Posted on 04/07/2020 4:55:52 AM PDT by Sarcasm Factory
I figure if it could save everyone, we wouldn’t be having all these deaths. But it has seemed to help some.
I think it will be proven eventually it is the Zinc given with the hydroxychloroquine that kills the viral cells.
I agree, if it showed any promise in clinical use it would be ‘the’ goto treatment, but it’s not. I would want to try it if I became positive simply because of the low risk of the side effects.
DITTO...Zinc
Where is the Zinc? AZ has minor antiviral effects, but only minor. It is there merely to prevent opportunistic infections. The HQ does nothing but open a pathway into the cell for zinc and has some minor anti-inflammatory effects. Zinc interferes with the reverse transcriptase enzyme the virus uses to duplicate itself. No Zinc, no real benefit. Zinc does not like to go into cells. HQ lets it go in easily.
Hydroxychloroquine is routinely given to travelers who visit 3rd world countries and no one screams about "potential" hazards when its given out.
Lackey for big pharma.
True that!
I wonder if in a pinch that Tonic Water and Zinc may be enough to bring patients back to health. ??
Yep! Zinc, Zinc, Zinc. When a lot of these people talk about HCQ, they only mention taking it with the Z-Pac. They never mention the main ingredient Zinc. Are they including it in the cocktail?
BINGO!
Boris Johnson who banned its use in the U.K. very well may have taken this drug if he ever travelled to Africa.
I wonder if now he’s reconsidering?
And yet four entries above this one is an article in Nature claiming something pretty different.
In other words, we just do not know, but the media will insist that we do ONLY those things which those well-eddikated journalists tell us we should do.
Uh-oh.
Wonder about the others. Remdesivir, etc.
This seems like a very small, very flawed study, in which very sick people were given less than the recommended regimen, and then failed to miraculously get better.
Is this how they do science?
However, one gin and tonic a day can't hurt...I'm using plymouth navy strength gin + fevertree elderberry tonic water (or tonic water light).
I also have quercetin but not taking that yet.
Many studies confirm a decline of zinc levels with age. Most of these studies do not classify the majority of elderly as zinc deficient, but even marginal zinc deprivation can affect immune function.
Yes, the drug opens the door for zinc to kill the virus.
Using the drugs in elderly without zinc supplements is like using a gun with no bullets.
I consider metformin to be poison and will not take it, at all, for any reason - even against my doctor’s advice.
Did the author intend to portray the medicine as a poison?
Wow, hubby takes Metformin.
Thanks for posting.
A protective role of zinc in cancer has been indicated by some studies. In vitro, zinc has demonstrated efficacy in inducing apoptosis in glioma (3), bladder (4), prostate (5), as well as breast cancer (6) cells.
http://ar.iiarjournals.org/content/35/10/5309.full.pdf
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