I'm going to talk about the 7 AMAZING UNEXPECTED BENEFITS OF TRARE MINERALS Zinc now I would say out of all health topics making that slight modification to your diet has the potential to lead to one of the most important
Improvements in your health because zinc is involved in more enzyme systems than all other trace minerals combined and over 2 billion people are deficient in zinc and one of the big problems with zinc is the lack of functional storage of zinc in your body .
Once you stop getting zinc from the diet, you will become deficient and you may think that you can only identify zinc deficiency with a blood test but most of the zinc is not in the blood it is in the cells and so we are going to talk about that,
So let's dive into the first point, the most concentrated amount of zinc is in the prostate gland, okay
Because it deals with sperm and testosterone etc and so zinc helps someone maintain testosterone levels and if they are deficient in testosterone they are bound to have issues with low testosterone and even something called hypogonadism where it atrophies Already a lot of people don't realize the importance of getting enough zinc to maintain testosterone levels, and this is the really interesting thing, zinc plays a major role in maintaining good insulin levels as well as insulin binding to liver cells . The second most concentrated area of zinc in your body is in the pancreas
Specifically the cells that produce insulin in the pancreas and they're called beta cells so when we deal with diabetes for example zinc becomes very important now before you get diabetes you get diabetes before you get diabetes you have insulin resistance pretty much all diabetics have Insulin resistance in fact the majority of the population on the planet is insulin resistant I have spoken at length on this subject but the importance of zinc in avoiding or preventing some resistance uh is not really known so you may already know that if someone has insulin resistance you are at a very high risk of developing cirrhosis Fatty liver in the liver, which increases the risk of heart attack.
High blood pressure because of obesity but if you don't have enough zinc your beta cells become the cells that make insulin tired now just think of this what determines a person going through pre-diabetes and then a diabetic state now when someone suffers of insulin. They work longer or they get less and less in the body and then the blood sugars start to get out of control they start to increase because insulin kind of keeps blood sugar under control so when someone eats a lot of sugar you usually have insulin
Comes in there and keeps the sugar low so the blood sugars don't build up and can be maintained you can do that for a while but eventually over the years maybe 10 15 20 years it's that trial the cell starts to feel tired what I think This happens in the depths of the cells is that the person somehow loses the amount of zinc that is in that pancreas, and then the beta cell starts to burn and that's when it starts
Having diabetes and more complications because zinc is a very powerful antioxidant and the fact that someone is consuming a lot of carbs and your insulin is high depletes your zinc even more so it's kind of like is it chicken the egg good? A zinc deficiency can leave you weak with a beta cell problem, but a diet of consuming all those carbohydrates will deplete you in zinc, so the fact that a person now has diabetes creates more zinc deficiency, so what? You should know that zinc is really really important in helping someone overcome pre-diabetes and diabetes, so zinc will help lower blood sugar and make insulin more sensitive,
Number three
This is also interesting the third most zinc concentrated tissue in your body is your muscle so zinc is essential for muscle repair and regeneration but even if someone is deficient in zinc obviously the muscle is still working fine except for one muscle and this muscle It is the soleus muscle now what is the soleus muscle which is the muscle in the calf below the other calf muscle called the gastrocnemius muscle so the soleus is a deeper muscle in the calf that attaches to the gastrocnemius muscle.
The Achilles tendon can bear a huge amount of loads and from all the muscles of the body, the sole has the highest concentration of zinc, so the sole is very important for endurance, so a long distance runner needs a very healthy sole for someone A basketball player who uses explosive movements needs muscle Sonia is very healthy and when you are deficient in zinc the sole can actually atrophy can have an imbalance in contraction and relaxation which makes you more susceptible to injury in the knee as well as the calf as well as the Achilles tendon if you are trying to build calf muscle and you don't have Enough zinc you may find you never develop calf muscles now as a side note there is four times more zinc in red meat than white meat now a lot of people
Exercising, consuming like chicken breast, broccoli, and rice cereal properly and what they don't know is that they don't consume enough red meat, and they likely wouldn't get as much zinc let alone from eating cereal that contains this chemical. Phytic acid, which is a natural chemical that traps zinc and other minerals that may be one of the reasons for their deficiency in fact a good percentage of the population on the planet is deficient in zinc because they consume pills and they are pills that block zinc absorption so zinc is very important for the soleus muscle in Protect your knee, ankle and your device.
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
Inflammation is increasing and when you have inflammation in your gut it can hamper your ability to absorb zinc and that's why a lot of people with gut problems have skin problems because of lack of zinc absorption now how do we become deficient in zinc there are several major things that I'm going to Its just uh the pill can cause a zinc deficiency uh consuming a lot of refined carbohydrates or sugar creates a phytic acid deficiency zinc in the pills will block cortisol stress zinc and even a drug called prednisone which is a synthetic version of cortisol can deplete the zinc because of the low hydrochloric acid that It can inhibit your ability to absorb zinc which is considered too cold.
Common if you are over 45 and alcohol can cause zinc deficiency now if you want a quality zinc product that contains all the trace minerals I put a link below in the description and the next best video for you to watch would be how to test yourself to determine if you have Deficiency in zinc, I put this video up here to check it out