Scientists say killing HIV's sugar intake kills its growth

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Scientists say killing HIV's sugar intake kills its growth
Topic Started: Jun 2 2015, 12:02 PM (161 Views)
Darcie	Jun 2 2015, 12:02 PM Post #1
Skeptic Posts: 31,154 Group: Member Member #714 Joined: March 30, 2010	Quote: A groundbreaking study reveals that starving HIV of sugar prevents it from reproducing. Scientists at Northwestern Medicine and Vanderbilt University say that after the virus invades an activated immune cell, it craves sugar and nutrients from the cell to replicate and fuel its growth throughout the body. The team discovered the switch that turns on the immune cell’s sugar and nutrient pipeline and blocked it with an experimental compound. This process, they say, shuts down the pipeline, and starves HIV to death. They added that the virus was unable to replicate in human cells in vitro. On Northwestern University's site, Prof. Harry Taylor explained that when HIV enters the bloodstream, it searches out active CD4+ T cells, which he refers to as the commanders-in-chief of the immune system. http://www.lfpress.com/2015/05/31/scientists-say-killing-hivs-sugar-intake-kills-its-growth Would it not be amazing if this works.



imjene	Jun 2 2015, 01:20 PM Post #2
Gold Star Member Posts: 3,960 Group: Member Member #745 Joined: April 4, 2010	Yes. It would also lead you to wonder if sugar might be the culprit in many other diseases.



margrace	Jun 2 2015, 02:02 PM Post #3
Gold Star Member Posts: 5,367 Group: Member Member #723 Joined: April 1, 2010	A lot on the TV lately about the dangers of sugar. I realize it is very hard for people who have never had any identification with Diabetes to admit that the sugar they have been pushing on other might not be that great.



Durgan	Jun 2 2015, 11:06 PM Post #4
Veteran Member Posts: 13,273 Group: Gardening Guru Member #720 Joined: March 31, 2010	imjene Jun 2 2015, 01:20 PM Yes. It would also lead you to wonder if sugar might be the culprit in many other diseases. IMO added sugar is poison. Edited by Durgan, Jun 2 2015, 11:06 PM.



Trotsky	Jun 3 2015, 12:23 AM Post #5
Big City Boy Posts: 38,319 Group: Member Member #79 Joined: September 8, 2005	Of course the definition of a sugarless (glucose) person is "corpse." Without blood sugar a person will fall dead in an instant. All living things use glucose as their major fuel. Thus one might be able to deprive a cell in a test tube of glucose (in vitro) but it would be quite impossible to do so in a living organism (in vivo.) Many things are possible and interesting in vitro that are completely useless in vivo. For example, perhaps HIV could be utterly wiped out in a test tube with cyanide gas or nitric acid, but that would have no bearing on their use in vivo. Edited by Trotsky, Jun 3 2015, 12:31 AM.



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