Immune
Most cold symptoms come from the host response, not from the virus itself.
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Most cold symptoms come from the host response, not from the virus itself.
This star is on the map because the show intends to take the question apart properly — the trials, how it is actually tested, whether the thing sold is the thing studied. That work is not done yet, and nothing here should be read as a conclusion. When the investigation is published it will appear on this page.
What we are reading
Gathered for the investigation and not yet written up. Each note says what the paper does and does not show.
IN VITRO, human primary monocytes — a methods paper, not a clinical result. Worth having because it pins down what 'trained immunity' actually means physically: β-glucan, BCG and oxidised LDL all leave monocytes responding harder to unrelated bacteria days later, with a switch to glycolysis. Innate immunity having memory at all is the part that overturns the textbook.
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The full citation list for each investigation, the studies that didn't make the episode, and any corrections — sent the morning it publishes.
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