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A mineral essential to immunity, wound healing and sex hormone production.
🎯What it helps withModerate
Shortening a cold — though the 2024 Cochrane update rates the evidence low to very low certainty, far more cautious than the two-days figure people repeat. The clearest use is correcting deficiency.
⚗️Effect on hormonesModerate
Testosterone rises only in men who are genuinely zinc deficient. In men with normal levels it does not move — the most common misunderstanding among people taking it for that reason.
Weight and fat lossNo human data
Does not reduce fat.
🌙SleepNo human data
No good evidence for sleep.
❤️Other health effectsStrong evidence
Immunity, skin, taste and wound healing.
📏Dose and ceiling
Commonly used: 10-30 mg per day
40 mg/day — IOM; EFSA says 25 mg. Counts all sources, and is set on zinc blocking copper absorption.
Caution
This is the clearest supplement-on-supplement conflict there is. Taking 50 mg/day or more for weeks blocks copper absorption, causing copper deficiency: anaemia, low white cells, and spinal cord damage with unsteady walking that may not fully recover. If you must take high zinc long term, add 1-2 mg copper. Watch cold lozenges, which carry 13-23 mg each on top of your daily dose.
Interacts with medicines
Reduces absorption of quinolone and tetracycline antibiotics — separate by 4-6 hours.