The first question that comes to my mind is where is the zinc going? Zinc is supposed to put a braking action on the immune system.[1]
Obviously it's not doing that when covid-19 is causing cytokine storms. In hospitals, they're pouring a large amount of zinc into people's bodies. Has anybody figured out where it's going, yet?
Is it leaving the body, via;
- mucus
- saliva
- urine
- sweat
-cerumen
- the liver, as gall out the intestines
Has coronavirus caused the body to dump copper and then reabsorb it, so that the zinc is busy getting rid of free radical copper over and over again, wasting its time?
Could coronavirus be interfering with the zinc transports chemicals, so that the zinc isn't going where it's supposed to, the same mechanism in diabetes type 2 in which the ATP7A molecule is unable to "grab" copper correctly, leaving it loose as free radical copper II?[2]
If we know where the zinc is going, we may be able to redirect it to where it's supposed to be, to fight off coronavirus.
© Deborah Barges, July 2020, reprintable and usable per open access rules.