A couple of questions here, I have been working through some chronic skin issues,
eczema and seborrheic dermatitis and for several years a nutrition specialist recommended looking
at possible zinc deficiencies. And I noticed in the one on one course, it recommends 10
milligrams, three to four times a day, spreading it out, taking away from phytate foods,
the zinc Jarrow balance, I guess as, as the zinc copper balance supplement was recommended,
beyond that any particular protocol you'd recommend around... Should I just
start at 10 milligrams three times a day, continue for a month, observe any differences,
what and any other observational kind of hints at is the zinc deficiency in play or not ?
Well, to see whether there is zinc deficiencies in play, I would measure plasma zinc
and if the plasma zinc, the sweet spot is around 120.
If the plasma zinc is in the 70 to 90 range, that's borderline and if it's below 70,
that's very clearly potentially related to skin problems. I think you have your answer
right there. If your zinc's at 120, your skin problems, are not due to the zinc deficiency.
In terms of, I would run the testing before starting the zinc supplementation. Otherwise,
you're going to be in a position where you can never test it to know
what the original plasma zinc was- All right, taking a good baseline...
Yeah, the reason that's important is you can start supplementing and your
plasma zinc can go up, but that doesn't mean your tissue stores are saturated. And so,
without knowing the original baseline plasma zinc, you're going to be in a very gray zone
where you don't know how much lower it would have been had you caught it at the beginning.
What I would do from there is add the zinc along the lines that I had recommended and then follow
up on, it kind of depends on how subjectively, how much time you want to put into it.
You could give it 12 weeks if you're, you don't care about it that much, but if you're very
anxious about solving the issue as quickly as possible, or, then you could give it four weeks
and measure at four week intervals and adjust the dose if you need to. I would just say that
it's reasonable to expect the plasma zinc to go up for four weeks and then maybe go up another
four weeks. So, it's really the point at which two measurements in a row showing the same thing that
shows you that you've plateaued. If you've plateaued somewhere lower than where you
want to be, you probably need a higher dose. I would also look at your riboflavin status
for seborrheic dermatitis, riboflavin, vitamin B6, biotin and Omega six fatty acids I would look at.
Okay. Go ahead the mega Quan profile. Okay, great. You anticipated my second and final
question and that was it. Thank You. Okay, perfect. Great talking to you.