How Positive Are You

Episode 25: Interview with Dr. Matt Irwin

David — Fri, 06 Aug 2010 02:05:57 +0000

Matt Irwin is an MD who trained at George Washington University in Washington, DC and now practices in Alexandria, Virginia. A long-time critic of the HIV=AIDS hypothesis, this interview is an opportunity to learn how an open-minded MD assists people who are HIV-positive or diagnosed with AIDS without seeing antiretroviral drugs as the one and only solution.

Matt is interviewed by Terry Michael and David Crowe and the discussion ranges from the history of the HIV hypothesis and the meaning of HIV tests to the impact of stress on human health.

Episode 24: How I Overcame AIDS

David — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 19:19:15 +0000

Richard Schooping descended into AIDS after the death of his third husband, something he now realizes that was due to the AIDS drugs. He endured the drugs twice, once at this time, and later after a snowboarding accident in 2004. But in 2006 he quite the drugs for good.

As this interview with David Crowe and Celia Farber shows, it was his discovery of mediation that gradually allowed his psychological and physical healing. This podcast includes three samples of Richard’s beautiful music.

Visit Richard’s website to learn more about him, his music, and his book, “From Suffering to Soaring”.

Episode 23: Curing AIDS in Your Kitchen

David_Celia — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 13:50:05 +0000

Paul Yeager has got some real, very hard-earned answers to the disease syndrome(s) we call AIDS. Not to be missed. Imagine the early days of radio, and draw closer!

He retraces his journey from AIDS victim to superb health…only through changing to what he believes is the best diet in the world, described in his book, “Immune: How I Beat AIDS in My Kitchen”. With Celia Farber and David Crowe Paul describes just how deathly ill he was soon after his positive HIV test in 2004, and how things changed rapidly and dramatically after he saw the light about diet and toxins. By removing drugs, including alcohol, and initiating an ancient diet, inspired by the Weston Price foundation, he returned to superb mental and physical health.

Celia’s audio quality is not as high as it should be in this episode as her recording equipment was packed in a box in the process of moving.

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Episode 22 – GAIA and the Politics of Love

David_Celia — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 04:47:21 +0000

Serena Anderlini-D’Onofrio is the author of the new award-winning book “GAIA and the Politics of Love”. This is a frank discussion with Celia Farber and David Crowe of sex, sexuality, symbiosis, GAIA theory, fear, death, love and AIDS.

For more information on these subjects, visit Serena at serenagaia.com and polyplanet.blogspot.com. She also recommends reading O ur Daily Meds by Melody Petersen, Exploring Intimacy by Suzann Robins and Mystery Dance: On the Evolution of Human Sexuality by Lynn Margulis and Dorion Sagan.

Episode 21: Edmond McNack

David_Celia — Thu, 22 Apr 2010 19:44:00 +0000

Christine Maggiore really wanted to help Edmond McNack get his story out. But, after taping an introduction, technical problems prevented taping on December 10th, 2008. And by December 27th she was gone. This podcast includes her original introduction and an interview conducted later by David Crowe and Celia Farber.

Edmond’s life was turned upside down when, doing his duty as a sheriff’s deputy, he was bitten by a prisoner. Even though HIV tests on him and the prisoner came back negative within 24 hours he was encouraged to continue AIDS drugs for 12 weeks (he managed 10 despite excruciating side effects). This caused a condition called Sarcoidosis, non-cancerous tumors throughout the body. The solution was high dose prednisone which caused such severe bone loss that Edmond needed both hips replaced. Compounding the tragedy, at every turn he was denied compensation. Although sarcoidosis after AIDS drugs is well known, it has never been reported before in HIV-negative people (well, duh! HIV-negative people hardly ever taken AIDS drugs!). Therefore, the experts said, there was no proof the drugs caused sarcoidosis in Edmond. Edmond has exhausted all avenues of appeal and now just wants to get his story out to help others.

You can read one of the decisions that went against him. It is both illuminating and chilling.

Some photographs of Edmond help illustrate the story.

If you are interested in interviewing Edmond or just talking with him please contact us at info@howpositiveareyou.com and we will put you in touch with him.

Episode 20: Test and Treat

David — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 18:54:00 +0000

In Terry Michael’s first podcast as an official co-host he discusses the ”Test and Treat” concept – a massive experiment with toxic drugs on blacks and gay men in Washington DC and elsewhere.

