Can Vitamin C and Zinc Help Cure Colds?

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You’ve probably heard that taking vitamin C or zinc will keep you from getting sick, but it turns out that those popular cure-alls don't actually work.
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@RisqueBisquet 6 лет назад

Hey, if you have a cold, have yourself some lemon and honey tea. It won't get rid of the cold, but now you'll have lemon and honey tea. So that's something.

@Tismitch 6 лет назад

I think lemon and honey tea works because the acidity of the lemon and the antimicrobial action of the honey work together to help prevent opportunistic throat infections after a cold or flu has led to damage to the protective systems there. It also tastes good so that helps too :)

@respberry123 6 лет назад

Nothing you take will "get rid of the cold", but it's still worth taking some over the counter medication and drinking lemon and honey tea to relieve the symptoms and perhaps speed up your recovery.

@acidroofproductions9378 6 лет назад

Tea is awesome for when you have a cold. It's heat is good for opening up clogged sinuses, soothing sore throats and warming the chest, and it's pretty hydrating if you're drinking herbal teas with no caffeine.

@beachluvr177 6 лет назад

Oh yeah honey is amazing stuff but buy local

@ChainsGoldMask 6 лет назад

Wash your hands a couple times a day or as needed. Don’t pick your nose with your bare finger. Keep your fingers out of your eyes and mouth as well. You’ll avoid a lot of bad stuff.

@Master_Therion 6 лет назад

I told my doctor (who has a thick German accent) my plan to use extra vitamins and minerals to prevent colds. He told me to "Zinc again."

@buddhasmurfy 6 лет назад

Master Therion ???

@omnirath 6 лет назад

Ba dum tss...

@aeriumsoft 6 лет назад

people with german accents pronounce th as s or z. so what the doctor said has now a double meaning

@Shloopy420 6 лет назад

Delete your account

@GahMehGrrrr 6 лет назад

Awsomiihill Well done. Lol

@jamesgraff1585 2 года назад

I think you should revisit this. We give zinc, vitamin c, vitamin d, and thiamine for patients with colds and covid-19, and there is growing research for their efficacy.

@yortsemloh1156 2 года назад

I’ve taken zinc and C since 2015 and haven’t been sick once.

@Rocky-de8jh 2 года назад

On the fourth day fighting Covid, I've been taking elderberry, vitamin D, zinc, and 1000mg of vitamin c every day, and I can honestly say my symptoms have been barrable, and I am getting better, not worse.

@vrillion7588 Год назад

What About Protein

@buttmuddbrooks 6 месяцев назад

There absolutely is not. There is zero proof for an acute effect on colds. Zero.

@Khepriem 6 лет назад

I think it's very possible that the reason so many people believe these kinds of things work is simply because they _believe_ they work. The mind has a substantial amount of power over the body.

@DanielSMatthews 6 лет назад

Yes that has been demonstrated to be the case with many drugs that are used against depression, it is called the placebo effect, and should not be a surprise given the intimate and complex relationship between the neurological and immune systems.

@Khepriem 6 лет назад

Exactly, which is why it surprised me when they didn't say anything about the placebo effect.

@Edgewalker001 6 лет назад

Because if they said something about the placebo effect, the stubborn people that refuse to believe the video since it contradicts their own experiences would lose the benefits too? The placebo effect is powerful but it kinda vanishes as soon as you talk about it... =p

@Khepriem 6 лет назад

Haha, true.

@DanielSMatthews 6 лет назад

Actually no, knowing about the placebo effect does not diminish it as some would think, but that spoils your joke doesn't it, sorry.

@Vidar_Odinson 6 лет назад

No. But it feels nice to eat an orange and sniff a chicken soup, while your immune system fends off the ickies.

@Ducky190 6 лет назад

VidarOdinson79 I agree😁

@timchavez552 6 лет назад

Zinc has always worked on me when I take it in the first few days of my symptoms starting. Colds tend to linger in me for days or even weeks. When I treat with zinc, my colds tend to go away in 2 or 3 days.

@scorpy09 6 лет назад

This has been my experience exactly. When I get a sore throat, I use Cold-eeze every few hours for a couple days. I usually get a fever after a few days which I believe confirms I have a cold. I used to have bad cold symptoms (40 years of experience) for 7 to 10 days, now the symptoms are significantly milder and shorter (the last 20 years). I might have a zinc deficiency, but it works for me. Others should not be discouraged from at least trying it a few times. I have not tried the nose product. 500 mg of vitamin C gives me diarrhea.

