In April last year my beautiful male cat Ninja started to behave as if he was feeling out of sorts. He developed a fever, which spiked very sharply and suddenly. He became extremely lethargic.

We sought help from a veterinarian in a nearby city. Ninja was diagnosed with feline AIDS, and a systemic infection from a tick bite. He was a very sick kitty. The vet did not think he would make it, because the feline AIDS disease ruins the immune system, just as AIDS does in humans. The Dr. began aggressive antibiotic therapy, and intra venous hydration to bring down the cats fever and prevent further dehydration. Something else very unusual for a cat began to appear, polyarthritic joints over his entire body. Ninja could barely move and when he did move, he would cry in pain.

When the fever decreased and the fluids replenished, he was sent home with a referral to Colorado State University College of Veterinary Medicine in Fort Collins, Colorado, 130 miles from our home. I did not think that Ninja would survive the car trip.

The doctors at CSU gave him new antibiotics, many tests and steroids, all in the hope of relieving his symptoms of feline AIDS. Three weeks later, we had completed the best course of treatments that veterinary medicine had to offer. There was no improvement.

I decided to do something drastic for my beloved cat. I started forcing him to swallow a capsule, 500 milligrams of Apple Poly twice a day. Apple Poly has shown some remarkable results in laboratory animal studies, and I had no hope with any of the animal doctors. It seems that feline aids is a death sentence for your cat. Ninja had been so sick that he had dropped from a 14 pound cat to a 7 pound cat. 500 milligrams twice a day for an animal so frail is a huge dose. I wondered if the Apple Poly would help or harm, I didn't know.

At first, nothing happened. He seemed to be in the same condition, I was still force-feeding him with an eyedropper just to keep him alive. I was relieved to see that he had no apparent adverse reaction to the Apple Poly capsules, so I continued to administer the nutritional antioxidant for the next three weeks.

After 21 days of supplementing with Apple Poly only, he suddenly seemed more alive. His eyes brightened, and he could stand up without mewing in pain. After 35 to 40 days of the supplement, his appetite grew, he began to put on some of the weight he had lost, and his joint pain was gone. All symptoms of the feline AIDS disease are gone.

I continue to supplement his diet with the Apple Poly, however the dose is much smaller, half a capsule, or 250 milligrams a day, mixed in his food. (He got so strong that I could not force him to swallow a capsule, fur would fly and claws would flash)

He continues to put on new muscle. At his worst he looked like a black bath mat with eyes, he now behaves badly, as all of my black cats do. He feels certain urges and he will not be denied. Scratching on the furniture and trying to make kittens with the neighborhood females is his exercise. We are so happy to have our cat back in the "Land of the living", even if he does a "Bad Kitty " thing now and then.