Army To Probe Health Issues In Slay
August 23, 2002
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Army will send a team of medical experts to Fort Bragg, N.C., next week to study a wide range of health-related issues that might explain a series of domestic killings.
The Army said in a written statement Friday that the epidemiological team will not focus mainly on the possibility of a link between the killings and soldiers' use of an anti-malaria medication.
"Contrary to news reports speculating that the team will focus primarily on anti-malaria prophylaxis/medications taken by soldiers, the team will consult with local medical and unit/installation leadership at Fort Bragg on a wide variety of possible contributing factors," it said.
The team will look into cultural and other issues not unique to Fort Bragg, the statement said.
Consultants in psychology, social work and psychiatry will joint Army epidemiologists and chaplains as well as officials from the government's Centers for Disease Control. In addition to health issues, they will assess the Army's family education programs, practices and support services.
"Members will also look at specific data associated with recent cases looking for patterns, organizational dynamics and medical issues that may have contributing significance," the Army statement said.
Three of the four Fort Bragg soldiers who investigators say killed their wives this summer were special operations troops who had been deployed to Afghanistan, where the risk of malaria is high. Army officials would not say if the men had taken the Army's preferred anti-malaria drug, Lariam.
Two of the soldiers killed themselves after killing their wives.
Lariam carries rare reported side effects including agitation, depression and aggression.
"There's no reason to believe right now that Lariam affected the behavior of the individuals," Army spokeswoman Elaine Kanellis said earlier this week.
The manufacturer of Lariam, Roche Laboratories, acknowledges reports of suicide and suicidal thoughts attributed to Lariam, also known as mefloquine. But company spokesman Terence Hurley said they are extremely rare, "only a small percentage of the more than 25 million people that have successfully used Lariam."
The World Health Organization puts the incidence of serious neuropsychiatric effects from the drug at 5 in 100,000. Out of millions of travelers given mefloquine each year, between 1 in 6,000 to 1 in about 10,000 will experience some kind of serious adverse reaction, the WHO says.
Copyright 2002 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.
Tuesday, December 21, 2004
Tuesday, December 14, 2004
Eucalyptus and malaria
FIGHTING MALARIA One of the most enthralling chapters in the history of eucalyptus is its relationship to the eradication of malaria. Throughout the nineteenth century, it was believed that the eucalyptus fought malaria simply by disinfecting the ground and air. By the end of the century, the cause of malaria was found, and the eucalyptus' true relationship to the disease became known.
The female anopheles mosquito carries the malaria parasite and implants it in a human's blood system. The mosquito's home and breeding ground is generally in a area of standing water such as swampland. Because the eucalyptus absorbs large amounts of water, it can drain swampland thereby destroying the habitat of the mosquito, and consequently stopping the spread of malaria. But the story of malaria and the eucalyptus before this was known is fascinating.
As in any mystery there are theories. Early on there were many theories of how the eucalyptus miraculously stopped malaria. Also there were glowing accounts of real life experiences of the successes made in the fight against malaria by the eucalyptus.
Very few people know that California had malarial problems. Malaria could be found in the Sacramento Valley and Kern County last century. In the Third Biennial Report (1874-75) of the California State Board of Health, the secretary of the board, Dr. Thomas M. Logan, was the author of a section entitled "Malarial Fevers and Consumption in California." Much of the report was about the eucalyptus and its ability to suppress the spread of malaria. He reprinted a contemporary article taken from the Kern County Courier reporting on one farmer's experience with malaria and eucalyptus:
In regard to the anti-malaria influence of the eucalyptus, we have this conclusive evidence. We have given it what we regard as a reasonably fair test on our own farm. This is cultivated by two families, or companies, of Chinese. One company lives near the north and the other the south end of the premises, about three-fourths of a mile apart.
The localities both parties inhabit are favorable to the development of malaria. The soil is rich, moist, and teeming with vegetable life, and the free sweep of the prevailing wind is obstructed by the intervention of dense thickets. As might be expected, they have, every year, during the heated term, suffered with malarial fever. Last winter we determined to test the much vaunted virtues of the eucalyptus.