@jarnohimself 6 месяцев назад

how much mg of zinc do u take? im looking for a form that doesnt make me nauseous in higher doses..

@jarnohimself 6 месяцев назад

how much mg of zinc do u take? im looking for a form that doesnt make me nauseous in higher doses.. @@scorpy09

@MadamFoogie 6 лет назад

Woke up with a cold this morning. You best *BELIEVE* this was the first video I clicked in my subs.

@meganbockelman9050 6 лет назад

I woke up with a cold this morning too! Ugh! It's the worst!

@Scubadog_ 6 лет назад

I bet this was a real mood booster

@MadamFoogie 6 лет назад

Well, at least it got my boyfriend to stop crowing about vitamin C.

@Scubadog_ 6 лет назад

I'm thinking of sharing this, but I might just get more retaliation about how it's all a conspiracy.

@meganbockelman9050 6 лет назад

MadamFoogie same here but with my dad!! 😂😂😂

@BoomBoomBrucey 6 лет назад

I currently have the worst cold of my life, 4th day in so far and it's amazing how quickly I turn to despair. I would do ANYTHING to feel normal again, and never have a cold again.

@Khepriem 6 лет назад

In general, I've found that the golden rule "everything in moderation" stands true for nearly everything under the sun.

@rigille 6 лет назад

I don't think so... should I smoke crack moderately? Murder moderately?

@JeshikaKazeno 6 лет назад

Thus the "nearly".

@naverilllang 4 года назад

@@rigille "moderate" here would be none at all

@louisng114 6 лет назад

Just hibernate through the whole season. It works for me.

@pnp072000 6 лет назад

louisng114 Some people have jobs or school lol.

@louisng114 6 лет назад

Do you know what a joke is?

@jonahwasch4598 5 лет назад

And some people have to pee too

@atallsteve 4 года назад

I wish

@AthAthanasius 6 лет назад

The "stay hydrated" advice could point to a possible reason why so many people swear by drinking orange juice if they have a cold. They think it's the extra vitamin C helping, but it's actually just them being more circumspect about staying hydrated, as a side effect.

@raintrain9921 6 лет назад

Ath Athanasius juice also has a good number of calories, which is helpful if the person can't keep food down. Similar to the vitamin c thing While surplus hydration and food don't cure a cold, Dehydration and malnutrition will sure make it worse

@vkdeen7570 6 лет назад

Ath Athanasius there's probably a stacking effect, the hydration, the nutrition and perhaps a tiny effect from the vitamin c.... together might do a little... certainly shouldn't do any harm

@StaySafeDontDie 6 лет назад

But juice is a diuretic. It makes you pee more. But I do wholeheartedly agree with rain train - definitely the extra calories and such and the liquid food is easier to keep down, generally

@CRDSWORLD 6 лет назад

not true i take vitamin c tablets and my colds only last 3 days tops

@Erowens98 6 лет назад

3 days is withing the normal range.

@EdwinLuciano 6 лет назад

Three ways to prevent colds: 1. wash your hands 2. wash your hands 3. wash your hands

@turn.103 4 года назад

This aged very well

@artistwithouttalent 6 лет назад

Forget about colds, work on cancer. Ajit Pai still exists.

@neznaboh 6 лет назад

Cancer is easy. Dont eat junk

@1503nemanja 6 лет назад

Someone tweet at him and ask him how it feels to be the internet's most hated person.

@atallsteve 4 года назад

@@neznaboh I don't think people take stuff out of the trash can to eat it.

@jokerswildio 4 года назад

I am from the future 2020...trust me colds are going to be a big deal with a new killer virus spreading throughout the world

@King-Star9402 4 года назад

artiswithouttalent • I agreed with you 100% on that topic.

@avagreen9060 6 лет назад

RIP Net Neutrality.

@avagreen9060 6 лет назад

They voted to repeal Net Neutrality in the US

@SimonsDiscoveries 6 лет назад

Thank you for telling us but what does that have to do with the video?

@caincawkwell8092 6 лет назад

Simon's Discoveries he's trying to be relevant because that's what everyone is making jokes about.

@kellys1458 6 лет назад

Dave's comment is very relevant to the video. Net neutrality got sick and died from a cold lack of common sense from Congress.

@Khepriem 6 лет назад

I think it's more about it being on everyone's mind like a tumor on your good nut. Not about jokes.

@johndoe-gn6nk 4 года назад

All the big pharma Vit C studies used 500mg a day dose, the studies were designed to show Vit C was ineffective. Man has to take at least 10,000mg of daily Vit C to have the greatest immunity against any pathogen.

