“the risks were effectively zero in terms of serious complications”
Your expert said that the risk of putting unfiltered peptide strains into your body was negligible? This claim confuses me.
Did you talk to someone who has a background in immunology, or an infectious disease specialist? (The former seems like the more important type of expertise.) And while this isn’t my area of expertise, the claim seems wrong. Having your body develop immune reactions to sequences that aren’t the full virus seems potentially really bad—because they could look like other things you don’t want your body reacting to.
You actually put unfiltered peptides into your body all the time. Pretty much any biological material you breath in (e.g. ordinary indoor dust or smelling a flower) contains some.
Yeah, putting it in your nose definitely has far fewer risks than putting it in your blood, and that greatly reduces my skepticism. But the set of peptide sequences you naturally encounter is a tiny subspace of the total space of possible proteins, and so I’m less convinced that you might not have side effects.
Also, having random peptides along with an adjuvant (which triggers an immune response) might be risky even in cases where those random peptides are otherwise completely safe.
“the risks were effectively zero in terms of serious complications”
Your expert said that the risk of putting unfiltered peptide strains into your body was negligible? This claim confuses me.
Did you talk to someone who has a background in immunology, or an infectious disease specialist? (The former seems like the more important type of expertise.) And while this isn’t my area of expertise, the claim seems wrong. Having your body develop immune reactions to sequences that aren’t the full virus seems potentially really bad—because they could look like other things you don’t want your body reacting to.
You actually put unfiltered peptides into your body all the time. Pretty much any biological material you breath in (e.g. ordinary indoor dust or smelling a flower) contains some.
Yeah, putting it in your nose definitely has far fewer risks than putting it in your blood, and that greatly reduces my skepticism. But the set of peptide sequences you naturally encounter is a tiny subspace of the total space of possible proteins, and so I’m less convinced that you might not have side effects.
Also, having random peptides along with an adjuvant (which triggers an immune response) might be risky even in cases where those random peptides are otherwise completely safe.