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What Is The Daily Recommended Dose Of Zinc?

Posted on Tue, 9 May 2017

Question: 79 years old, taking supplements for ear, and eye health and multiviamen: all have zinc. Can you take to much zinc? Want to take a supplement for prostrate as well, but also has Zinc. Please advise,
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Answered by Dr. Ivo Ditah (49 minutes later)

Brief Answer:
How much Zinc in all the supplements?

Detailed Answer:
HI,

Rarely do we report zinc toxicity. While 11mg is the daily recommended value we do give as much as 600mg to clients to treat certain disease conditions without any worries. I will suggest that we start by establishing how much Zinc you take in all from the different sources and from that we can make an informed decision on whether this could represent concerning levels or not.

I hope this helps. I wish you well. I hope to hear back from you on what the estmated total intake from all the above sources is.

Above answer was peer-reviewed by : Dr. Chakravarthy Mazumdar

Follow up: Dr. Ivo Ditah (4 hours later)

Thank you for your response: all up with supplements for ears, eyes, prostate, and multivitamin will be right at 100mg per day. And on each bottle it says 100% or more, so really appreciate your advice.

Answered by Dr. Ivo Ditah (22 hours later)

Brief Answer:
You are welcome!

Detailed Answer:
HI and thanks for the reply.

I wish you well and always contact me if need be.

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Above answer was peer-reviewed by : Dr. Chakravarthy Mazumdar