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Article: AIDS may be a combination of nutritional deficiencies--HIV depletes selenium and three amino acids.
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- Townsend Letter: The Examiner of Alternative Medicine
- Article date:
- July 1, 2006
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New clinical reports from Zambia, Uganda, and South Africa indicate that AIDS may be stopped by nutritional supplementation. A number of members of the medical profession have observed that high doses of the trace element selenium and the amino acids cysteine, tryptophan, and glutamine can together rapidly reverse the symptoms of AIDS, as predicted by Dr. Harold D. Foster's nutritional hypothesis. (1)
These nutrients are necessary for the human body to produce the enzyme glutathione peroxidase. This enzyme is strongly antiretroviral (it is an antagonist of reverse transcriptase) and can greatly reduce HIV replication. Unfortunately, HIV has developed the ability ...