{"id":490,"date":"2008-06-13T18:24:12","date_gmt":"2008-06-13T17:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i-base.info\/qa\/?p=490"},"modified":"2021-11-22T12:18:24","modified_gmt":"2021-11-22T12:18:24","slug":"my-cd-4-cell-count-is-122-how-do-i-boost-them-to-get-a-higher-count","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/490","title":{"rendered":"My CD-4 cell count is 122. How do I boost them to get a higher count?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The only way to boost your CD4 count is to use HIV treatment (ARVs).<\/p>\n<p>No other approach has shown any significant short-term or, most importantly, long-term way of stopping HIV-related CD4 losses.<\/p>\n<p>HIV treatment should reduce viral load to undetectable, and then your immune system has a chance to repair itself and become stronger again.<\/p>\n<p>All treatment guidelines recommend that someone with a CD4 count that is under 200 should start ARV treatment, Recently, some guidelines have shifted to earlier treatment &#8211; when CD4 is between 200 and 350, or before it falls to below 350 cells\/mm3.<\/p>\n<p>Other things can play a part &#8211; for example good diet and nutrition &#8211; will help you get the most from treatment, but nutrition and diet on their own will not be enough.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The only way to boost your CD4 count is to use HIV treatment (ARVs). No other approach has shown any significant short-term or, most importantly, long-term way of stopping HIV-related CD4 losses. HIV treatment should reduce viral load to undetectable, &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-cd4-and-viral-load","category-starting-treatment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/490\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}