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Did anyone catch the recent article about activated charcoal? A university did a few test with herpes in a Petri dish and found that activated charcoal, along side antivirals minimized the viruses  replication even more. So, they found that taking activated charcoal with antivirals worked so well, people can lessen their dosage of antivirals. I’ve been trying to research using activated charcoal by itself. Has anyone had any luck using it? I inserted a link of one of the articles down below. Hopefully it works. 

 

 

https://www.genengnews.com/news/a-spoonful-of-charcoal-helps-the-antiviral-go-down/

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8 hours ago, Hopeful.faith. said:

Did anyone catch the recent article about activated charcoal? A university did a few test with herpes in a Petri dish and found that activated charcoal, along side antivirals minimized the viruses  replication even more. So, they found that taking activated charcoal with antivirals worked so well, people can lessen their dosage of antivirals. I’ve been trying to research using activated charcoal by itself. Has anyone had any luck using it? I inserted a link of one of the articles down below. Hopefully it works. 

 

 

https://www.genengnews.com/news/a-spoonful-of-charcoal-helps-the-antiviral-go-down/

Taking it does nothing. The charcoal acts as a time-release for topical creams

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2 hours ago, vzhe said:

Taking it does nothing. The charcoal acts as a time-release for topical creams

Thanks the whole study on it depresses me it sounds so old fashioned.  I thought we were starting to edit away latent virus and stuff. 

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19 hours ago, brookeb300 said:

Thanks the whole study on it depresses me it sounds so old fashioned.  I thought we were starting to edit away latent virus and stuff. 

It is an old fashioned 'technology' being used in a new way. 

If you could take a medication that would make you unable to transmit you would be thrilled, wouldn't you? 

That's what this is trying to get towards. 

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47 minutes ago, iFdUp said:

It is an old fashioned 'technology' being used in a new way. 

If you could take a medication that would make you unable to transmit you would be thrilled, wouldn't you? 

That's what this is trying to get towards. 

I’m more interested in the Fred hutch stuff honestly.  

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3 hours ago, brookeb300 said:

I’m more interested in the Fred hutch stuff honestly.  

Also I think the group that came up with this had previously found some drug that seemed to work on herpes B-some number- does anyone remember this? And they didn’t mention it at all but instead were focusing on acyclovir again.  Acyclovir does work but we need better drugs and therapies too!!! Acyclovir is old now.  That’s y I like the Fred hutch stuff it’s new and cutting edge.

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On 9/27/2019 at 8:06 PM, brookeb300 said:

Also I think the group that came up with this had previously found some drug that seemed to work on herpes B-some number- does anyone remember this? And they didn’t mention it at all but instead were focusing on acyclovir again.  Acyclovir does work but we need better drugs and therapies too!!! Acyclovir is old now.  That’s y I like the Fred hutch stuff it’s new and cutting edge.

BX795 is the drug you are thinking of.

These discoveries are new variations of preexisting therapies, they are not "old". No one has ever thought to infuse acyclovir with activated charcoal and apply it topically to enhance its effect. No one has ever thought to modify BX795 and use it as an anti HSV drug. These new variations all could clear virus 100x more effectively than anything we currently have. 

DO you know how penicillin was discovered to cure bacterial infections? This is exactly how. They took something that was already out there and they tweaked it.

 The Fred Hutch stuff isnt exactly new or cutting edge either, Meganucleose technology has been around since the 90's. He was just able to take it and modify it to be effective against HSV. Treatments and cures come in many different forms, and sometimes the answer is just taking something we've already got and changing it.

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