@HisAirnessN1 5 лет назад

But now there are studies that say that vitamin C could indeed reduce the duration of a cold, fever, or anything related to them.

@OfftoShambala 5 лет назад

Yes there are. It does work.

@user-gs3yl5sx4x 3 года назад

This video is sponsered by Pfizer vaccines

@shadowthetwisted 6 лет назад

See, the problem is that most people think the common cold is caused by bacteria, which it is not. A virus is much harder for your body to deal with, mostly because viruses replicate super fast, and are pretty durable.

@ozdergekko 6 лет назад

I wrote my PhD thesis as part of a big project finally aimed to provide basic research results helping the pharmaceutical industry developing a Rhinovirus vaccine. This was from 1981 to 1986. That's over 30 years ago.

@lucasng4712 6 лет назад

Don't think that's a thing

@ozdergekko 6 лет назад

? -- You mean it's not going to happen? That there'll never be a vaccine for the common cold? You may be right. Afaik, a basic research group at said company (and probably others) have been working on it ever since.

@Aereto 6 лет назад

Considering it is 3 decades, your information contributes, but the tangible results of the project has yet to turn up. One thing I do know is that the rhinovirus mutates fast and frequently, and immune system will not adapt that rapidly to stop new cold viruses from causing symptoms.

@ozdergekko 6 лет назад

That's exactly the problem. Also, even at that time over 120 strains categorized in quite a number of serotypes (I don't remember how many) were known. It's probably even more now.

@maythesciencebewithyou 6 лет назад

The only thing that would help, is that everybody who gets sick stays home and doesn't infect others. Eventually the viruses would be eradicated, but somehow someone told us we need to get out of bed and go to work whether sick or not. I could be so easy. A general vaccine against the common cold will never exist with all the hundreds of strains. Good thing that those are viruses which a healthy immune system can handle without problems. But theoretically even a common cold virus could mutate in such a way that it might cause a pandemic.

@killercaos123 6 лет назад

The Middle-Class cure to the common cold: 7up and chicken middle soup. Lol

@Goldenheart_345 6 лет назад

So, do you only eat the middle of the chicken... in liquid form?

@Peng_Pong 6 лет назад

Golden Heart I think so but to be honest, I don't like chicken middle soup.

@MadamFoogie 6 лет назад

I friggin' love chicken middle soup. Radiant Penguin, I'll take your portion if you don't want it.

@Goldenheart_345 6 лет назад

MadamFoogie hot damn, I'd love to try some! Can I have some, too?

@ivavasiljevic3415 6 лет назад

Don't you mean chicken noodle soup? And not middle?

@BryceLovesTech 6 лет назад

You just made the stock price of CVS and Walgreens drop. That's awesome

@Beryllahawk 6 лет назад

Speaking from some experiences as a singer - the zinc wasn't so much to "cure" the cold as to give my body some extra ammo for the fight, though obviously that's also not a scientific approach. Zicam doesn't claim it'll cure colds; they say it'll help shorten duration and make the symptoms less severe while you have a cold - and they stress taking their product within that first 24 hours as being important as well. (Not defending them: but this is why I used that product; no magic claims.) At least some of the perceived effectiveness of these "cures" is due to the placebo effect, it seems. Of course I'm sure plenty of folks would challenge that too! As for the herbal products falsifying information...I'm not sure how anyone can be surprised.

@cathy921ontheradio 6 лет назад

thankfully someone recognises that there is placebo effect from taking supplements

@GonzoTehGreat 5 лет назад

@@cathy921ontheradio If its3 a placebo effect you might aswell save some cash by opting for broccoli, oranges or lemon and honey tea instead.

@heinatavi 6 лет назад

One interesting thing which would have been worth mentioning is that we (Primates) actually have genes to produce Vitamin C, but they are "turned off" and nothing is synthezised.

@34griter 2 года назад

Zinc works. If you take it when you feel a cold coming on, you will fight it off before it takes hold. Not the spray, not the throat lozenge, just a zinc supplement.

@aLime404 6 лет назад

This could be a 10 second video. Does it help colds? “No.” Thanks for watching SciShow hahaha Edit: I should add that I’m glad they are making these videos, it’s sometimes really hard for the average person to do a deep dive on peer reviewed meta analyses and review literature.

@vdbcorten8697 6 лет назад

aLime404 most People like a motivation of the answer

@osimmac 6 лет назад

for many yeah, i glanced at the description and decided i don't need to waste 4 minutes. ez pz.

