A little story about viruses and what you need to know

As we emerge from a challenging year, I feel it is timely to do a deep dive or recap on viruses.

It is so important for all of us to have a firm understanding of how viruses work, how they show up and affect our health, so that we can take responsibility for own health.

We’re at a place in time where the majority of the world’s population, knowingly or unknowingly, is living with one or more of the sixty different varieties of Epstein Barr Virus (EBV), as well as other viruses of the herpetic family, such as shingles, cytomegalovirus, herpes simplex, HHV-6 or HHV-7, to name a few.

These viruses are alive and in order for living viruses to stay alive they need food to eat, just like we do. And just as we have our favourite foods, viruses and other pathogens such as bacteria, fungi and parasites, have their favourites too, which include, among others:

Eggs, Dairy, Gluten, Heavy Metals, Herbicides, Pesticides, Other Toxins & Adrenaline.

So long as these foods and toxins are roaming around in the body, pathogens can feed and have the potential to replicate, thrive and be disruptive.

Certainly, this is something I have experienced first hand, in that every time I ate those foods mentioned, I would get an explosion of symptoms. But the more I cleared out the troublemaker foods and began doing deeper cleansing work, the more I experienced shifts in my health.

It took me years to understand this. Why? Because it's not common knowledge even in the health world. The whole viral piece has been so misunderstood. But once this piece became clear and I learned what to do about it, the path to healing opened up.


EPSTEIN BARR VIRUS
Epstein Barr virus with its sixty different varieties is one of the most pervasive viruses we face today. It likely took hold in the early 1900’s but wasn’t discovered until 1964. Back then initial versions of EBV were docile but overtime, it has evolved, and with each new generation, this virus gets more and more challenging.

EBV alone is responsible for a myriad of conditions, symptoms, diseases and disorders from auto-immune issues, such as MS, fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue and hashimoto’s thyroiditis to symptoms such as brain fog, tinnitus, tingles and numbness, vertigo, menstrual disturbances and so many more.

Part of the reason why this virus has become so much more aggressive is due to the vast increase in toxicity that we have experienced over the last century. Remember that viruses love to eat toxins, and so the more industry have pumped out toxic waste such as heavy metals, the more EBV and other herpetic viruses have thrived. And of course our food choices have played an enormous role too.


COVID, FLU AND EBV
When someone gets the flu it can lower the immune system allowing opportunities for underlying viruses such as EBV to take hold. In other words, the flu is an EBV trigger, which is one of the reasons why some people bounce back after flu within a few days and others need months to recover. The same goes for COVID.

For some people these symptoms were already there and the flu either brought the symptoms back or made them stronger, while for others, EBV lay dormant and the flu or COVID acts a trigger igniting the underlying viral condition. In other words, the flu and COVID can show a person what was already there.

The good thing is that our experience of COVID is actually awakening more people to the reality that viruses can be an issue for our health. BUT it is easy to get complacent. People tend to not want to know they have viruses until they get sick enough that they have to accept that something is wrong. But this approach won’t help shift us out of the health crisis we are in.

We need to understand what’s happening in the background in the way of EBV and other herpetic viruses that are at the root of so many of the conditions and symptoms we see today. Relying on lockdowns or waiting for BIg Pharma to come up with solutions that we have no long term studies for is not a sustainable solution.

It is time to wake up to what is actually going on! It is time to take full responsibility for our health because WE CAN! We have the answers. There are solutions to the health crisis we face today and it all begins with paying more attention to what we eat!

So, what are some of the simple measures we can take to combat viruses and protect ourselves from new ones? For easy, everyday steps you and create a strong immune system? For 10 simple steps, please click here.