SPEAK OUT

HIV
Suggested diet for those with HIV or compromised immune systems
By Tine and Nelly van der Maas

The following is a very simplified way of explaining how the immune system works and ways to improve it.

Your being is a unity of your body, your mind, your heart and your soul. All these have to live in harmony together as the one cannot function properly without the other, and they cannot run away from each other. The body is the part where most people notice that something is wrong in their being – we call it disease, or dis-ease, so lets start with the body.

Your body does not want to be sick, so the whole body has an alarm system to warn and protect us against the outside world. The skin, eyelashes, and tears are all part of that system. The problem is we have to breath, eat and drink to stay healthy and alive so the body has to let “foreign things” in our body. In the case that these foreign things are dangerous to the body, it has set up a whole defense mechanism to deal with these dangers. (Think about a heart or kidney transplant, where the person has to take anti-rejection medication for the rest of their lives to prevent rejection of the transplanted organ.) But a defense can only last that long, than it will become tired and not function properly anymore. This is when we notice it and become sick.

One of our main defenses is found in the blood – the white blood cells. Think of your white blood cells as your army, complete with spies, killer soldiers, cleaners, generals and special trained forces etc. In charge of the army are the generals or T-cells. There are basically 3 types of T-cells, T4 cells, T8 cells and Killer cells, and they are in charge of the whole army. There are spies who tell the T4 generals where the problem is in the body, and there are soldiers who act just like those figures from the old “Packman” game. The slow moving Packman figures are called “Big Eaters” and have heaters they can switch on to kill germs with their heat, and the fast moving Packman figures are called “Small Eaters”. Lets see how it works when you have a splinter in your finger? The finger becomes swollen, a red circle forms around it, it is hot and painful, than the splinter is pushed out together with puss, and the finger heals and returns back to normal. So what happens on the inside?

The spies tell the T4 generals there is a splinter in the finger, who than calls all his troops together to go to the trouble spot. More blood is needed around the splinter so the white blood cells or army can get to it – that is why it swells. The Small Eaters arrive first. They form a circle around the splinter, to prevent the splinter and perhaps germs that are on the splinter from traveling to the rest of the body – that is the round circle you see on the outside. When the Big Eaters arrive, they switch on the heaters to help to kill any germs, and the Killer cells also are there to give a hand. Your finger is sore, because in that way you will not use it much and damage it even more. The battle is on and usually the splinter is pushed out, together with puss. Puss is just dead white blood cells and dead germs. Now the T8 generals see the war is over and they are the ones that call of the troops and tell everybody to go back to the barracks. So the T4 cells are the warmongers, and the T8 cells are the peacekeepers. In a conflict you need both! When you get an infection in your lungs, the same thing happens as above, but the lungs themselves will also help to get the infection out by making you cough. The Big Eaters will switch on their heaters, causing you to have a higher temperature or fever. So a fever is part of your immune or defense system.

Coming back to the T4 and T8 cells. When the battle is on, the T4 cells are the warriors. The T8 cells are the ones that call the troops back when the battle has been won. When the T8 cells do not do their job, you have a problem. The T4 cells and the rest of the army have no enemy to fight anymore, but the troops do not stop fighting till the T8 cells say so. So when the troops do not get that message, they keep on attacking, but because there is no more enemy, they have to attack something, so they attack other cells from the body – they attack “self”. This is called an autoimmune disease, or an over active immune system, and you get problems like arthritis. That is why people who have autoimmune diseases are given cortisone. Cortisone is an immune depressor.

