Welcome to the Dr. Berg's Healthy Keto and Interminate Fasting Podcast, where Dr.

Berg takes you on the journey for the truth about getting healthy and losing healthy weight.

Today we're going to talk about a really important missing factor in subclinical hypothyroidism,

and that is zinc deficiency. Now, what is a subclinical hypothyroid problem? Well, it's a situation

where you have a slow thyroid, but the blood values are still normal. Okay, so if you're

just basing this only on blood tests and you're not looking deeper, you can completely miss

this condition. Now, there are several really important trace minerals involved in thyroid

function, iodine, and making the thyroid selenium in converting T4 to T3 copper involved in the

creation of the thyroid hormone. But another one that's not emphasized is zinc. Zinc is not only

involved in the conversion from T4 to T3, but it's also involved in the synthesis of T4, T3, as well

as the thyroid stimulating hormone, the hormone that comes from the pituitary down to the thyroid

itself. Without enough zinc, you cannot convert these hormones and you can't make thyroid hormones.

Now, this really is important if you're getting hair loss, alopecia, things like that. And if you

don't get enough zinc in your diet, you can take all of these, take thyroid hormones, but you may

not get your hair back. So zinc is very, very important. The other problem is once you have a

hypothyroid condition, you're going to have a hard time absorbing zinc. So the fact that you have

a slow thyroid causes more of a zinc deficiency. So to make this simple, if you have any thyroid

symptoms, don't forget about zinc. One way to get your zinc is to consume more shelf fish.

That would be a good thing, seek help, or just take it as a supplement. And lastly,

I believe zinc is probably one of the most important trace minerals of all the trace minerals.

It does so many different things in addition to helping your thyroid.