Paul Saladino· MD
well-muscled media is a really good source of zinc there's almost no copper in muscle meat if you just eat muscle meat I work you're gonna get a zinc to copper deficiency
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well-muscled media is a really good source of zinc there's almost no copper in muscle meat if you just eat muscle meat I work you're gonna get a zinc to copper deficiency
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and then and then you know the things like copper and zinc these are hugely important
and of course there are the organs and the organs are where there's a lot of unique micronutrients meat is very rich in about half of the B vitamins and some of the minerals and then if you look at liver specifically it's an incredible complement to that you know meat is high in zinc liver is high in copper and you need both
so yeah so beef liver has a copper to sink ratio of about 0.36 so it's actually higher in copper to zinc and you're right it will it's a it's a great source of of balancing the two out because there are clinical studies that if you if you just take zinc at 40 to 50 milligrams per day without copper you you tank your copper zinc superoxide dismutase which is a marker of copper um levels in the body um because it you know that depends on copper so you definitely always if you're taking a copper supplement at the very minimum the golden rule is 40 milligrams of zinc and one milligram of copper you got to have it and then recently when i was thinking about our our histamine stuff you know dao diamine oxidase is a copper dependent enzyme so if you take a bunch of zinc you don't get enough copper that enzyme's not going to function well either so it just kind of comes back what's so interesting for me about eating nose to tail or at least eating you know whole foods animal based is you're going to get these nutrients if you just get these organs in and if you just eat the muscle meat you could get deficient in them
because they're probably not eating enough meat and organs which are the true bioavailable sources of zinc and they're not getting any copper or they're not getting enough copper because they're probably not eating the organs that are high in copper things like kidney or liver
i think the best thing is just to get your zinc from meat and organs and then also to get your copper from a little bit of liver throughout the week at those doses