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#73 Steven Strogatz: Exploring Curiosities

The Knowledge Project with Shane Parrish

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H I v - What's Going on in the Body for Those Ten Years?

In the mid nineties, a team of researchers worked together to figure out what these proties inhibitors were actually doing with h i v. The body was making an enormous amount of new virus particles every day. H i v would become aids at which point all kinds of nasty, opportunistic infections would set in and people would only have a very short time to live. And they showed that after taking one one of the drugs, that the levels of virus in the blood would drop expedientially fast.

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