In February we gave to the party at the north end two ounces of the seed with the directions that it should be planted near the house. It germinated finely, and produced several thousands of young plants, but the frost killed most of them. About twelve hundred, however, survived. These, when the heated term commenced, had attained an average height of two feet, and emitted a strong aromatic or camphorous odor, perceptible at a distance of a hundred yards. In due time the party at the south end were visited by their usual mildly distressing fever, but up to the present time we have looked in vain for the first symptoms to develop in the other. They are all, to their own astonishment, in the most robust health. These trees now average more than three feet in height, and the atmosphere of the house is strongly impregnated with their odor . . . and propose, the coming season, to plant it on all the waste places and corners on our farm we can spare from the other purposes. If everybody would do likewise, the great valley of Kern County might soon take rank among the sanitariums of the State . . . " 314
Concluding, Dr. Logan wrote, "These evidences go far to establish the fact that the eucalyptus globulus has a good effect in preventing the spread of malarial diseases . . . "315
In the California State Board Health's Tenth Biennial Report (1886-88) appeared an article with the title "Irrigation and Forestry Considered in Connection with Malarial Diseases." Use of eucalyptus and other plants were being used to stem the spread of malaria as seen in this excerpt:
It is a well established fact that in malarial districts the planting of shrubs and trees has had the effect to greatly modify, if not entirely remove, the malarious influence . . . But wonderful far efficacious than all, owing to the rapidity of its growth, its wonderful powers as an absorbent, and the balsamic exhalation of its essential oil, it is Australian blue gum tree (Eucalyptus globulus).316
Dr. W.P. Gibbons of the Medical Society of the State of California wrote, "It has not been proved, though asserted until belief is established, that the aroma of the eucalyptus is effective in preventing the incubation of intermittents."317 The scientific and medical fields knew that the eucalyptus arrested malaria but didn't really know why. The assumption by some was it was disinfected the air.
There were numerous reports worldwide of the success the eucalyptus was having in treating malaria. In 1874, the periodical California Horticulturalist contained such reports. For example in Cape Colony in southern Africa came this testimony: "In the spring of 1867, I planted upon this farm 13,000 plants of the Eucalyptus globulus. In July of that year, the season in which the fevers appear, the farmers were completely free from them . . . "318
Another example is this report from Constantine (Turkey) where eucalyptus had been planted: "The atmosphere is constantly charged with aromatic vapors, the farmers are no longer troubled with disease, and their children are bright with health and vigor."319 M. Gimbert in 1874 made these comments before the French Academy of Sciences concerning the eucalyptus:
A tree springing up with incredible rapidity, capable of absorbing from the soil ten times its weight of water in twenty-four hours, and giving to the atmosphere antiseptic camphorated emanations, should play a very important part in improving the health of the malarious districts . . . it has the property of absorbing directly from marshes, thus preventing fermentations which are produced, and paralyzing the animal miasma proceeding from them which might arise from them."320 During this period of time, throughout the world, the eucalyptus was labeled "fever tree" because it generally stopped the spread of deadly fevers. In Valencia, Spain, eucalyptus trees had to be protected by guards to prevent leaves from being stripped off by its citizens.321 And what did the Australians think about their treasured native tree and malaria? In 1876, J. Bosisto read a paper before the Royal Society of Victoria (Australia) entitled, "Is the Eucalyptus a Fever-Destroying Tree?" He opened with this statement: I
ts (eucalyptus) power to absorb considerable moisture, and to permeate the air with its peculiar odour, led to the belief that this tree . . . exerts a beneficial influence upon malarious districts . . . is the eucalyptus a fever-destroying tree? Or, in other words does it tend to lessen malaria or to destroy miasmatic poison?322 Bosisto then tells of his investigations in Australia, commenting: "Australia on the whole may be said to be pretty free from virulent endemic or miasmatic fevers, and the latter may be said to exist only as the eucalyptus recedes."323
After analyzing eucalyptus oils and resins, Bosisto was not able to find anything in them that had the power to oxygenate and purify the air more so than other plants.324 He noted that eucalyptus oils permeating the air, did refresh one's breathing.325 Bosisto concludes his paper with some support of the eucalyptus' value in fighting malaria, but the question is still virtually unanswered. He wrote, "In conclusion, may we not say with some authority that the evidence set forth in this paper on our own vegetation is in favour of the eucalyptus being a fever-destroying tree?"326
The most famous case concerning eucalyptus treatment of malaria comes from the Tre Fontaine Monastery near Rome, Italy. Each year during the "fever season," the monks would come down with malaria. Swamps were near, and the monks worked the fields returning to the monastery at night. It was thought that the night air carried malaria. Eucalyptus trees were planted in the swamps reclaiming the land with their ability to drain the water through their root systems. With the water gone the mosquitoes had no habitat in which to breed and carry on activity. Malaria fever greatly lessened, but a Dr. Montechiare, who was a physician for years in that area, was not convinced that eucalyptus affected the disposition of malaria.327
Scientists and physicians knew that the eucalyptus did something to interfere with the process of malaria, but what it did and how it did it wasn't clear. Many simply disclaimed it until the cause of malaria was found.
