Certain viruses (esp of the Herpes family of which there are many) use Arginine to replicate.
Many many people are infected with Herpes... up to 95% with simplex alone. Then there are the Zoster people...those who had chicken pox when younger (me for example).
When someone consumes high arginine containing foods, or supplements, this can activate the virus which lives in nerves.
Then symptoms occur. Infection with Herpes viruses are for LIFE. They live in the dorsal ganglia of the spinal cord.
That is why I don't put up arginine data more often ...it is a common recommendation now for hypertension, as well as erectile dysfunctions. I am suspect of high arginine without balancing the lysine. Lysine quiets viral replication when ratios become unbalanced.
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