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DO Not Give Your Soldiers Toxic Drugs: HIV Does Not Cause AIDS Mohammed Ali Al-Bayati Ph.D

"...Furthermore, the following is a list of some of the serious adverse reactions to AZT that have been observed in infants, children, and adults who took AZT for certain periods of time. It tells the story of the suffering of patients treated with AZT. These reactions include: Neutropenia, granulocytopenia, anemia, thrombocytopenia, myopathy and myositis, hepatomegaly with steatosis, hepatitis, pancreatitis, lactic acidosis, sensitization reactions, hyperbilirubinemia, vasculitis, abdominal pain, back pain, body odor, chest pain, chills, edema of the lip, fever, flu syndrome, hyperalgesia, syncope, vasodilation, bleeding gums, constipation, diarrhea, dysphagia, edema of the tongue, eructation, flatulence, mouth ulcer, rectal hemorrhage, lymphadenopathy, arthralgia, muscle spasm, tremor, twitch, anxiety, confusion, depression, dizziness, emotional lability, loss of mental acuity, nervousness, paresthesia, somnolence, vertigo, cough, dyspnea, epistaxis, hoarseness, pharyngitis, rhinitis, sinusitis, acne, changes in skin and nail pigmentation, pruritus, rash, sweat, urticaria, amblyopia, hearing loss, photophobia, taste perversion, dysuria, polyuria, urinary frequency, and urinary hesitancy [1, 3, 4]. In addition to AZT, AIDS patients are also treated with protease inhibitors and other antiviral agents, which are equal or more toxic than AZT. The following is a list of adverse reactions to fortovase: Confusion; ataxia and weakness; seizures; headache; acute myeloblastic leukemia; hemolytic anemia; thrombocytopenia; intracrainial hemorrhage leading to death; attempted suicide; s- syndrome; bullous skin eruption and polyarthritis; severe cutaneous reaction; increased liver function tests; exacerbation of chronic liver disease with grade 4 elevated liver function tests; jaundice; ascites; pancreatitis leading to death; intestinal obstruction; portal hypertension; thrombophlebitis; peripheral vasoconstriction; nephrolithiasis; and renal insufficiency" Individuals with AIDS and HIV-positive asymptomatic individuals, including pregnant women, have long been treated with toxic antiviral drugs (AZT, Protease Inhibitors, as well as Nevirapine) that can cause serious systemic injuries and even death. This is erroneously based on the assumption that HIV is the cause of AIDS. Furthermore, the long-term effects of these drugs on the composition of the human genomes have not been determined. Prior to October of 1997, I believed that HIV was the cause of AIDS based solely on the information that had been reported by the United States Center for Diseases Control and Prevention (CDC) and the AIDS establishment. However, my view was unquestionably changed when I evaluated the medical evidence on the worldwide AIDS epidemic. My findings clearly show: 1) The HIV-hypothesis is not supported by any medical fact and AIDS is caused by agents and factors other than HIV. 2) The proponents of the HIV-hypothesis have long overlooked crucial and essential medical evidence that clearly describes the real causes of AIDS. 3) The results of clinical studies on AZT, protease inhibitors, and nevirapine indicate that these agents can cause severe systemic damage, AIDS, and death. However, it is my opinion that the US Federal Drug Administration inappropriately approved these drugs to be given to pregnant women and individuals with serious health problems. My in-depth research findings are described in my book "Get All the Facts: HIV Does Not Cause AIDS" in addition to my other articles [1-7]. Below are examples that were selected from a large body of evidence to illustrate my points." Mohammed Ali Al-Bayati Ph.D. Toxicologist and Pathologist. Toxi-Health International, 150 Bloom Dr., Dixon, California 95620, USA

