Guest Post by Mr. JM
For those interested in health, here’s a couple of interesting bits that came from the science world. Both of these came to my attention because they worked on everything they could try them on.
The CSIRO is an Australian research Centre, Government run. Although more recently it seems to have become politicised, for decades it did independent science in a variety of fields. I was listening to a radio program interviewing the retired head of CSIRO and they asked something like ‘what is the thing you thought might change the world that didn’t’ and he said zinc sulphate.
They’d been looking, back in the 50’s or early 60’s, for a way to deal with virus problems. What they found after extensive testing was that zinc sulphate, (chelated) at around 50mcg per day, would prevent a virus from co-opting the cell factories to reproduce itself. They weren’t sure why it worked, but it stopped the virus cold. It would invade, sit around for a bit, then die out.
Take 75 – 100 mcg per day for 3 weeks, then back to 25mcg once a day or 3 – 4 times per week.
Colds and flu were never major problems for me but I used to get 2-4 per year; now I get none. Or rather, the only time I get them is when I stop taking the zinc regularly.
It isn’t a matter of luck or anything – when there’s a flu going around I will get that raw patch feeling in my throat – for maybe a few hours – but it goes no further than that.
A couple of years back, one of the pharmaceuticals came out with a cold and flu remedy that claims to do exactly what the old guy claimed for zinc – they want something like $12 each for it. $12 will buy two containers of 100 zinc sulphate pills, each 25mcg of zinc, enough for at least six months protection.