“RESULTS: Significant (P<0.001) association of obesity and positive Ad-36 antibody status, independent of age, sex, and collection site. Ad-36 antibodies in 30% of obese, 11% of nonobese. Lower serum cholesterol and triglycerides (P<0.003) in Ad-36 antibody-positive vs -negative subjects. Twin pairs: antibody-positive twins had higher BMIs (24.5plusminus5.2 vs 23.1plusminus4.5 kg/m2, P<0.03) and %body fat (29.6plusminus9.5% vs 27.5plusminus9.9%, P<0.04). No association of Ad-2, Ad-31, or Ad-37 antibodies with BMI or serum lipids.

CONCLUSIONS: Ad-36 is associated with increased body weight and lower serum lipids in humans. Prospective studies are indicated to determine if Ad-36 plays a role in the etiology of human obesity.”

Only ONE of the strains of the adenovirus (Ad-36) did much of anything for either BMI or serum lipids. And what it did? Well…

1.) Note “Ye paradoxe”: Ad-36 is associated with some people becoming fatter than “desirable”. What else usually is associated with overweight/obesity and is equally feared [and IMHO overtreated for a profit] itself?

That’s right: “Cholesterol” (serum lipid) numbers that are “too high” (and are just as full of bull**** as BMI, but I digress…)

Hmmm…what the research indicates here is that nobody needs to lose weight and/or eat a lousy, low-fat (low-taste) low-calorie diet and/or take nasty pills to lower those serum “cholesterol” levels. No siree! All anyone needs to do is “catch” this Human adenovirus-36 (Ad-36).

2.) Also note how neatly this researcher danced around the obvious conclusion! The focus is, in so many words, “We need to find out if this virus makes people get fat.” Not “We need to find out if this Ad-36 would be the “silver bullet” to “control cholesterol.”, which is what one might have expected.

Indeed, an entire Russian ballet troupe could dance no better during a performance of “Swan Lake” than this “scholar” did around the “inconvenient” finding.

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