Wednesday, October 27, 2004
Lemon aids
besides the fact that i'm utterly depressed over a stupid grade i just received... i just had a fantastic lecture by this ultra cool dude called Roger Short. he' the guy who pioneered the discovery that lemon juice can kill teh AIDS virus. I first heard of him when one of my temple mates approached me to ask if i wanted to participate in a trial of testing out the lemon juice. I was like.. erm.. lemon juice + sex??? er... no. ( by the way, no sex was involved in teh trial, i was thinking too far off.. usual me)
Never heard of this dude again.. till now. I"ve heard of his legendary lecture, but man... i was utterly blown off by this guy's passion for his work. I think each and every medknob ( accept for the idiot reading the age in teh front row) walked out feeling really really inspired to join the fight against aids.. or to help out at teh developing world.It kinda made me renew my dream to go and work in a dev. nation in the future :)
""A Melbourne scientist, Professor Roger V.Short, the Wexler Professorial Fellow, Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology of the University of Melbourne at the Royal Women's Hospital in Melbourne has made the dramatic discovery that the juice of the lemon kills HIV in the test tube! Human trials are soon to get underway in Thailand."
http://www.aids.net.au/lemons-intro.htm
I guess it was inspiring because he made us realised that even as med students. we could go out there and help with teh fight against AIDs, and then lecture he gave was actualy delivered in USA just the previous week. It was awesome. for the first time in my life.. i saw how AIDs came about.. how it was spread.
IT is actually an innocuous virus in chimps.. ANd it was transfered to man in the dense forests of africa when a hunter probably accidnetally cut himself while skinning a chimp he had caught. Well.. that would ahve been alright if it was contained in the isolated village where he came from.. but nooooo. the greedy log industry started fellinga ll the trees.. in came the workers.. out went the condoms.. and out came AIDs.. Hai.. there we go again.. men and sex.. that's the reason why AIDs is afflicting so many pple in the world. Juz coz a couple of workers had their brains in their dicks.
Despite the enormous pubilicty of AIDs, hardly anything is being done to help where aid is most needed.. in the devlpoing nations.. where the disease is ravaging the populations in millions.
But here are some interesting bits
GUYS .. GET THAT FORESKIN SLICED OFF.. it spreads AIDS.. the inner layer of the foreskin, which inverts inside out during eraction is like a magnet for the HIV virus.. The outer layer, which has a layer of keratin on it, prevents penetration of the virus into the body system
( at thi spoint, we had free porno in the lecture coz our prim and proper lecturer couldn't find a better pictures. LOL.. it really pollutes your mind man.. as lzfound out later when we were staring at this flower which had a very very unique shape .. let's just say the appreciation session ended by a comment from me)
For the ladies.. nah.. we don't suggest slicing your vagina skin off ( tho' thats the equivalent of the foreskin) .. but inserting a OCP pill up your vagina will help keratinise it and prevent aids from getting through. too bad the selfish drug company manufacturing the pills is too haughty to help out expand this research area because " they don'[t wanna get their name soiled by associating their product with AIDS." welll.. Newss flaaaaash.. take a look at the pple dying round the world and see if you can say that agian with a clear conscience.
Did you know that breast feeding helps prevent the spread of AIDS from mother to child if and ONLY IF the mother is exclusively breast feeding the kid and not giving cow's milk.
I think the point that really touched my heart was the picture of a frail, shrivelled hand of a child dying of AIDs resting in the palm of another hand.
"think simple, simply think"
ROger SHort
besides the fact that i'm utterly depressed over a stupid grade i just received... i just had a fantastic lecture by this ultra cool dude called Roger Short. he' the guy who pioneered the discovery that lemon juice can kill teh AIDS virus. I first heard of him when one of my temple mates approached me to ask if i wanted to participate in a trial of testing out the lemon juice. I was like.. erm.. lemon juice + sex??? er... no. ( by the way, no sex was involved in teh trial, i was thinking too far off.. usual me)
Never heard of this dude again.. till now. I"ve heard of his legendary lecture, but man... i was utterly blown off by this guy's passion for his work. I think each and every medknob ( accept for the idiot reading the age in teh front row) walked out feeling really really inspired to join the fight against aids.. or to help out at teh developing world.It kinda made me renew my dream to go and work in a dev. nation in the future :)
""A Melbourne scientist, Professor Roger V.Short, the Wexler Professorial Fellow, Department of Obstetrics & Gynaecology of the University of Melbourne at the Royal Women's Hospital in Melbourne has made the dramatic discovery that the juice of the lemon kills HIV in the test tube! Human trials are soon to get underway in Thailand."
http://www.aids.net.au/lemons-intro.htm
I guess it was inspiring because he made us realised that even as med students. we could go out there and help with teh fight against AIDs, and then lecture he gave was actualy delivered in USA just the previous week. It was awesome. for the first time in my life.. i saw how AIDs came about.. how it was spread.
IT is actually an innocuous virus in chimps.. ANd it was transfered to man in the dense forests of africa when a hunter probably accidnetally cut himself while skinning a chimp he had caught. Well.. that would ahve been alright if it was contained in the isolated village where he came from.. but nooooo. the greedy log industry started fellinga ll the trees.. in came the workers.. out went the condoms.. and out came AIDs.. Hai.. there we go again.. men and sex.. that's the reason why AIDs is afflicting so many pple in the world. Juz coz a couple of workers had their brains in their dicks.
Despite the enormous pubilicty of AIDs, hardly anything is being done to help where aid is most needed.. in the devlpoing nations.. where the disease is ravaging the populations in millions.
But here are some interesting bits
GUYS .. GET THAT FORESKIN SLICED OFF.. it spreads AIDS.. the inner layer of the foreskin, which inverts inside out during eraction is like a magnet for the HIV virus.. The outer layer, which has a layer of keratin on it, prevents penetration of the virus into the body system
( at thi spoint, we had free porno in the lecture coz our prim and proper lecturer couldn't find a better pictures. LOL.. it really pollutes your mind man.. as lzfound out later when we were staring at this flower which had a very very unique shape .. let's just say the appreciation session ended by a comment from me)
For the ladies.. nah.. we don't suggest slicing your vagina skin off ( tho' thats the equivalent of the foreskin) .. but inserting a OCP pill up your vagina will help keratinise it and prevent aids from getting through. too bad the selfish drug company manufacturing the pills is too haughty to help out expand this research area because " they don'[t wanna get their name soiled by associating their product with AIDS." welll.. Newss flaaaaash.. take a look at the pple dying round the world and see if you can say that agian with a clear conscience.
Did you know that breast feeding helps prevent the spread of AIDS from mother to child if and ONLY IF the mother is exclusively breast feeding the kid and not giving cow's milk.
I think the point that really touched my heart was the picture of a frail, shrivelled hand of a child dying of AIDs resting in the palm of another hand.
"think simple, simply think"
ROger SHort
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