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Zinc – Is it important for humans?

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Zinc - Is it important and safe for our bodies?

Zinc, a nutrient found throughout your body, helps your immune system and metabolism function. Zinc is also important to wound healing and your sense of taste and smell. With a varied diet, your body usually gets enough zinc. Zinc deficiency has also been linked to malfunctions in healing, reproduction and immunity.
 
People use oral zinc to help treat colds, but it can decrease the effectiveness of certain drugs and cause side effects. So is it really safe to consume then?
 
So to really place Zinc in perspective, here’s a list of the pros and cons of it:

The Pros

The Cons

Fights Colds and Infections

  • shorten the duration of the common cold and relieve congestion
  • significantly lower general infections and lower inflammatory markers in their blood

Skin Protection & Wound Healing

  • helps with the healing of some types of ulcers
  • helps with tissue repair and regeneration

Chronic Disease Protection

  • can provide anti-inflammatory and antioxidant effects and can protect the heart from damage in elderly subjects.
  • proved to be beneficial for infectious and chronic diseases such as malaria and HIV
  • can improve the liver function in people with alcoholic liver disease and hepatitis C

Short Term Effects

  • Causes nausea
  • Stomach discomfort
  • Vomiting
  • Headaches
  • Diarrhea
  • Exhaustion

Long Term Effects

  • reduce iron and copper absorption, which can lead to anemia and other disorders associated with low levels of those minerals
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How much Zinc is suitable for our human bodies?

The recommended daily amount of zinc is 8 milligrams (mg) for women and 11 mg for adult men.

The upper tolerable limit for zinc is 40 milligrams per day. An article published in the March 2007 issue of “The British Journal of Nutrition” suggests that supplementing with 15 milligrams of elemental zinc per day is relatively safe, but long-term doses much higher than that should be limited until more information is available.

GEN C 1000mg Plus

With the above understanding of zinc requirements of the human body to upkeep their daily needs, you’ll find 15mg of zinc present in GEN C 1000mg Plus formula and that fits directly in the recommended daily safe dosage. Aided with Vitamin C (1000mg) and Bioflavonoids (50mg), you’re certain to be on the right path to daily nutrient upkeep.

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Vitamin C – Why do we need to consume it?

Vitamin C and Nutrients in fruits

Why consume Vitamin C?

Fruits! We all know that nutritionists and doctors recommend consuming fruits as a great source of vitamins. But just how do we actually measure and keep track of what’s what in each and every fruit?

The answer is that we wouldn’t be able to, but to only gauge the intake amount. In fact, if proper calculations were made, we would find that the amount of vitamins and nutrients are insufficient from regular fruits and food consumed per day.

But above most of the vitamins that we consume, Vitamin C (a.k.a Ascorbic Acid) stands as one of the more important vitamins that the human body requires on a daily basis.

(1) Humans, primates, and guinea pigs are the only mammals that are unable to produce their own Vitamin C, so they need to get it elsewhere

Knowing that we as humans cannot produce Vitamin C on our own, it is therefore vital for us to seek for it regularly.

(2) Vitamin C is important in wound healing. Without it, a person can get a sickness called scurvy. Lack of vitamin C was a serious health problem on long ocean trips where supplies of fresh fruit were quickly used up. Many people died from scurvy on such trips.

Since it has anti-inflammatory properties, it does help in wound healing for humans. A great factor that can help in:

  1. Forming an important protein used to make skin, tendons, ligaments, and blood vessels
  2. Heal wounds and form scar tissue
  3. Repair and maintain cartilage, bones, and teeth
  4. Aid in the absorption of iron
Vitamin C and Nutrients in fruits

Immune Boosting Factors

The main reason for consuming Vitamin C is of course that it can boost our immune system by stimulating the production of white blood cell lymphocytes and phagocytes, which help protect the body against infections. It also helps the white blood cells to function more effectively and protects them from damage. 

(3) Vitamin C contributes to immune defense by supporting various cellular functions of both the innate and adaptive immune system. Vitamin C supports epithelial barrier function against pathogens and promotes the oxidant scavenging activity of the skin, thereby potentially protecting against environmental oxidative stress.

With that said, it has therefore been proven that high dosage practically has helped in the fight of Covid-19 patients as seen in this video:

 

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How much Vitamin C should I consume then?

The RDA recommends 45–120 mg depending on your age and sex.

(4) Vitamin C supplements should meet the RDA and stay well below the established UL — 400 for young children, 1,200 mg for kids aged 9–13, 1,800 mg for teens, and 2,000 mg for adults.

Always accompany your regular diet with this dosages in mind and categorically consume the amounts to keep a healthy and strong immune system at all times. Conclusively, we at Everly Vitamin recommends at least 1,000mg per day of Vitamin C, accompanied with Bioflavonoids and Zinc.

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