14 DAY TRIAL // Marijuana might turn out to be an unexpected aid in the fight against HIV, a team of researchers working with Philadelphia's Temple University now say.
These scientists maintain that, as several experiments that they have carried out have shown, synthetic cannabinoid compounds are bound to help one's body be more efficient in terms of dealing with an HIV infection.
Thus, said compounds reportedly elicit a response from the human white blood cell receptors, causing them to repress the virus.
Once the infection is weakened, antiviral therapies are expected to prove more successful.
“The synthetic compounds we used in our study may show promise in helping the body fight HIV-1 infection.”
“As compounds like these are improved further and made widely available, we will continue to explore their potential to fight other viral diseases that are notoriously difficult to treat,” Yuri Persidsky, M.D., Ph.D., explained.