Coconut Oil - Health and Nutritional Benefits

G. Enig, Ph.D - "Coconut oil has a unique role in the diet as an important physiologically functional food. The health and nutritional benefits that can be derived from consuming coconut oil have been recognized in many parts of the world for centuries. A review of the diet/heart disease literature relevant to coconut oil clearly indicates that coconut oil is at worst neutral with respect to atherogenicity of fats and oils and, in fact, is likely to be a beneficial oil for prevention and treatment of some heart disease. Additionally, coconut oil provides a source of antimicrobial lipid for individuals with compromised immune systems and is a nonpromoting fat with respect to chemical carcinogenesis. Approximately 50% of the fatty acids in coconut fat are lauric acid. Lauric acid is a medium chain fatty acid, which has the additional beneficial function of being formed into monolaurin in the human or animal body. The antiviral, antibacterial, and antiprotozoal properties of lauric acid and monolaurin have been recognized by a small number of researchers for nearly four decades: this knowledge has resulted in more than 20 research papers and several U.S. patents, and this past year it resulted in a comprehensive book chapter, which reviewed the important aspects of lauric oils as antimicrobial agents (Enig 1998). Monolaurin is the antiviral, antibacterial, and antiprotozoal monoglyceride used by the human or animal to destroy lipid-coated viruses such as HIV, herpes, cytomegalovirus, influenza, various pathogenic bacteria, including listeria monocytogenes and helicobacter pylori, and protozoa such as giardia lamblia. Some studies have also shown some antimicrobial effects of the free lauric acid. Recognition of the antiviral aspects of the antimicrobial activity of the monoglyceride of lauric acid (monolaurin) has been reported since 1966. Some of the early work by Hierholzer and Kabara (1982) that showed virucidal effects of monolaurin on enveloped RNA and DNA viruses was done in conjunction with the Center for Disease Control of the U.S. Public Health Service. These studies were done with selected virus prototypes or recognized representative strains of enveloped human viruses. The envelope of these viruses is a lipid membrane, and the presence of a lipid membrane on viruses makes them especially vulnerable to lauric acid and its derivative monolaurin. The medium-chain saturated fatty acids and their derivatives act by disrupting the lipid membranes of the viruses (Isaacs and Thormar 1991; Isaacs et al 1992). Research has shown that enveloped viruses are inactivated in both human and bovine milk by added fatty acids and monoglycerides (Isaacs et al 1991), and also by endogenous fatty acids and monoglycerides of the appropriate length (Isaacs et al 1986, 1990, 1991, 1992; Thormar et al 1987). Some of the viruses inactivated by these lipids are:

HIV measles herpes simplex (HSV-1) vesicular stomatitis virus visna virus cytomegalovirus (CMV)

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Excerpt from A Homeopathic Perspective on AIDS Dana Ullman, M.P.H.

As horrific as the AIDS epidemic is, it has had one silver lining: it has implanted into the awareness of the medical community and the general public the importance of the body's immune system. Prior to the emergence of AIDS, few people were familiar with or cared about the immune system. Now more than ever, the general public is interested in exploring ways to bolster immune response to prevent the progression of AIDS, as well as to reduce the number and intensity of opportunistic infections and to improve the overall state of their health. The medical community, however, has focused its AIDS resources on creating antiviral medications, which despite great hope and expectation have not achieved the results anticipated. In fact, the leading AIDS drug, AZT, has been found to prolong the lives of people with AIDS by only seven or eight months,1 but due to its side effects, the quality of life during this time is not high. What is yet to be understood by the medical community is that they need to direct more attention and research to ways to augment immune response, rather than ways to inhibit viral replication. By strengthening a person's own defenses, the body is best enabled to defend itself. Homeopathy is one way to do this. Although no therapy can or will help every HIV+ person or everyone with AIDS, homeopathy is beginning to develop a reputation for helping people at varying stages of this disease. To understand what homeopathy has to offer, it is necessary to learn something about a different approach to infectious disease than simply attacking a pathogen. More about A Homeopathic Perspective on AIDS

NEW DOUBTS OVER AIDS INFECTION AS HIV TEST DECLARED INVALID

"The "AIDS test" is scientifically invalid and incapable of determining whether people are really infected with HIV, according to a new report by a team of Australian scientists who have conducted the first extensive review of research surrounding the test." Neville Hodgkinson KIDS: HIV, AIDS and AZT Considering the many side effects of the AIDS drug AZT, the question of giving it to pregnant women should be weighed carefully instead of being blindly accepted. Regush ABCNEWS.com

Forced Treatment Of Kids Why Parents With HIV Don’t Treat Their Kids NEWBORNS AND AIDS:To Test, Or Not to Test - Doctors say quick screening now used is too often wrong, may do more harm than good

Vitamin A reduced HIV transmission to offspring(excerpt from Positive Health News)

