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[oryon]

I want to get some Zinc Gluconate to take in conjunction with Niacin. How much is a healthy amount to take? I've read some people taking 50mg a day and others taking 150mg a day.

Help please?

[Weenie Beenie]

Start off taking 50 mg. If you notice no improvement, try upping it to 100 mg after a few weeks. But it's best to not take high doses of Zinc for a long time. Hopefully 50 mg would work out for you. Don't take 150 mg. That's way too much.

[Hooray it's Henry]

Zinc really does help with the healing process. Whenever I get a pimple, it's either smaller than my past acne or heals up quicker than before I started taking Zinc. I take 50mg Zinc each day with food.

[Swits]

start with 50mg then after a week go to 100mg for 2 weeks. if you see no results whatsoever then dont take it.

[DanielleS]

I take two tablets of Zinc everyday.

[databased]

How much is a healthy amount to take?

Nobody knows. 200mg/day can eventually hurt some people. The U.S. RDA for zinc is at most 12mg/day.

If you're going to take any zinc for acne, then you may want to consider taking 200mcg of selenium, as that increases the odds that zinc can play a role as an anti-oxidant.

[Crooked I]

How much is a healthy amount to take?

Nobody knows. 200mg/day can eventually hurt some people. The U.S. RDA for zinc is at most 12mg/day.

If you're going to take any zinc for acne, then you may want to consider taking 200mcg of selenium, as that increases the odds that zinc can play a role as an anti-oxidant.

I know you're not taking tablets anymore, however when you were, how much were you taking? 180mg seems to ring a bell? Did you take the selenium as well?

[databased]

When I got clear for the first time, it was most likely the combination of taking 180-200mg of zinc, 200mcg of selenium, a Vitamin B pill, and getting 9 hours of functional (reasonable melatonin surge) sleep. 200mg of zinc is too much to take on a long-term daily basis without fear of harm.