A single dose of cocoa flavanols 70 minutes before exercise was associated with improvements in executive function, which involves working memory, reasoning, task flexibility, and problem solving, but had no impact on memory function, which includes episodic memory, and short- and long-term memory.
The term âviral loadâ refers to the amount of HIV in a sample of your blood. When your viral load is high, you have more HIV in your body, and that means your immune system is not fighting HIV as well.
CD4 counts give you and your doctor a good idea of how much damage HIV has done to your immune system. But you also need to know how fast that damage is happening. Viral load tests, which tell the doctor how much HIV is in your blood, are a very important clue to how quickly HIV is doing harm. These tests go by several different names, like PCR (polymerase chain reaction) or bDNA (branched DNA), but they all work roughly the same way.