Vitamins A-Z and minerals

[Tero]

I take multivitamins. Minerals in foods are best but if you need to take pills, they are best taken with food to help absorption. I subscribe to this idea, and believe the chelated minerals are nonsense. The zinc I would take 20mg or less as it can start messing with copper in your body. Even 5mg is fine.
http://www.drmirkin.com/nutrition/9354.html

The things I hope to affect most are hearing and fibromyalgia, all of which applies to me, and to people over 50. Our hearing may go due to lower minerals of older people.

[Tero]

Researched the science literature, I have access. There is speculation that zinc would help individuals that do not respond to antianxiety drugs, boosting the drug effect. The zinc alone effect was only tested with central american school children once. It did not ADD but did have other mood effects.

Magnesium is also clained, there is a book on magnesium and anxiety. Magnesium at 1000 mg a day poses no risk anyway.

[Tero]

Also, if you are vegetarian, get your zinc from almonds and cashews, the rest of us get some from meat.