EBV causes cancer and I'd imagine other herpes family viruses do, too. They also trigger multiple debilitating autoimmune conditions and can cause mitochondrial fragmentation.
In an interview, Montoya noted that Valcyte has gotten a bad reputation as it's been used on AIDS and cancer and transplant patients who are fragile to begin with. Most healthy people would. never be prescribed it.
It is prudent to be monitored on it, and it can have effects on fertility, but we all need to weigh the risks and benefits.
I'm a stage 3 cancer survivor, and no one, even my functional medicine doctors seemed concerned about the cancer-causing potential of Valcyte, though I was already doing a lot of cancer fighting things and all of the "natural" antiviral treatments hadn't worked, not necessarily because they're bad, but more because my immune system wasn't working properly.
