Paul Saladino· MD
don't forget about zinc D and E and realize they are much more bioavailable from animal foods
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don't forget about zinc D and E and realize they are much more bioavailable from animal foods
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we know that zinc is really the most efficient trained at least that I've seen in the medical literature with vegan diet
i mean yeah so they're not testing carnivores or animal-based people with the zinc you probably don't even need it you know to do that if you're consuming you know pound to two pounds of meat per day you're going to get 40 to 80 milligrams of zinc per day anyway and so you know what i mean these supplements probably are almost useless for people like us that are consuming good amounts of zinc
in the general population red meat poultry they're the main sources of bio-available zinc and vegetarians uh fairly consistently have lower levels of zinc in the plasma and in their in their diets as well
zinc is one of the minerals we mentioned earlier that's much more bioavailable in meat than it is in plants and so if people are just eating plant Foods they may get a zinc deficiency because there's not really much bioavailable zinc in any plant food
the zinc the iron the copper in liver
what they're not telling you is the zinc in lentils or beans is not bioavailable meaning when you put that thing into your body and it goes to your stomach you can't get the zinc out of the be or out of the lentils and into your body it just goes right out in your poof
where do you get your zinc you get your zinc from animal Foods you don't get much if any bioavailable zinc from plant Foods
The problem with trying to get your zinc from plant foods is that these foods generally don't contain a lot of zinc. And the zinc in these foods is not very bioavailable because of other anti-nutrients, phytic acid, oxalates, etc. in these foods that prevent zinc absorption by your body.
And the zinc in red meat is very bioavailable. All the zinc in this meat is going straight into your body.
Even though the nutrition label might say you're going to get 10 milligs of zinc from 25 cups of kale or 10 cups of cooked lentils, you're not going to even absorb that much zinc from those foods.