On Tue, Dec 31, 2013 at 10:26 AM, Mitchel Cohen <mitchelcohen at mindspring.com
> wrote:
> "I was personally attacked as an AIDS denialist, which I categorically
> deny. There is no debate that HIV exists and that it attacks the immune
> system. What is still up for debate is whether pharmaceutical drugs are the
> complete answer. Back then and still today, there is no opportunity for
> questioning, you are either on board or thrown overboard and then attacked."
> - Gary Null, December 2014
>
> http://prn.fm/importance-integrative-medicine-treatment-hivaids-part/
>
> The Importance of Integrative Medicine in the Treatment of HIV/AIDS (Part
> I)
>
> By Gary Null, PhD
>
> On December 2, 2013 president Obama marked the 25th Anniversary of World
> AIDS Day by pledging $100 million to research on finding a cure for HIV.[1]
> Discussing his new push for funding, Obama remarked that "The United States
> should be at the forefront of new discoveries into how to put HIV into
> long-term remission without requiring lifelong therapies, or better yet,
> eliminate it completely."<file:///C:/Users/Intern/Desktop/The%
> 20Importance%20of%20Integrative%20Medicine%20in%
> 20the%20Treatment%20of%20HIV%20Part%20I.docx#_ftn2>[2] However laudable
> this commitment to ending the war on HIV/AIDS is, we must question how it
> is that billions of dollars spent for decades on a pharmaceutical-based
> treatment has not yielded better results.
>
> For our answers let's go back to December 9, 1993, when more than 100
> persons assembled with their physicians and their medical records in New
> York City at a major press conference. They had been selected over a twelve
> month period if they could prove with medical verification, including blood
> work up, viral load, CD4 and CD8 count, that they had made major
> improvements without relapse with their AIDS diagnosis. These individuals
> followed more than 20 different alternative treatments programs. An
> independent panel of medical and scientific experts brought to the press
> conference more than 25,000 scientific references<file:///C:/Users/
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> 20Part%20I.docx#_ftn4>[4]<file:///C:/Users/Intern/
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> (see examples in footnotes below) from the peer-reviewed literature to
> verify the medical veracity, efficacy and safety of any given protocol used
> by the patients. Herbs, botanicals, homeopathic and naturopathic remedies,
> intravenous vitamin drips, ozone therapy, meditation, detoxification,
> stress reduction, a plant-based diet, and antioxidants therapy were all
> examined for their antiviral, antibacterial and anti-yeast and/or
> immune-modulating impacts. Therefore, if one of the patients were to
> suggest that they were following the Louise Hay, Gerson, or Ann Wigmore
> protocols, it would not have been difficult to have understood how these
> protocols were helping these individuals' bodies.
>
> All of this was precipitated more than a year and a half earlier by a
> group of AIDS patients who came each day to a medical facility in the Upper
> West Side of Manhattan to be attended by a group of physicians, nurse
> practitioners, and other therapists helping them to restore their immune
> systems and adopt a more positive, optimistic state of mind. The
> theoretical framework behind our program was simple: instead of trying to
> kill the virus with antiretroviral pharmaceuticals designed to stop viral
> replication before it kills patients, we focused on what benefits could be
> gained by building up the patients' natural immunity and restoring
> biochemical integrity so the body could fight for itself.
>
> As they began to make major improvements, one of the patients spoke up one
> evening. He explained that in addition to his own progress in combating
> AIDS naturally, he knew of other individuals who were using more natural
> and holistic modalities all across the country and that the world didn't
> know of this. The world only knew of the official AIDS treatment: AZT. He
> and the other people being treated at the facility all feared the
> mainstream treatment because they had seen how many of their friends and
> partners as well as other AIDS patients had died or become extremely sick
> using these aggressive drugs and yet, the natural modalities had been
> virtually ignored in any public discussion on AIDS. So it was at their
> urging that the press conference evolved.
>
> That day in December could have been historic if only members of the
> press, <http://prn.fm/tag/scientific-community/>scientific community,
> government agencies, activist organizations and foundations had chosen to
> attend and been open to a different medical paradigm. Despite the fact that
> more than 7,000 individuals from the media and these other groups had been
> invited on three separate occasions in the months leading up to the press
> conference, not one showed up. Clearly this was an intentional boycott. As
> a result, the patients spent the entire afternoon, each giving their own
> testimonials, showing their records and having their physicians speak about
> the remarkable improvements they saw; but the findings presented largely
> remained a secret from the rest of the world.
