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If the Hemopurifier being tested by AEMD in India is able to reduce viral loads in blood of HCV ?

If the Hemopurifier being tested by AEMD in India is able to reduce viral loads in blood of HCV infected subjects, then how could this not be anything but helpful?
I am sure that it is not cure because not every copy of the virus is in the blood.
There are likely only a small percentage that in the blood.
But from the virus''s point of view , is it not a numbers game.
Because the reason that a person's own immune system can not rid the body of the virus is because the virus keeps mutating? The only way it can mutate is by making lose copies of it self in high numbers until one copy figures out how to defeat the immune system. Right? And then natural selection will of coarse favor that copy of that virus and it will survive and multiply until the immune system figures out how to defeat it and then the virus will have another mutant copy that natural selection will favor. And the war goes on.
At least that is how I think it works. So if a person could even reduce their viral load in there blood by 1% then
would that not decrease the odds of one of the losely made copies of the virus becoming the new mutant strain?
Of coarse if that is true then Blood letting would likely reduce the viral load in the blood by 1%.
I am not advocating the return to middle evil medicine .
But it makes so much sense to me that if the Hemopurifier does being down the load then it would definately be of great help before starting any treatment.
Unless I got it all wrong and virus's really do their thing though the aide of some sort of divine intelligence for the outside that guides their mutation.
I have no knowledge or training in medicine of any kind, so I can only look at the problem of HCV
in the way a statistic would, or a game theorist.
Can someone please straighten me out and tell me where I am wrong?
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As a matter of fact I had one of the best hepatologists in the country, attends the liver meetings all over the world, stays on top of all the latest treatments and doesn't give a rats patoot about FDA approval.  Doesn't pull any punches and shoots straight from the hip. Sorry to say, he never brought up the hemopurifer.  

I must say there wasn't a sign over his door saying:  This Way To See The Great Egress

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Which big pharma company is going to come up with a pill that changes the way evolution works.
Thanks for wishing me good luck. We all need it.

To Trinity4:  I tried to ask a hepatologist what role DFPP therapy or AEMDs filter would play. But did you ever get a doctor to ever give their opinion on anything? They always just play it by the book so they do not get sued if they were to wrong about something they said. They just tell me to wait until the FDA approves something and until then I should just be patient. So basically they tell me to sit down and shut up because I am just a stupid factory worker and am not qualified to
have an opinion about such things and that it would be best if I did not think to much about it. . They tell me to pray to Big Pharma and hope that they will save me.
Are they correct? Is that what I should do?

Anybody have any thought about my question about how the HCV virus would change under evolutionary pressure caused by a change in its design space that would be caused the day a person starts INF/ Peg treatment?

Anybody? Anybody?
Is there a reason that the AEMD filer would not help by lowering
the number of possible copies of INF/PEG resistant stains?
Anybody?

To GSDgirl: I do believe that it is avialable now at the Metroclinic in Bombay, India. (Mumbia, India)
I can try to find out how much it costs. If you were email AEMD maybe you can haggle over the cost. IDNK but I was in India for 3 months and they Haggle over the cost of everything so I would not be surprised if Medical treatment are the same. I know one can get 20% off the price of IVF treatment just by asking.

To oooreally: I thought they burnt all the witches. How did you manage to slip though?




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Is this available now?  I have a friend that SOC has not worked for her and she is ready to try anything.  Also could you tell me the cost?   Thanks
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Hi zoom.
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And no number of PIs that big Phara can produce will change that! "

Oh boy well then good luck to you.
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Why don't you ask your hepatologist what role DFPP therapy can have in increasing your chances of SVR by reducing viral load.  I can recommend a few world renowned hepatologists if you'd like.

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