I originally posted the link to Hivskeptic to illustrate the extraordinary CD-4 test results of Maf-314...(CD-4 and T4 cells are the same thing btw).
Maf-314 has been PROVEN to raise T4 cell counts. Very exciting!
I wouldn't want to discourage anyone from trying anything safe, in fact I try very hard to encourage people with CFS...People I speak to by phone and private email.
The point I'm making is perhaps similar to when Dr. Cheney was taking people to Panama and doing stem cell transplants. I was hopeful, but wanted to see the 'proof' for CFS patients. Stem cell transplants are life altering for many different diseases, and in fact legal in the U.S. for quite a few diseases that have been proven to be helped by it.
Okay, so stem cell transplants didn't work for CFS and I saved time, precious energy and a lot of money by waiting.
My point is MAF-314 has only been proven to dramatically impact T4 cells.
I too HOPE MAF-314 will dramatically alter other aspects of the immune system...Particularly NK cells and their function. But I will wait for proof before assuming that it does.
Here is a fascinating article about another group who was doing research and studies on people using yogurt specifically to improve CD-4 cell counts...
A French food company known in the US as DANNON. An independent Data Safety Monitoring Board (DSMB) recommended that the STUDY BE STOPPED prematurely. What remains unclear, however, is why a study of this nature would be stopped when there is little evidence of harm, limited commercial access to the tested agent and a desire for long-term follow-up data from studies of nutritional supplements.
Interesting indeed...Why was this stopped? Dannon went quite a ways with this. It might have already been commercially available. Read about it.
http://www.aidsmeds.com/articles/NR100157_dietary_probiotic_1667_17313.shtml
On a different note, the recipe for Dr. Ruggerio's yogurt is not yet available but it seems that the basis for it is colostrum...Here's the wiki definition of colostrum..
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colostrum
The recipe includes many different probiotics. Figuring out what's in it is way outside the scope of something I'd be able to figure out, but I feel certain there are least two people on this board who could. I hope the recipe finds it's way to the internet soon. Godspeed!
I just received an instant message from someone telling me of another class for making MAF 314 is being taught in Austria. They sent me the website, but I don't speak the language so can't comment.
To all who are traveling to Asheville to take part in the Maf-314 class...I wish you all the best! And I mean ALL! I don't have enough good things to say about Dr. Cheney. Saw him for more than a decade and wish I could still afford to see him...He's one of a kind.
Best,
Questus