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Look, if you live in this world, you’re going to catch a cold. That’s part of the trade-off to interacting with people: talking to them, shaking their hands, sharing subway poles with them. Germs will spread. So if your mission is to prevent colds, then your only real answer is to pack your boxes, say good-bye to the family, and move to the woods. If you come in contact with other people, you’re going to spend some time sneezing, coughing, blowing, and sniffling. In fact, most American adults catch two to four colds every year. Just because it’s a fact that you will catch a cold doesn’t mean you have to live with all the consequences. Everybody seems to have their own remedy for what helps cure a cold, but the truth is you can’t really cure a cold; you can only speed up its course. And there have been only three things that have been shown to have a real effect on speeding one up—chicken soup, zinc lozenges, and vitamin C (though we don’t know why they work, research has shown that they do). Take regular doses of any of the three at the moment you start feeling symptoms—that’s 500 milligrams of vitamin C four times each day with plenty of water immediately at the start of cold symptoms and for the next two or three days, or one zinc lozenge every six hours, or a cup of chicken soup four times a day at the onset of symptoms. That can reduce the average time that a cold lasts from roughly five days to three.

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