RE: HCQ alone isn’t what works. The two in tandem work. It’s the zinc that provides the protection. HCQ opens the channel.
Are you referring to Zinc plus HCQ as TREATMENT for Covid-19 patients? We know that Zinc is an important component for TREATMENT.
Or are you saying that to be an effective protective against Covid-19 infection, one must ALSO take Zinc together with HCQ?
People in this thread don’t bother to read the article. It is not talking about treatment but PROTECTION AGAINST INFECTION.
Not treatment. Prophylaxis. HCQ and zinc together. IF you are infected, add a antibiotic that isn’t going to impact you from a cardiac sense.
HCQ and zinc together. One opens the zinc channel, and the other is what goes into the cell.
You are describing the behavior of a preparation in a dish where you CAN alter the concentration of Zinc. In the interstitial space you can’t. The article I linked above is the most comprehensive article I have ever seen on “Zinc Metabolism”.
Look at it this way, something more people are familiar with. Sodium metabolism. “How much table salt would you have to ingest to raise your interstitial Sodium level (Na+) from 140 mole per deciliter to 141?” The answer is you pretty much can’t do it. You will just put a lot more Na in your urine.
Deficiency states for NA work pretty much the same for Zinc, you have two pools of “reserves” from which to mobilize, a “Readily mobilizable pool” and a “Not Readily mobilizable pool” that is much larger because it is BONE.
IOW you will repair a deficiency of Na or Zn much faster from these pools than your diet. Or Supplement.