Holistic Health & Lifestyle

With Therapies Like These, Who Needs Disease?

That is the title of Chapter 9 of Dr. Peter Duesberg’s ground-breaking book, “Inventing The AIDS Virus” By the time you have read the chapter, you will have become darkly suspicious of the medical research establishment of this country, if you weren’t already.

What Dr. Duesberg does in those 60 or so pages is nothing less than monumental:

He provides a history of the introduction of AZT as a failed chemotherapeutic drug (it was too toxic to be of any use against cancer) and its re-introduction as a so-called “cure” for AIDS through political means.

He shows that the trials for AZT were a mockery of good science and medicine, that the single efficacy and safety margin study has been refuted in multiple studies, and that the human trials (Phase II) were hopelessly flawed and carried out by doctors and researchers beholden to the AZT manufacturer, Burroughs Wellcome.

He shows precisely why AZT cannot possibly be a cure for AIDS, and, presenting information that he uses later in Chapter 11, shows why AZT is a likely cause of AIDS.

What Dr. Duesberg has done is to turn current AIDS research – which has come no closer to finding a cure or prevention of AIDS than when it started in the early ‘80s – totally on its head. Having already shown, in previous chapters, that it is impossible for HIV to be the cause of AIDS, he shows that AZT is a cruel and destructive hoax. Not only can AZT not cure AIDS because HIV is not its cause, but it cannot even kill HIV without also killing the patient.

AZT is a cytotoxic chemical, a “DNA chain terminator.” It interferes with DNA replication, by substituting itself for thymine, one of the base components in the DNA chain. This, theoretically, interferes with the reproduction of HIV. But it also interferes with the reproduction of the T-cell, the basis of the immune system, and the T-cell dies. The doctors who tested AZT for its effectiveness against HIV claimed they found that AZT was one thousand times as toxic to HIV reproduction as it was to the T-cells that were involved in that reproduction.

The fact that this made no chemical or biological sense did not dissuade them from reporting this fantastic result, and no one at the time bothered to reproduce the experiment. (When this was finally done, long after AZT had been consumed for extended periods by hundreds of thousands of people, the thousand-to-one toxicity ratio vanished. It was found equally toxic to HIV reproduction and to reproduction of its host T-cell, as well as to reproduction of normal T-cells.)

The Phase II trials were supposed to be controlled, double-blinded studies to determine whether AZT helped people who had AIDS. Neither the subjects nor the researchers were supposed to know who was taking what, but the confidentiality of the prescriptions (AZT or placebo) were undermined by AZT’s extreme toxicity (it was obvious who was taking it, because they got very sick) and compromised by poor initial experimental design (even the tablets tasted differently, and it was apparently obvious who was taking AZT and who was not). Many patients in the placebo group submitted their pills to labs to find out if they were AZT and, if not, would arrange to get AZT.

Ultimately, the trials were abruptly ended, all patients were given AZT, and their overall death rate was not significantly different than the original placebo group (the group that supposedly got no AZT). But for some time it appeared that some symptoms of AIDS had been reduced: AZT was so toxic that it killed any bacteria in its path, so it appeared to kill opportunistic infections, the main cause of death among AIDS patients. AZT was quickly approved, one of the few drugs given such quick approval. No one waited to find out that AZT kills the immune system so that opportunistic infections take over permanently. Questions over the trial results on the FDA committee were overcome by political clout of Burroughs Wellcome through its supporters and cheerleaders.

Finally, in 1995, the “father” of AZT prophylaxis, Paul Volberding, wrote : “Zidovudine [AZT]…does not significantly prolong either AIDS-free or overall survival.” This should have been the death knell for AZT, but its apologists and promoters have continued to promote it, to this day.

What Is AIDS?

This seems like such a simple question, since AIDS is a household word worldwide. Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome. But what you find in the medical research literature, if you look carefully, is that it is not a simple question at all. The public image is not the reality of the syndrome.

What you find is an industry that has created a public image that matches its goals: a definition of a disease and millions of people suffering a range of illness and symptoms that have been carefully categorized to fit the definition of that disease.

What is the image, and the reality?

Image: People contract AIDS by becoming infected with a retrovirus called HIV, through sexual contact or sharing intravenous drug needles. The HIV tests detect this retrovirus, which, if untreated, will lead to AIDS.

Reality: The HIV tests do not detect the presence of any virus or retrovirus. They are actually tests for a pattern of antibodies (immune system protein) that is “typically” found in AIDS patients. But it is also a pattern caused by other diseases and conditions, such as herpes, candida, parasites, alcoholism, drug abuse, influenza, syphilis, and pregnancy. Furthermore, neither the original AIDS researchers – Luc Montagnier and Robert Gallo – nor anyone else has ever isolated HIV from diseased tissue or blood.

There is no evidence that a so-called “HIV+” test will ever progress to AIDS. The test, and the very definition of AIDS, are “circular” – they are defined by each other. No root cause of AIDS has ever been identified by medical authorities.

There may be some viral basis to AIDS, but it is certainly not “HIV.” Some researchers believe that some opportunistic common virus such as HHV-6A or African Swine Fever Virus or Epstein-Barr, preying upon an already compromised immune system, might invoke a downward spiral of oxidative stress and T-cell destruction.

Image: The Viral Load tests indicate the progression of AIDS.

Reality: The Viral Load tests, like the HIV tests, do not detect viruses or disease progression. They measure the level of “RNA particles” – the immune system’s reaction to viral infection and other trauma. A high “viral load” test is an indication that the immune system is fighting a virus, bacteria, or fungal infection. Someone who is effectively fighting off a cold or influenza will have a high “viral load.” It is not a measure of illness.

There is only one effective test of whether you have a compromised immune system: your CD4 T-cell count. Normal counts are 400-1600. When you have a cold, flu, or other illness such as mononucleosis it will often drop dramatically.
Image: The AIDS drugs slow or stop AIDS progression.

Reality: The AIDS pharmaceutical medications are extremely toxic, and are extremely harmful to the immune and internal repair systems of the human body. The anti-retroviral medications (such as AZT and Combivir) are DNA terminators, a class of drugs that destroy the body’s cell reproductive ability. Eventually they kill the patient by destroying bone marrow that produces the body’s blood supply. The synthetic protease inhibitors (such as Kaletra) interfere with normal connective tissue creation and repair, creating deformed tissue and muscle wasting. These medications actually cause and promote the disease progression commonly associated with AIDS. The life extension attributed to these medications is illusory.
Image: AIDS is a death sentence disease, and nothing else is effective against it.

Reality: AIDS is just a name given to various combinations of ordinary illnesses and chemical toxicity, and, in Africa, diseases of poor sanitation and malnutrition. It is not a death sentence. Proper nutrition, in combination with intensive natural therapies that boost the immune system and stop viral replication, are effective in treating immune deficiency, to overcome viral and bacterial infection, and to restore CD4 T-cell counts to healthy levels.

But there is no significant voice for the truth. Here in the U.S., AIDS activist organizations and health centers are funded by the pharmaceutical companies that manufacture AIDS drugs. In Africa, funds that were once used for infrastructure projects – sanitation and food independence – have now been diverted to the manufacture or importation of AIDS drugs.

References:

Duesberg P,  Inventing the AIDS Virus, Regnery Publishing, Inc, Washington, D.C., 1996