{"version": "1.0", "type": "rich", "title": "Occasional reminder that Cold-Eeze was produced by the father of my best friend across the street's company that my dad did...", "author_name": "kontextmaschine", "author_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "provider_name": "kontextmaschine", "provider_url": "https://kontextmaschine.com", "url": "https://kontextmaschine.com/post/641077747965427712/", "html": "<p>Occasional reminder that Cold-Eeze was produced by the father of my best friend across the street&rsquo;s company that my dad did legal stuff for, and as a result I&rsquo;ve read a bunch of Cleveland Clinic studies (before the internet, I had to read whatever was around) and by all impressions it <b>does</b> prophylactically prevent colds and if taken at the initial appearance of symptoms will make them milder</p><p>The discoverer thought it was some woo-woo New Age thing but as far as we could figure zinc ions bind to sites on the mucus membrane that cold viruses would otherwise use to penetrate</p><p>With the caveats that</p><ul><li>Zinc tastes terrible and it was only their patented &ldquo;ZIGG&rdquo; formulation \u2013 zinc gluconate glycine \u2013 that would bind to flavorings but then come loose as ions</li><li>The obvious next step was zinc nasal sprays but those will permanently destroy like 3% of users&rsquo; senses of smell</li></ul>"}