Viral Fusion Inhibitors

This is the SECOND in a series of brief expositions about disease-causing viruses among humans.

Because everyone and anyone can be infected by deadly viruses, it is best to be educated and enlightened about these deadly diseases as well as what type of virus could have been causing it, how to know when one is affected and how long does the infection take. These information is especially important in determining how to avoid, prevent or treat these diseases.

Coming from the most common insect around the globe, Malaria is a disease caused by mosquito-borne organisms called Plasmodium, of which the Plasmodium falciparum and Plasmodium vivax are the most common. However, the first type is considered the deadliest.

Every year, over one million people around the world die of the disease. Worst, a child dies of malaria every 30 seconds. It spreads among humans through the bites of infected mosquitoes and, the same as in HIV, it can be transmitted by the transfusion of blood from an infected person or the use of needles or syringes contaminated with the blood of such.

Its incubation period can be between 10 days to four weeks after the bite from the infected Anopheles mosquito; as early as seven days after infection; or as late as several years later.

SIGNS and SYMPTOMS:

First common symptoms:
- fever, headache, chills and vomiting – usually appear 10 to 15 days after a person is infected
- diarrhea often go along with fever
- jaundice
- anemia

Late stages:
- kidney failure
- hepatomegaly
- spleenomegaly
- coma and death

(Source: iFeel Great Health News)

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Here’s another health tip from my good friend Ray Collins:

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Dear Peter Allan,

Common foods that help you breathe more easily

A report in the medical journal Allergy in June 2008 came up with a very pleasing suggestion…. that eating delicious, hearty Mediterranean food could relieve asthma symptoms.

The study was carried out by a team at the University of Porto in Portugal. They looked closely at the diet of 174 asthmatics. They found that those who
ate large quantities of Mediterranean foods had fewer attacks and flare-ups.

So what’s a Mediterranean diet?

Well, this is generally presumed to be a diet high in fish, fruit, vegetables and nuts and low in saturated fats.

This is the principle diet in Crete, for example. An estimated 80% of the children there eat fresh fruit at least twice a day. And over two-thirds of them eat fresh vegetables, twice a day.

On that island, very few children have asthma or hay fever.

The main fruits recommended by the report’s authors include oranges, apples, tomatoes and grapes.

The study also found that asthmatics who eat nuts at least three times a week are less likely to wheeze. As well as vitamin E, nuts also contain a lot of magnesium, which helps boost your lung power.

The report concludes: “High adherence to a Mediterranean diet reduced by 78 per cent the risk of uncontrolled asthma.”

That’s a fairly ringing endorsement.

But there was something else in the report that interested me…

What NEVER to eat if you’re asthmatic or allergic

The study found that children who ate lots of margarine DOUBLED their chances of asthma and allergic rhinitis (which causes hay fever-like symptoms).

This backs up an Australian study from 2001. Those researchers also concluded that a diet high in polyunsaturated fats – found in many margarines – can double a child’s chances of having asthma.

In 2001, Dr Warren Lenney, a spokesperson for the British Thoracic Society (BTS), said:

“It would be sensible for parents to lessen their children’s intake of margarine and foods regularly fried in polyunsaturated oil as part of a diet rich in fruit and vegetables.”

I think this advice goes for adults too!

As always, more research needs to be done to establish links and causes.

But whatever they discover in the coming years, I’d advise that you give margarine a wide berth. It’s a synthetic food high in trans fatty acids. A substance that many critics claim that it can triple your risk of coronary heart disease.

In 2006, Professor Marion Nestle, a respected professor of Nutrition at New
York University wrote:

“All margarines are basically the same, mixtures of soybean oil and food
additives. Everything else is theater and greasepaint.”

Michael Pollan, the author of In Defense of Food (Allen Lane, 2008) puts it even more bluntly:

“The beauty of a processed food like margarine is that it can be endlessly
reengineered to overcome even the most embarrassing about-face in nutritional thinking – including the real winner that its main ingredient might cause heart attacks and cancer.”

So perhaps it’s best avoided, then!

