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EB病毒是这个时代不为人知的流行病，是多种慢性疾病背后的真凶，导致莫名的疲劳、关节和身体各处疼痛、脑雾、记忆力下降、焦虑、抑郁、失眠、耳鸣、偏头疼、眩晕等上百种症状。由于医学界并不了解EB病毒是造成病症的原因，经常造成善意的医生误诊或开出无效的处方药。
EB病毒是多种健康问题和慢性疾病的根源，诸如各类甲状腺疾病、慢性疲劳综合症、更年期综合征、各类自身免疫性疾病诸如类风湿关节炎，以及多种癌症等。本文旨在详述EB病毒发展阶段、不同变体和分泌的毒素、如何传染、如何造成各类病症、以及如何摆脱病毒重拾健康。
一． EB病毒的前世今生
两位杰出的医师Epstein和Barr在1964年发现了EB病毒。EB病毒（Epstein-Barr virus）其实早就存在，最初的EB病毒非常温和，一辈子也不会造成什么症状，但随着工业革命后环境和人体内的毒素剧增，造成病毒不断变异，变得越来越具攻击性，现在已经发展成6大类共60多种类型的变体，在未来几十年会进一步发展成上百种变体，新的变体越来越具攻击性。现在医学界了解的EB病毒即1964年发现的变体仅仅是60多种中的一种，而且是较温和的变体，可能要到一个人七十多岁时才会引起些温和症状。由于不了解EB病毒是导致许多疾病背后的真凶，许多人一辈子都带着EB病毒生活。
二．EB病毒的传播
大部分人体内都有不同类型的EB病毒变体。可能因为和别人喝了同一个杯子被传染；或者父母有EB病毒，子女也可能遗传到（这就是为什么许多慢性疾病看上去好像是遗传的，其实是因为一个家庭容易遗传致病的原因，即病毒和毒素，详情请见“基因检测的真相”）；或者在餐厅吃饭，由于厨师切菜手指出血进入食物，或者大汗淋漓烧菜时汗水滴入菜品也会造成感染（这在忙碌的厨房是经常发生的事情）；也可能通过体液例如性传播，接吻也可以传播；别人可能直接对着打喷嚏都可能感染到。
请不用害怕，EB病毒并不是所有时间都会传染，其传染期通常是发展的第二阶段，因此在第二阶段避免传染很重要，以下我们将详细描述病毒发展的四个阶段。EB病毒是极度有耐心的病毒，会在我们的体内等待合适的触发事件引发病症，根据每个人的生活习惯和经历，可以有几年到几十年的潜伏期。
三．EB病毒的四个发展阶段
第一阶段：EB病毒的婴儿阶段
当一个人刚感染EB病毒或者出生就携带有EB病毒（来自父母携带的EB病毒）时，病毒在血液中保持休眠状态，一开始不会造成任何症状，漂在血液内不断复制，寻找机会爆发以发展到之后的第二到第四阶段。
取决于多种因素，病毒在体内会非常耐心等待几个月、几年甚至十几年，当一个人一段时间异常疲劳辛苦、或者身体缺乏最重要的营养元素诸如B12和锌，或经历人生变故诸如亲人过世、感情创伤等事件，或经历体内重大激素变化诸如青春期、孕期或更年期，常见的情况是在女性经历生育时，很容易在产后出现各种症状，包括疲倦、身体疼痛、忧郁沮丧，以及其他病症，所有上述触发事件（以下将详述）都会导致压力和情绪激素肾上腺素或体内激素水平发生巨大变化，这一切对于病毒就如同菠菜之于大力水手，让病毒得以快速发展到下一个阶段。
病毒在这个阶段实际上很脆弱，但是由于尚未引起症状，而且我们并不了解其存在和巨大的破坏力，也无法通过血液检查，我们不会对它有任何行动。
第二阶段：攻击免疫系统 – 进入肝脏和其他器官
当我们在某个阶段特别疲劳、压力特别大、情绪持续负面低落、或者激素水平巨变（例如青春期、孕期等人生阶段），这是EB病毒开始攻击身体的时刻，这是医学界目前唯一了解EB病毒存在的阶段，这也是唯一验血能够验出EB病毒的阶段，会被诊断为单核细胞增多症（mononucleosis,又称为接吻病），在这个阶段EB病毒具有感染性，因此请避免与患者的唾液、体液、血液接触。
EB病毒在这个阶段的目标是要搞垮淋巴系统，免疫系统会开始与病毒战斗，身体会派出识别细胞给病毒 “贴上标签”（在病毒上附上一种荷尔蒙），标示其为入侵者。这样身体会派出免疫细胞去寻找并杀死被标记的病毒，这就是免疫系统的强大力量。
取决于每个人的免疫力和感染的EB病毒变体，症状和程度会各有不同，有的人症状非常轻，可能就经历了一周喉咙有些发痒疼痛，可能连医生都没去看或者药都没吃就过去了；有的人可能会经历疲劳、喉咙沙哑、发烧、头痛、全身无力等症状，而且持续几个月，症状来来去去；大多数人过一段时间就好了。这时候是唯一EB病毒可以在血液里面验出来的阶段，验血会显示EB病毒在血液内的存在。
在这个阶段，除非我们知道EB病毒的存在并采取相应的措施，否则EB病毒会进一步在体内找到宿主，进入肝脏和脾等血液和毒素最多的地方，肝脏作为身体的毒素处理中心，对病毒而言就是伊甸园，肝脏中的重金属、各种化学物、农药、除草剂、二恶因等各类毒素都是它们最爱的食物，以进一步向第三、第四阶段发展。
EB病毒有一个最好的朋友- 链球菌，一般有EB病毒的人也会同时有链球菌存在。链球菌向上发展就会造成链球菌性咽喉炎、鼻炎、麦粒肿、红眼病、青春痘等等，向下发展会造成泌尿、阴道、肾脏或者膀胱感染。
对有些人，EB病毒就停留在肝脏内；但对于许多人，病毒会同时进入脾脏和生殖系统，EB病毒会在肝脏和脾脏内引起炎症，造成肝脏和脾脏肿大。如果进入生殖系统，会引起子宫肌瘤、多囊卵巢综合征和潜在怀孕问题。对于男性，EB病毒的目标通常是前列腺。
这个阶段可以持续1个月到20年，取决于EB病毒的变体以及每个人的饮食结构、触发事件等，对于许多人而言，EB病毒在肝脏内会造成低度感染。如果是比较温和的EB病毒变体，也许在一个人到50岁之后才会发展到第三阶段，但对于有些人，从第一阶段到第三阶段可能只需要三个月。EB病毒在耐心地等待各种触发事件以进一步发展。
