The 5 Things You MUST Know about Epstein-Barr Virus (EBV)
Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast
Dr. Eric Berg
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🗓️ 20 October 2023
⏱️ 12 minutes
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Summary
Today I want to explain five things you need to know about the Epstein-Barr virus (EBV). Roughly 95 percent of the population has the Epstein-Barr virus. The more you know about EBV, the less you’ll be adversely affected by it.
The Epstein-Barr virus can use different strategies to go under the radar and survive in a person’s body. The virus can go dormant and become very difficult for the body to detect.
You can never get rid of EBV—you have to focus on keeping it in remission. To keep it in remission, you need to understand the strategies of the virus and how to support the immune system to keep it under control.
Important things to know about the Epstein-Barr virus:
1. You can’t get rid of it
2. It’s associated with an increased risk of certain cancers, autoimmune diseases, rheumatoid arthritis, chronic fatigue syndrome, and fibromyalgia
3. It blocks key immune nutrients that your cells depend on, like vitamin D, vitamin A, and zinc
4. It modulates fever response
5. Emotional stress may trigger EBV to come out of remission
Three things to help inhibit EBV from coming out of remission:
1. Decrease your stress and exposure to triggers
2. Take cod liver oil
3. Choose one or two of these herbs:
• Elderberry
• Echinacea
• Olive leaf extract
• Andrographis
• Astragalus
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| 0:00.0 | there are five things that you must know about Epstein-Barr virus. Now, why is it so important |
| 0:06.9 | to know more about this virus? Well, simply because the chances are pretty great that you have |
| 0:12.6 | this virus, and it could potentially create a problem in your life. And so the more you know about |
| 0:17.7 | it, the less you are going to be adversely affected by it. Roughly 95% of the population |
| 0:26.0 | has this virus. So that's greater than nine and a 10 people. So this virus definitely |
| 0:31.2 | pertains to you, and having this information can greatly protect you against a problem with this |
| 0:38.0 | virus. So Epstein-Barr virus is called the kissing virus because a lot of times people get it |
| 0:44.1 | when they're in their teenage years, but even children can get it as well. But they are usually |
| 0:50.7 | asymptomatic. And probably because Epstein-Barr virus primarily attacks a certain immune cell, |
| 0:57.5 | called the B cell, B lymphocyte. And that's part of the acquired immune system that develops |
| 1:03.2 | as you get older. But that's just my theory. It could be another reason. But this information is |
| 1:09.0 | based on this new book that I'm reading called, Light and Sea Strategies of Herpes Viruses. |
| 1:16.0 | Okay. I show this to my wife and she's like, well, I'll let you read it first. She has absolutely |
| 1:21.5 | no interest in reading this book, but she appreciates me reading it and summarizing it for her. |
| 1:28.2 | But this book is all about the strategies that the herpy viruses use to go underneath the radar |
| 1:36.2 | and survive and live in your body. And this term latency means that the virus goes in a dormant state. |
| 1:45.4 | It hides in your body and it's very difficult for your immune system to detect if not impossible. |
| 1:53.3 | So there are certain viruses that when you get infected, they stay in your body and they can |
| 2:00.0 | potentially come out in certain environments. Other viruses are killed and they can be eliminated |
| 2:05.7 | from the body. The latent viruses stay in your body. So number one, and we're going to get to five |
| 2:11.6 | things. The obscene virus is in the family of the herpes virus and it's one of the viruses that can |
| 2:17.6 | go into this latent phase. So you get infected. It creates a lot of problems with your throat, |
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