In California, malaria reached its peak in the 1880's. Blue gums were planted with fervor because it was generally felt they purified the air and had some effect on malaria. This comes from the Pacific Rural Press:
A paper read before the California Academy of Natural Sciences in 1879 reported that the Southern Pacific Railroad had planted 1,000 eucalyptus trees between the train stations and the marshes to ward off malaria in the interior valley.
The number of malaria cases had dropped from twenty-five to eight.329
It was thought that malaria came from moist, rich soil escaping into the night air during the summer months. Night air is usually damp and chilly, and thought to carry a multitude of maladies of which one was malaria. The word "malaria" in Latin means "bad air."
By virtue of its aroma, it would be only natural to suppose that the eucalyptus somehow purified the "mal aria" or bad air. It was also thought that the oils dropping from the eucalyptus leaves and the gums secreted from the bark, disinfected the ground around the tree. These secretions had a purifying effect just like its aroma did to the surrounding air.
In his 1895 work, Eucalyptus, Abbott Kinney gave many examples of the success eucalyptus was having in arresting malarial fever. Some of have been noted above. Kinney thought that malaria entered the body through the ingestion of water, milk, or food. The malarial germ, he felt, was released into the air by turning over soil in warm, marshy land, and some way it got into what humans ate or drank. He cited Bakersfield cases where unboiled water from shallow wells (he felt) caused malaria. He called it the "Bakersfield Fever." After the water was boiled from these wells the malaria disappeared he reported.330 Kinney did experiments with meat, water, and eucalyptus leaves. He wanted to see if eucalyptus stopped the growth of bacteria. In results were inconclusive.331
The connection was beginning to be seen between disease and insects especially mosquitoes. Kinney used an eucalyptus smudge to kill mosquitoes, but it didn't work.332 The Pacific Rural Press reported in 1876, " . . . being very much in his sleep by mosquitoes, took it into his head to place a young plant of eucalyptus in his bedroom over night. From that moment the insects disappeared and he slept in comfort."333 There was a doctor who rubbed eucalyptus leaves on his horse to drive the insects away. Pillows were sprinkled with an eucalyptus powder to keep insects off them.334 The Tulare Register ran this testimony: "Our house was surrounded with blue gum trees. We always slept with our doors and windows open and were never seriously bothered while just a few rods away the stock would be covered and almost perish with the great numbers (mosquitoes) tormenting them."335 Finally the cause of malaria was known. In a 1900 issue of The Forester, published by the American Forestry Association, there was an article entitled, "The Eucalyptus in the Tropics: Its Rapid Growth and Value as a Sanitary Agent, Acting as a Preventative of Malaria." It told of the cause of malaria, and urged the planting of eucalyptus to dry up swampland thereby removing the mosquito's breeding habitat. The article went on to discuss the positive effect eucalyptus had on the air.336 This theme could be seen too in the 1897 yearbook of the U.S. Department of Agriculture:
With regard to the sanitary value of the tree, it has been strongly stated that its value was owing to its rapid growth and the great absorbent power of its roots in drying up wet and marsh lands, but it is no longer doubted that Eucalyptus globulus, along with other species of Eucalyptus, evaporate with water a volatile oil and a volatile acid, which permeate the atmosphere and contribute to its invigorating and healthy nature and character.337
The eucalyptus had found its place as a partner in the prevention of malaria, and it still held its usual stature as an agent in cleansing the air. The latter would last until modern medicine got more sophisticated and became disinterested in old-fashion ideas of treatment or "sanitation."
