Can AIDS Be Caused By Stress, Social Isolation, and Negative Beliefs?
A large portion of this book reviews research showing that severe stress, social isolation, and negative beliefs can cause a syndrome very similar to AIDS, characterizedby immune suppression of exactly the same type seen in AIDS, opportunistic infections, dementia, muscle wasting, and death. But how much can the power of suggestion influence viral illness, a type of illness that is described in such physical terms? Perhaps the war metaphors used to describe viral infections, in which viruses “invade” our bodies and our bodies send out troops to defend against the attack, are not as appropriate as many people like to think. To begin with, we are “infected” by millions of viruses and microorganisms all the time, with no ill effects. The medical definition of infection shows that physicians are very aware of this, which is that a tissue can only be diagnosed “infected” if it has more than 100,000 microorganisms per gram of tissue. Since the human body weighs, on average, about 70,000 gram
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- Like all of us ive made mistakes but this lead to negative experiences with my Church Leader that I thought should have been faith promoting (they defiantly weren that). I feel ive lost my faith in Christ, what can I do to get it back?
- does disadvantages social statuses confer more stress and fewer coping resources?
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