Results from ZMA?

[RottenWillow]

I swear by the zinc/magnesium/melatonin combo before bed. It helps me sleep like nothing else, and good sleep improves my recovery, performance, and even mood in general. Plus, it's dirt cheap.

Damn that is exactly the cocktail that I've been using for the past month. It was an off brand of melatonin though. What brand were you using? I was taking 6mg nightly but after only about a week its sleep aid effects seemed to decline.

 

[ohashi]

I use whatever brand is on sale at Rite Aid

 

[obiwan9962]

The absorption rate of zinc aspartate over normal zinc is only marginally greater.

Zinc does seem to have some muscle relaxing properties. Some people also say that they wake up in the middle of the night to take a dump if they take 100 mg of zinc before bed. Don't ask me why.

I swear by the zinc/magnesium/melatonin combo before bed. It helps me sleep like nothing else, and good sleep improves my recovery, performance, and even mood in general. Plus, it's dirt cheap.

high doses of zinc is not recommended
prolong use of anything over 50 mg a day will depleted the body of copper which is another important mineral

 

[dr0832]

what aboout if you are taking a daily multi with copper in it? Will you still become defficient? I went to walmart and got a magnesium 450mg/zinc 15mg pill and I also have 25mg pill of zinc that I will take. I also take a multi with in the morning. I am gonna see if it helps me sleep. If not I will try ZMA. Is the B6 that important? I take time released B-complex in the morning which has 50mg of B6 anyway.

 

[obiwan9962]

what aboout if you are taking a daily multi with copper in it? Will you still become defficient? I went to walmart and got a magnesium 450mg/zinc 15mg pill and I also have 25mg pill of zinc that I will take. I also take a multi with in the morning. I am gonna see if it helps me sleep. If not I will try ZMA. Is the B6 that important? I take time released B-complex in the morning which has 50mg of B6 anyway.

thats only 40 mg of zinc so you should be fine
if you supp copper i see no reason you cannot take more
but trust me zma is useless
i do not say this from one bottle's worth but two

 

[anthrax]

Sure ZMA is useless

and the monomethionine form is just some marketing hype

The manufacturer could not put a patent on Zn aspartate

BTW, if you take a Zn pill don't take too much calcium at the same time because both minerals compete for absorption

 

[ffknight84]

bring your not a guy, i would say why bother. zinc is only efective that it allows you body to produce as much natty test as possible. magnesium is the muscle relaxer. so i would say dont bother.

 

[ohashi]

It improves sleep quality for most people. Guy or girl, young or old, that's a very worthy effect.

 

[lucidblue]

I swear by the zinc/magnesium/melatonin combo before bed. It helps me sleep like nothing else, and good sleep improves my recovery, performance, and even mood in general. Plus, it's dirt cheap.

I take ZMA and melatonin on workout nights for sleep... works great for me. Cheap is good.

On non-workout nights I take Valerian Root, this works too. I wasn't sleeping well at all (if at all) until I starting taking either one of these things.

 

[RottenWillow]

Knight thanks for the info. So Zinc maximizes T production? And its the mag that relaxes the body? Cool.


Ohashi, so you think I should switch to a cheap cal/mag/zinc combo instead of ZMA? If it would work just as well I definitely need to do that.