Adapting the Paleo Diet for Herpes Management

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Adapting the Paleo Diet for Herpes is the fastest way to manage viral outbreaks.

My articles and Podcasts on Herpes supplements, the best and worst foods for Herpes, and the low Arginine diet for Herpes explore the diet needed to control HSV.

My Store also offers the Herpes Management Guide – a 90-minute PowerPoint download – to explain the diet, symptoms, medications, supplements and WHEN to take supplements, and how to avoid viral triggers.

The Paleo Diet for Herpes Management

I have a rare genetic immune deficiency known as CVID (Common Variable Immune Deficiency).

Because of this, I was never able to fully fight the Herpes I contracted in my youth. I now take weekly immunoglobulins to help my immune system but I still have to closely manage the virus.

I had to learn on my own how to control it, despite my immune deficiency, as the medical system was no help to me. I wasn’t even told about Lysine or Valtrex (which I do not take), much less about the Arginine in grains and nuts.

Before Paleo was “a thing”, I gave up wheat decades ago, and gradually figured out that ALL OTHER GRAINS flared up my Herpes.

This is how I helped discover Paleo before it had a name, books and podcasts other than my own.

Grains were not good for my digestion or my immune system!

Paleo, Ancestral, Biological Diets All Omit Grains 

All diets based on ancient human nutrition eliminate grains as the first step.

Why? People don’t graze on grass and grass seed. That is what grains are. (Modern corn doesn’t look like a grass but it is).

We leave grass and grass seed to our herbivore prey – deer, elk and the like.

Giving up all grains improved my Herpes control immensely, and quickly! It is the mandatory first step for everyone reading this article.

• Wheat
• Corn
• Oats
• Rice
• Rye
• Spelt
• Soy (a legume, not a grain but high in Arginine like all legumes)

What About Nuts, Bone Broth and Coconut Meat?

The basic Paleo Diet: pastured animal protein, lots of vegetables, fats, some tubers and fruit is hearty and satisfying.

So we adapt Paleo to remove the other high Arginine foods that drive Herpes. The Grains are the worst so they’re GONE!

What else to adapt Paleo Diet for Herpes?

• Nuts, nut flour
• Seeds
• Chocolate
• Bone Broth
• Coconut Meat and Flour (the Oil is fine)
• Large servings of Legumes (beans such as Soy, Black Beans, Hummus)
• Most protein powders

All are high in Arginine, low in Lysine.

The goal is a Lysine-balanced diet to stop viral replication

Once the virus is mostly controlled, supplements or the occasional Valtrex can manage it. Stress management is key as well.

Supplements for Herpes

There are 8 hand-picked professional products in my Herpes Control Pack. I use these in my Clinic and I take them as well.

They include Whole Olive Leaf, VIVI – Virox, Monolaurin, Lysine, EGCG Green Tea Extract, Lemon Balm tincture and more. Check the Category named Herpes Managment in the Online Store.

You should add D3 Complete (D with K2 and A), a DHA only fish oil, and a good Probiotic.

Consider adding Supreme Nutrition Melia. I recently added this potent but gentle anti-infective to MY supplement regimen and it has really helped. At the moment it is not in the Herpes Pack so order it separately or in addition to the items in the Infection Pack.

No Miracle Cures

There are NO miracle cures out there! You’ll find plenty of non-clinical websites selling “stuff” with “promises”.

I fight back at those sites with my 50 years of fighting this virus, and decades of Clinical work since the mid 80’s. I’m a professional AND a patient and don’t offer tricks…..

Is Valtrex Necessary?

No, it is not IF you follow the diet, supplements and stress support in the Herpes Management Guide. You’ll get directions in the Herpes Supplement Pack that tell you how to adjust doses up or down depending on how you feel. If you eat cookies or cake and a flare starts up, you need to be ready to fight back with everything in my pack. Or just don’t eat the grains, nuts, chocolate, protein powders, collagen and broth….

The Paleo Diet for Herpes is the Place to Start

I’ve been eating pastured animal protein, cooked vegetables, plenty of fats from healthy animals, some tubers (potato/yam) and a little fruit for decades. It’s a hearty diet and good for the long term.

Adapt it for Herpes control by continuing to omit grains, then keep out most nuts, seeds, chocolate, collagen and protein powder, bone broth and coconut meat. Learn your boundaries over time and when you have to supplement more, or can supplement less.

I take 500 mg. Lysine, Whole Olive Leaf and Melia Neem twice daily. If I have a pro-dromal itch or burn I add the other items in the Herpes Control Pack such as VIVI – Virox, Monolaurin and Melissa/Lemon Balm.

Details of the Paleo Diet for Herpes

The basics are simple, as I have listed above.

There is more detail in my 90-minute Herpes Guide PowerPoint on diet, supplements, FAQ’s and Store discounts too.

You CAN do this and master the management of this virus.