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Biotech / Medical : GUMM - Eliminate the Common Cold -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Bo Didley who wrote (3254)	11/13/2000 2:42:13 PM
From: Eric Fader	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 5582

Well put, Bo. When I use Zicam, I almost always find, within a day or so, that my cold symptoms have stopped developing. If I've caught it early enough, it's like Zicam prevents the sore throat and minor stuffiness from progressing into a full-blown (pun intended), drippy and debilitating cold. (By halting the reinfection cycle, it prevents the body's defenses from going haywire trying to fight the virus.) It usually takes about 3 days before I feel like the cold has definitively been knocked out, and one should keep using Zicam for another day or two to ensure that the symptoms don't recur. I don't care whether the virus is still in my body. I don't care whether that particular infection has been "cured." If my symptoms are gone, that's what I've paid for, and I'm not aware of ANY other cold remedy, at any price, that can do that. Furthermore, I think my description of Zicam's efficacy accurately sums up the prevailing view of the GUMM longs, and is consistent both with the clinical study results and what GumTech has claimed in its public statements. Any loudmouthed short seller who claims otherwise is stupid or lying, or both. -Eric

To: Bo Didley who wrote (3254)	11/13/2000 5:28:03 PM
From: Hank	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 5582

You're obviously a little slow Bo, so let me try one more time. In order to claim that anything reduces the duration of the common cold, you have to prove that a person even has the cold to begin with. That's because many things cause cold like symptoms. GUMM has NEVER proven that ANY of it's subjects in it's infamous clinicals were infected with a cold virus (ie rhinovirus). Not simple enough? OK. How about this. Doctor must find bad bug that's making Bo feel bad before Doctor can make bad bug go away.