>
> Tony Brown, of PBS, learned of the press conference and began to look
> carefully and meticulously at the AIDS patients who had made remarkable
> recoveries, inviting more than eight to appear on his national television
> program. I was also invited to appear on Tony Brown's program since these
> were my protocols and I had been working every day with these specific
> individuals for more than 16 months. The program profiled one man named
> Louie, who submitted medical records showing that he experienced a
> life-affirming reversal of AIDS and all of its conditions. You can go to
> Tony Brown's Journal archives and review the entire film at your leisure.
>
> Up to that point, I had spent every day for years working with people with
> AIDS-defining conditions, written twenty-two articles on living with AIDS
> naturally and a 750 page reference book with nearly 100 pages of it
> covering how to treat AIDS naturally. Further, I had produced a
> documentary, Living with AIDS Naturally: The Real Heroes, chronicling the
> story of AIDS patients in the nineties that did not respond well to
> orthodox therapy but improved after incorporating natural holistic
> protocols to their treatment programs.
>
> After all this, one would have thought that this information would have
> permeated into the mainstream AIDS dialogue. In fact, just the opposite
> occurred. Because I challenged the safety and efficacy of AZT and called
> into question the science behind conventional AIDS treatment, I was
> personally attacked as an AIDS denialist, which I categorically deny. There
> is no debate that HIV exists and that it attacks the immune system. What is
> still up for debate is whether pharmaceutical drugs are the complete
> answer. Back then and still today, there is no opportunity for questioning,
> you are either on board or thrown overboard and then attacked.
>
> Despite the array of devastating side effects that AZT is known to
> produce, it is still used today in combination with other medications,
> albeit at much lower doses. Today, if any physician were to prescribe AZT
> in the same amount that was typical in the 1980s and early 1990s, they
> would more likely than not be brought up for medical malpractice. While
> survival rates have increased with the introduction of new anti-retroviral
> treatments, the mainstream treatments continue to focus on pharmaceutical
> drugs to the exclusion of holistic lifestyle therapies. This is especially
> alarming given the extensive body of independent scientific research
> spanning decades that indicates that we were right all along about the
> critical importance of treating AIDS patients by incorporating a
> comprehensive, immunity-enhancing behavior and lifestyle modification
> approach that incorporates diet and nutritional therapies, detoxification,
> exercise, meditation and stress reduction.
>
> As public awareness about the therapeutic value of alternative approaches
> to health and wellness increases, a growing number of individuals and
> groups within the scientific community are calling attention to the
> benefits of an integrative approach to AIDS. Given President Obama's recent
> pledge of $100 million towards a cure for HIV/AIDS, it is clear that drugs
> alone are not the answer. By shifting the paradigm to one that embraces and
> incorporates proven natural methods, we have the potential to revolutionize
> modern HIV/AIDS treatments and empower individuals to achieve greater
> health and longevity.
>
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> Culp-Ressler, Tara. "President Obama Pledges $100 Million In Funding To
> Help Beat AIDS." ThinkProgress RSS. N.p., 3 Dec. 2013. Web. 16 Dec. 2013. <<
> http://thinkprogress.org/health/2013/12/03/3010991/obama-100-million-aids/
> >http://thinkprogress.org/health/2013/12/03/3010991/obama-100-
> million-aids/>.
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> Ibid
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> Kiecolt-Glaser, J. K., Glaser, R. (1993).. Mind and immunity. In: D.
> Goleman & J. Gurin, (Eds.) Mind/Body Medicine (pp. 39-59). New York:
> Consumer Reports.
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> Sauter, C., Wolfensberger, C (1989) Anticancer activities as well as
> antiviral and virus-enhancing properties of aqueousfruit extracts from
> fifty-six European plant species. European Journal of Cancer and Clinical
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> RS, Chang., Yeung, HW. (1988). Inhibition of growth of human
> immunodeficiency virus in vitro by crude extracts of Chinese medicinal
> herbs. Antiviral Research (pp. 163-175)
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> Zheng, MS. (1989). An experimental study of the anti-HSV-II action of 500
> herbal drugs. Journal of <http://prn.fm/tag/traditional-chinese-medicine/>Traditional
> Chinese Medicine. Jun;9(2):113-116.
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