Vitamin A: In a study in Africa (Lancet, June 25, 1994, page 1593), pregnant women with the highest serum levels of Vitamin A reduced HIV transmission to their offspring to 7% compared to those with the lowest blood levels of Vitamin A who had a HIV transmission rate of 32% to their offspring. The authors of the article, Semba, Miotti, Saah at al, wrote: The underlying biological mechanisms concerning vitamin A in mother-to-child transmission may include the essential role vitamin A plays in immunity and maintenance of mucosal surfaces...Lack of vitamin A is associated with compromised T-cell and B-cell function which may contribute to higher viral loads...In contrast, a study with AZT(Zidovudine), in HIV+ pregnant women showed that the group receiving the AZT reduced the rate of HIV transmission to 8.3% compared to 25.5% in the control group. Vitamin A certainly was as effective as AZT in reducing the rate of HIV transmission. The unasked question is whether vitamin A reduced the rate of HIV transmission because it activated the immune system to produce more white blood cells which in turn produced antibodies to inactivate the HIV virus. On a side note, one person I spoke with recently told me that several years ago, when he had low white blood cells, his physician prescribed vitamin A supplementation to build up the white blood cells. He told me his white blood cells returned to normal values. Increasing white blood cell counts through vitamin A supplementation, suntanning or through the use of the drug, Neupogen, available from your Physician, increases White Blood Cells, the foundation of most immune system cells. Shark Liver Oil increases the production of gamma interferon, which increases CD4 counts. more

AIDS - You Can Cure It By Dr. Schulze

"To cure AIDS, its a total life style change --- not a drug or a pill. Natural healing can cure AIDS. But if you are looking for one special anti-viral herb to solve this disease, you’re as nuts as the doctors. How stupid can these experts be (and the patients, too), to believe that a single drug, a chemical on its lonesome, can cure a total body breakdown? We don't need any more research money to cure AIDS. In case you are groggy or dense and didn't get my point, I will repeat it: AIDS can be cured. Right now. Forget the DNA research. Forget the emotional fund-raisers. They're not necessary. It can also save those who are skin and bone and sores and diarrhea. If you follow all this information, you can end up cured and HIV-negative. Sympathy and understanding cannot cure AIDS. This information will cure --- but only if you use it with all your heart and soul. If people would live right, eat right, think right, use natural healing, and stop taking all drugs, the AIDS epidemic would end."

Healing AIDS by strengthening the immune system Dana Ullman, M.P.H.

"Now more than ever, the general public is interested in exploring ways to bolster immune response to prevent the progression of AIDS, as well as to reduce the number and intensity of opportunistic infections and to improve the overall state of their health. The medical community, however, has focused its AIDS resources on creating antiviral medications, which despite great hope and expectation have not achieved the results anticipated. In fact, the leading AIDS drug, AZT:astonishing facts, has been found to prolong the lives of people with AIDS by only seven or eight months,1 but due to its side effects, the quality of life during this time is not high. What is yet to be understood by the medical community is that they need to direct more attention and research to ways to augment immune response, rather than ways to inhibit viral replication. By strengthening a person's own defenses, the body is best enabled to defend itself.

BITTER MELON USEFUL FOR TREATING HIV INFECTION and TUMORS Common names and their associated cultures are: Bitterweed -- Southeastern US; Serasee -- Carribean islands; Bitter melon -- Oriental immigrants to the US; Carillon -- Latin America; Mexicane -- Cajun "traeteur" of Louisiana, USA; Kho Qua -- Vietnam; K'u Kua -- China; ampalayo -- ines; Kukakaya -- India. Also: Balsam Pear, Boston Apple, Bitter Gourd, Bitter Cucumber, Concombre Amer.

