How to Survive Pandemics, Slow Aging, Increase Longevity, and Delay Cancer, Heart Attack and Stroke with Selenium
First let me issue a disclaimer: I not a medical doctor,
nor a PhD. This lecture is not to be taken as medical advice. Please
see your physician for that. I am an AIDS, Ebola and Covid-19 researcher and have been
HIV positive myself for over 38 years. I have attended over 57 AIDS and
Virology conferences all around the world and was the leading expert in Africa
on selenium and HIV and Ebola virus disease.
So first, what is the number one rule for living a long
life? …. Don’t Die.
Besides accidents, murders, war and such, what are the
main health conditions that cause death? Heart attack, stroke, cancer,
diabetes, infectious and contagious disease like TB, HIV, Covid-19, and
pneumonia. Even with infectious disease it is usually heart attack or pneumonia
that usually finally kills a person.
My uncle was a medical doctor and cardiac specialist. He
was chief medical officer at Greenville Memorial, a teaching hospital at East
Carolina University in Greenville North Carolina. Ironically, he smoked tobacco
and died of a heart attack in 1962. That is lesson #1. Quitting smoking is the
number one way to instantly add a few years to your life. Not only does smoking
contribute to 50% of all cancers, to contributes to other negative health
conditions as well.
My father, and my older brother both died of polycystic
kidney disease. My father died at the age of 39 in 1958 and my brother three
years after he had a kidney transplant at the age of about 57 in 2006.
In fact, both my brothers inherited polycystic kidney
disease from my father. My younger brother still lives in Japan almost 20 years
after he had a kidney transplant. Luckily, I dodged that bullet. I did not
inherit that disease. But everyone dies of something – eventually. In 1985 I
was informed I had tested positive for HIV and there was no drug to treat it
and they may never have a drug to treat it. When they told me that I thought I
would be dead by 1990. Luckily, they were wrong - they did eventually discover
effective drugs. So I was wrong. However facing a significant shortening of my
life I became an AIDS researcher to save my own life.
Today I am one of the longest lived most healthy people in the world with HIV. Although I was deathly sick for a week in 1983 when I
was first infected, I have never been ill a single day due to HIV since then and have
only been sick a very few days at all since then.
The Chinese have a saying. “Within every crisis there is
an opportunity.” I took a crisis in my life and turned it into an opportunity
not only to save my own life, but also to make a few small scientific
discoveries. The insights I have had related to some of those small discoveries
may help you live a longer, healthier life too.
So what did I discover?
First I helped discover that aspirin is an antiviral
drug. Or at least that it can increase CD4 blood cell count. Aspirin alone is
much more effective against HIV than AZT is. Not only does it reduce viral
load, but it also increases CD4 count. What are CD4 white blood immune cells?
They are the cells of the army of immune cells you have in your body. When CD4
cells disappear, immunity collapses. So CD4 cells are critical to health. They
are the generals of the immune system army of cells.
Second I discovered selenium could help increase and
maintain CD4 count for years on end.
Third I showed that selenium could reduce the death toll
from Ebola by almost half. How did I do that?
Finally, I helped discover that selenium could not only
increase CD4 count but could maintain that increase much longer than aspirin
ever could.
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