Outlast Herpes
Outlast Herpes
Dr. Christine Beuhler of Erase Herpes dot com would like us believe that that she has found the cure for Herpes. She alleges that she has cured more than 20K women. She alleges she has cured the virus within herself as well, all with the help of a Dr. Ken Languin.
Well, I'm not the world's greatest skeptic. I leave that honor to my partner. But some cautions have rubbed off on me over the years and so I had to see for myself if there was any merit to this publication.
Beuhler priced her product near $400, then dropped it several times until it reached the super duper low short-time only price of $27, where I finally gave in and coughed up my payment. It didn't take me long to peruse the meat of the PDF. Um, was I keeping track? Ok, less than 30 minutes.
Does it have merit? Some, but most of what it offers is already commonly known advice. She offers dosages, which are, in my experience, way off the supplemental ranges, and also expresses some erroneous advice which I have some previous experience regarding. I'm not a physican, I'll grant you, not even a medical researcher, as Beuhler claims to be. But I'm willing to bet she isn't either.
How much am I willing to bet? $27 worth, I'd say.
So let me take this opportunity to break down this publication and demonstrate to you why you shouldn't bother to throw your money away at this product. I can't speak for other products, not yet at least, but, having bought it, I can certainly give you my 'review' of this one. Here we go.
Beuhler alleges that this treatment takes at most 23 days to complete, breaking up the plan into a 10 day Step 1 and a 13 day Step 2. Of course, she had to throw in that 'but individual results may vary' line, for legal disclaimer purposes no doubt. What's her reasoning for this timeline? That wasn't clear to me, but then I only focused on the treatment and not the rest of the text.
Thumbs up or down? Well, changes to your routine of supplements WILL take a minimum of three days to achieve a therapeutic amount in your body. Aside from that, it stands to reason that you would need more than three days to build up the immune system sufficiently to address an existing medical condition. Is the magic number 23 days? If it is, it isn't on this treatment plan, IMHO.
Thumbs Down :(Step 1 is designed to uncloak the herpes virus. Item 1 on Step 1 is Lysine rich products. Especially recommended were two glasses of milk per day.
Thumbs up or down? Seriously? Take a look at the Herpes Suppression Diet on this website, uploaded in advance of this purchase and review. What food items have the highest ratio of Lysine to Arginine? Margarine, yogurt, cheese, Whey, papaya, goat milk, beets, butter, and buttermilk all have a higher ratio of Lysine to Arginine than does regular cow's milk. And the ratios given do not tell you how much of either Lysine or Arginine are present in those products. In fact, if prepackaged, most labels will not contain those details.
Thumbs Down :(Beuhler next names Vitamin C as essential to the healthy functioning of the immune system. In that, she is correct. But everybody already knows that. Worth $27 or more? Not in this case.
Thumbs up or down? Beuhler advises a dosage of 250 mg per day or two servings of fruit plus two servings of vegetables per day. Well, the servings are already recommended by The American Heart Association and others, and have been so recommended for decades. Nothing new there.
However, those who supplement nutrients all agree that the minimums set by the FDA are far too low. Recommended supplemental ranges for Vitamin C are a minimum of 3 grams (3,000 milligrams) daily when you are healthy and 5 grams (5,000 milligrams) per day when not.
Furthermore, the book Dead Doctors Don't Lie written by Joel D. Wallach, a pathologist and naturopathic doctor, recommends supplementing with Vitamin C 'to bowel tolerance.' And if I were to choose my guru for disease correction via Alternative Medicine, it would be Dr. Wallach .
Thumbs Down :(Beuhler next recommends a meal of "unrefined" carbohydrates, amounting to seven ounces, each day, ideally around lunch time. She writes that carbohydrates play "a vital role in proper functioning of the immune system."
Thumbs up or down? Well, all nutrients play vital roles, and carbs are no exception, but their primary function is energy. Carbs are what provide fuel to keep your body running. They should be balanced with proteins and fats in a ratio of 3:4 proteins to carbs, as recommended in The Zone Diet by Barry Sears, Ph.D. A meal heavy in carbs without a balance of protein and fats would cause a diabetic's blood sugar to plummet. And how much is seven ounces of carbs? About two bowls of cereal.
