A balanced immune system is critical in maintaining good health. Proline-Rich Polypeptides (PRP) are known to have the ability to both up-regulate and down-regulate the immune system. As PRP is available in abundant quantities from bovine colostrum and at low cost, several independent a research trials using an oral PRP vanilla flavored mouth spray were designed to test its effectiveness for HIV/AIDS patients, particularly those in areas of the world where Anti-Retroviral (ARV) Treatments are unavailable. Preliminary phase I studies showed promise in increasing or normalizing CD4+ T-cell counts in HIV/AIDS patients, so phase II studies were carried out in Kenya and Nigeria with more patients. Results of the studies showed increases in CD4+ T-cell counts to normal or near normal levels, reduction in viral loads, and the remission of HIV/AIDS related physical symptoms in most patients with days, reduction of clinical symptoms, as well as significant weight gains, within six to twelve weeks of treatment. This suggests that PRP spray may prove to be a useful, low cost, easy to use, and side effect-free adjunct therapy in the treatment of HIV/AIDS. PRPs are shown to be increasingly popular and well tolerated immune and cytokine modulators for both immune suppressed and auto-immune conditions.
AIDS
A New Direction in AIDS Therapy
By Andrew Keech, PhD
The appearance of AIDS in the early 1980s shook the medical and scientific communities to their core. Prior to this it appeared that modern medicine had infectious disease on the run. Age-old killers like polio and smallpox had been all but eliminated. There was a general feeling that all diseases would be conquered in time, that viruses and other pathogens had met their match at last.
Then this new killer appeared out of nowhere. It killed young, healthy people rapidly and horribly. No treatment gave more than temporary relief. Just when humanity had seemed on the verge of complete victory over infectious disease, this new threat, worse than any previously known, loomed over us. Our ignorance of the retrovirus that finally was linked to the disease and our futile attempts to control it made it seem as if nature was laughing at our hubris.
