Zinc Complex

Is Your Form of Zinc Food or an Industrial Chemical?

Zinc Form

Actually Is / Commonly Used As

Food Zinc

Zinc is naturally complexed within a plant or other food/ used only as a food.

Zinc Acetate

A mineral salt (rock) made from zinc nitrate and acetic anhydride/ induces vomiting [8].

Zinc Carbonate

The rock is known as smithsonite or zincspar/ used to manufacture rubber [8].

Zinc Chloride

A mineral salt (rock) consisting of zinc and chloride/ an embalming material [8].

Zinc Citrate

Rock (smithsonite) processed with citric acid/ used in the manufacture of some toothpaste[8].

Zinc Gluconate

Rock processed with gluconic acid/ gluconic acid is used in many cleaning compounds [8].

Zinc Lactate

Rock (smithsonite) processed with lactic acid/ lactic acid lactate is used as a solvent [8].

Zinc Orotate

Rock processed with orotic acid/ orotic acid is a uricosuric (promotes uric acid excretion) [8].

Zinc Oxide

The rock is known as zincite/ used as a pigment for white paint and as part of quick-drying cement [8].

Zinc Phosphate

The rock is known as hopeite/ used in dental cement [8].

Zinc Picolinate

Rock processed with picolinic acid [9]/ Picolinic acid is used in some herbicides.

Zinc Sulfate

Not absorbed as well as food zinc [3,9]/ used as a corrosive in calico-printing; preserves wood [8].

The addition of “citric acid and picolinic acid does not appear to enhance zinc absorption” [9]. Plants have roots or hyphae which aid in the absorption of minerals. Plants actually have the ability to decrease the toxicity of compounds by changing their biochemical forms [10]. Plants are intended to ingest rocks, humans are not.

“The commonest means of inducing zinc deficiency in the rat is to feed it a semisynthetic diet” [2]. With today’s semi-synthetic refined and genetically modified foods, probably all of your clients could benefit from 100% Food Zinc Complex. Since “In humans, zinc deficiency does not usually occur in the absence of some degree of protein depletion” [2], does it make sense to supplement with an isolated mineral salt? All of the essential amino acids (arginine, histidine, isoleucine, leucine, lysine, methionine, phenylalanine, threonine, tryptophan, and valine [1]) naturally occur in Food Zinc Complex (plus other amino acids including alanine, aspartic acid, cysteine, glutamic acid, glycine, proline, serine, and tyrosine. Amino acids are necessary for the production of most of the tissues in the body [1,6].

Interestingly in 1999, the Nobel prize in medicine was awarded for the finding that humans need protein chaperones in order for minerals like zinc to be absorbed into the cell. Zinc mineral salts do not contain protein chaperones, yet 100% Food Zinc Complex naturally contains protein chaperones such as ceruloplasmin and ATX1 [11,12].

“Superoxide dismutase (S.O.D.) is one of the most important enzymes that function as cellular antioxidants…The absence of this enzyme is lethal” [1]. “It protects intracellular components from oxidative damage, converting the superoxide ion to hydrogen peroxide” [1]. S.O.D. appears to be able to prevent activation of “phospholipase A2 and proanoid synthesis by scavenging free radicals, thereby reducing lipid peroxidation products” [13]. It is a powerful free radical scavenger that has been clinically shown to protect the brain, heart, liver, lungs, kidneys, skin, muscles, penis, nerves, and spinal cord from ischemic injury [9]. S.O.D. has been shown to inhibit articular tissue damage associated with osteoarthritis, decreases lipid peroxidation in damaged skin cells, protect against late radiation-induced tissue injury, improves clinical symptoms associated with Bechet’s syndrome, helps protect the retina, helps protect against iron toxicity, inhibits vasogenic brain edema after brain injury, increases flu survival rates in mice, plays a role in bacterial defense, helps normalize blood pressure, helpful for cardiovascular problems, reduces LDL oxidation involved in atherosclerosis, is reduced in Alzheimer’s patients, improves sperm motility, and even helped patients with TMJ who did not respond to traditional therapy [14]. High levels of S.O.D. have been associated with reduced growth of Candida albicans [15]. S.O.D. is often sold in a “purified” version (from animal products) as an antiaging product [6]; S.O.D. seems to have “anti-aging” properties [14]. Ingestion of polyethylene glycol-conjugated superoxide dismutase (an isolated form) is not as effective as Food CuZn (copper/zinc) superoxide dismutase [16-17]. CuZn superoxide dismutase, along with Mn superoxide dismutase [18], exists naturally, in vegetarian 100% Food, Zinc Complex.

Rice bran is another Food source of zinc, silicon, and B vitamins [6,19], while kelp is an excellent Food source of trace minerals [20]–both are found in Food Zinc Complex.

Since Food Zinc Complex is a Food and not an industrial mineral salt, 100% Food Zinc Complex is the scientifically preferred source of zinc supplementation, whether for long-term or short-term use.

***Some of these studies may not conform to peer review standards (though most do). Therefore, the results are not conclusive. Professionals can, and often do, come to different conclusions when reviewing scientific data. None of these statements have been reviewed by the FDA. All products distributed by The Wellness Trinity, Inc. are nutritional and are not intended for the treatment or prevention of any medical condition.