Grapefruit Compound May Help Combat Hepatitis C Infection

Posted on 12.29.08 7:52AM under Health Benefits, Hepatitis C

Lloyd Wright author of Triumph Over Hepatitis C an Alternative Medicine Solution being used successfully by people around the world to beat the Hepatitis C virus talks about a compound that naturally occurs in grapefruit and other citrus fruits may be able to block the secretion of Hepatitis C virus (HCV) from infected cells, a process required to maintain chronic infection. A team of researchers from the Massachusetts General Hospital Center for Engineering in Medicine (MGH-CEM) report that HCV is bound to very low-density lipoprotein (vLDL, a so-called “bad” cholesterol) when it is secreted from liver cells and that the viral secretion required to pass infection to other cells may be blocked by the common flavonoid naringenin.

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