What are antibodies? A newborn baby will receive over the years all different kinds of vaccinations like measles, polio etc. Lets take measles: The baby receives an injection with a little bit of measles. The spies warn the T4 cells there is a new virus in the body. They call a group of white blood cells together and tell them to go to school and learn all about measles. This is called the Window Period. When they have learned everything, they are now special trained forces or antibodies and they are ordered to kill the measles. In the meantime, the baby becomes miserable, the arm is hot, sore and swollen, just like with the splinter in the finger. When the antibodies kill the measles, the baby recovers, and for the rest of the baby’s life, it will have measles antibodies. Why is this important? Take 2 people: One who was vaccinated against measles - Tom and one who was not vaccinated - Harry. Imagine there is a measles outbreak and both Tom and Harry are exposed to the measles. Tom already has special trained measles soldiers or antibodies, so as soon as the measles enter Tom’s body, the antibodies are called into action and the measles are killed. Harry on the other hand does not have measles antibodies, so when the measles enter his body, the white blood cells still have to go to school, making Harry in the mean time very sick with the measles.

The same happens with other viruses, be it HIV, Epstein Bar, Munieure or the Flu, (yes, flu is caused by a virus). Viruses also change. Take for example HIV and see it as Mankind. But mankind it made of different races: Black, White, Indian, Chinese, etc. HIV has developed in different Clades: A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J. But just like different races can intermarry, and you get all different kind of “Coloured” people: Black-White, Black-Indian, Chinese-Indian, etc. so HIV has hundreds of different strains. On top of that, every second day my Virus will mutate or change, so in a week, my HIV will have changed 3 times and is not the same as when it entered my body. That is the reason why Flu vaccinations do not protect you totally, because by the time scientists have developed the latest flu vaccination, it has already mutated, so the vaccination can only protect you partially against the current flu. It is also very important that when 2 people are in a relationship with each other and both are HIV+, they must have sex with a condom, otherwise they will re-infect each other with their mutated viruses.

The Lymphatic system, the Glands and the Liver are also very, very important and play a huge role in keeping the body healthy. Just like you have blood vessels everywhere, so you have Lymph vessels. Most of the “dirt” in your blood is taken over by the Lymph and is send to the liver. You have glands all over your body like the face, neck under your arms, throughout your body and the groin. Inside the glands are the Big Eaters. Say you have a sore throat. The Big Eaters in the glands of your neck work like vacuum cleaners and suck up the infection from the throat. That is when you get swollen glands. Now the glands empty into the lymph vessels and it is again send to the liver. Unlike the blood system, where you have the heart that pumps the blood through the body, the lymph system has no “pump” and the muscles have to press against the vessels to push the lymph through your body. That is why often with Massages they call it lymph drainage, because with massage you work the muscles and they again push the lymph. Exercise does the same thing. One of the warning signs that something is wrong in that part of the body are swollen glands for instance you may have Flu, TB, cancer, HIV, STD (Sexually Transmitted Diseases) etc.

The liver is one of the most important organs in your body and has been highly underrated. It has something like 500 functions although people are only aware of about 9. It is your major energy supplier so when you are tired it is because your liver is not working properly. Everything that enters your body - like food - before it is send to all the cells in your body, it first goes through the liver. The liver separates all the good from the bad. The good is send to the heart and from there to the rest of your body, the bad to the kidneys, the bladder and the toilet. All medication, alcohol, dead body cells, bacteria, viruses, everything the body does not need/want, the liver sorts it out and gets rid of it.

All the white blood cells are born in the bone marrow. The baby T-cells than travel to the Thymus gland, which is situated next to your heart behind the breastbone (T-cells get their name from the T from Thymus). The Thymus gland is like a college were the T-cells receive training on how to be good T-cells. If they do not receive proper training, they do not know what to do, are disorganised and people become easier sick.

What is HIV and what does it do? HIV is very small. 30 000 HIV’s can fit on top of a match next to each other. It has the shape of a ball and out of this ball stick keys. (Think of a key ring with all keys hanging around. When HIV enters the body, it wants to stick its keys into a lock, so it tries to find a lock that fits. The lock that fits the best is the lock from the T4 cells. HIV puts its key into the lock of T4, opens the door of T4, and goes inside and closes the door. Now it is inside the T4 cell. HIV has now sex with itself, and makes babies. These baby HIV’s have to grow, so they eat the inside of the T4 cells. The poor T4 cell slowly is destroyed from the inside, till it cannot take it anymore, and it bursts open. Now all the new HIV’s are released and all these new HIV’s with their keys are looking for other T4 cells to put their keys into the locks and repeat the whole process. What about the antibodies?