@aLime404 6 лет назад

I did. What “other facts”? Zinc has no conclusive effect, Vitamin C does nothing unless you’re an ultramarathon runner in a subarctic zone, echinacea does nothing, cold medicine helps symptoms. Truly groundbreaking. I also did mention that I’m happy they made the video, so why don’t you chill with the sass buddy

@aLime404 6 лет назад

Roman Yakunin I don’t know if you could tell from my initial tone, but I already knew these things, and am more than happy that more people now know about them.

@aLime404 6 лет назад

Roman Yakunin it was a joke, have a nice weekend

@zet22x 6 лет назад

I pause the video halfway through, I've done a great deal of scientific experimentation with this vitamin. I have found through the years that the vitamin c does help and have personally experienced and seen its effects. Thumbs down guys.

@AcidKun 2 года назад

Personal experience is not any kind of scientific proof.

@johnfused8281 2 года назад

@@AcidKun It is evidence though.

@AcidKun 2 года назад

@@johnfused8281 Yes you're right, but you shouldn't jump to conclusions based on that alone.

@stepheninczech 5 лет назад

I'm a particularly skeptical individual, but zinc has definitely lessened my cold symptoms if taken early on.

@savedbyjesusblood 4 года назад

Of course it worked. Big pharma doesn't want you spending money on cheap remedies. They want you vaccinated to the eyeballs then you can spend the rest of your life buying pills to treat auto immune disease.

@mermarseo 4 года назад

I've experienced the same thing and it's backed by clinical studies. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3273967/#__sec4title. I wonder who benefits from casting aspersions on natural treatments. Hmm. Could it be... Big pharma?

@Myeonnigot7 5 лет назад

But emergenC always made me feel better the next day

@КостяЛопунов 2 года назад

this guy has two less Nobel prizes than L. Pauling

@brunoyudi9555 Год назад

still none of Pauling prizes were anything related to medicine

@oli2.019 6 лет назад

What I hated most about cold was when I worked as a cassier when I was younger and when my co-workers came in sick and litterally touched every product that people bought. Sometimes people just don't think

@howtubeable 6 лет назад

Paid sick leave helps to keep the flu from spreading. Walmart for example treats every "unplanned" illness as an occurance. Every shift you miss due to flu is a separate occurance or incident. If you miss 5 days of work, that's 5 occurances. And yes, I've seen employees fired because they got the flu and racked up too many occurances. So every flu season, employees come to work and spread the flu to co-workers and customers.

@AtlasMays 6 лет назад

I am currently sitting in bed, coughing my lungs out and taking pride in my deep voice that I get when i get sick. Taking pride in my sickness voice makes it just a little more bearable.

@melissabautz2346 6 лет назад

My deep sick voice sounds like gollum with ebola.

@signesanda 6 лет назад

My best remedy for a cold is to drink rum toddies. For a big cup: Chai spice tea, Juice of half a lemon, A teaspoon of honey and A good swig of a nice rum (note: that is not Captain Morgan). You may adjust the taste to your liking but I like it when it's to the sour side, and you can taste the rum. The lemon help a sore throat, the honey soothes and smoothes and the tea and rum gives you a nice warm fuzzy feeling inside. Enjoy everybody! :)

@SolyomSzava 6 лет назад

My grandma always tells me that colds last only 7 days if you take your medicine, but will last a whole week if you don't.....

@Daniel_WR_Hart 2 года назад

Words of wisdom lol

@Ta3allamOnline 6 лет назад

For the first 3 days, we might need to take "Bees honey". This will boost our natural immunity. :)

@ericbartol 6 лет назад

Best advice... Never touch your mucus membranes after a trip to the grocery store without washing or disinfecting your hands. Also add in, gas pumps, public door handles, and hand rails. Anything unwashed hands have undoubtedly touched. Also, disinfect anything you tend to touch regularly. Be very aware of your hands, what they do and what they touch. Sharing is wonderful, but we can draw a line at germs. :-)

@Albert_Einstein_ 6 лет назад

So I ate raw garlic and lemon for nothing?

@zombieblood1675 6 лет назад

Sorry bud

@dylanbarkhuizen7227 6 лет назад

I know right I bought something I thought was actual cold medicine but after using it for weeks I realised in was literally garlic and herbs in a medical looking tablet, only thing it did is make my piss smell like garlic, switched to actual medicine and my cold got better.

