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What is a good zinc supplement?

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Cheap ones: There's usually zinc in an economical vitamin-mineral tablet from a chain pharmacy. If you overdo zinc supplements because of some bad advice you got, you can copper-deplete yourself and get brain and spinal cord damage -- it's happened. Be discerning.

Answered 7/29/2020

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