When HIV enters the body, a group of white soldiers is send for training. This training can take anything from 6 weeks till 6 months - it is different in every person. During that time, (the window period) HIV has no enemy. Once you have HIV antibodies, the battle is on, but they can never win the battle completely. The reason is that when HIV is inside the T4 cell, the antibodies know this, but if they want to kill HIV, they have to kill the T4 cell, which means they have to kill their own boss. This they won’t do, so they wait till the T4 cell dies and the new HIV’s are released. Now the battle is on again, but you will always have HIV’s that will manage to escape and infect another T4 cell. HIV’s also “hide” in the glands and in the dendrites or the end of the nerve cells, places where the HIV antibodies cannot come.

Every person has normally between 800 and a 1000 T4 cells (per milliliter blood). When HIV enters the body, it will slowly start killing the T4 cells and their numbers go down. Say you now have 700 T4 cells. That is still O.K. You look healthy; feel healthy because 700 T4 cells can still do the job of a 1000. You are only HIV+. Over the years more and more T4 cells are killed and you have say 500 T4 cells. The T4 cells cannot handle all the work anymore, so they decide not to worry about the small infections, but concentrate only on the Big problems or Big Diseases. People are still only HIV+, but they start having small problems, like sores in the mouth, skin problems, coughing more than normal, but still people may not realise they have HIV, because we all go through such periods.

More T4 cells are killed, and you eventually have about 200 T4 cells left. At this stage doctors will say you have AIDS. There are many illnesses people with AIDS get, like loss of weight, swollen glands, many kinds of skin problems, diarrhea, bronchitis, pneumonia etc. Too many to name. The reason you get all these diseases is that there are not enough T4 cells to organize the army, so people are open for any disease. It is important to remember that all people are different, so some people may already become sick with a T4 cell count of 400, while other people with a T4 cell count of 90, may not be sick and may only still have small health problems.

These days many people have weak immune systems. HIV is just one Virus that causes a weak immune system. There are many other reasons like “Bad or chronic” stress, other viruses or bacteria, and environmental factors that can be the cause of weakened immune systems. The food that we eat or not eat, the air that we breath, the water we drink, the abuse of alcohol, drugs or medicines all contribute towards it.

Chronic stress is a major factor. When you are stressed, depressed, unhappy etc. your brain sends a message to your adrenal glands. (They lie on top of your kidneys.) The adrenal glands than release Cortisole, which is the same as the Cortisone you get as a medication and is an immune depressor. It kills T4 cells. When you are chronically stressed, your T4 cell count goes down with at least 150 T4 cells or more, depending how long your stress lasts. On the other hand, when you are happy, your T4 cell count goes up again, because than your brain releases other chemicals that are good for you. Notice that happy people are seldom sick, while stressed people often have health problems.

The following advice is for anybody with a weakened immune system, or people with chronic or autoimmune diseases. If you had the flu or a cold this year, you know your immune system is not up to scratch.

Most medication is made from food, only we have stopped eating healthy. Also the quality of the food is not the same as say 20 years ago, because people are only taking out of the soil, and not putting anything back. To get the same out of an orange 20 years ago, you now have nearly to eat a whole bag of oranges to get the same in. That is why more and more people are starting to eat organic grown vegetables, even Woolworth and Pick and Pay are starting to sell real veggies. Often when you ask people when they last had a piece of fruit, they will ask: Does fruit juice count. When something is wrong we either go to the doctor or the chemist to get pills, just suppressing the symptoms but not fixing the problem. Your kitchen should become your medicine cupboard. So eat healthy, if your plate of food is coloured like a rainbow, you know you are on the right track, but there are specific things you need to do or add to your diet.

