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Peptide T & Dallas Buyers Club: What the Washington Post got wrong

February 3, 2016 By Michael Ruff 2 Comments

There has been a steady stream of interest in “Peptide T”, the experimental HIV drug that was featured in the 2013 movie “Dallas Buyers Club”.

Dr. Pert and I spent many years researching this experimental medicine for HIV, Neuro-AIDS, Pain, and Alzheimers disease.  A few months after the movie premiered the Washington Post ran an article in which some of those interviewed repeated a great deal of misinformation on the effectiveness of this experimental medicine, and the research behind it.

Ron Woodroof, the central character in the story, used Peptide T and claimed that it kept him alive in an interview he gave in “Dallas Life Magazine” in August 1992.

I think Ron had good reason to believe that and I have pulled together the key facts from the peer-reviewed scientific articles that were left out of both the movie and the Washington Post article, presented here as a short slide deck. I tell why this drug is still relevant to HIV Neuro-AIDS in 2016, and for that matter other diseases like Alzheimers. Click here to see the presentation.

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  1. WAYNE says

    July 17, 2017 at 2:03 am

    Why can’t I find out what drug/drugs ,,, Charlie Sheen & Magic Johnson are using to combat there H.I.V. ??? Should be public knowledge,,, since public is aware they are H.I.V. + … ??? What’s. the drug/drugs they use ??? Answer PLEASE. !!! Blessings

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    • Michael Ruff says

      July 17, 2017 at 3:50 pm

      People have a right to privacy, so no not ‘public knowledge” re their treatments. But I can assume that they will be taking a ‘cocktail’ of anti-HIV medicinces called “HAART”, or just “ART”, for highly active anti-retroviral therapy. It will be designed by a physician based on prior treatments, level of viral load, and type of viruses, among other factors. You can start a search here, but many other sites as well.

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