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bit confused about taking zinc and copper. First can they be taken together? and should they be taken separately if possible? I ask because lots of supplements combine them yet i thought they compete with each other. Are they synergestic taken together? I see this board recommend 50/2 but most of the information on the net says 10:1 combo. Any clarification, thanks.

recommendations elsewhere do range from 8:1 to 15:1 from what i have seen to date. i suspect that kind of level recommendation is related to daily maintenance of good status.

i would suspect that people who use 50 mgs of supplemental zinc per day are more likely to be correcting low zinc status rather than maintaining good zinc status. the 2 mgs of copper is in there to stop the high intake of zinc from interfering with copper status.

hope that helps

yes thanks though im still confused as to whether they can be taken together or not in one supplement.

depends on your specific needs. if you had a low copper issue, you would probably not find a zn cu blend very useful. if you had a low zinc issue, you probably would. competitors or not, zn and cu appear together in food. many blended supplements attempt to match a similar ratio to those seen in copper and zinc rich foods.