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POSTSCRIPT (as at early January 2004) Editor's Note: Since I submitted this article for publication, I have learned of a Readers wanting more detailed information about the HIV/AIDS small AIDS trial that is taking place in Botswana.” The trial is funded = environmental connection are directed to the website by a Canadian vitamin company and is using the nutrient regimen http:/Awww.hdfoster.com, where they can download a free copy of suggested in my book. Here is a quotation from the initial emai Harold Foster's book, What Really Causes AIDS. report that I received in late September: "I picked two candidates personally who have fully blown AIDS About the Author: with relevant symptoms like diarrhoea, skin rash, loss of weight an Harold D. Foster, PhD, was born and educated in England. He spe- a lack of appetite. One of these candidates has a severe complication cialised in geology and geography, earning a BSc in 1964 from of syphilis which has slowed his recovery somewhat, but still, within University College London and a PhD in 1968 from London two weeks of trials, his skin rash, diarrhoea and fatigue have all but University. He is a Canadian by choice, and has been a faculty disappeared. The lady candidate gained 3 kg in two weeks and now — member in the Department of Geography, University of Victoria, eats ‘like a horse'. She resumed work last Tuesday after severa British Columbia, Canada, since 1967. weeks of absence. I am gaining confidence in this treatment by the A tenured professor, Dr Foster has authored or edited some 235 day and I hope the same would apply to the remainder of the trial publications, the majority of which focus on reducing disaster losses candidates... or identifying the causes of chronic disease or longevity. He has pub- "A lady who started the regimen three weeks back has just teste lished hypotheses on the origins of numerous diseases including negative for HIV, and her CD4 count has shot up from 500 to 700!" myocardial infarction, SIDS, cancer, diabetes, schizophrenia, multi- (It's unknown if this is the same lady who ate “like a horse"!) . ple sclerosis (MS), amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), Alzheimer's In th . h ll HD F. and Parkinson's diseases, and stroke. nthe meantime, I have set up a small company, oster His numerous books include: Disaster Planning: The Preservation Research Inc., which is having the nutrients made up into a product of Life and Property (Springer Verlag, New York, 1980); Reducing called HELP. We are giving this away to doctors who treat AIDS Cancer Mortality: A Geographical Perspective (Western patients. The first taker is a physician in South Africa, and I have Geographical Press, Victoria, 1986); The Ozymandias Principles: mailed him enough treatment for 10 patients. The idea is to find Thirty-one Strategies for Surviving Change (Southdowne Press, medical supporters who can vouch that the treatment works. Beyond __ Victoria, 1997); and What Really Causes AIDS (Trafford Publishing, this, the small Canadian company that is using my treatment in Victoria, 2002; see review in NEXUS 10/05). His new book, What Botswana (anecdotal evidence suggests a 99% success rate in revers- Really Causes Schizophrenia (Trafford, 2003), is reviewed in this ing AIDS) has spread its activities into Zambia. issue of NEXUS. We have decided to produce a video in which I describe my theory Harold Foster is a member of the Explorers Club as well as several of HIV/AIDS, and which also shows patients recovering. We are academic organisations including The New York Academy of looking for financial and other assistance to do this. The idea is to Sciences, The Royal Geographical Society and The Royal Society of give this away to TV stations in Africa and elsewhere. Literature. He is also the editor of both the International and Recently I checked the progress of the two Victoria, BC, patients Canadian Western Geographical Series and is a member of the mentioned in my book, who were dying of AIDS in 2001. They are boards of the Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine and the . nternational Schizophrenia Foundation. now both in good health and are back at work. . . : He has been a consultant to numerous organisations, including the Ihave also had two more HIV/AIDS papers published in Chinese United Nations and NATO, and to the governments of Canada, in the proceedings of two different medical conferences held in - ve Ontario and British Columbia. He is also a member of the Science Shanghai in November 2003. Two additional papers have been Advisory Panel for the Healthy Water Association. accepted for publication in Chinese medical journals. On 17 March I Every day, Dr Foster makes a point of taking at least the recom- am scheduled to give a lecture on AIDS at the Centennial AGM of mended daily allowance of the known essential nutrients. He is also the Association of American Geographers in Philadelphia. currently pursuing offers for his suggested nutrient mixture to be pro- Things are moving along. Hopefully, the world will soon know duced for use in clinical trials with AIDS patients. For a more that the treatment does indeed work. oo detailed résumé, visit the website http://www.hdfoster.com. Endnotes 1999; 20(5):508-513. 64. Droge, W. and others, "HIV-induced cys- 54. Gil, L. and others, "Contribution to charac- 59. Law, M. and others, "Modelling the 3-year teine deficiency and T-cell dysfunction — a terization of oxidative stress in HIV/AIDS risk of myocardial infarction among participants _ rationale for treatment with N-acetylcysteine", patients", Pharmacol Res 2003; 47(3):217-224. in the Data Collection on Adverse Events of Immunol Today 1992; 13(6):211-214. 55. Batterham, M. and others, "A preliminary Anti-HIV Drug (DAD) study", HIV Med 2003; 65. Shabert, J.K. and others, "Glutamine- open label dose comparison using an antioxi- 4(1):1-10. antioxidant supplementation increases body cell dant regimen to determine the effect on viral 60. Dworkin, B.M., "Selenium deficiency in mass in AIDS patients with weight loss: a ran- load and oxidative stress in men with HIV infection and the acquired immunodefi- domized double-blind controlled trial", HIV/AIDS", Eur J Clin Nutr 2001; 55(2):107- ciency syndrome (AIDS)", Chem Biol Interact Nutrition 1999; 15(11/12):860-864. 114. 1994; 91(2-3):181-186. 66. Noyer, C.M. and others, "A doul le-blind 56. Aumann, K.D. and others, "Glutathione 61. Dworkin, B.M. and others, "Reduced car- placebo-controlled pilot study of glutamine peroxidase revisited — simulation of the catalyt- _diac selenium content in the acquired immunod- is apy for abnormal intestinal permeability any ic cycle by computer-assisted molecular model- _eficiency syndrome", J Parenter Enteral Nutr patents with AIDS", Am J Gastroenterol 1998; ling", Biomed Environ Sci 1997; 10(2-3):136- (JPEN) 1989; 13(6):644-647. 93(6):972-975. 155. 62. Droge, W. and others, "Functions of glu- 67. Kohler, IRL and others, sGlycyl-glutammne improves in vitro lymphocyte proliferation in 57, Baum, M.K. and others, "High risk of HIV- _ tathione and glutathione disulfide in immunolo- rene : . related mortality is associated with selenium gy and immunopathology", FASEB J 1994; we SS (DETR ter kta as AUN AOA deficiency, J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr Hum 8:1131-1138. : . 1 , Retrovirol 1997; 15(5):370-374. 63. Breitkreutz, R. and others, "Improvement os. emer, ER. and other sa btophan 58. Campa, A. and others, "Mortality risk in of immune functions in HIV infection by sulfur immunodeficiency virus" Biol Gham Hoppe selenium deficient HIV-positive children", J supplementation: two randomized trials", J Mol _” Acquir Immune Defic Syndr Hum Retrovirol Med 2000; 78(1):55-62. Continued on page 7: Editor's Note: Readers wanting more detailed information about the HIV/AIDS environmental connection are directed to the website http:/www.hdfoster.com, where they can download a free copy of Harold Foster's book, What Really Causes AIDS. 42 = NEXUS www.nexusmagazi ne.com FEBRUARY — MARCH 2004