At the shops today, so thought I'd take a look at all of the "immune" supplements in the nonsense aisle They are all so ridiculous, it's amazing
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Another one which adds a couple of vitamins and some echinacea. Again, can't see how this "supports the immune system to fight illness" unless you've got a vitamin D deficiencypic.twitter.com/5anS8Qtayq
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Hello immunity! Or, in this case, zinc and vitamin C, but rebranded as a miracle cure of some kindpic.twitter.com/WYh38t99fz
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An immune probiotic! And based on scientific evidence (which, from a scan, looks pretty equivocal)pic.twitter.com/wQrdIthyMM
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An assortment of more things. It all melds into one giant nonsense eventually I thinkpic.twitter.com/62qkhf6hG3
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One thing I was struck by tho was just how similar most of these products were. They were almost all just vitamin C+D and zinc, +/- some herb, repackaged as an immune formula and sold for twice as much
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Honestly, seems to me that you could get the exact same stuff as most of these pills by buying the cheapest multivitamin on the shelf, so if you're going to get anything that's what I'd recommend
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Also, I'm very much in favour of putting exactly what the studies showed on all of these ridiculous products, because saying "may reduce cold symptoms in 6-11 yos by 5%" is much less compelling than "immune support"
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For Zinc Gluconate it needs to be in lozenge form and min dose of 13.3mg every 2hrs, so wrong format and dose to be effective. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9612589/#:~:text=Synthesis%3A%20Fair%20evidence%20suggests%20that,and%20severity%20of%20the%20cold ….
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