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now zinc does so many things  it’s involved in over 300  

different pathways but recently i found out  that zinc has an unexpected sleep benefit  

typically when you think of a zinc deficiency  you think of a child not growing very fast or  

someone having low testosterone or they can’t  taste or smell or they have poor wound healing  

or a poor immune system or even they may develop  an ulcer but one huge symptom for a lack of zinc  

is poor sleep so zinc has a major influence over  the central nervous system in fact it’s the second  

most abundant trace mineral in your brain it’s  involved in neurotransmitters which are those  

hormone communications that travel through the  nervous system it’s also essential for making  

adenosine now what is adenosine adenosine is that  molecule that gradually builds up through the day  

and creates sleep pressure it’s that compound  that controls pressure that pushes you into the  

deep sleep and all night long when you’re sleeping  adenosine breaks down and then you become awake  

right also caffeine blocks adenosine and that’s  why caffeine makes you more awake but zinc will  

help you build up more adenosine which is sleep  pressure zinc is also involved in making dopamine  

it’s also involved in making serotonin which  then turns into melatonin the sleep hormone  

also zinc is involved in certain biochemical  pathways involving glutamate which has a  

profound effect on deep sleep so zinc is what  is called a sleep modulator it helps control  

sleep now anytime you take zinc i also recommend  you take it with copper in a certain ratio so for  

every eight to ten milligrams of zinc you want  to take point five to one milligrams of copper  

and 0.5 milligrams of copper is 500 micrograms so  roughly you’d want 10 times more zinc than you do  

copper and i also recommend taking that zinc  copper and a blend of trace minerals now out  

of all the food that you can eat oysters have the  highest amount of zinc and also oysters are loaded  

with taurine which is not only good for increasing  your physical performance but it’s also good for  

your sleep cycles and oysters also have  something called gaba receptor agonist  

now what is that that is something that  activates gaba okay and gaba is all about  

calming the nervous system down helping you sleep  and it’s been found that people with shorter  

amount of sleep have significantly less zinc  than those people who can sleep longer and lastly  

the blood-brain barrier has low permeability for  zinc so if you’re very deficient in zinc you’re  

just not going to sleep so it really helps to beef  up no pun intended your zinc supply all right so  

there’s many things you can do for sleep and  zinc is definitely one thing to add to the list  

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