Originally Posted by mrsD

Everyone gets those white flecks occasionally on nails. They can come from hitting the hand against things, minor trauma.

Zinc levels have to be really low before they would show up in pyrolurics. I think the main symptom is mood instability, craving for alcohol and self medicating with it, or wanting tranquilizers.

Males lose zinc in their semen regularly and would show low symptoms before women. Women need zinc too, but we don't lose it often like men do. We lose iron instead. Some drugs cause women to lose hair, and this is corrected by adding zinc. Also acne. So low zinc in women may show up cosmetically first.

A new study from Brazil shows women however, low in essential fatty acids... omega-3's... have more severe PMS symptoms and cramps.