Key Reasons For a Zinc Deficiency

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Dr. Eric Berg

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🗓️ 17 May 2020

⏱️ 8 minutes

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Today we’re going to talk about zinc. I want to cover the key zinc deficiency causes and the things that can help increase your absorption of zinc. I believe zinc is probably one of the most important trace minerals. Over 2 billion people are at least somewhat deficient in zinc.

The big problem with zinc is that we don’t store zinc very well. So, unless you’re consuming it every day, you could end up having a zinc deficiency.

Zinc can affect:

• The reproductive organs

• Skin health

• The immune system

Here are a couple of things that can decrease the absorption of zinc:

• Too much calcium

• Too much iron

• Excessive amounts of copper

• Phytates (bran, rice, grains, corn)

• Cadmium

• Casein

• Gut damage

• A lot of tannins

• A lot of sulfites

• Infection

• Refined sugar

• Stress

Here are a couple of things that can increase the absorption of zinc:

• Strong stomach acid

• Enough protein

• Red meat

• Shellfish (especially oysters)

• Nuts/Seeds

• Cheese

The amount of zinc you should consider getting per day is 8-13 mg.

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0:00.0	So if you guys have any questions whatsoever about keto or in a minute fasting,
0:04.4	whether you're starting keto as a new person or just need to debug your program or we have a question about a product.
0:10.5	Call one of our keto consultants. They'll be able to help you. Call 5405.7.
0:29.0	Welcome to the Dr. Berg's Healthy Kito and Interminute fasting podcast, where Dr. Berg takes you on the journey for the truth about getting healthy and losing healthy weight. So let's talk about zinc in all the different ways that can inhibit your ability to
0:49.9	absorb zinc and also things that can increase your absorption.
0:54.0	Zinc is probably one of the most important trace minerals.
0:58.0	Over 2 billion people on this planet are somewhat deficient in zinc.
1:03.8	So that's a lot of people.
1:05.7	And today we're to talk about the reason for that.
1:07.9	Why would someone be deficient in zinc?
1:11.6	Well, there's a couple reasons, which I'm going to talk about in this section right here, but the big problem
1:16.6	with zinc is that we don't store zinc very well.
1:20.8	So unless you're consuming it every day, you're probably going to end up being deficient.
1:25.0	And zinc can affect your reproductive organs, low testosterone, skin health, but also your immune system.
1:35.0	So here are a couple things that can decrease the absorption of zinc.
1:39.0	Number one, way too much calcium.
1:41.0	So if you're taking a calcium supplement and you're not aware that certain types of calcium
1:46.3	supplements don't even get absorbed like calcium carbonate and let's say you're trying to prevent
1:52.1	osteoporosis or osteopinia and you're taking this huge
1:55.2	bottle of calcium carbonate which is limestone it's very heavy and you're taking that and you're also taking zinc
2:01.6	well guess what you're not going to absorb the zinc because too much
2:04.4	calcium will block the absorption of zinc. The same thing with iron if you're taking a
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