Sheila
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And goats milk and products tend to have more copper than zinc. All of our assumptions do depend on how the cows are fed. When we are in drought here, the commercial milk quality, even the better stuff, seems to go down hill so the trace minerals will likely reduce too along with everything else.
Copper excess was all the rage here for some years, zinc supplementation made some people much worse, generally the women (and all with so called 'zinc' signs). Interestingly molybdnenum and zinc was suggested instead which these 'worse with zinc supplementation alone' patients did quite well on. Moly is used to detoxify histamine in the body so I suspect now that was what it was doing. It is of course toxic in all but the smallest quantities, if I had known how to reduce histamine back then, that would have been smarter.
I am still baffled why relatively large zinc and prolonged zinc supplementation seems to improve things for boys (presuming they are not spending their whole time donating it (and their selenium supplies) elsewhere as quick as it is swallowed ) when it really is a trace mineral. Where is it all going? Is its absorption being blocked? Is it just poor absorption (maybe HCl issues?)? Are we storing up trouble for later?
Doesn't the body increase uptake (all other factors being equal) if something is very deficient, and slow it as it becomes replete? Or is that 'intelligence' also an energy-dependent function?
If anyone has any thoughts, I'd be pleased to hear them! Thanks.
Sheila
Copper excess was all the rage here for some years, zinc supplementation made some people much worse, generally the women (and all with so called 'zinc' signs). Interestingly molybdnenum and zinc was suggested instead which these 'worse with zinc supplementation alone' patients did quite well on. Moly is used to detoxify histamine in the body so I suspect now that was what it was doing. It is of course toxic in all but the smallest quantities, if I had known how to reduce histamine back then, that would have been smarter.
I am still baffled why relatively large zinc and prolonged zinc supplementation seems to improve things for boys (presuming they are not spending their whole time donating it (and their selenium supplies) elsewhere as quick as it is swallowed ) when it really is a trace mineral. Where is it all going? Is its absorption being blocked? Is it just poor absorption (maybe HCl issues?)? Are we storing up trouble for later?
Doesn't the body increase uptake (all other factors being equal) if something is very deficient, and slow it as it becomes replete? Or is that 'intelligence' also an energy-dependent function?
If anyone has any thoughts, I'd be pleased to hear them! Thanks.
Sheila