Penn State College of Medicine in Vitro study shows very promising results
For years I worked with the Friesens when the family-owned Eastman Feeds. Once they sold the family business they continued with another family business, Innotech Nutrition in Winnipeg. This time, their human natural health products meant something to me personally. The first two products, Cardioflex helped get my arteries back to health following quad bypass heart surgery. Most recently Colflex hit the news and for excellent reasons. 
I gleaned this information from an official news release quoting Penn State College of Medicine’s in vitro study shows very promising results yep it’s talking about Colflex and what great news it is. Hog farmers have it in their barns use it all the time here’s what Bob Kleinsasser said the hog boss at Suncrest Colony near Steinbach, Manitoba.   “Oh, heck, yeah. I use it ten times a day. Whenever I need it, and it’s always everywhere. It’s in the shower, in the barn, it’s in the washroom, it’s here and there.” 
And his employees, Oh, everybody has access on the farm here.
Innotech Nutrition, a Canadian manufacturer of natural health products, reported the Penn State College of Medicine research study. It showed the company’s COLFLEX Oral Spray inactivated 99 to 99.9 percent of infectious human coronavirus 229E.
Dr. Craig Meyers and his scientific team at Penn State University conducted the study looking at both variations of Innotech Nutrition’s COLFLEX Oral Sprays. The research team examined the sprays’ effect on human coronavirus 229E at a two-minute contact time. The study showed promising results of the product’s high effectiveness over that time, more than 90 percent effectively inactivating the virus at a 60 second contact time.
According to the Center for Disease Control in the United States, human coronavirus 229E is one of seven coronaviruses that can infect people. (source:https:www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/types.html). It is a leading cause of common colds and respiratory tract infections. 
Dr. Meyers’ research showed compounds effective at inactivating 229E typically act similarly against other human coronaviruses. Including SARS-CoV-2, the novel coronavirus that causes the disease better known as COVID-19.
According to Meyers, the results with these oral sprays are promising and add to a previous study’s findings showing that certain types of oral rinses could inactivate HCoV229E in similar experimental conditions.
“The next step to expand upon these results is to design and conduct clinical trials that evaluate whether products like these oral throat sprays can effectively reduce viral load in patients,” said Meyers.
As in previous similar studies, the Penn State scientific team prepared a standard laboratory test (viral inactivation assays) to replicate the virus’s interaction in the throat and oral cavities with the oral spray product. Throat and oral cavities are major points of entry and transmission for human coronaviruses.
Innotech Nutrition, Wayne Friesen said the Penn State research excites him and looks forward to more research. 
“Although this study shows promising results, in no way must we interpret it as a form of prevention for COVID-19. In our family, we use Colflex routinely and like to think of it as an added layer of protection or another tool in your toolbox. Please continue practicing all public health measures and to closely follow the advice of your health care professionals.”
Friesen said it might sound old-fashioned, but don’t forget mom’s common sense advice to eat a healthy diet, get enough sleep, stay hydrated and keep smiling.
For six years, Colflex has helped me fight cold and flu, and I can’t remember when I last had one or the other. •