best zinc supplement recs

[herenow2]

I am pretty sure that I am zinc deficient.

I failed the beet pee test (which I took to get a better understanding of the cause of my digestive problems) and I have white spots on some of my nails.

I am trying to eat more foods that are high in zinc, but I already eat a ton of them and that doesn't seem to be working.

So, I'm looking for a good supplement but am totally confused. Do I want zinc picolante, ascorbic, chelated zinc, with copper, without copper... And, which brands are good? Can anyone help me?

Thank you!

[sbgrace]

You don't want it w/copper. They interfere with the absorption of each other. All other minerals interfere w/zinc so give it away from other supplements that contain minerals. I believe based on my research that optizinc is the best form. You can google and read up on it. Here's some information. http://www.interhealthusa.com/Ingred...-OptiZinc.aspx It's methionine-bound zinc and is absorbed so much better than other forms as well as doing other good things. It's all I'll use now.

[herenow2]

Thank you so much for your reply. Any brand recs?

[sbgrace]

Just make sure you're getting optizinc alone (without other minerals) and it is optizinc. Brand shouldn't matter-the optizinc all comes from the same place--it's a registered trademark. We used vitabase for a very long time and I think I'm using pure encapsulations now just because I was ordering other stuff from them but really I don't see how it would matter.