It is true! Cold sores can be prevented for many with a simple nutritional supplement program. Discover for yourself how you too can create a strong immunity to cold sores with very little effort.
Whenever your body encounters a virus infection, it builds a defense army of anti-bodies designed to seek out and eliminate the invading germ. To create these anti-bodies, your system needs a full complement of vitamins and minerals.
Amazing as it may sound, your body is full of various strains of virus besides the cold sore virus. Yes, even the much feared poliovirus. All these viruses are held in check by your immune system and the anti-bodies that are created. Your body has developed IMMUNITY to many of these viruses and they will likely never be a problem for you.
There are eight strains of the herpes simplex virus that we know of. The two strains responsible for cold sores are herpes simplex type 1 and type 2. The other five strains have been identified as causing diseases such as chickenpox, mono, and shingles.
Chickenpox can be a terrible disease, especially as an adult. But you seldom see it today because most of us have developed immunity to it.
The cold sore virus is extremely small. Fact is, several of them can occupy a single nerve cell. They can not survive and replicate without a host - and they prefer humans. The herpes virus enters a nerve cell and forces that cell to create clones of it. When full, it then destroys the cell to release the new virus.
As you probably are aware, viruses are very survival oriented. Every time we invent a new drug, the germ that we are targeting soon becomes immune to it. Acyclovir, and other spin-offs of this drug, were initially successful against herpes -but now are becoming almost useless. The key to successfully curing a viral disease is to aid your body in building a strong immunity to it.
Your body was created to take care of itself. When you encounter a virus invader, like the cold sore virus, your body will develop an anti-body army to deal with that particular strain. Each time you get a cold sore, you create fresh anti-bodies to add to your reserves. Your body will come up with new versions of anti-bodies just as quickly as the virus mutates. The better anti-bodies you build (by providing the proper nutrients), the stronger your immunity diseases such as cold sores.
Vaccines are particularly effective because they work WITH your body to create its own best medicine - by helping the body build super anti-bodies. There is no vaccine for cold sores yet. You honestly do not need one. Because cold sores are not life threatening, your body can create these super anti-bodies if you provide the proper vitamins and minerals.
There was a time, not too many years ago, when you could be reasonably healthy from the nutrients provided by fruits, vegetables and meats. Today, scientists have proven that vegetables and fruits have dramatically less nutrients than even 50 years ago.
Amazing but true - it takes 60 servings of spinach today to equal the nutrition of only one serving in 1948. Maybe that is one reason why there is so much chronic disease today. And why more people are getting cold sore outbreaks than ever before - and more frequently.
I hope this all makes sense to you now. In order for you to truly hope to become immune to cold sores, and prevent many other chronic diseases, you must begin a daily regimen of good vitamin supplementation. By doing so, you will be giving your body the building blocks needed for a strong immune system and for cold sore prevention.
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