第三阶段：攻击内分泌系统 – 甲状腺阶段
一旦到了这个阶段，验血会显示你过去有过EB病毒感染（有抗体），由于验血查不出EB病毒处于活跃状态，医生会告诉你这已经是过去式了，你现在很健康。问题在于，除非病毒活跃在血液内，可以通过血液检查查出，如果病毒活跃在器官内在目前是无法被查出的，事实上病毒根本没有消失，而是真正开始在体内安营扎寨，逐步向身体更深层发展。如果一个人感染的EB病毒变体比较温和，可能许多年都不会给人造成太多的症状或感觉；但如果感染的变体比较具侵略性，在肝脏内安营扎寨时就会造成各种症状，病毒同时还会分泌四种类型的毒素：
1. 病毒排泄物
当EB病毒吃下它们最喜欢的食物（重金属、肾上腺素（情绪压力激素）、蛋、奶制品等），会产生有毒排泄物。如果体内病毒数量越多，有毒排泄物就会越多，引起的症状就会越多，诸如这些排泄物可能影响二尖瓣，导致神秘心悸等症状。这种有毒排泄物很容易被误认为螺旋体（spirochete），从而被误诊为莱姆病等（lyme disease）。
2. 病毒尸体
病毒的生命周期大约是六周，死去的病毒细胞尸体依然具有高度毒性。随着EB病毒在体内数量增多，这些病毒尸体也会越来越多，它们就类似于沙滩上冲上来的死蟹壳，里面可能是空的，可能有一些腐烂的肉。EB病毒细胞是可以变身型的，因此尸体形状也各不相同。这些尸体在肝脏和淋巴系统内的累积会导致疲劳、体重增加、液体停滞、便秘、胀气、潮热、心脏颤动、脑雾以及更年期综合征症状。
3．病毒的神经毒素
在病毒发展的第三和第四阶段，会产生神经毒素，干扰神经功能，引起各种疼痛，并让免疫系统无法追踪病毒。神经毒素也会存在于病毒尸体内，如果尸体内壳内依然 “腐烂的肉”存在，当尸体在体内循环时，也会有神经毒素释放出来。这些神经毒素会随着EB病毒吃的东西不同而有所不同，就类似于毒蛇或者毒蜘蛛产生的毒液，神经毒素可以杀死器官和结缔组织的健康细胞。如果病毒吃了它生成的神经毒素，这会产生毒性更大的神经毒素，导致神经系统炎症更加严重。EB病毒在第三阶段关键时刻会使用这些神经毒素，并且在第四阶段持续使用，使得免疫系统无法追杀EB病毒。
4. 皮肤毒素
如果EB病毒吃下的是肝脏内的铜、汞或者祖辈们体内遗传下来DDT等农药（农药内含有大量重金属）时，会产生皮肤毒素，导致瘙痒、疼痛和疹子。湿疹、牛皮藓红斑狼疮型皮疹、硬化性苔藓、典型皮炎、脂溢性皮炎、酒糟鼻等各类皮疹问题实际上都是病毒+各种其最爱的重金属造成的，更多信息请见“西芹汁如何疗愈各种皮疹问题”。而且因为重金属会从祖辈一代代遗传下去，这就是为什么越来越多的新生儿有湿疹的真正原因。
上述各类毒素以及具有侵略性的EB病毒在器官内安营扎寨时可能引起的问题有：
- 肝脏功能不佳，以致无法将体内的毒素排出；
- 丙型肝炎（EB病毒是背后的真凶）。
- 肝脏功能不佳会导致消化道出现问题，因为肝脏是降解脂肪的器官，如果同时我们饮食结构不合理，摄入的荤食和脂肪无法被正确消化时，会在肠道内腐烂，导致胀气或便秘等问题。
- 开始出现食物过敏，当病毒摄入某种它喜欢的食物（例如蛋或奶制品时），会产生有毒排泄物，所谓过敏反应实际上是身体对毒素的过敏反应。
- 当我们处于特别脆弱的状态，例如蜡烛两头烧、经历严重的情绪冲击，或身体遭受意外事件，或经历巨大的荷尔蒙变化（诸如孕期等时刻），病毒会趁机发动攻势，分泌神经毒素，EB病毒排泄物与病毒尸体已对身体造成很大的压力，现在更是雪上加霜，同时给免疫系统造成很大的困扰，因为免疫系统不知道这些毒素来自于何处。免疫系统对这些毒素的反应会造成狼疮，实际上狼疮的症状是身体对EB病毒的排泄物和神经毒素的过敏反应。
- 当EB病毒从第二阶段肝脏向第三阶段甲状腺发展时，淋巴系统会试图阻止EB病毒，如果是一些极具侵略性的EB病毒变体，则会导致乳腺癌，因为当病毒在胸部被拦截时会形成肿瘤、囊肿等。这也是为什么乳腺癌并不限于乳房，也会影响腋下和淋巴结。更多细节请见“癌症的真相（上）、（中）、（下）”
在免疫系统应接不暇时，EB病毒会趁机进入另一个重要器官- 甲状腺。
医学界并不知道EB病毒是所有甲状腺失调与疾病的真正原因，虽然辐射也会造成甲状腺疾病，但超过95%的病例罪魁祸首都是EB病毒，要发现EB病毒是这些疾病的成因，还需要几十年的时间。不同的EB病毒变体可以引起甲状腺肿大、结节、囊肿、甲状腺功能低下、桥本甲状腺炎、甲状腺功能亢进（甲亢）、弥漫性毒性甲状腺肿（格里夫氏症）以及甲状腺癌症。
一旦进入甲状腺，EB病毒就会开始像钻子一样旋转扭转深入甲状腺，杀死甲状腺细胞，并造成伤疤组织，程度从轻微到严重的都有。免疫系统与病毒的对抗会造成炎症（更多细节请见“炎症的真相”），但是EB病毒的神经毒素、病毒排泄物、有毒尸体，以及隐藏在甲状腺里的EB病毒，所有这一切都让免疫系统应接不暇，无法完全摧毁病毒。
请不要担心或害怕，只要给身体需要的支持，身体完全有自我疗愈的能力。请绝对不要低估免疫系统的力量，因为当我们不知道是什么导致病症时，就类似于敌人在暗处，光是得知真相，就会激活免疫系统。
如果一个人体内的病毒变体比较温和或没有触发事件发生，出现的甲状腺问题可能是甲状腺功能低下问题，这是因为病毒摧毁甲状腺组织会降低激素的分泌，一般病症会在多年内慢慢发展。甲状腺功能低下只是EB病毒引起的初期甲状腺症状。有些人症状会很明显，这是因为体内的病毒比较活跃。如果EB病毒种类是更具攻击性的，则会导致炎症即甲状腺炎。炎症是因为1）病毒摧毁损伤甲状腺细胞，2）免疫系统会生成抗体以消灭EB病毒，这意味着身体正在为我们而战（医学并不了解这些抗体是身体用来摧毁甲状腺的，因此将桥本甲状腺炎归类为自身免疫性疾病，即身体产生抗体摧毁甲状腺细胞，如果这个错误的理论无法得到纠正，甲状腺问题永远无法得到疗愈）。