@schwarzerritter5724 6 лет назад

subhan muhammad Well, the garlic keeps people you could get a cold from on distance.

@neurosc7707 4 года назад

U also have to cut out meat cheese bread sugar and processed foods all natural food has healing properties but the standard western diet diminishes the health benifits

@user-gs3yl5sx4x 3 года назад

When u eat garlic, you might fart fire, and burn ur pants

@thenulookatme 6 лет назад

I want to thank you for not (pun intended) snubbing anosmia. It would be neat to learn more about dysosmia parosmia as well as anosmia as both an anosmic and to widen knowledge for all of those interested in biological science. Hearing the term "anosmia" today affected my posture, as it is wonderful to know that there are people who know about this. Happy New Year, Abi

@lazyperfectionist1 6 лет назад

"Nasal decongestants, over-the-counter cough medicine, & antihistamines show little to no benefit when it comes to decreasing cold duration or severity." But in my (admittedly, severely limited) experience, the best thing you can do to mitigate the _severity_ of cold symptoms is just to hydrate. Hydrate like the dickens. Hydrate enough that your urine runs clear. I've been following this rule since 1999 and have yet, in that time, to experience symptoms like these.

@cubalibreball3809 4 года назад

Ok, but I take 50 mg of zinc everyday and I have seen an improvement in immunity and had no negative side effects. Furthermore for men, it’s been proven that a little boost of zinc can increase sperm count. I asked my doctor if what I’m doing is ok, she says it’s great. This is a personal take on it but that’s my experience.

@caterscarrots3407 7 месяцев назад

I remember hearing as a child that extra vitamin C supplementation doesn’t prevent colds or cure colds necessarily, but it does shorten them and make the symptoms less severe. I’ve taken vitamin C while sick before and I didn’t notice any effect except that if I took my cold medicine for symptom relief within minutes of the vitamin C intake, be it from a tablet or a powder drink like EmergenC or just regular old orange juice, I would throw up. Neither one alone would make me have to throw up, but the combination would. So I would have to wait at least an hour between my vitamin C and my cold medicine. But I’ve also heard that vitamin C is more effective for cold shortening in children than adults.

@kellys1458 6 лет назад

I'll keep taking my vitamin C & zinc tablets & washing my hands compulsively at the first sign of sniffles. Even if it is only placebo effect, it keeps me from feeling sick. Mind over nasal matter.

@Aeturnalis 3 года назад

I suspect that having a diet rich in vitamins and minerals doesn't necessarily help you fight off infections, but you'll probably be healthier in general and suffer fewer adverse reactions due to infections. For example, if you're a slob who mostly just eats pork rinds, slim jims, and beer, you're probably way more likely to end up hospitalized by an infection than someone who's fit and eats plenty of fruits and vegetables.

@diceportz7107 5 лет назад

Well, I must be delusional, because I take Mg, Zn, C & D and I rarely have a cold. If I do get one, it doen't last more than a couple of days.

@diceportz7107 4 года назад

@kathy williams Start with 600IU of Vit D3, 400 mg of Mg, 15 mg of Z and 500mg of Vit C twice a day. The first 3 I take in a pill compined with my Calcium and the Vit c is its own pill.

@electronicsNmore 6 лет назад

Luckily I never get colds or the flu, only sinus infections from time to time, and strep throat once in a while.

@t64madness 2 года назад

loool not many people will get this joke only does with higher iq's will see the humor

@SawmillerSmith 6 лет назад

the reason people get colds when it gets cold out it's because the sun is not out as much as in the summer which means you are not making as much vitamin D,which that means you will have lower vitamin D which means you might end up having a cold with less protection from vitamin D

@eshan309 6 лет назад

i caught cold just three days ago. What i did was take steam (pretty old trick). Boil or just heat up some water in some large vessel until steam comes out. Take it down. Grab a towel or something to cover your head and hot vessel and inhale the steam. Within one hour, i had relief. Next day, i was even better, but i still did it one more time. Now, without taking any meds, im absolutely fine.

@benpratt4681 6 лет назад

Saline spray and saltwater gargle at the earliest sign of trouble. Do it every couple of hours for at least a day or two.

@PetrSojnek 6 лет назад

As my grandma says, when you cure a cold, it lasts a week. If you don't, it lasts 7 days :)

@KTSpeedruns 6 лет назад

Short answer: No.

@howtubeable 6 лет назад

Right, but the long answer tells you WHY.

@killtyrant 6 лет назад

So did the "around my anus" meme finally die?

