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How To Help Your Body Cure Herpes Symptoms With Proper Diet 6 y
The dietary management of genital herpes is not just another illusion. There are certain ingredients you can add or remove from your diet to make you less prone to genital herpes infections. For example, considering that a high consumption of arginine can make you potentially prone to herpes outbreaks, you may decide to avoid eating high arginine food and prefer to ingest high-lysine food instead. If you’ve already read my page on lysine or my book about genital herpes, you may already know how I feel about lysine. Lysine is just a very small part of the dietary management of genital herpes and results are uncertain as clinical studies about lysine and herpes contradict each other. Many partial research findings point out directions in the dietary management of genital herpes. It seems that nature is very generous with us and that our nutrition can greatly affect how our bodies react to herpes.
Dietary Management of Genital herpes:
Broccoli?
Preliminary lab studies of monkey and human cells found that indole-3-carbinol (I3C), a compound found naturally in broccoli and other cruciferous vegetables such as cabbage and Brussels sprouts may interfere with herpes reproduction. This compound affected either herpes virus 1 or 2 replication by almost a 100% in lab tests. So you could try to eat more broccoli for a while and see if you experience any improvement even though we don’t have any information on dosage and efficacy. You could also try indole-3 carbinol supplements. I ... read more |