http://wwwlibrary.csustan.edu/bsantos/section2.htm
The female anopheles mosquito carries the malaria parasite and implants it in a human's blood system. The mosquito's home and breeding ground is generally in a area of standing water such as swampland. Because the eucalyptus absorbs large amounts of water, it can drain swampland thereby destroying the habitat of the mosquito, and consequently stopping the spread of malaria. But the story of malaria and the eucalyptus before this was known is fascinating.
As in any mystery there are theories. Early on there were many theories of how the eucalyptus miraculously stopped malaria. Also there were glowing accounts of real life experiences of the successes made in the fight against malaria by the eucalyptus.
Very few people know that California had malarial problems. Malaria could be found in the Sacramento Valley and Kern County last century. In the Third Biennial Report (1874-75) of the California State Board of Health, the secretary of the board, Dr. Thomas M. Logan, was the author of a section entitled "Malarial Fevers and Consumption in California." Much of the report was about the eucalyptus and its ability to suppress the spread of malaria. He reprinted a contemporary article taken from the Kern County Courier reporting on one farmer's experience with malaria and eucalyptus:
In regard to the anti-malaria influence of the eucalyptus, we have this conclusive evidence. We have given it what we regard as a reasonably fair test on our own farm. This is cultivated by two families, or companies, of Chinese. One company lives near the north and the other the south end of the premises, about three-fourths of a mile apart.
The localities both parties inhabit are favorable to the development of malaria. The soil is rich, moist, and teeming with vegetable life, and the free sweep of the prevailing wind is obstructed by the intervention of dense thickets. As might be expected, they have, every year, during the heated term, suffered with malarial fever. Last winter we determined to test the much vaunted virtues of the eucalyptus.
In February we gave to the party at the north end two ounces of the seed with the directions that it should be planted near the house. It germinated finely, and produced several thousands of young plants, but the frost killed most of them. About twelve hundred, however, survived. These, when the heated term commenced, had attained an average height of two feet, and emitted a strong aromatic or camphorous odor, perceptible at a distance of a hundred yards. In due time the party at the south end were visited by their usual mildly distressing fever, but up to the present time we have looked in vain for the first symptoms to develop in the other. They are all, to their own astonishment, in the most robust health. These trees now average more than three feet in height, and the atmosphere of the house is strongly impregnated with their odor . . . and propose, the coming season, to plant it on all the waste places and corners on our farm we can spare from the other purposes. If everybody would do likewise, the great valley of Kern County might soon take rank among the sanitariums of the State . . . " 314
Concluding, Dr. Logan wrote, "These evidences go far to establish the fact that the eucalyptus globulus has a good effect in preventing the spread of malarial diseases . . . "315
In the California State Board Health's Tenth Biennial Report (1886-88) appeared an article with the title "Irrigation and Forestry Considered in Connection with Malarial Diseases." Use of eucalyptus and other plants were being used to stem the spread of malaria as seen in this excerpt:
It is a well established fact that in malarial districts the planting of shrubs and trees has had the effect to greatly modify, if not entirely remove, the malarious influence . . . But wonderful far efficacious than all, owing to the rapidity of its growth, its wonderful powers as an absorbent, and the balsamic exhalation of its essential oil, it is Australian blue gum tree (Eucalyptus globulus).316
Dr. W.P. Gibbons of the Medical Society of the State of California wrote, "It has not been proved, though asserted until belief is established, that the aroma of the eucalyptus is effective in preventing the incubation of intermittents."317 The scientific and medical fields knew that the eucalyptus arrested malaria but didn't really know why. The assumption by some was it was disinfected the air.
