What is a pandemic? According to the dictionary, a pandemic is an epidemic occurring over a very wide area, crossing international boundaries and usually affecting a large number of people. It is a global epidemic.

Global pandemics
The world is experiencing simultaneous pandemics which are caused by several viruses. Specifically, these are:

1. The Hepatitis B Virus. As many as two billion people have been infected by Hepatitis B, 350 million have chronic infections and some 620,000 die each year from this disease.

2. The Hepatitis C Virus. 170 million people are infected, with 400,000 deaths each year, mainly from associated liver cancer and cirrhosis.

3. HIV-1 and HIV-2. Currently there are some 40 million people infected with HIV and 3 million annual associated AIDS deaths. 5 million people infected annually with HIV.

4. The Coxsackie B Virus. This virus causes Keshan Disease (a cardiomyopathy – that is a heart disease) and is implicated in some 25% of myocardial infarctions – heart attacks.
Estimated annual deaths from this virus are about 3 million.

In short, these five viruses already have infected over one-third of the global population and are currently killing some 7 million people each year. Hepatitis B and C, AIDS and Myocardial Infarction are all getting more common as these viruses continue to diffuse.

Keshan disease is declining in those parts of China where selenium is being added to fertilizers, animal feed and table salt.

What do these viruses have in common, and why are they causing such global havoc now, for the first time?

Dr Will Taylor and co-workers at the University of Georgia at Athens, Georgia, USA have shown that each one of these viruses has a gene that is identical to that of the human gene that encodes (that is gives the instructions needed to produce) the enzyme glutathione peroxidase. This means that each of these viruses competes with its human host for the nutrients that are needed to produce glutathione peroxidase.

These viruses act like tapeworms and selectively remove nutrients from the human body for their own use. Probably the easiest way to think of such a relationship is that these viruses act like tapeworms and selectively remove nutrients from the human body for their own use. Since glutathione peroxidase is a strong anti-retroviral enzyme, by preventing the body producing it adequately, each of these viruses slowly make the human body an easier place for their own replication, which is a neat evolutionary trick.

Aumann and colleagues at the University of Padoua, in Italy, showed that glutathione peroxidase has selenium, cysteine, glutamine and tryptophan at its core and I argue that it is these four nutrients that all these viruses fight for.

Some solutions for global pandemics
"AIDS is a nutritional deficiency disease caused by a virus. That is why, if AIDS patients are given Birds of a Feather.....Together 13 supplements of these four nutrients simultaneously, they can be back at work, free of symptoms, in less than a month. This, of course, is exactly what happened to sailors, who for centuries died of scurvy in their millions, when on their death beds they were given Vitamin C in lime or lemon juice. Given up for dead, they were fit again in less than ten days.

How do I know that giving AIDS patients the four nutrients that HIV takes from the body allows them to quickly recover?

In 2002, I wrote the book "What Really Causes AIDS". While I was awaiting its arrival from the publishers, I was visited by a young lady who's boyfriend was dying. It was not really surprising. He was a cocaine and heroine drug addict, and had Hepatitis A, B and C and AIDS. I told her my hypothesis and suggested an appropriate diet and supplements. Today, three years later, he is drug free, symptom free, and back at work as a construction worker.

Over the past three years, I have grown tired of people telling me something so simple cannot work. I have a notice above my home office door that reads "The people saying that it cannot be done must not interfere with the person doing it."

Two years ago, I lectured on 'What really causes AIDS' at the Annual Conference of the International Society for Orthomolecular Medicine. The President of a Canadian nutritional company, Attogram, listened to my talk and decided to test my hypothesis. His company has been producing a product that is now called "Selivnium" and distributes it freely in Botswana and I think to a lesser degree, in Zambia. In an e-mail to me, he has provided
evidence of better than a 95% reversal rate for AIDS. I am thankful for his willingness to test my hypothesis.

Supplements of selenium, cysteine, glutamine and tryptophan, provided to AIDS patients, do not eradicate HIV but they help slow down and even prevent its replication. Somebody who is HIV positive needs a diet that is very elevated in these four nutrients for the rest of their lives.

We now have 300 patients at an HIV nutritional trial ongoing in Uganda, Kampala. In summary, the global selenium decline (caused by acid rain, fertilizers, etc.,) is driving several major pandemics in humans and animals. The only realistic way to stop these pandemics is to alter dietary selenium, cysteine, tryptophan and glutamine levels. If we don't do this soon, nothing is going to protect us against waves of viral invaders because viruses mutate much more easily in selenium deficient humans and animals.

In my book, The Ozymandias Principles (a history of the 21st Century), I call the "Great Dying" and expect it to be marked by pandemics of viruses like HIV, Hepatitis B and C, Sars, Avian Flu and others that, as yet, are unknown. It has the potential to decimate the human population. It is not science fiction, the process is already well underway.

Before you dismiss these ideas as ridiculous, let's review the current HIV/AIDS situation. In the early 1980s, when AIDS was first identified, there were roughly 200 known cases. Now including those who have already died and those who are still just HIV-positive, there are roughly 70 million cases. This total is currently increasing by 5 million a year. We are still on course for Hasteltine's prediction of a cumulative total of 1 billion HIV/AIDS cases by 2015.

What does this mean? Chastity is not working. Condom distribution is not working. Fear of AIDS is not working. Even circumcision is not working. I do not mean that these approaches are useless, merely that, in themselves, they're clearly not enough.

Adding selenium to table salt and fertilizers and feeding the poor with diets enriched in cysteine, tryptophan and glutamine may still not be enough but it will be a big improvement and will certainly slow the diffusion of HIV and other viruses. It can be used with all other preventative measures.

It is clear that the world is in real trouble. HIV diffusion is increasing, antiretrovirals don't work effectively, and we are on course for 1 billion cumulative cases by 2015. Dr William A Hasteltine was right when he said "The future of AIDS is the future of humanity". We clearly need more effective, cheaper ways of stopping the diffusion of HIV and reversing the symptoms of AIDS. I have offered you these.

To conclude my discussion of AIDS. If the nutritional hypothesis is correct, AIDS patients should be deficient in selenium. Researchers at the university of Miami, School of Medicine and the Harvard School of Public Health have shown that they are. The lower such AIDS patients' serum selenium, the quicker they die.

If the nutritional hypothesis is correct, then AIDS patients should be deficient in Glutamine. Dr Shabert and coworkers from the Harvard Medical School have shown that in such patients, glutamine supplementation reverses the weight loss seen in AIDS patients.

If the nutritional hypothesis is correct, then AIDS patients should be deficient in tryptophan. Dr Werner and colleagues at the Universitat Innsbruck have proved that they are.

The evidence that AIDS patients are deficient in selenium, cysteine, glutamine and tryptophan is overwhelming. The evidence that when given these four nutrients AIDS patients symptoms disappear is growing. The evidence that we have been mistreating HIV/AIDS patients for 23 years is beyond doubt.

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