Thumbs down :(Next on Beuhler's agenda is protein, specifically ONLY three ounces of lean meat - per day.
Thumbs up or down? Again, seriously? Three ounces is one chicken thigh, or three eggs, or less than one can of tuna. Per day. Is this a joke? Again, the Zone diet recommends a balance AT EACH AND EVERY SERVING. I eat four times a day. Four servings of three ounces - a day. Again, insufficient protein, meaning excess carbohydrates, would cause a diabetic to pass out from low blood sugar. What seems to be shaping up here is a high carbohydrate, abysmally low protein diet. In other words, a fad diet 30 years out of date.
Thumbs Down :(Beuhler next lists fats, that is, fatty acids and omega oils because they will "maintain your nervous system in good health." Her recommendation is 1,000 mg per day of Omega 3's.
Thumbs up or down? Well, Beuhler is correct that supplementation with Omega 3's are beneficial in your treatment program. That said, I found few sites wanted to pin down the best dosage. Even Life Extension Foundation wouldn't specify. In fact, LEF did not even mention Omega 3's as a suggestion in the treatment of Herpes.
The National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine failed to include the word "nerve" on their page about Omega 3's. WebMD states that up to 3 grams per day is considered safe.
Of greatest concern, however, are the precautions. All three sites mentioned above included the caution that up to three grams a day could lead to bleeding problems, especially in people taking anti-coagulants or NSAIDs. So hemophiliacs, beware. Did the so-called Dr. Beuhler include any contra-indications in her medical advice? The word "bleeding" appears all of three times in her publication; all references were in relation to the three prescription medications.
Thumbs Down :(Ok, so that is the full extent of the Step 1 part of Beuhler's program. So far, her program doesn't have anything not already recommended elsewhere, nothing in dosages not set by the FDA, contra-indications not mentioned, even implied benefits leave a question mark. Shall I continue? Hell, yes, I'm on a roll now!
Now beginning Step 2, the 13 day leg of Beuhler's program begins with olive leaf extract. She alleges that elenolic acid and elenolic salt (calcium elenolate) found in this extract "causes a large reduction of the virus". She recommends two 500mg capsules four times daily with meals for adults, two capsules per day for children.
Thumbs up or down? As it happens, olive leaf extract HAS been found to have significant health benefits. LEF has some good things to say about it, especially in terms of cholesterol, hypertension, cancer, and anti-oxidant attributes. They go on to say that while these extracts are best known for lowering blood-pressure, "latest studies reveal their health benefits extend well beyond that."
That said, herpes was not specifically named anywhere on the page. Nor were herpes or nerves or nervous systems named as benefiting from this extract. Rather, most sources describe it more as a vasodilator, which lowers blood pressure and improves heart health. And again, contra-indications would be that someone already taking hypertension medication, such as Lisinopril, should not double dose by taking olive leaf extract, although this extract is certainly a possible naturopathic replacement for said drugs.
Finally, lowering blood pressure is helpful to lowering stress, which is another Beuhler recommendation. But is this recommendation unique, different, or in any way unusual? No, relieving stress is standard for any and every wellness program I've ever read. So, while olive leaf extract is beneficial, that can't be argued, Beuhler's information is not top-notch, alleges benefits not supported in any other documentation, and failed to name potentially life-threatening contra-indications.
The jury is still outMoving right along, Beuhler next recommends eight glasses of purified water per day, minimum.
Finally! Something I can get behind! The benefits of adequate hydration cannot be over-emphasized. The book, Your Body's Many Cries for Water is full of testimonials about how increased water consumption led to improvement for numerous health problems, most especially overweight. That said, is this recommendation unique in any way? No, but I'm a nice person, so I'll give Beuhler the benefit of the doubt on this one.
Thumbs Up :)Now we come to one of the kickers. Beuhler recommends two glasses of Kombucha Tea per day for adults, one glass per day for children. She raves about its benefits of detoxification, antioxidant properties, and boosts to the immune system and energy. That's on page 72.
However, starting on page 86, she alleges Kombucha has alcohol, is highly acidic, can cause yeast infections, extreme acidosis, and even lead poisoning. She also allows it is easy to make at home, while also available commercially.