@zombieblood1675 6 лет назад

KillTyrant hope not

@danielbudney7825 6 лет назад

That's completely unlike what I understood about Zinc. I use Zinc lozenges when I have a sinus infection to inhibit the spread of a sore throat into my larynx and chest. Over the last 6 years, I haven't had any post-nasal drip develop into a chest cold, and sore throats are much less severe than before I started using Zinc. I guess that's anecdotal, but I'm not giving lozenges up just because there is so little evidence for Zinc supplements or nasal sprays.

@TizianaPinessi 6 лет назад

How much vitamin c was used in the experiments? 60 milligrams? That's enough to prevent scurvy, but it's not enough to prevent colds. Have experiments ever been conducted in which participants got 1 gram a day or more? I'm convinced that the results would be rather different.

@makeloveforpeace4337 5 лет назад

Good points and where are his references? Plus no one really seemed to pick up on what he said at the end about the quality or lack there of, of the supplement. What brands did they test? Were they whole foods, extraction method or synthetics?

@Pedaissance 5 лет назад

@SDD525 yes vitamin c is water soluble so u piss it out. That doesn't mean it doesn't work. That means your body doesn't retain it for a long period of time. And yes more of it can help you if you have an infection, stupid

@OfftoShambala 5 лет назад

Yes review dr levy and dr Humphries videos

@OfftoShambala 5 лет назад

Pedaissance yes, if you are sick taking something like 1 gram an hour can truly speed up process, but if u just take 2 to 3 grams a day... it can still make a difference... take with each meal is best

@scorgehealer 6 лет назад

waiting til cold and flu season to make this video, smart marketing

@marcinfigiel6570 6 лет назад

Chocolate is my cold placebo.

@rootnon 6 лет назад

The lack of Alex Jones vitamin jokes is criminal.

@A_Balanced_Breakfast 6 лет назад

Yes, and gas makes your car move, but giving your car a 2000 gallon tank doesn't make it go faster.

@mykeprior3436 6 лет назад

if anything....slower? and dangerous? and expensive? Is your car a jumbo jet?

@Pedaissance 5 лет назад

Nonsensical analogy

@youmaycallmeken 6 лет назад

If you drink water to swallow or dissolve supplements or herbal tea, then the added water might be the thing that prevents, shortens or lowers the severity of colds. This would not show up in studies because studies compare results to groups taking placebos which will include the added water to one's diet.

@PyraLithiam 6 лет назад

[throws away rest of Airborne tablets]

@jamesmitchell6925 3 года назад

Furthermore, we need the vitamin C complex, not just ascorbic acid (which usually made from corn starch and sulfuric acid)

@steve00alt70 6 лет назад

We have invented sophisticated computers technology, state of the art surgery but we have no clue on how to cure the common cold? what a time to be alive.

@atari_rx 8 месяцев назад

New update: a meta analysis study from 2020 revealed that zinc can actually help shorten the duration of symptoms and prevent a full on cold if taken within 24 hours of noticing these symptoms. This video was posted in 2017; remember that new studies are always evolving so it's very important to keep yourself updated with primary literature.

@timothyvandewater1295 6 лет назад

If I take about 10,000mg of vitamin C at the onset of a cold in the morning, it's usually gone by the afternoon. If not, I take 5-10,000mg more. Then it's usually gone by the end of the day, if not by the next morning. I have replicated this with my friends and family and it seems to work. I don't take any on a regular basis. I haven't had a cold for longer than a day in many years now. In some cases, I've taken up to 30,000mg of vitamin C in a day to fight off an infection, in which case is usually gone within a 24hr period. So it's worked for me.

@chillsahoy2640 6 лет назад

So sensible advice still applies: to avoid infection, wash your hands often (especially after shaking hands or touching anything in public spaces), stay healthy (balanced diet, moderate exercise) and avoid touching your face. While infected: don't overexert yourself, stay hydrated and use painkillers or decongestants when/if needed to relieve symptoms if you want to feel less crappy even though they won't affect the actual virus itself. To prevent spreading it: cough and sneeze into a tissue, or cough into the crook of your elbow (you use it to touch things and people a whole lot less than your hands), wash your hands often, avoid unnecessary contact with other people.

@TV-ob1if Год назад

All bs. Washing your hands often takes good bacteria off of them. This guy is a joke

@chillsahoy2640 Год назад

@@TV-ob1if Thanks for your scientific advice, Dr T V! Glad to have you as the voice of reason with all the madness going around. Why bother with the scientific method when one can just take good old common sense? That's what's wrong with people nowadays.