When people have chronic diseases like diabetes, or viruses like HIV or Epstein Bar or autoimmune diseases like arthritis, or high blood pressure, or high cholesterol levels, they produce a lot of “rubbish” in the body. All the extra dead cells and the medication have to go through the liver. Eventually the liver gets “blocked” like a blocked drain. Now all the rubbish cannot leave the body and it is send, together with the good things, to the heart and then to the rest of the body. That can be one of the reasons why some people have high blood, because the blood is heavier, and the heart needs to pump harder to push the blood through the body. Also when people get swollen glands and they stay swollen, it means that liver is blocked and the lymph cannot empty its rubbish in the liver. In the case of people with HIV, the body produces a lot of rubbish, which is send back in the body. But it still wants to get out of the body, so it breaks out through the skin. That is why people with HIV eventually get skin problems. Often doctors treat the symptoms of the skin problems by prescribing creams, while the real problem is a blocked liver. It is also one of the reasons why people with HIV start loosing weight, because a blocked liver changes the ph of the blood to sour. If the ph of your blood is sour, your food will not be absorbed properly. If you are often tired, have muscle pains, skin problems, swollen glands high cholesterol / blood pressure or have been sick with any disease, have cancer, arthritis etc. etc. you can clean your liver in the following way:

To make one glass: Take 1 whole lemon, and wash it well to remove all the chemicals from spraying. If you have a food processor, put the whole lemon, peel and all in the food processor. Add 1 tablespoon of extra virgin olive oil to the lemon, put everything in a glass, add water and stir. If you do not have a food processor, cut the lemon in half, squeeze the juice in a glass, grate the peel with a grater and add to the glass together with the tablespoon of extra virgin olive oil and water. If there are no lemons available or you really are in a hurry, buy the bottle with concentrated lemon juice (green bottle, yellow top) and put 2 tablespoons of lemon juice in the glass together with the tablespoon of olive oil and fill up the rest with water. Please try to use the real lemons as much as possible as there are important oils and enzymes and other things in the peel of the lemon.

When your immune system is down, drink 3 of these glasses a day. Once you have recovered but you have a chronic disease and want to prevent your liver from blocking again, drink one glass a day for the rest of your life. You can make for 3 days at a time if you keep the rest in the fridge – it saves you cleaning the processor every time. Please notice: When you start taking the lemon juice/olive oil drink your urine may be dark for a while. Drink enough water to help your kidneys. People with arthritis really should drink lots of water to prevent you from getting kidney stones.

Every day eat 1 cup of ProNutro. ProNutro has many good things, but there are 2 things in there that are essential for a healthy immune system. First Selenium:
Selenium protects the white blood cells, so when they battle with infections or cancer, they are better protected against the enemy, like a harness. In the case of HIV, Selenium protects the T4 cell by blocking the lock. Now when HIV wants to get inside the T4 cell, it takes 20X longer before it manages to get in. But the new HIV’s also take 20X longer before they can get in, so by just getting Selenium in, you already add 4-5 years to your life, without doing anything else. Selenium is found in the soil, and countries with soil high in Selenium have healthier people than countries with little Selenium in the soil. South Africa has little Selenium in the soil, and ProNutro is one of the few food products with enough Selenium to keep people healthy. Adults need between 75 mcg (1 cup of ProNutro) and not more than 200 mcg per day.

