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\u201cZinc deficiency is quite common in the developing world. Even in the United States, about 12 percent of the population is probably at risk for zinc deficiency, and perhaps as many as 40 percent of the elderly<\/i>\u201d Science Daily, Sept 17, 2009<\/a><\/p>\n I, however, find that the majority of my clients with anxiety, pyroluria, depression and\/or sugar and carb cravings are low in zinc. I have all my clients do the zinc status test when we start working together and then we retest their levels each week until they have good zinc levels. I use zinc sulfate, a liquid zinc that tastes a certain way depending on zinc levels.<\/p>\n Zinc Status test<\/strong> (also called zinc taste test or zinc tally or zinc challenge)<\/p>\n Category 1: <\/span><\/p>\n No specific taste or sensation \u2013 \u201cIt tastes like water\u201d INDICATES GREATEST NEED FOR EXTRA ZINC<\/p>\n Category 2<\/span><\/p>\n No immediate taste noticed, but after a few seconds, a slight taste is noticed \u2013 \u2018stale\u2019, \u2018dry mineral\u2019, \u2018furry\u2019 or \u2018sweet\u2019 INDICATES SOME NEED FOR ZINC<\/p>\n Category 3<\/span><\/p>\n A definite mildly unpleasant taste is noticed almost immediately , and tends to intensify with time.. INDICATES LESS NEED FOR ZINC<\/p>\n Category 4<\/span><\/p>\n A very strong and very unpleasant taste is noticed immediately \u2013 bad enough to need to spit it out.. INDICATES NO NEED FOR ADDITIONAL ZINC, EXCEPT THAT FOUND IN A MULTIVITAMIN<\/p>\n Here is a video of Kelly taken at the recent 2012 Weston A Price conference<\/a>. She did the zinc status test at my Antianxiety Food Solution booth and this is how the zinc sulfate should taste! Really really terrible! She was the one and only person over a 3 day period who had this reaction. Most of the other attendees scored either 1 or 2 i.e low zinc; a few people scored 3.<\/p>\n\n