The hazards of excessive zinc supplementation, these four points need to be remembered

Zinc is one of the essential trace elements in the human body. In life, if men take excessive zinc supplements, it will still cause certain harm to the body. The following article will introduce to you the dangers of excessive zinc supplementation.

(1) Reduced immunity

Zinc is an important element involved in immune function, but a large amount of zinc can inhibit the activity and bactericidal power of phagocytes, thereby reducing the body's immune function, weakening disease resistance, and increasing susceptibility to disease.

(2) Induce hypertension and coronary heart disease

The zinc/copper ratio in the human body has a normal range. Excessive zinc supplementation will increase the zinc/copper ratio, causing cholesterol metabolism disorders in the body, resulting in hypercholesterolemia, which in turn causes high blood pressure and coronary heart disease.

(3) Anemia

Excessive zinc can inhibit the utilization of iron, causing iron to participate in the hematopoietic mechanism to be impaired, thus causing the body to suffer from stubborn iron deficiency anemia. In addition, when there is high zinc in the body, it is difficult to cure anemia even if iron preparations are taken. Therefore, children who take inorganic zinc and organic zinc to supplement zinc must have their blood zinc and hair zinc tested regularly.

(4) Physiological dysfunction

Long-term, high-dose zinc intake can induce copper deficiency in the human body, leading to a series of physiological dysfunctions such as myocardial cell oxidative metabolism disorders, simple osteoporosis, brain tissue atrophy, hypochromic microcytic anemia, etc.