Secondly you will find Zinc in ProNutro. Zinc is essential to keep the Thymus gland healthy (the training college for the T-cells). If the Thymus gland does not receive Zinc, the college becomes dysfunctional and the T-cells do not receive any training. That is why older people become sick so easy, because their T-cells are not trained due to lack of Zinc. Men are even more at risk. Every time after sex, they loose a third of their Zinc in the semen. You need every day 45 mg of Zinc. In one cup of ProNutro you will get 33 mg of Zinc. The rest you can either get with a Zinc supplement (15mg) but even better will be a tablespoon of pumpkin seeds (15 mg). Pumpkin seeds are not only good as a Zinc supplement, but they also get rid of any worms or parasites that most people have. If you have been in contact with any pets, ten to one you will have worms or parasites. Also the pumpkin seeds will keep your insides clean, a bit like sandpapering your insides, getting all the old foodstuff out that may stick to your intestines. You can either buy pumpkin seeds at most vegetable markets and some of the major chain stores. You can also dry your own. Take a pumpkin, cut it in half, take the seeds out, wash them, dry them in the sun, you can sprinkle a bit of salt over them, and then put them in a container. They really taste nice, a bit like nuts. If you are going to take Zinc tablets, still take a small handful of pumpkin seeds once a week to keep your insides clean. Make sure your children also get it. Every time a man had sex, he should take an extra 15mg of Zinc, either through half a cup of ProNutro, or 1 tablespoon of pumpkin seeds or 1 15mg tablet.

One of the best natural antibiotics, anti-fungal etc. in the world is garlic. People who have AIDS often get thrush. If you already have thrush, eat for about 3 days every hour one clove of garlic – about 10 cloves a day. Chew them well, and before you swallow, move the garlic around in your mouth. Within 3 days the thrush will be gone. To prevent thrush, you should eat every day 2 pieces of garlic. If you have a cold or something, eat as much garlic as you can during the day. If you have a sore throat, cut 1 or 2 cloves in fine pieces, and put in a cup of boiling water. Leave standing for a little while and stir, than spoon the garlic out, and eat it. With the garlic water gurgle, and then swallow. If you have sinus problems, cut 2 pieces of garlic again and put it in a cup of boiling water. Put your nose over the cup straight away and inhale – it smells very good - like pizza. Women often get thrush in the vagina. Just put one piece of garlic in the vagina before you go to sleep, and usually the thrush is gone the next day. You may have to repeat it another night. The causes of most ear infections are funguses. If you have an ear infection, first try the following. Squeeze the oil of the garlic on a piece of cotton wool and put in your ear. If you have very sick people who can hardly eat, you can put some oil on a piece of garlic and put it in the anus. Please remember it is the oil of the garlic that works, so garlic salt or garlic pills are no good. If you do not want to smell of garlic afterwards, eat a bit of parsley to take the smell away. For anybody wanting to stay healthy, it is a good idea to include garlic in your diet whenever you can.

Often in areas where there is a lot of air pollution, and you can see what you breath, people have many chest problems like asthma, bronchitis and the common cold. For anybody to make his or her lungs stronger, eat every day 1 teaspoon of chopped ginger. This is also very important for people with HIV, because their lungs are one of their weak points. You do not see the difference straight away, but after 3 months you will notice that you did not have any problems. These days, you can now buy crushed garlic with crushed ginger, or you can buy the ginger root and garlic and crush it yourself.

Raw carrots are one of the best sources of Beta Carotene. If you suffer from any viral disease, try to eat at least 3 – 4 carrots a day. The Beta Carotene kills at least 5% of your viruses every day. Beta Carotene is also needed if you have any other illness, so your mother was right when she said carrots were good for you, but not only for your eyes.

People who are old, sick, stressed / tired or malnourished are often cold. Your normal temperature is 37*, but their temperature is often below 37*. When your body is cold it is much easier for infections to start growing inside you. For example TB loves it if your body temperature is 36.5*. Remember part of your immune system is a fever, so it can kill infections. To raise your temperature you can either add one teaspoon of cayenne pepper in your lemon juice, or make a hot water bottle and keep it either on your stomach or when you sit in an office, in the back of your chair. Avoid getting (over) tired, staying outside in the cold too long, not exercising enough, or not getting enough calcium and starch in your diet. To increase your calcium and magnesium eat root vegetables, like potatoes. Calcium is only absorbed in your food when it is taken with food that contains Magnesium, which is easy to get in the form of green vegetables. Make sure your body temperature does not drop below 37*.

