Dosing more zinc than needed to correct a deficiency will not raise testosterone levels past normal levels.
Not exact matches
To address the deficiency,
zinc supplementation may be utilized, with
doses of no
more than 30 mg per day.
Studies vary tremendously on toxicity levels with some reporting as low as 75 mg, some saying 500 - 1,000 mg, and one reporting 10, ooomg or
more in one single
dose resulting in nausea, vomiting and diarrhea from
zinc.
Secondarily, using high
doses of
zinc supplements to circumvent the difficulty in finding good food sources may do as much or
more harm as good.
My naturopath told me that this type of
zinc is
more bioavailable than over the counter
zinc supplements, and is a stronger
dose.
In 1997 Ochi et al5 demonstrated that patients with Tinnitus had significantly decreased
zinc levels and that supplementation with
doses of 34 - 68 mg of
zinc for
more than 2 weeks significantly improved their tinnitus.
It's
more important to keep your hormones in balance, which can also keep the level of DHT from getting too high, and larger
doses of
zinc taken orally can actually slow down hair growth by interfering with anagen development.
I don't recommend high
doses of
zinc for
more than three days because high
doses of
zinc over time can actually start to suppress the immune system.