Yours as ever,

Ray Collins
The Good Life Letter

www.goodlifeletter.co.uk

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This is the FIRST in a series of brief expositions about disease-causing viruses among humans.

Because everyone and anyone can be infected by deadly viruses, it is best to be educated and enlightened about these deadly diseases as well as what type of virus could have been causing it, how to know when one is affected and how long does the infection take. These information is especially important in determining how to avoid, prevent or treat these diseases.

HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS (HIV)

Considered as the most widely known type of virus, the HIV is the one that causes AIDS (Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome) or the severe damage in the most effective “built-in” defense mechanism of the human body, the immune system.To date, About 40 million people in the world are living with HIV or AIDS. This estimate includes 37 million adults and 2.5 million children.

Its mode of transmission can be through exchange of body fluids (e.g. sexual contact), sharing of needles or blood transfusion. It can also be passed on to a baby when the mother is infected during pregnancy.

Usually, the duration of an HIV infection or its incubation period is from 1 to 6 months which spans from the time of infection to the time when antibodies (elements released by the body in order to fight the attacker) can be detected in the blood. Furthermore, the time from the HIV infection to the diagnosis of AIDS has been noted to be anywhere from 2 months to 10 years or longer.

Signs and Symptoms:

To the Immune System:
- Swollen lymph nodes in the neck, axilla, or groin (lymphadenopathy)
- Fever / night sweats

To the GI Tract:
- Rapid weight loss
- Diarrhea
- Poor appetite
- Profound fatigue

To the Respiratory System:
- Shortness of breath
- Dry cough / productive cough

To the Skin and Mucous Membranes:
- Skin rash
- Red, brown, pink or purple lesion on the skin – suggestive of Kaposi’s sarcoma
- White patches on the tounge, inside of the mouth, or gums – could be signs of thrush, candida
- Canker sores / apthous ulcers

Towards the Neurological / Emotional aspects:
- Depression
- Numbness, tingling, or burning in the feet, hands, or face. (peripheral neuropathy)
- Confusion, weakness, or changes in level of consciousness

(Source: iFeel Great Health News)

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There’s more to chicken than meets the eye and it’s not just Bird Flu or the prospect of sprouting wings yourself for eating chicken breakfast, lunch and dinner (throw in merienda for that matter) almost everyday of the week.

Fried chicken, chicken inasal, chicken adobo, chicken sandwich, chicken afritada, buffalo wings, and maybe even chicken-flavored lollipop if there was such a thing — people are completely enamored with chicken that more volumes of recipe books were written about this meat than any other else.

But there is one thing that people may not be aware of, and that they have been putting themselves at risk every day by eating chicken bought from fast foods or dressed chicken from grocery stores. Aside from the fact that commercially grown chicken are kept in very terrible living conditions, inhaling the fumes from their own poop, and are laden with fat, sugar, and salt but low in fiber and vitamins, these chickens can also be pumped with a deadly metalloid – arsenic.

In a recent study jointly conducted by the National Institutes of Health and the USDA’s Food Safety Inspection Services, high levels of the notoriously poisonous metalloid arsenic was found among the 5,000 chickens tested from various restaurants and food outlets. The figures derived from the tests showed contaminations reaching 6 to 9 times allowing levels.

The question that comes to mind would be this – how arsenic amounting to 50 times the allowable amount in a glass of water got into my fried chicken or chicken adobo? A former Environment Protection Agency agricultural consultant, Donald Herman, explained that arsenic can be used as a growth stimulant for poultry. This information has been withheld from the public and is completely denied by chicken growers and fast food chains.

Does it mean that I have to stop eating chicken? Of course not! Just be sure that you’ll get the organic, healthy, no-antibiotics, free-range chickens that are fast becoming a sensation among lovers of good, healthy food. Restaurants and some fast food chains are also trying to switch to this more healthy variety – and so should you.

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Toxic metals, including “heavy metals” are individual metals and metal compounds that negatively affect people’s health. In very small amounts, many of these metals are necessary to support life. However, in larger amounts, they become toxic.

