How To Prevent Cold Sores - Stop Repeating Cold Sore Events
Written by Denny Bodoh   
Wednesday, 07 October 2009 13:43
Imagine how wonderful it would be to know how to prevent cold sores. You can - if you read this short article. In it is revealed a proven method to honestly prevent cold sores.
by DennyBodoh


Imagine how wonderful it would be to know how to prevent cold sores. You can - if you read this short article. In it is revealed a proven method to honestly prevent cold sores.

Many people have been preventing cold sores by quite simply taking top quality nutritional supplements. There is no reason why it won't work for you too.

You can use a variety of topical cold sore remedies to heal a sore, but the only way to actually prevent cold sores is by internal treatment.

About 90% of the population carries the herpes simplex virus - the virus that causes all cold sores.

The majority of time the virus is latent. It hides in your facial nerve root cells. If the herpes virus feels the conditions are right, it will activate.

When it all boils down, these are the three main conditions causing cold sore events.

1. An immune system that has been diminished by stress and lack of proper nutrition.

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.

The best way to address or prevent these conditions from occurring is to take in high quality and proper quantity of vitamins and minerals daily.

But there are two things you must know.

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.

Depletion of our soil is the culprit. This is considered part of the reason diseases of all kinds are becoming rampant today. That is why you need 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.

Get the highest quality you can afford - from a vitamin store or on-line. Otherwise you won't get the results you want.

Getting proper levels of vitamins A, C, D, E and all the B's is important. The main minerals that will be helpful for preventing cold sores are calcium, magnesium and zinc.

The oil-based vitamins are A, D and E. These are critical for the health and beauty of your skin - and help resist attack by the cold sore virus.

Vitamin C, and the entire family of the B's, are called the stress vitamins. They reduce how stress affects your body. These vitamins burn up quickly so take daily.

Zinc is considered a very powerful mineral for healing and fighting infections. Limit intake to about 30 milligrams per day.

A form of Zinc (called zinc sulfate) is found in some topical cold sore remedies. It also is quite effective in stopping and healing an existing sore.

Calcium is an essential nutrient to prevent cold sores. It keeps your body alkaline and out of the acid zone. Calcium needs magnesium for best absorption.

When your body starts to become acidic, you are inviting disease of all sorts including cold sore outbreaks. Your tissue oxygen level drop with a drop in pH.

Calcium is so critical to your immunity that your body will steal it from your teeth and bones to protect itself. Most folks should take at least 1000 - 1500 milligrams daily.

In addition to vitamins and minerals, take some Lysine capsules. Lysine is a powerful amino acid for preventing cold sores.

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.

You can get lysine in many foods also, but the easiest and most effective way is to buy some Lysine 500 milligram capsules. Add one or two of these to your daily vitamin plan.

Using this internal method is truly how to prevent cold sores. It works for thousands of others and most likely will work for you also.

I wish I had time and space to tell you of other cold sore remedies that work very well. But, this internal method is the most important basic treatment for preventing cold sores for life.

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