How to treat viral infection

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We have very few means of combating viruses.

The big Pharma companies would like you to believe that they have a successful way of attacking viruses.

But they really do not have any idea how to treat viral infection.

Many viruses infect people when they’re young, and never leave the human body.

Examples of this are chickenpox virus, a form of herpes that often turns into shingles later in life.

We have many men in our programs who have shingles.

The shingles are very painful.

Then they turn into a long term irritating and painful condition called postherpetic neuralgia.

Postherpetic neuralgia is the nerve damage caused by the virus.

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If you have shingles, or any other viral issue, today’s newsletter may help you quite a bit.

Let’s start with a very common virus which about 80% of people get and never know they have.

It’s called JCV or Human Polyomavirus.

This is a virus that can cause immune issues over time.

And this study helps us understand how to treat the virus.

Initial infection with JCV occurs early in childhood and eventually infects between 70 and 80% in the adult population.

The initial infection is subclinical, and the virus establishes a lifelong persistent infection.

JCV normally does not produce significant symptoms.

However, if you are already immune compromised, you may develop serious infections from JCV.

These infections are similar to multiple sclerosis, as they remove the myelin sheath in the nerves, and result in death.

The myelin sheath is an insulating layer on the ends of certain types of nerve cells.

It’s a crucial protection, and damage to this layer leads to immune issues, and can lead to death.

This disease has skyrocketed to the point where one in 200,000 people have active forms of the disease.

It’s all from JCV which normally doesn’t bother us.

At any given time,  5% of the population is actively excreting virus in the urine, and JCV is a frequent contaminant of untreated human sewage.

It turns out that the simple over-the-counter antihistamine cyproheptadine can reverse the JCV virus.

And it may potentially reverse many other viruses.

That’s why studies like this next one are so important.

This study shows that many common viruses can be stopped cold by the same common over-the-counter old-style antihistamine, cyproheptadine.

Researchers infected a group of cells with many different viruses including influenza, Ebola, Marburg virus and others.

Then they exposed the infected cells to 1200 different FDA approved drugs.

After evaluating the results, the clear winner was cyproheptadine.

In reasonable doses, cyproheptadine was able to stop the viruses cold.

It was able to reverse the infestation of the viruses in the cells that had been infected.

It’s quite likely that this action is quite universal with almost any viral infection.

Cyproheptadine has a history of decades of safe use.

But it is very cheap to produce, and the drug companies have moved beyond it and never pay attention to it anymore.

Without being able to patent the drug any longer, it’s just not profitable to produce.

So they ignore it.

But it shows immense promise in treating viruses and needs more attention.

Cyproheptadine is an antihistamine, and it also lowers serotonin levels.

It is the serotonin lowering mechanism that is thought responsible for its antiviral qualities.

Viruses seem to require serotonin to infect cells.

Cyproheptadine stops the serotonin receptors and stops the virus from infecting the cells.

Essentially, the cheap antihistamine starves the virus and keeps it out of the cells.

You may even call it a cure for viral infections.

Sounds like something you’ll want to talk to your doctor about if you are diagnosed with an infection.


Matt Cook is editor-in-chief of Daily Medical Discoveries. Matt has been a full time health researcher for 26 years. ABC News interviewed Matt on sexual health issues not long ago. Matt is widely quoted on over 1,000,000 websites. He has over 300,000 daily newsletter readers. Daily Medical Discoveries finds hidden, buried or ignored medical studies through the lens of 100 years of proven science. Matt heads up the editorial team of scientists and health researchers. Each discovery is based upon primary studies from peer reviewed science sources following the Daily Medical Discoveries 7 Step Process to ensure accuracy.
The Human Polyomavirus, JCV, Uses Serotonin Receptors to Infect Cells
http://science.sciencemag.org/content/306/5700/1380.abstract 

Inhibition of Ebola and Marburg viral entry by G protein-coupled receptor 2 antagonists 
http://jvi.asm.org/content/early/2015/07/16/JVI.01337-15.full.pdf 

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