In the case that your immune system is very low, and you do get shingles (gordelroos), just put some lemon juice on the shingles every few hours and it will be gone within a day or two.

If anybody has diarrhea, is vomiting or is nauseous, the best way to get rid of this is charcoal (the one you make a braaivleis on). Charcoal is actually carbon, which is also used to clean our drinking water. Take a few pieces of charcoal and put it in a cardboard box. Take a big stone and grind the charcoal into a fine powder. Keep the charcoal powder in a jar. When you have diarrhea or are vomiting or feel nauseous, take 2 tablespoons every 2 hours till it is gone. Wash it down with a glass of water. The charcoal powder is completely tasteless. The longest it has taken us to stop an “untreatable” diarrhea (according to the doctors) was 8 hours. In the mean time drink enough water to prevent dehydration. You can also buy charcoal tablets at the chemist, but than you pay over R 50,00 for a few, while now you can have a jar of charcoal and have a few braais for about R 10,00.

The following is illegal in this country, but many people are using it. This remedy can be used for people with arthritis, multiple sclerosis, asthma, emphysema, people receiving cancer treatment or are suffering from any chronic pain. It is dagga tea. It is one of the best pain remedies there is, and if you drink it as a tea, you will not become “high” and get the giggles. The pain will go away within 5 minutes of drinking a cup, people with MS will get back control over their bladder, people with HIV and cancer will get their appetite back and will prevent nausea and vomiting, and people with asthma and emphysema will find relieve in the tightness or spasm of their lungs. To make 1 cup put 1 teaspoon of dried dagga leaves into a cup of boiling water, stir and leave it standing till it has cooled down. Before drinking, strain out the leaves. If you drink the leaves, you will get all silly. If you need more than one cup a day, you can make a 2-litre bottle and keep the rest in the fridge. In the case of asthma or emphysema, as soon as they start feeling tight, you can give them a cup to drink and the tightness will go away.

These days with a cold or a flu, we are doing everything wrong what we can do. We take Panado or something to bring the fever down, while the fever is actually part of the immune system. We take cough mixture to stop coughing, while coughing is part of the body’s defenses to get the infection out of our lungs. We keep on walking around, infecting everybody around us and not resting our bodies. Remember that sleep is one of your best medicines. When you sleep, your body can use all the energy repairing itself, instead of using part of the energy to keep you going when you are up. We use sinutabs to dry out the mucous, while you actually need the mucous to get your infection out of the sinuses. And most importantly, people insist on taking antibiotics for the flu, forgetting that a virus causes the flu, and antibiotics do not kill viruses, so they will only do you harm. Antibiotics (anti = against, bio = life) should only be used when really necessary, not just for anything.

Exercise is very important. First of all your whole body will benefit from the extra oxygen it receives. On top of that, oxygen also kills infections. Your muscles will become stronger, and in the case of people with HIV it is very important to have strong muscles, because if they loose weight it is not fat they loose, but muscles. When you exercise you also produce more blood cells, which means more immune system. Most people do not like exercise, and you do not have to join a gym, but just a good walk a few times a week building up a sweat. One of the nicest forms of exercise is dancing. Put on the radio or play a CD and jive like in the Elvis Presley time – please do not do the Madiba shuffle. When you dance, you will also feel “happy” because it is nearly impossible to be angry and dance at the same time.

If you want to have a healthy immune system, you should try to avoid all sugar and sugar products like cool drink, chocolate etc. What happens when you eat sugar is that the Big and Small Eaters see sugar as an infection and eat the sugar. Now when a real infection gets into the body, they are already “dik geeet” of sugar and do not feel like eating the infection. This gives the infection time to multiply, so by the time the Eaters are hungry again, the infection has had time to spread. If you drink one cool drink, eat a small piece of chocolate and a piece of cake, your immune system will be out of order for at least 18 hours. No wonder so many people are sick these days, looking at the amount of sugar we consume. For anybody with a weakened immune system, avoid all sugar. For people with HIV, they should avoid it for the rest of their lives, as sugar not only will effect their immune system, but can also cause thrush. But if you really want to have an ice cream or something, get one, and really enjoy it - without guilt. Another thing about sugar: If any of your children are “hyper active”, do not put them on Retinol, but first take them of all sugar and preservatives. This usually solves the problem of an “overactive” child.

