How To Prevent Cold Sores – Warding Off The Cold Sore Virus

Imagine how wonderful it would be to know how to prevent cold sores. You can – if you read this short article. In it is revealed a proven method to honestly prevent cold sores.

I know it may be hard to believe, but many folks have been preventing cold sores with premium quality vitamin supplements. You really must try this for yourself.

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

The parasite virus that causes all cold sore outbreaks is the herpes simplex virus. About 89% of adults on earth are infected.

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.

These three conditions are responsible for most cold sore activity.

1. Weakness in your immunity due to stress and lack of necessary nutrients.

2. Your pH balance is no longer alkaline and has dropped into the acid zone.

3. You have high quantities of the amino acid Arginine in your cells.

Stress can, and often does, bring about the first two conditions listed above. That is why stress is thought to be the main cause of cold sore activity.

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. 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.

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.

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 most outstanding mineral for healing and prevention. You need no more than 30 milligrams per day for helping to prevent cold sore activity.

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 one of the most important keys to preventing cold sores. Your body needs it to keep itself in the healthy alkaline pH range. Magnesium helps in calcium uptake.

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

If the cold sore virus cannot get enough Arginine, it will give up and go back into hiding.

Arginine is common in many foods – such as chocolate, seeds and grains. You cant really avoid this amino acid in a normal healthy diet.

Lysine is also a common amino acid in most foods. However, for preventing cold sores, you need to get more. Most people take one or two 500 milligram Lysine capsules every day.

The internal methods mentioned above is the only way how to prevent cold sores in your life. Try it.

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.