What causes cold sores? Many folks ask this question everyday. One ultimate trigger causes most of these unpleasant and embarrassing sores for nearly everyone. Let me tell you about it.
I am sure you are aware that a cold sore is the byproduct of the herpes simplex virus during its replication process. This virus destroys a lot of your cells while creating new virus particles.
Usually, this virus is inactive and hiding in the root cells of your facial nerves. If conditions become right, it will activate, travel up the nerve fiber and create a massive sore on your face.
Yes, the herpes simplex virus is what causes all cold sores. However, over a third of those that carry this virus never get an outbreak even though nearly 90% of the population is infected.
So, if we want to determine what causes cold sores, we need to uncover the ultimate trigger that activates the sleeping virus.
Both physical and mental stress is a common trigger that causes cold sores. Often, people get an outbreak when they come down suffer from cold or flu symptoms.
Mental stress can be such things as an upcoming big event, like a wedding. One woman just wrote that she always gets one before a big date. Terrible luck for sure.
You cannot always reduce or eliminate stress. Stress is part of being alive and active. You do not need to control the stress as much as what it does to your body.
The ultimate trigger for these sores - for activating the herpes virus - is an acid pH balance. Stress, cold weather and poor intake of vegetables will cause your body to dip into the acid zone.
This greatly reduces your resistance to disease and produces the perfect environment for activating the herpes virus - or any other virus for that matter.
It weakens your immune system and reduces your tissue levels of oxygen.
Your pH balance is quite fragile. It moves quite easily between 6.0 (slightly acid) to 7.5 (slightly alkaline). Your ideal target pH for best health is about 7.35. The farther you dip below 7, the more you are susceptible to viral attack.
Your ultimate cold sore trigger is a pH of 6.5 and below.
Your ultimate cold sore prevention program is keeping your pH above 7. You can easily achieve this with food and supplements.
If you get frequent or severe outbreaks, the first thing you should consider is to begin taking a top shelf vitamin and mineral program with a minimum of 1000 milligrams of calcium daily. Calcium is critical to prevent acidity in your body.
If this is not enough, you may need to evaluate your diet also.
Acid causing foods to restrict, especially during an outbreak, include processed sugar, white flour, carbonated beverages, table salt, pork, tobacco and coffee.
Helpful alkaline raising foods to increase in your diet are green vegetables (cabbage, broccoli, asparagus), wild rice, flax seed, apples and most citrus fruit.
Citrus fruit contains citric acid but it is not an acid causing food. Citric acid actually transforms to alkaline in your body.
You will have to experiment and determine what works best for you. You are unique and your body has needs unique to just you.
If you suffer, as I used to, from these terrible sores, please do not forget to start taking the best quality supplement you can afford. It will really make a difference. If need be, do not hesitate to take additional calcium supplements.
Once you start applying these simple treatment and prevention methods, then you will really benefit from the breakthroughs we have found in natural cold sore remedies.
You must have the basics right for best results. It is just that simple!
No matter what other cold sore remedies you choose to use, keeping your pH balance in the alkaline zone will greatly reduce the number of sores you get and their severity.
An acid tissue pH is truly what causes cold sores.
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