o.k. ... it goes something like this ....

Like Hep B (described on the Kick Start page), a person's immune system will try to fight it off.  Their body creates an HCV anti-body, but here's the hitch: the virus mutates and ditches the anti-body.  Meanwhile, it attaches to other cells in a person's body, and replicates.  It's just buckin' like funnies in ya.  Know what I mean?

Now ... it's up to y'all, but what science does know, is that if yer still tippin' the beers, it's like an aphrodesiac to the virus ... in other words, alcohol speeds up the virus replicating.

Anyway ... by the time a person gets diagnosed with hepatitis C, they have like hundreds of HCV antibodies swimming around.  Unfortunately these antibodies are useless in fighting the virus.  This is just how the virus is detected. 

        Got it?

                   ... No?

                      That's alright.  A lot of people are visual.

                      Check out this flash movie for a couple minutes. 

The artwork is reproduced, and Hep C Straightup can show you this Flash movie created by, and with permission from the Johns Hopkins Gastroenterology and Hepatology Resource Center.

Copyright 2006. Johns Hopkins University.  All rights reserved.

            Still, the straight up is ...

... there's hope.

There's a lot of folks out there who've beat this sucker with the treatments that are out there today.

Get the straight up on these Hep C success stories  - 

Scientists & biotechs are beating the streets (o.k., o.k. ... really their petri dishes) trying to get a workable protease inhibitor for the rest of us "treatment failures." 

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