i hear the cure for hiv/aids is months away( a headline i read on yahoo), this great news got me thinking about someone i lost not long ago...
many years past, when my mother was still with us, we had a conversation about her work, and the tougher part of her job...she was a hospice care provider, and stayed with many that had this aliment, until the end( hiv/aids)...she said it was a tough way to pass, and, knowing i was a clever boy( perhaps), she asked what i thought the future cure would be...i thought about it, weighing all i had heard, read online, ect...this is the answer i conveyed to my mother at that time--
the puzzle--
in the case of hiv/aids, i feel we are engaged in a a deadly game of "bio-chess", of sorts, the key to the issue( in my opinion), lies not, in directly killing the virus...but instead, is about eliminating the ability of the cell to procreate, to do this, we must understand the nature of the cell's reproduction, essentially, the cell must land on another healthy cell, to "take-it-over", and make another aids virus...
reproduction cessation dynamics--
as in the case of polio, and it's conclusion( via the injection of a large number of "dead" viruses), i suggest, that hiv/aids might be handled similarly, by reducing it to an "inert cell", that is unable to procreate/multiply( leaving the cell to wander the body, without any ill-effects, until it expires)... i feel that the means to produce this situation( a viable cure), may be to target the "landing legs" of the virus, and, i believe this goal might be accomplished via an injection, of a large quantity of these "landing legs", that are on the surface of the aids virus, into the infected patient...in this way, anti-bodies might be generated by the body, as a reaction to the resulting infection, that specifically target these "landing-legs"...once these new "landing-leg anti-bodies" had eliminated the initial, large number of "landing-legs" injected( marking them as "foreign-bodies", to the resulting anti-bodies), they might likely continue to hunt/search, the entire body, for any remaining landing legs...and, taa-daa...more would be found...on the aids/hiv virus's exterior surfaces...making them targets for these new anti-bodies, that were created to destroy "landing-legs"...whether the anti-bodies kill the cell outright, or merely dissolved/damaged the landing legs, on the hiv/aids virus's exterior, the results would remain the same, a dead, or inert, virus...that will not produce a new one...check-mate, the end--
"designer anti-bodies"--
it occurred to me today, that the concept above, may lead to a different future for medicine, if it becomes a reality...in the case of hiv/aids, there are many "variants" of the hiv/aids virus, making the task of providing a "universal cure"( derived from modern medicine),unlikely...to counter this issue, i suggest that the practice of creating anti-bodies that only "seek-and-destroy" part of the offending virus( that the patient needs to eliminate), to obtain a "cure", is of great use...the patient would need to give a blood sample, to allow the specific virus that they have, to be examined, allowing the doctor to know, the exact protein structure, of the landing legs of their virus...
generating "viral-bits"--
once the physician is aware of the protein structure of the "landing legs"( in the case of hiv/aids), or other "key-viral component", of the exact virus the physician would like to destroy...they must be "cultured", in some way...perhaps the famous gentlemen in japan( charles gunner is an american example of this type of craftsmen ), that can write "kanji characters" with a microscope( super-small), would be kind enough to splice a few thousand legs off some hiv/aids viruses, in a petri-dish, for us( i mentioned this very thing to my mother the day she asked about curing the hiv/aids virus...she laughed, so did i...we both doubted he was available)...anyway, a means to generate the desired portions of the virus to be injected( "landing-legs" in the case of hiv/aids), to generate the needed anti-bodies( that selectively target a specific virus) is needed...and i am not aware of a method of doing so, at this time...
a word of caution--
a short walk, and a bag of chips, gave me pause, in regards to "designer anti-bodies", and their future uses...here is a little metaphor, to make my worries clear--
a cautionary tale--
if you teach the scariest thing in the forest, to kill the wolves, that hunt the sheep you are raising, beware...upon releasing this hell, you may find yourself doing without every, single, thing, with two ears and a tail...that even looks remotely like a wolf...have you seen my sheep-dog??...
the point--
careful study may be needed, to be sure anti-bodies are not introduced into a patient that damage more cells than the ones you are trying to eliminate, as we see in the story above..."not a wolf in sight, or any sheep-dogs either"--
summary--
without the drain of the hiv/aids virus depleting the immune system of viable red blood cells, i believe it would recover( proper levels of blood cells would be regained, rapidly), and the subject would be "cured'...
