Red cell zinc
Hello guys came by this article and thought it was interesting.
http://www.strengthsensei.com/why-is-testing-your-red-blood-cell-zinc-is...
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You need to get your red blood cell zinc levels tested if you are serious about your strength training efforts
I consider red blood cell zinc level testing one of the five most important cheap test to do. Optimal zinc status will affect your results in the gym because:
Zinc is essential for the production of androgens, IGF-1 and growth hormone. Iran and Irak have the lowest levels of zinc in their soils, hence the onset of puberty in males is 17 years old. A far cry from the 12 to 14 years around the globe. If you don’t have enough zinc, you can’t grow muscle, and your energy and recovery will be piss poor.
Zinc is synergistic to the absorption of all nutrients known to man. As my mentor, Robert Crayhon used to say, if you are deficient in zinc, you are probably deficient in a lot of nutrients.
Zinc is essential to insulin management. If you don’t have enough zinc, your entire insulin sensitivity mechanism is compromised. Translation, you have a hard time storing glycogen, induce anabolism, and your carbs keep building your fat stores instead of restoring glycogen levels.
Dopamine production is regulated by zinc. If you don’t have enough zinc, your dopamine levels tank. Hence, no drive in the gym, and moodier than a Kardashian. You cannot have higher mental functioning without enough zinc.
No zinc, you have the attentions span of a door knob. If focusing during sets is an issue and staying on target during your workouts is an issue, that could be a sign of zinc deficiency. This is why functional medicine practitioner used zinc as a primary intervention in treating ADHD patients.
Now how do you best test zinc? Use a red blood cell zinc test, NOT A SERUM ZINC TEST. If it is not covered by your insurance, you should not pay more than 12 to 40 dollars for it.
If maximal strength and size are your goals, you want to score above 1,400 ug/dl
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Also...I read somewhere that after sex you shouldn't go to the gym because your zink level drops when you come...I take it every day in a granulate form.
Add a link to your source.
Better to paraphrase and use a link than it is to "plagiarise" via copy and paste.
Apologises guys thought I did leave a link.
Wasn't my intentions to plagiarise
Iran and Iraq have the less zinc in soil? Probably cause it's full of oil, between the two I'll take zinc everyday of the year, I'd rather be strong and poor, than with money but with a 12 yo body!!!
That sounds like a poem :-)
You reckon it's because of the oil that they have less zinc in there soil
That's just a theory of mine could be wrong could be right...
I got the red blood cell zinc test done just waiting to get the results back.
If my serum zinc is low would that mean my red cell zinc is low.
My serum zinc was 161 umol/l and The ranges are between (160-250 umol/l)
How would One go about raising red cell zinc
What I'm thinking is diet and zinc supplements.
A lot of what the article was describing I'm actually experiencing.
My igf1 is very low normal 17.1 nmol/l
Ranges are between (15-46.9 nmol/l)
And what was mentioned about insulin sensitivity and restoring glycogen levels
I've tried welding galvanized steel,............... it is not for the faint of heart.
I remember phoning the poison control center once, after a rather heavy exposure they said, "nothing we can do", I asked if I might die from it, they said " please give us a call in the morning ", .............what a heartless bunch.
What assholes
At least you lived to tell the tale
Nope,........... I died.
That's awful mate...
It was way too easy to NOT pass on.
Lol!