Fireside / Simon & Schuster Publishing - Republish Why I Survive AIDS in Kindle Format Please

PLEASE! The world is dealing with many health issues. There is a powerful book that has delivered outstanding results in my life and the lives of others. Now is the time to make available a Kindle re-publication of Why I Survive AIDS by Niro Markoff and Paul Duffy, originally published by Fireside in the early 1990s. 

This book, which I have cherished and shared with many, is a profound, practical, and hopeful guide for those navigating chronic illness and seeking to connect with their "Healer Within".

I typed the entire book into my computer years ago to preserve it after giving away many hard copies, and I recently revisited my reflections about Niro’s teachings, shared here in 2006: a syncopation of a 2005 blog entry. 

Now at age 72, I continue to work with my Healer Within as Niro taught/teaches, even overcoming challenges like a radiation injury that led to epilepsy. Niro’s teachings, rooted in profound self-honesty and acceptance, remain a beacon for myself and many others seeking holistic paths during our times of challenges and  transformation.

Despite being out of print, Why I Survive AIDS retains 5-star Amazon reviews and is needed more than ever for:

• Those living with HIV/AIDS or other chronic conditions seeking complementary, mind-body-spirit support.

• The growing community interested in psychoimmunology and emotional healing as part of wellness.

• A new generation discovering that health can include spiritual and emotional integrity alongside medical care.

In addition to an on demand printed edition, a Kindle edition would require minimal investment while restoring access globally, preserving Niro’s legacy for readers and wellness communities who may otherwise never discover this book’s life-changing wisdom.

If helpful, I would be glad to:

✅ Contribute a brief updated foreword contextualizing the book’s relevance today.

✅ Add my testimonial whose life was empowered with knowledge of how to work with my healer within having survived since 2014 1 grand mal seizure that left me legally dead and 3 other seizures requiring hospitalization.

✅ Assist in outreach to holistic health and HIV wellness networks to support a successful re-launch.

Although I do not know if Niro is still alive, her teachings continue to heal, empower, and transform lives. It would be a blessing to help bring this work forward for those seeking hope and practical tools for living.

Thank you for considering this proposal to republish Why I Survive AIDS in on-demand print and Kindle formats, keeping alive a book that has helped many discover a powerful path to healing and wholeness.

Kyoto Hemp Forum - Medical

From Chris Conrad’s book HEMP: Lifeline To The Future

“Medical cannabis has been ubiquitous in human history, and its use was advised in virtually all ancient and medieval medicinal texts.” HLLTTF pg 10

Sir John Russell Reynolds, during his 30 years of experience as Queen Victoria's personal physician ... wrote in 1890 of marijuana, "When pure and administered carefully, it is one of the most valuable medicines we possess." page 14



"The complete protein in hempseed gives the body the combination of essential amino acids and essential fatty acids needed to maintain health.  It provides the components necessary to make human serum albumin and serum globulins, including the immune enhancing gamma globulin antibodies.  No epidemiological data indicate a rise in infections from smoking cannabis, as had once been claimed." page 145

"Cannabis smoke is an expectorant that cleans out air passages.  Heavy concentrations of smoke cause coughing that helps break up and expel phlegm.  The herb is an excellent dilator of the airways called the bronchi, opening them up to allow more oxygen into the blood, and of the bronchioles, small air tubes of the lungs.' page 150

In  Richard M. Davis’s book HEMP FOR VICTORY: THE WONDER HERB is an article written by the dynamic cannabis champion Dr. Lester Grinspoon.

“The study, from the University of California at San Francisco, found smoked marijuana to be effective at relieving the extreme pain of a debilitating condition known as peripheral neuropathy. It was a study of HIV patients, but a similar type of pain caused by damage to nerves afflicts people with many other illnesses including diabetes and multiple sclerosis.

Neuropathic pain is notoriously resistant to treatment with conventional pain drugs. Even powerful and addictive narcotics like morphine and OxyContin often provide little relief. This study leaves no doubt that marijuana can safely ease this type of pain.

As all marijuana research in the United States must be, the new study was conducted with government-supplied marijuana of notoriously poor quality. So it probably underestimated the potential benefit.

This is all good news, but it should not be news at all.

In the 40-odd years I have been studying the medicinal uses of marijuana, I have learned that the recorded history of this medicine goes back to ancient times and that in the 19th century it became a well established Western medicine whose versatility and safety were unquestioned.

From 1840 to 1900, American and European medical journals published over 100 papers on the therapeutic uses of marijuana, also known as cannabis.

Of course, our knowledge has advanced greatly over the years.

 
(Yes, this Dr. Lester Grinspoon with Cannabis Champion Ben Dronkers)

Scientists have identified over 60 unique constituents in marijuana, called cannabinoids, and we have learned much about how they work.

We have also learned that our own bodies produce similar chemicals, called endocannabinoids.

The mountain of accumulated anecdotal evidence that pointed the way to the present and other clinical studies also strongly suggests there are a number of other devastating disorders and symptoms for which marijuana has been used for centuries; they deserve the same kind of careful, methodologically sound research.

While few such studies have so far been completed, all have lent weight to what medicine already knew but had largely forgotten or ignored: Marijuana is effective at relieving nausea and vomiting, spasticity, appetite loss, certain types of pain, and other debilitating symptoms.

And it is extraordinarily safe -- safer than most medicines prescribed every day. If marijuana were a new discovery rather than a well-known substance carrying cultural and political baggage, it would be hailed as a wonder drug.”

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