In order to avoid outbrakes, Christopher Scipio's book will explain to you about avoiding coffee, caffeine, chocolate, all nuts and seeds, multigrain bread, oatmeal, processed foods, sugars and multigrain cereals. Stay away from all sugary processed deserts.  Stay away from black or green tea.  They have caffeine, and instead only have herbal teas.  Stay away from any trace of coffee, even decaff.   Avoid fried foods and white flour.  Remember that white flour turns straight up into sugar , so it will feed the herpes.  Anything with processed sugars will feed the herpes.  Anything with a lot of the aminoacid Arginine will fee the herpes. Instead you should eat tons of fish, tons and tons of fish, plain yogurt, only agave or honey as sweeteners, vegetables, fruits, seaweed such as wakame and dulse seaweed, papaya.  You can eat turkey and chicken too.  If you eat bread, only eat 100 percent whole wheat. It is very important that in the morning about an hr before you eat breakfast you make a carrot, ginger , apple and beet juice. Beets have tons and tons of lysine, which is the amino acid that does not feed herpes.  So you need to make that juice in the morning. I do every morning. Get a juicer.  Dandelion juice its an antiviral too and aloe vera keeps your blood alkaline.  Remember the goal is to keep your blood alkaline so that the environment is not suited for bacteria, virus or fungus to grow.  And also, to keep your arginine levels low and your immune system high.  In the book he emphasizes supplements you need to take daily like zinc, selenium, vitamine C, all of the Bs, or Super B.  Also take 4 pills of garlic daily.  During outbrake days you should take between 12 to 14 garlic pills. It purifies your blood.  And Sivananda yoga, yoga, yoga, yoga... Yoga will teach you to breathe the right way and so it will keep more oxygen in your body, so the virus is less likely to thrive in a body with tons of oxygen. I can't emphisize it enough.  Remember that yoga keeps you in parasympathetic mode, or relaxed mode, so that's an integral part of avoiding outbrakes and get plenty of sleep everynight . At least 8 hrs, because lack of sleep depresses your immune system. Drink tons and tons of water. Drink 2 liters a day.  And lastly, if you have post herpetic neuralgia, or nerve pain due to herpes . Its a neuropathy after outbrakes, during outbrakes and just that unbearable chronic pain... please do practice Sivananda yoga. I was in pain for a whole year straight and nothing helped except this type of hatha yoga.  It relaxed my muscles and nerves to the point that it took my pain away.  Now I do not take valtrex, lysine, lyrica, sleeping pills , or antidepressants. Only the supplements, the foods, and Christopher Scipio's custumed made holistic herbs three times a day.  I take them religiously.  He makes them using lemon balm (which soothes our central nervious system). He also uses saint johns wart too.  Finally, I feel like I have my life back...