Many people started taking extra zinc due to fear of Coronavirus.
While some people have a natural low level of zinc, as listed on the Walsh institutes page called biochemical individuality, there's only so much of a good thing before it becomes bad.
If a woman is pregnant and her is ink is low, she's more liable to have a stillbirth child, an early birth child, and her risk of dying in childbirth is higher. However, after an immediate reduction in the number of premature babies, they are finding that excess zinc causes as much problem as a zinc deficiency does.
Excess ink causes low copper, which causes an iron deficiency. If you've been taking zinc, and your appetite is low, then you may have to deal with increasing sulfur, in the form of egg whites at least, if you can have them, and iron, and copper.
Well the chance of autism should go down with the extra zinc levels that people are taking, the chance of spina bifida and other neural tube defects will go up.
At first, one of the two major types of Strokes reduced, the same one that people are dying from from coronavirus, because people low and zinc who were taking zinc and did not get coronavirus had the benefit. But again, there's too much of a good thing. We require water to drink, but you can drown it.
It will be interesting to see all the conditions that are affected by zinc that improve and then get worse as a result of people over-using zinc in fear of Coronavirus.
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©Deborah Barges Oct 2020 open access