There were numerous reports worldwide of the success the eucalyptus was having in treating malaria. In 1874, the periodical California Horticulturalist contained such reports. For example in Cape Colony in southern Africa came this testimony: "In the spring of 1867, I planted upon this farm 13,000 plants of the Eucalyptus globulus. In July of that year, the season in which the fevers appear, the farmers were completely free from them . . . "318
Another example is this report from Constantine (Turkey) where eucalyptus had been planted: "The atmosphere is constantly charged with aromatic vapors, the farmers are no longer troubled with disease, and their children are bright with health and vigor."319 M. Gimbert in 1874 made these comments before the French Academy of Sciences concerning the eucalyptus:
A tree springing up with incredible rapidity, capable of absorbing from the soil ten times its weight of water in twenty-four hours, and giving to the atmosphere antiseptic camphorated emanations, should play a very important part in improving the health of the malarious districts . . . it has the property of absorbing directly from marshes, thus preventing fermentations which are produced, and paralyzing the animal miasma proceeding from them which might arise from them."320 During this period of time, throughout the world, the eucalyptus was labeled "fever tree" because it generally stopped the spread of deadly fevers. In Valencia, Spain, eucalyptus trees had to be protected by guards to prevent leaves from being stripped off by its citizens.321 And what did the Australians think about their treasured native tree and malaria? In 1876, J. Bosisto read a paper before the Royal Society of Victoria (Australia) entitled, "Is the Eucalyptus a Fever-Destroying Tree?" He opened with this statement: I
ts (eucalyptus) power to absorb considerable moisture, and to permeate the air with its peculiar odour, led to the belief that this tree . . . exerts a beneficial influence upon malarious districts . . . is the eucalyptus a fever-destroying tree? Or, in other words does it tend to lessen malaria or to destroy miasmatic poison?322 Bosisto then tells of his investigations in Australia, commenting: "Australia on the whole may be said to be pretty free from virulent endemic or miasmatic fevers, and the latter may be said to exist only as the eucalyptus recedes."323
After analyzing eucalyptus oils and resins, Bosisto was not able to find anything in them that had the power to oxygenate and purify the air more so than other plants.324 He noted that eucalyptus oils permeating the air, did refresh one's breathing.325 Bosisto concludes his paper with some support of the eucalyptus' value in fighting malaria, but the question is still virtually unanswered. He wrote, "In conclusion, may we not say with some authority that the evidence set forth in this paper on our own vegetation is in favour of the eucalyptus being a fever-destroying tree?"326
The most famous case concerning eucalyptus treatment of malaria comes from the Tre Fontaine Monastery near Rome, Italy. Each year during the "fever season," the monks would come down with malaria. Swamps were near, and the monks worked the fields returning to the monastery at night. It was thought that the night air carried malaria. Eucalyptus trees were planted in the swamps reclaiming the land with their ability to drain the water through their root systems. With the water gone the mosquitoes had no habitat in which to breed and carry on activity. Malaria fever greatly lessened, but a Dr. Montechiare, who was a physician for years in that area, was not convinced that eucalyptus affected the disposition of malaria.327
Scientists and physicians knew that the eucalyptus did something to interfere with the process of malaria, but what it did and how it did it wasn't clear. Many simply disclaimed it until the cause of malaria was found.
In California, malaria reached its peak in the 1880's. Blue gums were planted with fervor because it was generally felt they purified the air and had some effect on malaria. This comes from the Pacific Rural Press:
A paper read before the California Academy of Natural Sciences in 1879 reported that the Southern Pacific Railroad had planted 1,000 eucalyptus trees between the train stations and the marshes to ward off malaria in the interior valley.
The number of malaria cases had dropped from twenty-five to eight.329
It was thought that malaria came from moist, rich soil escaping into the night air during the summer months. Night air is usually damp and chilly, and thought to carry a multitude of maladies of which one was malaria. The word "malaria" in Latin means "bad air."
