Cold Sores – a clear sign your immune system is low
January 15, 2010 by Andy Morris
Filed under Health News
Cold sores – do they embarass you and make you feel sick?
Would you like to know how to prevent cold sores and get your social life back? Then be sure to read this article. You will discover an easy method to effectively prevent cold sores. I know it may be hard to believe, but many folks have been preventing cold sores with premium quality vitamin supplements. You really must try this for yourself. If you get a cold sore, your best bet are topical cold sore remedies. But to prevent cold sores, you must treat it internally.
89% of adults on earth are infected.
The parasite virus that causes all cold sore outbreaks is the herpes simplex virus. About 89% of adults on earth are infected. Mostly the virus is hiding in the ganglia cells of your facial nerves. It only becomes active if it detects the conditions are favorable for making new virus. When it all boils down, these are the three main conditions causing cold sore events.
1. Your immune levels have diminished due to effects of stress and lack of proper nutrient intake.
2. Your pH balance has become acidic and no longer in the alkaline zone.
3. You have high quantities of the amino acid Arginine in your cells.
If you have heard that stress is the main trigger, it is true. But only because stress is a primary cause of conditions 1 and 2 above. You can help to correct these effects of stress by seeing to it that you get optimum levels of vitamins and minerals every day.
But here are two things you must keep in mind.
A. It is well known in scientific circles that food today contains 30% to 70% less nutrition than the same products did 50 years ago. The cause of this is depleted soils. Now you know why diseases are making more and more people sick. We all need to be taking supplements.
B. Do not waste your money on those cheap drug-store vitamins – the one or two per day variety. They do not work. They do not contain enough of any nutrient to be effective. Go to a place that specializes in high quality nutrition. You know by now we promote Enerfood green nutrition because it really does contain more of all of these vitamins and all the nutrition is absorb able! Get the best you can afford.
The entire spectrum of vitamins are needed to prevent cold sores – A, B, C, D and E. Also the minerals calcium, magnesium and zinc. For skin health, healing and protection, make sure you get plenty of the oil-based vitamins A, D, and E every day. The water-based C and B vitamins protect you from the affects of stress – thus helping to prevent cold sores. They are the stress vitamins and must be taken every day.
Zinc is the most outstanding mineral for healing and prevention. You need no more than 30 milligrams per day for helping to prevent cold sore activity. However daily nutrition is still better than taking a fistful of vitamins when you feel sick.
Natural relief for cold sores
In addition there are topical cold sore remedies containing zinc sulfate (an easily absorbed form of zinc) you can use directly on the sore. Calcium is extremely important to prevent cold sores. It is the main nutrient your body uses to keep your body in the alkaline pH range. Magnesium helps you absorb calcium. When your body drops into an acid condition, you are very vulnerable to cold sore activity. Essential tissue oxygen levels drop as the pH levels drop too. Calcium is so important to your health that your system will rob it from your bones if you do not take in enough. Most people take 1000 to 2000 milligrams daily.
And you should get and take lysine supplements too. Lysine is extremely effective in preventing cold sores. It is a safe and important amino acid. Lysine will reduce or eliminate condition number 3 by keeping the Arginine away from the herpes virus. Flood your cells with Lysine and get rid of excessive Arginine. If the cold sore virus cannot get enough Arginine, it will give up and go back into hiding. Nearly all foods commonly contain some Arginine. It is an important amino acid. But too much will cause cold sores.
Lysine is also a common amino acid in most foods. However, for preventing cold sores, you need to get more. Most people take one or two 500 milligram Lysine capsules every day. You can also cook with coconut oil and use coconut milk to gain valuable amino acids.
Natural treatment uses nutrition to help your body heal itself
Using internal treatment methods, like those mentioned here, is how to prevent cold sores in your life too. There are many advanced tricks to preventing cold sores, and some great cold sore remedies, but a nutritional treatment should always be used as your first line of defense. There is NO substitute for good nutrition – this is the primary way your body builds its immune system. In order to stay healthy get all the nutrition you need – everyday!
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