The 5 Things You MUST Know about Epstein-Barr Virus (EBV) ｜ DrEricBergDC

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there are five things that you must know

about Epstein-Barr virus now why is it

so important to know more about this

virus well simply because the chances

are pretty great that you have this

virus and it could potentially create a

problem in your life and so the more you

know about it the less you are going to

be adversely affected by it roughly 95

of the population has this virus so

that’s greater than 9 out of 10 people

so this virus definitely pertains to you

and having this information can greatly

protect you against a problem with this

virus so I’ve seen by a viruses called

the kissing virus because a lot of times

people get it when they’re in their

teenage years but even children can get

it as well

but they are usually asymptomatic and

probably because Epstein-Barr virus

primarily attacks a certain immune cell

called the B cell b lymphocyte and

that’s part of the acquired immune

system that develops as you get older

but that’s just my theory it could be

another reason

but this information is based on this

new book that I’m reading called latency

strategies of herpes viruses okay

I show this to my wife and she’s like

well I’ll let you read it first she has

absolutely no interest in reading this

book but she appreciates me reading it

and summarizing it for her but this book

is all about the strategies that the

herpea viruses use to go underneath the

radar and survive and live in your body

and this term latency means

if the virus goes in a dormant state it

hides in your body and it’s very

difficult for your immune system to

detect if not impossible so there are

certain viruses that when you get

infected they stay in your body and they

can potentially come out in certain

environments other viruses are killed

and they can be eliminated from the body

the latent viruses stay in your body so

number one we’re going to get to five

things the Epstein-Barr virus is in the

family of the herpes virus and it’s one

of the viruses that can go into this

latent phase so you get infected it

creates a lot of problems with your

throat glands it can create severe

fatigue and achiness of the joint and I

had it when I was I think in 10th Grade

and it was terrible I couldn’t breathe

because my throat was so close down and

I just had to wait it out and kind of

get through it but it can be pretty

nasty and then after a period of time it

can fully kind of go away you know

usually it could take two three to four

weeks okay and then in your mind you

think okay that’s gone I’ll never get

that again right well here’s the thing

about Epstein-Barr virus you can never

get rid of it you have to just focus on

keeping it in remission which has

everything to do about understanding the

sneaky little tricks and strategies that

this virus uses to survive and then what

you can do to help your own immune

system keep this thing at Bay once you

get this virus you cannot get it out of

the body well actually I lied there is

one way that you can get it out of the

body and I learned that in this book you

can get rid of all your bone marrow and

replace it or transplant it with a new

bone marrow from someone who does not

have this virus but that might be a

little impractical so the first thing to

know is that we can’t get rid of it so

the goal should be to keep it

in remission what’s so wild about

viruses especially this virus is the

sophistication of strategies that it has

developed

over a long period of time to stay alive

and do its damage when viruses really

are supposed to be not alive they’re

just this genetic material wrapped in

the sack

but it’s very very mysterious on how

they can be dead but live off yourselves

and develop all these wild strategies

which I’ll get into a few the second

thing you need to know is the

Epstein-Barr virus is associated with

the increased risk of certain cancers

autoimmune diseases rheumatoid arthritis

is associated with Epstein-Barr virus

chronic fatigue syndrome as well as

fibromyalgia so when the virus gets

reactivated it doesn’t necessarily

exhibit all the full-blown symptoms that

maybe you had when you first got it it

may manifest in fatigue soreness

lethargy brain fog achy joints and achy

muscles maybe a headache maybe your

glands are a little bit swollen and

number three and this is very

interesting

this sneaky virus

blocks through various mechanisms

the key immune nutrients that your cells

depend on to keep them functioning

correctly okay the first vitamin that

we’ll go after is vitamin D I mean it

has the ability to take your receptors

for vitamin D and downgrade them so it

would be like sticking an ear plug in

your ear so you can’t hear as much so it

affects the receiving end of vitamin D

because somehow this virus knows that

vitamin D

keeps your immune system strong and it’s

intimately involved with every part of

your immune system so if it can block

that it has an advantage okay so it

downgrades the receptor of Vitamin D it

binds to the receptor

okay so it binds with it blocks that it

also interferes with the metabolism of

vitamin D

so now you can’t

go from the inactive to the active

vitamin D and it affects the absorption

of vitamin D in your gut now the second

nutrient that it interferes with is zinc

it interferes with the zinc Transporters

not allowing zinc to be transported to

the different parts of the immune system

so if your immune system is deficient in

zinc it can’t release the weapons that

the immune system needs to destroy

viruses there’s a lot of research of

using the active form of vitamin A

retinol to inhibit the Epstein-Barr

virus so it blocks the absorption of

vitamin A and this is really important

to know because vitamin A is essential

in mucous membranes and producing the

mucous barrier to prevent this virus

from invading the tissues and so this is

just another reason why making sure you

have enough vitamin A

vitamin D in zinc in your diet is so

important and on top of that

remember when I mentioned that the

Epstein-Barr virus has a primary

mechanism of attacking

the B lymphocytes okay well it just so

happens that the primary nutrient that

the B lymphocytes need is vitamin A

retinol all right so now that you have

that there’s another thing that

Epstein-Barr virus does to survive

it has the ability to bypass your immune

system’s regulation of temperature

during a viral attack so basically it

can prevent you from getting a fever so

you might think that’s a good thing but

you have to realize that your immune

system heats up to actually inactivate

viruses so here you are you have this

reactivation of this this virus and

you’re tired you’re brain fog but maybe

you don’t have a fever to help you get

rid of it so it just lingers on for week

after week month after month this is

kind of important information because if

you start to feel maybe some of the

symptoms or subclinical symptoms of an

Epstein-Barr Virus Infection you should

be going into the sauna you should be

taking a hot bath you should be trying

to induce some type of a fever in your

body by maybe wearing a lot of clothes

while you’re in bed to stay really hot

and stay out of the cold temperature

that may help help you the fifth thing

that you need to know emotional stress

and more specifically things related to

loss of a loved one loss of money loss

of anything or any emotional stress

in practice I’ve noticed

nearly a hundred percent of the time

people that had autoimmune diseases

people that that were had chronic

fatigue syndrome and fibromyalgia always

had emotional stress think about what

stress does stress activates cortisol

what does Cortisol do it suppresses the

immune system

it opens up a door for these viruses to

come out and create a lot of problems

the importance of this or the

significance of this is for you to start

to really focus more on dealing with the

stress than any other Factor since if

you can resolve the stress somehow you

can actually put this thing back in

remission there’s other things that can

also activate this virus out of

remission certain toxins pollution

chemicals drugs the contraceptive pill

yeah that can increase your risk of

having it come out of remission other

infections like the cold like flu

covid even certain vaccines like the

covet vaccine can bring this thing out

because of what it does to the immune

system and also steroids like prednisone

or certain medications that are

steroid-based can actually activate this

virus why because a steroid is cortisol

and cortisol suppresses the immune

system so yes it gets rid of the

inflammation it makes you feel better

temporarily

when a little bit later all of a sudden

now you end up with more outbreaks all

right the plan number one is concentrate