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Your immune system makes its own antiviral drug − and it’s likely one of the most ancient
The Conversation ^ | October 11, 2023 8.29am EDT | Staff

Posted on 10/20/2023 10:58:14 AM PDT by Red Badger

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1 posted on 10/20/2023 10:58:14 AM PDT by Red Badger
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To: ConservativeMind; SunkenCiv

Ping!....................


2 posted on 10/20/2023 10:58:41 AM PDT by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: Red Badger

Personally, I find injecting chlorine bleach as being an effective anti-viral.


3 posted on 10/20/2023 11:05:49 AM PDT by ConservativeInPA (Rebuild the Temple.)
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To: Red Badger
Sounds like some hippie voodoo nonsense.

Just give me multiple injections of spike protein producing mRNA wrapped in synthetic lipid nanoparticles like Mother Nature intended.

4 posted on 10/20/2023 11:21:33 AM PDT by SIDENET
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To: ConservativeInPA

I like 128 proof Bourbon and a nice cigar for my anti-viral.

Repeat as often as necessary


5 posted on 10/20/2023 11:22:40 AM PDT by OHPatriot (Si vis pacem, para bellum)
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To: ConservativeInPA

It must be because you get a dose every time you drink city water.


6 posted on 10/20/2023 11:27:01 AM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Keep America Beautiful by keeping Canadian Trash Out. Deport Jennifer Granholm!)
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To: Red Badger

Protease inhibitor...what drug did the FDA ban that had that again?


7 posted on 10/20/2023 11:29:00 AM PDT by struggle
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To: OHPatriot

See, there are alternatives. I’m not a close minded guy, but I want cures that are scientific and time tested.


8 posted on 10/20/2023 11:30:45 AM PDT by ConservativeInPA (Rebuild the Temple.)
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To: Red Badger

Well, the immune system produces that drug - until mRNA from the Prince of Disaster - Pfizer takes care of things.


9 posted on 10/20/2023 11:31:18 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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To: Red Badger

The interferon-inducible protein viperin controls cancer metabolic reprogramming to enhance cancer progression

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/36227691/


10 posted on 10/20/2023 11:40:28 AM PDT by RummyChick
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To: RummyChick

here is another interesting article. This virus is one that many people have had and dont even know it

https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/science.1202007

old science:

Human Cytomegalovirus Directly Induces the Antiviral Protein Viperin to Enhance Infectivity


11 posted on 10/20/2023 11:43:21 AM PDT by RummyChick
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To: Red Badger

“But recent research has uncovered”
How can anyone but Babylon Bee report such stuff. For thousands of years people have repeated that the body builds its own defenses. For thousands of year people have said Mothers milk transmits the defenses of the mother to the baby.

For Hundreds of years the description has been scientific.
For almost a hundred years the scientific explanation has been quite specific and accurate.

For my 80 years it has been preached that certain sinful habits destroy a mom’s defenses so that she cannot pass on her defenses to her baby via her milk.


12 posted on 10/20/2023 11:43:21 AM PDT by spintreebob (ki .h )
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To: Red Badger

Nature sure is dumb. Professional affirmative-action grant recipients and their non-reproducible peer-reviewed journal articles are so much smarter.


13 posted on 10/20/2023 11:46:20 AM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (The worst thing about censorship is █████ ██ ████ ████████ █ ███████ ████. FJB.)
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To: RummyChick

Viperin—taken down with a pinch of salt

“What to eat when you have a cold has always been the subject of much debate and advice, usually informed by very little science. However, in this issue of EMBO Reports, Yuan et al (2021) uncover an intriguing link between a high salt diet and a susceptibility to viral infection. Mice fed on a short-term high salt diet were found to carry a higher viral load than control mice fed a normal diet. The researchers trace this effect back to a salt-induced decrease in cellular levels of the antiviral protein, viperin. More generally, these studies provide further insights into the regulation of proteins involved in the cellular antiviral response.”

https://www.embopress.org/doi/full/10.15252/embr.202154258


14 posted on 10/20/2023 11:48:21 AM PDT by RummyChick
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To: RummyChick

here is something to consider for those that have cancer. you would need to research further this idea that viperin enhances cancer....and salt does a number on viperin.


