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CuomoisaMassMurderer 1 point ago +1 / -0

Wow! Lysine has promising preliminary treatment for shingles treatment? Now you're talking my language :) OTC, cheap, no risk of side effects

Yeah since I've got weird neuropathy that even might be associated with shingles, I'd hate to try the vaccine for fear of flaring it up when otherwise I might be able to beat it and not suffer with it.

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powershellder 2 points ago +2 / -0

Sort of difficult to find original studies, but here’s one I found:

Studies indicate that the process of VZV replication extracts lysine from the blood stream. The virus attempts to use lysine as it would use arginine—to make protein VII, an arginine-rich protein component of the viral core. However, this attempt fails. Thus, lysine acts like an arginine substitute, “fooling” the virus and preventing it from replicating and causing outbreaks.

Vol. 2 No. 4 2013 www.thepharmajournal.com Page | 25.