@TV-ob1if Год назад

@@chillsahoy2640 scientific method and common sense are polar opposites. 😂. Go to bed. Do better tomorrow

@coffeebreak572 5 лет назад

Flush your system with garlic,ginger,lemon,honey, turmeric,fresh cracked black pepper and ceiyenne pepper... lots of rest Ofcoarse...chicken broth and a lot of water....better than anything in medicine form...I do this when not feeling well and it helps tremendously

@nimistar01 6 лет назад

maybe not for cold, but there's anecdotal evidence high dosage intervenes vitamin C could help with cancer treatment and there was a fairly well covered paper recently suggesting that pairing it with hydrocortisone and thiamine could help prevent death from sepsis.

@Meatwad787 4 года назад

The intro takes me back to getting home from elementary and watching pbs. 👏👏👏👏

@nightbot.2817 6 лет назад

Pepper=sick boi Pepper + honey= happy boi

@cathy921ontheradio 6 лет назад

how does that work?

@CardGamesTV1 4 года назад

Hand sanitizer under my nose quickly reduces and gets rid of my cold when i start getting symptoms. Been doing this for over 2 years now. And i haven't had any severe cold or flu. I also use halls cough drops and drink tropicana orange juice from time to time. And i do drink water with baking soda if i got phlem in my chest.

@iafozzac 6 лет назад

Cognac, honey and lemon juice all mixed together and slowly sipped, that's how you cure colds

@RatzBuddie 6 лет назад

If you've got a cold, eat some soup and have a shot of liquor, then rest and drink water, green tea, or gatorade. Don't forget to shower, you are germy after all

@audreywinter6910 6 лет назад

To avoid colds: wash hands often, don't touch your face (especially any orifices incl. eyes) when hands are not freshly washed. Take long walks in the cold. Avoid people. No public transportation or malls. Don't work anywhere but home. The first point is the most important and meant seriously. ;) To eat healthy strengthens your immune system, but pills from the pharmacy? Nah...

@BTheBlindRef 6 лет назад

If I don't eat food I starve, so clearly I should stuff as much food as possible into my body as fast as possible, and that will work miracles! Seems like sound logic...

@TheZenytram 6 лет назад

ignore it, works for me.

@GenJotsu 6 лет назад

Not sure about colds, but orange juice def helps with maintaining my acne free skin. If I haven't drank orange juice in a few days, they start popping out more often.

@loranddeka 6 лет назад

Whoever develops the vaccine for the common cold with probably win the Nobel Prize.

@Villex93 6 лет назад

So zinc can help to get rid of a cold quicker. I have felt that it might have prevented some colds but even if that were the case it could be placebo. I don't care what helps, as long as it helps.

@caits3272 6 лет назад

Vitamin C does help colds dramatically. Get real.

@mraBJJ33 6 лет назад

At least they mentioned to rest and stay hydrated. Your body will fight off a cold eventually, you just have to be patient, and rest is a must for any type of recovery imo.

@oldasyouromens 6 лет назад

I research a lot into Victorian "invalid cookery", and a lot of the beef teas and wine custards are "well this doesn't help your cold, but it tastes nice and will make you feel better". I hope our progenitors will feel the same way about chicken soup.

@cathy921ontheradio 6 лет назад

what is the deal with chicken soup? I mean it feels nice when you have a cold but its not medicine.

@oldasyouromens 6 лет назад

cathy921ontheradio Exactly. It feels nice. It's warm and easy to digest. That's it. Some people may attribute magical healing properties to it, but I certainly don't. That's the point I was making.

@lordnichard 6 лет назад

Would you please do a video on things that supposedly "settle your stomach"? Some examples would be ginger ale, Sprite, or Pepto-Bismol. Please, reply with anything you have heard will "settle your stomach".

@melissabautz2346 6 лет назад

Then the placebo effect for that won't work for me, therefore I'll have no chance of maintaining my record of ten years since I last regurgitated.

@OfftoShambala 5 лет назад

This guy totally sucks, I am sorry... I am a mom and an expert on stomach aches... bar none, activated charcoal is the all time best... try it yourself ... my kids, my kids friends... everyone I have given it to, says it helps... if you have food poisoning, take it every 15 mins or so

@OfftoShambala 5 лет назад

WaterspoutsOfTheDeep and real ginger is better than ginger ale

@VKSgtSLaughter 6 лет назад

What about black elderberry? I read that it is a natural antiviral and is highly recommended by doctors in Europe. My grandma swore by black elderberry and stayed healthy till the age of 91.

