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Compound From Olive-Pomace Oil Inhibits HIV Spread

Posted by ScuttleMonkey on from the internal-tar-pits dept.

Researchers in Madrid are claiming that they have discovered that a type of wax found in olive skin can help to slow the spread of HIV. "Their work shows that maslinic acid - a natural product extracted from dry olive-pomace oil in oil mills - inhibits serin-protease, an enzyme used by HIV to release itself from the infected cell into the extracellular environment and, consequently, to spread the infection into the whole body. These scientists from Granada determined that the use of olive-pomace oil can produce an 80% slowing down in AIDS spreading in the body."

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  1. And it's a good fat too by gbulmash · · Score: 4, Funny

    Rachel Ray finds another use for Eee-Vee-Ohh-Ohh.

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    1. Re:And it's a good fat too by rob1980 · · Score: 4, Funny

      Yum-o!

  2. hmm. by apodyopsis · · Score: 4, Funny

    ..and works as a lubricant too? :-)

    my, thats handy.

    1. Re:hmm. by Rakshasa+Taisab · · Score: 5, Funny

      My hand does not have HIV, so i fail to see the relevance.

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  3. Re:skeptical at best. by Chris+Burke · · Score: 5, Funny

    I'm always skeptical of people who classify Spain as "third world".

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  4. extra virgin? by 192939495969798999 · · Score: 4, Funny

    What's an extra virgin? the /. regulars should know, right? hey-o!

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