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Zinc: Your Secret Weapon Against Cold and Flu Season?

serfserf Member Posts: 9,217 ✭✭✭✭
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   This supplement zinc along with others like Colostrum,PQQ and L-glutamine could help fight off Colds and The  Flu. I am not a medical professional so do your own research and decide what's best for you.
                                     serf
        

This mineral helps boost the immune system, heal wounds and support the body’s overall growth. It makes perfect sense then that it’s particularly beneficial now, just when the flu and cold season starts to hit hard.

Experts recommend 8 milligrams of zinc a day for women and 11 milligrams for men. Although zinc supplements exist, the best way to reap the benefits of this mineral is by infusing it into your daily diet. The mineral is beneficial for a variety of reasons since it contains antiviral and anti-inflammatory properties.


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  • mohawk600mohawk600 Member Posts: 5,529 ✭✭✭✭
    The supplement and vitamin market is a way to get idiots to spend money.......unless there are scientifically conducted clinical trials on these products and their claims...... buyer beware.
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  • dunbarboyzdunbarboyz Member Posts: 2,614 ✭✭✭✭
    My doctor told me about zinc years ago. The last flu I had was H1N1.

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  • Don McManusDon McManus Member Posts: 23,695 ✭✭✭✭
    Most meats have a decent zinc content as do some fruits such as avocados.

    I pretty much eat either beef or pork every day, and will have 2 - 3 avocados a week.  Last flu I have had has been over 30 years ago.  
    Freedom and a submissive populace cannot co-exist.

    Brad Steele
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  • spasmcreeksrunspasmcreeksrun Member Posts: 1,755 ✭✭✭
    so in an effort to be frugal and get some exercise i went outside and gnawed on the windmill frame....zinc-o-magic
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  • serfserf Member Posts: 9,217 ✭✭✭✭
    mohawk600 said:
    The supplement and vitamin market is a way to get idiots to spend money.......unless there are scientifically conducted clinical trials on these products and their claims...... buyer beware.
      zinc

     Several studies have examined the direct inhibitory effect of zinc on viruses that infect the human respiratory tract, including the enveloped virus HSV and the nonenveloped virus rhinovirus (7, 13, 14). The mechanism of inhibition of rhinovirus likely involves direct binding of zinc to virus particles (13). Zinc also inhibits the replication of human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1) (10), vaccinia virus (11), and polioviruses (15) in vitro. Although zinc supplementation reduces the incidence of severe clinical pneumonia in the developing world, the effect of zinc on replication of the primary agents of viral pneumonia in infants such as RSV is unknown. We determined the in vitro inhibitory effect of three zinc salts (acetate, lactate, and sulfate) on RSV in virus yield or virus
       Colostrum
    https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/bovine-colostrum
    Bovine colostrum may strengthen your immune system and help your body fight disease-causing agents. The immune-boosting effects of colostrum are mostly due to its high concentration of the antibodies IgA and IgG. Antibodies are proteins that fight viruses and bacteria (1, 7 ).Feb 27, 2019


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  • Marc1301Marc1301 Member Posts: 31,895 ✭✭✭
    Elderberry extracts also supposedly have anti-viral properties according to a number of studies.
    "Beam me up Scotty, there's no intelligent life down here." - William Shatner
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  • Rocky RaabRocky Raab Member Posts: 14,502 ✭✭✭✭
    I have used ZiCam nasal spray when I first thought a cold may be coming on, and it did seem to help. Once, in fact, the symptoms went away almost immediately. Either the ZiCam worked or it wasn't a cold after all. But no harm, no foul. Other times, the cold lasted only a few days instead of a week. I'll keep using it.
    I may be a bit crazy - but I didn't drive myself.
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  • bullshotbullshot Member Posts: 14,725 ✭✭✭✭
    STAY HOME!!!!!
    "Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they're not out to get you"
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  • bpostbpost Member Posts: 32,669 ✭✭✭✭
    Horse feathers.
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  • He DogHe Dog Member Posts: 51,593 ✭✭✭✭
    edited March 2020
    Myth.  GB is sure as hell not the place to get medical advice.  Zinc does Zip.  You can suffer with the cold for a week, or use Serf's miracle cure and be over it in 7 days. 
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  • serfserf Member Posts: 9,217 ✭✭✭✭
    He Dog said:
    Myth.  GB is sure as hell not the place to get medical advice.  Zinc does Zip.  You can suffer with the cold for a week, or use Serf's miracle cure and be over it in 7 days. 
      Hey it's your choice and body .Of course a hot toody full of whiskey with chicken soup may be for you. On the other hand reading medical research studies and boosting my immune system is my  avenue of hope to fighting the virus off.Good luck for it's coming!

