There's only one thing that boosts your immune system - vaccines! Everything else is basically bunk (especially echinacea)https://twitter.com/CaulfieldTim/status/1231969078073417728 …
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Replying to @GidMK
Well I'll keep using things that have worked very well in the past (e.g. H1N1 swine flu pandemic) and you wait for the vaccine and hope it reaches you before COVID-19 does, including that extra time-lag for it to work and give you immunity. Or will any old vaccine do?
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Replying to @PreKureOfficial
What things have worked very well in the past?
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Replying to @GidMK
Here are some intervention trials for selenium https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4288282/ … Here is a Cochrane review of retinol for measles. https://www.cochrane.org/CD001479/ARI_vitamin-a-for-measles-in-children … and zinc for common cold (often a coronavirus) https://www.cochranelibrary.com/cdsr/doi/10.1002/14651858.CD012808/full …
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Replying to @PreKureOfficial @GidMK
Also this study of sambucus (elderberry extract) in influenza. All 4 members of my family caught swine flu in the global pandemic - the 2 who received sambucus within the first 48 hours only had mild symptoms and were well able to care for the other 2.https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/9395631
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Replying to @puddleg @PreKureOfficial
In a similar vein, no one I know caught swine flu and we all regularly avoid elderberry extract. Maybe the extract causes immune deficiency and thus swine flu infections!
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Replying to @GidMK @PreKureOfficial
You're not even thinking. We took the extract after infection. If you had caught the swine flu, you would have been sick. But how sick? Try to be logical.
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I mean, I actually showed you scientific evidence that was relevant, and there's more where that came from. Is it more important to poo-poo the "other", or to work out what might help here IN THE NOTABLE ABSENCE OF A VACCINE?
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Replying to @puddleg @PreKureOfficial
I mean, you showed me a tiny study published in 1995 with awful statistical analysis and a very high risk of bias, then coupled it with a personal anecdote about elderberry supplements I never said there was a vaccine, I just said "boosting immunity" was mostly nonsense
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Replying to @GidMK @PreKureOfficial
But if you were really interested, you would have read every related study in the PubMed sidebar. It's not my job to feed you evidence - you're a Health Nerd.
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Lol what absolute nonsense. I've read quite a bit of the recent literature, but chasing down every tiny terrible study done decades ago is a pointless pursuit
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