Chemical Liberated by Leaky Gut

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In up to 20 percent of people infected with HIV, the virus manages to escape from the bloodstream and cross into the brain, resulting in HIV-associated dementia and other cognitive disorders. Now, researchers at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have found good evidence that a component of the cell walls of intestinal bacteria - a chemical present in high levels in the blood of HIV-infected people - helps HIV to penetrate the usually-impregnable blood brain barrier (BBB). The findings, reported in the recent issue of the Journal of Virology, could lead to strategies for preventing HIV from entering the brain and causing serious complications……..

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