By virtue of its aroma, it would be only natural to suppose that the eucalyptus somehow purified the "mal aria" or bad air. It was also thought that the oils dropping from the eucalyptus leaves and the gums secreted from the bark, disinfected the ground around the tree. These secretions had a purifying effect just like its aroma did to the surrounding air.
In his 1895 work, Eucalyptus, Abbott Kinney gave many examples of the success eucalyptus was having in arresting malarial fever. Some of have been noted above. Kinney thought that malaria entered the body through the ingestion of water, milk, or food. The malarial germ, he felt, was released into the air by turning over soil in warm, marshy land, and some way it got into what humans ate or drank. He cited Bakersfield cases where unboiled water from shallow wells (he felt) caused malaria. He called it the "Bakersfield Fever." After the water was boiled from these wells the malaria disappeared he reported.330 Kinney did experiments with meat, water, and eucalyptus leaves. He wanted to see if eucalyptus stopped the growth of bacteria. In results were inconclusive.331
The connection was beginning to be seen between disease and insects especially mosquitoes. Kinney used an eucalyptus smudge to kill mosquitoes, but it didn't work.332 The Pacific Rural Press reported in 1876, " . . . being very much in his sleep by mosquitoes, took it into his head to place a young plant of eucalyptus in his bedroom over night. From that moment the insects disappeared and he slept in comfort."333 There was a doctor who rubbed eucalyptus leaves on his horse to drive the insects away. Pillows were sprinkled with an eucalyptus powder to keep insects off them.334 The Tulare Register ran this testimony: "Our house was surrounded with blue gum trees. We always slept with our doors and windows open and were never seriously bothered while just a few rods away the stock would be covered and almost perish with the great numbers (mosquitoes) tormenting them."335 Finally the cause of malaria was known. In a 1900 issue of The Forester, published by the American Forestry Association, there was an article entitled, "The Eucalyptus in the Tropics: Its Rapid Growth and Value as a Sanitary Agent, Acting as a Preventative of Malaria." It told of the cause of malaria, and urged the planting of eucalyptus to dry up swampland thereby removing the mosquito's breeding habitat. The article went on to discuss the positive effect eucalyptus had on the air.336 This theme could be seen too in the 1897 yearbook of the U.S. Department of Agriculture:
With regard to the sanitary value of the tree, it has been strongly stated that its value was owing to its rapid growth and the great absorbent power of its roots in drying up wet and marsh lands, but it is no longer doubted that Eucalyptus globulus, along with other species of Eucalyptus, evaporate with water a volatile oil and a volatile acid, which permeate the atmosphere and contribute to its invigorating and healthy nature and character.337
The eucalyptus had found its place as a partner in the prevention of malaria, and it still held its usual stature as an agent in cleansing the air. The latter would last until modern medicine got more sophisticated and became disinterested in old-fashion ideas of treatment or "sanitation."
http://wwwlibrary.csustan.edu/bsantos/section2.htm
Thursday, December 02, 2004
HIV cure?
[text copied from this website]
Driving to the office one morning, I listened to a fellow colleague's radio show. He was interviewing a researcher who had cured Lyme's disease using colloidal silver. Silver was used in the late 1800's and was a cure for infections and syphilis prior to antibiotics. The effectiveness of silver ties in how small you can make the silver particle. The smaller it is, the more effective it will be as it can enter any germ and kill it. In the old days, they were not able to make the silver small enough to allow its passage into all germs, thereby killing them. The silver being produced today can be made so small that the particles can enter any germ. This has made it equal to, and in some cases, more effective then antibiotics. The silver particles are so small, and the actual of silver in the product is so little, that there is no known toxicity for these products. The researcher mentioned that he had tested silver against HIV in a test tube and it had killed it. I then had the idea to try silver on these HIV patients and monitor them with the viral load tests. I was careful to only use silver that had been tested by independent labs and had its effectiveness verified. In addition to the silver, I gave them some other supportive factors. After 6 months of working on this protocol, it was completed.
