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Preventing cold sores, fever blisters and oral herpes was once unknown, but now is very easy. If you have a minute, I will share this proven way you can be using this minute for preventing cold sores.

Preventing cold sores, oral herpes and fever blisters can be enjoyed simply by taking high-quality nutritional supplements every single day. You may find that this is all you have needed right along.

Hard to believe you say? I know exactly what you mean. If it works so well, why do so many cold sore victims still not know about it? Trust me - many smart people are preventing cold sores everyday with this one method alone.

Before I explain how vitamins and minerals work so well for preventing cold sores, I would like to share one thing first. It is helpful to have a good understanding about what actually causes the cold sore.

If you have oral herpes, fever blister or cold sore outbreaks, you were infected by the herpes simplex virus at some earlier point in your life. 89% of the world population is infected with this virus. Usually this happens before our tenth birthday.

For most of the time the herpes virus quietly hides in the nerve ganglia connected to your facial nerves. If it notices a weakness in your immune system, this virus will quickly move to the surface and create another cold sore.

Anti-bodies are the defense soldiers our body creates when a virus becomes active in our bodies. Each group of anti-bodies specially target the virus for which it was created. Each time the herpes virus becomes active, fresh new anti-bodies are added to the group.

When the needed nutrients are present, and in the proper quantity, your anti-bodies will put up a powerful defense in preventing cold sores. Without these nutrient building-blocks, your defenses will be weak and re-occurring sores will be the result.

A top-quality vitamin and mineral supplement will provide most of the nutrients you will need for preventing cold sores. All the vitamins will have a big impact on oral herpes, plus minerals zinc, magnesium and calcium.

People who get repeated cold sore, fever blister or oral herpes outbreaks are often found to be deficient in calcium. Calcium keeps our bodies from becoming acidic. The herpes virus loves an acidic environment. Get plenty of calcium.

Vitamins B and C are water-soluble vitamins that must be replenished each day. They are the main vitamins that help us cope with stress. As you probably have heard - stress is the number one cause of cold sore events.

Vitamins A, D and E are the skin vitamins. These oil-soluble vitamins keep your skin firm and radiant. If you do get a cold sore, it is these 3 vitamins that will help it to mend quickly.

You may wonder why we cannot get all these nutrients from food rather than supplements.

Food source nutrients are, without a doubt, the best quality and most effective. Many years ago our farm fields were rich with nutrients - and so was the food grown on them.

Today our soils are very depleted of nutrients. Depleted, also, are the foods we harvest from these fields. The plants may look the same. But they simply do not contain the nutrition they once did.

Studies show you have to eat 50 ounces of spinach today to get the same nutrients as one ounce of spinach grown 48 years ago. We simply are not getting the nutrition from our food we once did.

Today, we just cannot eat enough to effectively provide our body with the essential vitamins and minerals it needs to build a strong immune system and enjoy optimum health. The herpes simplex virus is just one of many viruses out of control right now.

One step in preventing cold sores effectively is to give your body the vitamins it must have to create super anti-bodies. Organically grown or homegrown food will help. This will give you the best quality, but not the quantity of nutrients necessary.

A daily vitamin regimen, as many have found, is a simple, powerful way of preventing cold sores. It gives your body the building blocks it needs for a strong immunity against herpes simplex and other viruses.

There are many other cold sore tactics that may help you. And, although they may be great remedies, this certainly should be your initial step toward preventing cold sores.

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