How to NEVER Get Shingles Again ~ Dr. Eric Berg

The first thing to know is that it's a weakness within your own immune system, which is kind of good news because it puts you in the driver's seat.

You can control this virus if you understand a little bit about the immune system.

But the first thing you need to know is that certain things will trigger this virus coming out of remission.

Uh, certain drugs will do it, uh, being on prednisone will do it, even though that sometimes is part of the treatment.

But if you use this treatment too long, it creates a weakness, and then that virus starts coming out.

Prednisone is the, kind of the medication version of cortisol, which is a hormone activated by stress.

And so stress, because it can paralyze your immune system or lower your defenses, lower your white blood cells, can make you very susceptible to having this virus come out of remission.

So anything that dampens the immune system or suppresses the immune system, uh, will cause this reactivation of the virus.

This is why, um, radiation is also a trigger of reactivation.

Now, let's just think about radiation.

I'm not just talking about being in front of an X-ray, but that could do it, but I'm also talking about the sun.

Not regular sun exposure, but if you burn yourself or you get too much sun.

So a sunburn can be a reactivation because that's too much UV.

But the melatonin from the sun can also be very beneficial.

And pesticides in your food supply and your environment can also be a trigger.

But there's something else that's much, much bigger as far as in a triggering for, uh, this virus, and that is...

Are you ready for this? Are you sitting down? It's a low vitamin D state or a condition.

Makes you very, very susceptible to having this virus come out of remission.

Let's take a little bit of a deep dive into the relationship of vitamin D and this virus.

All right.

The first piece of data is that shingles is worsened with a low vitamin D situation.

People that live further from the equator are at more at risk for getting shingles, and that also correlates with vitamin D as well.

People that are treated with vitamin D have a much less risk of getting a reoccurrence from shingles.

People that are on dialysis have a 16 times less chance of getting an outbreak of shingles if they take vitamin D.

Another huge risk factor for getting shingles is people with high blood pressure, and it just so happens that 90% of high blood pressure is essential, which means it's an unknown cause.