Thread: L-Lysine
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Old 03-11-2011, 03:54 PM
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Originally Posted by mrsD View Post
There are two main reasons for l-lysine...

1) to prevent or reduce a herpes outbreak or shingles pain

2) to counter the use of high dose arginine (which may activate latent herpes).

Here is some general info on it:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lysine


If L-lysine mitigates my burning pain, should I conclude, then, that I have shingles?

Or am I taking a wildly simplistic approach here?
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