There is no cure for the common cold, no magic elixir that will make all of your symptoms go away. However, over human’s many millennia of battling the cold, we have found little tricks that can help fight it. According to new systematic review published in The Cochrane Library, we have found a new trick that could provide huge benefits. A way to significantly reduce severity and duration of the common cold is to take Zinc supplements.

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Closer to the Cure for the Common Cold

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