Garden Of Life Vitamin Code Raw Zinc, 30mg Whole Food Zinc Supplement

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Works greatThis works great. I take this along with a vitamin D supplement and I feel its helped heal my hormonal acne. I"ve also noticed an increase in hair and nail growth 5Now my face is much better but i combined it with clean diet(no glutenThese zinc vitamins really helped me with my acne. My blemishes dried up same day they appeared. Now my face is much better but i combined it with clean diet(no gluten, dairy, sugar) and used apple cider vinegar on my face every day. 5Read VERY carefully; it's all marketing babble. The actual zinc is obviously sub-par.First, all that good-sounding stuff that's in there - apple, spinach, tomato, carrot, broccoli, rice hull, etc. - has absolutely NOTHING to do with your dosage of zinc.It's just filler to bring the capsule up to size - and to make you think - if you don't read closely - that you are getting your zinc 'naturally' through raw veggies or whatever.You aren't. The company doesn't even CLAIM that. It says at the company's website that your supplement is "delivered in a whole food base of 23 fruits and vegetables." Like powdered apple and powdered tomato. That have absolutely nothing to do with your dose of zinc.Carefully reading all the information this company provides regarding its products reveals plenty of complex and confusing babble - to make you think their products are superior without actually saying anything meaningful about what ACTUALLY makes their products superior.Because they aren't. An example of such babble: "Nobel Prize-winning science that inspired this process to grow food vitamins similar to vegetables in the soil." Guess what that means? It means that your vitamin was grown by fermentation in a yeast culture, a process that science discovered eons ago. (And that's sort of the way vitamins accumulate inside growing food plants.) And the website elsewhere admits the supplement is artificially cultivated, not derived from veggies or whatever, saying the product is "made with individually grown nutrients utilizing probiotic cultivation to produce RAW Food-Created Nutrients."And guess what else? That cultivation/fermentation process is the VERY SAME process EVERY vitamin manufacturer follows to obtain its vitamins. Not exactly so superior, eh?Now what does all this talk about 'RAW food nutrients' really mean? Nothing, absolutely nothing. Just more marketing, to mislead you into thinking that, somehow, this product is delivering your zinc in some better, natural way.It is not. "RAW Food-Created Nutrients" is nothing more than a phrase trademarked by the company. Basically it's a marketing slogan. Wheaties cereal has a famous trademark: "Breakfast of Champions." Sounds good, but what does it MEAN? Nothing. They can slap it on every box of cereal they sell, even if not one single 'champion' ever eats a single bowl of it. But Wheaties can TRY to convince you that it means well, whatever they want you to think it means. But it actually means nothing. Sounds good, means nothing. This company's "Raw Food" jabber also means absolutely nothing. Except, maybe, that the product hasn't been cooked. (And who WOULD cook it to put in a capsule anyway?) But the phrase is MEANT to mislead you into thinking that you are getting your supplement by some zen-like, far-superior means.You aren't. Consider this statement about 'raw food' by the company: "The magic of raw food is truly found in its simplicity. When you eat a food that is uncooked you are eating that food in harmony with nature s intention and your body s design." Yeah, maybe, maybe not. I'm not up for eating raw chicken and contracting salmonella. Even if it were taken as a completely true statement, it doesn't really say anything meaningful ... or relevant to the superiority of this product. But either way, what does stuffing some "raw food" powdered apples and tomatoes in my zinc capsule have to do with whether or not it's a superior zinc supplement? Nothing, absolutely nothing.The information that ACTUALLY MATTERS as to whether this is a superior product well that information is absolutely and glaringly absent.For instance, WHAT KIND OF ZINC DOES THIS PRODUCT CONTAIN? It matters ... a whole lot. Science well knows that plain old zinc is poorly absorbed/metabolized. So as a supplement it is typically compounded (or 'chelated') with another substance that will improve its absorption. Some zinc compounds are more effective at being absorbed than others. Zinc Acetate is better absorbed than Zinc Gluconate, but neither is better at absorption than Zinc Orotate which is very well absorbed. Zinc Oxide absorbs more poorly than any of them.So now, of course, you want to know what kind of zinc is in THIS product, right? Search the bottle, search the box, search the website all you want and it doesn't tell you. All it says is that you are getting 30mg of zinc. Period. It might even be the cheapest and most ineffective form of zinc, JUST zinc, for all we know. But one thing's for sure. THIS COMPANY IS NOT