Nick Malinowski

If you have a cold and you want it to go away faster, consider taking a zinc lozenge. Aggregating data from three randomized placebo-controlled trials, it seems lozenges cut down the time people are sick by ~40%. By day 5, 70% were cured with lozenges versus 27% with placebo.

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