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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. Please help me understand this. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll


    Compound From Olive-Pomace Oil Inhibits HIV Spread

    I hope /. can help me understand something I've been wondering for years.

    Why does AIDS get such a huge amount of funding? Other diseases kill far more people every year and most of them aren't caught by immoral behavior.

    The pastor at my church says it's the gays promoting their choices as normal behind all this. Two Sundays ago he said (and I quote as I remember it well) "The homosexuals are indoctrinating your children and making them choose their lifestyle. They can't reproduce so they have no choice BUT to recruit. They are forcing the government to back their behavior with laws... Laws against God and Jesus."

    Pretty good logic.

    1. Re:Please help me understand this. by Rakishi · · Score: 0, Troll

      Some interesting points for you to consider:
      -Homosexuality is genetic although it is not necessarily a simple genetic inheritance.
      -You know all those homophobic people you likely know? Well statistically most of them are closet homosexuals. Your pastor is probably one as well actually. Many of them have kids, right? Well guess whose genes those kids got.
      -I assume your religion advocates having many children? I mean from a logical point of view contraceptives are murder if one assumes that all abortion is murder. In that case your religion is helping to spread homosexuality as one documented cause of homosexuality is directly related to how many children a woman has (each male child has a higher chance of being gay than the previous one).

      In other words your religious beliefs that force closet homosexuality and the having of children directly help increase the prevalence of homosexuality.

  2. Re:And it's a good fat too by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    What's also Yum-o is my cum which can also cure cancer, along with every other disease. Suck me off, you know you want too.

  3. Re:Don't Forget The Easy Way! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    You should think a little bit more before giving advice that could get people infected by a deadly disease. Thousands of people are infected with HIV while using condoms every year. 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.

    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.) 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? Maybe that's how much you value your life, but some of us aren't willing to take those kinds of risks.