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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.

Many folks have found taking simple high quality nutritional supplements is all they need for preventing cold sore onset. You too can enjoy the same excellent results with very little effort.

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.

Mostly the virus is hiding in the ganglia cells of your facial nerves. It only becomes active if it detects the conditions are favorable for making new virus.

When it all boils down, these are the three main conditions causing cold sore events.

1. Your immune levels have diminished due to effects of stress and lack of proper nutrient intake.

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

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

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.

You can help to correct these effects of stress by seeing to it that you get optimum levels of vitamins and minerals every day.

But here are two important points I want you to be aware of.

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. Do not waste your money on those cheap drug-store vitamins – the one or two per day variety. They do not work. They do not contain enough of any nutrient to be effective.

Go to a place that specializes in high quality vitamins. Get the best you can afford.

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

For skin health, healing and protection, make sure you get plenty of the oil-based vitamins A, D, and E every day.

Vitamins B and C are known as the stress vitamins. They dramatically reduce the effects of stress. They burn up fast so need to be replenished often – at least once a day.

Zinc is considered a very powerful mineral for healing and fighting infections. Limit intake to about 30 milligrams per day.

In addition there are topical cold sore remedies containing zinc sulfate (an easily absorbed form of zinc) you can use directly on the sore.

Calcium is an essential nutrient to prevent cold sores. It keeps your body alkaline and out of the acid zone. Calcium needs magnesium for best absorption.

When your body drops into an acid condition, you are very vulnerable to cold sore activity. Essential tissue oxygen levels drop as the pH levels drop too.

Calcium is so important to your health that your system will rob it from your bones if you do not take in enough. Most people take 1000 to 2000 milligrams daily.

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.

Simply put – if Arginine is not available, the cold sore virus will go back to the harmless dormant stage.

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.

Using this internal method is truly how to prevent cold sores. It works for thousands of others and most likely will work for you also.

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.