Drake,
Be careful of disparaging statements, trade disparagement is a mean legal tool. Cold-Eeze does work. There is no doubt about it.
How the individual uses it is the determinant of efficacy, not the product.
Pretend you go to the doctor and he says you have a certain bacterial infection and that you need a certain antibiotic. OK. You go home and pop an antibiotic and go back to doing what you were doing. You don't feel better on the first one, and you say, It didn't work".
That is the trouble with the zinc lozenge business, people try one or two and decide that it didn't work and stop taking them and simply suffer their cold when they haven't a clue as to why "it didn't work".
There are zinc lozenge products that are extremely effective in terminating colds. I have a list of them on my website and Cold Eeze is listed. I have been fussed at for giving out my website on this forum, so I won't. Believe me Cold-Eeze does work when taken as instructed.
Now, having said that, the opposite is also true. Taking two Cold-Eeze lozenges at a time DOUBLES their strength, and colds go away quicker. I have been known to have 2 in my mouth at a time and keep them there in each cheek 2 after 2 all day long. Next morning no cold. It is just a matter of usage. Hit it hard at the first sign of a cold. It is a war! and the enemy replicates 100-fold every 2 hours (thus my recommendation for treating with Zinc ion releasing lozenges every 2 hours or more often. People usually don't know they have a cold until there are over a trillion viruses.
One major problem that Quigley, my other licensees, I, and the public share together is the rip-off companies that market throat lozenges with zinc gluconate with citric acid as a flavor mask, or zinc citrate or combinations. These lozenges make colds worse and last longer because they release negatively charged citrate species of zinc at physiologic pH. This is explained in detail in my 1994 100+ page book on my website. Those negatively charged species react to neutralize the electric charge of native mast cell granule derived zinc ions (4 to 20 mmol) released during inflammation of the respiratory tract.
What does that mean? (1) Those non-patented products are dose-dependent immunosuppresants, (2) their ineffectiveness damages the reputation of Cold-Eeze and other zinc lozenges that do release effective zinc ions, (3) the damage to reputation drives stock prices down, (4) the public can not find out about these differences by any reasonable means short of trying zinc lozenges, (5) the reputations of stores selling zinc lozenges that worsen colds is damaged, and (6) the buyers for the major chains are looking at nothing but the price -- certainly not the liability that goes with selling immunosuppresant zinc citrate lozenges to AIDS patients - known for their inability to mount effective respiratory tract immune reactions (ie) fight off colds, flu and pneumonia, and death.
How would you like it if you bought one brand of aspirin and it worsened your head ache? I would be irritated -- to say the least!
This is a major public relations problem that needs to be addressed in a national forum. I have spent many thousands of dollars trying to get the public's ear, but to no avail. It is kind of like pissing up-wind. It just doesn't work very well. Quigley releases press releases, but the bad PR from the latest study on Quigley children's zinc lozenge -- definitely not the standard Cold Eeze lozenge, but a weak watered down non commercial research product -- just didn't help.
The National Institute of Health put on a "Zinc Workshop" a few months ago and deliberately did not invite the world's 4 top experts in zinc biochemistry, apparently to deliberately put on a 3rd or 4th rate show. The news networks had a field day. I was there defending zinc lozenges, and the presenter on zinc lozenges for colds (a military doctor) actually did a very balanced report saying that there was no bias and that the reports of zinc lozenge products that worked well should not be compared with the negative reports because there was something "wrong" with the papers or lozenge products showing negative results.
It seemed like the NIH was worried that the zinc lozenge thing is going to harm health. They are right -- if we can not find a way to get the truth out about zinc lozenges that release negatively charged citrate species of zinc.
If the NIH had the real facts, they would rename themselves to the NIZIIH (National Institute of Zinc Ion Induced Health) ;o) ! The speakers were all very good. I was not a speaker, but I injected appropriate comments that sometimes reflected their lack of knowledge on key issues.
A PhD from Colorado, one of the workshop chairmen, said some stuff that was a total fabrication and an absolute distortion of reality. Of course I had been bugging him for 2 days, so when I raised my hand to be recognized, the bum pointed his finger at me and said, "I know what you are going to say and I will not recognize you!" The audience roared! Why would the NIH put up with such an idiot. Beats me. Sorry for bending your ear for so long, but the bull sht has got to stop. |
