{"id":50432,"date":"2021-11-03T08:09:22","date_gmt":"2021-11-03T12:09:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=50432"},"modified":"2022-01-05T22:48:31","modified_gmt":"2022-01-06T03:48:31","slug":"study-supports-using-zinc-for-colds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/study-supports-using-zinc-for-colds\/","title":{"rendered":"Study Supports Using Zinc For Colds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>From Newsmax:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Many people pop a zinc supplement at the first sign of a cold, and there&#8217;s new evidence supporting the habit.<\/p>\n<p>Australian researchers found that the supplements appear to help shorten respiratory tract infections, such as colds, flu, sinusitis, and pneumonia.\u00a0Many over-the-counter cold and cough remedies offer only &#8220;marginal benefits,&#8221; the researchers noted, making &#8220;zinc a viable &#8216;natural&#8217; alternative for the self-management of non-specific [respiratory tract infections].&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"gsp_post_data\" \r\n\t            data-post_type=\"post\" \r\n\t            data-cat=\"health\" \r\n\t            data-modified=\"120\"\r\n\t            data-created=\"1635926962\"\r\n\t            data-title=\"Study Supports Using Zinc For Colds\" \r\n\t            data-home=\"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\"><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Newsmax: Many people pop a zinc supplement at the first sign of a cold, and there&#8217;s new evidence supporting.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-50432","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-health","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50432\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}