50mg Zinc Too much?

I have read 30mg should be the limit per day for zinc.

However, this list @ 1stholistic.comhol nutr toxic dosages.htmOpen ↗ suggests 75mg is
when one can start having problems.

HTH

Trent

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From: "Carl Farrington" <[email hidden]> Newsgroups:
alt.skincare,sci.med.nutrition Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2004 16:31:43 -0000 Subject: 50mg Zinc Too much?

Is 50mg Zinc too much to take a day? I've always had a pasty complexion (so I go on sunbeds when I
remember) and umm don't have the best diet so I have 1 or 2 effervescent (fizzy tablet) 1,000mg
vitamin-c drinks a day, and 2 - 3grams of fish oils + 2 - 3 grams of evening primrose / starflower
oils daily. I've recently added Zinc to my routine. They are 25mg tabs (166% EU RDA) but I've
taken two tablets (50mg) these two first days because I'm sure I'm lacking in something.

I have eczema and my lips tend to be a touch cracked in the corners a lot of the time (I find
coffee leaves [censored] in there which doesn't help, and acidy things like salt + vinegar crisps, fresh
tomatoes especially cause this skin to break and / or go red.)

anyway the fish oils I'm comfortable with because I want to sample the mood stabilising effects,
the primrose/starflower is because people with eczema can be not very good at absorbing or using
the dha epa omega-3 fatty acids of the fish oils.

What I'm a little worried about is the Zinc. I haven't heard too much about it, but in my last few
minutes of research I see a few mentions of anaemia like syndromes (because the different minerals
fight for absorption, so my body will be absorbing Zinc and leaving some of it's other essential
minerals behind). Now this of course is the last thing I want. I want to look (but actually more
importantly (although I don't know if it'll ever happen) feel ) healthy.

Copper? Should I be taking a little of this too? I can't imagine there being much of that stuff in
my KFC Zinger Tower Burgers.

thanks for any and all tips and pointers.

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male, about 12stone getting a bit of a belly but otherwise apparently fit-ish.

cheers, Carl

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Is 50mg Zinc too much to take a day? I've always had a pasty complexion

(so

Quoted message said:

I go on sunbeds when I remember) and umm don't have the best diet so I

have

Quoted message said:

1 or 2 effervescent (fizzy tablet) 1,000mg vitamin-c drinks a day, and 2 - 3grams of fish oils
+ 2 - 3 grams of evening primrose / starflower oils daily. I've recently added Zinc to my
routine. They are 25mg tabs (166% EU RDA) but I've taken two tablets (50mg) these two first
days because I'm

sure

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I'm lacking in something.

Long-term intake should be conceptualized separately from short-term or acute supplementation. Food
sources of zinc should be providing you with at least 10 mg/day, and the Upper Limit (safe zinc
intake on a chronic basis) is set at 40 mg/day, with the Lowest Observeable Adverse Effects Level
(LOAEL is the threshold at which the most sensitive people begin to show toxicity symptoms) set at
60 mg/day. Taking 50 mg/day zinc for, say, one month, is not going to do you any harm, but you
should bear in mind that excess zinc blocks copper uptake (the primary "toxicity" effect at this
dose range).

For more than you ever wanted to know about zinc, see:
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at your fingertips...

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I have eczema and my lips tend to be a touch cracked in the corners a lot

of

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the time (I find coffee leaves [censored] in there which doesn't help, and acidy things like salt +
vinegar crisps, fresh tomatoes especially cause this

skin

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to break and / or go red.)

anyway the fish oils I'm comfortable with because I want to sample the

mood

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stabilising effects, the primrose/starflower is because people with eczema can be not very good at
absorbing or using the dha epa omega-3 fatty acids of the fish oils.

The effect of combining gamma-linolenic acid supps with fish oil is not due to improved absorption
of the latter, but they do work together synergistically in improving eczema.

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What I'm a little worried about is the Zinc. I haven't heard too much

about

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it, but in my last few minutes of research I see a few mentions of anaemia like syndromes (because
the different minerals fight for absorption, so my body will be absorbing Zinc and leaving some of
it's other essential minerals behind). Now this of course is the last thing I want. I want to look
(but actually more importantly (although I don't know if it'll ever happen) feel ) healthy.

Copper? Should I be taking a little of this too? I can't imagine there

being

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much of that stuff in my KFC Zinger Tower Burgers.

You're unlikely to suffer from copper deficiency, given the amount of copper plumbing around. In my
opinion, too much copper might be more likely than too little.

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thanks for any and all tips and pointers.

Quoted message said:

male, about 12stone getting a bit of a belly but otherwise apparently fit-ish.

cheers, Carl

Otherwise fit-ish? There is no substitute for exercise. And do try and steer away from the fast-
food world.

Lar