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Is this my imagination or are my zinc levels rising right now? It feels like it.

So we've been talking about hydroxychloroquine and the president taking it. And I've mentioned a number of times that the studies that show it being used without zinc may be as if they're using it as if it matters, too. But if you test it without the zinc, you're testing it without the active part. So of course that doesn't work.

But I'm starting to see some indications — unreliably, I'll put that unreliable part in front and I'll put it on the back as well, unreliably — that it might be the zinc that's the only part that matters. So it might be that hydroxychloroquine was always just a fake-out. It was only the fact that it was paired with the zinc. It might be just the zinc.

So I'm seeing some people talking about that onli

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ne. But again, I will bookend this with unreliable, unreliable. Everything here about therapeutics, vaccines, vitamins, minerals — you just assume every bit of it is unreliable because it is. None of it is reliable. But keep an eye on zinc. I'm going to say that that has caught my attention. All right. This Joe Rogan move to Spotify. I'm trying to decide how big a deal this is. Now obviously it's…

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