Easy Tactics to Build Immunity to Cold Sores

You can be immune to cold sores by taking a good vitamin and mineral supplement every day.  Here is what you should be doing right now to build immunity to cold sore outbreaks.  Thousands are doing this every day and you can too.

When your body is infected with a virus, it manufactures anti-bodies to defend you from illness.  Your body needs a large amount of the proper nutrients to do this.  These anti-bodies are formed using the basic building blocks - vitamins and minerals.

Amazing as it may sound, your body is full of various strains of virus besides the cold sore virus.  Yes, even the much feared poliovirus.  All these viruses are held in check by your immune system and the anti-bodies that are created.  Your body has developed IMMUNITY to many of these viruses and they will likely never be a problem for you.

Herpes simplex virus type 1 and herpes type 2 are the root cause of all herpes sores, including cold sores.  There are five other strains of the herpes simplex virus that are responsible for diseases such as chickenpox and shingles.

Chickenpox can be a terrible disease, especially as an adult.  But you seldom see it today because most of us have developed immunity to it.

Cold sore viruses are very small sub-microscopic living particles.  Small enough, actually, that many can hide inside a single nerve cell.  They are, in truth, a parasite.  They need a host to survive and reproduce themselves.  The virus that causes cold sores, fever blisters and oral herpes can only recreate themselves by forcing your cells to become virus-cloning factories.

As you probably are aware, viruses are very survival oriented.  Every time we invent a new drug, the germ that we are targeting soon becomes immune to it.  Acyclovir, and other spin-offs of this drug, were initially successful against herpes -but now are becoming almost useless.  The key to successfully curing a viral disease is to aid your body in building a strong immunity to it.

Your body will create the best medicine for you.  When a virus infects your body, new anti-bodies are created and designed to attack that strain or sub-strain of the virus.  Also, each and every time the cold sore reoccurs, new anti-bodies are also created and added to your defense.  Your anti-bodies will easily keep up with any virus mutations.  The stronger your anti-bodies, the more your immune system will prevent cold sores.

Vaccines are particularly effective because they work WITH your body to create its own best medicine - by helping the body build super anti-bodies.  There is no vaccine for cold sores yet.  You honestly do not need one.  Because cold sores are not life threatening, your body can create these super anti-bodies if you provide the proper vitamins and minerals.

There was a time, not too many years ago, when you could be reasonably healthy from the nutrients provided by fruits, vegetables and meats.  Today, scientists have proven that vegetables and fruits have dramatically less nutrients than even 50 years ago.

For example, scientists recently announced that testing showed a tomato now has about HALF the nutrients of a 1950 tomato.  Incredible but true.  Researchers are now linking this to the huge increase in chronic diseases today.  Also, some doctors are suggesting this may be one reason more people are getting cold sores - and getting them more often.

Hopefully I have helped you understand the importance of taking a daily vitamin and mineral regimen.  Simply put, it helps build better and more powerful anti-bodies.  Many people today, using this method, are reducing and preventing cold sores in their lives.  You can too.