Zicam

[laughs]

And I was like, "You know what? I feel like I'm on the trajectory of not feeling great this week." And then she told me, she was like, "Go to the grocery store right now, pick up the Zicam dissolvable tablets, and pop them every two hours."

So respect but disagree, I would've done gargle saltwater immediately, but you know what it makes me think of? You know how I love Josh Pe- Peck on Instagram?

Yeah.

100%.

[laughs]

But I've been doing these Zicam things, and I feel like it's, it, the claim to fame is it shortens your cold in half.

Like, it makes you get over it faster.

Next up, those supplemental cold and flu remedies people love.

I'd love to hear your thoughts on things like Airborne, Emergen-C, Zicam, zinc.

I know that people swear by them, um, but I know they're not regulated in the same way as OTC meds.

So you, you said it already that many of them, mostly all of them, are not FDA-approved.

Kids won't let you.

And Zicam.

Kids just-

Mm-mm

Just took a couple days.

Then the little Zicam sniff thing.

Uh-huh.

I, I can't t- It's, it's that same shit I think you've said before, Woody, where it's like you take these like little airborne or like vitamin C pills for your cold and you're like, "Wow, it really did shorten it." But it's like, did it or did it just go away? Because colds-

[laughs]

Because when as soon as I start feeling something coming on, I am like Zicam, oregano oil, Airborne, you know, like, I d- el- elderberry.

Like, I just do all-

Right

nasal spray.

Zycan? No, it's Fluctanase, something like that.

Yeah, I take, whenever my throat starts hurting, I take a shot of apple cider vinegar.

Natural.

Marks.

I am often hesitant to recommend anything other than a very straightforward saline nose spray because of the issue that they had, I don't know, 10, 15, 20, I don't even remember how many years ago, With the Zycam nose swabs where people were doing, it was zinc, which does have maybe not amazing evidence, but maybe more than no evidence that zinc lozenges at least could have, or maybe it was some kind of oral zinc, could be protective against URI.

Symptoms are short in the duration.

So they had an intranasal preparation that they were selling for a while, but then they found that it caused irreversible anosmia.