lindsay
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I am very lucky to live in a region of the US that is abundant in oysters - and really good ones. Yet, I've been dumb for the past few years and rarely eat them - like maybe a few times per year, mainly because they are pricey.
However, there is a local restaurant/bar that has buck a shuck Mondays (Tuesday's are half-priced Oysters Rockefeller). Today I went and got 8 raw beautiful large oysters (I have no problem ingesting raw seafood) - they were so good and I was like, why the heck don't I do this every Monday? Makes them way more affordable.
So my question is, would eating oysters once per week be overdoing it in the zinc department (8 large oysters is something like 75 mg of zinc)? I think I'm usually rather low on zinc and recently had really bad non mood-related PMS symptoms, so I'd like to boost my zinc intake without a supplement and without overdoing it and I prefer oysters to beef, digestion wise. Considering Oysters are REALLY high in zinc (and B12, which I've always been on the low side with), is once week too much? Not enough? The thing that kicked my butt to the $1 oyster day was I got another white spot on one of my nails - second one in a LONG time. I know it's probably nothing, but that always screams zinc to me.
Would love to hear thoughts and peoples' experience - especially females. Thanks!!
However, there is a local restaurant/bar that has buck a shuck Mondays (Tuesday's are half-priced Oysters Rockefeller). Today I went and got 8 raw beautiful large oysters (I have no problem ingesting raw seafood) - they were so good and I was like, why the heck don't I do this every Monday? Makes them way more affordable.
So my question is, would eating oysters once per week be overdoing it in the zinc department (8 large oysters is something like 75 mg of zinc)? I think I'm usually rather low on zinc and recently had really bad non mood-related PMS symptoms, so I'd like to boost my zinc intake without a supplement and without overdoing it and I prefer oysters to beef, digestion wise. Considering Oysters are REALLY high in zinc (and B12, which I've always been on the low side with), is once week too much? Not enough? The thing that kicked my butt to the $1 oyster day was I got another white spot on one of my nails - second one in a LONG time. I know it's probably nothing, but that always screams zinc to me.
Would love to hear thoughts and peoples' experience - especially females. Thanks!!
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