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i’m going to talk about the seven

unexpected amazing benefits of the trace

mineral zinc now i would say out of all

the health topics

making this minor tweak in your diet

will probably result in one of the major

improvements

in your health because zinc is involved

in more enzyme systems

than

all of the other trace minerals combined

and

over 2 billion people are deficient in

zinc and one of the big problems with

zinc is that there’s no functional

storage of zinc in your body so as soon

as you stop getting zinc from the diet

you’re going to be deficient and you

might think that you can just determine

a zinc deficiency by a blood test

but most of the zinc is not in the blood

it’s in the cells

and so we’re going to talk about that

so let’s dive into the first point the

most concentrated amount of zinc is

located in the prostate gland okay

because it’s involvement with

sperm and testosterone

etc

and so zinc helps someone maintain their

testosterone levels and if they’re

deficient they’re definitely going to

experience problems with low

testosterone low libido and even

something called hypogonadism

in which the testicle actually atrophies

so many people don’t realize the

importance of getting enough zinc to

maintain the testosterone levels all

right number two

and this one is a really really

interesting one

zinc has a major role in

maintaining your insulin levels okay as

well as the insulin binding to your

liver cells

so the second most concentrated area

for zinc in your body

is in the pancreas

specifically the cells that produce

insulin in the pancreas they’re called

the beta cells

and so when we’re dealing with diabetes

for example zinc becomes very very

important

now before you get diabetes you get

pre-diabetes before you get pre-diabetes

you have insulin resistance pretty much

all diabetics have insulin resistance in

fact the majority of the population on

planet earth has insulin resistance i’ve

talked extensively about this topic but

the importance of zinc

in avoiding or preventing in some

resistance is uh is not really well

known

so

you may already know that if someone has

insulin resistance you’re very

susceptible to getting a fatty liver

cirrhosis of the liver

um increase your risk of getting a

stroke

heart attack

obesity

high blood pressure but if you don’t

have enough zinc

your beta cells the cells that make

insulin become fatigued now just think

about this what determines someone going

into a pre-diabetic and then a diabetic

situation now when someone has diabetes

insulin is no longer working or it’s

becoming less and less in the body and

then the blood sugars start to go out of

control they start increasing because

insulin kind of keeps the blood sugar in

check

so

when someone eats a lot of sugar

normally you have insulin that comes in

there and it keeps the sugar down so

your blood sugars don’t build up and

they can be maintained you can do that

for a period of time but eventually over

the years maybe i don’t know 10 15 20

years

it’s that beta cell starts to become

fatigue well what i believe that’s

happening deep in the cells is that

somehow a person loses the amount of

zinc

that’s in that pancreas

then

the beta cell starts burning out that’s

when you start having

diabetes and more complications

because zinc is a very powerful

antioxidant and

the fact that

someone’s consuming a lot of

carbohydrates and the insulin is high

that right there will deplete your zinc

even more so it’s kind of like is it the

chicken of the egg well

a zinc deficiency can set you up for

weakness with having a problem with the

beta cell but then the diet of consuming

all those carbs are going to deplete you

in zinc so then the fact that the person

now has diabetes creates more of a zinc

deficiency so what you need to know is

that zinc is really really really

important

in

helping someone overcome pre-diabetes

and diabetes so zinc will help lower

your blood sugars and make insulin more

sensitive all right number three this is

also very interesting

the third most concentrated tissue

with zinc in your body is your muscles

and so zinc is needed for muscle repair

and regeneration but

even if someone is deficient in zinc

apparently the muscles can still

function fine

except one muscle and that muscle is the

soleus muscle now what is the soleus

muscle that is the muscle in your calf

just underneath

another calf muscle called the

gastrocnemius muscle so the soleus is a

deeper calf muscle that attaches to your

achilles tendon it can withstand a

tremendous amount of load

and out of all the muscles in the body

the soleus has the highest concentration

of zinc and so the soleus is very very

important in

endurance so a long distance runner

needs a very healthy soleus someone that

is a basketball player that uses

explosive movements needs a very healthy

sonya’s muscle and when you’re deficient

in zinc

the soleus can actually

atrophy it can have a dysfunction in

contraction and relaxation

making you more susceptible to getting

an injury with the knee as well as the

calf

as well as the achilles tendon if you’re

trying to build a calf muscle and you

don’t have enough zinc you may find that

you never develop your calf muscles now

as a side note there’s four times more

zinc in red meat than white meat now a

lot of people that are working out

consume

like chicken breast

broccoli

rice

grains right and what they don’t know is

because they’re not consuming enough red

meat

they’re probably not going to get as

much zinc not to mention when you

consume grains that have this

chemical called phytic acid which is a

naturally occurring chemical that locks

up zinc and other minerals

that could be one reason why they’re

deficient in fact a good portion of the

population on planet earth is deficient

in zinc because they consume

cereals which are grains

which block the absorption of zinc so

zinc is very important to the soleus

muscle

in protecting the knee and the ankle and

your ability to perform sports number

four

your thymus gland the main gland that is

involved in your immune system it’s

right on top of the heart it’s different

than the thyroid it’s called the thymus

okay and if you’re deficient in zinc

one big problem you may experience is

find this atrophy okay and then what can

result from that is low t cells and low

antibodies and think about your immune

system if you have low antibodies and

low t cells you can’t fight as long so

if someone is you can’t fight it can’t

fight infections so it happens the

duration of infections are a lot longer

if you are zinc deficient now number

five you may know if you’re deficient in

vitamin a you might have problems seeing

at night

but zinc is just as important as vitamin

a in making the active form of vitamin a

activated okay so if you’re deficient in

zinc

yet you’re still consuming enough

vitamin a you might still have a problem

seeing in the dark so in other words

vitamin a needs zinc to work all right

number six your skin needs zinc without

enough zinc you’re going to notice

you’ll get dry

flaky

skin your skin will become roughened it

won’t be nice and smooth and number

seven

intestinal inflammation

a lot of remedies for either

an ulcer in your small intestine or your

stomach become greatly improved with

zinc if you’re deficient in zinc your

risk for getting inflammatory conditions

goes way up and then when you have

inflammation in your intestine

that can block your ability to absorb

zinc

so this is why so many people with gut

issues have skin issues because of this

lack of absorption of zinc now how do we

become deficient in zinc there are

several key things i’m just going to run

through them uh birth control pills can

cause a zinc deficiency uh consuming a

lot of refined carbs or sugar create a

deficiency of zinc

phytic acid in grains will block zinc

stress

cortisol and even the medication called

prednisone which is a synthetic version

of cortisol can deplete your zinc having

low hydrochloric acid can prevent your

ability to absorb zinc

which is very common if you’re over the

age of 45 and alcohol can create a zinc

deficiency now if you want a really high

quality

zinc product that has all the trace

minerals

i put a link down below in the

description and the next best video for

you to watch would be how to test

yourself

to determine if you have a zinc

deficiency i put that video up right

here to check it out

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