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Acne and Zinc

Zinc - also known as spelter, is a metallic chemical element, it has the symbol Zn and atomic number 30.

How Zinc Helps with Acne?

By boosting your immune system and regulating your hormone production Zinc will help your body to fight acne.  

Remember, that zinc does not act independently. Zinc will only be effective at normalizing hormone production and normalizing skin oil.

Forms of Zinc

1.- zinc oxide,

2.- zinc gluconate, 

3.- zinc picolinate, 

4.- zinc acetate, 

5.- zinc sulfate and 

6.- zinc monothionine.

Be aware of zinc inhibitors and avoid them

It is know that zinc inhibits copper absorption. Since a copper deficiency is undesirable and can lead to other health problems, it is necessary to increase your daily copper intake if your
are supplementing with zinc. A good multi-vitamin will take care of that.

Try to get your Zinc from foods

Zinc is found in foods such as egg yolks, fish, legumes, soy lecithin, sunflower seeds, and whole grains. You should always try to get your nutrition from foods, but here's the rub...

Zinc is a mineral (not a vitamin). And foods will only have as much zinc in them as they soil they were grown in had. And conventional farming methods use fertilizers that do NOT contain zinc. As a result most foods have little to no zinc. The same goes for animal food sources of zinc. The resultant food will only have as much zinc as the diet of the animal had.

It's pretty hard to get it from your diet alone these days. It's a very common deficiency.

Since it's such a key mineral for acne sufferers, and pretty inexpensive, this is definitely one of the minerals I would suggest you consider supplementing with.

There are only 2 forms of zinc that consistently work for zinc acne treatment...EVERY other form of supplemental zinc did not work.  

These 2 forms are:

Zinc gluconate and Zinc Monomethionine (otherwise known as Opti-Zinc).

And of the 2 I strongly favor Opti-Zinc (Zinc Monomethionine). Don't waste your time with any other form of zinc.

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