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hey guys dr. Burke here in this video

we’re going to talk about zinc

deficiency now what is zinc zinc is a

trace mineral it’s basically a mineral

that’s needed in a lot smaller amounts

but it’s necessary because if you’re

deficient you’re going to have a lot of

different issues number one your sense

of smell will go away your sense of

taste will not be there you won’t

actually be as hungry those are some

common symptoms white spots on the nails

you’ve got these little spots in the

nail but but usually what happened is

that you ate a lot of carbohydrate that

depleted the zinc because too much sugar

or carbohydrate will pull zinc out of

your body so if you had a little white

speck on the middle of your nail and by

the way that nail grows every six months

we knew about three months ago you had a

birthday party and you ate the whole

cake right so that’s one way to

determining that okay now we have acne

skin issues Exuma all these skin issues

dermatitis could be related to zinc but

there’s other things that can cause skin

issues too that almost mimic a zinc

deficiency like a vitamin A deficiency

or a vitamin b2 or b6 deficiency so

really you have to look at all of these

things to see what it is but I will say

that if you’re low and zinc

you can’t absorb or utilize vitamin A so

they always worked in bet gather with

like minerals work with vitamins

together and zinc is kind of like a main

mineral that’s used in over 300 enzymes

so it’s a lot of chemical body reactions

okay so with proteins and that brings us

to this one down here with hair alopecia

which is like little spots of hair

growth that’s gone or thinning hair that

could be a B vitamin deficiency like

biotin but it can also be a zinc

deficiency as well they work together

okay then we have rhinoviruses well zinc

being a trace mineral helps put viruses

back in remission now the thing about

viruses you can’t kill a virus because

it’s not alive it’s a piece of genetic

material that’s wrapped in a sac that

can activate your own energy from your

cells and create a cascade of an immune

response so zinc is one that’s

specific to actually keep the rhinovirus

in check and actually you can if you

take zinc when you’re starting to get

sick it can speed up the time of

overcoming the sickness and actually can

prevent that issue as well but

rhinoviruses like the one that you of

the post nasal drip the sinus congestion

the sore throat the sneezing so you need

more zinc all right and then we have

lower testosterone both in male and

female if you have low testosterone your

libido will be very low okay that can

come from a zinc deficiency and then

mouth ulcers again that can come from

other things but that little sore on the

inside of the mouth which is usually

virus related the viruses like herpes it

can come out of remission if you’re

under stress and because the zinc

becomes deficient so sugar and stress

will deplete the zinc reserves okay

because more cortisol pumps out and then

it needs zinc to use the for the immune

system and then basically deplete your

zinc reserves so it’s involved in a lot

of different enzymes now it’s in oysters

that has a lot of zinc from the sea of

course and then it’s in animal like beef

it’s in pork it’s in red meat it’s also

in seek help it’s in a lot of foods but

it’s really high in these foods right

here and also zinc actually helps make

the red white blood cell so the adrenal

gland controls the white blood cells

suppresses the immune system and that’s

and zinc is involved in that whole

process so we have a relationship

between countering stress having the

trace minerals to make sure that your

immune system is strong okay so here are

just and lastly I’m going to talk about

in other countries like not in America

but third world countries a lot of

children and infants will die because of

a zinc deficiency because they have

diarrhea and so you know zinc is

unfortunately they don’t put it back in

the soils so it could be a factor of

it’s either not in your food because

it’s not in the soil it could be you’re

trying to get your zinc from grains but

not a

there’s a certain hibbett ER for zinc

and other minerals called phytic acid in

grains so that chemical in the grain

naturally prevents the absorption of

minerals okay and then also your if your

stomach acid is not strong enough you’re

not going to pull that acid in too so if

you have heartburn you have GERD

indigestion chances are you’re zinc

deficient just from that alone okay so

there’s a lot of different aspects of

zinc I wanted to cover some of them but

there’s a lot more but I hope this

helped and I will see you in the next

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