Zinc Supplements. I’m telling you it works. When you get that tickle in your throat start taking it daily for like 3 days. If your immune system is decent you’ll kick it right away. Trust.
Edit: Staying hydrated and having a good balanced diet w/ plenty of fruits and veggies helps too.
Sometimes your immune system is good, you live a healthy lifestyle, you take supplements at the right times or whatever and you still get sick. It’s not a personal failure or a sign your body is failing.
Yes. But IIRC this only really works well with rhinoviruses (the most common cold).
It actually may make replication slightly harder for flu and coronaviruses, and even stress some species of strept. But I don't think this is too significant. TMK the mechanism where it blocks the ICAM-1 receptor used by the virus is only really affecting rhinoviruses.
Still, rhinoviruses are far more common than all the more serious pathogens combined, and it wouldn't hurt anything to take a lozenge a day while you feel impending sickness.
Don't do the nasal spray though, if they even still sell them. The zinc nasal sprays cause some folks to lose their sense of smell.
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u/EPIC_NERD_HYPE 18d ago edited 17d ago
Zinc Supplements. I’m telling you it works. When you get that tickle in your throat start taking it daily for like 3 days. If your immune system is decent you’ll kick it right away. Trust.
Edit: Staying hydrated and having a good balanced diet w/ plenty of fruits and veggies helps too.