Thumbs up or down? Most emphatically down. While the benefits of Kombucha Tea are powerful, and I strongly recommend it for anyone with health problems of any kind, it is NOT easy to make at home, and the dosages she recommends have an important caveat. I will direct you at a later date to a full article on Kombucha Tea, viewable on another website, but let me just give you a brief rundown here and now.
Kombucha's strongest benefit is its detoxification of heavy metals and other elements that are damaging to the liver and kidneys. If you have mercury amalgam fillings in your teeth, kombucha is virtually the ONLY method outside of extensive filling removal that will pull those metals out of your body tissues. (The top solution is chelation therapy, which is very expensive.) Mercury amalgam is extremely toxic and leads to many extreme health conditions, including but not limited to Alzheimer's, seizures, and Scleroderma.
Yes, kombucha is easy to make at home. And, unfortunately, very easy to contaminate. Kombucha is a fungus that feeds on a medium of tea and sugar and converts it into an apple-cider flavored beverage with powerful detoxification properties. Because the fungus needs oxygen to help fuel the process, it is disgustingly easy for airborne contaminants to render the resultant product unsafe for consumption. During its first heyday in the U.S., there were many reported cases of illness resulting from contaminated Kombucha Tea. The two most prevalent contaminants? Cigarette smoke and household mold.
Kombucha is not encouraged in the home remedy preparation market these days and is now available commercially. While I don't usually advocate commercial preparations over home grown or natural preparations, I make an exception in this case because, frankly, commercial entities are the only ones, IMO, capable of creating and maintaining a fully sanitary, contaminant free, environment for the cultivation of this product.
So why not just start chugging a couple glasses a day? First of all, despite its pleasant apple cider aroma, it doesn't taste exactly like apple cider and can be, in the opinion of some, an acquired taste. Secondly, when I was brewing my own 15-20 years ago, the accepted startup was 1/4 cup mixed with a citrus beverage, most commonly apple juice, in one serving in the morning and one at night. One had to work up to a glass twice a day and that was really only practiced when serious and continuous detoxification was called for, such as the presence of a mercury-amalgam-filling induced disease, such as the aforementioned Alzheimer's, seizures, or Scleroderma.
Now, what about her allegations of alcohol and poisonings? Kombucha's alcohol content, if any, is so low as to be virtually negligible. It isn't going to cause alcoholics to fall off the wagon. Acidic? Yes, because poorly converted Kombucha smells exactly like vinegar, and the good stuff resembles apple cider. But leading to extreme acidosis? I seriously doubt that. Two measures of 1/4 cup a day are simply too low to threaten that complication. Lead poisoning? From what exactly, lead utensils or lead-contaminated water? Kombucha reacts poorly to metals, so preparation requires glass or porcelain cookware to heat the distilled water used, plastic, wood or rubber utensils for handling, and a glass gallon-sized jar to hold the preparation while it does it's thing. Cheesecloth and a lightweight light barrier cover of some kind (not metal) are the only other tools used.
Conclusion? While Kombucha is an extremely beneficial product, and I, myself, strongly recommend it, and for a variety of conditions, Beuhler's allegations of benefits and cautions just don't stand up to reality. Moreover, she contradicts herself, first in her wholehearted embrace of it on page 72 and then her equally wholehearted caveats starting on page 86. So while I can, and will, support the use of Kombucha in any wellness treatment plan, I have to give Beuhler a thumb's down on her inclusion of this product in her treatment plan for herpes.
Thumbs Down :(Beuhler next includes Echinacea in her treatment program. On page 88 she says that Echinacea has been found to increase the body's abilities to fight off infections. But on page 81 she says that, because herpes is a virus and not a bacteria, antibiotics are ineffective and not recommended.
What is Echinacea? The number one, naturally occurring, antibiotic in the herbal kingdom.
Need I say more?
And, like many of her previous recommendations, Echinacea also has a caveat. Like all other antibiotics, overuse can lead to resistance to antibiotics. Supplementation, then, generally recommends a pattern of on and off, most commonly three weeks on followed by one week off. That's not graven in stone, of course. The ideal dosage for Echinacea is a heavily argued topic online.
