Zinc: Protects your lungs

Ideally, you want your immune system to attack and destroy invading viruses without damaging you—and zinc can help. This mineral energizes germ-killing white blood cells, but it also keeps them calm and organized, so they destroy invading germs without releasing a flood of tissue-damaging proteins called cytokines. No wonder Spanish researchers have found that taking 50 mg. of zinc daily for one week can shorten the duration and severity of an illness— even COVID-19— by as much as 42%.