00:00What if the secret to curing HIV has been hiding in your blood all along?
00:04Scientists have just discovered that a natural human protein called RBP4,
00:08the same one that carries vitamin A, can wake up dormant HIV hiding in the body.
00:14This is huge.
00:15Because HIV has a sneaky trick.
00:18It hides in immune cells in a silent state, invisible to both medicine and the immune system.
00:23That's what makes it so hard to cure.
00:25But now, researchers at Ulm University Hospital in Germany
00:29have found that RBP4 can reactivate these sleeping viruses
00:33through a powerful signaling pathway in our cells called NFKB.
00:37And once reactivated, these viruses can finally be targeted and destroyed.
00:41Even more incredible?
00:43RBP4 works at natural levels already found in the human body,
00:47and only when it's bound to vitamin A.
00:49This opens the door to a game-changing shock-and-kill therapy,
00:53where dormant HIV is forced out of hiding and eliminated for good.
00:57It's still early days.
00:59But with this breakthrough, we're one step closer to a world without HIV.
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