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>>Mostly bullshit. I don't know. I've noticed that if I take zinc pills along with vitamin C pills on the first or second day of the cold I start feeling bette
by felipemnoa 7y ago
>>Mostly bullshit.
I don't know. I've noticed that if I take zinc pills along with vitamin C pills on the first or second day of the cold I start feeling better within two or three days and within a week the cold is almost gone. If I do not then the cold can easily last a couple of weeks.
- fedorareis 7y agoI’ve often thought about this argument. However, you have no way of knowing how long that particular case of the cold would have lasted if you hadn’t taken pills. Plus placebos are an amazing thing.
- l33tman 7y agoIt gets biased because a single positive feeling is enough to get the human mind to think there is a causal connection between the pill and the "cure". There are hundreds of variants of the common cold virus, and you are at any time more or less immune to a subset of them, so many times after you're exposed you just feel ill for half a day. If you pair one of those occurances with your magic pill intake, you'll truly believe the pill caused you to get better, and then you'll keep buying that pill every time you feel a cold coming up for the rest of your life. A real medical study is 10,000-100,000 patients, it's not possible to draw any conclusions from a single human's observation in this regard... but people keep trying, it's due to the nature of the human mind and its analysis of causality :)
- arkades 7y agoI honestly thought you were setting up a joke. “If I take zinc the cold lasts a week, if I don’t...” Colds last a week. That’s normal.
- felipemnoa 7y agoNot in my case. I can suffer for an entire month with a runny nose, cough or sore throat. Of course, this is all anecdotal and it could all just be the placebo effect.