Alcohol is also a sugar, and generally not good for your immune system. There is nothing wrong with having a few drinks a week, but please remember, that if you are babbelas the next day, your immune system will also be babbelas, and just like you will not feel like working, so your immune system is not keen to do its job. On top of that will your liver get a huge amount of extra work, trying to keep it from damaging the body.

One of the most important things I have found that works like magic is Africa’s Solution from Bermins and some of his other products. Over the years working with people living with HIV/AIDS and other immune problems we have tried a lot of different supplements. We have a 5-page questionnaire where anything that can go wrong in the body, is on the list and we tested each supplement against the effect it had on the body.

For example before we found Bermins, we taught people how to make a tea from the African Potato, which is a tremendous immune booster. Picture the workings of the African Potato this way: Normally, your white blood cells have a gun, and when an infection enters the body they shoot it … poof, poof. With the African Potato your white blood cells have an AK 47. Now when an infection enters the body they shoot …rattattattattattatat. It makes the white blood cells much stronger. An extract from the African potato is in Bermins. Also in Bermins is grapefruit seed extract or Citricidal, which is known to kill over 900 different types of germs. In America many hospitals are using Citricidal to sterilise equipment, because it also does not become drug resistant. There are also many different vitamin B’s in the product, which will nourish the liver, especially after you first cleaned it with the lemon juice/olive oil drink. This in turn will give you more energy, will make you feel better, and all the things that the liver does that you are not even aware of. Then there are many other things in the products all working to keep you healthy or to help you recover. For example, it contains an anti-oxidant that works so well, that in the case of people living with HIV or other viral infections, or any other diseases for that matter, the viral load (amount of viruses per ml blood) becomes undetectable. It also contains Beta Carotene which I have explained already.

The whole idea behind positive living is to build up the immune system in such a way, that the body can either overcome the disease alone or together with other medication, like in the case of cancer. We (my mother Nelly and myself – we work together and are also best friends) have seen absolute miracles. We cannot cure HIV, but we can make it in such a way, that your body can keep the virus totally in its place. The thinnest person with AIDS we have pulled through was only 29 kg and the person with the lowest T4 cell count of only 1 has 3 years later a T4 cell count of 780 – and she had the flu so it was slightly lower than what it would have been). Another lady we know, when we met her, her T4-cell count was 260 and the viral load was 255 000 (which is extremely high – they say when you have more than 170 000 viruses per ml blood you have AIDS). Two years later her T4-cell count is 1080 and her viral load only 11 000. As long as people with HIV/AIDS want to live, they will not die of AIDS, but of old age, as long as they follow the programme. Better make sure you plan for your old age, otherwise you will be caught out with your pants down. Do not believe the media when they say you will die if you do not take ant-retroviral drugs. It is not true! Just like people live with the Herpes virus (the one that causes fever blisters and breaks out when your immune system is down), so you can live with HIV or any other virus, as long as you keep your immune system strong. Build up your immunity and the virus will be kept in its place. You can get all your energy and good health back, but realise that it is a life long programme, but not difficult to follow.

If you have any sores or ulcers, put Africa’s Solution on a piece of cotton wool and then on the sore. Keep it open for a little while to get some fresh air on. You will see it will heal very fast.

People living with cancer will also greatly benefit from this programme. It will make the body so much stronger, so it can assist itself to fight the cancer. Also, although chemotherapy destroys the cancer, it also destroys the immune system and puts a great strain on the liver, causing all kinds of problems like tiredness, nausea, loss of weight etc.

