HIV thoughts

[Guest guest]

This damnable virus has made lives miserable and short. It has persisted

despite throwing stuff at it that should have killed it off long ago.

But the virus is in places you cannot easily reach with either Beck's or

completely with meds. New meds are currently underway to address this problem

of entering the gut linings. If these new meds can be so designed it may mark

the beginning of the end for HIV, and we might expect complete remissions from

it in large numbers of cases.

The reason they have not focused on this earlier was that HIV was not assumed to

live in the gut, just the blood and lymph. Even Beck fell for that assumption.

Had he lived past Dec 2006, he would have seen this too, and perhaps been able

to come up with some sort of trick to attack the virus with a new protocol.

The treatments, both alt and mainst, have been failing, not because they could

not reduce the virus, but they were aimed at the wrong target area in the body.

Electricity and meds will both slaughter the virus in a test tube, where we can

isolate the virus. But in the body we were shooting at the house while the

virus was in the barn all along.

Al Capone was by trade a book keeper. He said, " The profit on booze, by the

time you pay everyone off, is less than on milk. I tell you we've been in the

wrong business right from the start! " In like manner, we have been treating

blood while missing most of the HIV.

90 percent or more of the virus lives in the gut linings. It can mutate and the

mutated strains get into bloodstream, and that is what you see in the viral load

numbers. But the mother lode, the matrix, the stash of HIV is in the gut

linings, protected by the body's own defensive shields. This highly

concentrated and deadly deposit of virus is extremely delicate. It cannot live

in blood or anywhere else. It must mutate first, then it can travel. Once it

enters blood, the immune system makes antibodies for it, and attacks it. So it

can rise and fall in blood readings. The viral load count is one way to tell

how active the virus is and will be, as it measures the mutation, and hence the

strength of the underlying HIV in gut. Physicians prior to Dec 2006 did not

know all this. All they knew was historical data that says if your viral load

is 100,000 you can be expected to lose 50-100 CD4 per year. It was just a

correlation, not any understanding of the actual causation.

So..if I had HIV I'd throw everything I could at it, in hopes of reaching some

of it in the gut. Better drugs that do this with less side effects are coming,

I would predict. Meanwhile the Cd4 is what to watch since viral load is only

one indicator, while Cd4 is immunity itself.

bG