What should be told about zinc... there is less and less of this mineral in our diet. Deficiency is not as drastic and common as for magnesium, yet it's been visible already. Desolation of fields, cooking without a full-grain flour, lack of zinc in food for animals. Everything to produce more for a lesser cost. And we pay for it. Payment is our health.

Drinking of cocacola and other similar chemistry experiments is worst enemy of zinc resources. It will simply flush this mineral down from our body.

Zinc deficiency rarely might cause panic attacks, yet it's possible too. More common is still depression. Additionally, the long term deficiency may cause really serious problems.

What are most common symptoms of zinc deficiency? Yes, we have a problem. There are no clear signs. Small deficiency will slowly devastate our body, causing degeneration of mucous membranes and skin. Ok, let's try to find most important symptoms that MIGHT point out zinc de

- hair. Zinc is a-must-have for a good condition of hair. If we have deficiency, our hair will be weak and we may experience massive hair lost.
- fingernails. Just like hair, they will be weak
- chronic sore throat, infections of eyes, dry eye syndrome
- problems with a natural resistance, which might soon become chronic candida infections (mostly because of damaged mucous membranes)
- zinc is responsible for vitamin A, so with deficiency of zinc we will experience deficiency of vitamin A, too. It will cause even more problems with mucuos membranes, eye surface and problems with seeing without light. It's easy to check if we have nyctalopia (night blindness). After turning off the light we should be able to see again in less than 10 seconds, preferable 3-4. Full adaptation to darkness may take even more than a hour, so in our test it's important when we can see anything.
- zinc is responsible for digestion - some pancreas enzymes are zinc-based one. A long-term deficiency of zinc will cause diarrhea, which will cause us to lost even more zinc
- some joints pain might be experienced, especially knees and hips
- stretch marks might sometimes be caused by deficiency of zinc

How should suplementation look like?

Do not start with very high doses, or you might experience strong depression. Generally big doses of zinc are not really good for health, they might cause your copper level to drop below minimum. If you plan to use high doses for more than 2 weeks, at least eat something that contains a lot of copper - around 2 mg / day.

20 mg / day is good enough in nearly all cases, sometimes this is even bigger than a human need. Only if patient got strong deficiency doses of around 50mg / day may be risked. Yet it should be done only under control of doctor, theoretically there is no risk, but...

Our body do not store zinc, so full regeneration should take no longer than a month - it's matter of a regenerate our body cells, ones that are damaged by deficiency.

It's important not to take zinc together with any other medicine or food - nearly everything will block absorbtion.

If you are afraid of pills, just include food with a lot of zinc. Oysters are undefeated here, a good dinner made of them contains sometimes 100x of a recommended zinc dose. People who eat such food usually live way longer than average. Well, nowadays it's not possible anymore, thanks to the poisoning of seas. Today oysters got more mercury than a russian thermomether.

The last notice, zinc is also excellent weapon against any kind of viral infections. Together with the vitamin C it can cure some diseases so fast that doctors turn grey seeing it.