The 1st step: is the use of a parasite cleanse. In further research, I found data from the 1800's that hypothesized that parasites create an environment in the body that was conducive to viral infections. The theory was that the parasites would invade an organ, gland or tissue. They then would begin to release wastes into the surrounding area. These wastes, of which ammonia is one, would create a biochemical environment that both attracts and is favorable to viruses This could be what Dr. Clark had observed. Rather than the parasite hosting the virus, the parasites create a more "livable" environment for the virus.
The 2nd step: is the introduction of the colloidal silver and olive leaf extract. The olive leaf extract is a natural protease inhibitor. This substance is able to slow down or stop the virus' ability to replicate or duplicate itself. Olive leaf was one of the first natural protease inhibitors discovered. Along with these 2 basic supplements, we also add a program of other natural anti-virals. These are used one at a time for 4 days, stopped and then the next one is used. These substances act as supportive anti-virals. They are rotated every 4 days to prevent the virus from developing an immunity or resistance to them. It is interesting to note that the virus does not show any resistance to the silver no matter how long it is used for. This is due to the extremely small size of the silver particle.
The 3rd step: involves the use of a special group of nutrients and herbs that are able to increase both the T-cell count and the T-cell activity. We did not have anyone participating in this program change their personal care items or household cleaning substances.
THE RESULTS
After several months on this program, we had many of the HIV patients go back to do another viral load test. Many of them showed an amazing increase in the test score which should be a bad indication, However, The next time they took the test the scores bad plunged 50% lower then they were originally. Several researchers have advised me that this is because the viral test is measuring dead virus. The increased amount of dead virus is making the score go up on the first test . The test cannot tell the difference between living viruses and dead viruses. When the virus dies, its cells open up and pour DNA out into the blood, On all the following viral load tests the counts continued to drop drastically. After an average of 8 months to 1 year on this program, 90% of the patients are reporting that their viral load tests are scoring less than 400 copies, which in English means the HIV virus is no longer detectable. The majority of these patients were not on any medications or mainstream treatment of any kind.
I have noticed that if the patients are tested during a time when they have a flu or cold, their T-cells and viral load scores are temporarily worsened. We have also found that blending extra virgin olive oil with pieces of whole lemon (rind, skin, pulp, juice and seeds) has helped patients regain lost weight and may even raise T-cells. This is, in fact, an old remedy for colds and flu's from Italy. I am recommending to all of the patients who have had their viral load tests change to undetectable, that they stay on the protocol for at least an additional year. The virus may still be in the body in tiny amounts, hidden somewhere deep in the lymphatic tissue. Continuing this program for another year ensures that the virus will be fully eliminated and never returned.
Future research will require that patients go off the protocol and subsequently retest with the viral load to confirm that the virus does not return. I would recommend that they retest every 3 months for at least one year after stopping the protocol. Stopping the protocol, however, may be unnecessary. There is no confirmed or well-documented toxicity of colloidal silver or any substance that we are using. I mentioned earlier that there has been a small percentage of people who did not respond. The interesting thing about this is those who do not respond show no improvement at all. I am speculating that their lack of improvement may come from incomplete or unsuccessful parasite treatment, or they may be getting chronically re-infected with the virus from a sexual partner. For the over 90% who do respond, this is a very exciting discovery which mill give many people great hope.
Michael Biamonte holds a Doctorate of Nutripathy, a Degree in Natural Healing, and a Master's in Clinical Nutrition. He is affiliated with the International Academy of Clinical Nutritionists and the International Academy of Nutrition and Preventive Medicine. He is listed in "The Directory of Distinguished Americans" for his research in Nutrition and Physiology.
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Driving to the office one morning, I listened to a fellow colleague's radio show. He was interviewing a researcher who had cured Lyme's disease using colloidal silver. Silver was used in the late 1800's and was a cure for infections and syphilis prior to antibiotics. The effectiveness of silver ties in how small you can make the silver particle. The smaller it is, the more effective it will be as it can enter any germ and kill it. In the old days, they were not able to make the silver small enough to allow its passage into all germs, thereby killing them. The silver being produced today can be made so small that the particles can enter any germ. This has made it equal to, and in some cases, more effective then antibiotics. The silver particles are so small, and the actual of silver in the product is so little, that there is no known toxicity for these products. The researcher mentioned that he had tested silver against HIV in a test tube and it had killed it. I then had the idea to try silver on these HIV patients and monitor them with the viral load tests. I was careful to only use silver that had been tested by independent labs and had its effectiveness verified. In addition to the silver, I gave them some other supportive factors. After 6 months of working on this protocol, it was completed.