The bitter melon plant has been used in China as a treatment for diabetes, tumors, and immune disorders. In Asia and in the U.S., there has been community interest in the use of the plant as an alternative therapy for AIDS. The Bitter Melon Therapy Group, based in Los Angeles, has been organizing tests on AIDS patients and recently claimed encouraging results. In 1990, a research team led by Sylvia Le-Huang of New York University School of Medicine, Hao-Chia Chen at the National Institutes of Health, and Hsiang-Fu Kung at National Cancer Institute isolated a protein, MAP 30, from bitter melon and found it has multiple functions that are responsible for its anti-HIV activity. Last year, they reported the finding that the MAP protein is able to inhibit HIV-1 integrase, an enzyme essential for gene expression of the virus. Jon Greenburg Library of Alternative Therapies for HIV/AIDS Bitter Melon (Momordica charantia) is a plant/fruit that belongings to the family cucurbitacea. Chinese cucumber, the plant/fruit from which compound Q (a.k.a. GLQ 223 and tricosanthin) is extracted, also belongs to this family. Bitter melon, also known as bitter gourd, bitter pear melon, karela, ampalaya, balsam pear, bitter apple, wild cucumber, cindeamor, carilla plant, African cucumber, margose, concombre African, and the herbs Kuguazi (China) and Karela (Pakistan), is common in Asia as well as in Southern California and southern Florida. This leafy plant bears fruit which looks like a bumpy cucumber. The fruit, seeds, leaves, flowers, stems, and roots of this plant have been used in Chinese medicine for treating gastrointestinal infections, as an appetite stimulant, to decrease blood sugar in diabetics, and to induce abortion in mid-term pregnancy. More recently, research has shown that bitter melon may be useful as treatment against cancer and HIV/AIDS. MECHANISM OF ACTION Researchers at the University of Hong Kong discovered alpha- and beta-momarchorin, two proteins that inhibit HIV. A researcher at the University of New York discovered another HIV-inhibitory protein, MAP 30, which has been shown to inhibit reverse transcriptase and p24 expression, with very little effect on uninfected cells. A recent report on MAP 30 has shown that it may also inhibit HIV through destroying viral DNA. All three of these proteins have been extracted from the seeds of the fruit. These and other proteins that have been extracted have been categorized as Ribosome-Inactivating Proteins (RIPs). (Ribosomes are proteins necessary for the replication of viruses.) Ribosome-Inactivating Proteins, which are also present in Compound Q (GLQ 223), have been shown to inhibit the replication of herpes simplex virus (HSV-l) and poliovirus. Therefore, bitter melon may have similar HIV-inhibitory properties to GLQ 223 but with much less toxicity. The abortion-inducing properties of bitter melon and GLQ 223 work by preventing the interaction of syncytial cells in the placenta This same mechanism may prevent cell-to-cell infection, known as the syncytium formation. Extracts from the whole fruit have been shown to have anti-cancer properties in mice. The authors of this study suggest that the anti-cancer properties may be due in part to an enhancement of immune function induced by the bitter melon. Another study has shown that bitter melon extracts suppressed lymphocyte proliferation and macrophage and lymphocyte activity in mice. Caution: A pregnant woman should not use momordica, as it has been used as an ingredient in some abortifacent mixtures. Be careful in a case of active diabetes, as serasee (bitter melon) masks the sugar output in the urine. Watch the diabetic's condition some other way. Serasee is believed to work in a holistic manner. It is believed to work best if your food and water are clean and natural, and your heart and mind are pure. If you eat foods with a lot of chemicals it won't work so well. If you are full of toxins, use sparingly at first, as purification reactions may be strong. Mormodica works from the subtlest levels to adjust you toward health, and works best with your total cooperation in the way of diet, attitude, etc. This is why no chemical extracts or synthetics should be made from momordica. more The Emergence of Bitter Melon in the Western World Being Alive Newsletter, Being Alive/Los Angeles - June 1992 Lori Levine First introduced to the HIV community by Stanley Rebultan at a Town Hall Meeting in West Hollywood in the spring of 1991, bitter melon's reputation and usage in Los Angeles has grown considerably. Since then, many HIV+ individuals have reported success with their lab tests and heightened general well being as a result of using this alternative home remedy.

YOU DON'T HAVE TO DIE: Unraveling the AIDS Myth by Leon Chaitow, N.D., D.O. and Strohecker. This brand new survival guide for the immune-depressed is a godsend, and will be a lifesaver for many. HIV does not cause AIDS. The treatment and prevention programs in this book are supported by scientific evidence and confirmed by numerous success stories. A real gift to humanity.

Excerpts from "What is AIDS" by Lara "Many scientist explained that HIV is not a virus, on the contrary HIV a harmless piece of dead matter known as a retrovirus that cannot reproduce itself or cause any damage to the cells in becomes part of. HIV does not have DNA, it is a piece of RNA and these particles are all over the universe. No one knows what being HIV+ means, specially after the HIV test was declared invalid in June of 1993, therefore no one knows for sure what is the relationship between HIV and AIDS. This information was front page news in THE SUNDAY TIMES of London, however it was not newsworthy in the United States." "... Another blow to this absurd hypothesis is the appearance of individuals who have AIDS-related opportunistic infections, but don't have the HIV virus or the HIV antibodies. Back in 1994, there were 6,000 documented cases in the United States of individuals who were sick or had been sick with AIDS-related opportunistic infections, but they were HIV negative. Initially, doctors had no explanation for them, but during the Amsterdam Worldwide AIDS Conference they created a whole new hypothesis claiming that the virus had mutated and detecting it was even more difficult. " I hope you will take the time to read the rest of this incredibly revealing article

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COCKTAIL HANGOVER HIV patients find that the current drug treatments aren’t necessarily the answer by Green Many grass-roots groups, many of which are led by healthy HIV-positive people, emphasize three things: They point out that HIV tests are non-specific and can cross-react with other viruses and physical conditions, including pregnancy, so a positive test result doesn’t necessarily mean that a person harbors HIV. They endorse the notion that HIV has not been proven to cause AIDS. And they question the wisdom of taking AZT, protease inhibitors and other AIDS drugs, insisting that they’re not only unnecessary, but dangerous.