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Remember the early days of the pandemic when everyone was panic-buying toilet paper, baking banana bread, and suddenly becoming a part-time immunologist on WhatsApp? Yep, wild times. In the middle of all that chaos, one mineral started trending like a Netflix drama: zinc.

Suddenly, zinc lozenges were sold out everywhere, your mom was sending you articles with all caps subject lines ("ZINC SAVES LIVES"), and health influencers were adding “immune booster” to their bio like it was a verified badge.

But now that we’ve had a few years (and a few billion swabs up our

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