism's offspring is born with DNA that has been changed by a retrovirus in one of its parents'germ cells, that change is probably harmful, so it doesn't last. |
Donna Jackson Nakazawa
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 About twenty years ago, in the mid 1980s, when hiv (which is not an autoimmune disease) was first rapidly on the rise in the United States, the U.S. Army decided to take blood from all military personnel, both when they enlisted and each time they were deployed overseas, and to store those samples away. No one exactly knew what they planned to do with so many blood samples, but given the AIDS crisis brewing around the globe, it just seemed like a good idea at the time. The blood samples were stored at the Department of Defense Serum Repository in Silver Spring, Maryland. |
Jonathan V. Wright, M.D. and Alan R. Gaby, M.D.
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| That is because low levels of vitamin A, which are common in HIV-infected women," are associated with an increased risk of transmitting hiv to the infant.14 When in doubt, one can measure the vitamin A level in the blood. In addition, it may be possible to reduce the risk of vitamin A toxicity by taking other nutrients. For example, supplementing pregnant rats with B-vitamins greatly reduced the capacity of large doses of vitamin A to cause birth defects. |
Abram Hoffer, PhD, MD, FRCP(C) and Dr. Jonathan Prousjy, DPHE, DSC, ND, FRSH
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 He has also shown that niacinamide is an oral antimicrobial agent with activity against both Mycobacterium tuberculosis and hiv. Considering the deaths due to hiv and M. tuberculosis were estimated to be 1 million in 1999, safe and cost-effective treatments like niacinamide might prove extremely valuable in the fight against these deadly diseases.
Detoxification: Detoxification simply means enhanced excretion of chemicals and their metabolites in urine and feces, and the facilitation of excretion through the sweat or sebum (a fatty secretion of the sebaceous glands of the skin). |
Anne Harrington
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| At the clinic, he and the other people in the waiting room were made to watch a film about AIDS that vividly showed how the hiv virus destroys cells in the human immune system. He told Martin how he had fled from the clinic, feeling persuaded that viewing the film would itself undermine his immune functioning.73
Fear of AIDS diagnosis itself was a chronic stressor for AIDS patients. But so too, many felt, was what some researchers began to call "the stress of social homophobia," the enormous hostility toward gay lifestyles manifest in much of mainstream American culture. |
Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
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| HIV It is widely used in Japan to treat hepatitis. Some cutting-edge practitioners in the United States have used it as well. It's O injectable, so it has to be administered by g a doctor. ^
Vitamin E. This vitamin has a place at the 73 m table in a liver-health protocol because of its 1/1 antioxidant effects.
Artichokes. This vegetable has a long folk history in treating many liver diseases. Their active ingredient is cynarin, which has demonstrated liver-protecting effects. Artichoke extract is in a lot of liver-protection supplement formulas.
Dandelion root. |
Abram Hoffer, PhD, MD, FRCP(C) and Dr. Jonathan Prousjy, DPHE, DSC, ND, FRSH
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| Scientists at Johns Hopkins University have found that simply increasing manganese in cells can stop HIV's unusual ability to process its genetic information in reverse, and this might help to reduce the number of viruses that are replicated. To have any favorable effect on hiv, it is probably necessary to take enough manganese so that blood concentrations are higher than normal. In such cases, close monitoring by a healthcare professional would be necessary due the potential risk of manganese toxicity. |
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