Re: Zinc Dosage & Other Questions

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I was taking 50 mgs of Zinc with 2 mgs of Copper in it and did this for yrs

after reading about it is Dr. Shippen's book " The Testosterone Sydrome " . I told

my Dr. souldent we test this so we did and my Copper levels were very low. I was

posting about this and Hardasnails got back to me with a study showing that you

can't take Zinc and Copper at the same time it will cancel out the Copper and

still lower you reg. levels of Copper. He told me about ZMA this is a

supplement that has a big name for it's self and has Zinc in it with other

supplements in it. I stopped taking this.

http://www.myvitanet.com/zincop100cnt.html

Got some ZMA and take this at bedtime.

http://www.myvitanet.com/zma-180-caps-now-foods.html

And got this Copper I take at noon and my copper levels come back up.

http://www.myvitanet.com/biocitrate-copper-2-mg-60-count-solaray.html

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Phil

> From: brianc <brianevans_99@...>

> Subject: Zinc Dosage & Other Questions

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> Date: Thursday, February 4, 2010, 10:42 PM

> Phil & ,

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> Thanks for your report(s) about " zinc and weight loss, "

> , which you said worked for you.  How many pounds

> did you lose, how quickly...and what were your starting and

> ending E2 levels?  Were you using a particular form of

> zinc, and which brand and dose?

> I'll assume that all other factors were constant.

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> If your doctor said the other therapy wasn't tested on men,

> which is almost certainly true,

> was she equally scrupulous about this " zinc and exercise "

> approach?  Was it clinically tested, and shown to be

> both safe and effective?

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> And Phil, thanks for the tip about copper--again, which

> salt (i.e., certainly not copper sulfate, for example, which

> is poisonous)?  And what total dosage of copper?

>

> But, if ' doctor went this route, and didn't know

> about adding copper--but what do docs know about

> supplements??--how much reliance can be placed in her?

>

> Finally, , did she quantify the exercise---what kind,

> how long, how often?  And if you were exercising MUCH

> more than previously, isn't it possible that that alone

> could have accounted for the E2 going down? 

>

> I'm glad it seemed to work for you, but it would be most

> helpful to figure out exactly what worked, and why?

>

> Many thanks,

>

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> > I just need to give you a heads up about doing Zinc

> it will lower your Copper levels so for every 50 mgs you

> do of Zinc you should add in at a different time 2 mgs of

> Copper.

> >  Co-Moderator

> > Phil

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