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searching for a snail, but certainly a living tissue of yours will serve as well! To survive, they must avoid being eaten by your white blood cells. So a tissue where the white blood cells are filled with mercury, lead, cadmium, perfume, solvents and PCBs is the logical choice. They have found a home—in you! The solvents may be hexane, pentane, xylene, toluene, wood alcohol, carbon tetrachloride and propyl alcohol as well as ben- This parasite has stages that it must go through to keep repro- _ searching for a snail, but certainly a living tissue of yours will ducing. The first stage is the egg. The adult produces millions of _ serve as well! To survive, they must avoid being eaten by your eggs. They pass out of us with the bowel movement. The adult, white blood cells. So a tissue where the white blood cells are though, stays tightly stuck to our intestine (or liver, causing can- _ filled with mercury, lead, cadmium, perfume, solvents and PCBs cer, or uterus, causing endometriosis, or thymus, causing AIDS, or _ is the logical choice. They have found a home—in you! kidney, causing Hodgkin's disease). The solvents may be hexane, pentane, xylene, toluene, wood Most of us get little lesions in our intestines from time to time. alcohol, carbon tetrachloride and propyl alcohol as well as ben- These tiny sores allow the eggs, which are microscopic in size, to zene. , be pulled into the bloodstream (other parasite eggs get into the Xylene and toluene accumulate in the brain, so the fluke para- blood this way, too). sites choose the brain for their breeding place. Here they produce Some of these eggs actually hatch in the intestine or in the their rediae and cercariae and eventually adults! Wood alcohol blood. The microscopic hatchlings are called miracidiae and are accumulates in the pancreas and eyes, making these organs the the second stage. They swim about with their litle swimmer fluke breeding grounds. Isopropy! alcohol accumulates in the hairs. And of course, the liver whose job it is to dispose of toxins, __ liver, making the liver the place where the stages develop into will receive them and kill them as the blood arrives from the intes- adults. And benzene accumulates in the thymus so that the intesti- tine. They have no chance to survive in nal fluke is raised up to adulthood normal people. in this tiny organ instead-of the spacious intestine. Many persons who have an adult fluke in the thymus feel a burning sensation or pain or ‘tightness’ over the breastbone. But some persons feel nothing at all. And some persons with a ‘tighmess' there do not have this parasite. So having a symptom here, while very suggestive of this fluke, does not prove you have it. However, it would be very wise to go on a parasite- killing program such as I will Humans are the natural host for Flukes and Solvents * . _ But something special happens to peo- this parasite. When this fluke is ple who have solvents in their bodies. 1 ith The liver is unable to trap and kill these killed, together with its e985 and tiny fluke stages. ‘These baby stages are | Microscopic stages, the HIV virus actually allowed to make their home in ' the liver and other tissues. It is as if the disappears from the human body immune system has no power to kill | IN 24 hours. From this it can be them. The flukes begin to multiply in . people with solvents in their bodies! The concluded that the VITUS belongs miracidiae (hatchlings) start to make lit- to the parasite. tle balls inside themselves, called rediae. But each redia (ball) is alive! It pops itself out of the miracidia and begins to describe to you later. reproduce itself. Forty rediae can each make 40 more rediae! HIV/AIDS illness is caused by an intestinal fluke stage inhabit- And all of this out of one egg! ing the benzene-damaged thymus. This parasite is laying eggs and producing millions of rediae All cases of HIV seen in my office had benzene in their thymus- right in your body! These rediae are swept along in your blood, es. It is tempting to speculate that benzene has some special role landing in whatever tissue lets them in. Smokers’ lungs, breasts _to play besides damaging the thymus. with benign lumps, prostate glands full of heavy metals, a thymus No case of HIV was seen without benzene in the thymus. loaded with benzene are examples of tissues that give the rediae When benzene is removed from the thymus but the fluke is not their landing permits. killed, does the HIV virus survive? Not enough of such cases Multiplying continues at a hectic pace, generation after genera- were scen to answer this interesting question. tion. Rediae are nesting in numerous organs. Suddenly they change their shape. They sprout a tail and can swim again. Now _ Purge the Parasite, Cure HIV they are called cercariae. When the parasite is killed but benzene is still present in the The cercariae only need to find a place to attach. After they thymus, does the HIV virus survive? Never! It is always gone glue themselves to your tissue, their tails disappear and they begin _ after the last of the fluke stages has left. If you have HIV/AIDS to grow a ‘cocoon’. illness, clearly you must do three things: Now they are called metacercariae. Normally, this would hap- 1) Kill the intestinal fluke and all its stages. pen on a leaf growing near a pond, so the metacercariae develop 2) Rid your body of benzene. an extremely thick shell around themselves to withstand the win- 3) Clean up your thymus gland. ter. Does the presence of the solvent benzene in your body dis- We have been taught to believe that every parasite is so unique solve this tough shell? That would remove the last barrier to the that a different drug is required to kill each one. The better drugs fluke completing its entire life cycle anywhere in your body! such as Praziquantel™ and Levamisole™ or even Flagyl™ and After the shell is gone, they grow into adult flukes in your tis- Piperazine™ can each kill several worm varieties. But this is just sue—not in the intestine but in your thymus! Now the cycle is not practical when dozens of different parasites are present. We complete. From eggs to miracidiae to rediae 10 cercariae to have dozens of different parasites in us! It would be best to kill metacercariae and then the adults! And all of them eating and them all together even though only the intestinal fluke is bringing sucking and devouring your vital body fluids. the HIV virus. As you can see, humans typically are the host for just the adult Look at the case histories. It is not unusual for someone to have stage, and then only in the intestine. But can you imagine the _ a dozen (or more) parasites out of the 120 parasites I have samples havoc in your body if you did the snail's job, too? Suppose the of. You can assume that you, too, have a dozen different para- host, the human, has solvent in his or her body so that the millions sites. We are heavily parasitised beings! Our bodies are large of eggs start hatching before they can exit with the faecal matter. enough to provide food and shelter for lots of these freeloaders. If They simply swim in hordes into the bloodstream. They may be _ they were settled on the outside where we could see them, like lice Purge the Parasite, Cure HIV When the parasite is killed but benzene is still present in the thymus, does the HIV virus survive? Never! It is always gone after the last of the fluke stages has left. If you have HIV/AIDS illness, clearly you must do three things: 1) Kill the intestinal fluke and all its stages. 2) Rid your body of benzene. 3) Clean up your thymus gland. We have been taught to believe that every parasite is so unique that a different drug is required to kill each one. The better drugs such as Praziquantel™ and Levamisole™ or even Flagyl™ and Piperazine™ can each kill several worm varieties. But this is just not practical when dozens of different parasites are present. We have dozens of different parasites in us! It would be best to kill them all together even though only the intestinal fluke is bringing the HIV virus. Look at the case histories. It is not unusual for someone to have a dozen (or more) parasites out of the 120 parasites I have samples of. You can assume that you, too, have a dozen different para- sites. We are heavily parasitised beings! Our bodies are large enough to provide food and shelter for lots of these freeloaders. If they were settled on the outside where we could see them, like lice NEXUS e 17 DECEMBER 1994 - JANUARY 1995