Zinc
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Zinc is a mineral essential for immune system function and for many vital enzymatic processes. Zinc is involved in hundreds of processes in the body.
Zinc has many general health benefits including its contribution to normal cognitive function, maintenance of normal hair, skin, nails and bones and normal fertility and reproduction. The citrate form of zinc has a high absorption rate.
Perhaps most importantly, zinc contributes to the normal function of the immune system. Beyond this, zinc also supports normal skin function, which is a physical barrier against infection.
Zinc contributes to normal reproductive and immune system, for tissue renewal, maintenance of the skin and for healthy bones.
Zinc also contributes to normal cognitive function, maintenance of normal hair, skin, nails and bones, normal metabolism of vitamin A, normal fertility and reproduction, maintenance of normal testosterone levels in the blood.
Zinc citrates have a high absorption rate and require little acidification prior to absorption.
Supplementing with zinc may help protect against respiratory tract infections and reduce their duration.
Zinc is needed for immune cell development and communication and plays an important role in inflammatory response.
A deficiency in Zinc may significantly affect your immune system’s ability to function properly, resulting in an increased risk of infection and disease, including pneumonia.
Multiple studies have revealed that zinc supplements may protect against respiratory tract infections like the common cold and flu.
Supplemental zinc may also help reduce the duration of the common cold and flu.
Zinc daily dose should not exceed upper limit of 40 mg of elemental zinc.
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There are many different types of zinc available. However, only two types of zinc have actually been shown to be effective.
The best kind is zinc acetate. It is the only type of zinc that consistently halves the duration of symptoms. Zinc gluconate was the suboptimal choice, but zinc acetate worked much better. None of the other types of zinc were effective.
Why are zinc acetate and zinc gluconate effective and other types not? Because both release zinc in the form of positively charged ions.The ionic form determines whether zinc works or not. makes a difference to
How does ionic zinc work? Ionic zinc helps white blood cells fight. It increases the production of interferon gamma, your body’s primary defense.
Ionic zinc also prevents the spread of intruders into the body. As you can see, invaders enter cells by attaching to microscopic molecules that move between cells.
This molecule is called ICAM-1. If an intruder attaches to it, the ICAM-1 will smuggle the intruder into the cell. Ionic zinc blocks this process, preventing invaders from entering and infecting cells. Finally, ionic zinc helps minimize congestion, congestion, sneezing and runny nose.
It inhibits the release of histamine that causes these symptoms. In other words, it works just like anything you take when you want to clear your runny nose, congestion, and nasal congestion.
When researchers learned that ionic zinc was more effective than non-ionic zinc, they wanted to know which compound would be best suited to release zinc in its ionic form. They wanted to know what doses worked. And they wanted to know which form was best.
They found zinc acetate to be the best, which releases 100% of the zinc in ionic form. Zinc gluconate was his second best. Of zinc he releases only 70% in ionic form.
Researchers also found that you need at least 75 mg of zinc acetate per day. Finally, they found that zinc was effective only if the invaders were exposed to it for at least 20 minutes.
Zinc he needs to be exposed for 20 minutes, so pills, syrups or sprays are not very effective, you need a slowly dissolving tablet that releases the zinc where the intruder is.
Other common forms of zinc (zinc citrate, zinc glycinate, and zinc tartrate) release little or no ionic zinc.As a result, they are not effective.
Don’t let the combination fool you either. If you choose a product that combines zinc gluconate and zinc glycinate, you are wasting your money.
Not only does it give you less zinc gluconate per dose, glycine interferes with the release of ionic zinc from zinc gluconate. Only 57% of zinc is released in ionic form. This is far less than the 70% released by zinc gluconate alone.
And it gets even worse when manufacturers combine zinc gluconate with zinc citrate, zinc aspartate, or zinc tartrate. These combinations release 0% of the zinc in ionic form. right – zero. No wonder so many of these zinc supplements don’t work!
And finally, when choosing lozenges, look for palm kernel oil and cottonseed oil.If any of these oils are on the ingredient list, don’t buy them. Why? This is to prevent it from binding to zinc during the manufacturing process and being released in ionic form.
Suddenly all these conflicting research results make sense, right? As soon as I read the meta study, I knew exactly what kind of zinc to recommend for my patients and readers. zinc acetate.
However, there was a problem with zinc acetate – it’s not found everywhere.