Preventing cold sores, oral herpes or fever blister outbreaks was at one time thought to be difficult, but now is quite easy. If you will let me, I would like to show you how you can be preventing cold sores within minutes.
Preventing cold sores (fever blisters, oral herpes) can be achieved with a daily intake of premium-quality vitamin supplements. Truly, for many folks, nothing more is needed.
Hard to believe you say? I know exactly what you mean. If it works so well, why do so many cold sore victims still not know about it? Trust me - many smart people are preventing cold sores everyday with this one method alone.
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.
Cold sore and fever blister episodes are identical oral herpes sores caused by infection of the herpes simplex virus. About 88% of all people carry the herpes virus and were infected before they were 12 years old.
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.
Anti-bodies are the defense soldiers our body creates when a virus becomes active in our bodies. Each group of anti-bodies specially target the virus for which it was created. Each time the herpes virus becomes active, fresh new anti-bodies are added to the group.
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.
Recent studies now show that calcium deficiency is common in those who have frequent cold sores. Calcium is big against oral herpes, cold sores and fever blisters. Calcium keeps the body alkaline. No virus can get a foothold in an alkaline environment.
Also, vitamins B and C are known to function as anti-stress vitamins because they help reduce the effects of mental and physical stress. And you must have heard by now that stress is the number one cause of cold sore outbreaks.
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.
Why can we not depend on our food supply for all the nutrition we need?
Yes, food is where all our vitamins and minerals should come from. They are in a form that our body was designed to use. Years ago our food was abundant and bursting with flavor and nutrition because the farm land was fresh and rich.
Our fields are becoming more and more depleted of healthy nutrients. Certain nutrients are added back to the soil specifically to make the produce look good in the store. But there is no effort to restore nutrition levels to these foods.
Studies show you have to eat 50 ounces of spinach today to get the same nutrients as one ounce of spinach grown 48 years ago. We simply are not getting the nutrition from our food we once did.
Today, we just cannot eat enough to effectively provide our body with the essential vitamins and minerals it needs to build a strong immune system and enjoy optimum health. The herpes simplex virus is just one of many viruses out of control right now.
Preventing cold sores requires us to provide our system the nutrients it needs to form powerful antibodies. Organically grown foods are usually much higher in nutrients. But this, too, will not provide the actual quantity your body needs.
A daily vitamin regimen, as many have found, is a simple, powerful way of preventing cold sores. It gives your body the building blocks it needs for a strong immunity against herpes simplex and other viruses.
There are many other cold sore tactics that may help you. And, although they may be great remedies, this certainly should be your initial step toward preventing cold sores.