Yes will do, have forwarded it to the list as well, hopefully more
will write as well.
Chris
At 02:44 PM 8/6/2004, Harold D Foster wrote:
Chris,
The Medical Post,a conventional Canadian
medical paper,has just published a letter calling on the Establishment to conduct clinical trials to test my hypothesis.Would you be willing to send a letter supporting the idea.Anybody you could encourage to write would help.
Their e-mail address is [email protected]
Here is the original letter.
HIV: Could treatments be on the wrong track?
. Although we live in an unparalleled age of communication, particularly in
the field of medical science, I continue to be amazed at how blinkered the
average physician is to the field of nutritional and alternative medicine.�
I was quite interested in the general response to my letter, "Why not adopt
AIDS patients?"� (the Medical Post, June 1), dealing with, among other
issues, how cheaply AIDS patients could be treated in many developing
countries. Among the replies was a brief nod to the work of Dr. Harold
Foster (PhD; www.hdfoster.com), raising a concept that was interesting but
seemed somewhat in left field.�
Serendipitously, a study by Dr. Wafaie Fawzi, "A randomized trial of
multiple vitamin supplements and HIV disease progression and mortality" in
the prestigious New England Journal of Medicine (July 1) made me rethink Dr.
Foster's concept.
� Malnutrition is endemic in sub-Saharan Africa and decreases resistance to
AIDS, which in turn severely reduces the body's ability to combat any
infection. The wasting of AIDS has given rise to the colloquial term "slim
disease." The current working hypothesis is that AIDS is associated with
wasting as in any chronic illness; however, is there a more specific
reason?�
This, I feel, is where Dr. Foster's concept should be looked at. In an
abstract, the concept states that HIV-1's genome includes a gene that is
identical to that found in humans that encodes for glutathione peroxidase.
This means HIV diverts the key ingredients that make glutathione peroxidase
from human nutrition. These key ingredients are selenium, cysteine,
glutamine and tryptophan. This means that over a number of years, a shorter
period if one is already suffering from malnutrition, simultaneous
nutritional deficient diseases appear with AIDS, or slim disease.�
� Dr. Foster has put this concept to open study in hospices in South Africa,
Kenya, Botswana and Zambia with startling recovery in general health; not
HIV-free, but able to look after themselves and work in a short period of
time. Quoting from his work, "The effects are rather like giving insulin to
a diabetic."�
� What is needed is a double-blind study. If we ignore this possibility
without at least medical testing, we deserve to be crucified by physicians
of the future for having not investigated the greatest viral genocide in the
history of our planet.-Dr. Alan Russell, Brampton, Ont.
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