Preventing Cold Sores - Stopping Cold Sore Damage |
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 May 13, 2008 |
by Denny Bodoh
Preventing cold sores (fever blisters - oral herpes) was once nearly impossible, but now quite simple. If you will let me explain in this article, you will quickly realize how easily you can be preventing cold sores.
Preventing cold sores (same as oral herpes or fever blisters) is as easy as taking a daily top-shelf vitamin and mineral supplement. Quite honestly, many folks find nothing more is needed.
I know this may sound unbelievable. Yes - you may be wondering why so many people suffer from these outbreaks when preventing cold sores can be achieved with such little effort.
Before I explain how vitamins and minerals work so well for preventing cold sores, I would like to share one thing first. It is helpful to have a good understanding about what actually causes the cold sore.
If you have oral herpes, fever blister or cold sore outbreaks, you were infected by the herpes simplex virus at some earlier point in your life. 89% of the world population is infected with this virus. Usually this happens before our tenth birthday.
For most of the time the herpes virus quietly hides in the nerve ganglia connected to your facial nerves. If it notices a weakness in your immune system, this virus will quickly move to the surface and create another cold sore.
When any virus infects us, our body creates anti-bodies against that particular virus strain. Every time you get an oral herpes sore, your body creates more anti-bodies to replenish the existing troops.
Preventing cold sores means robust anti-bodies are needed. They will be strong only if the proper nutrients - in sufficient quantities - are available when the anti-bodies are created. Otherwise your defenses will be weak and multiple sores the result.
Most of the nutrients needed for preventing cold sores can be obtained from a really good daily nutritional supplement. All the vitamins - A through E - will be helpful against oral herpes. Also, the minerals zinc and calcium are very powerful medicine.
If you get multiple cold sore, oral herpes or fever blister events, it is almost a sure thing that your body needs a lot more calcium. Calcium is the main tool your body uses to stay in a healthy alkaline, high oxygen, state. herpes virus cannot get traction if you are alkaline.
The anti-stress vitamins B and C are very important in reducing the effects of daily stress on our bodies. Stress weakens the immune system and is the primary cause of cold sore episodes.
The oil-based vitamins A, D and E are the most important nutrients for healthy skin. They help repel damage by the herpes simplex virus and repair it quickly when it happens.
Is it not possible to get all the vitamins we need from a good diet?
Years ago it was possible. Food certainly provides the very best quality, body-ready nutrients. Then our field soils were rich and the fruits and vegetables brimming with vitamins and minerals.
Today our soils are very depleted of nutrients. Depleted, also, are the foods we harvest from these fields. The plants may look the same. But they simply do not contain the nutrition they once did.
Scientists have shown recently that it would take 59 ounces of spinach today to equal the nutrients in one ounce of 1950 spinach. Tomatoes were found to have only half the nutrients they once did. Our bodies are literally starving.
Researchers have come to the conclusion we are dramatically lacking proper quantities of important nutrients for disease prevention and a strong immune system. The herpes simplex virus, as well as other viruses, are rampant today.
Preventing cold sores is dependant on giving your body the ingredients it needs to build super antibodies. Eating organic or homegrown food will provide the best QUALITY of nutrients. However, this will not provide the needed QUANTITY.
Getting additional vitamins and minerals through daily intake of supplements is one of the easiest and most effective ways of preventing cold sores. It will give your body what it needs for a strong cold sore defense system.
If you suffer a lot of cold sore events, than give this a try. There are other things you can be doing, but this should be the first method you use for preventing cold sores.
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