Sunday 20 March 2016

WATER-SALT BALANCE IS LIFE

All animals and plants need water and salts, crucial to life in a balance called homeostasis. This is commonly known by students of Biology.

Nutrients, water and salts are absorbed into the body through the epithelial layer of the small intestine or gut.

Homeostasis is essential to every cell of the body.. It enables combustion of oxygen in the cell mitochondria in a process called the Krebs Cycle. Combustion of food occurs in the cells.

But homeostasis is slowly destroyed by the HIV virus as water and salts can not be absorbed through the damaged gut lining.

The small intestine is the dirtiest part of he body full of nutrients with helpful and harmful bacteria. We harm the bacterial balance with indiscriminate use of antibiotics.

The wall of the intestine can leak but the gut is protected by millions of CD4 cells that engulf millions of HIV particles passing down in the blood to the CD4 shepherded by a host of white blood cells.

HIV is engulfed by gut CD4 and replicates within, producing millions of HIV and killing millions of CD4. Without medication, the HIV slowly wins the battle.

The small intestine is slowly destroyed preventing absorption of nutrients, salts and water which pass out as diarrhoea.

Homeostasis is disrupted forever stopping the break-down of food in the cell mitochondria and preventing absorption and combustion of oxygen. A layer of mucous is laid down in the lungs.

The body slowly begins to starve. There is no reserve of protein in the body except in the muscles. So the body starts to break down muscle tissue. There is no future in a body eating itself. The sufferer loses weight in legs and arms.

The antiretroviral treatment (ART) can reverse the process with HIV destroyed in the blood and prevented from tracking down to the CD4 protecting the gut lining. 

It is essential that such treatment be accompanied by positive diet of protein, carbohydrates, minerals and vitamins for the process of rebuilding and replenishment of cells and tissues.

Nutrients,water and salts can be restored together with the homeostasis or water-salt balance. Diarrhoea ceases as absorption begins again through the gut lining.


Otherwise the sufferer slowly dies of starvation, suffocation, dehydration and infection.


When an AIDS sufferer is admitted to hospital in later stages of the sickness, what is the first treatment? ......... water-salt balance treatment !!!

A drip is given of water, salts and sugars. Several refills may be administered. For some, it may be too little too late. 

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