The idea is that everyone in defined risk groups should be tested for HIV. In Washington DC this means all black people as well as gay men. In San Francisco mainly gay men. In Vancouver, Canada, mainly IV drug users. Once the target is identified all who test positive will be given AIDS drugs right away – not to try to prevent disease, but to prevent transmission.

If there was scientific evidence that this would reduce the long-term risk of AIDS the morality of treating people with drugs with well-documented fatal side effects could be debated. But there is no scientific evidence for this concept. Could it be that it is a desperate “Hail Mary” pass to try to increase the number of people consuming drugs?

For more information also read Terry Michael’s article and watch the New York Magazine video, Another Kind of AIDS Crisis that notes that, ”A striking number of HIV patients are experiencing symptoms usually identified with the elderly” (now what might be causing that?)

Episode 19: Freddie Buckley

Celia — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 17:31:54 +0000

In this episode of How Positive Are You, the name of the podcast is given new meaning. Host Celia Farber has a paradigm shifting conversation with Freddie Buckley, a UK citizen living in Madrid, who has been HIV positive and healthy since 1997, never having taken ARV medications.

Freddie, who met Farber at the Oakland Rethinking AIDS conference in 2009 (http://ra2009.org), is not a “survivor,” but rather, he has fully transcended the HIV meme, and all of its expected burdens. Not only is he healthy, he has not permitted the anti-body test to diminish his spirit, plans, or lust for life at any level. “I was moved and changed after this interview,” says Farber. “I have been waiting for Freddie Buckley for a very long time. What we have needed, but not realized we needed, was to ascend not in our scientific understanding, but in our spiritual willpower. Do we want to be free, or do we want to stay inside the meme and suffer? Who creates our suffering? Where does the command come from, to live at a lower frequency, under the HIV atomic cloud? Is it possible we could be free right now, this instant? Freddie made me realize that the answer is yes, we could be. Some might say he can afford to think like this because he has never been sick. I submit that it’s the other way around: That getting a handle on the meme right from the outset is the greatest predictor for health. Freddie is one of the first people I have ever spoken to who cast off the meme in its entirety.”

“I woke up one day,” he says in the interview, “and I realized there was nothing wrong with me.”

“This statement, when he said it, made us both laugh,” says Farber. “Even among dissidents, it amounts to a kind of faint heresy. You’re supposed to remain in a kind of… negotiating relationship with your antibodies. Freddie shows us all a third way, a new exit, back to what we might call fully normal life. I think Freddie and his message are a sign of the times.”

Happy spring, enjoy the podcast, spread the word, and make a donation if you like what you hear (you can donate via http://aras.ab.ca).

Episode 18: Dr. Henry Bauer

David_Celia — Sat, 20 Mar 2010 02:37:28 +0000

Celia, David and Terry Michael talk with the author of “The origin, persistence and failings of HIV/AIDS theory” and the new paper, “HIV Tests Are Not HIV Tests” about the difference between HIV and AIDS statistics, particular with regard to race and gender.

Episode 17: The Nagels

David_Celia — Sat, 27 Feb 2010 17:49:27 +0000

When a Minnesota couple decided to adopt a baby from the wreckage of Ceaucescu’s Romania it seemed like a beautiful thing. But then HIV turned their lives upside down.

Lindsey Nagel, the adopted child, spent about two years on AZT, suffering excruciating side effects. Now Lindsey is an adult, has been free of AIDS drugs (and all pharmaceuticals) for 17 years, and her story has emerged in Brent Leung’s film “House of Numbers”, with Lindsey and her parents participating in panel discussions at several screenings, including at the RA 2009 conference. In this episode you will hear parents Steve and Cheryl, along with Lindsey, discuss their experiences in more detail than ever before with co-hosts Celia Farber and David Crowe along with guest host Terry Michael.

For more details visit Steve Nagel’s website aztsucks.com.

Episode 16: Tommy Morrison

David — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 04:34:03 +0000

Tommy Morrison was on top of the world in 1996. World heavyweight boxing champion, star of Rocky V with Sylvester Stallone, winner of almost every fight…his life was turned upside down when he tested positive for HIV antibodies just before a fight.

In 2006 he re-tested and was negative and has tested negative many times since then. Celia Farber and David Crowe join guest host Terry Michael in this exclusive interview.

For more information see Morrison’s website at http://tommythedukemorrison.com