Preventing Cold Sores - When You Cannot Afford a Cold Sore
Preventing cold sores (fever blisters - oral herpes) was once nearly impossible, but now quite simple. If you will let me explain in this article, you will quickly realize how easily you can be preventing cold sores.
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.
You may find this simple trick hard to believe - for preventing cold sores. After all, so many suffer from oral herpes every day. But it truly does work, as so many folks will testify.
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.
If you have oral herpes, fever blister or cold sore outbreaks, you were infected by the herpes simplex virus at some earlier point in your life. 89% of the world population is infected with this virus. Usually this happens before our tenth birthday.
The herpes virus is - most of the time - in a latent state. It hides deep below the surface in the roots of your facial nerves. Should it sense a drop in your immune defenses, it will move to the surface, replicate and create a new 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.
When the needed nutrients are present, and in the proper quantity, your anti-bodies will put up a powerful defense in preventing cold sores. Without these nutrient building-blocks, your defenses will be weak and re-occurring sores will be the result.
A top-quality vitamin and mineral supplement will provide most of the nutrients you will need for preventing cold sores. All the vitamins will have a big impact on oral herpes, plus minerals zinc, magnesium and calcium.
People who get repeated cold sore, fever blister or oral herpes outbreaks are often found to be deficient in calcium. Calcium keeps our bodies from becoming acidic. The herpes virus loves an acidic environment. Get plenty of calcium.
Vitamins B and C are water-soluble vitamins that must be replenished each day. They are the main vitamins that help us cope with stress. As you probably have heard - stress is the number one cause of cold sore events.
Vitamins A, D and E are the skin vitamins. These oil-soluble vitamins keep your skin firm and radiant. If you do get a cold sore, it is these 3 vitamins that will help it to mend quickly.
Why can we not depend on our food supply for all the nutrition we need?
Years ago it was possible. Food certainly provides the very best quality, body-ready nutrients. Then our field soils were rich and the fruits and vegetables brimming with vitamins and minerals.
Today our soils are very depleted of nutrients. Depleted, also, are the foods we harvest from these fields. The plants may look the same. But they simply do not contain the nutrition they once did.
Spinach is a good example. Merely a half century ago spinach contained fifty times more of the key nutrients than spinach tested today. Several other vegetables were tested with similar results.
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 is dependant on giving your body the ingredients it needs to build super antibodies. Eating organic or homegrown food will provide the best QUALITY of nutrients. However, this will not provide the needed QUANTITY.
Preventing cold sores with additional consumption of vitamins and minerals on a daily basis is smart and effective. It will provide the higher amounts of nutrients you need for cold sore control.
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.