Zinc Picolinate

There is evidence that the average American diet is inadequate in zinc. High zinc foods are liver, beef, lamb, cheese, yeasts, oysters, herring, sunflower seeds, wheat germ & bran. High aluminum, cadmium, & copper levels, or chronic diarrhea may contribute to decreased zinc levels.*

Zinc is essential for normal growth & development & life span. Its primary mode of action is by participating in over twenty key enzyme reactions in your body.

Zinc is best absorbed as a chelated complex.

Some of the functions of zinc are:

• Helps maintain healthy kidney function.*
• Helps with carbon dioxide removal.*
• Helps maintain healthy pancreatic functions.*
• Helps your liver to detoxify alcohols.*
• Brain development.*
• The senses of appetite, taste & smell.*
• Fertility maintenance.*
• Certain hormone synthesis, maintenance of your sex glands.*
• Red blood cell & serum protein maintenance.
• Muscle & bone homeostasis.*
• Skin, hair & nails maintenance.*
• Helps maintain healthy immune support system*
• The synthesis & conversion of amino acids.*
• Insulin activity.*
• Protein & DNA synthesis.*
• Help maintain normal vitamin A levels & usage.*
• Bone structure support.*
• May kill some virus on contact.*
• Participates in antioxidant enzyme systems in your eyes, helping to prevent & slow the progression of macular degeneration.*
• Together with vitamin B6 can reduce the size of the prostate by regulating the enzyme that converts testosterone to the harmful prostate stimulating DHT (dihydrotestosterone).*
• Participates in carbohydrate metabolism.*
• Prevents & reverses cadmium, & copper toxicity.*

Your need for zinc supplementation beyond that in a multi-vitamin mineral is determined by your diet, how many of the following deficiency symptoms you have, & whether you have tested low on any measures of zinc. A useful, quick way to determine your day to day zinc status is through using our product Zinc Tally.*

SYMPTOMS OF DEFICIENCY:

• Depression
• Apathy
• Fatigue
• Memory loss
• Amnesia
• Irritability
• Paranoia
• Psychosis
• Decreased sense of taste & smell
• Appetite loss
• Menstrual irregularities
• Prostate disorders
• Problems with fertility
• Delayed sexual maturity
• Growth impairment
• Dermatitis
• Eczema
• Acne
• Dry skin
• Stretch marks on skin
• Prolonged wound healing
• Brittle nails
• White spots on nails/spoon shaped nails
• Poor hair growth
• Painful knees & hips
• Cold extremities with poor circulation
• Increased cholesterol
• Glucose intolerance
• Decreased immune function
• Anemia
• Decreased night vision
• Eyes extremely bothered by light
• Impotence

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DIRECTIONS: 1-3 daily with meals in divided doses if more than 1 is needed.

*These statements have not been evaluated by the U.S. Food & Drug Administration. These products are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease.

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