GOING TO TELL YOU.In fact, you can look in the Q&A above and see that someone actually WROTE the company to ask what kind of zinc it was ... and the company responded with more babble ... and actually REFUSED to directly answer his question about what kind of zinc it is. That's a pretty good indication it's the WORST kind of zinc ... plain zinc or zinc oxide that doesn't metabolize well at all ... or they'd be proud to say otherwise.Also, large dosing of zinc can lead to a copper deficiency. Does THIS product contain trace copper to counter-act that? Who knows? Because the product information this company provides certainly doesn't tell you. EYE CAN TELL YOU that other, better zinc supplements DO add trace copper.So, IMHO, the glowing 5-star reviews here are little more than marketing babble working its magic well. I bought this product on impulse. Once I had a chance at home to do the research on the product, I threw it in the trash.And then I ordered a bottle of NOW (brand) L-OptiZinc Capsules, which appears to be a far superior zinc supplement.Far superior than a capsule filled with some vegetable powder and some zinc that can't even be metabolized. 1Caused mouth soresThis form of zing caused mouth sores within days of taking it. It felt like little cuts all along the gum line which only healed after stopping this product. I'll go back to regular Zinc product. 1Best choice, most effectiveWas using an opti-zinc before this. This is much better. I now have clearer focus stronger immune function and less B.O.This is easily the best zinc suppliment that i have used seems to be more effective. Awesome for during cold & flu season. Men need this more as well because every time we urinate we lose some zinc if we had any to begin with 5So far so good!I just purchased this a week ago, so my feedback could change in a month from now. So far I like what I see. It doesn't upset my stomach which is a huge plus- I've had trouble in the past with other vitamins upsetting my stomach. I purchased this vitamin with the big intent on helping to clear up my acne, and I have noticed my face clearing up slightly which I'm really excited about! I also like the ingredients listed. Like I said, it's only been a week so my opinion could change so I'll try to return to give an update. 4Hormonal acne+ vegetarian + paragard IUDThis review is for people that suffers hormonal acne. I was suffererring for really bad acne and I didn t know what was the cause. I tried being vegan ( I am vegetarian). Cleaning my face 2x per day, changed all my skin products and nothing worked. Until I realized that having the IUD in my body was making me weak in Zinc plus with a vegetarian diet and a surgery which I used antibiotics for a month !! The IUD eliminates the Zinc in your body and I don t get enough being vegetarian. I started taking these Pills + probiotics and yeast. You guys can t believe how my skin is. I feel so confident and proud I got to listen to my body and it s needs. I hope I can help people that are in the same situation! 5Works for usMy daughter catches a cold with the slightest blowing of the wind. About a week ago she started coughing after being out in 50 degree weather for a couple of hours. Even though we take What I believe to be high quality supplements, and vit. D3 and K2 she still catches colds very easily. As a joke I told her she probably needed to take some zinc and I found a used bottle of GOL zinc in the cabinet. She took one and that night she did't cough, and the next day all of her cold symptoms were gone. She do pool closing and sometimes have to work in cooler weather and even rain. Since she have been taking this zinc in the morning a copper at night no more colds. This is for a kid who would catch summer colds, so whatever is in this stuff (because a lot of people were complaining that they don't disclose the source of their zinc) all I can say is it works for us. As a side note I started taking it too because I took the zinc tally and could't taste it so I realized that my levels were low as well, and now I can smell a whole lot better which is a blessing and a curse. 5I m obsessed! Great immune boosterZinc is incredible. I used to get sick rather easily, I m in college so around hundreds of people per day. I heard zinc could help the immune system and I was desperate so I gave it a try. I took the white zinc pills from a drug store, which did help my immune system too, but these vitamin code zinc pills help my sleep too. My immune system is much stronger since taking this. My boyfriend and roommate recently got the flu but somehow I didn t and I m convinced it s because this zinc. Give it a try! 5Works awesome!!I ordered this s couple months ago and it worked great! But I decided to try a different brand that was cheaper...two different times. And neither worked as good for my acne as this! It clears my face right up! 5

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Garden Of Life Vitamin Code Raw Zinc, 30mg Whole Food Zinc Supplement + Vitamin C, Trace Minerals &

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