The major critical organs for environmentally exposed populations are the following:
- central nervous system (CNS) of the developing fetus or child
- The kidney
- implication of some heavy metals in the development of cardiovascular diseases
- cancers in the general population

Heavy metals are dangerous because they tend to bioaccumulate which pertains to an increase in the concentration of a chemical in a biological organism over time, compared to the chemical’s concentration in the environment. Compounds accumulate in living things any time they are taken up and stored faster than they are broken down (metabolized) or excreted.

To protect yourself from the onslaughts of arsenic, toxic chemicals and other heavy metals, regularly take Alfa HFi with Viral Fusion Inhibitors. Alfa HFi is made of nature’s most powerful anti-viral, antioxidant, anti-inflammatory and immunomodulizing substances, the humic fulvic acids.

Consumption of Alfa HFI immediately restores and supercharges the body’s resistance to disease and infection by helping the body in manufacturing necessary glycoproteins within. It also perks up the gastrointestinal tract as pro-biotic, strengthens the joints and bones, provides amino acids and electrolytes, and boosts oxygen for the red blood cells.

Enzacta prides itself on having Alfa HFI Humic/Fuvic Acid Supplement as a product of their state-of-the-art technology and special proprietary process called BioReady Nutrients© (BRNs). BRNs are nutritional complexes extracted, concentrated and naturally-enhanced for better bio-availability.

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Early year 2009, alert was raised in almost all parts of the globe as Swine flu rapidly spread among humans. The flu was caused by a new virus strain Influenza A subtype H1N1. Origin of the virus, according to a report from the New York Times, probably developed in pigs in Asia and then carried by human to America. This flu virus is highly contagious though its virulence is classified as mild. However, it caused panic among nations when it established a second wave during the cold since the mortality rates went up. While there was face mask shortage during its first attack, today, there is a shortage in vaccines.

Vaccines were developed since the 1770s. These were used as biological preparations for a disease, classically employed to prevent small pox and other types of flu. To prevent a certain type of disease, a vaccine – which is a milder version of the virus causing the disease – is injected to a person early on. This alerts and strengthens the immune system.

Though vaccines are acceptable, many still debates about its safety. Actually, in 1976, a swine flu vaccine was already developed and was used to immunize nearly the entire US population. However, according to Center of Disease Control and Prevention, it had been found to be linked with the development of Guillain-Barré syndrome (GBS) – an autoimmune disorder affecting the peripheral nervous system, usually triggered by an acute infectious process.

The latest issue about swine flu vaccines today is that the US stock for this immunizer is running dry. The priority recipients of the vaccines are children and pregnant women only. Healthy individuals infected by the virus are advised to take other forms of medications.

Other options to prevent or control swine flu include the medication Oseltamivir Phosphate and the most popular brand for it is the Tamiflu. It acts by interfering with the production and release of virus from cells that line the respiratory tract. This may slow the spread of the infection within the airways and lungs.

INTRODUCING: Viral Fusion Inhibitors

As an additional anti-viral solution to address the Swine flu hitch, a group of scientists developed a product which was derived from a naturally occurring substance, the Alfa HFi.

Against viruses, Alfa HFi works by encapsulating the invader with a coating carried out by agents called Viral Fusion Inhibitors. Because of the coating, viruses will not be able to penetrate a healthy cell and reproduce from it. What’s more is that Alfa HFi exhibits an Alert Mode Ability wherein the immune system is given a signal about the invader prompting it to dispatch the cause of the disease.

Alfa HFi is a very small but powerful naturally occurring water-soluble substance which has the ability to transform the molecular structure of water enabling it to better carry dissolve and transport elements to or from the cell. Thus, cells are effectively provided with nutrients while waste products are carried away from it. Furthermore, this Alfa HFi-activated water molecules help in neutralizing toxins and invaders.

Nutritional experts suggest that the breakthrough discovery of the Hfi substance is a vitally important nutrient, together with vitamins and minerals. This helps the body increase its resistance to colds and flu, and infections.

Moreover, Alfa HFi aids in supercharging the immune system; cleansing, neutralizing and removal of toxins and the purging of parasites, pathogens and viruses.