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There is no escape from this unless you attempt to mitigate all your personal health risk factors (diabetes, obesity, etc).

I will say this because it is not talked about enough, taking zinc LOZENGES will help right when you get sick because it stimulates the ADAM17 enzyme to cleave ACE2 off of the cells to make Soluble ACE2. The virus attaches to Soluble ACE2 and cannot enter the cell.

https://www.mdpi.com/viruses/viruses-12-00491/article_deploy...




Are there studies which back this? Are we sure that reducing virus in solution will improve immune response? Has any study been conducted on the efficacy of zinc supplements when sick with covid?


Studies? Why? Why would a pharmaceutical company study zinc lozenges?

And it’s not to take it when you were sick, if you take it when you were sick it’s already too late. You have to take it at the very beginning of infection. It stops replication in the nasal pharyngeal passages.

Is the evidence? Yes.

https://www.uchealth.org/today/zinc-could-help-diminish-exte...

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8163692/

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S120197122...

https://www.oatext.com/zinc-may-have-a-potential-role-in-tas...


So you all must think I ma some anti-vaxxer with all these downvotes. Well, I am not.

If you are not a mental coward then debate me on the logic and the studies that back this up. The vaccines help, just as much as the flu vaccine does, and even vaccinated people (flu and covid) die from the virus.

Vaccines are great but you need to take some responsibility for yourself.

More studies on Soluble ACE2 and COVID that are constantly ignored:

A novel soluble ACE2 protein protects from lethal SARS-CoV-2 infection https://pesquisa.bvsalud.org/global-literature-on-novel-coro...

Bioengineered angiotensin-converting-enzyme-2: a potential therapeutic option against SARS-CoV-2 infection https://www.nature.com/articles/s41371-021-00636-y

Tumor Necrosis Factor-α Convertase (ADAM17) Mediates Regulated Ectodomain Shedding of the Severe-acute Respiratory Syndrome-Coronavirus (SARS-CoV) Receptor, Angiotensin-converting Enzyme-2 (ACE2) https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S002192582...

AKI in a mouse model of COVID-19: Therapeutic potential of a novel soluble ACE2 variant https://pesquisa.bvsalud.org/global-literature-on-novel-coro...

Killing Two Birds with One Stone by Administration of Soluble ACE2: A Promising Strategy to Treat Both Cardiovascular Diseases and SARS-CoV-2 Infection https://www.mdpi.com/1999-4915/13/11/2243

Potent prophylactic and therapeutic efficacy of recombinant human ACE2-Fc against SARS-CoV-2 infection in vivo https://www.nature.com/articles/s41421-021-00302-0

Soluble ACE2 in SARS-CoV-2 infection https://www.nature.com/articles/s41581-021-00422-6

Zinc supplementation bolsters repurposed antivirals against SARS-CoV-2 https://www.news-medical.net/news/20210202/Zinc-supplementat...

COVID-19: Poor outcomes in patients with zinc deficiency https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S120197122...




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