How To Prevent Cold Sores – Shield Against Cold Sore Outbreaks

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.

Normally it is dormant, hiding in the root cells of a facial nerve. It will only cause cold sore symptoms if it senses the right conditions and becomes active.

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. High levels of the Arginine protein are present in your target area.

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.

Proper levels and quantities of vitamins and minerals will usually correct these stress induced conditions very quickly and easily.

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.

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.

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

The entire spectrum of vitamins are needed to prevent cold sores – A, B, C, D and E. Also the minerals calcium, magnesium and zinc.

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.

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 the healing mineral and is powerful in prevention of cold sore infections. Take no more than 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 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 essential to your health that your system will even take it from your bones as a survival measure. Most people should get one to two grams per day.

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

Lysine takes care of condition 3 above by neutralizing excessive Arginine in your cells. Lysine effectively keeps Arginine from being used by the herpes virus.

Without Arginine, the herpes virus cannot get any traction and will go back into the dormant phase.

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 internal treatment methods, like those mentioned here, is how to prevent cold sores in your life too.

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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