Zinc works by physically coating your throat to prevent infection, it’s not a nutrient in this case. You need much more than you think to achieve the effect, the brand I use barely fits in my tiny mouth.
Huh? I’m trying to picture what that would look like and I’m imagining a jawbreaker candy. That’s not that what you mean, is it?
And why would the size matter if the goal is to coat your throat? A larger size would mean more contact with your mouth, but not your throat.
I think she’s taking the Life Extension ones, I saw those mentioned on a page linked from SSC in the early part of the pandemic and ordered a bunch (mostly because they were all out-of-stock at the time then suddenly a few months later I received several packages, whoops).
But yeah they’re about the size of a jawbreaker but cylindrical and you suck on them instead of chewing and you don’t eat or drink for 15 minutes after if you’re using them as directed. My mouth does feel very coated when it’s done and tastes kind of bitter for awhile.
On the LE bottle it tells you to not take them for more than three days straight and to take them with copper (because zinc depletes copper over time).
I’m reading “coat” to mean “water with dissolved zinc will reach the side of your throat, and then the concentration of the ions does something or another”. A bit iffy on that, tbh. Do any other drugs of atomic ions work like that? It doesn’t exclude it, biochemistry can get weird, but...
Also wouldn’t the constant swallowing and cycling of mucus make any coating wash off?
Huh? I’m trying to picture what that would look like and I’m imagining a jawbreaker candy. That’s not that what you mean, is it?
And why would the size matter if the goal is to coat your throat? A larger size would mean more contact with your mouth, but not your throat.
I think she’s taking the Life Extension ones, I saw those mentioned on a page linked from SSC in the early part of the pandemic and ordered a bunch (mostly because they were all out-of-stock at the time then suddenly a few months later I received several packages, whoops).
But yeah they’re about the size of a jawbreaker but cylindrical and you suck on them instead of chewing and you don’t eat or drink for 15 minutes after if you’re using them as directed. My mouth does feel very coated when it’s done and tastes kind of bitter for awhile.
On the LE bottle it tells you to not take them for more than three days straight and to take them with copper (because zinc depletes copper over time).
I’m assuming you need enough raw physical material to cover your mouth, which means either you either need one big one or multiple small ones.
I’m reading “coat” to mean “water with dissolved zinc will reach the side of your throat, and then the concentration of the ions does something or another”. A bit iffy on that, tbh. Do any other drugs of atomic ions work like that? It doesn’t exclude it, biochemistry can get weird, but...
Also wouldn’t the constant swallowing and cycling of mucus make any coating wash off?
It will wash off over time, but you take several a day.
Wouldn’t it wash off much faster than six hours though?
(I can’t see the starch or cellulose in pill binders mixed with zinc “physically coating” the throat, because solid matter tends to go down it)