--i feel this B.S., is very good B.S., fit for a conversation with your doctor, and nothing more...
best wishes, and god bless....john kruschke--
many years past, when my mother was still with us, we had a conversation about her work, and the tougher part of her job...she was a hospice care provider, and stayed with many that had this aliment, until the end( hiv/aids)...she said it was a tough way to pass, and, knowing i was a clever boy( perhaps), she asked what i thought the future cure would be...i thought about it, weighing all i had heard, read online, ect...this is the answer i conveyed to my mother at that time--
the puzzle--
in the case of hiv/aids, i feel we are engaged in a a deadly game of "bio-chess", of sorts, the key to the issue( in my opinion), lies not, in directly killing the virus...but instead, is about eliminating the ability of the cell to procreate, to do this, we must understand the nature of the cell's reproduction, essentially, the cell must land on another healthy cell, to "take-it-over", and make another aids virus...
reproduction cessation dynamics--
as in the case of polio, and it's conclusion( via the injection of a large number of "dead" viruses), i suggest, that hiv/aids might be handled similarly, by reducing it to an "inert cell", that is unable to procreate/multiply( leaving the cell to wander the body, without any ill-effects, until it expires)... i feel that the means to produce this situation( a viable cure), may be to target the "landing legs" of the virus, and, i believe this goal might be accomplished via an injection, of a large quantity of these "landing legs", that are on the surface of the aids virus, into the infected patient...in this way, anti-bodies might be generated by the body, as a reaction to the resulting infection, that specifically target these "landing-legs"...once these new "landing-leg anti-bodies" had eliminated the initial, large number of "landing-legs" injected( marking them as "foreign-bodies", to the resulting anti-bodies), they might likely continue to hunt/search, the entire body, for any remaining landing legs...and, taa-daa...more would be found...on the aids/hiv virus's exterior surfaces...making them targets for these new anti-bodies, that were created to destroy "landing-legs"...whether the anti-bodies kill the cell outright, or merely dissolved/damaged the landing legs, on the hiv/aids virus's exterior, the results would remain the same, a dead, or inert, virus...that will not produce a new one...check-mate, the end--
"designer anti-bodies"--
it occurred to me today, that the concept above, may lead to a different future for medicine, if it becomes a reality...in the case of hiv/aids, there are many "variants" of the hiv/aids virus, making the task of providing a "universal cure"( derived from modern medicine),unlikely...to counter this issue, i suggest that the practice of creating anti-bodies that only "seek-and-destroy" part of the offending virus( that the patient needs to eliminate), to obtain a "cure", is of great use...the patient would need to give a blood sample, to allow the specific virus that they have, to be examined, allowing the doctor to know, the exact protein structure, of the landing legs of their virus...
generating "viral-bits"--
once the physician is aware of the protein structure of the "landing legs"( in the case of hiv/aids), or other "key-viral component", of the exact virus the physician would like to destroy...they must be "cultured", in some way...perhaps the famous gentlemen in japan( charles gunner is an american example of this type of craftsmen ), that can write "kanji characters" with a microscope( super-small), would be kind enough to splice a few thousand legs off some hiv/aids viruses, in a petri-dish, for us( i mentioned this very thing to my mother the day she asked about curing the hiv/aids virus...she laughed, so did i...we both doubted he was available)...anyway, a means to generate the desired portions of the virus to be injected( "landing-legs" in the case of hiv/aids), to generate the needed anti-bodies( that selectively target a specific virus) is needed...and i am not aware of a method of doing so, at this time...
a word of caution--
a short walk, and a bag of chips, gave me pause, in regards to "designer anti-bodies", and their future uses...here is a little metaphor, to make my worries clear--
a cautionary tale--
if you teach the scariest thing in the forest, to kill the wolves, that hunt the sheep you are raising, beware...upon releasing this hell, you may find yourself doing without every, single, thing, with two ears and a tail...that even looks remotely like a wolf...have you seen my sheep-dog??...
the point--
careful study may be needed, to be sure anti-bodies are not introduced into a patient that damage more cells than the ones you are trying to eliminate, as we see in the story above..."not a wolf in sight, or any sheep-dogs either"--
summary--
without the drain of the hiv/aids virus depleting the immune system of viable red blood cells, i believe it would recover( proper levels of blood cells would be regained, rapidly), and the subject would be "cured'...
--i feel this B.S., is very good B.S., fit for a conversation with your doctor, and nothing more...
best wishes, and god bless....john kruschke--