Arthritis: Lemon juice/olive oil + Africa’s Solution, and plenty of water in the beginning. We have never had somebody who was not pain free within 2 weeks doing the above. In case you still have some pain, do the following: For a few days, only eat unpolished rice till you are pain free. Than add one other foodstuff to your diet e.g. a banana. If you get no new attack, put it on your list of safe foods. If you do get a new pain attack, you know banana; are not safe for you and put them on you danger list. Go back to eating unpolished rice, till the pain is gone and than add again another foodstuff like an apple. Carry on with this till you know which food triggers your attack.

Diabetes: Lemon juice/olive oil = Africa’s Solution. Please watch your blood sugar levels closely, because we have seen that blood sugar levels can drop to normal levels and you may need less insulin.

We even had very good results with people who get epileptic fits. If they take the lemon juice /olive oil and Africa’s Solution we have seen an amazing drop in the amount of attacks in people who have many attacks a day.

Please take note that obviously all the above, like diabetes, blood pressure, cholesterol, epilepsy etc. you need to be monitored by a doctor to adjust your medication. I also want to warn the men. When you take these products, the word “upliftment programme” gets a totally different meaning. If your immune system is really down and out, use Immutain Forte and Africa’s Solution on day one, and Immuwize and Africa’s Solution the next day, alternating every other day for about 2 months, and than ask the sales person what to use afterwards. If I had HIV or any other chronic disease I would personally stay on Africa’s Solution.

The professor that makes these products, Prof Chris Barnard, (another Chris Barnard) is a chemical pathologist who already in 1990 started looking at the immune system and how to strengthen it. His philosophy is also my philosophy: Give freely and you will receive. Therefore all his products are very affordable for e.g. only R 30,00 – R 35,00 for a Bottle of Africa’s Solution lasting you a month (this is from the chemist – not wholesale from him directly which I mentioned in my letter is less than R20,00 a month). This is about 1 Rand a day. It is one of the reasons you will not see it advertised in magazines or on the shelves of chain stores, because than the price will double or treble just like that, and it won’t be affordable anymore. I want to make it clear that just like I promote ProNutro or olive oil, so I promote this product and am not earning anything from this. I am so impressed with this product that I also offered to be the help line for the product, and I do that free of charge – it actually costs me money when I phone people back.

You can find out where to buy it from their Bloemfontein office or who the sales person in your Province is.
The telephone number is: 051 – 4489628 and speak to Kalien or Prof Chris Barnard.

In the beginning I talked a bit about the mind, the heart and the soul and how each influences the other. It is very important to get peace of mind. This is a whole other story, which unfortunately will take too much time to explain all that. But the one thing I know for sure is that people do not love themselves enough. They say they do, but they don’t. Somehow, we started loosing sight of what really is important, like love, friendship, happiness, joy, meaning and purpose and we got involved in the rat race. Please take time out to get to know your self, to find out what gives you joy and happiness, and to do the things you want to do in your life. Do not waste your time on things you really do not enjoy (obviously dentists etc, excluded) but find a way to give your life meaning. How many times do people say at the end of their lives: I always wanted to do this, I should have done that etc. Have you smelled an old age home? It usually smells sour, because there are many people sitting in a building, full of regrets of what could have been, and they never did anything about it, always finding an excuse why not to do.

Happiness usually does not come in big parcels, but in small moments like looking at a naughty child, smelling a flower, getting a hug from somebody that cares, eating pasta (my favourite), your dog jumping on your lap or putting its head on your knee. Whatever it is, start being aware. Before you go to sleep at night, think of at least 5 things that made you happy that day and every day you wake up think of at least one thing you are going to do to just please you, just you. Not your husband/wife/children/boss etc. Just you! If you cannot find anything to be grateful for, than wear a pair of shoes one size too small. Wear them the whole day, and when you take them off at night, I am a 100% sure you will be very grateful for something.