What hope can be offered to AIDS patients?

[Guest guest]

Through one of the many strange twists of fate which seem to

eternally afflict me, the task of convincing someone newly diagnosed

with AIDS that proper nutrition and supplementation combined with a

judicious application of alternative medical procedures like IV

infusions of vitamin C can offer a good shot at maintaining health

has fallen to me. He seems to think that since it's inevitable that

he's going to completely disintegrate, he might as well avoid all the

suffering and the humiliation and check out early.

AIDS isn't a subject I've looked into in any detail, so I don't have

a pile of references handy. A mixture of anecdotal journalism and

lay medical journalism salted with only a little scholarly literature

would probably be best, as he's neither highly educated nor

predisposed to understand that nutrition is extremely powerful and

that standard medical and dietary advice is disastrous. For much the

same reasons, I don't know that there's any point in delving into the

currently unanswerable questions of whether HIV really causes AIDS,

whether AIDS might actually be the result of drugs and medicines,

whether HIV was created by people, and so on. The point is to

demonstrate that it's possible to stay healthy and that it's not wise

to get into the pharmaceutical slaughterhouse line. That said, I'll

be grateful for anything you can point me to.

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