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Cyclodextrin (HPbCD) - looks like a ligand in the making!

For the past three years, we have had FDA approval to treat the twins with cyclodextrin (HPbCD), a non-toxic sugar compound that also inactivates the HIV-AIDS virus. Why a single AIDS patients has not contacted me about HPbCD is absolutely mind-blowing since it could be used today as a treatment. If nothing else works, I don’t see why cyclodextrin can’t be tried.

HPbCD is similar to Methyl Beta Cyclodextrin (MBC), which was recently reported to kill RSV. The RSV virus discovery was also made with NPC cells — do you see the trend emerging with the NPC1 gene? A 2003 HSV paper shows cyclodextrin can work against Herpes Simplex Virus 1/2. There are many viruses that can be inactivated or cell-entry blocked by cyclodextrin.

Basically, any virus that uses lipid rafts for assembly or entry can be blocked by beta cyclodextrin – and there are probably at least 20 virus types that would be inactivated by beta cyclodextrin. I also believe people with these viruses could be treated with HPbCD today – just like my twins.