{"id":9,"date":"2007-03-23T10:12:02","date_gmt":"2007-03-23T09:12:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.i-base.info\/qa\/?p=9"},"modified":"2021-11-22T12:19:04","modified_gmt":"2021-11-22T12:19:04","slug":"what-can-you-do-to-keep-your-cd4-count-high","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/9","title":{"rendered":"What can you do to keep your CD4 count high?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The only medicines that have been shown to increase CD4 count strongly        and consistently are HIV drugs (called antiretrovirals or ARVs).<\/p>\n<p>When used in combinations of three or more drugs to reduce HIV viral load        to undetectable levels, the immune system gets stronger and is then able to repair itself. As a result, CD4 counts increase.<\/p>\n<p>For more information see the <a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/starting\/\">i-Base Introduction to Combination Therapy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/i-base.info\/guides\/category\/arvs\">list of currently approved ARVs<\/a> is included in this guide.<\/p>\n<p>Vitamin supplements have not been shown to have a convincing impact on        CD4 count, and although one study showed an effect, this was not nearly        as large and significant as that achieved with ARVs.<\/p>\n<p>The answer we posted to this question may also be of interest: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.i-base.info\/qa\/index.php\/?p=10\">Questions        about herbal medicine and HIV.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How can you keep your CD4 count high? What can you take as far as medicine or vitamins?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7,9,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-all-topics","category-cd4-and-viral-load","category-supplements-and-herbs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9","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=9"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/i-base.info\/qa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}