Yesterday I received a phone call from one of our biestmilch customers who takes biestmilch because of his chronic EBV infection. He is an interesting guy to talk to. As he is working in an immunology institute, he knows a lot about the background of the disease. It is one of the very big point for biestmilch, if experts decide to take it. He says that biestmilch helps, but it varies conspicuously from person to person. Some profit in a way that they feel completely recovered, others become a lot better but the symptoms don’t disappear.
Acute EBV infection or kissing disease
In the mid eighties I myself came down with a full-fledged acute EBV infection, the classical kissing disease. I felt bad and friends were joking cryptically. That’s life, the laugh is always on the looser!
An extraordinary promiscuous sex life was first of all associated with an EBV infection later in life. I avoid commenting on that now!
In my case, it took at least 3 weeks till it was diagnosed. By physicians this infection was considered as very rare, especially in adults. They expected a disease of this kind only in immune compromised hosts and the acute form known as kissing disease in rare cases like me.
The situation has changed.
Many athletes suffer from chronic EBV infection
Since I am working with biestmilch, I come along so many cases. Not the acute form but the chronic infection with the typical symptoms of complete exhaustion. Athletes who train a lot and provoke their immunity every day overreach and are thus extremely endangered to acquire a chronic EBV virus infection.
Since we actively started promoting biestmilch in triathlon in 2002, I came close to so many athletes. I realized that the hard training, the exhausting competitions take their toll. It is not only gossip but sad reality. Some of them don’t recover at all, are heavily handicapped because they took this disease too lightly in the beginning.
What is outstanding for me is the fact that even though chronic EBV infection became a really common complication of hard training with insufficient recuperation peroids included, this disease is often diagnosed too late as blood parameters are not conclusive in all cases or not adequately interpreted, and on top of this symptoms are misjudged. Therapeutic approaches are poor and the sick athlete starts with training much too early. Relapses are therefore normal.
Biestmilch is an excellent option to support recovery
Biestmilch is improves immunity, it helps to balance a state of immunodeficiency which shows if you check your EBV antibody profiles. But nevertheless you have to obey certain rules: take a rest, don’t overreach. If you train stay within the aerobic-anearobic threshold, don’t speed up your pulse. I think it isn’t healthy to torture yourself by keeping still because your used to move. But be carefull, pay attention to your pulse.
*Epstein-Barr-Virus
