snacks such as fruit, nuts and sandwiches to maintain our blood sugar levels.

Through combining slowly-digested carbohydrates with protein, and eating regularly throughout the day, we can provide a steady supply of energy to our body and reduce our risk of opportunistic infections.
Keep it absorbing
Any medicine - whether tablet or toast - is only going to work if it is absorbed, and absorption can be a problem in HIV.
Our body tries to completely reline our gut with a new layer of skin every two to three days. This skin absorbs the nutrients from our gut, and prevents water and minerals leaking out of our body, causing diarrhoea.
Stress, lack of sleep, food 'allergies', Candida overgrowth, chemotherapy, and some combination therapies can slow down this repair process, creating raw areas where we can't absorb nutrients properly. So even though we may have a healthy diet we may not be absorbing all the nutrients we eat. This may explain why vitamin, mineral and fatty acid deficiencies are so common in HIV.
We can counteract this by eating unrefined or organic nutrient-dense foods with a high vitamin and mineral content, and supplement this with a good quality multivitamin every morning. (Solgar or Biocare, for example.)
Strong in the gut
We can improve nutrient absorption and reduce fluid and minerals leaking out from our gut wall by helping it heal and grow faster. Reducing our levels of stress, getting enough deep healing sleep, and avoiding foods we are 'allergic' to, all help our gut wall reline itself faster, improving absorption and reducing fluid loss. We can also try L-glutamine, an amino acid that helps our gut wall repair faster.
A leaky gut wall can cause diarrhoea leaving us exhausted from dehydration and mineral loss, and at risk of bacterial overgrowth. We can manage this by increasing our fluid intake together with a

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mineral replacement such as Dioralyte, and recolonising our gut daily with protective acidophilus bacteria in capsules. (Biocare's Replete offers an excellent 7-day intensive