Good points and yes Quercetin is also a Zinc ionophore and advantageously does not need a prescription.
But HCQ has an edge over other Zinc ionophores that make it more effective. Dr. Zelenko accounted for this performance edge picking up in part from Dr. Didier Raoult, MD, PhD in Marseille, France. This edge is that HCQ blocks the ACE2 receptor which the coronavirus SARS-COV-2 enters the pneumocytes.
HCQ thus has two mechanisms to combat SARS-COV-2:
* pushes Zn into pneumocytes to stop SARS-COV-2 from replicating
* blocks SARS-COV-2 from entry/reentry into pneumocytes
At first, Dr. Raoult was not using Zinc but after he and Dr. Zelenko started communicating directly, Dr. Raoult now uses it.
The reason Dr. Raoult was so successful without Zinc supplementation is because his patients didn’t need it. His initial panel of patients were French and lived in the seacoast region of Marseille. French families drink red wine everyday with meals and red wine is loaded with Zinc. French living around Marseille eat a lot of seafood and seafood is loaded with Zinc especially shellfish.
Adding Zinc sulfate or Zinc picolinate ensures everyone on the regimen has sufficient Zinc in their blood plasma. Otherwise results can be mixed.
RE: At first, Dr. Raoult was not using Zinc but after he and Dr. Zelenko started communicating directly, Dr. Raoult now uses it.
This is good news. Two of the world’s foremost users of HCQ + Azithromycin + Zinc to treat Covid-19 can now exchange notes.
BTW, how did you get this information? Is it reported anywhere at all? A link would be useful. Thanks.
Red wine also has a fair amount of quercetin but, as you mentioned, the HCQ is better. No doubt about that, as we both know, but in the absence of HCQ, quercetin (with zinc) is a good substitute (and WAY better than nothing).