Consuming zinc supplements without adequate copper can lead to copper deficiency and a significant drop in testosterone levels. — Whalespan
Consuming zinc supplements without adequate copper can lead to copper deficiency and a significant drop in testosterone levels.
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“i just want to put a caveat here for people consuming zinc supplements without copper can lead to ruin because you can become copper deficient the zinc the body balances all these things and evolutionarily i don't think we would have consumed zinc without copper because we would have consumed liver or other sources of copper in our environment and the zinc in our diet will protect against copper excess people will sometimes say will i get copper you know toxicity by eating liver and my answer is no because both copper and zinc are going to end up in a metallothionein protein in the small intestine but if you only eat zinc like i've heard multiple case studies in case reports of this people eating 50 to 100 milligrams of zinc per day in a supplement and then their testosterone tanks and they say what's wrong or they get problems because they get copper deficient”
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“we know very clearly that zinc is essential for proper testosterone function many people supplement with zinc hoping that it will increase their testosterone there is a problem however with zinc supplementation without adequate copper you can essentially create a copper deficiency both zinc and copper are controlled by methalatinine proteins”