All I can really recall was that he told people they should start taking chaga mushrooms, he was a retired scientist with access still to the the data base scientist share and he lived down the street from a fire station.

Here's the unresolved problem I've been stuck on...

The viral spike of the human immunodeficiency virus HIV is heavily glycosylated. Approximaely half of the mass of the spike is glycosylation and the glycans act to limit antibody recognition as the glycans are assembled by the host cell and so are largely "self". Over time patients can evolve antibodies to recognize the HIV glycans and almost all so called broadly neutralizing antibodies (bnAbs) recognize some glycans, this is possible mainly because the unusually high density of glycans have normal glycan maturation and they are therefore trapped in the premature, high mannose state. This provides a window for any recognitions. In addition as these glycans are much less variable than the underlying protein they have emerged as promising targets for vaccine design.