@maythesciencebewithyou 6 лет назад

there is no cure for the common cold. Your grandma had a good immune system and good genes, and probably stayed healthy in other ways.

@fromscratchauntybindy9743 6 лет назад

Alcohol based hand sanitiser - my best friend throughout winter while I'm out in public.

@Fettidadon 2 года назад

Zinc did help with my cold

@Twohomst 6 лет назад

Doesn't the placebo of just thinking it will help reduce the symptoms to a more tolerable level? So no, physically orange juice and nasal sprays don't do anything for your body, but mentally, they may help make the cold seem a little less awful.

@fizito_ 6 лет назад

Publishing this video was a bad idea, as it removes the placebo effect vitamin c has on most people who watch it. way to go pal -.-

@userunaemu 6 лет назад

Placebos are weird. They can still work even if you know you're taking a placebo.

@aLime404 6 лет назад

Alec Belacqua there are much cheaper placebos than vitamin C and Zinc. Any dollar that someone doesn’t spend on pseudoscience is an improvement.

@zombieblood1675 6 лет назад

Alec Belacqua its better to know than not

@kellys1458 6 лет назад

Vitamin C and zinc are pretty darn cheap. I take supplements and rely on my own health as empirical evidence.

@Shloopy420 6 лет назад

aLime404 vitamin C is like $.01 per 250mg... Zinc lozenges can get pricey though if you use them as intended

@valarieknight7990 5 лет назад

If you don't have a solution, then why waste people's time. Get a life.

@diegowelt 2 года назад

Basically, if you add more fuel to a car, it wont make it faster, but without it, the car will not move. You get my point?

@dougjohnson1517 6 лет назад

I swear by Zinc. I take it as soon as I get the first sign of a cold, and I get a much shorter and milder cold. I remember having bad colds that made me miserable for 2 full weeks. Screw that. With zinc I can get through them in 4-7 days. Vitamin C has never done crap for me.

@cathy921ontheradio 6 лет назад

Personally, I found no difference in how long it took for me to get better if i took supplements versus taking nothing. I usually just go to my general doctor though since I sometimes have breathing problems or really bad phlegm congestion ( I have asthmatic bronchitis so :/ )

@dankmemes5248 6 лет назад

Literally just got a cold yesterday 😷 thx for the info guys 😁

@zombieblood1675 6 лет назад

Dank Memes now you dont need to eat raw garlic and lemons

@samanthafreeman4315 6 лет назад

But you're on your own is what the science says.

@planettrump5806 4 года назад

If zinc make colds shorter isn’t it better too take zinc when u have a cold or increase your immune system make sense

@Derekivery 6 лет назад

Did anyone else get a cold medicine commercial before this video?

@lindarichmond3199 4 года назад

I just bought some zinc and high-potency vitamin C because I'm older my immune system has been shot for a long time so I don't know if it will help or not

@mattlm64 5 лет назад

I've been doing research on zinc acetate lozenges and there is quite a lot of convincing research suggesting that well-formulated lozenges do indeed shorten the duration of a cold in adults.

@Great_Olaf5 3 года назад

I mean, at least vitamin c is a water soluble nutrient, so it's difficult to overdose, you can just get rid of whatever you don't use.

@yoyooyoy1301 4 года назад

As for me...it really works. Im taking conzace, it both contains c and z.

@yoyooyoy1301 4 года назад

It slows down the symptoms and speedup the recovery.

@TheBruceKeller 6 лет назад

Tell this to my 76 year old landlord that is running around like a 50 year old and swears by 1gx3 Vitamin C daily. (and fish oil)

@mariejosehaerkens 4 года назад

Are u a bigpharma puppets ? Vit c DOES work saved my life letterally and not just mine

@manguy01 6 лет назад

BUT DIDN'T WE JUST HAVE A SCI SHOW ON HOW STRESS IS A MAJOR CONTRIBUTOR TO RISK OF ILLNESS?

@hotdrippyglass 6 лет назад

I'm OK with placebo. Even if it only makes me THINK I feel better that is preferred to whining to my wife about how close to death I am. She usually just shakes her head and tells me " You have no idea how close to death you are! And if I hear any more sniveling out of you you will be even closer!"

@thomHD 5 лет назад

I started taking about 14mg of zinc daily over 3 years ago and I have not had a cold since. It never would have occurred or made sense to me to have 75mg as a dosage when coming down with a cold like the studies mentioned; surely it's generally about immune health, not a cure for the common cold.