I can’t sign. US is not on the list.

Passing it to Brazil

One study says yes….

“Unexpected early tumor recurrence in patients with hepatitis C virus -related hepatocellular carcinoma undergoing interferon-free therapy: a note of caution.”

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27084592

Another study says no…..

Lack of evidence of an effect of Direct Acting Antivirals on the recurrence of hepatocellular carcinoma: The ANRS collaborative study group on hepatocellular carcinoma (ANRS CO22 HEPATHER, CO12 CIRVIR and CO23 CUPILT cohorts).

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27288051

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Having untreated infections during interferon treatment made it more difficult to clear HCV. So maybe having two infections raises the viral load.

You need to do it fasting because it can also tell you if you’re insulin resistant.

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I really don’t see what the problem is. They’re advertising generics and so are you. So if they can do it why can’t you?

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GT2…..
If you have a fasting blood sugar of 11.6 then you’re, at least, insulin resistant, which causes leaky gut. GI problems, like reflux, can also cause leaky gut.

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GT2…
Sometimes I have these brilliant ideas that turn out not to be so brilliant after all. So this one time I decided to help somebody put a prebiotic on the market to help people with hep c. So I talked my research partner into joining me and spent a couple off years researching pro/prebiotics. So if you don’t mind, I’d like to share some of what I learned.

PRObiotics, as you said are live beneficial bacteria. PREbiotics are cell wall fragments from dead bacteria (that’s why they don’t have to be refrigerated). Prebiotics are not food for probiotics. They don’t feed microbiota. They stimulate the intestinal goblet cells to increase and to produce more mucus. Microbiota, specifically Akkermansia Muciniphila (the dominant bacteria in humans), then harvest sugars from the mucus and use them as food source.

A decrease in the abundance of Akkermansia muciniphila in gut microbiota causes reduced production and layer thickness of mucus and reduces gut permeability. In other words, it causes LEAKY GUT. Leaky gut can be caused by antibiotics disrupting normal intestinal flora, obesity, Cirrhosis, high cholesterol, Insulin resistance/Diabetes, fatty liver, alcohol use, GI problems (like stomach ulcers, diarrhea, Barrett’s esophagus, H,Pylori infection, colitis, etc).

Why is having leaky gut a problem?

The liver is the first organ that encounters venous blood from the small and large intestines via the portal vein. So that makes the liver vulnerable to exposure of bacterial products coming from the intestines. Translocation of large amounts of gut-derived products is usually prevented by an intact barrier system. So in a healthy organism only minor quantities of bacterial products reach the liver. In general, the liver tolerates small amounts of bacterial products in order to avoid harmful responses, but damage of the intestinal epithelial barrier results in a leaky gut that lets large amounts of bacterial products reach the liver.

Bacterial products, otherwise called Lipopolysaccharide are large molecules consisting of a lipid and a polysaccharide found on the outer membrane of gram negative bacteria. When they reach the liver, they act as ENDOTOXIN and elicit a strong reaction from your immune system which can cause inflammation and contribute to the initiation and progression of liver disease.

So as you can see, pro/prebiotics are much more than food.

http://dmg98m9mr6pi1.cloudfront.net/user_photos/518556?1420633029
http://dmg98m9mr6pi1.cloudfront.net/user_photos/518557?1420656332

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Brazil got sofosbuvir treatment from Gilead for $6,400 and it looks like they’ll be getting generic for $2,000 but by the time they go through all the red tape it could be a year or two until it gets to the public.
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