                                           serf


    PQQ regulates MAPk kinase activation and tyrosyl phosphorylation of ERK2 by production of CD4+T lymphocytes116 having immune response by interleukin-2, and growth factors reduced when T-cell proliferation occurs.117 When PQQ supplemented orally in nano-amounts alleviates the mitogens of B and T cells.118 PQQ treatment enhances IgA level, restores mass of GALT119 and induce immunity against bacterial or viral invasion,120 subsequent suppression by increased levels of proteins induced by IFN-β via iNOS, JAK1 and STAT1 signaling pathways (Table 7). PQQ was involved in phosphorylation of 1KKβ, p38 and nF-kB as a pre-inflammatory retort of macrophages121 increase the number of lymphocytes and CD8+cells (Table 3).19 Robust research should be conducted on clinical trials to estimate IL-6 and T lymphocytes to act as immune-suppressive agent.



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  • He DogHe Dog Member Posts: 51,593 ✭✭✭✭

    "Good luck for it's coming!"


    Yeah, once again the sky is falling.  I hate when that happens.

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  • asopasop Member Posts: 9,021 ✭✭✭✭
    Fried fish, cheese curds and beer :D
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  • serfserf Member Posts: 9,217 ✭✭✭✭
    He Dog said:

    "Good luck for it's coming!"


    Yeah, once again the sky is falling.  I hate when that happens.

      With the seven to fourteen days of no sign of the symptoms when infected then yes it's going to be  coming & spreading.Sounds like farmer terms but this time it's the Grim Reaper doing the harvesting.
                                                               serf

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  • select-fireselect-fire Member Posts: 69,531 ✭✭✭✭
    Well one of the ingredients in the vitamins
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  • serfserf Member Posts: 9,217 ✭✭✭✭
    edited March 2020
    Barzillia said:
    Always been a fan of stumpwater, myself.
    Earplugs and zinc ?
    Well, I heard them Chinese troops that were living in closed Wal Marts a few years back all had those items in their biowarfare kits............the truth is out there, serf...
             The truth is your ignorant about prevention measures and it is not just Zinc in posts here by me. Doctors don't cure COV 19 they treat the symptoms. HIV drugs help imagine that? When has SARs or MERS ever had HIV inserts? They never did but animals sold from a BIO Lab could have!
                                                        serf
       https://nypost.com/2020/02/22/dont-buy-chinas-story-the-coronavirus-may-have-leaked-from-a-lab/

    Add to this China’s history of similar incidents. Even the deadly SARS virus has escaped — twice — from the Beijing lab where it was (and probably is) being used in experiments. Both “man-made” epidemics were quickly contained, but neither would have happened at all if proper safety precautions had been taken.

    And then there is this little-known fact: Some Chinese researchers are in the habit of selling their laboratory animals to street vendors after they have finished experimenting on them.






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  • JunkballerJunkballer Member Posts: 9,310 ✭✭✭✭
    Serf, you may be on to something LOL......being a Southerner we down here fairly often have whole hog BBQ's and our preferred method of cooking a hog is stacking cement blocks 2 high into a 4' x 6' rectangle, after the firewood/charcoal burns down we then lay a 5'x 6' galvanized chain-link gate on top, then place the prepped hog on top of the gate then covering said hog with sheets of galvanized tin......am sure you know galvanizing is coating consisting of zinc.  Myself and family, friends that I can think of have had no illnesses (colds/flues) in many years nor any other major or minor illnesses to speak of. Unlike Barzillia  I have no knowledge or cut & paste data to back my theory but it sure has me thinking zinc is beneficial in some strange way which leaves me very open minded to it....NOTE: I have a complete physical each year along with blood work and nothing is found other than my testosterone level is on the high side but I think that's natural for most any Southern redneck man like me.... :)...................... ;)

    "Never do wrong to make a friend----or to keep one".....Robert E. Lee

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  • serfserf Member Posts: 9,217 ✭✭✭✭
     My first choice would be colostrum with an PQQ supplement for older people here like me. This two together could save you from a terminal infection from pathogens. But I am not a medical professional but the information is sound believe it or not.

                                              serf

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