甲状腺功能低下和甲状腺炎其实是病毒攻击阶段和强度的不同。如果一个人正在经历以下的触发事件，则会造成从最初的甲状腺功能低下发展成甲状腺炎。生育是一个非常大的触发事件，许多产妇会经历病症的发展。
甲状腺问题可能也会朝另一个方向发展，就是甲亢和弥漫性毒性甲状腺肿（格里夫氏症graves）。这是由另一些比较具攻击性的EB病毒变体造成的，它们的攻击会导致甲状腺生成过量的组织，造成过量的甲状腺激素生成。
免疫系统为了保护甲状腺，会用钙来软禁病毒，造成甲状腺结节，如果血液内钙不够，则会从骨头里面抽钙，这就是为什么许多长期甲状腺问题的人容易发展骨质疏松的真正原因。这也是为什么乳制品永远不可能改善缺钙问题，因为乳制品喂养各种导致身体缺钙的病原体。钙的监狱仍然阻止不了病毒，如果结节内的病毒非常活跃，则会慢慢发展成囊肿。或甲状腺伤疤组织上的小囊肿会慢慢发展成良性肿瘤。一些极具侵略性的EB病毒变体则会导致甲状腺癌症，癌症还意味着体内有大量毒素（病毒的食物）存在。同时没有被关起来的病毒会进一步削弱甲状腺，使其无法有效分泌身体运作所需的甲状腺素。
在这个阶段，一些病毒依然停留在肝脏、脾脏或者生殖系统内，虽然大部队已经转移到了甲状腺，因此这些甲状腺外的病毒仍然会引起肝脏功能不佳、脂肪肝、心悸、不育、消化系统不适、脑雾等各类问题，病毒同时分泌的神经毒素使得肝脏排毒负担更加沉重。
在第三阶段，一个人可能经历以下症状：体重上升、疲劳、脑雾、记忆下降、心跳干扰、胀气、迷惑、潮热、焦虑、睡眠问题和失眠、疼痛、慢性咽炎、低烧、刺痛和麻、肌肉无力、头发变少、指甲变脆、皮肤干、头晕等。这个阶段可能持续时间很短，病毒马上会进入第四阶段；也可能持续很多年，取决于每个人体内毒素累积（生活和饮食习惯、环境）、触发事件、关键营养元素是否缺乏等多个因素。
病毒攻击甲状腺的目的是为了削弱内分泌系统，因为甲状腺一旦功能不佳，肾上腺会分泌激素以代偿甲状腺激素，肾上腺激素是病毒最爱的食物，就如同自助餐一样。它们日渐增强自己，等待着另一场触发事件（类似于人生变故、巨大压力和情绪变化）或者大量它们最爱的食物（肾上腺素、蛋奶、重金属等在体内不断的累积）向终极目标发起进攻- 中枢神经系统。
第四阶段：攻击中枢神经系统 – 各类神经症状
EB病毒的终极目标是攻击中枢神经系统，引起神经炎症。当EB病毒开始向中枢神经系统进攻时，有些仍然会在第二阶段的肝脏、脾脏和第三阶段的甲状腺内继续造成破坏，有时候EB病毒可以在同一时间进入第三和第四阶段。一旦知道了事实的真相，第四阶段的病症也是完全可以疗愈，更可怕的是不知道引起疾病的原因。
免疫系统通常不会允许病毒对神经系统发起攻击，但如果EB病毒已成功进入甲状腺而消耗大量能量，加上一个人如果经历触发事件，诸如身体受伤或严重情绪伤害等，病毒就会趁机开始引发许多神秘症状，诸如心悸、各种疼痛或神经痛。血液检查、X光或核磁共振等检查不会查出什么异常，因此医生无法知道现在许多慢性疾病的真相其实是EB病毒第四阶段引起的神经炎症导致的。
当神经由于病毒或身体受伤受损时，神经会发出一种警报荷尔蒙通知身体神经被暴露因此需要修复。在第四阶段，EB病毒会检测到该荷尔蒙，使得它们能够对这些受损神经进行攻击造成各种神经症状。神经和一股纱线很像，会有少许松脱的根须。当神经受损时，根须就会从神经鞘的侧边脱落。EB病毒就是在寻找这种开口，然后紧紧抓住开口，让该区域持续发炎很多年，其结果就是：你可能会有个小伤口，却不断复发，导致身上持续疼痛。
病毒的目标是阻止身体获得充分的氧气，氧气使神经系统变得非常强壮，同时也是疗愈最重要的元素之一。当身体缺少氧气时，这给EB病毒进一步发展创造了最佳条件。这就是为什么现代高蛋白即高脂肪饮食对身体并不利，因为脂肪和油脂导致身体缺氧，从而使人难以从第四阶段的神经症状中恢复。
病毒引起的神经炎症会造成肌肉疼痛、关节疼痛、某些点疼痛、背痛、手脚刺痛或麻感（或两者都有）、偏头痛、持续疲倦、头晕、飞蚊症、失眠、睡眠品质不佳、夜间盗汗等。根据症状的组合不同以及去看的医生科室，一个人会被给予纤维肌痛症、慢性疲劳综合症、类风湿性关节炎、更年期综合征等各类不同的诊断，标签并不代表了解引起疾病的原因，许多时候，善意医生给出的疗法实际上无法解决问题根源，导致病人多年服药而无法得到真正改善，这些背后的原因实际上是第四阶段的EB病毒。
如果你经历了一些人生艰难低落时刻，觉得是负面情绪导致生病，要明白EB病毒才是真凶，只是这些事件触发的大量肾上腺素给了EB病毒在体内发展的机会，造成的神经发炎会使得负面情绪容易进一步持久。因此不管生活中的事件对健康造成如何的影响，明白事情的真相可以让人跳出一个恶性循环。
以下是病毒在第四阶段时出现的症状和容易获得的诊断：
慢性疲劳综合症是由于体内存在大量EB病毒，产生的神经毒素引起中枢神经系统发炎，系统性地影响身体健康，最终可能会削弱肾上腺与消化系统，并造成能量持续低下的疲劳感。
同样，医学界发现纤维肌痛的真正原因还需要好多年，因为目前无法检测出EB病毒在神经层面造成的伤害。深受纤维肌痛症的人的痛苦是非常真实的，正是EB病毒造成了这种疾病，使中枢神经系统与全身的神经发炎，也因此带来持续的疼痛、触觉敏感、严重疲倦，以及其他许多问题。
