Feeling sick? Are 'zinc supplements' the solution?

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🗓️ 8 January 2025

⏱️ 47 minutes

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Summary

Zinc supplements have been growing in popularity as nutritionist and people online claim it can decrease your chance or getting sick, increase your immune function and even make colds last less long. Is this true? Today we break down the real science of zinc supplements and let you know the best way to stay healthy this winter seaon

STUDYTIME: Do zinc supplements prevent sickness?

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0:00.0	Controversial subjects with the facts can be tense, but we are a subscience here to make things make sense.
0:06.2	Today we are talking about zinc supplements.
0:09.6	It's the winter.
0:10.4	People are getting sick.
0:11.6	A lot of people have been writing in and talking about how zinc, taking zinc every day could be the solution to not getting sick.
0:17.5	So we're going to be talking about the science of what's going on here.
0:20.2	And if this is really the magical,
0:22.8	don't want to use the word magical drug of the winter.
0:26.5	What you learned this week's are?
0:27.9	Oh, yeah.
0:28.7	So mine is about these new CRISPR,
0:31.6	cast nine gene edited tomatoes.
0:33.3	And yours is about the plastic problem.
0:35.1	Is plastic in your house killing you?
0:37.1	Yeah.
0:38.2	Oh, we're back, baby.
0:40.3	Happy New Year.
0:41.3	Happy New Year 2020.
0:42.3	Hi.
0:44.2	2025.
0:45.8	Wow.
0:46.6	That's crazy.
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