Why test zinc?

• Health Check

  Discover your risk factors for lifestyle diseases in time to do something about them.

• Monitoring

  Monitor low or insufficient zinc levels, particularly if often sick, wounds heal slowly, or recovery is slow after exertion.

• Dietary Factors

  Vegetarians, vegans, those avoiding red meat/seafood and heavy drinkers may lack zinc.

• 60+

  Zinc is very important for healthy aging, especially for immune system function after age 60.

• Symptoms

  Including diarrhoea, impaired wound healing, acne, eczema, dermatitis, mouth ulcers, impaired growth in children, or low testosterone.

• Health History

  Regular coughs and colds, dry skin that marks easily, or you have a chronic illness that affects zinc levels (e.g., malabsorption syndrome, GI disease, liver disease, diabetes, anorexia nervosa).

• Pregnancy

  , fertility, and breastfeeding Zinc improves fertility in both sexes, increasing sperm production in men.

• Athlete/active

  Low zinc levels can lower resilience, reduce performance, and impair muscle development.

• Medications

  You take a drug, such as hydrocortisone or prednisone, which increases the need for zinc.