The concept: Starve the HIV virus of its food by disabling the body’s ability to produce a variety of immune cells, place the patient in a sterilized environment such as used by SCID patients, or notably, David Vetter. Once the virus has starved itself to death, reactivate the immune system and release the patient from the sterilized environment.
Key challenges to this concept are:
1. Determine if we can starve the virus to death, and the time frame needed to do so if possible.
2. Developing methods for temporarily disabling and re-enabling the body’s production of immune cells.
This idea was born in 1996 whilst briefly studying the virus in a chemistry class.
