Mineral

Zinc

Zinc contributes to the structure or activity of more than 300 enzymes and numerous DNA-binding proteins. The body does not maintain a dedicated zinc storage reserve.

It supports normal immune function, protein synthesis, cell division, and maintenance of skin, hair and nails.

In everyday life, Zinc helps support everyday immune readiness, healthy skin renewal and the normal repair processes your body depends on.

Excessive long-term zinc intake can interfere with normal copper balance.

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Bonemax

Ingredient overview

What it is

Zinc contributes to the structure or activity of more than 300 enzymes and numerous DNA-binding proteins. The body does not maintain a dedicated zinc storage reserve.

  • Scientific identity: Zinc; body content: ~2 to 3 g, no dedicated storage pool.
  • How it works: Absorbed in the small intestine: Uptake is carrier-mediated and regulated, rising when intake is low and falling when it is high. Built into enzymes and zinc fingers: It sits as a structural or catalytic component in over three hundred enzymes and stabilises the zinc-finger structures that let proteins grip DNA.
  • Primary function: It supports normal immune function, protein synthesis, cell division, and maintenance of skin, hair and nails.
  • What it supports: Zinc helps support everyday immune readiness, healthy skin renewal and the normal repair processes your body depends on.
  • Important consideration: Excessive long-term zinc intake can interfere with normal copper balance.

Formulation rationale

Why we use it

CARPEDIEM selected Zinc for a clearly defined role within a thoughtfully balanced formulation.

  • Formulation purpose: It supports normal immune function, protein synthesis, cell division, and maintenance of skin, hair and nails.
  • Used in: CARPEDIEM BoneMax, CARPEDIEM MultiMen and CARPEDIEM Men’s Daily Performance Stack and other appropriate CARPEDIEM formulations.
  • Works alongside: Zinc complements Vitamin C and Magnesium to support balanced daily mineral nutrition.
  • Meaningful contribution: Zinc helps support everyday immune readiness, healthy skin renewal and the normal repair processes your body depends on. Helps maintain healthy skin, hair and nails through normal cellular activity.
  • Quality and scientific context: Excessive long-term zinc intake can interfere with normal copper balance. 1 ingredient-specific study is included because the research reports a relevant benefit.

Ingredient intelligence

How it works

A mineral with no reserve tank - and one that has to be balanced against copper.

Step 01 / 04

Absorbed on demand.

Uptake is regulated. The gut lets more through when intake is low and less when it is high.

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Body content

~2 to 3 g, with no storage pool

Enzyme reach

Part of 300+ enzymes

Also stabilises

Zinc fingers that grip DNA

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Competes with copper for uptake

Descriptive of the ingredient's established biology. Not a claim to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease.

Functional role

All key functions

The complete functional profile connected with this ingredient.

Supports normal immune-system function and the activity of protective immune cells.

Contributes to more than 300 enzyme reactions involved in everyday body processes.

Helps maintain healthy skin, hair and nails through normal cellular activity.

Supports normal protein synthesis, tissue maintenance and ongoing cell division.

Contributes to normal cognitive function and balanced nutritional performance.

Supports the cellular processes involved in growth, repair and everyday renewal.

Helps support everyday immune readiness, healthy skin renewal and the normal repair processes your body depends on.

Pairs with Vitamin C and Biotin to support a more complete and scientifically balanced formula.

Scientific evidence

Selected research

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01

Is zinc an important trace element on bone-related diseases and complications? A meta-analysis and systematic review from serum level, dietary intake, and supplementation aspects

Biological Trace Element Research

The most direct evidence that zinc belongs in a bone formula rather than only an immunity one. Pooling serum levels, dietary intake and supplementation trials, the analysis found serum zinc significantly lower in people with osteoporosis than in controls, lower dietary zinc in those who had fractured, and — the part that matters here — zinc supplementation producing measurable gains in bone mineral density at both the femoral neck and the lumbar spine.
2020
02

Serum zinc is positively associated with bone mineral density: a cross-sectional analysis of NHANES 2011-2016

Medicine

A nationally representative sample of US adults from the NHANES survey, testing whether serum zinc tracks independently with bone mineral density once other factors are accounted for. It does. Observational rather than interventional, so it shows association rather than cause — but across a population sample large enough that the pattern is hard to dismiss.
2025
03

Zinc supplementation decreases incidence of infections in the elderly: effect of zinc on generation of cytokines and oxidative stress

The American Journal of Clinical Nutrition

In older adults, a randomized supplementation study linked zinc use with fewer infections and changes in oxidative-stress and inflammatory markers. The findings are most relevant to the studied elderly population and do not justify excessive long-term zinc intake.
2007

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Vitamin

Vitamin c

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Biotin

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Magnesium

Ingredient intelligence

How it works

A mineral with no reserve tank - and one that has to be balanced against copper.

Step 01 / 04

Absorbed on demand.

Uptake is regulated. The gut lets more through when intake is low and less when it is high.

01 04

Body content

~2 to 3 g, with no storage pool

Enzyme reach

Part of 300+ enzymes

Also stabilises

Zinc fingers that grip DNA

Watch

Competes with copper for uptake

Descriptive of the ingredient's established biology. Not a claim to diagnose, treat, cure or prevent any disease.