Understanding the tuberculosis-HIV-selenium-deficiency positive feed-back loop is critical to fully understanding both tuberculosis and HIV disease.             HIV, tuberculosis, co-infection with hepatitis and other opportunistic infections; plus selenium nutritional deficiency, form a multi-focal positive feedback loop that increases inflammatory and oxidative damage as it concurrently depletes the body’s selenium supply. This results in a decline in both immune competence and the antioxidant defenses selenium supports. In his book What Really Causes AIDS Harold Foster described this phenomenon as it relates to HIV alone as, “The Selenium-CD4 Cell Tailspin”. Monique van Lettow titled her book, “ Triple Trouble: Tuberculosis, HIV Infection and Malnutrition ”. Bemnet Amare referred to this as, the “Quadruple burden of HIV/AIDS, Tuberculosis, Chronic Inte...

              The short answer of how highly pathogenic viruses kill people is, they deplete selenium from the cells and organs of the immune system. That eventually can cause multiorgan failure and death. Killer viruses do this by genetically encoding the selenium proteins they themselves need to replicate and depleting human cells and organs of that vital mineral element. This is comparable to how the sun can kill a person if they try to cross a desert with no water. The sun kills by gradually depleting water from a person’s body. Killer viruses kill by depleting the essential selenium that cells, organs, and the human body need to function. The same principle applies. However, most viruses that infect humans are not highly deadly. Only a few are.             Adults harbor more than a hundred viruses in their body. Most people are infected by at least one of several herpes viruses. They remain ...

                The immune system is the most complex system in the human body. It is the only system besides the nervous system that has a memory. Vaccines utilize that memory to prime the immune system to help prevent infection and save lives from infectious disease. Most vaccines are 100% protective. Others are partially or mostly protective.             Every human cell contains its own miniature immune system. The cellular antioxidant system keeps cells detoxified, clean, and healthy. The critical active component of 80% of antioxidants, the part that does the real work, is composed of selenium-based proteins called selenoproteins. Without enough selenium, cells get sick and die.             The human immune system consists of the kidneys, spleen, liver, thymus, lymph nodes, and white blood cells. It performs the same task fo...