In one lab study from the Nebraska Medical Center in Omaha, researcher Stephen Rennard, M.D., discovered that his grandmother-in-law's chicken soup recipe might help relieve some of the inflammation behind cold symptoms. In the test tube, the soup inhibited movement of white blood cells called neutrophils by 75 percent; researchers suspect that in your upper respiratory tract, this curtailed movement could translate into a reduction in cold symptoms.
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Er, maybe I need to read the whole article for context... but if you're inhaling chicken soup into your respiratory tract to inhibit neutrophils, you now have much bigger problems than a cold...
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