Good question. The preventive dose is less than the therapeutic dose.
For prevention, 15 mg a day of zinc should be good, unless you know you're deficient.
For treatment, they recommend 220 mg of zinc sulfate, which is something like 50 milligrams of ionic zinc. Remember, that's only for 5 days and has to be followed exactly as prescribed by your enlightened doctor.
I take an 11mg Zinc supplement twice a week as a reinforcement. If you eat Healthy (not fast-food regularly) good amounts of zinc come with it. I eat more healthy than crappy which is why I only do twice a week.
If feeling "off" this 11mg goes to once a day until that off feeling goes away.
After stopping the Flu shot every year and being very wary of anything a Doc wants to poke me with, I can proudly say I haven't been sick since 2012 because of this simple regimen. It's been fantastic to not dread "that time of the year".
how much Zinc per day? thank you.
Good question. The preventive dose is less than the therapeutic dose.
For prevention, 15 mg a day of zinc should be good, unless you know you're deficient.
For treatment, they recommend 220 mg of zinc sulfate, which is something like 50 milligrams of ionic zinc. Remember, that's only for 5 days and has to be followed exactly as prescribed by your enlightened doctor.
I take an 11mg Zinc supplement twice a week as a reinforcement. If you eat Healthy (not fast-food regularly) good amounts of zinc come with it. I eat more healthy than crappy which is why I only do twice a week.
If feeling "off" this 11mg goes to once a day until that off feeling goes away.
After stopping the Flu shot every year and being very wary of anything a Doc wants to poke me with, I can proudly say I haven't been sick since 2012 because of this simple regimen. It's been fantastic to not dread "that time of the year".