Not exact matches
To address the deficiency,
zinc supplementation may be utilized, with doses
of no more than 30
mg per day.
In a study
of 59 post-menopausal women, the effects
of calcium
supplementation (as calcium citrate, 1000
mg elemental Ca / day) with and without the addition
of zinc (15.0
mg / day), manganese (5.0
mg / day) and copper (2.5
mg / day) on the lumbar spine was evaluated over two years.
Two other small clinical trials evaluated the effects
of supplementation with 200
mg zinc sulfate (providing 45
mg zinc) for 2 years in subjects with drusen or macular degeneration.
The World Health Organization and UNICEF now recommend short - term
zinc supplementation (20
mg of zinc per day, or 10
mg for infants under 6 months, for 10 — 14 days) to treat acute childhood diarrhea [60].
I also wonder how that works with the
zinc supplementation of 50
mg per week (which is based on the average copper intake)-- if you take your
zinc supplement earlier in the week but don't achieve the planned copper intake, does that have negative consequences, or can it be mitigated by larger doses
of copper later in the cycle?
I've been following the PHD minerals
supplementation — 1 tablet
of zinc per week (~ 25
mg) and occasionally melatonin, and I believe that site says one should avoid those medications if you do not wish to alter the results
of the salivary test.
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.
Similar to
zinc, if you are able to manipulate your food intake so you are above these levels then
supplementation is not required and lowballing magnesium
supplementation (100 - 200
mg of any form but L - threonate) is unlikely to be harmful.