The 1st step: is the use of a parasite cleanse. In further research, I found data from the 1800's that hypothesized that parasites create an environment in the body that was conducive to viral infections. The theory was that the parasites would invade an organ, gland or tissue. They then would begin to release wastes into the surrounding area. These wastes, of which ammonia is one, would create a biochemical environment that both attracts and is favorable to viruses This could be what Dr. Clark had observed. Rather than the parasite hosting the virus, the parasites create a more "livable" environment for the virus.
The 2nd step: is the introduction of the colloidal silver and olive leaf extract. The olive leaf extract is a natural protease inhibitor. This substance is able to slow down or stop the virus' ability to replicate or duplicate itself. Olive leaf was one of the first natural protease inhibitors discovered. Along with these 2 basic supplements, we also add a program of other natural anti-virals. These are used one at a time for 4 days, stopped and then the next one is used. These substances act as supportive anti-virals. They are rotated every 4 days to prevent the virus from developing an immunity or resistance to them. It is interesting to note that the virus does not show any resistance to the silver no matter how long it is used for. This is due to the extremely small size of the silver particle.
The 3rd step: involves the use of a special group of nutrients and herbs that are able to increase both the T-cell count and the T-cell activity. We did not have anyone participating in this program change their personal care items or household cleaning substances.
THE RESULTS
After several months on this program, we had many of the HIV patients go back to do another viral load test. Many of them showed an amazing increase in the test score which should be a bad indication, However, The next time they took the test the scores bad plunged 50% lower then they were originally. Several researchers have advised me that this is because the viral test is measuring dead virus. The increased amount of dead virus is making the score go up on the first test . The test cannot tell the difference between living viruses and dead viruses. When the virus dies, its cells open up and pour DNA out into the blood, On all the following viral load tests the counts continued to drop drastically. After an average of 8 months to 1 year on this program, 90% of the patients are reporting that their viral load tests are scoring less than 400 copies, which in English means the HIV virus is no longer detectable. The majority of these patients were not on any medications or mainstream treatment of any kind.
I have noticed that if the patients are tested during a time when they have a flu or cold, their T-cells and viral load scores are temporarily worsened. We have also found that blending extra virgin olive oil with pieces of whole lemon (rind, skin, pulp, juice and seeds) has helped patients regain lost weight and may even raise T-cells. This is, in fact, an old remedy for colds and flu's from Italy. I am recommending to all of the patients who have had their viral load tests change to undetectable, that they stay on the protocol for at least an additional year. The virus may still be in the body in tiny amounts, hidden somewhere deep in the lymphatic tissue. Continuing this program for another year ensures that the virus will be fully eliminated and never returned.
Future research will require that patients go off the protocol and subsequently retest with the viral load to confirm that the virus does not return. I would recommend that they retest every 3 months for at least one year after stopping the protocol. Stopping the protocol, however, may be unnecessary. There is no confirmed or well-documented toxicity of colloidal silver or any substance that we are using. I mentioned earlier that there has been a small percentage of people who did not respond. The interesting thing about this is those who do not respond show no improvement at all. I am speculating that their lack of improvement may come from incomplete or unsuccessful parasite treatment, or they may be getting chronically re-infected with the virus from a sexual partner. For the over 90% who do respond, this is a very exciting discovery which mill give many people great hope.
Michael Biamonte holds a Doctorate of Nutripathy, a Degree in Natural Healing, and a Master's in Clinical Nutrition. He is affiliated with the International Academy of Clinical Nutritionists and the International Academy of Nutrition and Preventive Medicine. He is listed in "The Directory of Distinguished Americans" for his research in Nutrition and Physiology.
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