No matter what your approach to health is, everyone is paying attention to the various prevention and treatment options for COVID-19 being reported in the media. You may have noticed recently that zinc is being mentioned by both the pharmaceutical and natural medicine-based communities. There are COVID-19 treatment and preventionprotocols using zinc with hydroxychloroquine or quercetin, as the latter helpsthe zinc get inside the infected cells to destroy the virus. Study results note the decreased need for ventilation, decreased admission to the ICU, and decreased mortality. In addition, zinc itself is one of many dietary supplements recommended to boost your immune system, whose key function is to destroy viruses or bacteria during an acute infection.

Are you familiar with how zinc functions as part of your immune system? Are you prepared to evaluate whether you and your healthcare team might want to consider zinc as part of your personal COVID-19 prevention and/or treatment program? Now might be a good time to expand your zinc education.

Issue: Understanding the role of zinc in relation to COVID-19

AHHA strives to maintain a neutral position on issues and viewsknowledge as power. For those interested in this month’s issue and wanting to learn more about this topic, the articles cited below were selected to offer you some resources to begin your research on what might impact you and your loved ones.

Zinc-hydroxychloroquine found effective in some COVID-19 patients: study (5/11/20)
France24

Hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin plus zinc vs hydroxychloroquine and azithromycin alone: outcomes in hospitalized COVID-19 patients (5/8/20)
by Philip Carlucci, Tania Ahuja, Christopher M Petrilli, Harish Rajagopalan, Simon Jones, and Joseph Rahimian
medRxiv

Chloroquine, Zinc Tested to Block COVID Infection (4/9/20)
by Karen Weintraub
WebMD

People, Nature, and Data (4/7/20)
by Peter D’Adamo

Does Zinc protect you from Covid-19 or boost immune system? (3/31/20)
Drugs.com

Potential Role of Zinc Supplementation in Prophylaxis and Treatment of COVID-19 (5/25/20)
by Amit Kumar, Yuichi Kubota, Mikhail Chernov, and Hidetoshi Kasuya
National Center for Biotechnology Information, U.S. National Library of Medicine

Covid 411 (4/17/20)
Alliance for Natural Health USA

The 15 Best Supplements to Boost Your Immune System Right Now (5/8/20)
by Jillian Kubala, MS, RD
healthline

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