Dr. Mink Chawla
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So we had a young woman, she's 17 years old. She has a kidney transplant and she has adenoviral viremia. So adenovirus is a very nasty bug. It tends to pick on people who are immunocompromised, but not exclusively. She had 10 million copies per milliliter in her blood of adenovirus. This is a published case report. You'll put in the notes. I'll put it in the show notes. And-
So we had a young woman, she's 17 years old. She has a kidney transplant and she has adenoviral viremia. So adenovirus is a very nasty bug. It tends to pick on people who are immunocompromised, but not exclusively. She had 10 million copies per milliliter in her blood of adenovirus. This is a published case report. You'll put in the notes. I'll put it in the show notes. And-
So we had a young woman, she's 17 years old. She has a kidney transplant and she has adenoviral viremia. So adenovirus is a very nasty bug. It tends to pick on people who are immunocompromised, but not exclusively. She had 10 million copies per milliliter in her blood of adenovirus. This is a published case report. You'll put in the notes. I'll put it in the show notes. And-
This is associated with a 90 to 95% mortality. She's 17. She should have died. The physicians got very desperate. They put our filter on and it went from 10 million to 2 million after the first procedure. Wow. Then it went from 2 million to 200,000 in the second. And then they stopped treating her with the filter and it all went away. Now they had a kidney biopsy. There's adenovirus in the kidney.
This is associated with a 90 to 95% mortality. She's 17. She should have died. The physicians got very desperate. They put our filter on and it went from 10 million to 2 million after the first procedure. Wow. Then it went from 2 million to 200,000 in the second. And then they stopped treating her with the filter and it all went away. Now they had a kidney biopsy. There's adenovirus in the kidney.
This is associated with a 90 to 95% mortality. She's 17. She should have died. The physicians got very desperate. They put our filter on and it went from 10 million to 2 million after the first procedure. Wow. Then it went from 2 million to 200,000 in the second. And then they stopped treating her with the filter and it all went away. Now they had a kidney biopsy. There's adenovirus in the kidney.
Okay. Okay. And there's no virus in the blood. So we cleaned up the blood and then it all got better. So what happened? Well, what happens is the immune system traffics to target areas based on cytokines. So when you're inflamed and these things that make us sick, this is not an accident. This is evolution at work.
Okay. Okay. And there's no virus in the blood. So we cleaned up the blood and then it all got better. So what happened? Well, what happens is the immune system traffics to target areas based on cytokines. So when you're inflamed and these things that make us sick, this is not an accident. This is evolution at work.
Okay. Okay. And there's no virus in the blood. So we cleaned up the blood and then it all got better. So what happened? Well, what happens is the immune system traffics to target areas based on cytokines. So when you're inflamed and these things that make us sick, this is not an accident. This is evolution at work.
This is how the cell figures out how to go to the cells that are getting attacked, send out a signal and the signal is like a scent and that scent is taken up by the white cells and they can traffic down that scent to find where they should go.
This is how the cell figures out how to go to the cells that are getting attacked, send out a signal and the signal is like a scent and that scent is taken up by the white cells and they can traffic down that scent to find where they should go.
This is how the cell figures out how to go to the cells that are getting attacked, send out a signal and the signal is like a scent and that scent is taken up by the white cells and they can traffic down that scent to find where they should go.
Well, if your bloodstream is filled with pathogen, your immune system is in the bloodstream and there's all these cytokines, inflammatory meteors everywhere. So when we mop up the bloodstream, the immune system redeploys. That is powerful. You have the same number of soldiers, but you're fighting fewer enemies. That's right. It's the cavalry to the infantry.
Well, if your bloodstream is filled with pathogen, your immune system is in the bloodstream and there's all these cytokines, inflammatory meteors everywhere. So when we mop up the bloodstream, the immune system redeploys. That is powerful. You have the same number of soldiers, but you're fighting fewer enemies. That's right. It's the cavalry to the infantry.
Well, if your bloodstream is filled with pathogen, your immune system is in the bloodstream and there's all these cytokines, inflammatory meteors everywhere. So when we mop up the bloodstream, the immune system redeploys. That is powerful. You have the same number of soldiers, but you're fighting fewer enemies. That's right. It's the cavalry to the infantry.
We now give them enough support so they can go and take care of everything else. So to your point, from the potential, if you look at what are the things that really cause problems, Epstein-Barr virus has been linked to MS, HSV, to Alzheimer's. All these viruses are linked. Oh, yeah. And we don't clear them. And as we don't clear them, the body begins to chronically inflame to them.
We now give them enough support so they can go and take care of everything else. So to your point, from the potential, if you look at what are the things that really cause problems, Epstein-Barr virus has been linked to MS, HSV, to Alzheimer's. All these viruses are linked. Oh, yeah. And we don't clear them. And as we don't clear them, the body begins to chronically inflame to them.
We now give them enough support so they can go and take care of everything else. So to your point, from the potential, if you look at what are the things that really cause problems, Epstein-Barr virus has been linked to MS, HSV, to Alzheimer's. All these viruses are linked. Oh, yeah. And we don't clear them. And as we don't clear them, the body begins to chronically inflame to them.
And then terrible things happen to us. So if we can not just move from this inpatient space where this filter has started, we're now moving into the outpatient space. We're starting a long COVID clinical trial right now.
And then terrible things happen to us. So if we can not just move from this inpatient space where this filter has started, we're now moving into the outpatient space. We're starting a long COVID clinical trial right now.