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a few years back zinc acetate lozenges were doing the rounds and I love a good superstition so I went ahead and incorporated that into my belief system. been a while so I thought I’d check to see if the state of the science on the subject had shifted since then

afaict there hasn’t been much work on the subject in the intervening time, and nothing much to change your mind one way or the other. good work everyone, you may return to your superstition behavior.

some details:

• one study¹ recently reported a null result, but based on the going theory for zinc lozenges that’s what you would expect (zinc acetate was administered by capsules). also the study was lacking in other ways.
• another² has a good looking graph and is maybe positive for the concept. haven’t read the fully study yet

that’s maybe about it? my method for researching this research was to search pubmed for “(zinc) AND ((acetate) OR (gluconate)) lozenge” plus some other words instead of lozenge, as there were too many results without an additional keyword for filtering. I am sure there are other places results are published besides pubmed. feel free to catapult relevant studies into my inbox

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#1: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37739466/ #2: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8844493/ #links in tags because I think this evades the thing where tumblr refuses to show your post if it has links in it #idk if that actually works but as previously established I am a superstitious man }}

i assume this is the promising-looking graph in question

you know, i don’t love the idea that colds get dragged out that long. 19 days? some poor assholes get colds for 19 days?

yeah that sounds fucked up! had no idea that was the case for some people, I always thought of a cold as a 1-3 day kind of thing. but presumably if someone gets 20 day colds they’re probably very glad to cut a week off that

The third week of a cold sucks a lot less than the first week so, like, maybe only as much as a normal person’s cold, but yeah if there’s a pill for cutting that third week off, I’m interested regardless of whether it helps with the main brunt of the cold. Gonna have to look into this.

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#I am very big on Simply Not Getting Sick in the First Place but it’s always good to have more layers in the Swiss cheese #especially when one of your housemates is a line cook #reply via reblog #the power of science #is the blue I see the same as the blue you see #illness tw

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