15 posted on 10/20/2023 11:52:29 AM PDT by RummyChick
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To: Red Badger

” But recent research has uncovered an unexpected facet to your immune system: It can synthesize its own antiviral molecules in response to viral infections. “

I have always insti9nctively believed that.

I have always believed/understood the very nature of the immune system is not for dealing with the known or previously known biological attacks - the “day to day work of the immune system - but to find ways to attack brand new previously not experienced attackers. That last part is how the immune system got to where it now attacks things that it sees as “known” attackers to begin with.

It has to be. A newborn has some working and functioning immunity it got from its mother, but it does not last but a few weeks or few months at most,before the natural immune system has to start devising defenses on its own; and it does; whether it does that as well in everyone or not.


16 posted on 10/20/2023 11:52:55 AM PDT by Wuli
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Functionally, viperin increased lipogenesis and glycolysis in cancer cells by inhibiting fatty acid β-oxidation. Viperin expression also enhanced cancer stem cell properties, ultimately promoting tumor initiation in murine models.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9753986/


17 posted on 10/20/2023 11:58:03 AM PDT by RummyChick
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To: Wuli

But that same thing turns on you and enhances cancer. Then it seems to me that you want to knock down Viperin somehow.

Cancer really must have been developed by the Devil if you believe in such a thing because it is one tricky S.O.B.


18 posted on 10/20/2023 12:01:07 PM PDT by RummyChick
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To: RummyChick

Is it your point that while viperin fights viruses — it also promotes the growth of cancer cells?

That doesn’t sound like a very good tradeoff unless you can get the the viperin to show up to kill the virus and then quickly disappear before you get a cancer bloom.

Virus’s are pretty tricky too.


19 posted on 10/20/2023 3:17:43 PM PDT by ckilmer (ui)
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To: Red Badger; 2ndreconmarine; Fitzcarraldo; Covenantor; Mother Abigail; EBH; Dog Gone; ...
Infectious Disease ping - "Your immune system makes its own antiviral drug − and it’s likely one of the most ancient"
Understanding the natural immune system and the mechanics how it functions, replicates, and defends the body
Fortunately, graphics are included ..(whew !)

(From the article):" Viruses have no independent life cycle
they are completely dependent on the cells they infect to supply all the chemical building blocks needed to replicate themselves.(Emphasis mine)
Once inside a cell, the virus hijacks its machinery and turns it into a factory to make hundreds of new viruses.
Antiviral drugs are molecules that inactivate proteins essential to the functioning of the virus by exploiting the fundamental differences in the way that cells and viruses replicate.

"One key difference between cells and most viruses is how they store their genetic information.
All cells use DNA to store their genetic information.
DNA is a long, chainlike molecule built from four different chemical building blocks, each representing a different “letter” of the genetic code.
These building blocks are connected by chemical bonds in a head-to-tail fashion to produce strings of millions of letters.
The order of these letters spells out the genetic blueprint for building a new cell."

"Many viruses, however, store their genetic information using RNA.
RNA is built from a chain of four chemical letters, just like DNA, but the letters have slightly different molecular structures.
RNA is single-stranded, while DNA is double-stranded.
Viral genomes are also much smaller than cellular genomes, typically only a few thousand letters long."

"Researchers were clued in to viperin’s function when they noticed that the gene coding for viperin is next to a gene involved in synthesizing one of RNA’s building blocks.
This observation led them to examine whether viperin might modify this RNA building block."

"Following this discovery, researchers identified viperinlike proteins across all kingdoms of life, from ancient bacteria to modern plants and animals.
This meant that viperin is a very ancient protein that evolved early in life, probably well before the advent of multicellular organisms
– because even bacteria must fight viral infections."

HT/Red Badger for the narration and graphic display
A REALLY Great Find !

20 posted on 10/20/2023 3:42:16 PM PDT by Tilted Irish Kilt ( )
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