Thumbs Down :(Not included in the steps of the two stage treatment plan, but mentioned later, were two brief references to Prunella Vulgaris, an herb. I find this amazing and surprising because, out of all the material so far recommended, this herb is one of only a couple products that WebMD claims may some day be an effective alternative treatment for herpes and cold sores. And yet Beuhler only mentions it in passing.
Well, I thought it was important enough I've added that reference onto my News page. But, while I think it is promising, especially for herpes, I can't give Beuhler any kudos for this because she had a potential starlet here and treated it like a pretty girl she doesn't want her two-timing husband to notice.
Thumbs Down :(Beuhler recommends Propolis, a waxy substance bees make, four times in her PDF, including a dosage of 500 milligrams per day.
Finally, a product of special note gets deserved attention. According to WebMD , propolis IS a viable treatment recommended for herpes, reporting a study whereby four out of five participants reported their sores healed in only four days.
Here Beuhler does write an acceptable third of a page on an important topic, and manages to include contra-indications. Having given this topic only preliminary research online, I can't say whether her allegations are 100% accurate. I also can't speak to the dosage she recommends. However, being the nice person I am, I'll give her the benefit of the doubt here, too.
Thumbs Up :)Beuhler's final mention is Rozitas Caperato, aka the Gypsy Mushroom.
Another potential starlet, mentioned on that same aforementioned page on WebMD, that Beuhler gave only passing note to.
Thumbs Down :(Beuhler wraps up her treatment recommendations with the tried and trues: avoid refined sugar and alcohol; seek stress relief; exercise; improve body fitness; include vitamin B supplements; and acidic foods will weaken the immune system.
The books The Acid / Alkaline Balance Diet and Healing Psoriasis The Natural Alternative both report that when the body's pH is in the acidic range, disease prevails, whereas an alkaline pH promotes optimum health. Unfortunately, meat consumption raises an acidic body pH, and thus the only diets that encourage an alkaline pH are largely vegetarian.
While I am not trying to bash vegetarian diets in any way, they, like any other diet, have caveats too. Meat substitutes usually come from whey, soy, beans, eggs, cheese, and cottage cheese. Whey is available in only two products, one dairy and the powdered form available in body building products. Soy and beans both contain what is called anti-nutrients. They both contain trypsin inhibitors, with soy being the highest source of trypsin inhibitors. Trypsin, if you don't already know this, is one of the key enzymes produced by the pancreas that is vital to cancer management. Trypsin, in high enough amounts, actually liquifies the contents of the cancer cell.
Eggs, cheese, and cottage cheese are generally beneficial. On the Herpes suppression diet, however, cheese is high in Lysine, cottage cheese high in the eat-in-moderation category, and eggs low on the eat-in-moderation category.
Was there anything of special note that was not mentioned in this PDF? Yes, actually, a very important something. Minerals. Minerals are vital to the body because they are catalysts for the chemical chain reactions vitamins and other nutrients undergo when consumed. Without minerals, your body is only going to be able to absorb and utilize a fraction of the supplements you consume, meaning it will take years, not days or weeks, for you to reverse a medical condition. Beuhler also did not take into account Vitamins A, D, E, or any other supplement that should always be part of a basic wellness program.
Are we done yet? Yes, I think I have butchered this product long enough. While Beuhler's PDF encompasses 109 pages, only twenty-three address her treatment plan specifically. And, as you can see, there are many flaws to it. Some of her points have merit, yes, and I will add those into my own pages here, where relevant, not because she mentioned them, but because I found support for her allegations elsewhere online, at sources that I trust. But her failure to include necessary contra-indications and caveats could actually jeopardize the health of her customers.
To be sure, I did not purchase the product with the intent to take it apart so thoroughly. I was genuinely hoping she had some meaningful information there. Nor was I all that surprised nor disappointed to learn it wasn't all I was hoping to read. I took on this review when I saw the amount of misinformation it contained and the lack of vital information as well. If someone is going to make medical recommendations, they shouldn't tell only some of the facts, but all the facts, and they better be able to substantiate their allegations.
So, HSV Eraser, the Herpes Cure? Sorry, epic fail.
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