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tisdag 13 oktober 2009

How To Prevent Cold Sores And Live Cold Sore Free For Life

By Denny Bodoh

Wouldn't it be beautiful to know how to actually prevent cold sores before they occur? Well, now you can if you read this excellent article. You will quickly see how easy it can be to really 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.

Topical cold sore remedies are great for immediate relief, but to truly prevent cold sores you must use internal remedies.

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

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.

These three conditions are responsible for most cold sore activity.

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.

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 here are two things you must keep in mind.

A. Studies have shown commercially raised food today will provide up to 75% less essential nutrients than the same foods from 50 years ago.

Commercial farmland is terribly depleted. This is a big part of the reason we have more and more disease scares every year - and why you need supplements.

B. Don't buy those two per day vitamins. They are expensive and do not give you the quality or quantity you must have for therapeutic results.

For successful results, you must take quality supplements. Go to a vitamin store or web-site. Do some research.

To prevent cold sores, look for good levels of vitamins A, B, C, D and E. Also you want maximum dosages of magnesium, zinc and especially calcium.

Vitamins A, D and E are oil-based and extremely important for skin health and healing. Putting these oils directly on an existing cold sore really speeds healing as well.

Vitamins B and C are known as the stress vitamins. They dramatically reduce the effects of stress. They burn up fast so need to be replenished often - at least once a 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.

Zinc sulfate is a form of zinc that is quite helpful as a topical treatment during an outbreak also. You can find it in some better cold sore remedies.

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.

Try to keep an alkaline pH. When your body goes acid, your oxygen levels drop and you are vulnerable to another cold sore event.

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.

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.

Arginine is very common and can be found in most foods. A little is just fine. You can't avoid getting some Arginine in a healthy diet.

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.

There are other great cold sore remedies for preventing cold sores I would love to tell you about. But, this internal method is basic to the success of all other treatments.

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