EB病毒也是引起多样性硬化症的真凶。有两种EB病毒的种类会引起该诊断：1）第一种病毒变体会引起神经症状，诸如四肢无力，轻微不能自控的颤抖，严重的刺痛和麻感。这些是病毒的神经毒素引起身体不同部位的神经发炎导致的症状，一般容易被诊断为多样性硬化症或者莱姆病，在医学检查中无法检测出身体损伤或者病变。2）第二种EB病毒变体会到达大脑，引起损伤和病变导致温和的脑炎，引起的症状和第一种病毒很类似。如果你被诊断为大脑有损伤或病变，不用紧张，这个世界上有成千上万的人都有不同程度的大脑损伤，仍然继续过着正常的生活。症状并不是大脑损伤引起的，而是EB病毒分泌的神经毒素。
EB病毒还会造成关节肿胀、疼痛、僵硬甚至畸形，这并不是自身免疫性疾病。我们的身体永远不会攻击自己，这是一种EB病毒变体，专门攻击结缔组织、关节和韧带，导致炎症，关节或者颈椎等肿胀的炎症其实是身体与病毒战斗的表现，身体正在试图阻止病毒进入更深层导致神经和组织永久性损伤。风湿性关节炎比较温和的表现就是不明原因的疼痛，严重情况下的关节肿胀会使得医生给予风湿性关节炎的诊断。
当EB病毒释放大量神经毒素时，这些神经毒素会分散并沉积到身体较弱的神经上。如果一个人经常使用脚、长期站立、或者曾经脚腕和脚受过伤，神经毒素会找到这些敏感的神经并导致炎症和疼痛（诸如坐骨神经和胫骨神经等）。许多人会在受伤多年以后出现足底筋膜炎，这是因为病毒需要时间慢慢发展到后面的阶段。
耳鸣是EB病毒入侵迷路的内耳神经管道而引起的，一个人听到的声音就是病毒使迷路与前庭耳蜗神经发炎和振动的结果。
眩晕与美尼尔氏症：医学界现在将眩晕与美尼尔氏症归因于钙结晶或耳石在内耳中逐渐破裂造成的。实际上大多数病例是因为EB病毒的神经毒素让迷走神经发炎引起的。
EB病毒引起迷走神经炎症还会对导致焦虑、头晕、胸部紧绷感、胸部疼痛、食道痉挛与哮喘。EB病毒引起的持续膈神经炎症会导致失眠、手脚刺痛与麻感等。
现在社会甚至许多年轻人有的神秘心悸是由于肝脏无法处理的EB病毒有毒尸体和排泄物逃离肝脏进入心脏二尖瓣等造成的。
潮热、增重、掉头发、失忆、疲劳、脑雾这些症状被认为是由于更年期或者甲状腺问题引起的，实际上这些症状和更年期或者甲状腺一点关系都没有。EB病毒才是真正的原因。事实上，更年期并不应该是一个令人觉得不舒服的时期，过了更年期之后，实际上女性的衰老开始减缓，精力会比以前更充沛。但20世纪以来，病毒发展阶段一般在50多岁会明显导致各类症状，这个时间上的巧合导致各类病症被错误怪罪于荷尔蒙。现在随着越来越具攻击性的病毒出现，许多年轻人都开始出现上述症状，但这并不是因为荷尔蒙变化，或者她们的更年期提前，EB病毒才是真正的原因。
除了更年期症状之外，各种女性健康问题诸如经期不调、子宫肌瘤、多囊性卵巢综合征、不孕、流产和孕期问题，甚至各类生殖系统癌症（乳腺癌、宫颈癌、子宫癌、卵巢癌等）都与EB病毒关系密切，都是EB病毒在生殖系统内造成的破坏。
综上所述，EB病毒在不同阶段会造成上百种症状，根据症状组合和去看的科室的不同，可能被给予不同的诊断，许多时候获得诊断对于病人是一种安慰，因为这似乎意味着医生了解引起疾病的原因，可以有药治疗。实际上，各种疾病的名称只是一种标签，并不意味着医学界有真正的答案，如果我们不知道引起问题的真正原因，问题永远无法得到根本地解决，这也是为什么现在众多慢性疾病患者一辈子需要依赖药物，症状依然没有消失。如果我们真正了解引起疾病的原因，改善或者疗愈只是时间问题。
如果有一个名字真正能描述出疾病的真相，那这个疾病名称会是“EB病毒综合征”。由于每个人的饮食结构、生活环境和性格情绪各不相同，不同的病毒变体加上不同的毒素会在身体的不同部位引起不同的症状，形成了各种各样看似完全不同的症状，但是其背后的真凶却都是EB病毒。
以下是EB病毒在不同阶段造成的上百种病症，可以点击以下链接获得病症更详细的信息：
甲状腺机能减退、甲亢和毒性弥漫性甲状腺肿（格雷夫斯病）、炎症、甲状腺肿大、桥本甲状腺炎、甲状腺结节、囊肿和肿瘤、神秘增重、体重下降、持续饥饿感。
第四阶段病毒引起的症状可能令人极度痛苦。请放心，只要采取正确步骤，有足够的耐心和坚持，我们就能恢复健康、重建免疫系统，并重新获得对自己人生的掌控权。
下篇中我们将对导致病毒快速发展到下一阶段的导火索即触发事件、病毒的六大类六十多种变体以及如何去除EB病毒，重拾健康进行说明。
The Epstein-Barr Virus Epidemic (I)
The Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) has created a secret epidemic. Out of the roughly 320 million people in the U.S., over 225 million Americans have some form of EBV.
Epstein-Barr is responsible for mystery illnesses of every category: For some people, it creates fatigue and pain that go unnamed. For others, EBV symptoms prompt doctors to prescribe ineffective treatments, such as hormone replacement. And for so many people walking around with EBV, it gets misdiagnosed.
