natedawggh
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I have gone through three different periods of supplementing zinc. Each time I experienced loss of unwanted fat, increase in muscle mass, disappearance or reduction of the squiggly lines in my vision, and a more consistent stability of my warmth (paired with a restraint of my sweat response). I know zinc is essential for Testosterone and Thyroid synthesis, and in fact after discovering that the chlorine and chloramide in our drinking water reacts with Iodine, Zinc, and other minerals I have avoided tap water (using a filter on my shower), and have been supplementing zinc and iodine in addition to some of the other things I do.
I thought it was interesting that when I first return to supplementing zinc, 30-60mg was enough to make me very nauseous, but that it eliminated my sweating and the severe fluctuations between cold and hot that I still experience. The nausea stops after the first three or four doses. I have also lost an additional 5lbs-ish without changing anything else and feel a lightness in my lower abdomen that has been hard to come by. I came to the conclusion that I have a real problem either absorbing or retaining zinc, because if I supplement 60mg every four hours I don't sweat at all, my toes stay perfectly pink and feel supple instead of stiffening.
This article describes an experiment specifically with fats and zinc deficiency.
http://jn.nutrition.org/content/124/10/1917.full.pdf
This is a very interesting because it is also a prime example of why Ray says to read studies and come to your own conclusion, and not to rely on the researcher's. In this study at first the researchers claim one group of rats received coconut oil and the others received fish oil (this is also interesting that they use the two extremes of fats in Ray's work). But reading farther down you find out that the coconut oil rats were fed coconut oil MIXED with safflower oil, which is highly unsaturated.
Interesting results from this study:
•The 3 rats that died before the experiment was finished were on the zinc deficient/fish oil diet. All the others lived to execution (mean scientists!)
•Of the Zinc deficient Rats, the rats with coconut oil developed fatty liver. Contemporary medicine identifies fatty liver as a health hazard, but a Dr. Peat interpretation is that the fat is a protective mechanism against disease, a line of defense. Indeed the rats that died were NOT the ones with fatty liver.
•Rats fed only fish oil had a slightly higher retention of Zinc, but Zinc has been shown to have a role in the desaturation of unsaturated fats, and so seems to have some kind of affinity or association with it in a protective fashion for the organism, hence the greater survival rate of Rats fed fish oil + zinc. and this quote by the study's authors: •"The lower concentrations of linoleic acid in the
present study and a previous study could, however, also be due to increased
oxidation of this fatty acid in zinc-deficient in according to the findings of the present study, this
dividuals."
•So Zinc helps prevents PUFAs from oxidizing which would otherwise have created oxidative damage and associated stress.
•Lipid concentrations were overall much higher in Zinc deficient rats.
I thought it was interesting that when I first return to supplementing zinc, 30-60mg was enough to make me very nauseous, but that it eliminated my sweating and the severe fluctuations between cold and hot that I still experience. The nausea stops after the first three or four doses. I have also lost an additional 5lbs-ish without changing anything else and feel a lightness in my lower abdomen that has been hard to come by. I came to the conclusion that I have a real problem either absorbing or retaining zinc, because if I supplement 60mg every four hours I don't sweat at all, my toes stay perfectly pink and feel supple instead of stiffening.
This article describes an experiment specifically with fats and zinc deficiency.
http://jn.nutrition.org/content/124/10/1917.full.pdf
This is a very interesting because it is also a prime example of why Ray says to read studies and come to your own conclusion, and not to rely on the researcher's. In this study at first the researchers claim one group of rats received coconut oil and the others received fish oil (this is also interesting that they use the two extremes of fats in Ray's work). But reading farther down you find out that the coconut oil rats were fed coconut oil MIXED with safflower oil, which is highly unsaturated.
Interesting results from this study:
•The 3 rats that died before the experiment was finished were on the zinc deficient/fish oil diet. All the others lived to execution (mean scientists!)
•Of the Zinc deficient Rats, the rats with coconut oil developed fatty liver. Contemporary medicine identifies fatty liver as a health hazard, but a Dr. Peat interpretation is that the fat is a protective mechanism against disease, a line of defense. Indeed the rats that died were NOT the ones with fatty liver.
•Rats fed only fish oil had a slightly higher retention of Zinc, but Zinc has been shown to have a role in the desaturation of unsaturated fats, and so seems to have some kind of affinity or association with it in a protective fashion for the organism, hence the greater survival rate of Rats fed fish oil + zinc. and this quote by the study's authors: •"The lower concentrations of linoleic acid in the
present study and a previous study could, however, also be due to increased
oxidation of this fatty acid in zinc-deficient in according to the findings of the present study, this
dividuals."
•So Zinc helps prevents PUFAs from oxidizing which would otherwise have created oxidative damage and associated stress.
•Lipid concentrations were overall much higher in Zinc deficient rats.
