The Role Of Your Diet and Exercise
In Controlling Herpes Outbreaks

You have probably heard time and time again about how important diet and nutrition along with exercise is to your body.

From childhood we are reminded to "eat your vegetables" and "exercise daily". We are taught about the food pyramid and the dangers of too much fat and sugar. However, what you may not know is that nutrition can also affect viral reproduction. This means that what you eat can really make a difference in the number of herpes outbreaks that occur.

It can also affect how severe these outbreaks become. If you really want to take an active role in your herpes outbreaks instead of letting them control your life, then you need to know and understand the importance of diet and exercise.

If you want to be able to suppress your outbreaks without medication that can have unwanted side effects and live a more normal, balanced life, then you just need to take a look at your diet and lifestyle.

Lifestyle Adjustments

There may be some things that you need to re-evaluate and prioritize. You may need to make some adjustments to your daily diet and the types of foods you consume.

But once you do, it will become habit and once you see the effect it has on the way you feel and the way it affects your herpes, you will never want to go back to your old ways again. Maintaining a proper diet with good nutrition and exercise can also help to decrease the length of time that a herpes outbreak lasts.

This is very important because the longer you have to suffer with an herpes outbreak simply means the less time you have to live a normal happy life. Anyone that has the herpes virus wants to be free of outbreaks as much as possible. One good way to help accomplish this is through a nutritious diet combined with an effective exercise plan.

A key aspect of your diet and nutrition plan is to realize that it is all about finding and maintaining the proper balance in your life for your body so that you are as healthy as possible even with the virus.

How does nutrition affect herpes?

Your diet and good nutrition is a form of treatment for herpes that can be done immediately. It is the only thing that you can do personally to control your herpes outbreaks. You have the power to eat foods that can directly influence the herpes virus and the amount of outbreaks that occur. You can be proactive. You can do something about your herpes virus instead of letting it rule your life.

By learning what foods can help your herpes symptoms, you can adjust your diet accordingly and take an active role in defeating this incurable disease. Herpes doesn't have to ruin your life. But one thing that you need to understand about herpes nutrition is that there are not any specific "good" foods that you should eat or "bad" foods that you should avoid to affect your herpes. Instead, you need to look at different vitamins and minerals that are in each food and also at your total diet as part of an overall package.

It's all about choosing the right foods, avoiding too much sugar and sweets and other things that are bad for you and combining your healthy diet with a great exercise plan to reach your total body fitness and nutrition goals. Remember that it is about a complete, overall body and lifestyle transformation, not about a "magic food" that makes everything better.

The Role Of Your Diet In Controlling Herpes

People with viral diseases such as herpes simplex can benefit enormously from a diet that is high in lysine and low in arginine.

In the chart below, the foods at the top of the list have higher lysine to arginine ratios.

• Use the chart below as a guide or a reference only.
• There is no reason to avoid a food if it has a low lysine/arginine ratio (last column) and contains only only a few mg of arginine.