Among the reasons EBV is thriving: so little is understood about it. Medical communities are aware of only one version of EBV, but there are actually over 60 varieties. Epstein-Barr is behind several of the debilitating illnesses that stump doctors. As I said in the Introduction, it’s the mystery illness of mystery illnesses.
Doctors have no idea how the virus operates long-term and how problematic it can be. The truth is, EBV is the source of numerous health problems that are currently considered mystery illnesses, such as fibromyalgia and chronic fatigue syndrome. EBV is also the cause of some major maladies that medical communities think they understand but really don’t—including thyroid disease, vertigo, and tinnitus.
This chapter explains when the Epstein-Barr virus arose, how it’s transmitted, how it operates to create untold havoc in strategic stages no one knows about, and the steps (never revealed before) that can destroy the virus and restore health.
EPSTEIN-BARR ORIGINS AND TRANSMISSION
Though Epstein-Barr was discovered by two brilliant physicians in 1964, it had actually begun taking hold in the early 1900s—over half a century before. EBV’s initial versions—which are still with us—are relatively slow to act, and might not even create notable symptoms until late in life. Even then, they’re only mildly harmful. Many people have these non-aggressive EBV strains.
Unfortunately, EBV has evolved over the decades, and each generation of the virus has grown more challenging than the one before.
Until the publication of this book, those with EBV would typically be stuck with it for the rest of their lives. Doctors seldom recognize EBV as the root cause of the myriad of problems it creates; plus doctors have no idea how to address the Epstein-Barr virus even when it is recognized.
There are many ways to catch EBV. For example, you can get it as a baby if your mother has the virus. You can also get it through infected blood. Hospitals don’t screen for the virus, so any blood transfusion puts you at risk. You can even get it from eating out! That’s because chefs are under tremendous pressure to get dishes prepared quickly. They often end up cutting a finger or hand, slapping on a Band-Aid, and continuing to work. Their blood can get into the food . . . and if they happen to have EBV during a contagious phase, that can be enough to infect you.
