So I'm reading this fascinating book by Professor Harold Foster, What Really Causes AIDS?

And I thought it was fascinating because it involves nutrition.

Let me explain.

When you have this virus, HIV, which stands for human immunodeficiency virus,

over time, if the immune system is weak, that can shift to AIDS,

which stands for acquired immunodeficiency syndrome. Now, AIDS is a condition where you

basically don't have an immune system anymore because that virus targets a key player within your immune system. It's like

the quarterback of the entire team. I mean, if you're playing football and you don't have a good quarterback,

you can't ever win. You can't even do a play. The quarterback is kind of an essential key player

and this whole thing. Well, as far as your immune system,

the T-helper cell, it's called CD4, is that quarterback. Without that key player, the T-helper-cell,

your immune system cannot coordinate with the other players and launch the attacks, the defense

systems.

It can't provide for any protection.

And so this T-helper cell is such a vital, essential player

involved in your immune system.

And without it, you'll have all sorts of pathogenic secondary infections,

tumors, cancer that can result from not

having that key player. And on top of that, the virus can then keep reproducing, reproducing,

reproducing, and just forever. A lot of different viruses have very clever strategies for their survival, which is pretty

bizarre because a virus technically is not alive. It's some genetic material wrapped in a sack

that can only live off the host's energy and metabolism and machinery. So it's a big mystery,

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