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https://www.theepochtimes.com/how-to-improve-zinc-uptake-with-quercetin_4182445.html?utm_source=healthnoe&utm_campaign=health-2021-12-30&utm_medium=emailVery important and informative article. As a pulmonologist who cared for hundreds of endstage lung patients, I began to use zinc as a treatment for acute viral respiratory infections 35 years ago with great success….if the patient follows instructions. When your life depends on it, they do follow instructions quite well. You must start early within hours of the onset of symptoms, and you must take a sufficient dose.
I arrived at a dose of 200 mg of zinc gluconate by trial and error that must be take with food over 4-6 hour if possible. Often one round of zinc is all that is needed, although they could take a second day of zinc if needed.
They often are better in in 6-8 hours as hard to believe as that sounds, but I do precisely the same thing and shake my head in amazement.
One word of caution in the proposed protocol in this article. There are numerous gut zinc transporters, but they are quickly turned off in 24 hours if there is an excess of zinc in the gut. The adult male needs about 11mg of Zn per day. This has been well documented in piglet studies and in a cohort of ileostomy patients where the gut mucosa can be readily biopsied. Therefore, I recommend that the supplements be taken every other day (such as the recommendation for iron for the same reasons) to prevent the Zn transporters from being downregulated. Then if there is a respiratory infection, such as a coronavirus, the high dose zinc is effective as the body can be “tricked” into a higher absorption for 24-36 hours.
If through increased blood levels by absorption or positive zinc ionophores,, increasing the intracellular level of zinc will stop the replication coronavirus.
In fact, zinc has been shown to stop the replication of EVERY VIRUS KNOWN TO MAN in vitro. It is enough to make a reasonable person angry that there is virtually NO money being spent on trying to research drugs that are positive zinc ionophores
that could be used to make ALL virus illnesses a thing of the past. But, zinc is cheap and cannot be commercialized. NK Imes MD