Transmission can also happen through other bodily fluids, such as those exchanged during sex. Under some circumstances, even a kiss can be enough to transmit EBV.
Someone with the virus isn’t contagious all the time, though. It’s most likely to spread during its Stage Two. Which brings up something else that until now hasn’t been revealed: EBV goes through four stages.
EPSTEIN-BARR STAGE ONE
If you catch EBV, it goes through an initial dormant period of floating around in your bloodstream doing little more than slowly replicating itself to build its numbers—and waiting for an opportunity to launch a more direct infection.
For example, if you physically exhaust yourself for weeks and give yourself no chance to fully recover, or allow your body to become deprived of essential nutrients such as zinc or vitamin B12, or undergo a traumatic emotional experience such as a breakup or the death of a loved one, the virus will detect your stress-related hormones and choose that time to take advantage.
EBV will also often act when you’re undergoing a major hormonal change—for example, during puberty, pregnancy, or menopause. A common scenario is when a woman goes through childbirth. Afterward, she may feel various symptoms, including fatigue, aches and pains, and depression. In this case EBV isn’t exploiting your weakness, but the fact that hormones are a powerful food source for it—their abundance acts as a trigger. The hormones flooding through your body effectively does for the virus what spinach does for Popeye.
EBV is inhumanly patient. This Stage One period of fortifying itself and waiting for an ideal opportunity can take weeks, months, or even a decade or longer, depending on a variety of factors.
The virus is especially vulnerable during Stage One. However, it’s also undetectable through tests and causes no symptoms, so you normally wouldn’t know to fight it, because you wouldn’t be aware it was there.
EPSTEIN-BARR STAGE TWO
At the end of Stage One, the Epstein-Barr virus is ready to do battle with your body. That’s when EBV first makes its presence known . . . by turning into mononucleosis. This is the infamous mono that we all grow up hearing about as the “kissing disease.” It’s what thousands of college students contract every year when they run themselves down with all-night partying and studying.
Medical communities are unaware that every case of mononucleosis is only Stage Two of EBV.
This is the period when the virus is most contagious. It’s therefore advisable to avoid getting exposed to blood, saliva, or other bodily fluids from someone who has mono . . . or to avoid exposing anyone to your fluids if you have mono.
During this Stage Two, your body’s immune system goes to war with the virus. It sends identifier cells to “tag” virus cells, i.e., place a hormone on them that marks them as invaders. It then sends soldier cells to seek out and kill the tagged virus cells. This is the power of your immune system coming to your defense.
How severely this battle rages will vary from person to person, because everyone is different, and it will also depend on what EBV strain or variety a person has. You can have mono for just a week or two with a mild scratchy throat and tiredness, in which case you aren’t likely to realize what’s really happening, so you most likely won’t visit a doctor for a blood test.
Then again, you can get hit hard with fatigue, sore throat, fever, headaches, rashes, and more that hang on for several months. If this happens, the chances are you’ll go see a doctor who’ll test your blood, and the Epstein-Barr virus will show up as a form of mono . . . most of the time.
It’s during this stage that EBV seeks a long-term home by making a run for one or more of your major organs—typically your liver and/or spleen. EBV loves being in these organs because mercury, dioxins, and other toxins are likely to accumulate there. The virus thrives on these poisons.
One other secret about EBV is that it has a best friend, a bacterium called Streptococcus. In such cases your body is dealing with not only a virus, but also bacteria that further confuse the immune system and produce their own array of symptoms. This is Epstein-Barr’s number one cofactor.
During EBV’s Stage Two, Streptococcus can travel up to create strep throat and/or infest the sinuses, nose, or mouth. It can also travel down to create infections in the urinary tract, vagina, kidneys, or bladder . . . eventually causing cystitis.
EPSTEIN-BARR STAGE THREE
Once the virus settles into your liver, spleen, and/or other organs, it nests there.
From this point on, when a doctor tests for Epstein-Barr, she or he will find antibodies and take these to indicate a past infection, when EBV was in its mono phase. The doctor will not find the EBV presently active in the bloodstream. The confusion here is one of the biggest blunders in medical history—this is how this virus has slipped through the cracks. Unless you have already followed the measures outlined in this book to kill the EBV, the virus is, in fact, still alive and causing new symptoms . . . and it’s eluding the tests. That’s because it’s living in the liver, spleen, or other organs, and the test to detect this has not yet been invented.
With the virus hiding undetected in your organs, your body assumes it’s won the war and the invader has been destroyed. Your immune system returns to its normal state, your mononucleosis ends, and your doctor tells you that you’re healthy.
Unfortunately, the Epstein-Barr virus has barely begun its voyage through your body.
If you have a typical variety, EBV could lie dormant in your organs for years—possibly for decades—without your knowing it. If you have an especially aggressive variety, though, EBV may create serious problems even while it’s nesting.
For example, the virus may burrow deep into your liver and spleen, causing those organs to become inflamed and enlarged. And once again, keep in mind that your doctor does not know to connect the dots between past EBV and its present activity in the organs.
The virus also creates three types of poison:
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- EBV excretes toxic waste matter, or viral byproduct. This becomes increasingly significant as the virus grows more cells, and its expanding army keeps eating and excreting poisonous byproduct. This waste matter is often identified as spirochetes, which can trigger false positives on tests such as Lyme titers (screening tests for Lyme disease) and lead to a false diagnosis of Lyme.
- When a cell of the virus dies—which happens often, as the cells have a six-week life cycle—the corpse that is left behind is itself toxic and so further poisons your body. As with viral byproduct, this problem becomes more severe as EBV’s army grows, creating fatigue.
