The way that a virus typically works, is that it invades a health cell in your body, and hijacks it. HSV-1 really likes living in an environment where there is more L-arginine than lysine ...

Lysine is an essential amino acid that is found in many foods. It is believed to help prevent outbreaks of genital herpes by interfering with the replication of the herpes virus. Lysine ...

Lysine's precise role in the prevention and treatment of herpes labialis outbreaks is unknown. Of seven randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled studies reviewed, six showed lysine to be ...

and that the virus’s proteins have a preponderance of lysine residues, thought to arise during vaccine production. At an informal meeting in Leuven, Belgium, in mid-2010, my colleagues and I struggle ...