What is a recommendation or natural treatment for HIV?
This is an interesting story. It was only 20 years ago that HIV was actually called “the gay man’s disease.” There were conservative idealists at that time that would have liked for the public to believe it was a gay disease. Anyone who had at least some level of sense and who read any common literature realized that it was a heterosexual disease that was rampant in Africa. As we know, decades later it has killed and left orphaned millions of people on the continent of Africa.
We also know that HIV wasn’t a conspiracy put here by the government to kill gay people. We know the name of the flight attendant that literally transported it here. His flight schedule was between Africa and the US. He was a promiscuous gay man at that point, and literally that’s where the seed came from. The promiscuous attitude of the homosexual community at that point helped to spread it. At that stage, no money was put into HIV research because it was commonly believed that only a small segment of the population would be affected by it.
Those of us who understood biology in the real sense (not the propaganda sense) knew this would be a rampant heterosexual disease and it had nothing to do with homosexuality. We had evangelical lunatics on American television saying that God sent this down to afflict people, but let’s come to our senses. It’s a retrovirus.
A retrovirus is a mutagen of a rhinovirus. It’s microscopic. What makes them unique in the human body is our immune system knows how to deal with rhinoviruses (colds, flus, etc.). As a matter of fact, your immune system, the protective cells that you’ve had since the moment you were conceived, actually go after rhinoviruses as easily as they would an elephant with a target on its side. A retrovirus is microscopic and the immune system is just becoming familiar with how to deal with it. We haven’t done a very good job with this so far, as we know.
It also has the ability, because of its size, to enter into cells and become part of tissue mass, including organs in the body. This camouflages it and makes it quite difficult for the body to function. This is why it was a scary disease.
One of the cousins of HIV is called Chronic Fatigue Syndrome, originated under the name Epstein-Barr Virus. As we know from university studies worldwide, up to 40% of the American population under 35 has contracted the Epstein-Barr Virus.
I look at AIDS in the same way as I do any disease. We have to strengthen the immune system, and not by taking the cocktail drugs. AZT, which was the original drug unleashed on “the gay man’s disease,” was a medical drug that was used as chemotherapy against cancer up until the late 1950s when they confirmed that it was killing people and not helping cancer. When this new disease called HIV came along, they dusted it off and were charging between $15,000 and $20,000 a month to these poor people inflicted with the disease. By the way, right out of the gate they were told it was a fatal disease.
If you put a chemotherapy drug in your body that is going to devastate the immune system, how can you expect your immune system to get rid of the virus when it had a difficult time getting rid of it to begin with? It’s an impossibility. What you have to do is live a lifestyle that is commendable. Live a lifestyle that has every single aspect with one focus: strengthening the T cells, the general of the immune system, and B cells and the A cells, the lieutenants, and the leucocytes, the army, and the eosinophils and the basophiles, the navy and the marines. Until we get that immune system functioning, we’re going have that disease and all the other diseases.
There’s no secret. There’s no sophisticated way that disease is dealt with. It all comes down, quite simply, to your immune system.
It’s not just diet. It's attitude, attitude, attitude first. We started to have people with HIV and AIDS come through the program 20 years ago. I was appalled at the way the other guests at the institute were dealing with these poor people. They were afraid that they would contract it. But you have to understand that this is what the media, via the pharmaceutical industry, was propelling. I finally got so sick of it that even though this was a major problem for us economically, I said, “Let’s have specific programs just for these people with HIV and AIDS.” It was a good decision that I made without even knowing how good it was at the time.
One problem we had was that Anna Marie or myself could pretty much look anyone in the eye and say, “We’ve worked with hundreds and thousands of people that have had your problem. We’ve seen hundreds of thousands of people heal themselves.” With HIV and AIDS, there was so much speculation and nonsense going on that we couldn’t say that. We had never worked with anyone with it. So we had to find someone who could look them in the eye.
One of the first and foremost ingredients that has made Hippocrates successful is that we have massive experience on the front lines and have conquered diseases that other people have utterly failed with and given up on.
We found a wonderful lady who was the very first person in the United States that was diagnosed as zero negative. With AIDS, they way they observe how much you have is the viral load. When they don’t find that you have active antibodies, that means the virus is completely gone. This woman, Nero Esitent, literally went to the disease control center, because there were very few place in this country (or any country) dealing with AIDS at that point other than the disease control center. They kept her there for three days, and finally they told her, “You are in total remission. Your AIDS is gone.” This is a disease that at one point she had been laying in bed dying from.
She was a middle-aged woman, totally the opposite of the stereotypical person who was getting AIDS at that point. Most people who were contracting it were very thin gay men. This was a heavyset, middle-aged grandmother that contracted AIDS from her bisexual boyfriend. The bottom line is she didn’t go home and start to knit. She went out and wrote a book, and was now doing classes to help people with AIDS.
Another wonderful person at that time was Louise Hayes. She went out into the AIDS community and talked to them about changing their attitude--not feeling afflicted, not feeling that something is wrong because they are homosexuals, and not feeling that this disease is afflicting them because they have an ideology that’s different than everyone else’s.
These two wonderful ladies were out there doing the work that we so readily needed at Hippocrates. Nero came in and became a major part of our HIV and AIDS program. What she did was invaluable. She locked those people in a room, and time and time again I saw the talk she gave to them. She would show them the papers, “I was dying. Here I am alive.”
There have been so many people that have healed from AIDS on the program, but there is no magic in this. It takes hard work, self-respect, honor and love. It’s getting rid of all the negativity in your mind about what, why and how. None of that really matters. Now is what matters. When you deal with now constantly, tomorrow becomes brighter.
In the January issue of the magazine, there’s an article about a young man that came to us in one of those first programs two decades ago and put his AIDS in total remission. It’s a very touching article because it talks about how he recovered and then like many of us went back to his old lifestyle, but thank God he healed himself after he woke up the second time.
That’s what we say about HIV and AIDS. Do not make it the monster that the pharmaceutical companies make it out to be. Thank God that there are people courageous enough to take that responsibility and be walking, talking examples of who anyone inflicted with AIDS can be.