- The poisons EBV creates through these two processes have the ability to generate a neurotoxin—i.e., a poison that disrupts nerve function and confuses your immune system. It will secrete this special toxin at strategic periods during Stage Three, and continuously during Stage Four, to prevent your immune system from zeroing in on the virus and attacking it.
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The issues that may result from an aggressive variety of EBV nesting in your organs include:
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- Your liver performing so sluggishly that it does a poor job of flushing toxins out of your system. A sluggish liver affects almost everyone today. It’s critical to understand how to support your liver properly. I share exactly how to do this in Liver Rescue.
- Hepatitis C. (EBV is actually the primary cause of hepatitis C. For more on how this condition develops, you can read Liver Rescue)
- Your liver’s sluggish performance leading to the lowering of your stomach’s hydrochloric acid and your intestinal tract starting to become toxic. This in turn can result in some food not being fully digested and instead putrefying in your intestinal tract, resulting in bloating and/or constipation.
- Your developing sensitivities to foods that never caused you problems before. This happens when the virus consumes a food it likes, such as cheese, and transforms it into something your body doesn’t recognize.
- The virus bides its time until it senses stress-related hormones indicating you’re in an especially vulnerable state—say, as a result of burning the candle at both ends, enduring a severe emotional blow, or suffering a physical jolt such as being in a car accident—or when it senses you’re undergoing hormonal upheaval, such as during pregnancy or menopause.
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When the virus is nearly ready to spring, it begins excreting its neurotoxin. This adds to the burden on your system already created by EBV’s byproduct and virus corpses. All this poison in your system finally triggers your immune system—and also thoroughly confuses it, because it has no idea where the toxins are coming from.
Lupus
The immune system response I’ve just described triggers the mysterious symptoms that doctors can diagnose as lupus. Medical communities have no understanding that lupus is just the body reacting to Epstein-Barr’s byproducts and neurotoxins. It’s the body having an allergic reaction to these neurotoxins, which then elevates the inflammatory markers that doctors search for to identify and diagnose lupus. In truth, lupus is just a viral infection of Epstein-Barr.
Hypothyroidism and Other Thyroid Disorders
While your immune system is in disarray, EBV takes advantage of the chaos by leaving the organs it’s been nesting in and making a run for a different major organ or gland—which this time is your thyroid!
Medical communities aren’t yet aware that EBV is the actual cause of most thyroid disorders and diseases—especially Hashimoto’s, but also Graves’, thyroid cancer, and other thyroid ills. (Thyroid disease is also sometimes caused by radiation; but in over 95 percent of cases, the culprit is Epstein-Barr.) Medical research has not yet uncovered the true causes of thyroid disorders, and it’s still decades away from discovering that EBV is the virus that causes them. If a doctor gives you a Hashimoto’s diagnosis, it really means that she or he doesn’t know what’s wrong. The claim is that your body is attacking your thyroid—a view that arises from misinformation. In truth, it’s the EBV—not your body—attacking the thyroid.
Once in your thyroid, EBV begins drilling into its tissues. The virus cells literally twist and spin like drills to burrow deep into the thyroid, killing thyroid cells and scarring the organ as they go, creating hidden hypothyroidism in millions of women, from mild cases to the more extreme. Your immune system notices this and tries to intervene, causing inflammation; but between EBV’s neurotoxin, viral byproduct, and poisonous corpses confusing things, and with EBV hiding in your thyroid, your immune system can’t tag the virus for complete destruction.
While the above may sound unnerving, don’t let it rattle you; your thyroid has the ability to rejuvenate and heal itself when it’s given what it needs. And never underestimate the power of your immune system, which by the end of this chapter will become activated just by you learning the truth.
As a fallback option, your immune system tries to wall off the virus with calcium, creating nodules in your thyroid. However, this doesn’t hurt EBV. First, most of its cells evade this attack and remain free. Second, a virus cell that your immune system successfully walls off typically remains alive and turns its calcium prison into a comfortable home, where it feeds on your thyroid, draining it of energy. The virus cell might even eventually transform its prison into a living growth, called a cyst, that creates further strain on your thyroid.
Meanwhile, these attacks against EBV can hurt you if you aren’t eating enough calcium-rich foods. That’s because if your immune system can’t get the calcium to wall off the virus from your bloodstream, it’ll extract what it needs from your bones . . . which can lead to osteoporosis.
Simultaneously, the hundreds of virus cells that aren’t imprisoned in nodules can weaken your thyroid, making it less effective at producing the hormones your body needs to function. This lack of adequate thyroid hormones, coupled with EBV’s toxins, can in turn lead to weight gain, fatigue, mental fogginess, impaired memory, depression, hair loss, insomnia, brittle nails, muscle weakness, and/or dozens of other symptoms.
Some especially rare, aggressive varieties of EBV go even further. They create cancer in the thyroid. The rate of thyroid cancer in the U.S. has been rising rapidly. Medical communities don’t know that the cause is an increase in rare, aggressive forms of EBV.
The Epstein-Barr virus invades your thyroid for a strategic reason—it’s seeking to confuse and place stress on your endocrine system. The strain on your adrenal glands produces more adrenaline, which is a favored food of EBV that makes it stronger and better able to go after its ultimate target: your nervous system.
EPSTEIN-BARR STAGE FOUR
The ultimate goal of the Epstein-Barr virus is to leave your thyroid and inflame your central nervous system.
Your immune system normally wouldn’t allow this to happen. But if EBV has successfully worn you down in Stage Three by entering your thyroid, and if on top of that you abruptly get clobbered with some physical or severe emotional injury, the virus will take advantage of your vulnerability and start to cause a multitude of strange symptoms that range from heart palpitations to generalized aches and pains to nerve pain.
