Capsule
Zinc Glycinate
Immune Support
$10.00
$0.33 a day · 30-day supply
Zinc is a trace mineral that is critical for immune function, wound healing, skin health, and cell growth and division. Formulated in its highly bioavailable glycinate form.
In depth
About this supplement
What Is Zinc Glycinate?
Zinc glycinate is zinc bound to two molecules of glycine, the smallest amino acid. Chemists call that pairing a chelate: the mineral arrives clipped to an amino-acid carrier rather than loose in a salt. This formula uses TRAACS zinc bisglycinate chelate, 20 mg per serving.
How It Works in the Body
Zinc is a trace mineral the body keeps no real reserve of, so it works from what the diet brings in each day. It does two jobs.
As a catalytic cofactor it sits in the working site of hundreds of enzymes, including those that assemble proteins and copy DNA. As a structural element it holds zinc-finger proteins in the shape they need to grip DNA and switch genes on. Glycine carries the mineral across the gut wall, then the two part ways.
What It Supports
- Immune function: Supports normal immune function, since T-cells and natural killer cells need zinc to mature and do their work.
- Wound healing: Supports normal wound healing, where zinc is drawn on for collagen synthesis and cell division.
- Skin, hair and nails: Plays a role in the normal turnover of fast-dividing tissue, which is what skin, hair and nails are.
- Taste: Zinc is required for gustin, the salivary protein that keeps taste buds working.
Who It May Suit
This suits people whose meals lean on beans, grains and nuts, since phytates in those foods bind zinc and hold some back in the gut. It also suits anyone who wants a chelated mineral in a plant cellulose capsule rather than gelatin.
Good To Know
A chelate is a mineral paired with an amino acid before it reaches the gut, and glycine is one the body already makes itself. Zinc and copper compete for the same absorption route, so a steady high intake of zinc can leave the body short of copper over months. Talk with your healthcare provider before use, especially if you also take a copper supplement.
FAQ
Common questions
What is zinc glycinate?
Zinc is an essential trace mineral. Glycinate describes the company it keeps: one zinc ion clipped to two glycine molecules, forming a chelate. TRAACS is the supplier's name for its chelate process. What you get is a mineral already attached to an amino acid rather than sitting in an inorganic salt.
How does zinc work in the body?
Two ways. Some enzymes need a zinc ion at their working site to run the reaction at all, including the enzymes that build protein and copy DNA. Other proteins use zinc as scaffolding, folding around the ion into the zinc-finger shape that lets them grip DNA and control which genes are read.
What makes this form different?
It is a chelate: 20 mg per serving of elemental zinc carried as bisglycinate rather than as oxide, sulfate or gluconate. The serving size is one capsule. The other ingredients are microcrystalline cellulose, an HPMC capsule, stearic acid, magnesium stearate and silica, which keeps the powder flowing.
Who is it for?
People eating mostly plants, since phytates in beans, grains, nuts and seeds bind zinc and hold it in the gut. Also people who find plain mineral salts rough going on an empty stomach, and anyone avoiding gelatin, since the capsule shell here is plant cellulose.
What should I know before taking it?
Talk with your healthcare provider before use, especially if you take a quinolone or tetracycline antibiotic: zinc binds those drugs in the gut and neither is absorbed well when they arrive together. Zinc can also cause nausea on an empty stomach. Anyone on long-term prescription medication should raise this one with a pharmacist as well.
Ingredients
What is in it
Every ingredient, as listed on the label.
Supplement Facts
Serving Size 1 capsule
| Ingredient | Amount Per Serving | % DV |
|---|---|---|
| Zinc (as TRAACS® zinc bisglycinate chelate) | 20 mg | 182% |
Other Ingredients: Microcrystalline cellulose, HPMC (capsule), stearic acid, magnesium stearate, silica.
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