tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8839412.post1271024946860287549..comments2024-03-19T07:48:54.021-06:00Comments on Gus Van Horn: Three Good ProductsGus Van Hornhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05126749051688217781noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8839412.post-41844288792187324532008-05-02T08:08:00.000-06:002008-05-02T08:08:00.000-06:00Yes, and especially if you look at how conformist ...Yes, and especially if you look at how conformist the "Second Life" world really is. <BR/><BR/>What? Every Tom, Dick, and Harry is buff and has tatoos? Everybody dresses like a teenager?<BR/><BR/>That would suck even as a first "life"!Gus Van Hornhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05126749051688217781noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8839412.post-47911264684922871022008-04-26T20:06:00.000-06:002008-04-26T20:06:00.000-06:00I know this was a post last week, but that First L...I know this was a post last week, but that First Life parody is hilarious! I may need to send it to a few people.Lynnehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12178771612031280593noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8839412.post-79679401123047423352008-04-24T12:02:00.000-06:002008-04-24T12:02:00.000-06:00I've used those before, and it seemed to help, but...I've used those before, and it seemed to help, but the problem you mention, plus the fact that I never seem to remember them until after I've recovered has kept them out of my medicine cabinet.<BR/><BR/>Of course, now that you've reminded me, I'll take it down....Gus Van Hornhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05126749051688217781noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8839412.post-17890089130691622182008-04-23T19:56:00.000-06:002008-04-23T19:56:00.000-06:00Regarding colds, I use Cold-Eeze. It hits the vi...Regarding colds, I use Cold-Eeze. It hits the virus directly, mitigating colds and even knocking them out completely if you use it early enough.<BR/><BR/>Unfortunately, that's the rub; I remember seeing a graph of "virus load" versus symptom onset for colds, and unfortunately, the virus count is already starting to drop by 24 hours of the first onset of symptoms. That means that once you're starting to sniffle, it's too late. To make best use of Cold-Eeze, you have to be "in tune" with your body and recognize those earliest symptoms for the virus clobber to be useful... often that's a matter of hours.<BR/><BR/>It also doesn't help as well with colds that get started in the throat, probably because of how it works (free radical zinc ions released into your breath and circulate into your nose).<BR/><BR/>Until I started using this stuff, my average cold from onset to the last sniffle was about 8 to 10 days (and getting longer with age). Now, unless I miss the window of opportunity -- or it isn't a cold -- I either don't get the cold at all, or it runs its course in 4 days.<BR/><BR/>Now coughs, on the other hand, I have never found anything that works. At all. My coughs consist almost entirely of "tickles" at the top of the airway,and that's probably why: I'd have to breathe the stuff in to actually "hit" the problem.<BR/><BR/>I have even tried "Buckely's Mixture" -- a concoction that markets itself on how bad it tastes -- and I only stopped coughing for five minutes... probably due mainly to briefly being shocked by how bad it <I>did</I> taste.<BR/><BR/>I'll have to try those cough drops you mention.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com