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And yet the zinc conspiracy is not the craziest thing that users has posted regarding COVID.

by inferiorhuman 3y ago

DoreenMichele 3y ago
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- ororroro 3y ago
  Causes of loss of smell include but are not limited to: * Alzheimer’s disease * Brain aneurysm * Brain surgery * Cancer * Chemical exposures to insecticides or solvents * Diabetes * Huntington’s disease * Kallmann’s syndrome * Klinefelter's syndrome * Korsakoff’s psychosis * Malnutrition * Multiple sclerosis * Multiple system atrophy (MSA) * Paget’s disease * Parkinson’s disease * Pick’s disease * Radiation therapy * Rhinoplasty * Schizophrenia * Sjorgren’s syndrome * Traumatic brain injury * Zinc deficiency (why obsess over this one?) Zinc is not used to treat symptoms, the mechanism (observed in a test tube) is that intercellular zinc inhibits RNA virus replication. Zinc supplementation above the RDI is NOT recommended for treatment of covid. Long term excess zinc can cause potentially irreversible neurologic manifestations (i.e., myelopathy, paresthesia, ataxia, spasticity). Source: https://www.covid19treatmentguidelines.nih.gov/therapies/supplements/zinc/ https://www.covid19treatmentguidelines.nih.gov/therapies/sup...
  - DoreenMichele 3y ago
    I have no idea how we get from "x and y are potentially both symptoms of zinc deficiency" to "clearly, this is a dangerous comment that requires warnings against taking excess zinc..." Not that I actually expect anyone to launch a scientific study based on my hn comment, but that is the only actual course of action I suggested.
robocat 3y ago
Actually the problem could be that zinc deficiency causes paranoia, or alternatively perhaps causes conspiracies. However one paper said: This study does not provide a clear answer as to whether the observed differences represent a causal relationship between zinc deficiency and psychiatric symptoms Which could imply that psychiatric symptoms cause zinc deficiency. And clearly a conspiracy already exists to feed zinc supplements to paranoid people: that's why we should support the zinc supplement psychoindustrial complex. This message sponsored by Sanderson and the zinc suppliments consortium.

And yet the zinc conspiracy is not the craziest thing that users has posted regarding COVID.

DoreenMichele 3y ago

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ororroro 3y ago
Causes of loss of smell include but are not limited to: * Alzheimer’s disease * Brain aneurysm * Brain surgery * Cancer * Chemical exposures to insecticides or solvents * Diabetes * Huntington’s disease * Kallmann’s syndrome * Klinefelter's syndrome * Korsakoff’s psychosis * Malnutrition * Multiple sclerosis * Multiple system atrophy (MSA) * Paget’s disease * Parkinson’s disease * Pick’s disease * Radiation therapy * Rhinoplasty * Schizophrenia * Sjorgren’s syndrome * Traumatic brain injury * Zinc deficiency (why obsess over this one?) Zinc is not used to treat symptoms, the mechanism (observed in a test tube) is that intercellular zinc inhibits RNA virus replication. Zinc supplementation above the RDI is NOT recommended for treatment of covid. Long term excess zinc can cause potentially irreversible neurologic manifestations (i.e., myelopathy, paresthesia, ataxia, spasticity). Source: https://www.covid19treatmentguidelines.nih.gov/therapies/supplements/zinc/ https://www.covid19treatmentguidelines.nih.gov/therapies/sup...
- DoreenMichele 3y ago
  I have no idea how we get from "x and y are potentially both symptoms of zinc deficiency" to "clearly, this is a dangerous comment that requires warnings against taking excess zinc..." Not that I actually expect anyone to launch a scientific study based on my hn comment, but that is the only actual course of action I suggested.

robocat 3y ago

Actually the problem could be that zinc deficiency causes paranoia, or alternatively perhaps causes conspiracies. However one paper said: This study does not provide a clear answer as to whether the observed differences represent a causal relationship between zinc deficiency and psychiatric symptoms Which could imply that psychiatric symptoms cause zinc deficiency. And clearly a conspiracy already exists to feed zinc supplements to paranoid people: that's why we should support the zinc supplement psychoindustrial complex. This message sponsored by Sanderson and the zinc suppliments consortium.