A common scenario is being in an accident, getting surgery, or suffering some other physical damage, and then feeling awful for much longer than would be expected from the injury alone. A typical reaction is to “feel like a truck hit me.”
Blood tests, X-rays, and MRIs will reveal nothing wrong, so doctors won’t be aware of the virus inflaming the nerves. Stage Four Epstein-Barr is therefore a major source of mystery illnesses—that is, problems that cause doctors massive confusion.
What’s actually happening is that your injured nerves trigger an “alarm” hormone to notify your body that the nerves are exposed and need repair. In Stage Four, EBV detects that hormone and rushes over to latch onto those damaged nerves.
A nerve is similar to a string of yarn with little root hairs hanging off it. When the nerve is injured, the root hairs pop off the sides of the nerve sheath. EBV looks for those openings and grabs onto them. If it succeeds, it can keep the area inflamed for years. As a result, you can have a relatively small injury that remains flared up and causes you continual pain.
The issues that result from this viral inflammation can include muscle pain, joint pain, painful tender points, back pain, tingling and/or numbness in the hands and feet, migraines, ongoing fatigue, dizziness, insomnia, unrestful sleep, and night sweats. Patients with these issues are sometimes diagnosed as having fibromyalgia, chronic fatigue syndrome, or rheumatoid arthritis, all of which are collections of symptoms that medical communities admit they don’t understand and for which they have no cure. In such cases the patients are given inappropriate treatments that don’t begin to address the real culprit—because these mystery illnesses are really Stage Four Epstein-Barr.
One of the greatest missteps of all time is mistaking women’s Epstein-Barr symptoms for perimenopause and menopause. Symptoms such as hot flashes, night sweats, heart palpitations, dizziness, depression, hair loss, and anxiety were and are frequently misinterpreted as hormonal change—which is what launched the disastrous HRT movement. (To learn more, see Chapter 15, “Premenstrual Syndrome and Menopause.”)
Let’s take a closer look at the chronic illnesses that have puzzled doctors for decades and are the result of Stage Four Epstein-Barr.
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome
There’s a long history of womankind facing denial that there’s a physical cause of their suffering. Like those with fibromyalgia (see below), people with chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS)—also known by names such as myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), chronic fatigue immune dysfunction syndrome (CFIDS), and systemic exertion intolerance disease (SEID)—often hear that they are liars, lazy, delusional, and/or crazy. It’s an illness that affects women in disproportionately large numbers.
And chronic fatigue syndrome is on the rise.
It’s becoming common for young women in college to return home mid-semester with the condition, unable to do anything but lie in bed. Contracting CFS as a woman in your late teens or early 20s can be particularly devastating as you watch friends move on with relationships and jobs, meanwhile feeling stuck and unable to live up to your potential.
Women who get CFS in their 30s, 40s, or 50s have their own obstacles: while you’re old enough at this point to have an established life and support network, you also have established responsibilities. You’re likely trying to be everything to everybody, taking care of more than you can handle, and so you feel the pressure to act normal when CFS hits.
Compounding the isolation for both age groups are the feelings of guilt, fear, and shame that accompany their misdiagnoses. I’m sure that if you have CFS, you’ve been in the depths of physical suffering and had someone say, “But you look perfectly healthy.” It is so disheartening to feel unwell and hear from practitioners, friends, or family that there’s nothing wrong with you.
Chronic fatigue syndrome is real. It’s the Epstein-Barr virus.
As we’ve seen, those with CFS have an elevated viral load of EBV, which systematically afflicts the body by creating a neurotoxin that inflames the central nervous system. This can eventually weaken the adrenals and digestive system, and create the feeling that you have a low battery.
Fibromyalgia
We’ve had over six decades of medical denial that fibromyalgia is a legitimate problem. Now, medical communities are finally accepting it as an actual condition.
The best explanation doctors are given by the establishment, though, is that fibromyalgia is overactive nerves. What this really translates to is . . . no one has a clue. It’s not the doctors’ fault. There’s no magic book they receive that tells them what will help their fibromyalgia patients or what is genuinely causing their pain.
The medical system is still years from discovering the illness’s true root—because it’s viral, and it takes place at a nerve level that medical tools currently can’t detect.
Those suffering from fibromyalgia are under a very real and debilitating attack. It’s the Epstein-Barr virus that is causing this disorder, inflaming both the central nervous system and nerves throughout the body, which creates ongoing pain, sensitivity to touch, severe fatigue, and a host of other issues.
Tinnitus
Tinnitus, or ringing in the ear, is usually caused by EBV getting into the inner ear’s nerve channel, called the labyrinth. The ringing is the result of the virus inflaming and vibrating the labyrinth and the vestibulocochlear nerve.
Vertigo and Meniere’s Disease
Vertigo and Meniere’s disease are often attributed by doctors to calcium crystals, or stones, becoming disrupted in the inner ear. However, most chronic cases are actually caused by EBV’s neurotoxin inflaming the vagus nerve.
Other Symptoms
Anxiety, dizziness, chest tightness, chest pain, esophageal spasms, and asthma can also be caused by EBV inflaming the vagus nerve.
Insomnia, and tingling and numbness in hands and feet, can be caused by phrenic nerves becoming perpetually inflamed by EBV.
And heart palpitations can result from buildup of EBV’s poisonous virus corpses and byproduct in the heart’s mitral valve.
If you have EBV, or suspect you do, you may find the virus in Stage Four beyond frustrating. Take comfort. If you take the right steps—which medical communities don’t know about yet, but which are covered at the end of this chapter—you can recover, rebuild your immune system, return to a normal state again, and regain control of your life.愿天下人平安、健康、喜乐。
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