Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.3 alpha 4/3/85; site ukma.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!philabs!cmcl2!seismo!lll-crg!dual!qantel!ihnp4!cbosgd!ukma!wws From: wws@ukma.UUCP (Bill Stoll) Newsgroups: net.med Subject: AIDS IS PREVENTABLE Message-ID: <2041@ukma.UUCP> Date: Fri, 9-Aug-85 20:18:17 EDT Article-I.D.: ukma.2041 Posted: Fri Aug 9 20:18:17 1985 Date-Received: Tue, 13-Aug-85 01:03:31 EDT Distribution: na Organization: U of Kentucky, Mathematical Sciences, Lexington KY Lines: 52 I just want to set the record straight about AIDS! The members of the American Holistic Medical Association, the International Academy of Preventive Medicine, as well as many other practitioners of a Holistic approach to medical care have known, for years,the basic mechanism of AIDS. In the beginning a few conventional researchers dared to suggest the truth but no one really liked the idea because it didn't provide for the "white knight of modern medicine" to ride to the rescue. It didn't provide the pharmaceutical industry with a new patent to exploit for 17 years (or however long a patent runs now). And, it didn't fit the conventional paradigm of causation of disease. Now, however, nearly all researchers are forced to admit the obvious: AIDS virus cannot infect an AVERAGE healthy human being, let alone a truly vigorously healthy person. The virus is an opportunist: it preys only on those persons whose immune systems are already on the verge of collapse. The problem is: the virus attacks what is left of the immune system and finishes it off. It is the other opportunistic pathogens (that have been known for years) that then finish off the victim. A West German study, done in 1976, showed that the average person, in western industrialized society, was exposed to >1000 times as many stresses/person/day as people were 100 years ago, and that the rate was increasing faster every year. 90% of those stresses were not psychological, or social, but, were physical, chemical, nutritional, electromagnetic smog, etc.; ENVIRONMENTAL stresses that didn't even exist 100 years ago. Biofeedback research shows us that all stresses cause a fight or flight response; whether physical or psychological. If the running or fighting isnt actually done the readiness to do so accumulates. Finally, the limit of "readiness" is reached and the person has insufficient reserves to resist the puny AIDS virus. The newly discovered "carriers" of AIDS simply are a little further up the "bell curve" of resistance in this society: enough resistance to avoid the disease but not enough to kill the virus completely. We have the distinction of living in the generation when larger, and larger,#s of people are falling below the critical level on the bell curve of immunity in this country. Another perfect example of the superiority of prevention over treatment. There is good in all bad things: The vast amounts of $ being thrown into AIDS research has allowed us to be able to measure TINY changes in immune status. We now have the proof,Holistic Practitioners have been looking for, of how and why so many of the mind-body approaches work. The new medical specialty: PSYCHONEUROIMMUNOLOGY, has been spawned by these advances. cbosgd!ukma!wws(Walt Stoll)