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you know zinc is a fascinating trace mineral  it’s involved in so many different biochemical  

reactions but today we’re going to talk about  the relationship between zinc and your hormones  

now zinc is involved in so many different  biochemical pathways but it’s majorly involved  

in quite a few of your hormones in fact it’s  involved in all of your major hormones let’s  

go through this first of all there’s two pituitary  hormones called follicle stimulating hormone and  

luteinizing hormone and they send signals down  to the gonads both the ovaries and the testicle  

so in men luteinizing hormone lh increases  testosterone so zinc increases testosterone  

if you’re zinc deficient your gonads actually  shrink you get what’s called hypogonadism  

so zinc will increase your testosterone now  there’s also another situation where you have  

testosterone turning into a very powerful form of  testosterone called dht through a very specific  

enzyme called 5-alpha reductase so if there’s  too much of this enzyme you get too much dht  

and one of the problems you get is you get hair  loss another problem is prostate enlargement  

so zinc helps act as an inhibitor of  five alpha reductase limiting the amount  

of dht you get now when a female follicle  stimulating hormone and luteinizing hormone  

control estrogen and progesterone zinc will  help increase progesterone as well as estrogen  

unless you have estrogen dominance  which i’m going to get to in a second  

but so many women during menopause end up having a  major deficiency in progesterone and if they took  

a little zinc they would actually have more  progesterone they would have better ratios  

of progesterone to estrogen now if a woman is  menopausal she typically has a lot less estrogen  

and so zinc can help bring that up to a correct  level but you also have another enzyme that  

converts testosterone into estrogen it’s called  aromatase and if there’s too much of this hormone  

you’re going to get estrogen dominance now  this can happen in men and women and one of  

the things that will increase this enzyme  is plastics in the environment and it just  

so happens that a really good aromatase  inhibitor is zinc so zinc will help you  

from developing too much estrogen if you’re a male  or a female then we get to growth hormone which is  

the main fat-burning hormone it’s an anti-aging  hormone it has everything to do with regulating  

and helping you make new proteins in the body and  it just so happens in zinc supports normal growth  

hormone levels as well as another hormone that  is an extension of growth hormone which is made  

by your liver called igf number one then we get  to the thyroid in order for you to convert t4  

the inactive form of the thyroid hormone to t3  which is the active form you need zinc you also  

need selenium and you also need iodine but  zinc is very important in this conversion  

also zinc is needed by the pituitary and the  thyroid to make more of its thyroid hormone  

and then lastly let’s talk about insulin  okay insulin is a very important hormone  

and it’s very important not to have too  much of this hormone so zinc helps increase  

insulin sensitivity as well as helps inhibit  insulin resistance thereby decreasing the amount  

of insulin so zinc is all about helping your blood  sugars helping regulate insulin levels zinc is  

intimately involved with so many key hormones so  if you’re enjoying my content which i hope you are  

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