Compound From Olive-Pomace Oil Inhibits HIV Spread

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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Don't feed the trolls

[mollog]

Please, let's not feed the trolls. I don't believe that OP is truly serious. I think he's trying to start a flame war.

Re:Don't Forget The Easy Way!

[caol.kailash]

Not to be rude, but funny how you talk about 'avoiding high-risk sex' but don't say that condoms are part of how that is done...merely focus on the abstinence. Teen pregnancy is one of the consequences of this lack of mention. Granted if you read slashdot you likely know what that means, but it makes me wonder about the whole sex education system as a whole. "Don't have sex! But if you do, don't do high risk sex and be safe" Be safe how? With what? Would a 10 year old really know what that means? Even in today's society?

Re:Don't Forget The Easy Way!

[Dogtanian]

I'm not sure where you got this religion idea from though, since everything in my post was entirely true, and didn't mention anything religious. To be honest, I doubted the truth of the OP's story (I don't know if you're the same AC or not). The story about him/her having AIDs was cursory and somewhat non-specific. The whole thing smacked of a vague "cautionary tale" being used as an excuse to promote a particular sexual/religious agenda.

I would never claim that condom use is 100% reliable. You'll notice that I said it "vastly reduces the risks"; which is correct.

Most studies find that condoms reduce the risk of HIV by 75%-95% (and that's only if they are used every time, and always used properly.) Where did you get that statistic? According to the ones I'm aware of, they reduce the risk by 80% for typical use (not correct use on every occasion, which would provide much greater protection).

Even taking the best case scenario there of 95% reduction, is high-risk sex really worth even a 5% chance of a near-certain death sentence? That's an incredibly stupid (or blatant and deliberate) misinterpretation of the 95% figure. It's a twentyfold reduction of the original risk. These start off at between 1 in 50 (ouch...) and 1 in 1300 for the riskiest forms of sex, and are more like 1 in 100,000 for vaginal sex. Using a condom reduces this between five and twenty times further .

Obviously the risks vary between what you're doing and how you do it- I'm not going to tell anyone that there is no risk when using a condom. It's their life and their decision... but it's just as evil to spout misinformative b******ks as you do.