Everyone knows what HIV and AIDS are. HIV-1 is the human immunodeficiency virus that gradually causes the immune system to decline to the point we call AIDS - acquired immune deficiency syndrome. That occurs when CD4 white blood cells fall to dangerously low levels causing the immune system to no longer function properly. Then various opportunistic infections – OIs - can gradually take over the body. These symptoms and OIs include excessive inflammation, fungal infections, cancers, hepatitis, and the mycobacterial infections tuberculosis and pneumonia. They also include muscle wasting and can terminate with cardiovascular events like heart attack and stroke.             What is a paradigm?             A paradigm is a pattern – a way of systematically arranging concepts to understand them better. Mathematics is composed of paradigms such as the multiplication table. La...