Human herpesvirus 6
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Sep 9, 2026
Kent HoltorfGUEST
What happens is now the cells, the-- you, you tend to have, uh, an ability to suppress infections, so you have all these chronic infections.
Kent HoltorfGUEST
Like, let's say someone with Lyme, and then they'll get T-cell exhaustion, also, uh, immunosenescence, so they'll get Epstein-Barr, HHV6, uh, mycoplasma.
Kent HoltorfGUEST
Now, CMV is a marker for immunosenescence in particular.
Kent HoltorfGUEST
Um, that's well-studied.
Theo BergmannHOST
Doesn't mean it doesn't cause you chronic symptoms because it's actually the virus that is causing the most chronic health symptoms in the world.
Theo BergmannHOST
It's the virus that is responsible for almost, not for all of them, like there are other bugs, there are metals, there are shingles virus, there's strep bacteria, there's HHV-6, there are other herpes viruses that cause trouble as well, but Epstein-Barr virus is by far the most... deadliest virus and the virus that is causing by far the most chronic health issues out there.
Theo BergmannHOST
It's insane.
Theo BergmannHOST
And still to this day, not enough people know this.
Richard HorowitzGUEST
Most doctors don't know that adrenal support is needed for these people with long COVID.
Richard HorowitzGUEST
It's not just Epstein-Barr and HHV-6 reactivation, right? And your serotonin goes down because the bifidobacterium in your gut was thrown off.
Richard HorowitzGUEST
So now they're giving them fluvoxamine, this drug that raises your serotonin, but why? Because it threw off your microbiome from the COVID affecting your bifido.
Richard HorowitzGUEST
But they're not going backwards to look at the biochemistry and the biology.
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Richard HorowitzGUEST
People get less long COVID when they take it.
Richard HorowitzGUEST
But it's still, as you know, people get relapses and they get rebounds.
Richard HorowitzGUEST
And a lot of people get Epstein-Barr and HHV-6.
Richard HorowitzGUEST
And this could be from
Irma ReyGUEST
So, so they, y- when they have an exposure to that, then their immune system is no longer functioning correctly, so therefore the viruses can go haywire because those, that immune system is supposed to keep...
Irma ReyGUEST
You know, whenever you're exposed to one of those long-term viruses, like Epstein-Barr, like HHV-6, which is roseola, like coxsackie, which is hand, foot, and mouth disease, like cytomegalovirus-
Haylie PomroyHOST
[laughs]
Irma ReyGUEST
... or like Parvo B19 virus-
Justin StenstromHOST
There's cytomegalovirus as well.
Justin StenstromHOST
There's HHV-6.
Justin StenstromHOST
There's shingles.
Justin StenstromHOST
There's all different types.
Travis CraddockGUEST
Or the human herpes viruses.
Travis CraddockGUEST
So Epstein-Barr virus, and we're also looking at HHV-6, which is another human virus, herpes virus.
Haylie PomroyHOST
I want to make sure that you promise me that you'll come back and we're going to do a, I want to do an entire pod.
Haylie PomroyHOST
Thank you.
Travis CraddockGUEST
Or the human herpes viruses.
Travis CraddockGUEST
So Epstein-Barr virus, and we're also looking at HHV-6, which is another human virus, herpes virus.
Haylie PomroyHOST
I want to make sure that you promise me that you'll come back and we're going to do a, I want to do an entire pod.
Haylie PomroyHOST
Thank you.
Richard HorowitzGUEST
It's like they'll tell you the number of copies of the virus in the blood.
Richard HorowitzGUEST
So when I'm talking about reactivation, I'm usually looking at PCRs for HHV-6 Epstein-Barr.
Richard HorowitzGUEST
You can look for a fourfold increase in titers.
Richard HorowitzGUEST
But the problem with a lot of these Epstein-Barr patients, they already have very high titers to begin with.
Neil NathanGUEST
And that's what's messed with conventional medical thinking, which is They insist that we've got to find the one thing in all patients that ties it all together, and they haven't embraced the concept of complexity.
Neil NathanGUEST
So, for example, even in the early days, we knew that there was a strong association with Epstein-Barr virus, HHV-6 virus, cytomegalovirus, with chronic fatigue syndrome.
Neil NathanGUEST
Okay.
Neil NathanGUEST
But what we didn't know is that those were being reactivated by something even more strong, like, again, a Lyme disease or mold toxicity.
Rebecca GonzalezGUEST
our neurology team does come for a consult for a patient.
Rebecca GonzalezGUEST
And then we typically will do an MRI, an LP to kind of rule out potential HHV-6 or other causes typically for this before initiating therapy.
Rebecca GonzalezGUEST
So I think this also kind of helps out to rule out other causes, especially infection related, as you mentioned, just because viral causes certainly can be on the differential.
Sarah ScottHOST
Yeah, I think the interdisciplinary management of all three of these is something that's very important.
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