How Much Zinc Should I Take in a Day? | TAZTV

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It's a common question I hear in my practice - especially now. How much zinc do you need to take in a day during a pandemic?
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[pash]

Years ago when I started supplementing with zinc, I completely stopped getting colds. And of course, no covid.

[raymondlang]

My supplement tablet has zinc gluconate 15mg, and copper gluconate 1mg.
I take one a day, also D3, B12, magnesium citrate.

[rollthedice]

Absolutely liked and shared! A Doctor talking about Zinc is so refreshing since so few Doctors talk about anything but getting the jab for health care.

[judgeadvocate]

I'm gonna try 45 mg of zinc per day, mainly because of my age (64 yrs) and my weight (185 lbs at 5'8"). I've heard that Quercetin works well with zinc, but I'm still investigating that, even though I do take Quercetin, also. Also, taking a little copper might be good with zinc because zinc will deplete our copper.

[theodosios]

Thanks for clarifying. I can't believe most zinc supplements are 50mg tablets and mention nothing oabout copper deficiency potential. Do these companies not do their research?

[ricardoviolanti]

A beautiful intelligent educated lady thank you 🙏.

[downtoearth]

Thankyou Doctor, straight to the point.

[buccleuch]

Thanks Dr. Taz very helpful. Please excuse the aside, but the background muzac, I am sorry to say, only distracts.

[sinfullywright]

I've been using zinc to help with my colds for about 5 years now. It does work. Just be careful with the lozenges..too many will alter your sense of taste for a couple days

[kjnightbird]

I have a bottle of Zinc Picolinate in 50mg capsules. How often should I take it? (I've been taking it daily for a year. I am almost a vegetarian & never eat Seafood.)

[jackiedrowley]

I’ve been taking zinc and cold and cough has gone

[venkateshprakash]

When it should take a dose of NOW ZINC before meal or after meals or empty stomach?

[googleprofile]

If 50mg of zinc gluconate really only had 7mg of elemental zinc, then what is the other 43mg? In that case should we be taking 100mg of zinc gluconate to get 14mg of elemental zinc? Also what is the ratio of copper to elemental zinc we should also supplement with so that we don't deplete copper levels in our body?

[Serenity]

Intefering with virual replication is not destroying the virus. It slows of the virus replicating and therefore gives the bodies immune system time to react, learn and deal with the virus. Only the immune system destroys and sterilises a virus.

The body actual creates interferons, which do the same thing, interferes with virus or pathogen replication, however the majority of these are only created when our body reaches s critical temperature, about 39°C when the body creates X10 the interferons in the body.... Also viruses are sensitive to temperature, hence another reason the body heats up....

[aegontargaryen]

Should i also take copper ? I am taking 25 mg zinc oxide daily.

[Sheenifier]

So the bottle reads Zinc 50mg, but the ingredients says zinc gluconate plus other stuff and my research says that there is 14.3% of elemental zinc in zinc gluconate. Which means that you're really only taking 7mg of zinc zinc. Which is under the daily recommend dosage. That makes sense right? But it also says % Daily Value is 455%. So for a normal person is this a proper daily dosage to take? Brand is Spring Valley. I'm just confused by all this.

[BIGNICKELL]

A year and some months later the light at that end of the tunnel is still far away. At least here in Ontario Canada. I had burning feet at night for months and I viewed a video back in early summer and I begun staking zinc tablets and the burning practically went away in a couple of days.

[aynrachelarceo]

hi! is it okay to drink 50 mg ascorbic acid plus zinc?

[aynrachelarceo]

also, is it okay to drink "propan with iron" and "ascorbic acid plus zinc" ?

[dneitzke]

I have known that the supplement zinc has its biggest attribute as the # 1 element that fortifies the immune system/ I haven't been sick in 20 years, but I just don't see it working as well for some as it does for others, . but what the doc missed in her dosage recommendation, is that When taking Zinc it must be taken with food or it will not metabolize and will just pass thru your body.