With all the talk of global warming, assuming that it is happening, there is no talk of global oxidation, which is undeniably happening. Aside from all the pollution, the antibiotic use (people and animals), the use of estrogenic substances, the "dead" and "dying" lakes, etc., this happens within peoples' bodies. One manifestation of it is "AIDS," which is not an immune deficiency syndrome (because the "HIV infected patients" sometimes are said to die of very particular and unusual infections, but are often healthy for many years and don't get sick more often than the "average, healthy" person during this time). Instead, most cases of "AIDS" appear to be characterized by a great deal of oxidative stress.
Oxidative conditions favor fungi, and the "opportunistic infections" said to kill "AIDS patients" are mostly fungal in nature. Many people not said to be "HIV infected" have problems with "yeast infections" - another manifestation of this. Vitamin and mineral deficiencies are more likely to occur under these condtions as well. If we look at nature, we see that things like berries use massive amounts of antioxdants to fend off fungi. Berries could also contain things like enzyme inhibitiors, the way legumes do, but berries want animals to eat them, to scatter the seeds around, and so the solution was to contain the antioxidants, which are not likely to cause healthy animals any problems. Today, because "Western" diets are mostly highly oxidative (due to consumption of refined and highly unsaturated oils in particular), |