Thread: genital herpes

There are a zillion kinds of herpes virus's, including chicken pox and shingles. I'm not certain but I think pretty much any virus that causes a skin response is a 'herpes'. I've had shingles a couple of times and did some research, assuming that what works for one virus will work on another in the same 'family', this may help you. Viruses cannot reproduce on their own, instead they reproduce inside the host's cells, using amino acids from the host. If you can, without harming your health, create an environment in your body that inhibits the virus's ability to reproduce, it can't give you much trouble.

The amino acid that the virus needed to reproduce is found in large quantity in chocolate (sorry but it's true) and nuts, so cut those out of your diet - especially when you are highly stressed. Stress creates changes in your body that give the virus a better breeding ground. L-lysine inhibits the virus's reproduction, so you want to increase that in you body. You can buy L-lysine at the grocery. Take 100mg for every 30 lbs of body weight and take it a couple times a day. I don't know of any negative side effects to L-lysine but I'm sure that would be easily researched and couldn't be nearly as bad as those of anti-viral meds.

I had shingles on my face twice (came close to losing my sight) during some high stress times a few years back and whenever I feel that tell tale tingle, I change my diet and start taking L-lysine. When I'm really stressed I take the L-lysine. I have huge stress in my life right now but haven't had another out break.The doctors could offer nothing until there was an actual out break and then it was highly tocic drugs - heading it off at the pass is a better solution!