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Finally, a cure for the common cold.

oh dear, where to start. my guess is cold-fx is a multi-vitamin that relies on studies that show certain vitamins and minerals have increased the immune system.

anyone remember the mass vitamin craze started i believe by robert cathcart in the 70's or 80's i think who worked on breaking vitamins down to a molecular level? he took massive doses of vitamin C to aid his immune system. zinc maybe another one in this "common cold cure" called cold-fx.

you are not going to get any benefit by having extreme doses of a vitamin or mineral. yes you need adequate intake, but not many many times the RDA. massive doses of vitamin C have not been shown to increase the immune system when compared to the RDA of vitamin C and i'm fairly sure similar studies on other immune system vitamins/minerals have been done. vitamin and minerals are important, but extreme doses are not going to make you super human and some vitamins/minerals do you serious damage in extremely large doses.

i'm speculating of course. but i'm guessing this is what it is by the wording cold-fx uses. it's either that or a placebo sugar pill (or both). either way, they'll likely try to gain credibility with flawed and/or outdated studies.

i'm jumping the gun a bit, but predictions are fun! :) it's not a cure though, thats for sure, you can tell by the wording alone as they talk about immune system protection(which is questionable), not a cure. exercising will improve your immune system, laughter, friends and generally being happy and active. i can feel the fx of cold-fx already.
 
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Ah yes, alas there is no sarcasm smilie.
What makes matters worse, is that a hack old hockey coach who couldn't
tell an amine from a polysaccharide was hired to lobby the top members of
the Canadian govt. to push this nonsense through.
 
Looks like they did scientific testing.
http://www.clinicaltrials.gov/ct/sh...onid=2C6FD9B46F9E947036EC6C31BD5A397D?order=2

The Office of Dietary Supplements Division of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) in the U.S. has selected the COLD-fX clinical trial results published last year in the Canadian Medical Association Journal for inclusion in its Annual Bibliography of Significant Advances in Dietary Supplements Research. An international team of 50 scientific reviewers chose it as one of 25 selections drawn from more than 1,000 papers published in 58 of the world’s leading peer reviewed medical journals. The NIH, one of the world’s foremost medical research centres and an adjunct of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, is considered the steward of medical and behavioral research in the United States.
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http://www.tecedmonton.com/news.cfm?story=52241



At a dose of 400 mg daily (2 X 200 mg), COLD-fX was shown to be safe, well tolerated, and effective. A double-blind, placebo controlled study of COLD-fX in an immunocompetent community dwelling of adults aged 65 years or older demonstrated a statistically significant improvement in maintaining a healthy immune system after 4 months of treatment at 400mg (2 X 200mg) daily.
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http://www.cold-fxusa.com/?q=healthprofessionals/21

It also seems to have potential for cancer treatment. Interesting. They don't claim it is a cure however, so the topic title is misleading.
 
Alan Heap said:
anyone remember the mass vitamin craze started i believe by robert cathcart in the 70's or 80's i think who worked on breaking vitamins down to a molecular level? he took massive doses of vitamin C to aid his immune system. zinc maybe another one in this "common cold cure" called cold-fx.
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Linus Pauling was the ascorbic acid (Vitamin C) guru. He was a very highly respected biochemist, and he later went on to investigate the effect of ascorbic acid on cancer, which does seem to have some validity (although he later died of prostate cancer). On the common cold, though, Vitamin C doesn't seem to do much.

Pauling might have been a bit of a wide-eyed crusader, but his credentials were impeccable.
 
I have a surefire cure against the commond cold: Every night just at bedtime i drink a mug of hot elderberry juice (homemade) with a good tot of Rhum added. It will make the cold last only 6-7 days otherwise it would have lasted a week... :) :) :)

And it tastes good too ..
 
Isn't the common cold actually a whole range of different diseases?

I thought you got more or less immune to a virus infection when you have recovered, at least for a while. And since there seems to be no minimum time between bouts of the common cold in some people (me), the assumption to make is that they are caused by different (types of) virus.

And THAT would be the real reason for the missing cure/vaccine. Well, coupled with the relative minor health effects, so why bother.

Mosquito - (cough)
 
Ove said:
I have a surefire cure against the commond cold: Every night just at bedtime i drink a mug of hot elderberry juice (homemade) with a good tot of Rhum added. It will make the cold last only 6-7 days otherwise it would have lasted a week... :) :) :)

And it tastes good too ..
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I have got a similar receipe (whiskey is one of the ingredients). I t does not cure the cold, but it brings you to a point where you don't care anymore :)
 
Cold FX seems to be some sort of vitamin and Ginseng cocktail. "In the U.S., COLD-fX is classified as a "dietary supplement" that helps to boost a person's immune system. It has not been approved by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration as a cold remedy." Since I live in an area where winter colds are common and really annoying I hope there are further studies to prove this stuff works, but I'm unconvinced.
 
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When I was in North America visiting family in 2005 my niece had a bad cold so my brother gave us all Cold-fx to take. I started taking it as directed, went to TAM4 (not 5), and still came down with a pretty bad cold. Make of that what you will. Maybe it was Randi's negative energy affecting the Cold-fx. :)
 
TriangleMan said:
I started taking it as directed, went to TAM4 (not 5), and still came down with a pretty bad cold. Make of that what you will. Maybe it was Randi's negative energy affecting the Cold-fx. :)
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Ah, but don't you see, TM? Your cold would have been 10 times worse if you hadn't taken it! :)
 
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Big Al said:
Linus Pauling was the ascorbic acid (Vitamin C) guru. He was a very highly respected biochemist, and he later went on to investigate the effect of ascorbic acid on cancer, which does seem to have some validity (although he later died of prostate cancer). On the common cold, though, Vitamin C doesn't seem to do much.

Pauling might have been a bit of a wide-eyed crusader, but his credentials were impeccable.
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i think it was him, perhaps it was someone else, i remember one extravagant professor who did this kind of research proclaiming high levels of vitamin C make you close to immune from disease. yes, he wasn't an idiot, he's considered with the greats like einstein, didn't mean to make out he was another quack, it was in his later years he started proclaiming the positive effects of high doses of vitamin C, which in my opinion is ridiculous.

the problem with vitamin studies is that theres always one study contradicting another, so it's difficult to tell if they are genuine. i could easily find studies showing the negative effects of vitamin C. some examples can be found on http://skepdic.com/vitacon like vitamin C worsens hardening of the arteries.

of course cold-fx might be more than vitamins and minerals, it was just a wild guess judged by the description on their site and in that link, which gives no specifics about what it is. "Take daily for prevention or at the first sign of cold or flu symptoms"...

http://skepdic.com/vitacon#15
 
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