Asymptomatic Herpes Shedding — How Often It Happens and What It Actually Means
Christopher Scipio, RH (AHG) — Registered Herbalist and Holistic Viral Specialist. Author of Making Peace With Herpes (20th Anniversary Edition). Thirty-nine years in practice, twenty-three of them as a herpes specialist. I was misdiagnosed for two years, not by one...
Eczema and Herpes: When It Is Not Just a Flare
If you live with both eczema and herpes, there is one truth in this piece that matters more than everything else combined: on skin that eczema has already broken down, the herpes virus does not behave like an ordinary outbreak. What the evidence actually says Healthy...
Prostate, Urinary Tract, and Herpes: What Is Actually Connected
Spend ten minutes searching online and you will find the prostate, the urinary tract, and herpes thrown into the same bucket as if they were one single problem. They are not. Separating them is most of the work. First, the urinary advice that has nothing to do with...
COVID and Herpes: The Reactivation Link, Stated Plainly
Most of what you read online about COVID-19 and herpes either hides the link or tries to sell you something on the back of it. I am not going to do either. Let me be clear. COVID-19 can wake up a dormant herpes virus. You do not have to squint at the numbers to see...
Pain at the Base of Your Spine: When “Tailbone Shingles” Is Actually Herpes
People write to me all the time about pain at the base of the spine — right on the tailbone, over the sacrum, in that awkward spot you cannot easily see and cannot comfortably point to. Half the time, the word they use for it is shingles. And without realising it,...
Arginine Supplements and Herpes: What Is Really in the Scoop
A Handful And A Scoop A handful of almonds is not the same as a scoop of arginine powder, and the difference is physical before it is anything else. You chew an almond. You grind it between your teeth and swallow it, and it goes down inside a food that also carries...
Chronic Stress, Not Chocolate, Is the Trigger Behind Most Herpes Outbreaks
Answered by: Christopher Scipio, RH (AHG) — Registered Herbalist and Holistic Viral Specialist; thirty-nine years as an herbalist, twenty-three of them as a herpes specialist; author of Making Peace With Herpes (20th Anniversary Edition). In the nineties, the only...
Are My Symptoms Prodrome or Something Else?
Prodrome is the early-warning phase, when the virus is reactivating before anything shows on your skin. It usually comes as tingling, itching, burning, numbness, or nerve pain in the place where your outbreaks arrive. If you're feeling that in your usual spot, treat...
Genital HSV-1 Sheds Less Than HSV-2, but Oral HSV-1 Is Now the Leading Cause of New Genital Herpes
Nearly every consultation gets to this question once a test result has named a type. Which one do I have, and does it change my life? Type 1 or type 2. People want to know if the number on the lab sheet is a verdict. How contagious am I? How sick will I get? How much...
Can a Herpes Blood Test Be Wrong?
Can a Herpes Blood Test Be Wrong? Yes. More often than you have been told, and in a specific, predictable way that the number on your report will reveal if you know how to read it. I want to be careful here, because this article gets misused in both directions. Some...