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Too Much Zinc Causes a Copper Deficiency

Dr. Berg’s Healthy Keto and Intermittent Fasting Podcast

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What Are the Symptoms of a Copper Deficiency?

Zinc and copper work together. They compete for absorption in the small intestine. If there's too much zinc to copper, or just zinc, you're not going to get the copper. So it's always good when you're taking zinc to also take copper. And i just recommend taking all the trace minerals together with zinc. I'll put a link down below what i men on that, but let's go ahead and talk about the symptoms that can occur when you have a copper deficiency by taking too much zinc. Number one, nauseak. Two, flue like symptoms, because one of the things that occurs with a copper deficiency is something called lutropena,. Umber three

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