Thoughts about Herpes from a Law student

I got this in my inbox the other day and apparently this person wanted me to share their e-mail with you. So.. I will post what they had to say along with my response which will be in a different color. I’ll keep it festive by using RED and GREEN for my comments.

First and foremost, as a fellow follower of Christ, I greet you happily. Just a quick note I wanted to share….I am a law student who is studying intellectual property law (patents and trademarks)and will be taking the bar next year. I am currently practicing through an internship though.

To keep a long story short, pharmaceuticals caught my attention as a career path for patent law. I have learned a lot along the way and want to encourage you to be careful about bashing the natural drugs.

Firstly, those that know me understand that I don’t bash anything unless I think it’s totally warranted. Just because somebody writes me and says something works for them doesn’t mean I automatically believe it to be true.

I like to do my homework. I research stuff and I look for the proof that’s supposed to be in the pudding. I don’t just take somebody’s word for it AND if it sounds too good to be true and it’s not in line with how the herpes virus works then I don’t buy into the idea.

After my research and my findings that the natural companies often CANT get the necessary research because of a push from the pharmaceutical companies (remember, MONEY is the root of all…), i decided to try them and both BHT and Monolaurin both work WAY better than Valtrex. NO break outs. I mean NONE. And cheaper with no side effects.

I know towards the end of your note too make you make mention that you have HSV-1 and not HSV-2. Have you ever stopped to think that is the reason why you are not getting any more outbreaks as much OR as often as you used to? The fact that you are talking about HSV-1 alone vs. HSV-2 could be why that is!

The drug companies lobby for certain laws that affect natural drugs’ ability to make the true claims that their products do in fact work, so the doctors HAVE to make the so called admissions that their evidence is only empirical and not scientific. To gather what is called scientific evidence in the US takes BIG bucks, and the bigger companies wont put that kind of money into naturals because they can’t be patented due to the fact that they are naturally occurring and not invented by anyone. Even a particular blend like Lauricidin can only make so much $, so they often can’t obtain the certification they actually deserve. This is one instance where the conspiracy theory stories are true.

Conspiracy Theorists want their theories to be true so they will do and say anything that will support their point their way. The fact that the scientific community was able to discover that suppressive therapy with Valtrex would reduce asymptomatic shedding by about 95%, transmission by about 50%, and keep outbreaks under control is always going to piss off the people that put together “natural” mixtures.. why do you ask? Because they have money to make to! Ha Ha!

What this all boils down to is doing your homework whether you are wanting to take something that is OTC verses something that’s been clinically proven to do what they say they will do (ie: prescription meds) — doesn’t really matter as long as you understand what is going on with your health situation as well as what you are wanting to take to treat your health issues.

It’s all about choices. You can either choose to do your homework on both alternatives and prescriptions OR you can go with what “feels good” for you! But to bash one OR the other and then base it on what you think you know and then assume that you understand where I stand on this issue is kind of funny to me.

I just wanted you to investigate this when you get a chance, because at this point, without knowing it you are backing and encouraging support of the drug companies and undermining the natural drugs, when they actually do work in many cases, and people who trust you may not try something that would probably work better for them, and would DEFINITELY be cheaper and safer than drugs.

First of all, I can only share what I know based on my own personal experiences. I’m not going to sit here and say wonderful things about stuff that I have not personally tried and I’m not going to try something that totally freaks me out just because you tell me it’s “safe because you say so.”

I tend to do my own homework on stuff. I appreciate your opinion, you’re entitled to it, but I have a right to make up my own mind and just because Valtrex is what works for me doesn’t make me one-sided as you would like to believe.

Remember….we are Christians so we both understand that what man makes can’t compete with what God has already created–even when it comes to treatment of disease.

This has nothing to do with Christianity. But as a Christian I will go ahead and challenge you since you want to take me there. Man has done a lot of things with the stuff that God has made and it’s not all that good. You can take lots of “natural” substances and mix them together and it doesn’t make it “safer” OR “better” just because it’s “all natural” and not manufactured by men.

God also gave us a brain so that we could discover and create for the good of man kind… and there’s nothing wrong with that! If that means there are things that scientists can put together to help people with their situations then that’s a good thing in my opinion as long as we aren’t trying to take God’s place in the process.

We have to be careful we don’t begin to place man-made “medicine’ on a higher par than we should….i know its just a matter of being constantly taught that the western ideas of medicine are best though. Remember, the word says to TEST EVERYTHING! God bless.

Just make sure YOU go out and test everything and don’t assume that just because you don’t have an outbreak that all is good OR that somehow your herpes has disappeared. 90% of those that have genital herpes have no idea because they don’t have any signs OR symptoms that can be seen OR felt.

People that have had HSV-1 OR HSV-2 for long periods of time tend not to get frequent outbreaks anyway. So it’s probably coincidental that you don’t get outbreaks any more. Lord knows you don’t have the proof that says BHT and/or Monolaurin did the trick.

Oh, sorry, this is Cortney again. I forgot to mention that I have herpes simplex 1, but I used to get really severe cold sore outbreaks that looked HORRIBLE and I did not want to go anywhere! I also wanted to let you know that you can post this on your site, but if so please include that it is simplex 1 i’m talking about, just in case my husband or someone in the family were to somehow come across my posting and be confused about what I was actually talking about! Thanks!

Sounds like you’ve got a lot more homework to do on the Herpes Simplex Virus. You might want to start here.

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