Heavymetalme, sure! Everything I've heard about Epstein-Barr Virus is that you don't get it unless something is already wrong, like say mercury poisoning causing endocrine disruption, causing low cortisol and thyroid hormones with an ultimate effect of a weak immune system (me). I was going to my naturopath for about 6 months (one of the few things I got out of bed for) and one appointment he randomly tested for EBV with his vega tester, and it showed up in a big way. He gave me a homeopathic medicine called "Bio 88" by Tegor, I started getting better as soon as I started taking it, it was really something else. After 4 bottles of that medicine though it was obvious that it wasn't going to completely get rid of the virus.

Dr. Rind from Washington told me that peroxide is the way to get rid of EBV so I tried a bath with a cup of H2O2 in it, it reeeeally made a big difference. At the time I was on cortisol and florinef (adrenal hormone that elevates blood pressure, a synthetic version) and immediately after the bath my blood pressure shot up. When I took the bath a lot of the EBV was killed and its adrenal supressing effect was lessened and all of a sudden I had my own adrenal hormones + the ones I was supplementing with. I had to cut back on the florinef and cortisol very quickly. I also started living again, I could go visit my friends, go for walks and I started planning for university.

I did a few more baths but I still had to take some cortisol and florinef (the EBV was still around). The next step was oral H2O2 (a few drops of H2O2 in a glass of water and drink it) this was the final step in getting rid of the EBV and completely getting me off of the hormones. I've been muscle testing bad for florinef and cortisol (unless I have a cold sometimes) ever since.

The book "Safe uses of Cortisol" has a chapter on viruses that I found very enlightening. The author explains how viruses are similar in structure to pituitary hormones, and they make the pituitary think that it has already produced enough hormones, like ACTH for example. This results in a net decrease in ACTH and a resulting net decrease in cortisol. Look at it like this: Viruses have coevolved with us for millions of years, they have a mechanism to get into our body and shut down our defenses and this is by lowering our cortisol. Optimum cortisol levels are absolutely critical for immune functioning, so this is how they are so effective and why everyone gets sick when a cold is going around. In the book, the author has case studies where he checked the cortisol levels of people with acute viruses (colds + flus) and the people who were most sick had the lowest cortisol. On administration of physiologic doses of cortisol these people generally got better and went home.

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