Comments by "" (@TheDavidlloydjones) on "COVID-19 and Zinc" video.

It is undeniable that susceptibility to viral infections is associated with zinc deficiency. It is very highly likely that taking zinc will cut down your chances of suffering from this very large family of infections. I take 50 mg. of zinc gluconate daily. If you're just starting up, a "loading dose" of three or four tablets on your first day may help. There is no doubt that green tea is good for people, on average. I know of no research showing that green tea works by making zinc bioavailable: green tea is full of many and different long organic chemicals; it is badly understood, but it's nearly all good. But the claim of it making zinc work is not supported by research. Washing your hands -- with soap and water, at least up to your wrists, for the time it takes to sing Happy Birthday To You to yourself -- is incredibly beneficial. The people who own the copyright on "Happy birthday to You" have recently been kind enough to stop prosecuting people who don't pay for singing it. Good luck and Seasons' Greeting to everybody here, and your friends and families!
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@toddlavigne6441 The profit margin on supplements, even generics, is typically 42.5% at the retail level, and neither the wholesalers nor the manufacturers are suffering. The fact, here on planet Earth, is that supplements are a multi-billion-dollar industry, and the goods are available everywhere -- and their propagandists have the opportunity to propagandize everywhere, as you have found, silly troll Todd.
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@toddlavigne6441 I'm afraid I don't get your point. Three companies will get vaccine money in America. Have you seen a drug store where there are more than three brands of zinc tablet? To be frank, I don't think you have a point. There certainly isn't one there. I think you are simply indulging in a popular whine without actually knowing any of the relevant facts.
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@Lolipop59 No, I don't. I've only read about it recently and I know nothing about it.
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@rob2957stargazer How many, Robin? And how do you know? is selling vaccines more or less profitable than selling used cars? Should it be more? Or less?
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@toddlavigne6441 I may or may not be charming. You, on the other hand, post fact-free nonsense, just stupid bias that you pull out of thin air. The reason we give temporary patent protection to new inventions is to enable people to earn back the money they spent developing the invention. The intention is to make new stuff just as profitable as the old stuff was.
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@toddlavigne6441 Thank you. I'm not sure that "hundreds of companies" make them, but since they are not patented, anybody very well could.
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Billions to be made out of milk, bread, and green vegetables. The whole land is covered with profit grabbers making these profit laden commodities. Eek, eek, beware, beware. Profit-grubbing milk and bread, meat and vegetable sellers. Sapping the money of the hard-working food-eaters among us. Oh, the horror!
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@momfive8847 You don't think maybe God gave us the mother-wit to invent and produce vaccines? And maybe He sends us a disease from time to time to keep us on our toes?
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@chazwyman8951 Since zinc exists and vaccines don't, that's pretty obvious, innit? Vaccines seem to be in sight. When they become available the two will be complementary.
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No, it doesn't. A reasonable amount of money to be made from huge numbers of very cheap and beneficial vaccines.
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@rja3226 Globalist: a person who thinks that the Earth is round and international cooperation is a good thing. The vaccine companies are very largely globalist in their outlooks, there's no doubt. Your "secret byproduct" notion is a silly paranoid invention and it makes you an ugly troll.
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@ARCTCFOXMAN That's really stupid: you know nothing about vaccines, let alone about their relative merits. So you take to the internet to advertise your personal, and ignorant, bias, making a fool of yourself. Very strange behaviour.
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@ARCTCFOXMAN Google "zinc, green tea, bioavailability." This apparently used to be a popular old wives' tale, so it has been studied. No respectable study supports the notion that green tea helps the absorption of zinc.
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@ARCTCFOXMAN I don't think there's been a significant old wives' tale turned into medicine since foxgloves turned up as digitalis. I am not lazy, did look up the studies including recent ones, and found your claim to be false. Your new and different claim, that green tea may be good for covid, is not the same as the original one, that it made zinc more available. I believe your claim here, "and several explain why drinking green tea makes zinc more bioavailable." to be incorrect. Please point me to three. Forget "several." The rest of your post, on the likelihood of something in green tea being useful, I have no quarrel with. I've always drunk green tea every day, and I think it's quite possibly true. I await evidence for your claim regarding zinc. Best wishes.
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@ARCTCFOXMAN Fine. Why, then, is there no published research supporting your claim that green tea makes zinc more bioavalable? I asked you for three examples of these many you claimed showed that green tea worked by making zinc more bioavailable. You have not done so. The vast majority of the peer-reviewed research out there contradicts your claim -- and filling the columns with distant, unrelated, truths does not change that fact.
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@ARCTCFOXMAN A chain of rumors. You, anonymously, refer to unnamed "studies" in one country which are translations of other unnamed studies elsewhere. Will o' the wisp nonsense.
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Hey, anonymous troll @ARCTCFOXMAN , It's now two days and you haven't come up with a shred of evidence for your claim that green tea improves the bioavailability of zinc. You simply keep trotting out the generally known facts that zinc is prophylactic for viral infections and green tea is Good For You(tm.) Everybody sensible knows these and knew them before you came bullshitting your way in here. They are not your personal Truths. If you have any self-respect at all you will apologize for your stupid insult that I am too lazy to have done my homework, confess that you goofed in trying to resuscitate an incorrect old wives' tale, and tried to bully me and the audience here with a lot of true but irrelevant blather on the side, and then shut up, OK?
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