Feb 17, 2023 - Someday, You Might Be Able to Eat Your Way Out of a Cold

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From the Editor's Desk Someday, You Might Be Able to Eat Your Way Out of a Cold A nascent scientific field is working to untangle the complex relationship between metabolism and infection. When it comes to treating disease with food, the quackery stretches back far. Through the centuries, raw garlic has been touted as a home treatment for everything from chlamydia to the common cold; Renaissance remedies for the plague included figs soaked in hyssop oil. During the 1918 flu pandemic, Americans wolfed down onions or chugged “fluid beef” gravy to keep the deadly virus at bay. Continued here TradeBriefs: Newsletters for Decision-Makers! Our advertisers help fund the daily operations of TradeBriefs. We request you to accept our promotional emails. Want the newsletters, without the promotional mailers? Get an (ad-free) subscription to TradeBriefs Premium for just $2 per month. 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Apparently, Bing can be provoked to respond outside of its “designed tone,” she writes. And don’t forget to check out Devin’s article, in which he answers what happens when you Bing around and find out. Work Ledge aims to build automation tools for finance teams Said New Enterprise Associates partner Jonathan Golden in an emailed statement: “As an increasing percentage of B2B payment volume flows to digital channels and the number of businesses with complex money movement increases, tooling to reduce workloads for finance team is becoming a necessity … Ledge is built by finance professionals for finance teams; we believe the founders are poised to confront this challenge, as they have faced the problem themselves.” Work Pitch Deck Teardown: Gaming monetization company Incymo AI's $850K seed deck So. Those were some of the positive things we found about this pitch deck, and you perhaps noted we still added caveats. In just a moment, we’re about to get a lot saltier and look at a few things Incymo could have improved or done differently, along with its full pitch deck! Work Neobank Vexi raises millions to offer young Mexicans lower interest rate credit cards Got a news tip or inside information about a topic we covered? We’d love to hear from you. You can reach me at maryann@techcrunch.com. Or you can drop us a note at tips@techcrunch.com. Happy to respect anonymity requests. Work A comprehensive list of 2023 tech layoffs Announced on January 4 that it’s cutting 10% of its workforce, impacting more than 7,000 employees. A month later, some Salesforce employees had just found out they were also a part of the 10% layoff announcement. 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