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Re:Alzheimer's risk 10 times lower with herpes medication by phkahler on Monday July 16, 2018 @01:43PM (#17543234)
Know what's really funny? Iodine kills HeLa cells, but according to this paper that's a problem:

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24219135

Iodine has been claimed to induce apoptosis in a number of cancer types while remaining harmless to normal cells.

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Re:Alzheimer's risk 10 times lower with herpes medication by subcosmos on Monday July 16, 2018 @02:15PM (#17543572)
Interesting, I wonder if it's linked with thyroid hormones. In culture, that would seem odd, unless it's binding to receptors in a manner that hormones would, or competing with hormones in the growth serum?

I'm only a make-believe biologist.

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Re:Alzheimer's risk 10 times lower with herpes medication by phkahler on Monday July 23, 2018 @10:36AM (#17593045)
I'm beginning to think the thyroid hormones are just a storage mechanism for iodine. The hormones T1, T2, T3, and T4 are actually named for the number of Iodine atoms in the molecule.
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