http://www.independent.co.uk/news/s...covery-in-a-cambridge-laboratory-2122607.html
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Cambridge: A cure for the common cold may finally be achieved
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Science. It's awesome.
All Seeing Eye
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There are already cures for the common cold. I caught the cold the other day and by the next day I'd destroyed it before allowing it to get a foothold.
I achieved it by taking several things:
Turmeric Powder.
Garlic Granules.
An Apple.
A Glass of Apple/Strawberry & Cranberry juice.
Extra Strength Oil of Oregano in a capsule.
Echinacea Capsules.
Multivitamin Tablet.
Organic Virgin Coconut Oil.
A Strepsil.
Just take all that when you feel a cold coming on and it's killed instantly.
I achieved it by taking several things:
Turmeric Powder.
Garlic Granules.
An Apple.
A Glass of Apple/Strawberry & Cranberry juice.
Extra Strength Oil of Oregano in a capsule.
Echinacea Capsules.
Multivitamin Tablet.
Organic Virgin Coconut Oil.
A Strepsil.
Just take all that when you feel a cold coming on and it's killed instantly.
Anecdotes are not science. It could be that you had a mild enough case that it would've gone away on its own even if you hadn't taken those things. It could be that your belief that those things would work had a placebo effect and made you convince yourself you felt better. That's why science requires replication of the results in order to rule out alternative explanations. If "curing" the common cold were as easy as you claim, it would've been cured centuries ago.
My physical education teacher reckoned that the best cure for a cold was a 5-mile run to sweat it out. Unfortunately, he may have been correct.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-11664660
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-11664660
All Seeing Eye
Admiral
My suggestion to you would be that next time you feel the cold coming on take my remedy. Obviously you will consider it perhaps a fluke that it worked for you so I suggest trying it for 5 different times when you feel a cold coming on and then let me know your results.
My wife has had severe cold the last few days and still has it really bad, she's sneezing everywhere and breaths on me all night in bed. I caught what she caught, soon as I felt the cold coming on it got progressively worse each hour, I took the remedy and went to bed, by morning the symptoms had begun to reverse. I took another dose of my remedy and the symptoms completely went not long after.
The cold didn't stand a chance.
I've often used echinacea, chicken soup, vitamin C, or whatever to alleviate the symptoms of a cold, but alleviating symptoms isn't the same as curing the illness. And one person's experience on five occasions isn't a valid scientific sample. It doesn't let you rule out explanations that are specific to that person, such as a naturally robust immune system or an abnormal susceptibility to the placebo effect. You need a much larger sample of test subjects. And you need measurable, verifiable data, not just anecdotal, subjective descriptions of how a person feels.
Why didn't your wife use your remedy so she could be cured before you ever caught the cold?
All Seeing Eye
Admiral
because she's rather maungy when it comes to eating or taking tablets. I cannot even persuade her to take a Strepsil or an apple. I mean who the heck refuses an apple or a strepsil? She really is silly sometimes.
Also whenever she sees me take a teaspoon full of Garlic granules or Turmeric powder she pulls a face at me as if to say "how the hell are you able to do that".
"2 to 5 colds a year"? Really? I find myself questioning that statistic in that article...if I get 2 in a year, that's a lot for me. I only get 1 a year most years. Not sure if I've ever gone a year without one...don't THINK so, but those numbers seem high. Or maybe I just have a very strong immune system. I mean, I don't mean to be gross, but I am NOT always the biggest hand-sanitizer freak that I could be, so I'm sure I get exposed to stuff.
Just because you felt better doesn't mean you killed the disease.
I know plenty of people who gets multiples colds a year.
Hell, I get a cold anytime the seasons change. But I have never had a serious cold. At worst, I have a runny nose.
All Seeing Eye
Admiral
I heard it's death screams whilst I was laying in bed.
How about we get back to the original topic? That's much more interesting.
The article cited, as well as others I've seen about this discovery seem to adopt a similar focus as this one--namely that a cure for the cold has been found. Well, not really. What was discovered is a previously-unknown facet of the immune system. Until now, it was thought that once a virus invades a cell, the only defense against it was for T-cells to identify the infected cell and kill it. These researchers have determined that antibodies can actually mediate the destruction of the virus even after the virus invades the cell. That's a much bigger deal because it opens up a whole new way to fight viruses. Scientists may be able to exploit this knowledge to develop entirely new approaches to fighting viral diseases. The common cold is one of those, but I don't see that as very important. Sure, the common cold makes a lot of people miserable for a few days, but that's about it. It isn't life threatening nor does it do the kind of damage that so many other viruses do.
The article cited, as well as others I've seen about this discovery seem to adopt a similar focus as this one--namely that a cure for the cold has been found. Well, not really. What was discovered is a previously-unknown facet of the immune system. Until now, it was thought that once a virus invades a cell, the only defense against it was for T-cells to identify the infected cell and kill it. These researchers have determined that antibodies can actually mediate the destruction of the virus even after the virus invades the cell. That's a much bigger deal because it opens up a whole new way to fight viruses. Scientists may be able to exploit this knowledge to develop entirely new approaches to fighting viral diseases. The common cold is one of those, but I don't see that as very important. Sure, the common cold makes a lot of people miserable for a few days, but that's about it. It isn't life threatening nor does it do the kind of damage that so many other viruses do.
Yeah, but it makes for a great headline
Thanks for steering this thread back on topic, btw
I can say for two straight years I exercised every single day. For a year along I was:
Starting off with ten minutes of fairly intense weight lifting.
One to three hours on a stationary exerxise bike, at a quick speed, then running 6 to 8 miles a day (I varied as my days needed, or to shake things up).
Followed by water, vitamins. I never got sick in two years. Three months after I stopped exercising, I got sick. Make of that what you will.
The ancient people of the Lower-Middle Class have already developed a cure for the dreaded common cold. You extract the juice of an orange, and place it in a cup. You then- get this- ingest the drink. Next, you acquire broth of chicken and heat it until desirable. Then, you drink this as well. Repeat for two or three days and you'll be fine.
It's just another case of the magical world of pharmaceuticals creating a miracle that is completely unnessecary and will probably spawn a brand new wave of addicts, defective shipments, and the eventual "Watch out if a person tries to buy this, this and this all at the same time" handout for cashiers.
It's just another case of the magical world of pharmaceuticals creating a miracle that is completely unnessecary and will probably spawn a brand new wave of addicts, defective shipments, and the eventual "Watch out if a person tries to buy this, this and this all at the same time" handout for cashiers.
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