Winter Bugs: Vitamin C and Zinc
Sliced Bread
BBC
4.6 • 695 Ratings
🗓️ 13 February 2019
⏱️ 25 minutes
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Summary
Vitamin C is one of the most popular products used to combat the common cold. But does it work? Greg Foot reviews the evidence for both vitamin C and zinc to see if they are The Best Thing Since Sliced Bread.
He’s joined again by podcaster, rapper and actor Scroobius Pip and virologist Wendy Barclay from Imperial College London. The team will be giving you their Top Tips, backed by real scientific evidence, for beating the winter bugs.
Presenter: Greg Foot Producer: Michelle Martin Researcher: Amelia West Studio Managers: Emma Harth, John Boland Editors: Deborah Cohen, Rami Tzabar
The Best Thing Since Sliced Bread is a BBC Science Radio Unit Production.
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, podcast fan. |
| 0:03.0 | Consider this your invite to the UK's biggest podcasting party. |
| 0:06.7 | We're heading to Sheffield from the 4th to the 6th of July |
| 0:09.0 | for the BBC Sounds Fringe at the Crossed Wires Festival. |
| 0:12.8 | We'll be joined by some of the biggest names in podcasting, |
| 0:15.3 | including Sarah Cox, Charlie Hedges, Russell Kane, |
| 0:18.4 | and some bloke called Greg James doing his Radio 4 show called Rewinder. |
| 0:23.2 | You can watch live shows of your favourite podcasts, and the best part is free. |
| 0:28.0 | To book your free tickets, go to crossedwires.org slash fringe. |
| 0:34.1 | BBC Sounds, music, Radio, Podcasts. |
| 0:42.3 | Welcome to the show that investigates the facts behind the fads. |
| 0:45.3 | I'm Greg Foote and I'm on a bunk-busting mission to find out if the latest life-changing products and social media crazes really are all they're cracked up to be. |
| 0:55.5 | This is the second episode looking at how to beat the winter bugs. |
| 0:59.4 | Last time we were looking at hand sanitizers. |
| 1:02.2 | Do they really kill 99.9% of bacteria and should you actually want them on your hands? |
| 1:07.8 | Today, we're turning our investigative eye on vitamin C, zinc and other top tips |
| 1:13.0 | backed by real science from our studio expert, virologist Wendy Barkley. And I'm joined again by |
| 1:19.1 | my special guest, rapper, podcaster, an actor, Mr Scroobius Pip. With a resume like that, |
| 1:24.5 | Pip, clearly your whole life revolves around your voice. |
| 1:28.1 | So you must have some rituals. |
| 1:29.8 | What do you use to beat the winter bugs? |
| 1:31.8 | In my touring days, it was always amazing how adrenaline seems to pull you out of things. |
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