Gay Community may play role in assisting humans to live to a hundred and be healthy!

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    BestViewedWithCable Well-Known Member

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    The main cause is a gay mans desire for buttsex, and/or intravenous drug use.
     
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    OK......so what about Africa and other third world nations where HIV is usually passed on by heterosexual contact???!!!

    If it is true that low cost glyconutrients could save lives in third world nations.........then should not physicians with some integrity have the courage to give these substances more support/ promotion!!!!!???????
     
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    Well....they have a huge incentive to make sure that cannabis is made legal for the treatment of HIV.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Medical_cannabis#HIV.2FAIDS


    "HIV/AIDS[edit source | edit]


    "Medical cannabis helps to alleviate pain and to improve quality of life for HIV-positive patients.[103][104]
    Investigators at Columbia University published clinical trial data in 2007 showing that HIV/AIDS patients who inhaled cannabis four times daily experienced substantial increases in food intake with little evidence of discomfort and no impairment of cognitive performance. They concluded that smoked cannabis has a clear medical benefit in HIV-positive patients.[103][105] In another study in 2008, researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine found that marijuana significantly reduces HIV-related neuropathic pain when added to a patient's already-prescribed pain management regimen and may be an "effective option for pain relief" in those whose pain is not controlled with current medications. Mood disturbance, physical disability, and quality of life all improved significantly during study treatment.[104] Despite management with opioids and other pain modifying therapies, neuropathic pain continues to reduce the quality of life and daily functioning in HIV-infected individuals. Cannabinoid receptors in the central and peripheral nervous systems have been shown to modulate pain perception. No serious adverse effects were reported, according to the study published by the American Academy of Neurology.[106] A study examining the effectiveness of different drugs for HIV associated neuropathic pain found that smoked Cannabis was one of only three drugs that showed evidence of efficacy."
     
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    You may find this article on glyconutrients interesting Stagnant?!


    http://www.glyconutrientsreference.com/mannatech/medicalconditions/aidsandhiv.html
    I believe that both Canada and the USA needs to have some sort of a Natural Medicine Association with a considerable budget so that potential remedies.....that cannot be patented due to the fact that they are natural.....will be studied seriously by somebody who is not biased toward large drug companies that are only interested in products that can be patented.

    The company who published this article has some sort of patent on the use of more than one glyconutrient in combination with other nutritional sugars.....but in their pure state each nutritional sugar cannot be patented....and thus potentially could be produced at a very low cost.....and then patients could simply take each type of sugar separately.
     
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    We Canadians do have a Canadian College of Naturopathic Medicine but it seems pretty obvious that their budget is not as high as it should be and patients are not being given the freedom to choose a natural course of treatment to be paid for by M.S.I.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canadian_College_of_Naturopathic_Medicine
     
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    No, I don't, because once again, we come to this same point: it's an unscientific article with no sources making some scientific claims which are completely wrong and others which are merely completely unproven. I don't know why you'd take it seriously.


    :roll:

    You do realize that that's pretty much the point of university research, right?

    The USA has NCCAM. It's quite possibly the single largest waste of money in the USA. The problem is that both take a look at "alternative" medicine but then proceed to take things which not only have been proven extensively in multiple large clinical trials not to work and for which there is absolutely no scientific backing seriously. It's a (*)(*)(*)(*)ing disgrace. By all means, fund research into "alternative" medicine. But nobody is willing to limit it to "cures which seem promising but may not work". Every such organization seems to be consistently interested in the (*)(*)(*)(*) which just doesn't (*)(*)(*)(*)ing work!

    Oh, and for what it's worth, what you're looking for, "natural medicine", is known (so far as it is actually functional medicine and not insane bull(*)(*)(*)(*)) as "Pharmacognosy". And the American Society of Pharmacognosy is a legitimate medical organization. They do pretty much exactly what you're asking for, without the stupid baggage of organizations CCNM or NCCAM. Because any organization that claims to legitimately study "homeopathy" is not a legitimate medical organization and can be immediately and completely discredited. It's like a physics organization studying the validity of Aristotelian Mechanics, or a biology organization questioning the validity of evolution, or a paleontology organization questioning the validity of carbon dating - a sign that whoever is in charge has no idea what they are talking about.
     
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    Thank you immensely for this link Stagnant!!!!

    http://www.pharmacognosy.us/what-is-pharmacognosy/
     
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    It's worth noting that pharmacognosy is not alternative medicine in the technical sense. It's actual science-based medicine, with results that may seem natural but which are ultimately valid and science-based. Yes, natural cures exist. But the existence of things like willow bark does not somehow validate all the crap naturopaths spew.
     
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    Willow bark.........I haven't heard about that one yet......definitely got to look that up because if Stagant thinks it has potential.....then I suspect it must have potential!!!!!!!!?
     
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    While I agree that the term "holocaust" is a bit extreme, I've noticed that the premise of "discussing politics" is really just an excuse to bash minorities.
     
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    It's aspirin. Aspirin is derived from willow bark, and even if many version of it are not directly derived, the chemical makeup comes from our understanding of willow bark.
     
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    Here are some statistics on how many kids are in need of adoptive parents.

    If Gay couples were encouraged to adopt rather than discouraged this problem could be alleviated.

    http://www.canadaswaitingkids.ca/about.html
     
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    I personally have compared struggles for equality with a variety of struggles throughout history, not to trivialize those, but to explain the feelings that we get. I have been in a committed relationship for 9 years. Why should my partner have to pay an estate tax to receive all my belongings if I pass away?
     
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    Good point!!!!!
     
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    In my opinion….. if a low cost natural remedy exists….. and somebody knew about it … .and did not tell anybody………….. then that is up there with murder!!!!!!!

    How much have you heard about the study conducted in Africa…… where women with HIV………… who had circumcised husbands were studied? Over the course of the study……. I believe it was ZERO circumcised husbands…. who had contracted HIV from their infected wives….. in spite of the fact that they remained sexually active??????

    If you were a doctor……… and you knew all about this study….. and knew that circumcision tended to expose the HIV virus to the air… .which kills the virus….. and you said nothing…. perhaps because you hate any and all religions and wish to give any and alll religious rites zero positive credit…. is this ethical behaviour!!!!!!?????
     
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    As you can guess……. lots of people consider this study to be somewhat politically incorrect!

    http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0053809
     
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    7% of homosexuals are infected with aids.
     
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    yes we are!!
     
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    Some of these religious hijackers ofthe right wing seem to think this way.

    Barry Goldwater was for gays serving in the military and for equal rights for gays. It was a conservative position long before it was a democrat position.

    The so called "christian right" hijacked the conservative name and now pretend that this is a conservative position.
     
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    .. and it is amazing how little attention has been given to the rather promising relatively low cost treatment by glyconutrients..... because they cannot be patented!


    http://www.blackherbals.com/new_hope_for_aids_in_africa.htm

     
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    And... not every person who would term themselves "conservative" is devoid of a heart....

    "Show me a conservative and I'll show you someone without a heart, show me a liberal and I'll show you someone without a brain." -Winston Churchill
     
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    But even if this is true..... should not medical officials do their best to inform the public regarding a possible remedy for HIV that could cost as little as one dollar per person per year?
     

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